I'm surprised Starr wasn't in this! She was Mattel's first attempt at a high school teenager, and her and her friends Kelley and Tracy had their head molds reused for Jazzie and Chelsea as well as Heart Family Mom!
your comment just reminded me that i recently thrifted some barbie accessories and mixed in was a little “springfield” yearbook from the starr collection! i’d never heard of her before, surprisingly. she really was out there with friends and family and a whole life lol
That doll that was based on Raggedy is creepy and ugly. Lol. I used to have a Dawn doll when I was a kid. I liked her but her size kind of limited the wardrobe I thought. Barbie size dolls had more possibilities. I agree the Dusty doll is ugly. Poor thing she can't help it. I love videos where you show us dolls from the past cause you always find something I didn't know. ❤
You forgot to mention, of course, the 6 million Dollar Man, and the bionic woman dolls. I have these dolls, and I really love them. I have a lot of the other dolls that you mentioned here as well.
Aww, Blythe dolls weren't on this list! She was quickly pulled off shelves in the early 70s after just a year, because she was seen as too creepy and did not do well. However, about twenty years ago she gained insane popularity in Japan and a lot of eastern Asia. Now she has been revived and produced and she is FAB!
I'm probably around your mom's age... I remember having several Dawn dolls... I was very much attached to a brunette one because I had brown hair and not many dolls did in the 70s... She had a gold glitter and lavender chiffon evening gown and she stood on top of a little music box which I still have. She had holes in the bottom of her feet that attached her to the top and when you want it up it would play a tune and she would spin. The other one I remember best had a hot pink mini dress with white crochet trim and white go-go boots. I had the Tuesday Taylor doll that's mentioned in the video as well as the 1977 Barbie in the hot pink evening gown with the bent arms and the boa!
Oh, this was my time. I LOVED so many of these! I've realized that my mom's love language was buying things for people & she loved me to pieces, judging from the huge number of dolls she bought me. lol I had all the Malibu dolls (Barbie, Ken, PJ, Francie, Skipper) w a clone brand pool/cabana set. Had the Barbie townhouse ( you could hook the tab on the end of the string under floors to hold it at each level.... and sometimes have spectacular crashes mis-doing that) and a Camper... Quick Curl Kelly, Olympic high bar with Gold Medal Barbie, Walk Lively Miss America, Busy Barbie, Sweet 16 Barbie. I even had Growing Up Skipper. :) Also had the Sunshine Family. Their babies were awesome as Barbie babies (cutest part of that set imo). I had a Crissy and Baby Beans. Also had 3 ft tall Raggedy Anne & Andy at the foot of my bed, with no idea that Anne would be the basis for a murder doll, thx for the nightmare fuel. ;) I only had a few Dawn dolls, but thought them GORGEOUS (still think that, green knees aside). My neighbor (friend ( played Barbie w most) got a Superstar Barbie & Ken. So, to be different, I got Beauty Secrets Barbie and she became my FAVORITE. Good times!
My mom had the Tuesday Taylor, Donny and Marie and the Sunshine family, she still has them and they've been very loved. The Tuesday Taylor is seriously so cool.
It’s like you were in my childhood home. My sister and I had many of these dolls/ accessories. I still have many. Holly Hobby was also a popular one. We also had the Mattel baby dolls called Tender Love. We had the girl dolls. There was a baby brother doll that I remember was controversial because he had his “ boy parts”. Another was the Drowsy doll, a soft bodied doll that talked with a pull string. Thanks for the memories.
Love this. I remember getting Superstar Barbie for xmas 1977. Haha yes the Dusty doll was rather unattractive- well I used mine as a Ken substitute and renamed her "Craig." Baby Alive, some friends had her, she ate and wet her nappy. Sunshine family dolls came with a jeep and playhouse, I remember getting them from the oppshop.
I had the Barbie camper and the dune buggy that pulled the pop up trailer. I kept them to show my own children. I also owned the curling hair Barbie and it did work until you played with it too long and it started to break. The 70’s were definitely the decade I played with all sorts of dolls
Jinkies, do I remember these dolls! Of course I had a Malibu Barbie, she was my first Barbie. Also had a couple of the Dawn dolls, and a Baby Alive (didn't care much for her due to the end result of feeding the doll). And I can still hear the Tiffany Taylor jingle in my head!
I really hope you mention some of the classic dollhouse dolls of the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. The Loving Family dolls are very collectible, but there are also the Playskool dolls that were very nice and well loved. ❤️
The Star Wars "large size action figures" came out in the 70s, and were the right size to play with my Super Star Barbie. I loved including Barbie in my Star Wars play, and making her a bad-ass Rebel. The Princess Leia from that line came with instructions for doing her hair up in all kinds of crazy "space" hair-dos.
Another doll from the 70's was Finger ding Doll. They were ballerina dolls and we girls put our index and middle fingers into their stockings to become the legs of the doll thus making her able to walk and dance.
No no no! We cannot forget the My Friend Mandy doll and her friends first released in 1977 by Fisher Price. Other than Barbie, Mandy was my favorite doll as a child. I don't still have my childhood doll but I have a Mandy that I thrifted.
I loved the Twist and Turn Barbie and others with her face mold, which I believe is the PJ mold? I also had a few Dawn dolls, and a Crissy. I loved her growing hair :) I didn't really have any other dolls except for my older Barbies.
Great video! Mimi was a 19” doll in the 70s by Remco with a Barbie vibe (long blonde hair and cute clothes). She had a tiny record player in her back to sing “I’d like to teach the world to sing”. Another fun part was her separate outfits were all international so each of those had a record for that same song, in the language represented by the outfit/country.
56 y.o here. This is my childhood! Sis had an Ideal Growing hair Crissy & I had her sister Velvet. Best dolls ever. They always had this distinct plastic smell I've never forgotten(probably lead paint lol). They were great but lots of little girls cut the hair off cos they thought it would grow back.(e.g me) Shame you couldn't buy replacement hair. I wanted Barbie's campervan but it was too expensive for my single mum. Still want one! I also had a bunch of Bradley dolls. I loved them so much. They were stocking dolls with anime faces on period costumes.Just gorgeous.
In 1976-77 Fisher-Price introduced the very first "My Friend" doll...Mandy. Followed by her friends, Jenny, Becky, Mikey, and Nicki. Each doll was 15 inches (38.1 cm) tall and had a hard plastic head with brushable rooted hair. Their bodies were soft and they had hard plastic arms and legs. Their arms were floppy and their bodies could bend at the waist so they could sit. Each doll came with its own outfit, but there were other doll fashions sold separately. Fisher-Price also made sewing patterns so additional outfits could be made. This ended roughly when mass market Cabbage Patch Kid doll craze came along.
hahaha, love the scary hideous dolls! Have you done a video on just nightmare-inducing dolls yet? That would be awesome. I love the music for the creepy dolls, by the way. Well done, always glad to see another of your videos in my UA-cam feed!
I grew up with my aunt’s chrissy doll, I love her so much. Apparently it was very common for people to make their own clothes for Chrissy’s and madam Alexander baby dolls of the time, so my chrissy has a handmade denim skirt and hand crocheted sweater. I just love her
One day in 1915, as the story goes, Johnny Gruelle's daughter Marcella brought him an old rag doll. He drew a face on the worn fabric and called the doll Raggedy Ann. Gruelle, a cartoonist and illustrator, wrote a children's book about Raggedy Ann in 1918.
Have the ‘79 A-Frame. Had it growing up as well and the most annoying thing other kids would ask when they came over to play was “how does she get upstairs?” (Once had someone demand stairs and flip the windows up to use as stairs 🤨) The amount of kids that would complain about there being no stairs... Like, it’s the Barbie Dream House and you are complaining about it? I would say the A-Frame is my favorite because of how it opened up and made it easier not only to play but create new set ups.
What a trip down my childhood memory lane❤ I remember I had the camper van and it was amazing. There's of course so many more than the ones you mentioned..my very first barbie in the early 70s was a ballerina barbie, followed by quick curl Cara. I still have them both and still cherish them. No one forgets their first barbies right?? This was great Joey..looking forward to the 80s.
What color hair did Cara have? Mine had the red hair and I played with her until her hair broke off. I loved her orange hair tool. You had the camper van so you know how Barbie loved to use orange plastic. Good times 💜
These are fun! I'm surprised you didn't mention Strawberry Shortcake- she's mostly associated with the 80s, but I believe the doll line started in '79. I can't wait to see you cover the 80s- I was born in '81 and am very fond of all the classic girls toy lines of that decade. 😊
Still have my original Velvet Doll. She started a vintage collection, which I have since rehomed except for a couple ... loved my Honey Hill Bunch as a kid... had Super Star Barbie Original, but my mother was not sentimental so that Superstar is long gone 😂... had to purchase the Repro 💖
Dawn Dolls! I have a collection of these dolls. I am still missing Dale, and several of the boys. I have found them (at times) but I can't afford them. I did get a Jody doll on a whim, but it is strange. She is cute, but... She seem like a Barbie type doll, but she is too short (9"); however, she is not like a Skipper doll, either.
Here in Norway we had a very popular doll called Tjorven. She was named after a swedish TVcharater made up by the swedish author Astrid Lingren, but the doll itself had nothing to do with the TV series. She was made in Italy buy a company called Ratti. She had a mischievous expression on her face. She came with different hair colurs, and had her own clothes line. And a lot of patterns for knitting and crocheting clothes for her. You could also get our national costume bunad for her. You cold get her as the Astrid Lingen character Pipi, and this doll was supposed to resemble the character. In Demark they had a doll called Pusle. She was also made by the Ratti company, had the same body as Tjorven but a different headsculp. More a cute face not so mischievous.
Oh Joey! Thank you for the trip down memory lane! I had Malibu Barbie, Ken, Skipper and the Country Camper! I played the HECK out of them! I also had Dawn and Chrissy! 💕
Thanks for the video. Brings back lots of memories. I had lots of dolls and items pictured. Some were hand-me-downs for older cousins, My favorite was superstar Barbie and ken and also fashion photo pj and beauty secrets Barbie had bendable arms. Superstar Ken was the best because he could actually tilt his head to kiss Barbie. Oh what an invention.😊❤
I think my sister has those Honey dolls or dolls similar to them. She was born in the 80s but knew most or all things 70s. She and I grew up with Raggedy Ann and Andy! My mother still has a Raggedy Ann doll and I've watched the movie based on the dolls and most of the show also!
💗Great video! Love the 70's dolls! - I have a few Dawn dolls - Both Jody dolls -I bought the repro of Malibu Barbie, Olympic Barbie & the swimsuit trio of Malibu Barbie, Christie & P.J. - Now if Mattel would only make repros of: Live Action Barbie, Christie & P.J. -All the Quick Curl dolls & Busy Barbie & Steffie! Edit: I would love to have Sweet 16 too!
12:46 Holy sh*t! I have one of those dolls!!!! The little baby the blonde girl is holding! I had no idea it was from the 70s! (I'm a late 90s early 2000s kid.) Though, to be honest, I don't even remember where I got it from. It's just always been mixed in with my Barbies.
I love this video! Would you ever consider doing a video on food brand inspired Barbies? Ex. - Oreo Barbie, Jello Barbie, Kool-aid Barbie. I just bought a Little Debbie Barbie on EBay because it’s so quirky and was surprised to see that there are like 6 Little Debbie Barbies! Who knew??
Bonus 70s content at 7:13 is that the voice on the Rock Flowers commercial is none other than Casey Kasem, legendary disc jockey and host of the American Top 40 radio countdown.
This is probably my favorite video of yours - All my favorite Barbies are featured. Live Action Barbie and Busy Barbie - they were the best. My friends and I played very realistically with our Barbies so the more articulated they were the better. Busy Barbie being able to hold things was a major game changer. I was in 5th grade in 1971 and 5th & 6th grade years were the height of our Barbie role-playing - with elaborate stories that went on for days and weeks. I also had the Tent set that you show too. My best friend had the Camper and the Orange Dune Buggie. I had the Green Sports car. Our dolls even took a "trip" to Acapulco, Mexico (in my backyard) - we had quite the imagination - I think it's served us both well
This is such a nostalgia trip for me. I'm a child of the 70s and had all the Malibu dolls as we were living in California at the time. I also had Busy Barbie and the camper van and the swimming pool. Mod Ken was a kick. The sideburns never really stuck on right. I adored the little Dawn dolls. They were so tiny! I had several of them, both girls and boys. Also had some Rock Flowers. Their clothes were really cute. The Jody dolls were also really cute and had awesome play sets. I have the Country Store and it's adorable. Lots of accessories including a pot bellied stove. Mattel needs to reissue some version of the Sunshine Family. The best thing about them was every doll and play set came with a little booklet with instructions to make clothing, furniture or accessories using things around the house. The whole line was inspired by the return to nature movement. They were all the best bits of commune living without crazy cult leaders or wild infighting. They were all just happy living off the land, growing organic and doing macrame...Thanks for the trip Joey!
I had so many of these. I had Malibu and Superstar (and bought the reproductions when they were released in 2009 or so). Had Donny and Marie (I lost my original Marie when I took her swimming in Colorado at a campground) so I got another one. I had Charlie's Angels, I had Cher, Bionic Woman, Quick Curl Barbie, Olympic Barbie and Ken, Quick Curl Barbie (I think Ken as well). Had Tiffany Taylor and yes she was huge. I also had Suntan Tuesday Taylor, she was fun to put in the sun and had stickers you could put on her. I also had the Honey Hill Bunch and the Sunshine Family. Every Christmas, my birthday, Easter and other times I always got another doll.
OMG! I had the Malibu Barbie, Mod Ken with the side burns, and the Barbie house with the elevator. Thank you for the video! It was fun to see toys from the 1970s. I look forward to sharing this video with my 9 year old granddaughter.
Really enjoyed this playlist: my mom and I are two different generations of people who grew up playing Barbies so it has been great to bridge the gap a bit and understand what was around when she was young.
Omg there was no shortage of creepy dolls in the 70’s! 🤣 🤣 I don’t think I’ll ever forget some of these dolls either. Loved your cheeky comments Joey. I can’t wait for the 80’s video!
I had the Honey Hill Buch doll in the green and purple outfit! I even remember the little dog she came with! I don't know if I had the other three, but I remember her! (I'm an old lady. lol)
I bought a Tuesday Taylor doll recently for about 15 dollars, in VERY beautiful condition. I was very excited, but one of her hands broke off IMMEDIATELY when I got home lol
You forgot Dolly pops. I think they started in the late 70s but they were a thing in the early 80s too. I recently got the dress show ( the toy I always wanted but never got)
So neat to see some of my Barbie toys on here. Had the camper and Quick Curl Barbie along with a Barbie Beauty Parlor. Fun fact - Quick Curl Barbie's hair soon turns into a stiff mass and the tiny wires turn the blonde hair green! Loved Dawn dolls, still want a Chrissy doll (She reminds me of Marlo Thomas in "That Girl") and was surprised that as soon as you said "Tiffany Taylor" I heard the jingle from her commercials in my head! "Dances like your Dad at a wedding" Too bad Mattel didn't think of that line!
The Dawn dolls lasted for a longer period than the Rock Flowers. The original Dawn series included blonde Dawn, brunette Angie, redheaded Glori (with bangs), and (Black) Dale (with an Afro). Two more dolls - Jessica (light brown hair) and Longlocks (mid-thigh length dark brown hair) came after. There was also an additional-featured Dawn (I don't remember if it was bendable knees or a twist-and-turn waist), and I recall two additional friends being added later on. The Rock Flowers were just the three dolls (my sister had one of them, I don't remember which). We were disappointed that we couldn't get the other two records... Edit: there's more detail on the collection on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_doll It turns out the second Dawn I got (I also had Angie and Glori, and I don't remember if it was me or my sister who had Longlocks) was a Dancing Dawn.
Oh my god you brought back my childhood! I had every single doll that was a fashion doll during this time and a few of the other dolls as well. A doll that was very much big during this time were dolls very similar to Jody and the Sunshine dolls that were made to look like dolls of different eras. They came out during the bicentennial of 1976. I forget what they were called but I had all of them and loved them.
Had pretty much all of these dolls prior to ‘76, but I did have the Honey Hill Bunch from that year. Loved my Malibu Barbie and the Country Camper most of all, but was heavily invested in my Tiffany Taylor doll. I remember that I couldn’t sleep at all that Christmas Eve waiting to get my hands on her. I also loved my weird little Sunshine Family. They had the cutest little house and other accessories. One doll that wasn’t mentioned was Dinah-mite. She wasn’t very attractive but was around 8 inches and very articulated in a much more sturdy fashion than the typical rubber-covered wire of those days. She had a beach house that was really cute, too. I believe she was made by Mego.
I still have my grandma's Chrissy she gave me I also have the one when you pulled the back of the string her eyes change colours and I used to have a Raggedy Andy ragdolls we're great for when you wanted someone to sleep with at night cuz you couldn't sleep with your hard plastic dolls and yes it is kind of sad the Ragdoll has gone out of style I wish that they would make a comeback because they were so great
My sister and I had Dawn Dolls and Rock Flower dolls when they came out and I still have them. We also had all of the Malibu Sunset dolls except Barbie and a lot of the bargain fashions, which I still have in mint condition. My favorite was Francie.
Rub a dub dolly that you could take in bathtub was really big. I also recall a boy baby doll that was anatomically correct. Also major missing fashion doll missing from presentation was Bionic Woman based on the spin off show of 6 million dollar man--iconic show in 70's.
Poor Raggedy Ann! I know this channel is more about fashion dolls, but I find her nostalgic and pretty interesting. She first arrived on the scene in the 1900s and had a book series about her adventures. Since then, she had a few animated adaptations (including a very strange but charming 1977 movie) and even a stage musical, which several people made an effort to hunt down recordings of.
Fun blast from the past video.😃 I still have that yellow and orange Barbie camper and that same Barbie Dream House. Other fun items from that time are: the 1973 Barbie Beach van. It’s blue and was quickly featured in the recent Barbie movie. There is a Barbie surfer 🏄♀️ on one side and a Barbie swimming on the other side. Another fun item was the 1976 Barbie Star Traveling Motorhome. Love it. And the Dusty Bubblin’ Bath n’ Shower. I still have this and used it for my Barbies since I didn’t like Dusty. I found it so magical as a child. A beautiful color palette. I have it on display as we speak.☺️
My auntie inheritted a hole briefcase worth of Dawn dolls that I would later play with!! Some of the outfits in this videos I recognize from that little doll collection! I think she had 60s and 70s Barbies too but they were in really bad conditions from I’m assuming heat and humidity. 😬
"Dances like a Dad at a wedding" os my favorite description of the way most dancing dolls move 😂
I'm surprised Starr wasn't in this! She was Mattel's first attempt at a high school teenager, and her and her friends Kelley and Tracy had their head molds reused for Jazzie and Chelsea as well as Heart Family Mom!
your comment just reminded me that i recently thrifted some barbie accessories and mixed in was a little “springfield” yearbook from the starr collection! i’d never heard of her before, surprisingly. she really was out there with friends and family and a whole life lol
Wasn't she 80's though? I think I got her in 1981 or so. I would love them to reproduce this doll line again.
That doll that was based on Raggedy is creepy and ugly. Lol.
I used to have a Dawn doll when I was a kid. I liked her but her size kind of limited the wardrobe I thought. Barbie size dolls had more possibilities. I agree the Dusty doll is ugly. Poor thing she can't help it. I love videos where you show us dolls from the past cause you always find something I didn't know. ❤
I got all four of those dolls in 1979. Kelley was one of my alltime favorite dolls. Western Ken and Kelley were my go to couple.
@@creatinotionchannel2680 I had the Western Barbies too and wish those would be reproduced.
Also missing Holly Hobby Dolls--both cloth and plastic mini fashion dolls. HUGE in 70's.
Cloth holly hobby and the country house holly hobby colorforms❤
My mom has a Holly hobby doll
You forgot to mention, of course, the 6 million Dollar Man, and the bionic woman dolls. I have these dolls, and I really love them. I have a lot of the other dolls that you mentioned here as well.
Tiffany Taylor is my favourite doll of all time, her face is beautiful in person. I have both versions, they are gorgeous omg
She was beautiful!
Aww, Blythe dolls weren't on this list! She was quickly pulled off shelves in the early 70s after just a year, because she was seen as too creepy and did not do well. However, about twenty years ago she gained insane popularity in Japan and a lot of eastern Asia. Now she has been revived and produced and she is FAB!
I inherited my Mom's Dawn dolls as a kid and absolutely loved them. They had such cute and detailed clothing and I adored the gogo boots.
I'm probably around your mom's age... I remember having several Dawn dolls... I was very much attached to a brunette one because I had brown hair and not many dolls did in the 70s... She had a gold glitter and lavender chiffon evening gown and she stood on top of a little music box which I still have. She had holes in the bottom of her feet that attached her to the top and when you want it up it would play a tune and she would spin. The other one I remember best had a hot pink mini dress with white crochet trim and white go-go boots. I had the Tuesday Taylor doll that's mentioned in the video as well as the 1977 Barbie in the hot pink evening gown with the bent arms and the boa!
We used the Dawn dolls in our dollhouse
I was a kid in the 70s -Holly Hobby Dolls by knickerbocker were so much a craze!
There were also ABBA Dolls and a doll of Farrah Fawcett, the Bionic Woman, Andy Gibb, and of course Tressy, Tressy needs her own video.
I was surprised he didn’t mention Bionic Woman. Apparently she was very popular and my mom has one.
I love how that as long as this series goes on Barbie will be in ALL of them! THAT is icon status, This is a fun series 💗
Oh, this was my time. I LOVED so many of these! I've realized that my mom's love language was buying things for people & she loved me to pieces, judging from the huge number of dolls she bought me. lol I had all the Malibu dolls (Barbie, Ken, PJ, Francie, Skipper) w a clone brand pool/cabana set. Had the Barbie townhouse ( you could hook the tab on the end of the string under floors to hold it at each level.... and sometimes have spectacular crashes mis-doing that) and a Camper... Quick Curl Kelly, Olympic high bar with Gold Medal Barbie, Walk Lively Miss America, Busy Barbie, Sweet 16 Barbie. I even had Growing Up Skipper. :) Also had the Sunshine Family. Their babies were awesome as Barbie babies (cutest part of that set imo). I had a Crissy and Baby Beans. Also had 3 ft tall Raggedy Anne & Andy at the foot of my bed, with no idea that Anne would be the basis for a murder doll, thx for the nightmare fuel. ;) I only had a few Dawn dolls, but thought them GORGEOUS (still think that, green knees aside). My neighbor (friend ( played Barbie w most) got a Superstar Barbie & Ken. So, to be different, I got Beauty Secrets Barbie and she became my FAVORITE. Good times!
A woman after my own heart! This is my ear, too and I had most if not all of the dolls!
I feel the SAME! I had so many of the ones featured in this video. I could write a book on my Barbie (and others) childhood in the 70s!
Amazing video!
Rock flower dolls…new doll obsession unlocked 😭
Ughhhh I just love all these adorable little 70s outfits
My mom had the Tuesday Taylor, Donny and Marie and the Sunshine family, she still has them and they've been very loved. The Tuesday Taylor is seriously so cool.
It’s like you were in my childhood home. My sister and I had many of these dolls/ accessories. I still have many. Holly Hobby was also a popular one. We also had the Mattel baby dolls called Tender Love. We had the girl dolls. There was a baby brother doll that I remember was controversial because he had his “ boy parts”. Another was the Drowsy doll, a soft bodied doll that talked with a pull string. Thanks for the memories.
Loving this video! I was born in 69 and my sis in 65, so late 60s/70s dolls were my childhood
Love this. I remember getting Superstar Barbie for xmas 1977. Haha yes the Dusty doll was rather unattractive- well I used mine as a Ken substitute and renamed her "Craig." Baby Alive, some friends had her, she ate and wet her nappy. Sunshine family dolls came with a jeep and playhouse, I remember getting them from the oppshop.
I had a Baby Alive, too, lol!
I had the Barbie camper and the dune buggy that pulled the pop up trailer. I kept them to show my own children. I also owned the curling hair Barbie and it did work until you played with it too long and it started to break. The 70’s were definitely the decade I played with all sorts of dolls
Jinkies, do I remember these dolls! Of course I had a Malibu Barbie, she was my first Barbie. Also had a couple of the Dawn dolls, and a Baby Alive (didn't care much for her due to the end result of feeding the doll). And I can still hear the Tiffany Taylor jingle in my head!
I really hope you mention some of the classic dollhouse dolls of the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. The Loving Family dolls are very collectible, but there are also the Playskool dolls that were very nice and well loved. ❤️
The Star Wars "large size action figures" came out in the 70s, and were the right size to play with my Super Star Barbie. I loved including Barbie in my Star Wars play, and making her a bad-ass Rebel. The Princess Leia from that line came with instructions for doing her hair up in all kinds of crazy "space" hair-dos.
Yep. I still have Leia!
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My Leia was too fat for Barbies dresses but I never stopped trying to make her an earth girl at the disco😂
Another doll from the 70's was Finger ding Doll. They were ballerina dolls and we girls put our index and middle fingers into their stockings to become the legs of the doll thus making her able to walk and dance.
No no no! We cannot forget the My Friend Mandy doll and her friends first released in 1977 by Fisher Price. Other than Barbie, Mandy was my favorite doll as a child. I don't still have my childhood doll but I have a Mandy that I thrifted.
I loved the Twist and Turn Barbie and others with her face mold, which I believe is the PJ mold? I also had a few Dawn dolls, and a Crissy. I loved her growing hair :) I didn't really have any other dolls except for my older Barbies.
Great video! Mimi was a 19” doll in the 70s by Remco with a Barbie vibe (long blonde hair and cute clothes). She had a tiny record player in her back to sing “I’d like to teach the world to sing”. Another fun part was her separate outfits were all international so each of those had a record for that same song, in the language represented by the outfit/country.
I had that camper van.
56 y.o here. This is my childhood! Sis had an Ideal Growing hair Crissy & I had her sister Velvet. Best dolls ever. They always had this distinct plastic smell I've never forgotten(probably lead paint lol). They were great but lots of little girls cut the hair off cos they thought it would grow back.(e.g me) Shame you couldn't buy replacement hair. I wanted Barbie's campervan but it was too expensive for my single mum. Still want one! I also had a bunch of Bradley dolls. I loved them so much. They were stocking dolls with anime faces on period costumes.Just gorgeous.
It's never too late to get one. 😊
Joey, please make the 80s a 2-parter. 🤓 The 80s were THE toy and doll years! 👋🏼🤗♥️
In 1976-77 Fisher-Price introduced the very first "My Friend" doll...Mandy.
Followed by her friends, Jenny, Becky, Mikey, and Nicki. Each doll was 15 inches (38.1 cm) tall and had a hard plastic head with brushable rooted hair. Their bodies were soft and they had hard plastic arms and legs. Their arms were floppy and their bodies could bend at the waist so they could sit. Each doll came with its own outfit, but there were other doll fashions sold separately. Fisher-Price also made sewing patterns so additional outfits could be made. This ended roughly when mass market Cabbage Patch Kid doll craze came along.
Yes! I had Mandy and my mom made clothes for her!
I had Mandy Jenny and My Baby Beth. ❤
hahaha, love the scary hideous dolls! Have you done a video on just nightmare-inducing dolls yet? That would be awesome. I love the music for the creepy dolls, by the way. Well done, always glad to see another of your videos in my UA-cam feed!
I grew up with my aunt’s chrissy doll, I love her so much. Apparently it was very common for people to make their own clothes for Chrissy’s and madam Alexander baby dolls of the time, so my chrissy has a handmade denim skirt and hand crocheted sweater. I just love her
The sunshine dolls are even creepier when their eyes fall out. So creepy.
I was ten in 71 so this is right up my alley.
One day in 1915, as the story goes, Johnny Gruelle's daughter Marcella brought him an old rag doll. He drew a face on the worn fabric and called the doll Raggedy Ann. Gruelle, a cartoonist and illustrator, wrote a children's book about Raggedy Ann in 1918.
Don't forget JEM when you do the 80s ! [I'm technically a 70s kid, born '71 but 80s was more 'my era' ]
Have the ‘79 A-Frame. Had it growing up as well and the most annoying thing other kids would ask when they came over to play was “how does she get upstairs?” (Once had someone demand stairs and flip the windows up to use as stairs 🤨) The amount of kids that would complain about there being no stairs... Like, it’s the Barbie Dream House and you are complaining about it?
I would say the A-Frame is my favorite because of how it opened up and made it easier not only to play but create new set ups.
What a trip down my childhood memory lane❤ I remember I had the camper van and it was amazing. There's of course so many more than the ones you mentioned..my very first barbie in the early 70s was a ballerina barbie, followed by quick curl Cara. I still have them both and still cherish them. No one forgets their first barbies right?? This was great Joey..looking forward to the 80s.
What color hair did Cara have? Mine had the red hair and I played with her until her hair broke off. I loved her orange hair tool. You had the camper van so you know how Barbie loved to use orange plastic. Good times 💜
The haunted raggedy ann doll sits in a glass case at some tourist place in the south US
The Sunshine family stares into your SOUL!
Dawn will dazzle little girls with over 75 stunning outfits
These are fun! I'm surprised you didn't mention Strawberry Shortcake- she's mostly associated with the 80s, but I believe the doll line started in '79. I can't wait to see you cover the 80s- I was born in '81 and am very fond of all the classic girls toy lines of that decade. 😊
Oh ya! Strawberry shortcake was another doll I loved as a kid. They smelled so good!
Love Strawberry Shortcake
Just came here to say this about Strawberry Shortcake as well
Still have my original Velvet Doll. She started a vintage collection, which I have since rehomed except for a couple ... loved my Honey Hill Bunch as a kid... had Super Star Barbie Original, but my mother was not sentimental so that Superstar is long gone 😂... had to purchase the Repro 💖
Dawn Dolls! I have a collection of these dolls. I am still missing Dale, and several of the boys. I have found them (at times) but I can't afford them. I did get a Jody doll on a whim, but it is strange. She is cute, but... She seem like a Barbie type doll, but she is too short (9"); however, she is not like a Skipper doll, either.
"She kinda dances like your dad at a wedding but, you know" I GAGGED!!!!!!!!! 😂😂😂
Here in Norway we had a very popular doll called Tjorven. She was named after a swedish TVcharater made up by the swedish author Astrid Lingren, but the doll itself had nothing to do with the TV series. She was made in Italy buy a company called Ratti. She had a mischievous expression on her face. She came with different hair colurs, and had her own clothes line. And a lot of patterns for knitting and crocheting clothes for her. You could also get our national costume bunad for her. You cold get her as the Astrid Lingen character Pipi, and this doll was supposed to resemble the character. In Demark they had a doll called Pusle. She was also made by the Ratti company, had the same body as Tjorven but a different headsculp. More a cute face not so mischievous.
My sister and I had Raggedy Anne & Andy dolls in the 1980s.
Oh Joey! Thank you for the trip down memory lane! I had Malibu Barbie, Ken, Skipper and the Country Camper! I played the HECK out of them! I also had Dawn and Chrissy! 💕
That picture that shows all the different Sunshine fun family dolls, the one called Steve looks like Ozzy Osbourne with short hair🤣
Thanks for the video. Brings back lots of memories. I had lots of dolls and items pictured. Some were hand-me-downs for older cousins, My favorite was superstar Barbie and ken and also fashion photo pj and beauty secrets Barbie had bendable arms. Superstar Ken was the best because he could actually tilt his head to kiss Barbie. Oh what an invention.😊❤
I also loved my Dawn dolls, Cher, Charlie’s angels and my sunshine family.
I think my sister has those Honey dolls or dolls similar to them. She was born in the 80s but knew most or all things 70s. She and I grew up with Raggedy Ann and Andy! My mother still has a Raggedy Ann doll and I've watched the movie based on the dolls and most of the show also!
Yay!! You did Sasha dolls... I loved my Gregor doll, his clothes were so well made.
I still have my Dawn Dolls !!
💗Great video! Love the 70's dolls! - I have a few Dawn dolls - Both Jody dolls -I bought the repro of Malibu Barbie, Olympic Barbie & the swimsuit trio of Malibu Barbie, Christie & P.J. - Now if Mattel would only make repros of: Live Action Barbie, Christie & P.J. -All the Quick Curl dolls & Busy Barbie & Steffie! Edit: I would love to have Sweet 16 too!
12:46 Holy sh*t! I have one of those dolls!!!! The little baby the blonde girl is holding! I had no idea it was from the 70s! (I'm a late 90s early 2000s kid.)
Though, to be honest, I don't even remember where I got it from. It's just always been mixed in with my Barbies.
I had all of these! (except the Sashas)
They made a Ken too with grip hands
yes! i loved trixie mattel’s series but it focused solely on barbie, i’m so excited to see the other brands as well!!
I love this video! Would you ever consider doing a video on food brand inspired Barbies? Ex. - Oreo Barbie, Jello Barbie, Kool-aid Barbie. I just bought a Little Debbie Barbie on EBay because it’s so quirky and was surprised to see that there are like 6 Little Debbie Barbies! Who knew??
I was surprised Oreo Barbie didn't make an appearance in the Barbie movie.
I watched your Dolls of the '60s, and '70s, but you didn't mention some of my favorites -- Flatsys, Upsy Downsys, and Little Kiddles.
My first Barbie was Barbie Sweet Sixteen
Surprised you didn't mention [UK] Sindy, she was more like "The girl next door" than Barbie [Into Horses, camping, ballerina etc]
And Susan Olson, Cindy of the Brady Bunch did the commercials.
He did! In the 60s one (since she debuted in ‘63, I believe).
I love these videos so much Joey keep making them, I also feel like this is one of the best eras for Barbie in my opinion ❤
Bonus 70s content at 7:13 is that the voice on the Rock Flowers commercial is none other than Casey Kasem, legendary disc jockey and host of the American Top 40 radio countdown.
This is probably my favorite video of yours - All my favorite Barbies are featured. Live Action Barbie and Busy Barbie - they were the best. My friends and I played very realistically with our Barbies so the more articulated they were the better. Busy Barbie being able to hold things was a major game changer. I was in 5th grade in 1971 and 5th & 6th grade years were the height of our Barbie role-playing - with elaborate stories that went on for days and weeks. I also had the Tent set that you show too. My best friend had the Camper and the Orange Dune Buggie. I had the Green Sports car. Our dolls even took a "trip" to Acapulco, Mexico (in my backyard) - we had quite the imagination - I think it's served us both well
I have a Barbie with twist hair blonde on 1 side and brunette or black on the other side
I still have my beloved Marie Osmond doll! Her original clothes are missing, though.
What a Wonderful video! I can’t wait for a 2000s dolls of the year video because i really hope you talk about Winx Club there! I can’t wait!
This is such a nostalgia trip for me. I'm a child of the 70s and had all the Malibu dolls as we were living in California at the time. I also had Busy Barbie and the camper van and the swimming pool. Mod Ken was a kick. The sideburns never really stuck on right. I adored the little Dawn dolls. They were so tiny! I had several of them, both girls and boys. Also had some Rock Flowers. Their clothes were really cute. The Jody dolls were also really cute and had awesome play sets. I have the Country Store and it's adorable. Lots of accessories including a pot bellied stove. Mattel needs to reissue some version of the Sunshine Family. The best thing about them was every doll and play set came with a little booklet with instructions to make clothing, furniture or accessories using things around the house. The whole line was inspired by the return to nature movement. They were all the best bits of commune living without crazy cult leaders or wild infighting. They were all just happy living off the land, growing organic and doing macrame...Thanks for the trip Joey!
Those Rock Flowers dolls had some banger songs though. I listened to all of them on here and they were better done than the Rockers songs.
I've just purchaseed a Tiffany Taylor in the original gold one piece on ebay! Love her!
I just love to watch your videos, it’s kinda relaxing 💕
I had so many of these. I had Malibu and Superstar (and bought the reproductions when they were released in 2009 or so). Had Donny and Marie (I lost my original Marie when I took her swimming in Colorado at a campground) so I got another one. I had Charlie's Angels, I had Cher, Bionic Woman, Quick Curl Barbie, Olympic Barbie and Ken, Quick Curl Barbie (I think Ken as well). Had Tiffany Taylor and yes she was huge. I also had Suntan Tuesday Taylor, she was fun to put in the sun and had stickers you could put on her. I also had the Honey Hill Bunch and the Sunshine Family. Every Christmas, my birthday, Easter and other times I always got another doll.
OMG! I had the Malibu Barbie, Mod Ken with the side burns, and the Barbie house with the elevator. Thank you for the video! It was fun to see toys from the 1970s. I look forward to sharing this video with my 9 year old granddaughter.
Really enjoyed this playlist: my mom and I are two different generations of people who grew up playing Barbies so it has been great to bridge the gap a bit and understand what was around when she was young.
I’m so glad you enjoy my videos
@@BeautyInsideABox 3:04 i think the movie Barbie's dress is from Quick Curl Barbie.
I remember Jody the Country Girl Doll! We had the Sunshine Family dolls and the large and small Star Wars, don’t forget those!
I have that 71 TV! I knew just by looking it was a old TV but the year was a mystery until now! Thank you Joey!
Omg there was no shortage of creepy dolls in the 70’s! 🤣 🤣 I don’t think I’ll ever forget some of these dolls either. Loved your cheeky comments Joey. I can’t wait for the 80’s video!
Great video, and I got , Jody doll, with pioneer outfit
I had the Honey Hill Buch doll in the green and purple outfit! I even remember the little dog she came with! I don't know if I had the other three, but I remember her! (I'm an old lady. lol)
12:46 when looking at the dolls with darker eyes, I got a "makin' up a song about Coraline" vibe XD
I bought a Tuesday Taylor doll recently for about 15 dollars, in VERY beautiful condition. I was very excited, but one of her hands broke off IMMEDIATELY when I got home lol
Joey Stivick, Archie Bunkers Grandson Doll, baby alive and Sunshine Family were my favs besides Barbie.
You forgot Dolly pops. I think they started in the late 70s but they were a thing in the early 80s too. I recently got the dress show ( the toy I always wanted but never got)
So neat to see some of my Barbie toys on here. Had the camper and Quick Curl Barbie along with a Barbie Beauty Parlor. Fun fact - Quick Curl Barbie's hair soon turns into a stiff mass and the tiny wires turn the blonde hair green!
Loved Dawn dolls, still want a Chrissy doll (She reminds me of Marlo Thomas in "That Girl") and was surprised that as soon as you said "Tiffany Taylor" I heard the jingle from her commercials in my head!
"Dances like your Dad at a wedding" Too bad Mattel didn't think of that line!
The Dawn dolls lasted for a longer period than the Rock Flowers. The original Dawn series included blonde Dawn, brunette Angie, redheaded Glori (with bangs), and (Black) Dale (with an Afro). Two more dolls - Jessica (light brown hair) and Longlocks (mid-thigh length dark brown hair) came after. There was also an additional-featured Dawn (I don't remember if it was bendable knees or a twist-and-turn waist), and I recall two additional friends being added later on. The Rock Flowers were just the three dolls (my sister had one of them, I don't remember which). We were disappointed that we couldn't get the other two records...
Edit: there's more detail on the collection on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_doll It turns out the second Dawn I got (I also had Angie and Glori, and I don't remember if it was me or my sister who had Longlocks) was a Dancing Dawn.
My (repro) Superstar Barbie is one of my favorite dolls in my collection. I just love to look at her!
Oh my god you brought back my childhood! I had every single doll that was a fashion doll during this time and a few of the other dolls as well. A doll that was very much big during this time were dolls very similar to Jody and the Sunshine dolls that were made to look like dolls of different eras. They came out during the bicentennial of 1976.
I forget what they were called but I had all of them and loved them.
I have Pioneer Barbie
One of my favourites was Daisy . Her clothes were designed by Mary Quant
Had pretty much all of these dolls prior to ‘76, but I did have the Honey Hill Bunch from that year. Loved my Malibu Barbie and the Country Camper most of all, but was heavily invested in my Tiffany Taylor doll. I remember that I couldn’t sleep at all that Christmas Eve waiting to get my hands on her. I also loved my weird little Sunshine Family. They had the cutest little house and other accessories. One doll that wasn’t mentioned was Dinah-mite. She wasn’t very attractive but was around 8 inches and very articulated in a much more sturdy fashion than the typical rubber-covered wire of those days. She had a beach house that was really cute, too. I believe she was made by Mego.
I still have my grandma's Chrissy she gave me I also have the one when you pulled the back of the string her eyes change colours and I used to have a Raggedy Andy ragdolls we're great for when you wanted someone to sleep with at night cuz you couldn't sleep with your hard plastic dolls and yes it is kind of sad the Ragdoll has gone out of style I wish that they would make a comeback because they were so great
I loved Dawn. Had her and her friends and lots of fashions.
My sister and I had Dawn Dolls and Rock Flower dolls when they came out and I still have them. We also had all of the Malibu Sunset dolls except Barbie and a lot of the bargain fashions, which I still have in mint condition. My favorite was Francie.
Rub a dub dolly that you could take in bathtub was really big. I also recall a boy baby doll that was anatomically correct. Also major missing fashion doll missing from presentation was Bionic Woman based on the spin off show of 6 million dollar man--iconic show in 70's.
The anatomically correct one, wasn’t that the Archie Bunker grandson doll?
They made a doll based on Archie and Edith's grandson named Joey from the show All in the family, and he was anatomically correct
I still have all of my Dawn dolls and the Woodstock blonde Barbie with her dance stand. I had Raggedy Ann and Andy. Had a Tressy doll.
Poor Raggedy Ann! I know this channel is more about fashion dolls, but I find her nostalgic and pretty interesting. She first arrived on the scene in the 1900s and had a book series about her adventures. Since then, she had a few animated adaptations (including a very strange but charming 1977 movie) and even a stage musical, which several people made an effort to hunt down recordings of.
Fun blast from the past video.😃 I still have that yellow and orange Barbie camper and that same Barbie Dream House.
Other fun items from that time are: the 1973 Barbie Beach van. It’s blue and was quickly featured in the recent Barbie movie. There is a Barbie surfer 🏄♀️ on one side and a Barbie swimming on the other side.
Another fun item was the 1976 Barbie Star Traveling Motorhome. Love it.
And the Dusty Bubblin’ Bath n’ Shower. I still have this and used it for my Barbies since I didn’t like Dusty. I found it so magical as a child. A beautiful color palette. I have it on display as we speak.☺️
Love love love your videos!!!!!! ❤
I had a huge Dawn Doll collection and this cool house/carrying case for them too!
My auntie inheritted a hole briefcase worth of Dawn dolls that I would later play with!! Some of the outfits in this videos I recognize from that little doll collection! I think she had 60s and 70s Barbies too but they were in really bad conditions from I’m assuming heat and humidity. 😬