1982 Sindy: Active (Ballerina), 44711.
From 1982 Pedigree produced their dolls in Great Britain, Hong Kong and China. The bodies can differ depending on production country. The ones made in Hong Kong have Hong Kong marked on the back of the lower waist. The other two body “types” have no markings.
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.
Active Sindy has new head molds with “Sindy” on a raised plate on the back of her head and the numbers “033055X” above her neck. The heads of the dolls produced in Hong Kong are harder and smaller than the other’s heads. But all heads are marked the same. She has long rooted hair (I believe Sindy came in only dark or blond hair) with center part with pink or white ribbon (depending on her outfit) to hold her hair back in the typical Sindy styled pony tail. She has double neck joint, “all-rubber arms” with bending elbows, hinged hands, fully poseable waist, click-click knees and bending ankles. Sindy can do split both sideways and back-/frontwards.
This year “Active Sindy has a new pack and a glittering new outfit as an alternative” to the well loved and known pink one. As far as TLSM can tell the alternative outfit was not included in the box, like it was with the 1986 Ballerina. You only got one ballerina in either the white tutu outfit or the pink tutu outfit. This gorgeous box is hard to find and I believe it’s because Pedigree changed the box design the following year so it only got produced during 1982.
This Sindy doll (not the boxed ones) 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!
