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The 1970 model of the Crissy doll had better hair quality, a new aqua mini-dress, and a new box design to depict her attire. Despite these minor alterations, the 1970 Crissy was basically the same doll. The greatest landmark of 1970 is that Crissy was joined by a companion doll, Crissy's shorter 15 inch (380 mm) cousin Velvet.
Some of the company's most popular dolls during this period were Tammy (1962–1966), Flatsy dolls (1969–1973), Crissy (1969–1974), and Tressy (1970–1972). Popular Ideal toys in the 1970s included a full line of Evel Knievel toys, Snoopy toys, and the Tuesday Taylor and Wake-up Thumbelina dolls.
The Ideal Toy Company version of the Tressy doll was an 18" fashion doll introduced in the year 1970 as "Gorgeous Tressy" and in 1971 as "Posin' Tressy". The Ideal Tressy Doll was specially produced for and sold only by Sears, Roebuck & Company and is considered by some collectors to be part of the Crissy "family" of dolls.
Cricket (1964) — fashion with growing hair feature; Tressy's "cousin" also known as "Toots" Little Miss Echo (1962-1964) — 30" hard plastic talker doll with a battery-operated tape recorder; Mary Makeup (1964) — Tressy's friend without the grow-hair feature; Mini-Whimsies (1966) — 6- 7 1/2" molded vinyl line of dolls; successor to Whimsies
[11] [12] Mego held a 1,000 guest dinner dance at the Waldorf-Astoria to launch the dolls. [13] The Cher doll was the No. 1 selling doll in 1976. [14] After the great success of sales of dolls in 1976, [15] another Cher set was released in 1977, including a new wardrobe with a dress, a new doll and a set of interchangeable clothes. The range ...
The company eventually discontinued the "Growing Up" dolls in 1977, but Skipper continued to develop in subsequent versions of the doll. "Super Teen Skipper," created in 1979, retained the doll's ...
Mattel introduced the Barbie in 1964 with the intention of creating a character that portrayed a girl’s journey through puberty by giving the doll the ability to grow breasts.
The girl dolls feature rooted hair and eyelashes. The boy dolls have molded hair. The dolls were quite popular and they topped sales of Barbie for a while, but were discontinued when Topper went out of business in 1973. [1] The dolls were reissued in 2000 by Checkerboard as a 30-year commemoration of the first Dawn dolls made by Topper, and ...