Doll-A-Day 2023 #114: Kelly as Little Red Riding Hood

   Today's doll is a boxed set: Kelly as Little Red Riding Hood.

This is one of those collector's sets featuring Barbie's little sister, Kelly. It was fourth in the Storybook Favourites series, which also included Raggedy Ann and Andy, Goldilocks, and Hansel and Gretel, This set was produced in 2001.

The back of the box gives a kindler, gentler version of Little Red Riding Hood than the one I grew up with. In this version, Grama was just hiding in the pantry, and comes out when a huntsman scares the wolf away. In the version we had as kids, the wolf eats Grama, and a woodcutter ends up cutting the wolf open with his axe and Grama is found whole and sound inside the wolf's stomach!

  Kelly  as Red wears a pretty dress, with attached apron, and her signature red hooded cape....

...while the Wolf wear Grama's  night cap and glasses!

This wolf could barely get Red in it's stomach, let alone Grama.

  Red has her basket of apples. In the story I know, she has a jar of jelly and some bread for Grama.

The elastic that held it to her hand has finally given up.

Red's cape has a hook and eye closure, but is stitched together anyway.

 The Kelly dolls in the collector sets like this seemed to have more realistic hair than the play line dolls. It's not crazy long, and not as terribly thick as the play line's.

  That's the doll for today. See you again tomorrow. 

Doll-A-Day 2019 #51: Dancing Little Red Riding Hood and Her Mouse Friend

  This morning I had my shoulder pain again,and my back was killing me. So I was very achy today. Oddly enough, so was Ken. I asked him who beat us up in our sleep.
  The doll today is this little girl.

She's a doll from my childhood. Obviously she's Little Red Riding Hood.

She stands about 7" tall.

She came with her hood up, but I liked to put it down so she could see better. It's always been that way.

Her head turns, but with the hood up, if she turns her head she can't see because of the hood. I had a coat like that when I was a kid. It made looking out the window of the school bus a bit difficult.

I think she has a face similar to the Liddle Kiddles. 

How do these dolls that have been stored away in a box get so dirty?!

She has molded, painted hair, and a solid body with stationary arms and little nub feet.

She came with the little plastic goodies basket.
 

She even has a hand made specifically for holding it.

But why is she waving it in the air?

When I got her the basket was just a hollow block of plastic. But my sister cut it open for me so Red could carry things in it. My sister was always looking for some toy she could cut. You'll know this if you read my posts on my Beany doll,and my Swirl Barbie.
  Red is a 'dancing' doll. She has a crank in her back which winds a spring action inside her.

When she's wound the weight spins, causing her to shake and twirl when she's sat on a flat surface. I also have a mouse that 'dances' the same way. 

I got him when I was a kid because he was the closest thing I could find to Topo Gigio. 

 

If you don't remember Topo Gigio,or are too young,(or too old) to know who he is, you can go to my post on Topo Gigio HERE.

  Tomorrow we'll check out another doll.

Doll-A-Day 291: Hard Plastic Dress Me Doll

  Today's doll is one of those hard plastic dolls that were popular for years, and are still being made in some form today. She's this 'dress me; doll.

Obviously somebody used her for exactly that purpose: They dressed her.She's Little Knitted Riding Hood from the looks of her.

She's about 8" tall, and made of hard plastic.

These dolls rarely had moveable legs, and this girl is no exception.That was always the most frustrating thing about these dolls to me as a kid: they couldn't sit down.

Cute though.

We had several of these floating around when I was a kid. Most of them had belonged to my sister when she was small, but one of them was all mine. She came on top of a box of Valentine candy I got one year. That's why I always called them 'Candy Box Dolls'.

My 'Candy Box' girl is smaller than this girl, about 6" tall, but has the same strung head and arms and solid body and legs.

Since they're strung you can tilt her head as well as turn it.

She is a good example of another frustrating thing about these dolls: You can't comb their hair.It's glued on, and once you've made a mess of it, you can forget it. As you may have guessed, I made a mess of it. I was never good with hair, and I'm still not. When my 'candy box doll's' hair started going awry I tried to glue it. (Those of you who have been with us for a while, or have read some old posts, will know that I made that same mistake with my Swirl Ponytail Barbie too.) My candy box girl's hair suffered the same fate as my Barbie's. Once it got full of glue and couldn't be recovered, the hair went completely. I don't remember if it just came off one day, or if my sister took it off for me, but poor Candy Box is bald to this day. There was no wig for her though, like there was for my Barbita,my Barbie doll, or even my Thumbelina. My sister made a wig for Thumb. Candy Box started out life looking sort of like Marie Antoinette, and has spent the last 40+ years looking more like Mr. Freeze.

Only without the eyebrows.

Misery loves company they say.Candy box girl is one of the bazillion kids of Pixie and Barbita Brennan, so her mom can commiserate with her. 

Join us again tomorrow for another doll.