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I’ve been quite open about the fact that the Mattel Sunshine Family dolls kind of freaked me out as a kid, it’s the blank eyes, sedate expression and well, even their name sounds like a Grindhouse horror movie.<\/p>\n

The Sunshine Family was devised in the mid-seventies by Mattel and seems to be grown-up hippies now starting young families.<\/p>\n

Much of the play is centred around crafts which is really of the era. The family owns a hobby store and later on they would create what looked like a commune. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to see the Sunshine family abandon their values and become yuppies in the eighties as the line was cancelled in 1978. Mattel regrettably recycled their rather a doll simple bodies into lines such as Space:1999, Welcome Back Kotter and Mork and Mindy.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Sunshine and Happy Families had quite a brood when you included the Grand Parents, it would have been fun if Mattel included the “other” set of in-laws, you know the one with the crew cut father-in-law who was always yelling at the dad to get real jobs and cut his hair?<\/p>\n

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\nThe Sunshine Family Craft Store looks like one those places your mom would drag you to in the middle of nowhere to buy butter tarts and a macrame plant holder. Ok, that may have unlocked a memory.<\/p>\n

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\nWhen not in the country store the Sunshine Family would get in their pick up truck and sell stuff at country fairs and flea markets, I know a lot of people like this. That bicycle sat next to a “Korg 7000 BC” game in my local variety store until about 1990. Almost twenty years of being reminded that the Sunshine Family was a thing.<\/p>\n

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1976 Mattel Sunshine Family Catalog<\/a><\/blockquote>