Name: Talking Rodney Rippy
Made by and When: Shindana Toys Inc./Target Marketing. Inc. ©1973
Material: Foam-stuffed cloth
Marks: Body tag reads: Talking / Rodney Rippy / ©1973 / Target Marketing Inc. / Shindana Toys, Div. of / Operation Bootstrap, Inc. / Los Angeles, Calif. 90001 (the materials information follows.)
Height: 16-3/4 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Silk-screen printed face and Afro hairstyle
Clothes: Wears sewn-on four-color silk-screen-printed monogrammed T-shirt signed by Rodney Rippy, blue jeans, black and white sneakers.
Other: Shindana’s stock number 1050, the Talking Rodney Rippy doll is a portrait doll of former child actor Rodney Allen Rippy. The child actor became famous for Jack in the Box commercials during the 1970s that encouraged people to “Take Life a Little Easier.” The unboxed doll in the first gallery photographs is identical to the boxed doll with the exception that it was manufactured without the talking mechanism. The boxed doll is a pull-string talker that says 10 different phrases in the real Rodney’s voice. Talking Rodney Rippy is included in the Shindana Toys 1975 catalog with that year’s version of Talking Tamu as illustrated in the last gallery photo.
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