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31 May 2010

Fuzzy memories I just saw a picture of a Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade float with a huge blow-up Strawberry Shortcake doll on it — and it was old-style rather than the revamped version. →[More:]

Although I was too old to be into Strawberry Shortcake and Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie and Raspberry Tart and all their berry good friends, my younger sister loved them and so I have fond memories of them because I associate them with her. A few years ago I came across some Strawberry Shortcake print flannellette and fleece in a fabric store, and I later teased my sister (now 34) that she almost got a Strawberry Shortcake nightgown and bathrobe made by me for Christmas. She looked irritated. I said, "You used to love them!" and she snapped, "I was eight."

I guess I'm the only one who cherishes those memories.

post by: Orange Swan at: 08:00 | 6 comments

Still have my old school strawberry shortcake diary/notebook. She was like a updated Raggedy-Ann. Sadly even RA can't get away from the vamped up Halloween costume. A few years earlier I was nuts about Holly Hobby, and had this lunchbox and there's footage of me instructing family at my 5th birthday party that one can NOT cut the Holly Hobby on my ice-cream cake in pieces, with lots of elaborate handsignaling of alternate cake-cutting routes, so everyone got a somewhat similar sized but really oddly shaped piece. I then got the Holly Hobby piece and couldn't finish it (or eat her), and went off Holly Hobby soon afterward. Must have been the ice-cream overdose.

posted by dabitch 31 May | 09:55

Egads! They ruined Holly Hobby too! She's turned into Lindsey Lohan

posted by dabitch 31 May | 09:58

Oh for God's sake. She's nothing like Holly Hobbie. I had a Holly cloth doll (that was pretty much just like this one) and my sister had a "Holly's best friend" Heather cloth doll. Those poor dolls had such fraught lives that the cloth on their hands wore out and my mother sewed corduroy mittens onto them.

Toy manufacturers want to cash in on the present day mothers' nostalgia for their own old toys and get the mothers to buy the revamped toys for their own little girls, but I think the manufacturers forget that the toys need to be at least somewhat faithful to the original in order to not outrage the very sense of nostalgia they are trying to milk.

posted by Orange Swan 31 May | 11:12

I fondly remember my Huckleberry Pie blanket, though I have no idea why anyone ever bought it for me. I certainly never watched the show.

I'm assuming it must have been my grandmother's handiwork.

posted by kyleg 31 May | 11:13

I had Strawberry Shortcake sheets and pillowcases.

posted by gaspode 31 May | 11:15

I still use my strawberry shortcake handbag.

The revamped version of her makes me sad. I don't understand the need to change her.

posted by Betony 31 May | 16:49

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