1972 Kenner Fun Catalog: Blythe, Gabbigale, and the Easy-Bake Over
More from the 1972 Kenner Fun Catalog, and this time it’s all about the dolls and the joy of cooking! I know it is wrong these days to identify toys as for boys or girls, but when this catalog was new, the market was 100% behind the idea of gender-labeled toys, and the Blythe and Gabbigale dolls were definitely designed for girls.
The Blythe dolls have weird, alien-like heads that, if I stop and think about it, almost look like ancestors to the Bratz toys. Creepy little girl dolls! If I have nightmares tonight these dolls will be the stars.
And then there’s the classic Easy-Bake Oven, that lightbulb toy that has continued to remain on store shelves. Kids wanna bake cookies and cakes using lightbulbs still, right?
Related articles
- 1972 Easy-Bake Oven Commercial (battlegrip.com)
- 1985 Easy-Bake Over Newspaper Ad (battlegrip.com)
- Affiliate Link – A History of the Easy-Bake Oven (battlegrip.com)
I love comic strip commercials. I know it’s a sly way to get kids to think it’s part of the story (did we ever fall for that?) but it just looks so much cooler than the glossy photo ads they started running later.