1978 Sindy: Active (Ballerina), 44657.
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.
1978 Active Sindy is the same as the year before. Double neck joint, some dolls still have the double twist waist, some the newer version without it. She has the “all-rubber arms” with bending elbows, click-click knees and bending ankles. Sindy can do split both sideways and back-/frontwards.
They still have the same ball jointed hands, (so 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).
Sindy has the 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 pink ribbon. She has a pink skirt and pink rubber/plastic ballerina shoes with the fastening in the same material. She still has her white leotard and fishnet tights so she can be a gymnast or a dancer in rehearsals.
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!
