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Description: In a private interview with Mr. John Smith, a long time toy designer at Fisher-Price, Mr. Smith explain that Mr. Henry Fisher, the Fisher in Fisher-Price, did not like cats. Over the years Fisher-Price made tons of pull toys that featured dogs, but the two-year-only #499 Kitty Bell and the one-year-only #730 Tabby Ding-Dong are the ONLY two Fisher-Price pull toys that features a kitty cat. The cat used on the #499 is a cute cuddly kitten, but the cat used on the Tabby Ding-Dong is a cat that looks like he just had a bath! His mouth is open showing sharp fangs, his brows are furrowed as if waiting to strike, and his fur looks as if it is standing on ends. Good lord, what was the designer thinking?
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Accessories:
- FPT4354 - Red rectangular wooden train engine platform that rolls on 6 yellow wooden wheels. The train has a wooden cut-out cat as an engineer, a round cylinder boiler with blue paper lithographs on the sides marked "TABBY DING-DONG" in yellow. There is a large metal bell on top of the boiler that the cat rings as toy is pulled and a red wooden smoke stack on the front top of the boiler. The cat has paper lithographs on both sides of a white cat with black hair edges wearing a red hat and overalls. He has a seperate wooden cut-out double-jointed arm that moves and rings the bell on top of the boiler.
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Variations: None.
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Other Information: None.
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