Doll-A-Day 2017 #232: Awesome Skateboard Janet

  Today we're looking at this cute girl.

She's Awesome Skateboard Janet.

She would have looked like this in her box.

Janet was one of the friends of Barbie's sister Stacie.

There were several Janet's produced, including Flashlight Fun Janet,Bicyclin' Janet,Gymnast Janet,Polly Pocket Janet,Happy Meal Janet,and Bowling Party Janet.

This Janet is my favourite though. I think she's the cutest Stacie or Stacie friend doll ever made.

She's from 2000.

You can see the commercial for the Awesome Skateboard dolls HERE.

You might have seen Awesome Skateboard Whitney on Doll-A-Day #123. To learn more about the Awesome Skateboard dolls, see the Whitney post.

These aren't Janet's original clothes. I think the dress is a Moxie Girls dress.

But the shoes are hers, because they aren't removable.

The Skateboard dolls are pretty posable,with a jointed waist, elbows,knees,and ankles.

 

While digging for a bicycle for her to pose with I ran across this basketball. It occurred to me that I tend to pose girl dolls with things like the arch in these pictures, and boy dolls with balls and cars or baseball bats. That is unfair, and unlike me.(All my kids played with Legos,K'Nex,cars,dolls, and art supplies like paints,and clay. That includes my girls and my boy.) So I thought,why not use the basketball.

Her head tilts as well as turn side to side.

She has one big head of hair!

There are still a few remnants of the multicoloured elastic on the ends of her braids.

As with Awesome Skateboard Whitney,her only drawback is her weird lip colour. If she didn't have the purple lips! Looks like she's not getting enough oxygen.

  Tomorrow is the solar eclipse. Don't forget you can't look at it without protective eyewear,and NORMAL SUNGLASSES WILL NOT DO!You can't look at the sun, but you can look at the blog for another doll. See you tomorrow.

Doll-A-Day 2017 # 123 :Awesome Skateboard Whitney

  This is today's doll,Awesome Skateboard Whitney from 2000.

 
Whitney was one of the friends of Stacie,Barbie's sister.

 This is her original outfit.She also had a blue helmet, knee pads,and a shoulder bag.

The Awesome Skateboard dolls all used the same head sculpt,but Whitney has cute freckles.

I don't care much for that lip colour though.

The dolls are jointed at the neck, shoulders,waist,hips, knees, elbows and ankles.

The torso joint lets her lean and twist at the waist.

Her right hip joint lets her leg swing outward as well as back and forth.

This makes them very posable and able to' ride' their skateboards...

The left knee holds a pose,but the right one is floppy, so the leg flops and they can appear to be pushing their skateboard when you scoot them on it.

 It doesn't lock in place, which makes posing them hard sometimes.

 Their shoes are molded on, so that's a drawback.

The ankles have sort of a cog joint that allows the ankles to be flexed into four different positions,and both forward and back.

Her head can tilt in cute ways.

 Her pants even say she's cute.

Her long red hair is almost a pinkish orange,and has a little braid on each side.

Her head can tilt upwards a little too.

Stacie was daughter Emma's favourite line when she was a kid. She had almost all of the Stacie and friends dolls. I'm sure she had all three of the skateboarding dolls.

You can see the commercial for Skateboarding Stacie and friends HERE.

Come back tomorrow for another doll.