The Evolution Of Polly Pocket!
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
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I love the retro compact aesthetic but ngl, the early 2000s fashion Polly hits the nostalgia so hard
yaas
I was really hoping he would talk about the cruise ship set from the early 2000s. That's my nostalgia set. 🥰
I loved the Polly Pocket fashion plastic fashion line and idk if I still have it
My nostalgia is the "dream world". Bit older... 1991 😅
To me, the great and unique thing about Polly Pocket was the portability and convenience. It was a tiny dollhouse that you could take with you, like in the car or to a doctor's office or something. There was nothing else like it. I used to bring them to school all the time. Once they stopped making the compacts and made it a bigger doll, they missed the point. They used to be unique and different and they decided to change it to be like everything else, for some reason.
Absolutely agreed.
So true! Polly was my church toy for so long 😅
Yes! I totally lost any interest at all as soon as the bigger dolls came out, and it makes so much sense to hear that they were bought out by Mattel! Leave it to a big corporation to totally miss the point and gernericize something awesome into something like everything else.
Yeah, but those tiny people were super easy to lose. I lost a tiny Polly Pocket baby when I was four.
@@ztslovebird Yeah I know all about that. I ended up having to make a new one out of cardboard. (a small cardboard cutout.) I wonder if they could've solved that problem by attaching them to the houses with strings.
I grew up with Polly Pocket has rubber fashion
As a 90's kid born in the 80's, the original Bluebird sets were everything to me. Honestly, they still are. The mermaid book was definitely a favorite, also the 1993 fairy stars, the 1994 tree house, the 1996 see-through plastic sets... such a whimsical tiny world of endless wonders.
Born in the mid 80s and this video gave me the best feelings.
Born in September of ‘89 but yeah, the hair salon always prompts so much nostalgia
Yesssss me too. I had the lil house one that had the in ground pool , diving board and inter tube. I can't find it anywhere!!
Me, too. Bought the "dream world" (1991) a few years ago. I'm just insane. 😅
I'm a 47 years old woman, and i just ordered my 3 first Polly Pocket sets! Can't wait to receive them!!
I love the Bluebird compacts. I always loved the pastels and liked how many of them were just revolving around Polly having a normal day-to-day life, you know, living in a cute house, maybe having a job (I remember a zoo one with a panda), going to a fun fair once in a while or something. Either that, or they went full escapism, and Polly would be a princess or a fairy. I hated the taller ones as a kid, and I don't like the new ones either, the colours look garish to me and I'm just not into that whole "fashion queen pop star" thing. And as you said, all the small details that made the original Bluebird sets worthwhile, are gone. Mattell really took a wrong turn there, in my opinion.
Agree!!!
Facts!! I agree, they ruined the idea of what Polly pockets were meant to be in the first place! A little world for Polly that can fit in your pocket, that was the whole idea. Wish they would've made more. Wish Mattel would've stayed out of it.
Polly Pocket from the early 2000's will always be a part of my childhood! 💖
Oh my goodness I have a whole village of Polly Pockets tucked away in storage (also a few of the larger fashion Pollys). This is so nostalgic!
EDIT: I have the mermaid one too!
I didn't get anything of the bigger sizes... . It felt like I they killed off the original idea of Polly Pocket.
I will literally buy them like how much
@@mellyr2584 Not for sale. Sorry.
Those are pricey now, put a note in there and keep holding onto them!
I remember having the Polly pocket doll with the various rubber clothes that you could put on her. I also remember seeing the ones where it would snap into place with the small magnets in her clothes.
The gem themed compacts remind me of magical girl transformation devices. So it's kind of satisfying that Polly got a series where she has transformation magic in some way
So nostalgic! I was born in 1996, but I got most of my toys from flea markets and second hand shops, so I remember the 1989-1993 sets vividly :)
Hi! 91 baby here! For me it's the original 90s Polly that was the best, it's a world all inside of a compact and the details were the things that I focused on and loved so much ❤️ I wish I had kept all my Polly Pockets but I was a dumb 13 yo who thought I would never be nostalgic for and long for this part of my childhood 😭😂
Polly is such a nostalgia bomb for me. My parents mostly bought me Polly stuff cause we traveled a lot and putting a lot of polly stuff inside a box was easier.
I think the last think I got was the 2007 advent calendar. I can't exactly pinpoint the other stuff I had cause my friend and I swapped stuff (that's how I'm in possession as a quick click doll and some outfits).
Well, at least I have a male polly doll with brushable hair and a panda.
The 80’s Polly hits the nostalgia so hard for us millenials. Those sets where amazing and the aesthetics it’s so beautiful, they have never reach that level with the new lines. And funny enough it’s seems like the bigger Polly gets her world become smaller.
That’s my concern about the movie, because the doll line doesn’t have a story line, the interesting part about Polly it’s how small she is and her world, how could they translate that into a movie?
Tiny toy story maybe?
I think the size doesn't matter for the movie, it's like for the Barbie movies, they didn't need to make her the size of a doll, it's the same for Polly Pocket.
To the people who grew up with Polly pockets, I really appreciate you guys.
I've always loved the idea of small dolls
I was born in 2000 so I grew up with Fashion Polly, I loved her as a kid, but now I have reevaluated her, she was just a miniature Barbie, especially when she had brushable hair
The rubber clothes pulled her away from what made her unique
So I love the 2018 reboot, they restored the original concept of pocket playsets with a modern twist for today's kids
I find the new playsets super cute
True, the first dolls of 2018 had rubbery legs to stick them to the playset, but now they have changed them, they are entirely plastic and articulated at the shoulders, waist and hips
I don't like the idea of a live action film about Polly at all, it makes sense for Barbie (in fact, the 2023 film with Margot Robbie is absolutely necessary to revive her image and allow Mattel to make a Barbie reboot with a new face, 2000s body, high quality and returning to the glam and elegance of old times ) but Polly Pocket in live action seems trash to me, we don't need it
I didn’t grow up with the original Polly Pocket play sets and I was born in 2006. However, I grew up in the 2010s and owned a couple of the Fashion Polly dolls with the rubber clothes. I feel like due to the immense success of the Barbie film, Mattel is going a bit overboard with live action films based off toys. I do agree with you on all of your points: I’m impressed with Polly Pocket’s reboot because the brand went back to its roots and modernized its compacts to appeal to a younger demographic, Fashion Polly reminds me a lot of Mattel’s #1 selling doll, Barbie and I’m skeptical about how this Polly Pocket live action film will turn out. Some things you need to leave alone
I got a few of my older cousin’s compacts as a kid and was obsessed. When fashion Polly came out I got the mall, a car, and the character packs. I’ll never forgive my mom for giving all of them away to her friend’s daughter randomly. I was DEVASTATED. I never chewed on the clothes but I know my friend did so I never let her play with mine 😂
I think it's time to forgive your mother. A lot of parents, maybe all of them, around the world do things like this. It's important to respect you and your choices but i m sure she didn't want to hurt you. It's more important to forgive and give her a hug, mothers are more important than old plastic toys which can find on ebay
@@αυτααα I appreciate the input and I’m glad that you obviously have a wonderful relationship with your own family. My comment was meant as a joke, her throwing away or giving away toys I played with in my childhood doesn’t really mean much.
@@leighhuddleston7283 I m so glad for you . I didn't want to seem judgemental. Thank you so much for your kindness, I wish you and your family the best ❤️
I loved Polly Pocket as a kid! I for sure had one of the storybook ones, but I can't remember which. But the one that sticks out most to me was that heart-shaped wedding chapel that played music! I played with that one a ton!
Through 2004 to about 2010 was my era of Polly Pocket. I loved the dolls & the “2 Cool At The Pocket Plaza” & “Polly World” movies also the website
so I was born in 2000 and I only had the rubber clothes dolls and a Lucy Locket house (basically a Kelly sized Polly Pocket style house. Lucy Locket was also made by Bluebird.) I had no idea what the original Polly Pocket was until Hot Topic announced they were collabing with the brand. The purses were heart shaped over the shoulder bags and the inside looked like a compact house. I was so confused cause I had never seen that version of her before.
I grew up with the fashion polly pocket like the 2002-2005 sets especially. I remember how much I loved them and I had a little airplane set that I loved so much. Only got to know the earlier polly pocket versions from the 90s through my childhood best friend who had sets left from her older sisters. And she had that disney Cinderella polly set and a kind of fairy playset. I always thought they were so cool, though I didn't understand why you couldn't change polly clothes etc. Personally think a mix of the fashion polly with the intricate playset designs from the 90s would be perfect. Also I had a click limousine and that was super fun!
I have the limousine with the magnet clothes and the pink red carpet one
❤polly pocket! And the Disney ones. Ps still waiting to see if you do a video featuring all of the different barbie brushes I’m sure you’ve got tons! Sorry I’m autistic and can’t help but go on about it #Bekind ❤
I had many of those OG Polly compacts. Yes please do a gen 1 Polly haul.
Oh I used to love Polly pocket. I remember when they first came out with the actual little dolls with the rubber clothes. There was a backpack that had loads of clothes and a doll in and I remember I wanted that so bad 😅
Sometimes I prefer reboots but you can't beat the original here...had the jewel one, the mermaid book and a big wedding one I'm not sure you included? It played music! Did have the early stretchy fashion one too but the tiny is the best c:
I have the big wedding compact one, and it's the only Polly I ever owned. 💞
You forgot to mention the Disney themed polly pockets, the Pocahontas set was beyond dreamy
I remember having the Ruby/Arabian style set as a kid and one that really stands out in my memory was a set where the compact was a crystal ball that folded out and had all sorts of hidden gems and areas to play with. I miss that set so much 🙁
The supermini compact Polly's were ICONIC, but man the rubber gummy clothes from the early 00's were a GENIUS revamp. It's a pretty radical transition when you think about it and it totally worked. I loved my compact Polly's but the gummy clothes one was perfection. I never had a bad collection/Pack. Also, the Polly Holiday pack brought me back, I had that one!! My favorite outfit was the pink glittery evening gown with the furry shawl!! But I totally agree, bring back the pastels. I can't stand these limited palettes with garish magentas and purples.
Side note: I didn't have as many compact Polly's as I would've liked but I totally want to collect them now. They put sooo much beautiful work into some of those sets. I really want the magic ball one I see around (i forget the name).
I NEED that Polly Pocket haul pls! Love your videos ❤
You should review the anniversary Polly pocket remakes! Awesome video ❤
if you could do a trip down memory lane with the barbie website in all its iterations that would be so dope
I had the polly pool compact as a child, and I still remember how devastated I was, when the doll got lost in the sink while I wanted to add water to the set 😢 Nowadays I have a little McDonalds locket, which is so cute
The mood: When you're an adult doll collector and you say that watching floor plans on ig is "such a weird thing to do" 😆 Not so weird Joey! Sounds cool tbh (but not as cool as watching dolls on ig of course) 😄❤
This video is Amazing 🤩☺️ Thank you ☺️ as a little side note there was beside Bluebird and Mattel a 3rd companie that had the licence for Polly Pocket. It was the companie Bandai that had the Angel Pocket. Short Bluebird was for the UK market, Mattel for US, Europe market and Bandai for Asian Market. Under collectors in US/Europe the Angel Pockets are really searched while in Asia the others are really searched 😅 and at some point the Angel Pockets looks acording to the color sceme a little cuter than the other but that is personal opinion 😂
Also in 2018/19 Mattel started the launch from the Keepsake collection. A rekame from the Vintage ones. There is a Keepsake made in 2019 (30th aniversary from Polly) 2021 Keepsake Starlight Castle, 2022 Keepsake jewelry and Mermaid. (Jewelry is remake from the Vintage the Mermaid is a new Compact)
The Mermaid one still not avalable in Europe😬 hope for it at Christmas time🙏
AND in 2020 Mattel did reuse the Dolls with the hinge instead of the sticky feet. That means at 2020 Mattel did create new Compacts with the hinged dolls that went up to the collectors😂
As a Polly collector (and Barbie addict) the newer Pollys first were controversal because the details that we love in the vintage ones are often missed in the ones 2020-2022. BUT they are starting gettin better at that and so I have to say that I start liking some of the newer ones 😅 which is sad for my wallet😂
And I'm exhited to find out which Compacts or maybe Keepsake Mattel is creating for 2023🤩
I just realized that my 1st Polly Pocket was one from the series of 1989...I feel old now xD
Then I also had the mension but I remember there was another bis one that had lights in in something like a fairy theme or something like this.....don´t know in details anymore...
The design after Mattel got his hands on feels like they turned Polly into Barbie, thats why she had this ponytail suddenly and no soul anymore -.-
Very sad.
But thank you very much for this video, it was pure nostalgia. ^^
I was OBSESSED with Polly Pocket as a kid. I only had a couple because of the stigma of being a boy in the 90s wanting dolls, but ugh. I wanted them all. That magic mansion was EVERYTHING. My friend's sister had it and I regret not stealing it. 😂
I wanted the JEM dolls in the mid 80s, tried to self justify it as "Wanting them for the Tapes they came with" but the Boy wanting dolls shame was too great [My Dad even used to call my Action Figures 'Dolls' to try shaming me out of them]
@@kumachan9311 Uggh the boy-wanting-dolls shame is so awful. It's great that more people are becoming accepting of kids playing with ANY toys, but I feel like the shame has really impacted adults who grew up in the 90s or earlier.
@@zamulakincaid Yeah I was born in the 70s, and my Dad was a Homophobic MEN ARE MEN type, even used to call Gerry Anderson shows I'd watch [Thunderbirds, Stingray etc] "Dollies" to try shaming me out of watching them, so glad the worlds moved on
This video came out of nowhere into my life and brought an inexpectedly huge amount of nostalgia and joy to my life.
They should just bring back the 80s-style Pollypockets and stop trying to reinvent them.
There was one called the Polly Pocket Purple Jewelry Box by Bluebird in 1991 that was my favorite. It had four levels of Polly's world and little compartments to keep things in and a mirror.
Yeah, that* was my favorite, too!
*well, tied for favorite with the magical mansion or whatever it was called. That thing was awesome, too!
Those mini polly pockets saved me from bordem, I used to were my 8 pocket trousers so I could take them with me on a family trip to my grandad who was incredibly boring as a kid. 😆I had the cafe a few houses and a zoo
I wish they would make the Polly pockets like they did back in the day. The blue bird company really put love and time into their work, they cared about what they were putting out on the market.
I personally think the new company who makes them now only wants to make money, they don't care about the quality. They don't have the love that blue bird had and probably never will.
I love the early Polly Pocket compacts, I had some of them in the mid 90s, when I was around 6 years old.
I grew up with Polly Pocket and I loved her so much - I was in a toy store recently and was so happy to see so many Polly Pockets for sale. I had the Polly Pocket pencil case as a kid and it was one of my favorite toys at the time!
I was born in 2003....so I remembered polly from 2007 to 2011
I have the mansion set still!
I also remember having a CINDERELLA castle Polly pocket set... it flipped open and it had REAL WORKING LIGHTS!
It was magical. . It had all the cast of Cinderella in there in miniature versions. .
I never had the rubbery clothed Polly.. or the sticky feet.. 🤷🏼♀️
I agree that they aren’t whimsical enough nowadays.. 😢
The Bluebird era is the best. It just is.
I'm too old to have grown up with Polly Pocket, so I've been able to get a few sets now. I recently got one on Amazon called "The Beekeeper" or something like that. It's so whimsical - in one way it looks like Polly is the bee keeper, but in another way it looks like she's the Queen Bee, because she has a throne in the garden, and you look through the hive out into the meadow beyond. Thanks for the great history of Polly Pockets! It was really fun to hear how you played with them as a kid and how much you enjoyed them.
Those polly shoes look delicious 😂😂 edit: I miss the early 2000’s games on the Mattel website those games went hard 😂😂 I’d play those games for hours
ALSO in 1992 they tried to do a spin-off: LUCY LOCKET 👀, which was a big version of the doll and the compound (very ugly doll), but it failed :-)
I love Polly Pocket! I still own the dolls and their pets and some of their buildings that I gotten. I've tried to sell them years ago as a teen but never found anyone interested in buying them unfortunately.
Bettie spaghetti deep dive please!!!! I looooooved them!! And the maccys toys, and the travel set I was obsessed with the London and Paris travel sets and the sleep over one with the glow in the dark beads!
YES! THE FORBIDDEN SNACK!!!!! The chew from those Polly clothes was like nothing else.
The vintage Bluebird ones are so charming, the design & aesthetics are so much cuter. I'm so happy to be able to collect them as an adult
Does anyone remember when Disney made their own line of Polly Pockets? I had the Cinderella sets from the 90s, and the Ariel & Tinkerbell sets from the early 2000s. I think they made Leia & Padme, too, but by then I was too old for Polly Pockets.
Aaaand I think I’m getting Polly Pockets for my kids for Christmas so I can justify getting a compact for myself. I just want to keep her in my purse for fun 😂❤
I had over 20 polly pockets. I had a good chunk of the ones you displayed (pencil case, the sleepover house, amusement park...). I still have the mansion, the magnet one and a couple more of the house shaped ones. Old school polly pocket was the best.
Yay! I've been waiting for you to cover Polly Pocket!! The website from 2010ish was pretty iconic
I actually had the Japanese tea house - I always thought it was a medium-posh restaurant, though. Then I also had this show? or wedding chapel thing?The flower shop. The heart -shaped with the lady and the pets. The castle. I also had an island one. A jungle one. A more Fairy one... . A clock one, soap dish swimming pool,
make up - box with handle, pencil case house, a lot of different lockets, particularly schools and nursery, and common houses. PollyVille favourites: sleepover, school (the basketball hoop would be easily to break down on that set), hospital and toy shop and pet shop. Not to forget that you could buy the rings and individual items. Like the camper van with the bike and boat. The good thing about the locket Polly Pockets: they didn't take up much space. I would have liked the dolls to be a bit more flexible or movable though. But apart from that the tiny doll house approach was so liked.
I liked the ones from the 90s. Anything after that I consider a devolution. Especially the crud they have out now. Very cheaply made with no character.
Thanks for the nostalgia trip.
Bluebird miniature Pollies were amazing, they are my favorite childhood toy with the exception of videogame consoles. They were so well-made and rich in detail, it's where I started falling in love with miniatures (even my parents and grandma were sometimes taken in by just how nice and detailed they looked). Fashion Pollies were ok but it's another concept altogether. Mattel miniature Pollies were and are only a shadow of the original, they are much less detailed and well-studied and have hideous 'toy' colors. I really wish the miniature 'Polly' idea would be taken further and with the old level of detail, given how much millennials and even older people drool for things like Funko Pop (I don't understand but whatever), I think a 'Polly' concept applied to pop culture fandoms would be a success.
9:04 oh dang, that DVD box is bringing me back to when I watched that movie tie-in playset commercial on Boomerang back in the noughties.
My little sister had them in the late 80s into the 90s when they were fun. I was never into it but now I love everything miniature. I still see them at Walmart
The 2018 is the worst. Absolutely generic :-( Bluebird was the best stuff
I have the 1989 heart shaped pink compact of the villa. I bought it when I was around 5 years old. They still had it in 1995. So I was really surprised that I had the 1989 version and not the newer ones.
I love Polly Pocket when I saw this I was excited but you forgot the 1991 Vintage Blue Bird Polly Pocket that looks like a little case
I had a set with a cassette tape below, also one with jewel. Think it was a newer version. Look a bit different from this. The last I had was som birthday party theme in an ordinary "pocket". I think Mattel should never had changed her face.
I still have most of my Polly sets including the mansion and the magnetic village, I even still have my magnetic Polly too. I am surprised by how many of my vintage sets I didn’t see you cover that I still have. I also had a large mat that Polly sold with a road and a pond and you could place all your houses and shops on the mat to make a little town. My brother and I would spend forever setting it up and then we would use a small piece of grey Lego who would be the ‘werewolf’ and all the Polly’s would need to run inside their homes; primarily the attic in the mansion to escape the werewolf. Not everyone survived. The mansion also had a garage with a car that closed. Many Polly’s were saved in the Knick of time because of that closing garage!!!!
The only Polly I knew about was the 2000s fashion Polly which I loveddddd!
I had tons of the rubber clothes polly pocket dolls. Never had the compacts but I did buy a few of the Shopkins compacts when those came out. Honestly they were cuter and more whimsical than the Polly pocket line they competed with. Wish I had gotten more but I'm happy with the ones i have.
had no clue they stopped making polly pockets at that time! my parents divorced around 2010. so didnt have any good christmas or went to toy isles since the split. So sad my childhood can't be restored with the polly pockets with rubber clothing. wanted to get my future kids things I had as a kid... even littlest pet shops arent the same. the quality of toys are just crap now.
I had a bunch of the compact-size pollys and always thought the larger ones didn't have the same charm... the sleep over one is one I had, as the CD player :D
I HAD THE MERMAID ONE TO! I got it for Xmas I was the happiest kid ever ❤
1984 baby here and still regret selling my polly pockets as a young teen, so wish my mum had kept them! I've rebought some of the sets on ebay but many are too expensive or near impossible to find complete these days.
Me and my sister had a small collection in the 90’s, I remember having a ballet set and a babysitter set but one I will fondly remember is the birthday party playset.
I got that particular one as a birthday so it was even more special.
I managed to find this playset again last year and it’s still my favourite.
I bought my daughter the pink jewel Arabia set but thanks to her little brother the cub has gone missing as has the princess….
I was born late 80s and grew up in the 90s. I was obsessed with polly pocket. I would ask for one for every birthday and every christmas and had a whole village of them at one point. I used to have the school one and the jewel snow one from this video.
I used to play with Polly Pocket as a little girl! Seeing this video just hit me with a huge wave of nostalgia. I miss Polly Pocket.
I had at least 1 of every generation untill 2012. I has hand me downs from my sister and my mum would bring me to flea markets/second hand shops so I'd get lots of these from all the generations.
I always wanted some original Polly’s but didn’t know anything about the bigger dolls
I was born in 1991 and I got at least one of the books from 1995 (the ice-one with the igloo and there was an ice bear as well! I also had the rose one with a perfume in it. This was amazing.
I grow up with Generation 2 of polly pocket and really loved it!
I was born in 99 so all the polly pockets I had were the ones with the rubber outfits. I didn't get any tiny polly pockets until they started selling knock offs at family dollar store lol
I had that original super set! My grandmother bought it for me and it really was as great as you could imagine. Of course I slowly lost all of the actual Polly people tragically over the years but i still had the orange mansion and purple house until just 5-ish years ago. My favorite was the care and the rv with the horse OH the things i would do to have it in my possession again 😢
I hated when they changed her size, it took the point away of why polly pockets were called polly pockets and were different
I remember I got in trouble with the mini Magnet dolls cus I had a boy and a girl polly and I'd made them hold hands and kiss.
Why did they bother taking bluebird if they were going to change her so much. I love the original
I would love to see a polly pocket haul! Especially if you can get ones from different decades and compare
My aunt just got my daughter her first fashion Polly and I almost cried! So much nostalgia and I didn’t even know they were still being made! 🥹❤️
I've always spoke about them. It was too fast to talk about hem too fast, It was fun too fought.
This was so interesting! I have fond memories of my Polly Pocket dolls with the rubber clothes. I had NO idea that there were all these other versions of Polly!
All the polly pocket variations are great. Kids have loved them all. Would love to see a review haul from you if you get some.
polly pockets were my whole personality as a kid. i was born in the late 90s but my dad was a big ebay guy in the early days so he would order me the old school bluebird polly pockets. i loved those! my sister and i used to fight over who got which set all the time lol. but the main thing i loved were the fashion pollys. the early 2000s were such a great era for toys :’)
I had a Polly pocket Limo. I think it was the magnet change
Man watching this makes me feel so old. I was born in the 2000 and I had a Polly Pocket faze in between 2012 and 2015! Thanks for reminding me of my childhood!!!
🤗❤️🧡🖤🎈🔥🎄🔥
Omg I love Polly pocket, I got re into it during lockdown ❤ now I’m obsessed! Lol
Polly Pockets are soooo sweet and adorable!
I love miniatures!
2000s version of Fashion Polly was at her prime. I always liked brushable hair mini dolls.
i think live-action polly should be an actual teenager instead of lily collins. the idea of polly being a grown woman instead of a teen just doesn’t feel like polly. it’s giving live-action fairly odd parents 🥱 also i just don’t like lily collins lol
Agreeeed!
I love Polly pocket I always have
Used to think they were so cute in the 90’s….