Doll-A-Day 2023 # 167: Bindi's Talking Doll Adventures Doll

   Today's doll is this little girl. Recognize her?

She is, of course, Bindi Irwin, daughter of the Crocodile Hunter himself, the late Steve Irwin.

Bindi was made as a series of three talking dolls in 2009. The series was called Bindi's Talking Doll Adventures, and featured Bindi in her Australia Zoo uniform, a surfing set, and this doll dressed in casual clothes.

She also originally came with a baby tiger, a camera, a stethoscope, a bottle to feed the tiger cub, and a  pretend field notebook.

  This doll presents Bindi wearing an 'Extinct Stinks' t-shirt, and a pair of Australia Zoo cargo pants. 

The pockets are fake, and don' really have an opening.

She also has shoes and real socks, not just the above the shoe cuffs that act as fake socks on some Barbie dolls.

It makes the shoes a little harder to get back on, but only slightly.

  The dolls were made by K&M toys in Canada, under the brand Wild Republic.

The doll isn't a terrible likeness of Bindi.

Her hair should be in two ponytails, but her elastics disintegrated.

  Bindi is 10 inches tall.

  Being a talking doll, she has a button in her belly that operates her talk mechanism.

And a speaker and battery compartment in her back.

  She says ten phrases, and some of them are pretty long. They're all about protecting or taking care of animals and the Earth. That's much better than talking about make-up and clothes all the time. The longest phrase is, "If you start now the world will become a much better place, It's easy! All you have to do is treat animals and nature just the way you liked to be treated."

 Bindi's voice is actually the one used for the dolls.

  Although she only has 5 basic points of articulation, (neck, shoulders, and hips), and bendable knees that barely bend, she makes the most of her articulation by having an expressive head that can tilt and look up and down.

  These days Bindi is a grown lady with a little girl of her own. She has had a one of a kind Barbie doll made in her likeness in 2018, for International Women's Day. As well as these talking dolls, there have also been small figures from when she was a child. Bindi still works at and for Australia Zoo, and, along with her mother Terri and her brother Bob, carries on her father's legacy of caring for animals and the planet, and encouraging others to do the same.

  That's the doll for today. See you again tomorrow for another one.