This first foray into customizing Little People wouldn't stop for several years, and by the end of it, I had made over 700 Fisher Price Little People into my own creations. Rosita, Big Bird, Abby Cadabby, Elmo, Zoe, Baby Natasha, Baby Bear I tripled the number of the original Sesame Street Fisher Price Little People.

And then Kermit the Frog and Telly and the Amazing Mumford and.a lot more. This was roughly the same time the Tickle Me Elmo craze hit stores, and even though I wasn't Elmo's Number One Fan, I liked the little guy. The Amazing Mumford, Barkley, Betty Lou, Farley, and Guy Smiley, with Lefty and Little Bird on the stairs.įorgetful Jones, Telly, Count (with updated tux), 'Yip-Yip' Martians, Kermit the Frog Within about two months of Janet showing me her collection, I had equaled it. It's amazing today to think that Fisher Price even made those characters, but the seventies were a magical time. Hooper, Gordon and Susan were all pretty easy to find.the more obscure ones, like Snuffleupagus, Roosevelt Franklin, Prairie Dawn, Sherlock Hemlock and Herry Monster all took more time and money. Bert, Ernie, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Grover, Count Von Count, Oscar the Grouch, Mr. Of course the real appeal of these toys for me wasn't the buildings, but the Little People themselves. Grungetta, Oscar the Grouch, and Slimey the Worm My old Little Bird (circa 1997) and my new Little Bird (circa this morning) Johnson and Waiter Grover (poor guy never got a decent meal.)

Plus scandalous grafitti, like 'David Loves Maria' and 'Bert Loves Pigeons' and 'Cookie Monster for President.' Coming out of the Nixon years, we would have elected pretty much anybody. I also picked up the Sesame Street Clubhouse, which was never seen on the show, but has a lot of play features like a revolving door, tire swing, slide, and trapdoor.

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