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1st Edition Rio
# 4015
Description: Male doll, bright purple longish "real" hair (sticks
out about 1/2" all over). Nude, he is differentiated from Glitter
N' Gold Rio by hair colour- Original Rio's hair is much more bright
purple and longer.
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Comments and Fun Facts |
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Some Rio's came with longer
hair. Not sure which is rarer. The longer hair version I have has
lighter eyes and thinner eyebrows.
Another make-up variation,
paler lip paint, and thinner eyebrows. (Thanks to <3Molly for this pic.)
Yet another combination- Long hair, pale lip paint
& thin eyebrows! (thanks Robin for this info)
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Apparently the last of the 8 dolls to hit store shelves
in 1986.
I used to write that he was Hispanic, now I'm not
so sure, given that Christy Marx
has not defined him as such; "I never specified an ethnicity for Rio, and
he certainly was NOT set out as Puerto Rican. If anything, he might
have some Hispanic blood a couple generations back mixed with who-knows-what."
-from TrulyOutrageousJem,
digest # 2121) Which doesn't necessarily mean the *doll* isn't Hispanic...
but you gotta wonder about that tan if he's not!
Compare 1st Edition Rio
prototype photos, box art, cartoon form, comic book form and many other
incarnations.
There is an 80's song called "Rio" by Duran Duran.
However, the "Rio" in the song is a woman.
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The back box always says what is contained with
the doll. The bold words in my descriptions are what Hasbro themselves
stated came with the doll;
Contains; 12 1/2" doll with fashion, briefcase,
poster, hairpick, cassette and figure stand. |
