Strawberry Shortcake

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Statue of Strawberry Shortcake.

Strawberry Shortcake is a doll. The doll has red hair and smells like strawberries. Kenner products created the first Strawberry Shortcake doll in 1979. At that time she resembled a typical rag doll, complete with freckles, a mop of red yarn hair, and a strawberry printed bonnet but the unique selling point was that, she smelt of strawberries. The Strawberry Shortcake line of characters each had their own fruit or dessert-themed name with clothing to match, and they each had a dessert or fruit-named pet. Like the Strawberry Shortcake doll, all the other characters’ dolls had hair scented to match their dessert theme.[1]

There was Apple Dumpling, the baby and Raspberry Tart who, in the television programs, was capable of the odd cutting remark. This is what Apple Dumpling looked like back in the 1980s.[2]

She first appeared on cards by American Greetings, and there soon were a series of dolls (each that smell like a different fruit and had a pet) and several TV specials produced by DIC and Nelvana. The characters in the collection from the 1980s were:

2000s revival[change | change source]

In 2002, after other 1980s toys (Care Bears, G.I. Joe,etc.) were brought back for youndger kids and parents who played with them and new line of dolls was released and along with several direct-to-DVD specials. The new dolls are:

2021 TV series[change | change source]

Strawberry Shortcake: Berry In The Big City Is A Canadian animated television series produced by Wildbrain Studios Which airs on Netflix (United States) and Family Jr. (Canada)

References[change | change source]

  1. "- Strawberry Shortcake Dolls". 2021-04-19. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
  2. "Ooh-ooh that smell: 30 years of Strawberry Shortcake". www.cnn.com. Retrieved 2021-11-29.