1984 Sindy: (Active) Ballerina, 42000.
According to Matthew Hadley “The dolls were still sold in the rose pink packaging.” Read more about his Packaging Design: Sindy – Changing with the times 1983-1986
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.
New for this year is that she’s named Ballerina, in the Pedigree catalogue and not Active, like all the earlier years! Sindy has soft head with “Sindy” on a raised plate (sometimes hidden in the hairline) on the back of her head and the numbers “033055X” above her neck.
She has long rooted hair, and according to the 1984 Pedigree catalogue she is “dressed in pink with blonde hair or white with 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.
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!
Thank you for sharing your photos Per!
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