Sindy was far superior to Barbie

[LittlePotteryBird]

I feel sorry for girls today who don’t know the pleasure of playing with a doll whose arms and legs bent (sometimes resulting in a nasty open fracture but never mind). I loved my Sindys and the outfits and accessories were so much better and more conducive to imaginary play than the Barbie stuff I see around. Barbie outfits in particular look shite to me.

Does anyone know of a poseable doll like Sindy that comes with good accessories? I know my granddaughter would love a ballerina, or a police officer, or a doll that wore normal clothes.

Ha ha! Had this same set - and IRL a skirt just like the one with the belt!

Team Sindy!

DM wouldn't let me have a Barbie because she was 'common'. 🤣 DM is such a snob but this was really a bit much! 😳

I had the caravan, house, dressing table, bed...so many outfits....actually, I reckon (because she is a hoarder) my DM will have still got it all up in their loft! I daren't go up there to check cos of , you know...spiders...gah...

Gosh reading all these posts have sent me right back. I'm 52 now but I can still smell the Sindy smell and remember the excitement of getting a new Sindy as a present. I loved the ballerina one. I also had a Sindy house. I don't think modern toys have that special 'smell' 🤣 My Wendy house also had the smell. Plastic. But I loved it. Now I sound bonkers but smells really do take me back 😋 I also had few baby dolls like Baby Alive where you fed her mushy food. Aw feeling nostalgic now but need to not look on vinted or eBay ...........

My sister had a Tressy. We wanted to know how her hair grew. We used a hacksaw to cut off her head and then tried to re attach it using a gas burner. Tressy used to wear a lot of scarves after that! I can't believe the amount of torture we subjected our toys to at the age of 8 😂

I remember Tressy. We found out the hard way that her hair didn't grow indefinitely.

I definitely grew up with the idea that Barbie was a cheap tart compared to Sindy! I’m intrigued to see some later pics posted of Sindy dolls with small heads as mine were definitely the disproportionately large headed-generation and I loved them for it. My doll playing years would have been about 1978 to 1984. I had the three-storey house with external lift, pride and joy of my bedroom. My Dad told me when I was older that he and our next door neighbour had assembled it on Xmas Eve after a few too many beers and it took them hours, cursing every single tiny plastic screw!

My ballerina Sindy (a brunette) had poseable arms and legs but the others did not. Ballerina Sindy also had articulated wrists but her hands eventually snapped off so she was very much a disability champion for many years. My favourite was a tennis one with blonde hair in high bunches like Tracy Austin.

I had a Cindy/Sindy Ballerina and loved her. She looked more realistic with ''a nice figure and a pretty face''. I always thought she was far better than Barbie, who looked to be unrealistic with a tiny waist and big boobs!

We had Pippa dolls, which were about half the size of Sindy. I saved all my pocket money and bought my one and only Sindy when I was about 11. Pippa is now apparently quite sought after and expensive. Of course, I don't know what happened to mine. 🙄

I had both and loved them but HATED Barbie’s weird feet that were made for high heels.
I thought they did it great in the Barbie film

I had the brunette ballet Sindy. That girl was flexible. These days I think it's called hypermobility as even her ankles could go in any direction 😂

I had so many clothes for her that my mum made for her. She even had a wedding dress and her own wardrobe full to the brim. The reason she had so many clothes (and bedding) was because my brother, two years older, decided to experiment with a box of matches underneath his bed. Cue his entire bedroom up in flames. The wedding dress was made from remnants of net curtains and other random unscathed fabric pieces made up much of the rest of her wardrobe.

I reckon my mother just sewed all her frustrations away.

I still own a few Sindy dolls. I always loved the ballerina.

As far as I can remember every Tressy got a stuck mechanism in the end.

Barbie was better looking in a porn star way but Sindy was a more appropriate friend. I can see why DMs did not approve of Barbie.

Edited to say this is far and away the best thread on MN today

Because otherwise she wouldn’t fit in her beach buggy or Sindy house.

She did! Another thing that made her superior! I used to like to run my fingers along them.

Ballerina Sindy with red/chestnut hair was my favourite. Also a few Pippas with different hair and complexions. I was always losing their tiny shoes.

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Oh absolutely

I had a brown haired Sindy she was the hight of sophistication. My mum made her clothes (they were amazing) one was a copy of a blue ball gown Princess Di wore I thought it was silk but apparently old coat lining 😊

still haven’t got over my Sindy not having the town house and had the house that she had to jump from room to room rather than travel in the lift

still her clothing was always on style

Oh God new memory unlocked! I remember the velour material! She really was the best.

Going to get flamed for this but I always thought of Barbie as an all American glamorous girl . And Sindy was her nerdy dowdy English counterpart. Hated the big baby head she had . My sister and I are two years apart so my parents were able to buy us separate sets and we had a huge Barbie compound . Also instead of Action Man my brother had GI Joe who whisked Barbie and Skipper off in his Chinook helicopter.

See my earlier post.... I made a mint selling my collection a few years ago. There are some fanatical completist Pippa collectors out there.

How am I only noticing now that she had a really big forehead. 😂

Off the back of this, I was thinking of the doll that drank the bottle of milk. When you turned the bottle upside down, the milk disappeared. My brother (the pyrotechnician I mentioned upthread) kept saying it was fake and she wasn't drinking it. I would have none of it and can still remember crying when he kept saying my doll wasn't really drinking the milk. I was convinced she had, as it was gone after all.

Such a nice memory as my db has passed on now. But he wasn't convinced. At all 😂

I had both of these. I loved Daisy so much, mine had red platform clogs. I sadly pulled out Tressy’s long ponytail and could never get it back in .

Pippa dolls were the best I'm afraid. Sindy and Barbie....pfft

Paul. He also had a sports car, and a fabulous wardrobe.