Today's dolls are these two kids. They're It's a Small World dolls.
The boy represents Switzerland. He would have originally worn a blue hat and some waffle weave socks of some sort. His accessories included two small paper flags, a rope, and a 'piton hammer', a mountain climbing tool. All the dolls in the series came with a pen pal kit that included an "International Basic Word Dictionary and Recipes of Other Nations" booklet, a pen, and the name and address of a child in another country the child could write to for pen paling. The Box reads, "This Walt Disney Small World Doll is your introduction to a friend in another land...Her name and address are enclosed."
The girl is wearing her original dress. I'm not sure what country she represents. They look like siblings, but all the dolls had the same face sculpt. They also both have blonde thread hair. I got them as a pair at the doll show, from my friend Casey, who had a table this year.
They are 8 inches tall.
They have simple 5 pint articulation: neck, shoulders, and hips. So they can sit down.
They sort of remind me of the Swiss Miss doll.
Their clothes are nice quality. The girl's dress, especially, is nice fabric.
It's sort of like nubbly silk.
She has leg o' mutton sleeves.
The back of her dress has some heavy duty snaps.
She's wearing white undies.
I don't think they are wearing their original shoes though. Casey may have provided them with footwear. He was supposed to be wearing the aforementioned sock things, and her black shoes look too big.
The Swiss boy has slightly shorter blonde hair than the girl has.
He's wearing a vest over his shirt.
The rest of his outfit is all in one piece, and he has sort of faux lederhosen.
His vest is made of felt.
His clothes have the same industrial strength snaps in the back.
They both have the same body, with dimpled knees.
And dimpled hands.
Those are today's dolls. See you again tomorrow for more doll show dolls.
I like the idea of children having PenPals. I am wondering, though, how Disney could arrange that.
ReplyDeleteI suppose they set up something with a pen pal organization, (There did used to be such things.), to get names and addresses of kids who wanted pen pals.
DeleteI'm one of the small and sometimes-maligned crowd that still thinks the Small World ride is cool. They had another run of dolls a few years back, actually, I think? I still want one.
ReplyDeleteI like it too! I would have gone through a second time. Yes! They did make some Small World dolls just a few years ago. In fact, there were quite a few different ones. In 2004 Brass Key made some porcelain ones. The Disney Store, I think, sold some singing ones that were part of the Animator's Collection, and going a bit further back, Mattel made some 6" Small World dolls in 1993, using the Cherry Merry Muffin molds. Gives you a lot to choose from! There were also some plush ones but they don't look like the figures from the attraction at all.
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