Doll-A-Day 2023 #20: Star Fairies Doll

   Today's doll is one Emma has in her selling stuff. She is a pretty little girl, and my dolls are far away, so we're going to look at her today. She's a Star Fairies doll.

  She's marked Hornby on the back of her head.

Apparently the Star Fairies were made from molds made by Hornby for their Flower Fairies line, but produced and sold by Tonka.  I guess Tonka couldn't be bothered to change the name on the molds.

  The dolls were sold in 1985. There was a series of dolls, some fashions, and some playsets. This would have been when Unsentimental Niece was eight years old, so I would have been buying things for an eight year old. But I don't remember these dolls.

  She came with a wand, and a hairbrush.

Her hand mold allows her to hold her wand.

 She is jointed at the shoulders, hips, and neck, where her head is on a ball joint. This allows her to tilt her head as well as turn it.

  She has a twist waist.

 She's a fairy, so she has big wings.

Her wings fit into her back with a plastic piece that pops into a hole in her back. Her wings are removeable.

Her dress is removeable, and closes in back with Velcro.

Her legs are bendable.

She stands about 6 or 7 inches tall.

  The Flower Fairies line had a male character or two, and so did the Star Fairies. The male Star Fairies  dolls wore shiny white pants and hooded capes, called 'Star Shower Rain Capes', and also had wings. The Flower Fairies had shorter dresses, with flower petal skirts. There were six female Star Fairies, and not one of them I have found online has this girl's dress! I'm so confused! There were those extra fashion sets though, so could this be one of those? Seems unlikely, since I think the fashions were just repackaged Flower Fairies fashions.

  They're pretty dolls. The Flower Fairies didn't sell well, and I can't understand why. They were even prettier than the Star Fairies, who have polyester dresses. 

I'm not sure how well the Star Fairies sold either. Tonka put some oomph behind them though, as they also produced the playsets, which were 'star' or 'space' themed, and so not left over from the Flower Fairies. (The 'Castle WishStar' playset has built in clouds all around the front of it.)  There were also other related items sold, like lunchboxes, and paper dolls. There was even a Hanna Barbara animated show. You can watch it HERE. Tonka probably hoped the show would go on to be a series, and sell their dolls for them, without paying for commercials, because that's the way it worked in that era, before those in charge of monitoring children's television reigned some of that stuff in. 

  You can watch a commercial for the Star Fairies HERE.

  That's the doll for today. If I'm lucky I can fit another one in today and start getting caught up. Either way, see you tomorrow for another doll.

   

Doll-A-Day 2019 #254: Autumn Fairy

    Today was another super busy day. I worked on Lori's secret present. I don't know why I'm keeping so hush hush. I know she doesn't read this blog!) I have a surprise coming up,which you'll find out about tomorrow or Friday,so there was prep for that too. I am unbelievable tired!
  Today's doll is celebrating Fall. He's this guy.
 

He's a simple Fall Fairy.

His pictures were taken a couple of months ago, but he looks very Auntumny,and I tried to make sure his pictures did too.

He's really cute, and I have a weakness for fairies anyway. I thought he would make a great doll for a Fall day.

Actually,he's the type of 'doll' that is supposed to just be sat around for decoration. Well, he has a string on his hat to hang him by,so I guess he's supposed to hang.

He looks better sitting though. He reminds me of the fairy pictures of  Cicely Mary Barker.

 

I've always loved those, so he was appealing to me.
 

His face reminds me of actor Macauley Culkin's brother Kieran.

He has pointy fairy ears.

There may be a little bit of Tobey Maguire in there too.

 And gauzy wings.

I think his head,hands, and feet are made of resin. His body is stuffed. He's about 10 inches tall.

  He has his basket of Fall goodies.
 

His hands are tied to it!

  That's today's doll. Tomorrow we'll see another one.

Doll-A-Day 2019 #168: Ruby Fairy Melody

   Well, I'm back from Georgia. Lori is settled in her new house. I actually got back late Saturday night. I wanted to be back in time for Father's Day. So yesterday,(Father's Day), the girls and I went out with Ken to celebrate.
  It may seem there was no post yesterday,but there was. It was just published a day early. I left Ken a bunch of numbered posts to publish while I was gone,and it seems he accidentally posted two in one day,which left him a post short.  So now we're back on track.
  As for the Blogaversary competition winner,Bebe still hasn't left me a comment with her address. If she doesn't contact me by noon tomorrow I will choose a new winner from the other contestants who entered.
  Today's doll is this little girl.

She's Ruby Fairy Melody.

I have two because I had the boxed one, and then got a second hand one. So I just never opened the other one.

Ruby Fairy is obviously a Kelly friend.

Melody was one of the original Kelly friends.

Ruby Fairy was from a line of Kelly and friends called Dream Club.

Dream Club was a 2002 animated Kelly movie. It was the first Kelly movie.

The dolls made were based on characters from the movie. There were several princesses,and, as well as Ruby, there was the Diamond Fairy and the Emerald Fairy.

Ruby was always my favourite. I love her fair complexion, her colouring, and her red hair.

As you can see,my roses are on their way out. Just before I left for Georgia I made Emma some sugared rose petals. I first made them to top her birthday cake years ago when she had a 'fairy birthday party'.

The only thing I think could be improved is her super thin eyebrows. I'd thicken them a tiny bit at least.
 

Ruby comes with a wand...
 

...a necklace...

...a crown/tiara...

...red shoes...

...her red dress...

...and, of course,her fairy wings,which are part of her dress. 

  That's it for today.  See you tomorrow for another doll.