we were here at work talking about dolls we had growing up. i mentioned having a doll that you fed and it pooped and peed (how fun is that NOT?) someone said, "oh, that's baby alive! i had one too!" so i've been online for the last hour obsessively researching this nightmare doll. i could only find this tiny pic and not much info. i found a website for kenner doll history (kenner is the company who made baby alive.) the website only had lists of toys they had made, and no pics. but check out this list of dolls!
Baby Alive (as opposed to Baby Undead)
Baby All Gone (uh oh....baby's "gone"?)
Baby Bundles (baby's rich!)
Baby Check-Up (is there a thermometer involved?)
Baby Color & Shampoo (um...is it really ok to dye a baby's hair?)
Baby Heartbeat (another morbid medical procedure)
Baby Needs Me (baby's too needy!)
Baby Wet & Care (my sis had this one. you gave it a bottle and it got a diaper rash, no joke)
Baby Won't Let Go (baby's WAY too needy!!!)
Baby Yawnie (baby is bored with you already...)
now i swear i did not make that list up. i literally cut and pasted it from the website.
they also made something called a daddy saddle..... http://www.kennertoys.com/other/daddy_saddle.pdf
and the worst doll ever? the joey stivic doll. yes david, it did exist! remember we saw that doll at big fun in coventry?
"Joey Stivic doll - Baby boy doll manufactured by Ideal Toys Corp. (Tandem Productions) to commemorate the December, 1975 birth of Joey Stivic, the son of Gloria (Sally Struthers) and Mike Stivic (Rob Reiner) on the sitcom ALL IN THE FAMILY/ CBS/1971-79.The Joey doll was the first male anatomically correct doll to be made and sold in America. The printed information on the Ideal Toy box listed the contents as "Archie Bunker's Grand Son Joey Stivic." A short summary described the doll: "A little girl will love playing mommy to a baby boy for a change...especially sweet Joey Stivic with his blue eyes, rooted hair, soft vinyl skin, and winning smile! This drink and wet doll is physically correct."
this drink and wet doll is physically correct??????
I had Baby Alive for about 3 days when I fed it my favorite food, peanut butter. Baby wasn't Alive after that.
ReplyDeleteMy friend had Baby Check-Up. It had a thermometer (oral) and a little blood pressure cuff.
I remember Wet & Care- I thought it was so cool.
Happily they are out of business, or what would we have nowadays?
Baby Crackhead- Never stops crying
Uh, anatomically correct according to whom?
ReplyDeleteJust imagine all the horrible questions the mommies and daddies of those doll owners were asked.
wow, I had no idea that they had these toys back in the 60's.. I always imagined little girls from your youth poking rocks with sticks outside the cave.
ReplyDeleteoh and on the daddy saddle.. no. Only if I can wear this too
ReplyDeleteso you're saying you don't want a daddy saddle for your birthday? but i was even going to get the daddy riding crop to go with it!!!
ReplyDeletethat pic is horrible! isn't that from the movie "seven"? totally hideous and really inappropriate. yes.....you fit right in with the other freaks who dwell on my blog...
and cut the cave girl talk! i wasn't even born in the 60's!!!! i'm a young 36 years old!!!!!
I had Baby Alive! You mixed up the powder food and it would get old and drip out the poopchute.
ReplyDeleteThen you'd go nuts and give it Jiffy cake batter and it would stink and you'd have to give it a baby enema.
All very Sybill.
You should see those Furby things, Jennifer. Henry wanted one so bad and all it does is demand things in this annoying John Lydon voice:
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"Boring!"
Henry buried it in his closet to muffle its' constant bitching and nagging. When that didn't work he stabbed its' eyes out with a mechanical pencil.
ah ... gotta love the mechanical pencils ... every teacher's nightmare ...the adhd kids play with the lead all day long ...totally fascinated with thin lead sticks.
ReplyDeleteAs for baby alive ...one of my hs teachers told us a fascinating story of how he heard a huge BANG in the house and came to find out that a battery had exploded and blew the ass out of the "baby alive" stored in a closet ... baby alive no more.
NOTE to TROLLBOY ... I am a 60's chick dammit! I preferred to play with the Pterodactyl egg shells myself ...
I did have the doll with the diaper rash ...gross. My step-grandmother didnt like me very much ...
You're a 60's chick? wow.. I thought you were all dead by now.. what's your carbon date?
ReplyDeleteNOTE TO GLITTERGAL: I won't wear the saddle if you don't let wear the spurs. STITCHES == LOVE!!1!
i'm guessing you meant i have to let YOU wear the spurs. sorry, cowgal's wear the spurs. but good news: i am looking to get a blacksmith out to take care of your hooves...
ReplyDeletethen i shall brand the slovenian flag onto your hide and we ride off into the sunset...
the hooves go with the tail and the forked tongue... come over here so I can show you were I can stick a white hot brand*, I've got one cooking now
ReplyDelete*Due to equipment limitations; the branding iron has been replaced with a tire iron.
A Tire Iron?
ReplyDeleteOh, my god. You killed Jack Twist.
oh trollboy, i can't quit ya!!!
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