Sunday 15 September 2024

BLOGGIVERSARY MYSTERY: WHERE DID THE CANDY AND ANDY DOLLS COME FROM?

 

I saw this big doll in a Hornsea Charity Shop window and had to look twice!

Is that Candy? my brain shrieked!

Candy as in Candy and Andy, Gerry Anderson's photo-story kids comic featuring these two large dolls.


Ignoring the fact that Andy looks like the Good Guy doll from the later Chucky films I got to wondering if Candy and indeed Andy were commercially available dolls at the time, like April Showers and Tiny Tears et al.

I've read a lot about Candy and Andy over the years, including just recently Alan Dein's great short history of the comic and the hardbacks, Village of the Dolls  [Alan is also the discoverer of the lost transparencies and author of a new book].

Alas, there's been no mention of where Century 21 got the dolls.

Where they made by Century 21? Does anyone know?

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