Welcome to
DollyPopsTown!
(under construction)

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A collector’s reference guide to Dolly Pops merchandise

Dolls

Playsets

Sets with handles

Doll Houses

Dress-Ups

Dolly Pops Wannabes!

Dolly Pops For Sale!

The idea behind the Dolly Pops toy line was simple: 3D plastic paper dolls.  The benefits of doing this?  Paper dolls are fun but fragile, and therefore not suitable for younger kids.  Dolly Pops are durable plastic dolls and clothing pieces that “pop” on each figure.  Not only will they last, but younger children, who may not be able to handle the delicate paper tabs of real paper dolls, can easily “snap” an outfit onto and off of a Dolly Pops doll.  Fitting, then, was the advertising tag line, "The doll you dress in a snap!"

The Dolly Pops toys were produced by the Knickerbocker Toy Company (“KTC” for short).  The toy line was first available in 1979, though the idea for the line was conceived at least by 1978, since the Poptown playset has that year on its box.  From the toys I have seen, it seems the line continued until at least 1982. Dolly Pops were available not only in the USA, but also in Canada and in the UK, and possibly other places in Europe as well.

I created this site because I could not find much useful information on the Internet about Dolly Pops.  What I did find, I have below in the Dolly Pops Links section of this page.  Not much, huh?  I thought, surely there were others out there like me, who would benefit from a definitive collecting checklist/information site about these memorable and unique toys.  Since I couldn’t find such a site, I decided to create one myself.

I would like to encourage anyone with Dolly Pops pictures or information to share what they know/have with me via email, at DooPlus2 at aol dot com, so that I may update this site to be the most complete Dolly Pops information source available on the Internet.  I would like any collectors who have mint-in-package Dolly Pops items to send me pictures of their items and the information printed on those packages.  I will only use any such pictures and information here on this site, for collecting/reference purposes, and I will credit the original picture’s owner (with or without contact information, at their request) here on the site. If you have international Dolly Pops items, I am especially interested in any information you can share, since I am in the USA and have very limited knowledge of the international releases.

In addition to pictures intentionally donated by others, this site may contain some pictures (of items not yet in my own collection) that I have saved from other sites without permission to use them or display them publicly.  I have been saving and archiving online pictures of toys for many years, for my own reference. While this means my database of toy information is vast, it also means that, for most of the pictures I've saved, I do not know who the original owners are.  Therefore, if you see a picture here that is your property, and you would like me to remove it or credit you as the owner, I will gladly do so.  Luckily, I have a rather sizable Dolly Pops collection (many thanks to my awesome mom for getting them for me!), so most of the pictures shown here are my own, of items in my personal collection.  Concerning those pictures here that are my own property, I grant everyone permission to save/use them for personal reference purposes only (NOT to be used for other purposes, such as selling your own DP items on eBay or any other forum).  Any pictures that are not my own will be captioned with owner information (or a notice of unknown ownership), and the ones that are mine will have no owner caption.

No, my collection is not for sale.  However, I do have some Dolly Pops items “extra” and will be listing them on eBay or here on this site sometime in the (hopefully near) future, as my precious toddler boy will allow.  If you'd like to check my auctions or my personal site, I have links listed below.  Since I am a collector myself, I am willing to work out trades for items not yet in my collections (Dolly Pops or otherwise, including My Little Pony and other little girls’ toys from about 1979 to about 1995).  I haven’t yet typed up my Dolly Pops wish list, but you can assume that if the picture on this DP site is not my own, I don’t have the item yet!

If any other DP collectors are interested (email me if you are!), and I have enough spare web space, I will set up a separate page here on DollyPopsTown specifically for collectors. This would be so that fellow DP collectors could showcase a pic or two of their prized collections, along with their want/trade lists and maybe a short biography of each collector too. If I can't do a "collector's corner" type page, I can at least have a list of links to fellow collector's own pages. I'd like to do a sort of "you link up to me, and I'll link up to you" deal, so we both get more web traffic. :-)

Thank you for checking out my quaint little Dolly Pops site.  Do feel free to email me if you have any pictures, information, questions, or suggestions, or just want to “talk toys.”  I’m somewhat of an expert on 1980s (and some 1990s) little girls’ toys, so if you need help identifying something, I’d be happy to help.

Much love, and happy toy hunting,

Brandi K.

DooPlus2 at aol dot com