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.

You are right. They were weird and disturbing though.

Like this?

There were those monkey things that sucked their thumb.

Is that what you're thinking of?

that's Baby Bunting

I thought they were babies dressed in teddy onesies.

Yes!

They were weird and disturbing though.

And 'Yes!

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

www.amazon.com/Monchhichi-Classic-Pink-Girl-Plush/dp/B003157DTM these...?

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

Were they used to punish children?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

Argh cross post moonlight those are horrible

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

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