SPRINKLES AND PUFFBALLS: Hey, That's Not Barbie

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Hey, That's Not Barbie

The seventies brought us a bunch of celebrity dolls that tried to take over Barbie: BZZZZZZ....fail. But they were still fun! For instance, I remember one of our friend's babysitters having this Growing Hair Cher doll (her eyebrows look blue in this picture for some reason, but I doubt they truly were.)

Here is the box- Cher is in a great little Bob Mackie gown it looks like..

And in case you sucked at doing hair- the back of the box was a guide on how to do her hair. As if you could really do any of this...

Here is the back of another Cher box, showing the fabulous outfits of her Variety Show: Sonny & Cher

Some Bob Mackie fierceness

And of course, an Indian costume for "Half-Breed"

Did you guys have the Marie Osmond doll? She had a cool disco dress on

I couldnt find the Donny doll, but here is her brother Jimmy

Kitty O'Neil? Yep, that's right, the famous daredevil stuntwoman. And don't forget this Debby Boone doll: Youuuuu light up my liffffeee

Dude! The Bionic Woman! That's right!

She could run 60 miles per hour and had bionic hearing in her right ear!

Here is her Dome house! It was inflatable and had a cool ass fireplace (that green thing- it snapped together and went in the middle of the room).

Okay, this is out of order- but let's do it anyway. JORDACHE dolls? Oh yes girl, oh yes. These were from the early 80's I believe.

Flipped hair, tight jeans (they didn't even look that tight, but there was that horse logo!)

Here are the real men's version of the jeans for reference...

You could buy a bunch of fashions- and in this case, it wasn't about the doll and her wardrobe- it was about the wardrobe wearing the doll...

They also had a Cheerleader version of the doll- but who wanted that? We wanted the damn jeans...

Then Sasson was like, excuse me? We have a doll too! But she is eight years old...

Barbie came back and said TA DOW: We have "Fashion Jeans" Barbie and she is better than both of you: She has a pink angora sweater and pink boots! Beat THAT!

OK, back to "Other Dolls" and to the doll I don't even remember category: Tuesday Taylor? Did you guys have one of these? You could change her hair color! She has a very Euro look to her, digging the shape of her nose...