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In a message dated 4/17/04 9:05:21 AM, queenjane555@... writes:

<< One

of his first toys as a baby was an "anatomically correct" boy doll

with an intact penis (had to search for that one!). >>

Marty's boy had an intact penis, and that was cool, but his navel was tied
off VERY strangely.

Kirby's female baby doll was from Discovery Toys and cost $50.
Marty's was bought from an ad in TV Guide and cost $10. Well...
It was scary-ugly, and came from China where it seems maybe they fold the
navel back and forth and tie the bundle. That's okay. You could choose which
race your child would be, but they were all Chinese with just a different color
of plastic.

After years of Caucasian dolls turnabout was fair. <g>

A few years ago Holly bought an anatomically correct female baby with her own
money from a catalog that came to our house. Before we bought this house it
was being used as a halfway house for mental health from the university
hospital, so we get catalogs still sometimes advertising educational supplies for
teaching people about substance abuse and human sexuality and reproduction.

So we have three anatomically correct dolls. One's missing an arm now. Too
much hugging, and the arms weren't made to bend out, just up and down. Maybe
the "anatomical correctness" needs to extend to joints and not just external
genetalia.

Sandra

Mary

From: <SandraDodd@...>

<<So we have three anatomically correct dolls. One's missing an arm now.
Too
much hugging, and the arms weren't made to bend out, just up and down.
Maybe
the "anatomical correctness" needs to extend to joints and not just external
genetalia.>>


This is really funny to me. When Tara was very small, she fell in love with
this baby doll from Toys R Us. It was anatomically correct and a female. She
had to have it. So she did and named it Amy. Ugliest thing I ever saw. Tara
loved that baby doll. We still have Amy and every child since has had some
period of loving that ugly little baby. Of course her name has changed but
she will always be Amy to Tara and me. She must be about 16 years old now.
(the doll)
Alyssa has her now and loves that doll. She's a hard plastic and not at all
cuddly like some of the other baby dolls around the house. But still
Alyssa's favorite. Anyway, she loses an arm every now and then. Darn thing
just won't stay on. I have tried everything to make it stay short of gluing
it and every time I go into the girls room, the arm is laying on the floor
and Amy's little armless body is laying beside it.

Nothing is broke on it, just loose I imagine. Ideas welcome as to how to fix
it. Amy will be with us for a long time I imagine.

Mary B

Robyn Coburn

<<Nothing is broke on it, just loose I imagine. Ideas welcome as to how to
fix it. Amy will be with us for a long time I imagine.>>

Have you tried stretching elastic in a loop through the inner shoulder
across and through the other arm? This is the way some of the arms are held
together on some of Jayn's ceramic dolls and the arms still move. These ones
have holes in the porcelain for the purpose. You might be able to make holes
in the plastic to hold the elastic depending on the shape and the hardness.

Robyn L. Coburn


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Mary

I never thought of that. I know the Asian Cabbage Patch dolls we have has
arms connected like that by thread.

Amys arms are hard plastic and then where if fits in to the doll, it's
threaded in both places like a screw. I'll have to look at it and see if the
elastic thing is possible. Thanks for the idea.

Mary B

Kathy

We, too, have a hideous looking doll (passed down a generation) named
Sally that my boys love. Her plastic body has faded patchy spots,
her blond hair feels (and looks) like straw and is matted together,
and she is missing several of her fingers. The funny thing is, my
niece, who is now 20 years old, also loved that doll, as did her
mother (though Sally probably looked better way back then). Maybe
people aren't as appearance-oriented as "experts" would have us
believe, or perhaps people don't start out that way.

Kathy

--- In [email protected], "Mary" <mummy124@b...>
wrote:
> From: <SandraDodd@a...>
>
> <<So we have three anatomically correct dolls. One's missing an
arm now.
> Too
> much hugging, and the arms weren't made to bend out, just up and
down.
> Maybe
> the "anatomical correctness" needs to extend to joints and not just
external
> genetalia.>>
>
>
> This is really funny to me. When Tara was very small, she fell in
love with
> this baby doll from Toys R Us. It was anatomically correct and a
female. She
> had to have it. So she did and named it Amy. Ugliest thing I ever
saw. Tara
> loved that baby doll. We still have Amy and every child since has
had some
> period of loving that ugly little baby. Of course her name has
changed but
> she will always be Amy to Tara and me. She must be about 16 years
old now.
> (the doll)
> Alyssa has her now and loves that doll. She's a hard plastic and
not at all
> cuddly like some of the other baby dolls around the house. But still
> Alyssa's favorite. Anyway, she loses an arm every now and then.
Darn thing
> just won't stay on. I have tried everything to make it stay short
of gluing
> it and every time I go into the girls room, the arm is laying on
the floor
> and Amy's little armless body is laying beside it.
>
> Nothing is broke on it, just loose I imagine. Ideas welcome as to
how to fix
> it. Amy will be with us for a long time I imagine.
>
> Mary B

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In a message dated 4/17/2004 12:49:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
mummy124@... writes:
> Nothing is broke on it, just loose I imagine. Ideas welcome as to how to
> fix
> it. Amy will be with us for a long time I imagine.


Hello, I have been quiet for a while, enjoying my munchkins for Spring Break.
I can't wait until Kindergarten is over!!! Anyway, just catching up on
posts and had to add to this.

I had a doll like this many moons ago and she too, had a floppy, not too
determined to stay-on arm. I found this doll during my parents' move last year.
I went to a thrift store (luckily the first one had what I needed for about
$1.50), I got a doll with a similar shape and size and popped her arm off and
replaced the old one, it works like new now and very close to the same color and
amazingly the hand mold is a very close match. I guess the notch and the
piece that goes into the socket fit more tightly cuz it's not as worn out and now
she/he (over the years it was both) can be hugged tightly again :0).

Pamela


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