Doll-A-Day 2023 #330: Gary

  Today we're going to look at Gary. Sorry for how much of him we're looking at! 

 Gary is about 6 1/2 inches tall, the same as Dawn.

I just don't have any of Gary's clothes except for one brown shoe that I think is his. (I think he came in black shoes though.)

Too bad he doesn't have the other shoe, to cover up his injured foot.

  Gary was the boyfriend of Dawn, Topper's mini fashion doll, sold between 1970 and 1973. I never had any of Dawn and her friends as a kid, but I remember seeing plenty of them at school. (Kids don't seem to be allowed to bring toys to school these days, but we did  it all the time back then.)

Poor Gary isn't in the best of shape.

  Gary came in a wild, multicoloured shirt. It was a bit hip for a guy with a somewhat Robert Goulet-like appearance.

"If ever I would leave you..."

  The long sideburns were a thing of the times, and I still hate them.

He does have a lot of detail on his tiny little head. I will say that.

This Gary doesn't seem to suffer from the problem a lot of Dawn dolls do, which is the reaction between the soft rubber arms and legs, and the harder plastic torso, which causes them to sort of meld together. Other dolls have the same problem, like Kenner's Dusty.

  I'm not sure if other Garys also escaped the problem, or if this guy just got lucky. Or maybe Gary was made of a sightly different plastic than Dawn.

  Gary was released in the second series of Dawn and friends, along with another guy named Ron. Ron had brown hair in a swoopy, across the forehead style. Later there was a third guy, an African American named Van. 

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

Doll-A-Day 2023 #310: Kenny Little

  First of all, I apologize for the blurriness of the photos. The latest development in the ongoing saga of my camera problems is that now it has ceased to work at all. I am forced to use my phone or Ken's camera, which he's not crazy about. These were taken with the phone, and it wouldn't focus on something so small.

  Today's doll is one I got at the miniature show yesterday. He's Kenny Little

  The Littles were a series of 'little' dolls, with a house and lots of furniture, released by Mattel in the early 1980's. There was a whole family of Littles, including Mr. and Mrs. Little and the baby, who came packaged together, as well as several daughters, and a son named Kenny. I see Mrs. Little and various daughters occasionally. I have never found Mr. Little or Kenny in the wild before. 

Kenny has freckles.

Kenny is about 2 inches tall, with cloth clothes over an all vinyl body.

Kenny originally came with a rocking horse, a wagon, a teddy bear, a blanket, and a pillow. He had a twin sister named Becky, who came separately. Becky came with a rocking chair with a cushion, tiny dollhouse, blanket, and a cat. Like all The Littles, he's jointed at the neck, shoulders, and hips.

So her can stand or sit down.

And he can raise his arms.

As I have said before, dolls are generally cheaper at toy shows, and toys are cheaper at doll shows. In addition to that, miniature shows don't put much value on dolls. They're more about the furniture, accessories, and building materials. So I only paid a dollar for Kenny.

  In spite of being 80's toys, The Littles have a very 60's/70's look about them. Am I right? Kiddley, aren't they?

  You may have seen my post on Mrs. Little and a couple of daughters. I talked a bit about the Littles universe and what was available. You can find that post HERE. I also gave you a link to a page with loads of Littles information and pictures. You can see that page HERE.

  That's the doll for today. See you tomorrow for another doll I picked up, (and actually paid for and brought back, Why do people say they 'picked it up', about things they bought?), at the miniature show. See you then.

Doll-A-Day 2023 #307: Jackson and Jayla

   Today's dolls are some I spotted yesterday. I had never seen them before, and I thought they were really cute. So here they are, Jackson and Jayla.

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  Jackson and Jayla are characters from the Barbie TV series "It Takes Two".

Jackson and Jayla, who are twins, are the size of the current Skipper dolls. Jackson has molded, painted hair, and a checked shirt and jeans.

  Jayla has a long braid, and a cute 'Happy Vibes' shirt and denim skirt...and a rather large ponytailer.

She as rooted hair and painted details around her hairline. 

  The dolls come with three dogs, and a bunch of accessories for taking care of them, plus an ice cream cone, and a soccer ball. I'm not sure if that's a big purse, or a bag to carry a dog in...or both.

  Cute dolls, but I don't need them, or to pend money on them right now. So they stayed in the store.

  Those are today's dolls. Tomorrow we'll see another interesting doll.

Doll-A-Day 2023 #303: Tre

   Today's doll is Tre.

Tre is a Flavas doll. If you want to read the history of Flavas, you can go to my post on Flavas Liam and   Flavas in general, HERE. To see some other Flavas, you can check out Favas in the sidebar. 

  Tre has blue eyes and a tiny mustache and beard.

 There were at least four versions of Tre. Two versions had platinum blonde hair, and two versions had black hair. I'm not sure if there were any more.

  

Tre originally had two gold earrings.

 Like all the Flavas, Tre has some extra articulation besides the regular five points. He's jointed at the neck, shoulders, elbows, hips, and knees.

His hip joints allow his legs to move out to the sides, as well as back and forth.

  Tre didn't have any of his original clothes, which is why I couldn't tell which Tre he is. He was forced to wear this set of Ken clothes from the Barbie Life in the Dreamhouse line, that I happened to have laying around.

 Just a note, I tried those shoes on both feet, and they looked like they were on the wrong feet either way.

They looked this way on either foot.

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

Doll-A-Day 2023 #301: Funko Gold Jimi Hendrix

   Today's doll is a figure belonging to AJ. (He probably wouldn't want me to say he owns a doll.) It's Jimi Hendrix.

You may have heard of, or seen the Funko Pop figures. You might have seen the custom ones I made of Emma and AJ. Less known are the Funko Gold figures. 

  Jimi is 5 inches tall.

  He's wearing the outfit he wore when he played the famous Woodstock music festival in 1969.

That includes the fringey  shirt and the red forerunner of the do rag, on his head.

And you can't have Jimi Hendrix without his guitar.

  That's the doll, (Sorry AJ.), for today. Tomorrow we head to Indiana to see Ivy. I'll see what I can do...

Doll-A-Day 2023 #287: Fashionistas #192

   I saw this guy at Five Below yesterday. He was tempting.

Officially he's Fashionistas #192.

Unofficially he's probably known as the guy with vitiligo.

Vitiligo is an autoimmune disorder that causes the loss of pigment in patches of skin anywhere on the body.

  There have been two other Fashionistas with vitiligo, but they were both female. You might have seen Emma's #135 HERE.

  Note that in the first picture, to the left you see that they also carry The World's Smallest toys, and at the moment ours has the 1977 Barbie case. Just a few comments about it. For one thing, I love the case. It's slightly big for 1/6 scale, but I can live with that. Second thing: the doll that comes with it is WAY too small for the case! What?! As if that weren't enough, #3, she's totally the wrong doll for the case, and even the wrong decade! She's a 90's Barbie, with long crimped hair. You can see her on the right of the case in the package. I can't remember the name right now, but I know that doll came out when Emma was little, and Emma was born in 1991. So I'd take the case, and the doll, but not together. As for #192, I like him. I think if you want him you should snap him up while Five Below has him for $5.

  And I still haven't seen The Barbie Movie! I saw it for sale on DVD yesterday. For sale already?! Things move fast these days! It used to take at least a year for something to make it t video. I'm old.

  That's today's doll. We're going to the house to work tomorrow, and we should be getting windows put in soon. (Yay!) See you tomorrow for some other doll, even if I haven't decided which one yet!