Showing posts with label Honey Hill Bunch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Honey Hill Bunch. Show all posts

Thursday, December 28, 2023

Doll-A-Day 2023 #358: Spunky

Spunky is a member of the Honeyhill Bunch, a series of small dolls that ran from 1976 to 1978. 


  The dolls came in a couple of sizes, with Spunky being one of the larger dolls, at 6 inches tall.
There seems to be some disagreement as to whether Spunky is a boy or a girl. The Honeyhill Bunch paper dolls seem to think he's a boy, as the girls are shown in one piece outfits that include a top, and the boys, which include Spunky and Solo, are shown in shorts/swim trunks only. Of course, L'il Kid is shown with no top, but wearing Mary Jane shoes, and the outfit include yellow pajamas, one outfit that looks baby boyish, (in fact, similar to Tiny Chatty Brother's clothes), one outfit with pink pants and a pink and white polka dot top, and one indistinct sailor suit. Sooooo...boy? or infant girl?
Spunky has cute freckles and a dimple.


The Honeyhill Bunch was made by Mattel, and they have typical Mattel faces of the era. In spite of the copyright on the tag, the series did start in 1976.



The dolls all have cloth bodies with vinyl heads and rooted hair.


Spunky has a funky fringed vest.


The kids all had an accessory too. Some of the accessories' were pets. Spunky's is a frog.


  The dolls have Velcro on one hand so they can hold their accessory, or hold hands with each other.

  Spunky's slogan, on his box, is "Nobody bothers me, 'cuz I'm tuff! See!" ('Tuff', but very bad with spelling and punctuation. See? Maybe Spunky could get some help with that from I.Q..)

  Check out today's other posts for more Honeyhill Bunch. We're going to hit 365 on time!

Thursday, January 10, 2019

Doll-A-Day 2019 #10: Hayseed Honey Hill Bunch

  We've had some really weird weather the past couple of days. Yesterday we had sunshine,strong winds,loud thunder,followed by pouring rain...all within a few minutes. That happened more than once too! Today we had the strong winds, and snow. But it was so warm the other day that I was outside doing some stuff in the yard, and photographing today's doll. It's this kid.


She's Hayseed.

 

Hayseed is part of the Honey Hill Bunch.



The Honey Hill Bunch was a line of dolls made by Mattel from 1976 to 1978.


The 'Honey Hill Bunch' were a group of kids between 4" and 6" tall. Hayseed is 6" tall.


They all have vinyl heads and rooted hair,and stuffed cloth bodies.



The dolls had a piece of removable clothing,like a pinafore,shirt, or vest.

  

The 'Bunch' also came with an accessory each. Hayseed came with a big dog,much bigger than the one mine has.
 

This is a Honey Hill dog though. His name is  'Good', and he belonged to the character Lil Kid.



  As you can sort of see in the photo above, the Bunch had Velcro on one hand so they could hold onto their accessory, or each other's hands. (The Velcroed hand held on to the un-Velcroed hand of the other doll.)
  Playsets for the Honey Hill Bunch included a clubhouse...

 

...a clubhouse that came with dolls...
 

...and a Baskin Robbins ice cream store.


They also had a car called the Rickety Rig.



  The faces of the Honey Hill Bunch remind me of Mattel's Baby Beans dolls.


I'm sure it must be the same artist's work. They are from around the same time.
  That's it for today. Join us again tomorrow for another doll.