Another Goodwill Haul: Vintage Tammy,G.I Joe and more

  Before we start,I have to welcome our newest follower,Linda. Welcome Linda! Linda, formerly of What Happens in the Doll Room, has a couple of new blogs, Darkroom Dolls, where she posts her doll photography, and  The Old Darkroom, where she posts cool old photographs. Plus, I think I figured out who the follower is that I missed a while back. If I'm not mistaken, it's Milena. Welcome Milena! (If I've welcomed you before, just ignore me!) Milena has a blog called MINIMAGINE, where you can see the great furniture and room boxes Milena has created and sells.
  I have found a few vintage dolls this summer, including a Tammy, but I made quite a haul of vintage and newer dolls at Goodwill a week or so ago.

All these dolls were $1 or $2.

Another Tammy! And she's a red head!

It took me a while to figure out if this G.I. Joe was old or one of the newer repros.

They redid this exact 'figure', (Since he's a guy's 'doll'...) when Fuzz was little, and he's 20 now.

His feet are a different shade than his body. They almost look like they've been replaced, but I'm pretty sure all these were dumped from the same load,and as somebody's old play dolls, that's unlikely.

I researched him, and he seems to be one of the old guys. From what I found when I researched it, the older ones started out saying Patent Pending on their right 'cheek'. Then it became like this guy's, with the patent number.

The repros look almost the same, except they actually say 'reproduction on the left 'cheek'.
  Fuzzy has a red head, just like my childhood G.I. Joe.

My childhood Joe, who was called John, in a typical pose.I never could keep him straightened out. Even his wife Midge can't believe it. By the way, he did originally have the Joe scar on his face, but my sister removed the scars from our Joes to make them  more aesthetically pleasing...

This guy looks more like my sister's brown haired Joe, except this guy is a 'hard head', and hers was a 'soft head',meaning this guy's head is rock hard, where as her Joe's head was soft and hollow,just like her first husband's.

  I don't know who the littlest guy is,because he has no markings at all.He's made very like a Mego, but with slightly different jointing. The larger of the two little guys is a Mego though.

Mego guy even has his shoes! But what's the deal with those shorts?

Megos are super jointy and poseable. I'm pretty sure he's Action Jackson. He kind of looks like the Planet of the Apes astronaut, which would be great, because I need him.Unfortunately, I think his hair is too dark and his side burns are too long for him to be the POTA astronaut.
The large girl is a BFC Ink Kaitlyn.

She's the more jointy one too. I need to weed out all my extra BFC Ink dolls and get rid of them. This girl may be the Kaitlyn that stays if I can get that ink mark off her head. I have heard Mr. Clean Magic Eraser is great for removing marks like that, but I haven't had much luck with it. I wish I knew what I was doing wrong.
  The smaller newish girl is a Forever Best Friends doll.

I love the faces on these dolls. They were made by MGA, the company that makes Bratz and Moxie Girlz. Their clothing is very similar to those lines. In fact, I could do with more shirts for them that aren't 'belly shirts', as my girls always call them.)The kind that are so short your belly hangs out.)

I think she's Brianee. She's the kind with jointed hands and hers are missing. That's ok, because she at least hasn't had a hair cut, and I have some dolls from this line with hair cuts that have their hands. I can always switch the hands to this one. That's another line of dolls that I need to sort out my extras on and get them out of here.
  To update a recent post, my Barbie Dream Kitchen and Dinette has sold. That will help a bit when we come back from England and have bills to pay, even if I am sorry to see that kitchen step ladder and Corning Ware go!

Doll-A-Day 119: 4 Ever Best Friends Noelle

  Today's doll just got her brief photo shoot in before a whopper of a thunderstorm, with warning sirens and all. Here she is.She's Noelle, a 4 Ever Best Friends doll by MGA.

Please ignore my extra clothesline tied up in the tree...As you can see, her arms can spread straight out, as well as move back and forth. Some of the 4 Ever Best Friends have swively wrists too.

 I'm not sure if she has had a haircut or not, but I think she's cute this way.

They have sweet faces.

MGA are the same people who make Lalaoopsy dolls,Bratz and Moxie Girlz.(Boy, MGA likes to end names with 'z', don't they?)

"These pear blossoms are so pretty. I wonder if they smell good too?"

"Mmm---Pew! These things stink!" This is totally a joke. If you were that close to a pear blossom you'd already KNOW they stink, no sniffing neccessary. As soon as you walk into the yard you can smell them. They smell absolutely rotten.

Noelle is 9 and a half inches tall, about the same as a Bratz or Moxie Girlz doll. The 4 Ever Best friends dolls have attached feet though, which is a plus, if you ask me.

So she can just change her shoes, or go barefoot if she wants.

She's also about the same scale as those dolls, only with chunkier, more little girl legs. I think these doll are supposed to be younger than Moxie Girlz, but why do they have sparkly eye shadow then?

 The 4 Ever Best Friends share accessories with Bratz dolls. Alot of the things they came with were exactly the same as Bratz things. They can not, however, share clothes.

I still need to show the last of my doll show goodies, so hang in there. See you tomorrow for another doll.