Doll-A-Day 2019 #157: Birthday Fun at McDonalds Todd

  Today's doll is another Emma has straight out of the box.

As you can see, my roses are in bloom.

He's Birthday Fun at McDonald's Todd, from 1993.

He's straight out of the box, but his shoes have disappeared somewhere. otherwise this is his complete original outfit.

 

He's wearing a brightly striped shirt, and bright blue shortalls. He originally also had white socks with a black stripe, and black high tops.
 

Both snap in the back. That shows your how old this doll is! Snaps!

He has the usual fuzzy Todd hair, and as usual, it's a lint catcher.

His face has cute freckles.

He has standard articulation, just neck, shoulders, and hips, along with click bend knees that don't bend far.
  The set originally came with a Barbie doll, and a Stacie, as well as Todd. 

All were wearing brightly coloured clothes and birthday hats. (Well, Barbie didn't come wearing hers. Like most adults, she was trying to get out of it.) The set also included McDonald's Happy Meal boxes with a birthday theme, a birthday cake with Ronald McDonald on top, a gift bag, and a doll sized birthday card.

  

So long for now. There'll be another post today to get us all caught up. See you there.

Doll-A-Day 2019 #156: Phone Fun Skipper

  Sorry about the late posts. I'm playing catch up after a  couple of days that feel like a couple of weeks. I'll explain tomorrow. In the meantime, here is Wednesday's post. The doll is this girl.

She's another one of Emma's, She's Phone Fun Skipper.

She was sold in 1995.

She came with a doll phone and kid sized play phone.

The is her original outfit,minus shoes.

She has lace socks.

And white earrings.

Her vest has pictures of Barbie,Ken,her boyfriend Kevin and friend Courtney.

 Her blouse has a button, just for looks of course.
 

She has more mature,realistic face sculpt that came after the big eyed, big headed Skipper sculpt.

 She also has the bent arm I always find annoying,and click bend legs.

She has a twist waist.
 

 Tomorrow we'll announce the competition winner,and see another doll of Emma's.

Doll-A-Day 97: Happy Birthday Fuzzy! The History of Tommy Doll

  Today is my son's 19th birthday. If I had thought it out better, I would have done his Fuzzy the Doll today instead of the 1st. Twenty twenty hindsight! Instead, today, while Fuzz is out with a friend, I'm covering a little of the history of the Tommy doll, and posting the pictures of Fuzzy the Doll that I couldn't get off my camera for the 1st.

 

Fuzzy in his favourite nose glasses and the hat he brought back from his trip to the Himalayas. By the way, this is the way Fuzz had him dressed. This is pretty typical of what Fuzzy the Doll always looked like, including the Luger and the dagger stashed in his pants.

  I originally wanted to make a doll of Fuzzy out of a vintage Todd doll. Todd has red hair, like Fuzzy. But Todd's were too expensive. In the end, it was a better idea to use a Tommy anyway. Todd would have been in pieces by now!
  Fuzzy the Doll was originally a Tommy that came with the set Big Brother Ken and Baby Brother Tommy. Why Mattel thought it was normal for Barbie and Ken, who were obviously MUCH older, to have baby siblings, I'll never know. I just feel sorry for poor Mrs. Carson and Mrs. Roberts!

The set was produced in 1996, when Fuzz was 1 year old.

This was the first Tommy produced, and the first and only relative Mattel ever gave Ken.

Tommy (and Fuzzy the Doll!) have a lever in their backs that make their right arms wave. Cute idea, but that gigantic lever makes it hard to get clothes on them! The outfit made for the doll is a pair of bibbed shortalls, which conveniently have no back in them. I traded them for Dr. Ken and Little Patient Tommy's blue shorts and red and white striped shirt, because Fuzz had an outfit just like it that I put on him a lot.

Hey, can't Doctor Ken get done for malpractice? Isn't it against the rules for doctors to treat their own relatives?

These days, now that Tommy's friend Kelly turned into Chelsea, (What?!), Tommy seems to have gone into hiding too. There hasn't been a Tommy made for a few years now. There were a few made with the tall skinny Kelly body, shortly before Kelly mysteriously became Chelsea. I don't think they've made any since then. Of course, now that Fuzz is a grown up and I don't have to supply a steady stream of Tommy's and Tommy clothes for Fuzzy the Doll, I don't keep up with it quite as well...

Originally Kelly and Tommy were supposed to be babies, with diapers, pacifiers, and bottles. Then they were starting school and doing all kinds of things.

Fuzzy is the adventurous sort.

The only other boy doll in the Kelly line, or produced in the Kelly size, was Ryan. he was originally just a friend of Kelly, produced for the Amusement Park series. Later he became Midge and Alan's son.

He also enjoys 'hanging'...Who knows.

Tommy doll appeared in various sets with Kelly, but he actually had his own gift set too. Tommy as Elvis contained three Tommy dolls, each dressed as a different version of Elvis, including Jailhouse Rock, the gold lame' suit, and of course, white jumpsuit Elvis.

I don't know what ever happened to the white jumpsuit, but Fuzzy and friends often wore the jail suit and gold Lame' suit, or pieces of them, anyway..

  Fuzzy the Doll was the first of what became a collection for Fuzz. He ended up owning most of the Tommy's produced.His second Tommy was for his 3rd birthday, when he got the Kelly and Tommy Power Wheels car with the African American Tommy and Kelly. Kelly ended up wandering off to live in Emma's Dolltown for most of her life, but Tommy became Fuzzy the Doll's best friend Little Purple.

Fuzzy decided "Little Purple" was the son of Emma's Very Velvet Christie.Christie came in a purple outfit and Emma had named her Mrs. Purple. That made him "Little" Purple, right?

Little Purple makes friends with a yak during their vacation to the Himalayas.(See my post on Doll Vacations.)

Gareth World with Little Purple, who is dressed as "a foreign dignitary" at the World's Halloween party. (See my Halloween photostory from last year.) Gareth is named after my son's real name, since there was already a Fuzzy the Doll.

It's a shame they stopped making Tommy. There needs to be a boy in the crowd.
Happy Birthday Fuzz!  

Doll-A-Day 13: Pretty Pairs Angie

  Today's doll is Pretty Pairs Angie.

  Angie was part of a series of Tutti size dolls called Pretty Pairs, produced in 1970. The idea was to have a doll, with it's own doll. There were three dolls with their dolls in the series.Angie was paired with her doll Tangie.

Angie and Tangie in their package.

Well, I don't own Tangie. If anybody objects to the picture I borrowed from the internet, please tell me and I'll remove it. I wanted to illustrate Tangie and,pathetically enough, I don't know how to do a link! I'm working on it.
  The Tutti sized Buffy and Mrs. Beasley weren't actually Pretty Pairs dolls, but they could have been.

My poor childhood Buffy and Beasley. Not mint condition, but well loved.

The dolls in Pretty Pairs shared the bendy Tutti body, and I'm not so sure that's not the same head mold.

Buffy on the left, Tutti on the right. Same head, only painted differently? Maybe Tutti smiles a little more.

Angie definitely shares a head with Buffy.

They were advertised as being able to share clothes with Tutti. In fact, Angie's tights are the same ones that came with Tutti's Birthday Beauties fashion.

Tutti Birthday Beauties

 She also used the Tutti shoe mold for her shoes,but Tutti never had any hot pink shoes.Angie came in the one piece play dress, white fishnet tights, and hot pink bow flats. My Angie is missing her hot pink hair ribbon, but otherwise she's fully outfitted.
  She has a similar head to Liddle Kiddle Soapy Siddle, with a side ponytail and big blue eyes, (and again, the same head mold.).

Angie with Soapy Siddle and a Soapy head on a Doctor Doolittle body,otherwise known as the instant Tutti friend!

The easiest way to tell the faces apart are Angie's eyelashes, (Soapy doesn't have any.) and curly ponytail, (Soapy's is straight.)

  Pretty Pairs were only produced in 1970, so they are harder to find and more expensive than Tutti dolls. I got lucky with my Angie, as she was in an auction lot that didn't call her by name,(which might have attracted more attention) and she had some body damage and no tights. I rebodied her with an exact same body and replaced her tights. Voila! Nice Angie for less!
 

Doll-A-Day 11: Sausage Curl Skipper

  Day 11 brings us to the Skipper of the Week. This is a sausage curl Skipper.

Sausage curl Skipper in 1971's Dressed in Velvet dress, hat, and coat, and tights from Velvet Blush.

  Sausage curl Skippers are so called for their Cindy Brady style curls. They also have little side curls in front of their ears.Skipper dolls were already being made with a twist and turn waist,rooted eyelashes,and the mod era pink vinyl, but until the sausage curl dolls appeared in 1969,they still had the same straight hair style with bangs.This was the first Skipper doll to have a new hairstyle.

 Some of the sausage curl Skippers are cursed with skinny heads and shiny orangy 'skin'. This one is not too skinny headed.

 There's a big similarity between the faces of the Sausage Curls and Living Skipper, which we saw last week. They have alot of the same flaws, like the shiny, orangey faces,but the sausage girls are usually prettier.

 Her lips are nicely done.

  This doll needs her right 'sausage' recurled.Fortunately for me, (I don't do hair do's!), they recurl pretty easily.

She's all set for winter in this outfit.

Good thing because it's been about a million below zero around here lately.

Just a tip for those of you who have or get this outfit: It shrinks like crazy. The pink also runs onto the white. I had to wash both my dress, and my friend Connie's dress and coat. They came up nice and clean after a soak in Stain Devils, but you have to use HOT water with the Stain Devils. It caused the pink from the coat to run onto the collar fur. (Now I have to use Color Run Remover.)The dress survived nice and white, but I think it shrunk.Either that or it was made so form fitting you could barely get it on a doll in the first place.

If you HAVE to wash this outfit, use COLD water! And just to make sure, hang the dress upright so the pink drains AWAY from the bodice. As for the coat,hang it with the collar up so the water drains AWAY from the fur.

  I got my dress from Emma. She had the dress, and I had the coat and THREE hats! I traded her a couple of hats for the dress.YES, she made her OWN MOMMY TRADE for the dress. (I keep telling her, this stuff makes great Christmas and birthday gifts.)