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Chester's: Resprited


21 days ago

Here's more into on the company that made Chester's, known as "Playware Electronics". The company had made fairly large booms in the toy business during the 80s, but they did eventually have some flops

So here's their biggest failure, Cheer Christina


"Cheer Christina" is a 3ft doll created by the same company as "Chester's Funzone" and many other popular toys. This is one of their biggest failures. The doll is heavily inspired by the real playmates talking Jill mechanically and cosmetically. The idea was concepted by the owners wife, and is based off her when she was a Chee leader. The doll is a attempt at a more human approach for the company, though later on it was decided "Cartoony" aspects should be added in order to boost sales. This shift made it have more of a "wrong" look, mostly from its stretched out, wide eyes. Like Jill, It could blink, move its eyes, mouth, and head. One thing the real Jill doesn't have that this one has is the fact it can stand up and has a mechanism in her arms to her them "Ragdoll" to simulate moving pom poms. Like Jill it also had the options in the "cassette chips", were you could choose a certain thing and it would swap to a different track to alter to that version of the story. The doll was mad expensive at the time, being 200$ in cost and costing the company about 115$~ to make. Multiple dolls were made due to the belief of its success, but its unnerving stare caused it to not be a hit, selling less then 1000 Units. Its believed if they just stuck with one idea (Realistic or cartoony) instead of mixing the 2, aswell as selling it for less. It may have had a chance on the market. Many that would be find in a warehouse were in pristine condition, though had some cracks on their silicone skin, and rarely issues with her face. Most of her clothes usually hid any doll-like features (except the legs). any undergarment is stitched into her skin via small holes in the silicone. The reason was because their was planned alternate clothing, but because the people weren't buying the doll, they had to cancel future variants/editions (Like clothing, skin tone/race variants, different languages, more tapes etc...)



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