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Toy ID Help / Mermaids! (again)

« Last post by Sammy on Monday 12 April 2021, 07:21 pm »

Soooo the old mermaids thread, a lot of the pictures are unavailable.

What I know:
these are the lowest quality clones. Clones of clones even, any head stamp has been blanked with a rectangle. Lightweight hollow bodies.

They appear very similar to Toys N Things Mermaid Princess and Barter marked dolls.
The hair colour matched their outfit.
The top fastened with velcro, not elastic.
The tail has a gold mesh on the fins.
Fairly sure I saw these somewhere online years ago and they were sold on cards.

I have green and yellow (minus bikinis) and have seen a blue tail on pinterest.

General Toy Discussion / Re: Pink-Aisle.com

« Last post by zuse on Monday 12 April 2021, 06:28 pm »

So, I think I figured it out! The person is still around but I'm out of options to contact them! All their old email addresses are dead and they don't seem to be on social media (b. ~1958). They do have a current address in the Bay area but that's too IRL for me so there's the closure for me. I also have a clue about why they went MIA in 2005/2006 based on information about an alias.

They seemed first to be big into Kenner Glamour Gals and were linked off of the old KennerToys.com collectors website that used to exist. Also, the same registration person for the domain names of that older site and Pink-Aisle.
https://web.archive.org/web/20020126041309/http://kennerglamourgals.com/

Here was an early c. 2001 version of the commercials section of their webpage. https://web.archive.org/web/20011029095550/http://www.kennerglamourgals.com/gg.htm They seemed to be very tech savvy.

(Hosted by yahoo.com from late 2001 to late 2002. So that site also only lasted for one year).

So, John/Shelby (or Christine) if you ever see this, email me sometime - I'd love it if the old website could be restored for posterity!

TV, Games, Movies and Books / Looking for clean, not watermarked, copy of a particular toy commercial

« Last post by Animedude5555 on Sunday 11 April 2021, 10:23 am »

I found this commercial here on YT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sn_RHYiBE8
And 2 places on Retrojunk
https://www.retrojunk.com/commercial/show/9393/my-little-angel
https://www.retrojunk.com/commercial/show/6277/my-little-angel-from-ertl

In all instances of this commercial that I can find online (just those 3 links on the entire internet, it seems to be a VERY RARE commercial) there seems to ALWAYS be the Retrojunk logo. If anybody here knows another online source for this commercial, please post the link. Alternatively, if you happen to have a copy on VHS, and also a good quality VCR and a good quality video capture card for your PC, please consider ripping your own copy of this commercial and uploading it to YouTube. Then post a reply here with the link to watch the video.

By the way, on a related topic, I found this commercial. It's a different commercial for the same set of toys, as well as announcing some toys not mentioned in the original commercial. These new toys are the cherub dolls from the same product line. It's an even rarer commercial (only this one link seems to exist for it), and it fortunately does NOT have any watermark on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmry7SoEmHY

Toys Wanted / Looking for a long lost friend

« Last post by AScanlanTeller on Saturday 10 April 2021, 03:52 am »

Hi All, I am looking for a favorite stuffed animal I gave away when I went to college. It was a 1971 Mattel Bean Pal Puppy. I loved this pup! If anyone has one in their collection that they would be willing to part with to a good home, I would be ever so grateful. Audrey

CURRENT Toy Sections / Voice samples from the 150-leg Lots-a-Lots-a-Leggggggs

« Last post by Zovi on Thursday 08 April 2021, 03:10 pm »

Hello! Last year I managed to obtain one of the 150-leg Lots-a-Lots-a-Leggggggs 90s reissue caterpillars (the pink one, named Gabby on her tag). I believe these are pretty rare!

As noted on the Ghost of the Doll mini-site for the line, she makes sounds! I don't think her sounds are anywhere online, so I decided to preserve them the best I could before her battery died, since it was a wonder that it lasted this long.

...actually, this ended up being her swan song in a way, as a few presses of her voice box later brought about the slowed distortion that warns of dying battery. And I'm not sure if I want to risk opening her up to try to replace a battery that might not even be accessible, so...I'm glad I did this when I did.

So here's the five sounds she makes, repeated twice, recorded with a microphone held as close as possible with some noise reduction.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_keDxa-bxG-uTgbaZa4A42ZOZbGznF3F/view?usp=sharing

Enjoy!

Also, a note: the voice box is located just behind the head in the first couple of body segments, and you press it, not shake it (though it responds to a very light touch, so if you shake it she might do her chatter-giggle as well).

Introductions & Welcomes / Hello!

« Last post by Zovi on Thursday 08 April 2021, 02:54 pm »

Hi, I'm Zovi! I make weird music and like purple things.

I'm here specifically for Lots-a-Lots-a-Leggggggs discussion and collection! My collection is small right now but (with much thanks to Ghost of the Doll's comprehensive mini-site for the line) I am being very picky with the caterpillars I'm looking out for!

Nice to meet you all!

CURRENT Toy Sections / More sparkling Darlin Dinos

« Last post by minamarie on Monday 22 March 2021, 10:28 am »

General Toy Discussion / Educational & eco-friendly toys for kids - first communion

« Last post by bucatini on Friday 19 March 2021, 01:33 pm »

Hi there, I have a challenge - first communion gift. I'm looking for educational toys for a 9- year old boy who has problems with spatial imagination and logical thinking at school and doesn't like nature lessons too much - but his parents would like to convince him somehow. I was thinking about board games, chess and https://greeninstructions.com/ - an option where you only need an old set of blocks as the site has instructions needed to rebuild it in a completely new way, but I would like to buy something extra. Maybe some new lego or a board game in addition to that? I play such games, but for adults, would e.g. Carcasonne be something attractive for such child? Please give me your advice.

You and Your Toys Vintage Photo Gallery / Re: Me and Mine ;)

« Last post by bucatini on Friday 19 March 2021, 01:24 pm »

Me too - and miss old times...

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You and Your Toys Vintage Photo Gallery / Re: Old pictures of my toys

« Last post by bucatini on Friday 19 March 2021, 01:21 pm »

Wow, I really feel so old while watching such adorable pics

I see Sesame Street - I was learning to read from this TV show