Mister Rogers toys by Ideal

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Mantooth
AKA Brian Heiler author of "Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings" and co-editor of "Toy-Ventures Magazine". Co-Host of the "Pod Stallions" podcast. Host of the Brick Mantooth Youtube channel, painter, designer, writer, mental health advocate, toy collector, Mego, and Mego Knock-Off enthusiast. I have large feet, ADHD and I live in Canada. Talk toys, not others.

7 Comments

  • Anonymous on September 18, 2018

    Wow. Yeah, those are solid reproductions. Though, Lady Elaine scared the bajezus out of me.

  • top_cat_james on September 19, 2018

    HENRIETTA PUSSYCAT: "I get 45% of the net or I'm not signing! Meow Meow Meow Meow."

  • Anonymous on September 19, 2018

    First Anon speaks truly. Lady Elaine was creepy af. If they were making plushies WHY didn't they make Daniel Tiger? He was a natural!
    https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2018/06/08/5049.51_fred_danieltiger_custom-aa9280a909c09a639c204c7dc5ee027ca69bb201-s800-c85.jpg

    Would have killed to get that trolley as a kid.

  • Danny Cruz on September 19, 2018

    My sister had that creepy Lady Elaine puppet and that stuck around the house for way too long….even made it through a couple of moves, IIRC.

  • John Addison on September 19, 2018

    That Lady Elaine doll was creepy. Like Man dressed in drag creepy. When that thing came on the show I usually felt like fleeing the room! LOL

  • YesterdayIsNow on September 20, 2018

    Hours of fun pushing a trolley… yeah, that sounds like a hard sell. What I would have killed for at the time was the diorama of Mr. Roger's neighborhood and various vehicles that is shown in the credits sequence. Where was that playset?

  • Anonymous on September 21, 2018

    I have memories, as a kid, of a vinyl puppet, that may have been of Mr. Rogers.

    I remember in the 1970s + 1980s, in the US- sometimes finding this puppet in Christian churches, + in some of the Sunday school rooms of those churches.

    It may have been a puppet OF Mr. Rogers, but I'm not sure. [This puppet could've tied into Sunday schools, since 1] F. Rogers was a Christian Clergyman, I think, + 2] the "feel good about you + others" message of Rogers' TV show was well liked by Sunday school teachers.

    The puppet was all vinyl + didn't have a movable neck. maybe it had a cloth lining.
    The body of the Mr. R puppet was maybe dark blue.
    This puppet-Rogers' face was the color of Rogers' real face. The puppet's hair was [painted black], + was just a vinyl/plastic mold of hair.
    Puppet-Rogers'/ Rogers-the-puppet's face had sort of a stern, or serious + kind-of-bored, expression on it. Puppet-Roger's face looked kind of like James Garner's face, in the 1960s, TV show, Maverick.
    Sorry about the long post, but I wanted to share the data about the puppet that I saw. Cheers. 🙂

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