Aaayyyy!!!!!
You have to love the Internet. A quick search of “Fonzi + doll” led me straight to the kick-ass photo to the left. If you look closely, you can see that Fonzi’s thumbs could flip up or down. What you can’t see (unless you click here and scroll down…go ahead, you know you want to) is the lever on his back that you could push to make his arms go up and down. Not sure what the point of that was. However, the toymakers seemed to think it was a crucial Fonzi move. So much so that they included the lever, as well as a slit in the back of the pleather jacket to accomodate it. Fonzi was only 8″ tall, but that didn’t stop him from dating my 11.5″ Barbies. I mean, come on, he’s the Fonz. (Although, he didn’t stand a chance once the Barbies caught wind of my neighbors’ 12″ Han Solo and Luke Skywalker dolls.)
I definitely had a flashback when I found the website and saw the packaging the doll came in. I mean, I consciously remembered what the doll looked like, but that orange and yellow cardboard packaging was tucked into a dusty part of my mind I never thought I’d visit again. I can remember unwrapping the present in my family’s gameroom around the coffeetable (the same table we Kiddie Fondue’d on), with my family all around. I was the kind of kid that would get REALLY excited about a good present. I remember positively reeling when I unwrapped him. The fact that he was small enough to ride on my brother’s Evel Knievel action figure’s bike, just made it that much sweeter.
Oh, and because I couldn’t resist … Kiddie Fondue!
