Sindy was far superior to Barbie

I have to say I didn't like Sindy at all - she was too large and gangly. I had a Tressy doll and a Skipper doll (Barbie's sister). I had loads of clothes for her and kept them in absolutely mint condition. Imagine how upset I was when, aged about 14, I discovered that my mother had given the whole lot away to the daughter of one of her friends! They sell for quite large amounts now.

If you had blonde Sindys you could make their hair dark copper or ashy permanently by using wash in wash out human Shaders and Toners dye. Little pro tip from the late 80s for you there.

My Sister had Tressy. She made her hair as long as possible and then couldn't resist cutting it. So tressy had a chin length Bob with a fringe, held in place with lots of hairspray.
A few years later that same Sister went to the hairdressers with very long hair and came home with a pixie cut. Our Mum went berserk.

100% Team Sindy!! And I had Pippa who was very horsey and I pretended was her little sister, none of the Skipper business.

You can buy modern Sindys. They are similar to the original (face mould based on original) and have now been discontinued, but are available on vinted / ebay etc. They do have hard bodies but are posable as they have jointed arms and legs (you can buy original sindys too they generally cost a LOT)
Example of modern ballerina (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326936225239) this is way overpriced btw. They cost about £35 in argos a couple of years ago. Cheaper examples https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/306579072356 and https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/376008715616 Searching for Sindy KK or Kids Kreations brings back plenty.

I think i thought Barbie was from American and I didn't have one as we'd never been there. Didn't care though, i was living the dream with two Sindy horses. (Strictly speaking one was my older sister's, but I created stables for them, so clearly I had to be in charge.) Same as my brother's Action Man - because he helped Cindy out with the horses.

My daughter 9 plays with my sindy it was the boat that turns into a grand table even got the boy doll forgot he's name but yh she plays with them and my fisher price once upon a time castle

The Barbies I had in the late 60s/early 70s did have bendable legs.

Ha! 1970s (and earlier, I guess) Sindy's head was enormous! I couldn't get over that either...perhaps that's why I wasn't keen on Blythe (who I posted about upthread) as hers was bloody mahoosive!

Absolutely. Agree 💯. She was more classy 😊

I had a Sindy camper van! I remember it took my grandfather hours to remove and install all of the little plastic bits!

Born in the 60’s, I was a Barbie girl all the way although at the time they were difficult to find and relatively expensive. Owing to my fierce loyalty to Barbie, I thought Sindy was an interloper and unworthy. I was also very troubled by the fact that her head was enormous (at least in the 60s incarnation - she seems to have had a subsequent head-shrinking makeover!)

I’m Team Sindy too!
My Dsis bought me a Sindy Dreamboat (it converts from a gondola to a table and chairs!) recently and the only Sindy she could get was in a very indecent swimsuit, so I have been buying her some clothes on Vinted.
I also got her a bedroom set, Paul and a horse and carriage. My Dsis has started something 😆🤦‍♀️

I had mostly Barbie as my aunt used to send me one every birthday & Christmas (in the middle 80s onwards, and my DD has them now), and I preferred Barbie's look/style/clothes (especially her pierced ears).
However, the Sindy house and furniture that I had was far superior to any of the Barbie ones that my friends had. The Sindy shower cubicle that could actually pump water, and the lift on the side of the house was mind blowing for me back then.
The Sindy beach buggy was also amazing! I remember actually taking it to the beach on at least one occasion.

I had a Patch(Sindys little sister) My, she had excellent RBF. She was "sturdy" and no nonsense. I may have fried her perfect chestnut bob near the electric heater. But I also had Barbies and their siblings. I suspect Skipper and Tommy may have been on sale.Barbie and Skipper often wore Ken and Tommy's clothes when there wasnt a female version of the outfit I wanted.
The clothes then were brilliant. Patch had a party outfit of a red velvet frock and a black velvet hooded cloak. Barbie clothes came with tiny zips and buttons. Little bags and jewellery. You could buy packs of them to make clothes, though mine tended to be dressed in tissue, scarf and handkerchief creations.

I wasn't a doll person at all, I used to take the heads off my Barbies and wouldn't have babies etc however, I loved my Cindy doll!

Team Sindy here. My sister had Barbies (to avoid arguments over which doll belonged to who - quite a clever move on my mum's behalf, now I think of it) and I always felt my assigned doll was far superior. Hated that Barbie was always standing on tiptoes and felt that Sindy, although very slim, was a lot more realistic in terms of her body shape, with a smaller bust and wider waist. I must have been born across the generational divide in terms of the Sindy design because my first doll was very bobble-headed and sort of 60s looking? The rest were very much 90s dolls. I had the fold out house with the bed settee on one side and a wardrobe + kitchenette on the other and played with it for years. Ooo and a sort of Edwardian looking one in an old fashioned cream dress with a parasol, I called her Eliza Dolittle (I think I thought that was who she was meant to be - I'd probably seen My Fair Lady for the first time the Christmas she arrived) and never played with her like the others, just kept her on display and combed her hair from time to time.

For some reason I wasn't allowed to have a Paul doll so I used the mountain biking Sindy, who was quite butch, as the dad / boyfriend in all my imaginary play.

(okay so by "quite butch" I mean she did have pink earings and a lycra onesie, but her hands were bigger than the others)

I had Sindys who had straight arms and legs (bloody annoying as looked dreadful on chairs or the horse). I had action girl who I loved (she's in the loft - one of the handful of sentimental items I have). She was fully jointed and how fab did she look on the horse? She parachuted (using action man kit), drove the beach buggy and was generally very active! She also had a thing for action man 😂For a spell in the 70s we lived overseas and got loads of Barbies who weren't available in the UK. I sold them and their 'rare' playsets for really good money in the early 2000s. But action girl.....

Sindy, for sure. I remember someone buying me a barbie and really didn't like it, she just didn't do anything.
But then, I had a bit of a dislike for all dolls, the only reason I liked Sindy was making clothes for her. Anything bigger, like Tiny Tears size, mum would take the eyes out for me and we'd give them to the dog to play with for a little while. Teddy bears all the way in my youth and it was always disappointing if someone bought me a doll :-)

I used to make them out of toilet roll, drove mum mad! But then I could draw on them, make patterns. The temptation was too strong to obey mum :-)

I still have my Tressy, though hair is stuck.
And my Action Girl who was great. Nobody seems interested in them so they are stuck in a box!

Oh dear, no. Barbie was not of the same calibre. Barbie gave Stepford vibes. Sindy might have gone to university.

Sindy4eva. As were all my friends and cousins. We’d get together to pool all our gear, different outfits, one had the air hostess rig up which we’d have to scrupulously allot turns for it was so in demand, one had the horse and all the gear (ditto with turns), I had the house with the fancy lift, another one had the car. Happily spent many, many weekends living out the Barbie movie but with dozens of unbothered male and child free Sindys living their best and most interesting lives. Class

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I had that yellow kitchen - adored it !!