Last month I totally missed the end of the month and didn't do a playset. I have had a post ready for ages, but Ivy came home and forbid any digging in her newly straightened closet because it gives her anxiety. That meant I haven't been able to get in her closet and get out the playset I had the post ready for, to photograph it. Well, I give up. I'm doing the post this month with stock photos, and some photos of the playset I used before to show you some of Ivy's Oz dolls. I should have photographed the whole playset then, but I was trying to get Ivy's room done before she came home, so I didn't take the time.
So, this month's play set is this one. It's the Barbie Wizard of Oz Emerald City Playset.(Now that's a mouthful!)
It was sold in 2000. Ivy wanted this set, and she had the Barbie as Dorothy talking doll to go with it. No dolls came with the set. The set did come with a plastic Emerald City facade, which you may have seen in my post on the Wizard of Oz Kelly and Tommy dolls I came across while redoing Ivy's room last Fall. You can see that post HERE.
It was sold in 2000. Ivy wanted this set, and she had the Barbie as Dorothy talking doll to go with it. No dolls came with the set. The set did come with a plastic Emerald City facade, which you may have seen in my post on the Wizard of Oz Kelly and Tommy dolls I came across while redoing Ivy's room last Fall. You can see that post HERE.
The doors really open. The "Bell out of order. Please knock." sign is a separate piece which hangs on a hook in the facade plastic.
It also came with a cardboard yellow brick road, which you might have seen in that post, and the posts I did on the Oz Munchkin Tommy dolls HERE, and HERE.
The 'road' was printed. along with some poppies and grass at the edges.
Some small pieces came with the set, which was based on the "In the Merry Old Land of Oz" portion of the movie. (You can see that part of the movie HERE.) These included a hair brush, fake scissors, a perfume bottle, and an oil can. And of course Dorothy needs her salon chair to get her makeover. The chair comes in pieces and you have to put it together. In the movie the chair was actually a lighter, mint green. They did a pretty good job on the design though.
The other big piece to the set is the Wizard's balloon. Included is a plastic balloon basket, with plastic 'ropes', and a real mylar balloon you can blow up.
The balloon basket can hold one doll. The irony here is, Dorothy never made the trip back to Kansas in the balloon, since Toto jumped out of her arms to chase a cat, and she jumped out of the balloon to follow him. The other irony of including the balloon is, the only major Oz character Mattel never made a doll of is The Wizard, who is the only character to actually ride in the balloon..
There was a 1/6 scale Wizard doll to go with the other Oz dolls made by Multi Toys. He was hard to find though. I'm not sure he wasn't a Canada only release. I know he was excluded from the boxed set of Oz toys that Multitoys made. (That set included Dorothy and friends, and both witches.) I think I still have a Multitoys Wizard somewhere in my attic in our old doll show stuff. There was also a Wizard made by Hamilton Presents, for it's Oz line.
The balloon basket can hold one doll. The irony here is, Dorothy never made the trip back to Kansas in the balloon, since Toto jumped out of her arms to chase a cat, and she jumped out of the balloon to follow him. The other irony of including the balloon is, the only major Oz character Mattel never made a doll of is The Wizard, who is the only character to actually ride in the balloon..
There was a 1/6 scale Wizard doll to go with the other Oz dolls made by Multi Toys. He was hard to find though. I'm not sure he wasn't a Canada only release. I know he was excluded from the boxed set of Oz toys that Multitoys made. (That set included Dorothy and friends, and both witches.) I think I still have a Multitoys Wizard somewhere in my attic in our old doll show stuff. There was also a Wizard made by Hamilton Presents, for it's Oz line.
Well, that's the playset for this month. Hopefully next month we'll see an actual in hand playset! See you tomorrow for the Doll Book of the Month Club.
