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History of Baby Face

The creator of the Baby Face line is Mel Birnkrant, who has a legendary collection of early Disney and cartoon toys and has been famous in the toy industry for many years, as a leading designer. In 1990, in partnership with Kiscom Toys, he licensed his Baby Face doll designs to the Lewis Galoob Toy Company. Judy Albert, of Cabbage Patch fame, created the adorable outfits worn by the dolls.

Starting with nine original designs, they eventually produced 36 different styles of dolls, from 19 molds over the next few years. Here you can learn about the inside story of how Baby Face dolls were made, a description of the manufacturing process. In addition to the dolls, there were extra outfits sold separately and various accessories and related licensed merchandise produced, all pictured here for you. After two very successful years, Galoob arbitrarily and abruptly decided to discontinue the line, even though they were one of the most popular dolls on the market at that time. That's the short version. Read all about the birth of Baby Face, in the words of their creator, Mel Birnkrant and get the artist's perspective of how he conceptualized and then made the dolls a reality and what came after.