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Little People Body Colors
This page contains the following sections:
1) Notes about body colors
2) Blue Body Colors
3) Green Body Colors
4) Purple Body Colors
5) Red Body Colors
6) Other Body Colors
7) "White-ies"
Because Fisher-Price made Little People for such a large span of years and at many different manufacturing plants during these years, the shades of certain colors can and will vary.....thus even though there are only two "red" body colors listed here, you will find slight shade variations within each color. For example: two otherwise identical light red moms may not have the exact same body color, but both are considered to be light red.
The above differences in body color shading is not the same as body color FADING. Fading or discoloration occurs when plastic is exposed to either certain types of chemical solvents, or, more likely, to UV (ultra-violet) light. UV light is most commonly produced by the sun, although certain artifical lights also produce vast amounts of UV light also (think of tanning beds). Fading produces a more uniform "washed-out" or "bleached" appearance to the plastic, resulting in many different "shades" of a color.
Blue Body Colors B - "medium blue" This is the most common shade of blue used on the Little People. C - "dark blue" This shade of blue is only used on male Little People figures. D - "turquoise" This color was used both on short bodied figures (boys and girls).
A - "light blue" This color was used both on male and female figures.
Green Body Colors B - "medium green" body color. This is the most common shade of green used on Little People figures. C -"dark green" body color. This shade of green is used only on male Little People figures.
A - "lime green" body color.
Purple Body Colors B - "purple / mauve" body color.
A - "purple" body color. This shade of purple was only used on the old version #993 Castle King and Queen figures.
Red Body Colors B - "light or coral red". - this color appears almost translucent.
A - "dusty red to deep red".
Other Body Colors The knight (shown) is the only silver bodied little person figure made.
Black body colors are used only on dogs and men...so if you have a female with a black base, she is certainly a manufacturer mistake (often called an "oops")
Brown bodies were only used on Sesame Street characters, with the exception of the all wood bodied boy used on the #984 & #990 Buses (part #BF in the Boy List.)
Gray was used only on the mailman (shown), although there was also a gray trash-can (Oscar The Grouch part #IK in the Sesame Street List).
Orange is a commonly used body color for girls, boys, and men. If you have a mom with an orange body, though, she is a manufacturer mistake.
Tan was first used as a body color on an all wood dog in the mid sixties (part #HZ in the Dog List.) Tan bodies weren't used again until all plastic bodies were being made (10 years later), and then only men and women had tan bodies. No kids or dogs were made with tan bodies at this time.
White bodies were first used in 1960 with the #169 Snorky Fire Engine Fireman. With the exception of this white wooden bodied fireman, all other white bodied characters are all plastic. All of the babies (except part #HL - #234 Nifty Station Wagon baby) are white. There are no white bodied boys nor girls.
Yellow bodies were used in every group of Little People except men and dogs.
"White-ies"
Notice how the color of the head of these men differ? The man marked "B" looks "ghostly" white, and is often called a "Whitie" among collectors. Little People with white heads/faces, such as example B, look sun-bleached, but they actually came from the manufacturing plant like this! When mixing the dyes to make these Little People, the manufacturer didn't ALWAYS get the dye mixed correctly. So, even though the head/face color is supposed to be like man "A", it sometimes looked like man "B".
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