Did you play with Barbies?

I know this may sound like a silly question. Do little Czech girls play with Barbies? Did the two previous generations? I was wondering, since I heard that during communism they were against anything "western world".

 

As I remember, no Barbies before 1989. Maybe who had relatives abroad...

 

Same experience. There were no Barbies when I was growing up in the 1970s/80s.

 

Good question gypzy,

So, what was a little girls favorite toy in the 70's & 80's?

 

Probably other kind of doll.

 

Yes, there were other dolls, more baby-looking. The most chic were the dolls with hair!

 

There were talking dolls too (with little tape player inside).

 

I had a crying doll. Never seen a talking one... it must be cute!

 

Well, maybe it wasn't doll, but bear.
It's allready little fuzzy memory

 

Yes, there were talking dolls. And walking ones, too.

 

Yes, my niece's room is full of Barbies .

No, they didn't. And it is not right that communists were against anything "western world". It wasn't prohibited, it just wasn't imported.

In Poland there were Barbies definitely before 1989, I remember Poles offering Barbies in exchange for sugar and sweets. But we were always more interested in jeans, tape recorders, Rolling Stones, Johny Cash etc.

Interesting, I remember a lot of typical socialistic toys for boys, but I can't remember a typical toy for girls. Maybe it's because the toys for girls weren't so unitized, or maybe because I was boy and all my sisters are older.

But I remember my sisters playing many times with paperdolls. That's something what disappeared after revolution.

In middle 80's there was a mania for Monchhichis.

 

And don't forget "céčka"!

 

Yes, but céčka weren't for girls only .

 

Ok, share, Co je céčka?

alenastef, my daughter has a doll like that from CR and one from Slovakia. I bought them for her my first trip to both countries. However, since she is 13, she doesn't play with them. They are just displayed. She was only 8 when I bought them for her.

 

Céčka are these:

 

...or Merkur

 

What a lovely doll.
Do most Czech dolls have dresses like that?

 

Ok, so this may sound stupid, but what are those? Are they magnets? It seems as they are letters but I don't recognize all of them. What did kids do with them?

 

Primary purpose was like this:



But then céčka fever started and they became trend hit.

They functioned like toy, fashion complement or collectibles, medium of exchange and essence of special tossing gambling game (where stakes were cecka, too )

At first there were only in C shape (C - céčko), later were followed by another alphabetic character, numbers and other symbols.