A good ten years before the Cabbage Patch Kids, Fisher-Price tried to launch its own pudgy-faced dolls with individualized personalities fad. Well, sort of – there were six dolls to choose from in this unnamed collection, a halfway point between look-don’t –touch porcelain dolls and carry-‘em-around-until-they’re-shredded dolls, and each had their own distinctive traits. Jenny (top left) is “wistful” for example, and Mary (front and center) “looks trusting.”
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And Baby Ann is, well, a baby.
That copy is more of a smart ass than my brother.
All I can say is…that’s odd.
If only I could write copy this well.
Very interesting read. It has helpful dialog. Happy I was searching for “porcelain dolls” today. Thanks, I’m never disappointed.
Weren’t the original Xavier Roberts cabbage patch dolls called something else? I think it was something like Little People Originals or something.
awwwwwwww
i actually thought they were a new toy but theses old ones are adorale