More dolls for my imaginary collection

I love doing these "dolls that I like but don't need" posts!  They can be a mite dangerous to my pocketbook, but I still enjoy putting them together. 

MOMMY'S HAVING A BABY

COMPANY:  Tyco
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1992

The title pretty much says it all:  Mommy Doll is pregnant and "gives birth" to a baby doll.  She even has her own little ultrasound machine to "look" at the baby.  Baby Doll also comes with some accessories, and she drinks and wets like many good baby dolls do.  Mommy has jointed arms to hold Baby, and a dress to wear post-partum.  It's a cute concept, though I can see where some parents might've been freaked out some.  My own mother lifted an eyebrow when I told her about this one, LOL.

MAGIC POTTY BABY

COMPANY:  Tyco
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1992

Coexisting with Mommy's Having a Baby was this poppet, who had a gimmick similar to that of Potty Dotty.  Sit her on her toidy and she goes!  Unlike Potty Dotty, Magic Potty Baby's commode does all the dirty work, making tinkling and flushing noises.  The doll herself is partially stuffed and is cute enuff on her own without the pot.  She could be either white or black.

PEBBLES AND BAMM-BAMM

COMPANY:  Ideal
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:
Believe it or not, Uncle Man-Child reminded me of these one night.  We never will be super-close, but we're getting along better, and one night he...I forget exactly what it was he said, but I think he said it was a shame that Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm (the children from The Flintstones) weren't made into dolls.  Surprise, they were!  They appear to be nothing more than cute little baby dolls done up in the likenesses of Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble, but they sure are cute!  I went for a look on eBay shortly after that, and to my surprise Bamm-Bamm is the easier one to find.  Usually the girl doll is the easier one to find, but not this time!

CHIKA-CHAN

COMPANY:  Shiba
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1970, give or take a year.

The subreddit r/DollsOfAsia can be a dangerous place to go if you love dolls but are short on cash.  Since Chika-chan is foreign she's hard to come by here in the U.S., and as such she can go for a pretty penny.  Shame too, because she's cute.  "Chan" is a Japanese honorific, meaning that Chika-chan would have to be from there.  If the source I found is correct then Chika only had blonde hair...meaning that the doll pictured above is her friend Chiko-chan.  Chiko was either a redhead or a brunette.  Both dolls appear to have an internal armature, and thus they remind me a little of Tutti and Todd.  I'm fond of Asian dolls, so it should be no surprise that I like Chika-chan and Chico-chan.

ARGIGI AND BRIGIGI

COMPANY:  Hugo Limited
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:

These remind me a little of Poppy Parker in the face.  According to Cardigan Argigi is the lead character and Brigigi is her bestie.  If the chatter on Reddit is to be believed, these dolls are independently produced and have small production numbers, kinda like some of the smaller art dolls that I've seen on Etsy.  As of writing all the dolls are out of stock, so I have no idea what prices we're dealing with, but I bet y'all a bottom dollar these dolls are pricey.  They're cute, though.

PEACHY

COMPANY:  Mattel
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1973

C'mon, y'all know darn good and well that Mattel will have an entry somewhere!  Peachy reminds me of the story Treesa told me about herself and her Blooming Doll.  Violet is a puppet, and Treesa used her as a ventriloquist dummy of sorts.  Peachy is...well, she's kinda like that; she comes with four stick puppets and she manipulates them as such.  She also talks via a pull string, and apparently her speech changes with the puppets.  Pretty cool!  I wouldn't mind seeing this doll in action...<pauses to browse YouTube>...I think that's it, yeah.  Peachy could be either black or white, and both variants are cute.  I have to admit, I'm very interested in this one...no, bad Moon!  Stay off eBay!

PENNY PUPPY WALKER

COMPANY:  Bradgate/Palitoy

YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1972

Bradgate was (I think) a subdivision of Palitoy, meaning that Penny Puppy Walker here is likely a British/European thing.  Y'all know of old how I like foreign releases.  Penny is a walker like a great many dolls, but instead of relying on batteries she relies on...air.  Y'all see that yellow and red thing and the tube around Penny's foot?  The tube attaches to her somewhere and the child would press on those red buttons to get her moving.  The commercial shows that her dog will move to, utilizing the same mechanism.  Pretty cool!  I admit that I almost bought this one just because of that.  I love how dated the fashions in the commercial are, by the way.  Very early seventies.  As an aside, French company Clodrey made a very similar doll during the same timeframe.  Her name was Nini the Trotter and her face was different from Penny's, but otherwise they're the same doll.  Spoiler alert, Clodrey dolls will be making an appearance in the blog soon.  I've seen and found some cute ones.

BABY GROWS UP

COMPANY:  Mattel
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1978

Don't confuse this doll with the Baby Alive doll!  Dolls that "grow up" aren't as common as dolls who drink, wet, cry, walk, you get me, but they're definitely out there.  Unclad images of Baby Grows Up show that her torso gets longer as she "grows," and as far as I know her legs don't have to be manually straightened like the Baby Alive doll's legs do.  I can remember one doll from the nineties whose legs had to be straightened by hand to transform her from a crawler to a walker, and to me it looked like a good way to break your doll.  Not that Baby Grows Up can't break, but she seems a bit more robust than similar grow-up dolls.

COME TO ME BABY CRAWL 'N' WALK

COMPANY:  Toy Biz
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1998

This is the doll I was thinking of above.  I was ten by 1998 and finally beginning to pay attention to dolls, but I was also still diligently watching Nickelodeon and the toy commercials that accompany kids' programs, so I remember this one pretty well.  She can crawl, and if her legs are pulled straight she can walk.  She apparently is activated by noise, as she moves when you call to her.  Hmmm, does that mean that if I don't take her batteries out she'll start moving when I beller for my dogs, or when the thunder gets too close?  Jeez, I hope not!

That takes care of this bunch!

Love,
RagingMoon1987

More random dolls that I don't need but like

What can I say, I like doing posts like these.  They keep the blog alive and hopefully keep y'all entertained while I wait to hear from my doctor.  Nope, still haven't heard back from him.  He said he was sending my X-ray to "someone else," presumably for a second opinion, but I haven't heard anything yet.  That said, today's dolls will largely be baby dolls, and most of the images will be screenshots from YouTube because I don't own most of these.  Apologies.

BABY THIS 'N' THAT

COMPANY:  Remco
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1976, 1990

Baby This 'n' That!  Baby This 'n' That!  She does a lot of this and she does a lot of that!  I think I've told this story before, but one time while my great-grandfather was playing with one of the family babies it apparently loaded its pants, and Great-Grandpa hollered "One of y'all better get in here!  This baby's done a lot of that!"  I guess he was too good to change diapers himself.  Baby This 'n' That doesn't load her pants like some baby dolls do, though.  Rather, she holds items in her hands, items like a rattle and a toy telephone, and she moves her arms when you squeeze her goofy-looking little toes.  She also can move her mouth, which I didn't remember her doing, and I just think she's cute.  The family joke helps my opinion of her a bit too, of course.

Now here's where my head spun a little bit.  In 1990 Baby This 'n' That got a revival and an update.

I didn't know this doll existed.  I didn't know Remco was even still in business in 1990.  Awww, phooey, there's plenty that I don't know, about dolls and about a lot of other things I like.  Sweet Baby This 'n' That didn't do everything that her seventies self did, but she did brush her hair, sip on a straw, and blow kisses, so that's something.  Again, she's cute, and she appears to be...kinda obscure.  eBay has PLENTY of the older Baby This 'n' That, but the 1990 version...not so much.  Challenge accepted.

MAKE ME BETTER BABY

COMPANY:  Geoffrey, Inc.
YEAR:  1998

Make Me Better Baby was strictly a Toys R Us thing, but otherwise she was your average little sickie.  She'd cough, get red glowing cheeks, and run a fever, or she'd develop a red glowing ear and moan in pain, but either way the remedy was the same.  Cough syrup for the cough, ear drops for the ear, and she'd announce "All better!"  This doll-child appealed to me because I've always been attracted to sick dolls, and because she had short, low-maintenance hair, but I didn't like her enuff to want her or ask for her.  I was able to find a used one on eBay though, and guess what?  The white version has violet eyes!  I always like that.  Oh, and surprise, surprise, Baby Alive has/had a doll with the same name and the same gimmick.

Her cheeks even light up!  Poor love could also receive a shot, which makes me cringe because I hate the thought of babies getting stuck with sharp things.  I'm pro-vax, mind y'all, and a lot of those shots prevent very, very bad things from happening to innocent little kids, but no one in their right mind likes hurting small children...or small pets either, for that matter.  My animals always ran a fever when they got their first round of shots, but it kept my dogs from getting parvo so it was worth it.  A more recent Baby Alive with the same name trades the shot for a tissue box...or maybe those are baby wipes.  This one does load her pants, after all.

I'm willing to bet there are other Make Me Better Babies out there, but the one from Toys R Us kinda started it all.

POTTY DOTTY

COMPANY:  Playmates Toys
YEAR OF PRODUCTION:  1998

I hated this doll when she was in production, and I'm willing to bet other kids did too, because this pet is pretty obscure.  The picture is pretty self-explanatory; Dotty is a drink and wet doll, though she didn't actually drink because she's mechanical.  She'd react to her bottle, then she'd announce to her "mommy" that she has to go potty, and then when you put her on her little potty she...makes a sound like she's taking a leak.  But there's a catch!  If you don't get her panties off fast enuff she makes the tinkling sound anyway and then she says "Uh-oh, I'm sorry, Mommy!"  Believe me, Dotty, sciatica does a number of fun things to one's body that I wasn't originally aware of, so I understand accidents.  The human nervous system is so weird; kidney stones make one throw up, and sciatic nerve problems screw around with a lot more than just one's ability to walk.  Anyway, what really bugged me about Potty Dotty growing up were her huge, wide-set eyes.  She's just a funny-lookin' little goober...kinda like Baby Alive, now that I think of it.  She was innocent enuff, though.  Indeed, I'd rather have a doll that makes a tinkling sound than one that craps slime.

SHOP 'N' BOP BABY

COMPANY:  Playmates Toys
YEAR OF PRODUCTION:  1998

Now I know why this doll's commercial was always shown immediately after Potty Dotty's!  Both Playmates dolls, both a little strange.  Shop 'n' Bop's gimmick was admittedly stranger than Potty Dotty's was, but then again I loved shopping carts when I was little.  I loved riding in them, I loved riding under them (that was possible at one of the grocery stores in Malden), and I loved helping push them "like a big girl."  I was never allowed to ride on the front of the cart, like Shop 'n' Bop did here.

Mama and Daddy thought it wasn't safe to hang onto the front, and indeed some of the stores had signs up warning parents not to let their kids ride the carts like that.  Some little brats did it anyway, and I saw at least one kid get injured that way.  I don't think Shop 'n' Bop sold well either, by the way, as pickin's on eBay are pretty slim.

BOUNCY BABY

COMPANY:  MGA Entertainment
Year of production:  1996-1997

MGA Entertainment's first doll is a far cry from the dolls that followed her!  Indeed, when someone brings up MGA in conversation the first dolls I think of are usually Bratz, L.O.L. Surprises, or Rainbow High.  I thought Bouncy Baby was cute, but like other dolls I've seen she was more of a toy than collector fodder, so I never got nor really wanted this one.  Bouncy's gimmick is another simple one:  squeeze one wrist and she'll sing one song, squeeze her other wrist and she'll sing another, press her tummy and she giggles.  Despite what the commercial suggests, one apparently does not have to bounce this doll to get her to sing.  She has a soft body with simple clothes and hair that's easy to take care of, and those look like rainbow highlights in that lousy screenshot, but they're actually streamers on her hair bow.  I love that.  Everything's better with a hair bow.

In 1998 Bouncy Baby spawned a spinoff, one that was around until 2000 or so.  She was Bathtime Bouncy Baby.

This version of Bouncy Baby could be played with in the tub or in the pool, though I don't think getting her fully submerged was a smart idea.  According to an archived Reddit post this doll was capable of singing and vocalizing at the tiniest little movement, and taking out the batteries did no good.  My sister thus would've HATED this doll!  Still would, probably!  Anyway, I didn't find this doll's commercial anywhere near as catchy, but I liked her a lot better than the original Bouncy Baby because of her brightly colored swimsuit.  I also got to hold a friend's Bathtime Bouncy Baby, and her vinyl felt nice.  I liked this doll quite a bit.

BABY GO BOOM

COMPANY:  GC Toys
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  2001

Oh, I remember this one!  She did and said a number of things that I did and said when I was small, and thus I thought she was really cute.  Baby Go Boom did pratfalls, kicked her legs, and talked and giggled.  She also reacted when you tickled her, which I think is cute despite the fact that I loathe being tickled myself.  I think it's interesting, by the way, that when you're an adult and you do a pratfall it can do some serious damage; indeed, that's part of the reason why my sciatica is so bad.  But when you're a little kid you're lighter and have a diaper covering your tushie, and falling down isn't as big a deal.  Indeed, Baby Go Boom makes a big joke of falling down and going "boom," rather than crying about falling like some children do.  So this doll is a cute doll, but...well, she's mechanical.  Y'all know I've got an aversion to mechanical dolls, even though I seem to have plenty of 'em, LOL.

KINDER GARDEN BABIES

COMPANY:  Up Up and Away, Marvel Entertainment, Toy Biz, Playmates Toys
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1997-2005

I really loved these!  Kinder Garden Babies were small baby dolls that resided in fabric flowers, and the flowers in turn converted into carriers for the doll.  They were scented like the flower that they replicated, and oh my, were there a LOT of flowers!  The two pictured above are a blueberry and a raspberry, but because they're from the Playmates era I don't know if they had names or not.  Up Up and Away's blueberry doll was named Briget, and Toy Biz named their blueberry Brenda, so the names varied anyway.  Perri Pussywillow, from Toy Biz, and Betsy Beehive, from Up Up and Away are my two favorites.  Perri is both a wildflower and a cat, and she shares a name with a Little Golden Book that I once loved.  Betsy is...well, bee-themed!  I love bees.

There was also a spinoff of the regular Kinder Garden Babies called Water Lilies, and like Bathtime Bouncy Baby they could be put in the water.  Their hovel converted into a shower, and I have a hazy recollection of the hovels floating as well, but I may be mistaken there.  When I was a child I liked these the best since I loved to play in the water.  These seem to be a bit more obscure than the regular Kinder Garden Babies, but I liked 'em enuff to ask for one.  Alas, there were none to be found in podunk Malden or anywhere close, so I never got one.  These also remind me a little of the Shining Stars, which I discussed in the past; both are small baby dolls, both have cute carriers that appealed to my fantasy-flavored imagination, and I need both of 'em like I need a hole in my head.

BABY AH-CHOO

COMPANY:  Mattel
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  2007-2009

This one's cute, and like Make Me Better Baby she's a doll that I actually would've played with as a kid (I loved to doctor and baby my stuffed animals).  Baby Ah-Choo's gimmick is self-explanatory:  she's got a cold and her owner has to get her through it.  Squeeze her tummy and the poor love sneezes, coughs, asks for help blowing her nose, and reacts to her thermometer and her medicine spoon.  She also asks to be held and occasionally will sigh "make it go away."  Poor dolly, I think we all know what that's like.  Indeed, I remember being sick during my sophomore year of college.  I had a simple cold like Baby Ah-Choo does, but my throat tickled so bad that I couldn't stop coughing, and in the middle of the night I wailed "MAKE IT STOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!"  Of course the tickle DIDN'T stop no matter what I did, and I scared the bejesus out of my roommate when I yelled, LOL.  That was the night I mixed sleeping pills with cough syrup, so desperate was I to MAKE IT STOOOOOOOOOOOP, and y'all can probably predict how that went.  Arguably the dumbest thing I ever did.  Anyway, during that same illness I also desperately wanted to be held, even though I was a full twenty-two years old!  So I can relate with this doll.  As an aside, Baby Ah-Choo is kinda different from the sickies I grew up with, in that she came in Caucasian, Latina, and Afro-American variations.  By 2009 this was commonplace.  

Since I'm here on the subject of sick dolls, Li'l Sniffles is also worthy of mention.  She's a little older than Baby Ah-Choo is; I remember her from my high school days, but though I've searched her commercial is not on YouTube.  Li'l Sniffles does many of the same things that Baby Ah-Choo does, but she also sings when she feels well, and her manners are a tad better than Baby Ah-Choo's are.  When she asks for her soup or her meds she says "please," and after she's received what she's asked for she says "Thanks, Mommy."  I don't know how popular either doll was, but I was able to find both of them on eBay for reasonable prices.  With Lulu Achoo, Hedda Get Bedda, and Bless You Baby Tender Love hanging around, I doubt I need more sick dolls.

PRINTEMPS

COMPANY:  Sekiguchi
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1970s

I found this image on Pinterest, so if this is your doll, please let me know and I'll either credit you or take the picture down, your choice.  I offer my compliments to your collection; I can't tell if those are Smart Dolls or Dollfie Dreams in the background, but this is a beautiful trio.  Printemps actually did go on my wish list...for about five minutes!  At minute six I saw their prices on eBay and that was the end of it.  $375 for one of these???  Forget it!  If I'm gonna cough up multiple Benjamins for a doll I want it to be a Smart Doll or a super-nice Simon and Halbig.  Printemps is an interesting little creature, though.  She's got the aesthetic common to both dolls of the seventies and to Japanese dolls of any decade, complete with huge, hypnotic eyes.  The eyes have a catch:  they initially look dark, but they glow bright blue when the light hits them just right.  I love the creepy factor!  I also love their otherwise mild faces.

MAKE ME UP DARLINGS

COMPANY:  Hasbro
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1989-1990

This entry is a little ill-timed, as I recently brought Cookin' Cathy home, and she's popped into the blog a couple'a times already.

Make Me Up Darlings are a last-minute addition to this post (I wanted an even ten), but they're still pretty interesting, and I didn't discuss them in depth the last two times Cathy popped into the blog, so yeah.  These small dolls were scented, and they also had faces that would change with warm or cold water, like so.  Even their eye color could change, though I can't yet test this with Cathy.  Hot water issues, y'know.  The Make Me Up Darlings also came with outfits and accessories that fit their theme.  Mary Mermaid, seen above, came with a tailfin that would allow her to do the Ariel thing without giving up her voice.  Cookin' Cathy's wardrobe change is less drastic; she's got an overskirt that doubles as an apron, plus an oven mitt.

According to Ghost of the Doll there were two waves with six dolls each, and three playsets with one doll and extra accessories, but the gimmick remained the same.  The dolls could be dressed as animals, as fantasy beings, or as everyday occupations; my favorite of them all is Chessie Cheerleader, because she shares a name with one of my cats, AND with my favorite railroad mascot, after whom my cat is named.  I like Annie Artist too, with her bright outfit and hot pink hair.  The dolls are a little cartoonish, but then a lot of dolls are.  They'd fit right in with my Strawberry Shortcake/Cherry Merry Muffin bunch.

As usual, dear readers, your input is welcomed.

Love,
RagingMoon1987

Throwback Thursday review: Teeny Tiny Tumbles Surprise

Happy New Year, ladies and germs!  Granted the new year is already a week old, but oh well.  I owe a debt of gratitude to Treesa for alerting me to this line of simple, cute dolls.  Teeny Tiny Tumbles Surprise dolls are little dolls that...well, tumble!  They're easy to find in lots or singly on eBay, so that's what I did.

These remind me a little of Finger Dings with their big heads and floppy legs (one of Tam's Dings is a member of the Monkees, LOL).  Unlike the Finger Dings Teeny Tiny Tumbles Surprise are not finger puppets, but like the Finger Dings their gimmick is very simple and kid-friendly:  they tumble, no batteries required.  Sorry, Jordyn.

Sorry, kiddo, but you're kinda hard to play with without batteries!  Anyway, Toy Biz made these during the nineties, and they definitely have what I like to call the "90's cheap toy" look.  I don't mean that to hate on cheap 90's toys, by the way, as a lot of cheap 90's toys were ah-maz-ing.  I was obsessed with Magic Trolls and Li'l Secrets back then, for example.  The expressions on the Tumbles vary a fair amount, with my two looking a little like my Licca-chan dolls.

The fun thing about these "90's cheap toys" is that they actually offered a lot of bang for their buck.  Magic Trolls came with a dissolving pouch that had little goodies inside, while Li'l Secrets concealed similar bags of novelties in their hair.  The Tumbles tumbled, as I mentioned twice above, and while that may not sound as exciting as the surprise items, it probably kept many a child occupied on a slow morning when it was raining outside, Mom was at work, Dad was sleeping in, Muppet Babies and Tom and Jerry Kids were reruns.  Yeah, I speak from personal experience, LOL.  Now let's get this show on the road.  The Tumbles are small dolls, close to a mini-AG doll in height.  I also threw in Camilla and a random Chelsea doll into the mix.  Camilla is closest to the Tumbles in size, but her measurements are quite different.  Marie-Grace and Chelsea are quite obviously bigger.

These dolls can have a number of hair colors (Tam's doll is a little redhead), but as is often the case with me I got two little blondes.

Hey, if Roger Daltrey and Justin Hayward can rock blonde hair, then so can my dolls.  LOL, while hair color varied among these dolls, style did not...not much.  They all have two high-slung little pigtails, and it turns out that there's a good reason for that.  There's actually a larger version of this doll, and she has little pigtails!  The pigtails are rooted and the rest of the hair is painted, meaning that the larger Tumbles can only have one hairstyle.  So it would make sense that the small dolls would all have pigtails too.  There's a little bit of variation in placement, though; Lavender's pigtails are on the sides of her head, while Pinkie's pigtails are pushed back a little.

Both of them have molded, painted hairbands that "hold" their pigtails in place.  Interestingly, Pinkie's bands are (mostly) painted to match her onesie...

...but Lavender's are not.  They're blue.

Tam noted that since these dolls tumble and thus spend a lot of time on their heads, the paint on their heads is usually scuffed.  My two lucked out, as their paint is pretty decent, albeit a little groady in places.

Both dolls have molded bangs up front, but the paint doesn't cover Pinkie's bangs very well.  The molded hair looks a little strange as a result.

Though the hairstyles on these dolls did not vary much, the faces did.  As I noted above, my two dolls look quite a bit like my Licca Castle dolls, with one caught in a giggle and the other no less happy but a little more sedate.

As far as I can tell there's no molded features in these eye wells, meaning that either of these dolls could've had eyes open or shut.  There are also a few winking Tumbles out there, so that was also an option.  Both of my dolls have light brown, almost yellow eyebrows that would match either red or blonde hair nicely, and Lavender has big teal eyes with three little lashes per eye and some shadowing along the eyelid.

Eye position can vary on these dolls, but Lavender's are centered.  Pinkie's eye paint appears to be a little faded out, and it was already minimalist to begin with, just two lines for eyebrows and two lines for eyes.

Except for shape, the mouths and cheeks of these dolls are pretty much the same.  The paint on the lips is bright pink and looks a hair ridiculous, while the cheeks look a teeny bit more natural.  I thought that Pinkie might have a scuff on her left cheek, but that turned out to be just some more crud that washed off easily. 

Some of these open mouths have painted teeth, but Pinkie doesn't have that.

There's no variation or shading in the pink like there was inside Sachiko's mouth, but Pinkie makes up for that by having a molded tongue.

The heads are tied on with those plastic ties that now hold American Girl heads in place, and the ties are cinched super-tight so Pinkie and Lavender can't turn their heads.  The ties are concealed nicely by the fabric on the dolls' bodies, but the outline is visible. 

These dolls don't really have any joints to speak of, now that I think of it.  Their arms and legs are loosely attached so that they flop, but that's about it.  The bodies are stuffed and are sewn out of this slightly shiny knitted fabric.

Such a fabric can snag if put in the wrong environment, but my dolls are fine.  The colored fabric creates the illusion of the doll wearing a full bodysuit or a onesie, but the only decorations are these ribbons at the dolls' throats.

They're your standard sateen bows, a pink one for Lavender and a yellow one for Pinkie.  The rest of the body is plain, with only a few stitched gussets for hip and shoulder joints, some shaping at the feet, and felt hands.

I would've assumed that this felt would tear off easily, but I pulled pretty hard and they didn't budge.  I guess that if some destructive little brat was flat-out determined to tear these dolls apart they could, but I couldn't.  Anyway, these limbs don't hold a pose of any sort.  They're designed to flop as the doll tumbles, and they do that very well.  Indeed, it is tough to get decent pictures of these two, as they don't want to sit up!  On the other hand, they stand on their heads nicely.

Very simple, very cute, not much to these dolls.  Their gimmick is simple and kid-friendly, and they would've made good stocking stuffers back during the nineties.  I'm not sure how well they'd hold up now since more kids are destructive little sh!ts, but they make good props for the larger dolls if nothing else.  I also like their attached onesies that can double as snowsuits on a snowy day like today!  Yep, tornadoes in December, springlike weather on New Year's Day, snow today.  When I left the house to come to work Pinkie and Lavender were cuddled up with Courtney's stuffed animals, and that's how I plan for them to stay.  

Stay warm,
RagingMoon1987