1983 Sindy: Active (Ballerina) 44711.
In 1983 the design of the boxes changed. Matthew Hadley says “The first big change was the Sindy signature logo itself, it was now in red, with a more fun, rounded, bolder font.
A modern striped design was introduced, which looked very new and trendy at the time.”
Read more about Sindy – Changing with the times 1983-1986 by Matthew!
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 soft head 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, and according to the 1983 Pedigree catalogue she was “available dressed in either pink or white with blonde or brunette 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 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!
