To think teddies with human dolls faces used to be a thing?

[fidel1ne]

DH is looking at me in an annoying way and saying I dreamt it.

[Eigg]

You are right. They were weird and disturbing though.

[EduCated]

Like this?

[UterusUterusGhali]

There were those monkey things that sucked their thumb.

Is that what you're thinking of?

[Shallishanti]

that's Baby Bunting

[PerspicaciaTick]

I thought they were babies dressed in teddy onesies.

[fidel1ne]

Yes!

They were weird and disturbing though.

And 'Yes!

Were they called something special? Or just 'freaky bears with human faces'?

[ValiaH]

www.amazon.com/Monchhichi-Classic-Pink-Girl-Plush/dp/B003157DTM?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21 these...?

[fidel1ne]

It was (teen) DD in a big furry brown onesie that just brought them to mind Pers

[Moln]

Were they used to punish children?

[ThoughtfulPenny]

shudders reminds me of those creepy Anne Geddes photographs. Actually I think she may have had a range of dolls too.

[Eigg]

fidel maybe your DH has just wisely blanked them from his memory.

[HollyJollyDillydolly]

I had some Anne Geddes bear/dolls and calendar years ago.

[slicedfinger]

Mil bought DD1 when she was little. DD took one look, shrieked, and ran away

[fidel1ne]

Oh yes I remember the monkey things too, as on Valia's link. So many different types of creepy plastic faced child-scaring things

[fidel1ne]

fidel maybe your DH has just wisely blanked them from his memory.

He must have. He was a 70s child. He must have seen some.

I just got really hoiky at the suggestion my head would invent such a thing

[FastWindow]

I had one. I called it Sting, off of the Police I also had a vintage doll made entirely of vulcanised rubber that had three faces, you twizzled a knob on it's head and it was happy, sad or asleep.

[fidel1ne]

I also had a vintage doll made entirely of vulcanised rubber that had three faces,



Could you make it spin quickly?

Toymakers hate kids, don't they?

[TheSecondOfHerName]

I had something called a chickaboo (not sure if that's the spelling) towards the end of the 1970s. Loved that thing.

[FastWindow]

No Fidel1ne it was quite glitchy. I did try though.

[LilacSpunkMonkey]

I had one of those thumb-suckling ones. Mine was a mouse. I've still got it somewhere I think.

A friend gave it to me and I always thought it was really cute.

Bear with a doll's face? Not so much.

[MoonlightandMusic]

You mean these nightmares things?. Tk Maxx seem to have a never-ending stock of them. Can't imagine why...

[ThreeFrazzledFandangos]

We had this one. Called him Andrew. He fell to pieces after about 15 years

[ThreeFrazzledFandangos]

Argh cross post moonlight those are horrible

[FastWindow]

Mine was just a plush teddy with quite a pretty plastic face.

[SalemSaberhagen]

Three I still have him! He is very worse for wear now though.