Member Michele Thelen has this picture of her taken during Christmas at her grandparents' home in 1973, when she was two yers old. She wondered what happened to the bonneted baby doll she is embracing with such joy and started looking for a similar doll.
Her quest has been met with success! Here is the long-sought doll, part of the Baby Beans line produced by Mattel from 1970 through 1984. They were soft bodied dolls stuffed with polystyrene bean bag balls and had plastic heads with character faces (and in some models, plastic hands as well). The original Baby Beans, three adorable infants, were Bitty Beans, Booful Beans, and Bedsie Beans. The dolls were so popular that the Bean family expanded to include a wide variety of dolls, including storybook characters, mothers and babies, pets, and even babies that came in their own bean cans! Michele's doll is Talking Baby Beans, first introduced in 1972. Activated by a pull-cord on the back of her neck, the doll could say one of eight random phrases (considering that this little doll is nearly 50 years old, Michele says that she is scared try the pull-cord!). Michele states that because of the accompanying childhood photograph, the doll holds special sentimental value.
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