Doll Name Kimber (1st edition)
Stock # (US) #4202/4005 Asst.
Hasbro package contents listing Contains; 12 1/2" doll with stage fashion, musical instrument, pumps, hairpick, cassette tape and figure stand. 
Comments/Trivia
  • Kimber was the guitar player, in the beginning concept of Jem.
Produced Variants So far, I know of 1st Edition Kimber dolls marked on their backs with one of the following places of manufacture, and there are slight variations among them:
  • China 
  • Hong Kong (doll featured on this ID page is Hong Kong made)
  • No Location
  • No markings at all (Juguetes Con Vida, made in Mexico)
  • Made in Spain
To learn more about these body types and slight differences, please see the body variations page.
More Skip here for a listing of other depictions of 1st Edition Kimber (cartoon, prototypes, catalogues, etc).

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12 1/2" doll; Caucasian doll with assymetrical bright red hair, spiky on top. 
  • Nude, she can be differentiated from her second edition by lack of earrings or earring holes  
  •  Roxy, Kimber and Video share the same face mold, which in turn looks like it was adapted from the Dana face mold, from Kenner's Darci doll line.
  • Make up can vary from lighter toned (as seen left) to quite dark.

stage fashion (jacket); White velveteen tuxedo jacket with light blue lamé lapels, dark pink ruffled inner lapels and cuffs.  Closes with a plastic snap in the front.

stage fashion (pants); harem style, light blue lamé, match lapels on her jacket.  Velcro and plastic snap closure in the back.


stage fashion (socks); white closed-weave fishnet. 
  • They are the same material as the stockings from Gettin' Down to Business.
  • At least one doll from Australia came with light pink socks
  • Another sock variant (see pic)- sock on the left came from a UK Kimber (one with ball-joint wrists, dark makeup) and sock on the right came from an American-issue Kimber.
musical instrumentHand-held mauve keyboard with metallic painted violet keys and silver strap.
  • Jem was originally supposed to be named "M", the styled "M" on the handle was made before they changed her name.  
  • Her second edition instrument is of the same mold but with clear sparkly plastic.

pumps; Fluorescent pink straight cut. This is the colour typical of US packaged dolls.  
  • Mine are thinner, very close to the colour of Command Performance shoes. (Compare)
  • Apparently everywhere but the US, Kimber usually came with a dusty pink colour instead. (Compare)
  • At least one person got this doll with shoes in the style and colour as Stormer's. 

hairpick; apparently the same colour as her shoes (the dusty pink variation).

cassette tape; white with pink lettering.  Says Kimber- "JEM Theme, Only the Beginning, and Twilight in Paris."

figure stand: clear fluorescent pink -not cloudy or milky at all, those are second edition stands. The Jem logo is embossed on the underside.
  • There seem to be several slight shade differences between the stands. I do not yet know if there is any logic behind who gets what colour, the link is just a random sample of the different stands I've seen.
  • My Kimber stand does not have the "TM" mark.  
  • The same (or close enough for all practical purposes) stand came with the 1st editions of: Jem, Aja, Kimber & Shana.

Items not listed in Hasbro's box contents (not all dolls came with the same posters and inserts, this is a listing of what I got personally with my dolls)

Box; First year Hologram box with flap, US version.   (Made in Hong Kong H44)
Insert - hot pink with attached clear acetate bonnet.
Poster -rolled first year Jem illustrated poster

MTV offer (US version)


Other images of 1st Edition Kimber (generally unproduced/prototypes/promotional figures) Differences from produced doll (if any)
1986 US Hasbro Toy Fair Catalogue
1986 German Leaflet
Store Catalogues
Very early prototype of Kimber (originally named Aja).  From Moggygoddess' photos. Completely different doll style and outfit.  Hair and make up look similar but not quite the same as that of the produced dolls'.
Commercials
Other Print advertisements
Illustrations: Hasbro Box art
Illustrations; Hasbro Promotional art
Illustrations: Cartoon 
Illustrations: UK Comics
Illustrations: Colouring & Activity Books

Credits: Thanks to Taffeta for the photo and info on the silver jacketed version of Kimber and the white socks variant.   Thanks Lucy for the info on the pink-socked Kimber.   Thanks to Antipathy and many other international Jem collectors for the information about the dusty pink shoes.  Thanks to Alex for the Stormer shoe info.