Fonzie Doll: Thumbs Up Pose

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

20816

Title

Fonzie Doll

Description

A moulded plastic Fonzie doll, with jointed limbs at the hips, knees, shoulders, elbows, wrists and thumbs. The doll wears moulded blue underwear, black hair and features.
The doll wears a plastic black imitation-leather jacket, cotton trousers resembling blue jeans which fasten with a popper. The doll is also wearing a white sleeveless vest and black plastic boots. A hole in the back of the figure's jacket enables the user to reach a lever. When the lever is pushed, it moves the figure's arms into Fonzie's classic thumbs-up pose.

Artist / maker

Mego Corp

Date

1976

Size

21.5 x 8.5cm

Type

Toy

Location

Museum of Childhood

Accession number

MC2009.18

The U.S television series 'Happy Days' was produced 1974-1984. The show was set in the 1950's and centred on a family known as the Cunningham's. Arthur Fonzarelli played by Henry Winkler was originally a secondary character, he proved to be so popular that he became the lead. Fonzie's character is a mechanic in 1950s Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
A toy motorcycle to accompany the Fonzie doll can also be viewed on Capital Collections.

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