Saturday, January 24, 2015

Comparing 8-, 9- and 10-inch girl dolls


I’ve photographed all of my 8-, 9- and 10-inch girl dolls, not just Skipper & friends, but other companies’ dolls as well.  The variations in construction and sizing are endless.  They cannot wear each others’ clothes and shoes.


1960s
Dodi, 1965, Ideal straight leg, 9 inches tall, bust 4 1/4 inches, hips 4 1/4 inches
Skipper, Pepper, Skooter, Josie and Dodi
Josie West, 1967, Marx Moveable Cowgirl, 9 inches tall, bust 4 inches, hips 4 1/4 inches
Pepper, 1964, Ideal straight leg, 9 1/2 inches tall, bust 5 inches, hips 5 inches
Skipper Roberts, 1964, Mattel straight leg, 9 inches tall, bust 4 inches, hips 3 3/4 inches
Skooter, 1966, Mattel bend leg, 9 1/4 inches tall, bust 4 inches, hips 4 inches









1970s
Top row: Skipper, Mattel Kristy, Mego Kristy, Jody and Stephie
Bottom row: Love, Farrah, Angie and Dodi
Angie Dickinson, 1977, Horsman Pepper Anderson, 9 inches tall with heels, bust 4 inches, hips 3 3/4 inches
Dodi, 1977, Ideal Suntan, 9 inches tall, bust 4 1/2 inches, hips 4 inches
Farrah Fawcett, 1978, Hasbro Jill Munroe, 9 inches tall with heels, bust 4 inches, hips 4 inches
Jody, 1975, Ideal Old-Fashioned Girl, 9 inches tall with heels, bust 4 inches, hips 4 inches
Kristy McNichol, 1979, Mattel Buddy Lawrence, (SuperTeen Skipper body), 9 1/4 inches tall, bust 4 inches, hips 4 inches
Kristy McNichol, 1978, Mego Buddy Lawrence, 9 3/4 inches tall with heels, bust 5 inches, hips 4 1/4 inches
Love, 1971, Hasbro World of Love, 9 inches tall with heels, bust 4 inches, hips 4 inches
Skipper Roberts, 1975, Mattel Growing Up, shorter version 9 1/4 inches tall, bust 4 inches, hips 4 inches; taller version 9 3/4 inches tall, bust 4 1/4 inches, hips 4 inches
Stephie Sunshine, 1978, Mattel And Now There are Four, 9 inches tall, bust 3 1/2 inches, hips 3 3/4 inches
Lisa, Catherine and Skipper


1980s
Catherine Bach, 1981, Mego/Warner Bros. Daisy Duke, 7 3/4 inches tall, bust 3 3/4 inches, hips 3 1/4 inches
Lisa, sometime in the 1980s, Takara Pretty, 8 1/2 inches tall, bust 4 inches, hips 3 1/2 inches
Skipper Roberts, 1989, Teen Fun Party Teen, 10 inches tall, bust 4 1/4 inches, hips 4 1/2 inches







1990s
Licca, Ariel and Snow White
Ariel, 1991, Tyco Friends, 9 inches tall, bust 4 3/4 inches, hips 4 1/4 inches
Licca, 1991, Takara, 9 inches tall with heels, bust 4 inches, hips 4 inches
Snow White, 1990, Lucky Bell/First National Film Corp., 9 inches tall, bust 4 1/2 inches, hips 4 inches





Some notes:
  1. Josie West and the blonde Skooter dolls could have been twins.
  2. The 1970s Dodi is thinner and shapelier than the 1960s version.
  3. Angie/Pepper is the thinnest and most flexible of the dolls.
  4. The shorter version of the Growing Up Skipper body was remade as the SuperTeen Skipper body.  (Growing Up and SuperTeen size dolls can wear each others’ outfits.)
  5. The Mattel Buddy Lawrence doll’s body and hair look more like the real-life Kristy McNichol, but the face of the Mego Buddy is far more realistic.  I am assuming the Mego doll body was adapted from another doll’s, as it is far too busty for Kristy.
  6. The Charlie’s Angels dolls’ bodies were made from the Love doll bodies, with only a slight difference in the angle of the waist.  That same body was used the 1980s by Germany’s Plasty for its Peggy dolls.  (I used to have a 1980s Peggy and some outfits but have long since resold them.)
  7. The Snow White doll is not based on the Disney movie.  She is from a 1990 animated film called Happily Ever After, by the First National Film Corp.  Although Snow White and Ariel were made by different companies, their bodies are clearly the same mold.  Either Lucky Bell stole--ahem, borrowed--the Tyco mold or Lucky Bell was a subsidiary/sister company of Tyco.
  8. Lisa is the Americanized version of the Japanese Licca.

Some day I will write a similar article about the 9-inch boy dolls.
If you have any other Skipper-sized dolls that you would like to write about yourself, please tell me.  I know there are many others (not including clones) but these are the ones I own.

3 comments:

D7ana said...

Thanks for your research. This size girl dolls or boy dolls is interesting. I can think of some adult figures for this size - Mary Quant's Daisy and Kenner's Jenny Jones - that would make a fun post.

Would you mind if I pinned this article to a doll reference board that I have on Pinterest? I'll check back for your response ;-)

skippercollector said...

I would be flattered if you added the link to your Pinterest page. Yes, I give you permission!

D7ana said...

Thanks! Your pin's URL/web address is http://www.pinterest.com/pin/189291990564354627/.

BTW, a pinner called Eilonwy also pinned this post: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/46161964907036714/ - thanks for okaying the share.

Have a great day!