1976 Sindy: Active (Ballerina), 44654.
It’s always hard to set a rule of how the Sindy items looked exactly in each year and which precise design the box had. As we know, Pedigree liked to use up materials, body parts and also packages that they still had in their storage, so there can be a lot of variations! But TLSM has tried to find the most common type of it all and this is the conclusion.
Just like the year before, she has a double twist waist, a double neck joint, riveted shoulder joints, ball joints at the wrists, (it’s hard to find a played-with ballerina, between 1974 and 1978, with both her hands still on the ball joint, since the plastic brakes really easy at the joints and the hands drops off) bending elbows, click-click knees and jointed ankles so she can stand on tiptoe!
Sindy can do split both sideways and back-/frontwards. She has a very hard head, with rich face colours and long eyelashes. She has brunette, blond or auburn hair, in the typical Sindy styled pony tail, with a lilac ribbon, matching her skirt.
Her complete ballet outfit consists of a white leotard, fishnet tights and a removable lilac skirt. Without it, she can be a gymnast or a dancer in rehearsals. She also has a pair of moulded white rubber/plastic ballet shoes with silk cord to tie around her ankles.
This Sindy doll (not the boxed one) is here at The Little Sindy Museum. She was purchased as an ‘used’ Sindy Active doll. TLSM is not 100% certain the head or body haven’t been switched but, as far as we can tell, it should be the correct doll on the photos below. Click on a photo to see it enlarged!
