The #990 Safety School Bus was sold with the same figures that were sold with 1961's #984 Safety School Bus. This was the last Original Little People bus that was sold with non-regular base figures.

• FPT557 - Yellow school bus with a wooden base and a yellow plastic top. The bus makes a "putt-putt" sound, and it has a wooden head driver who turns from side to side when the bus rolls. The front of the bus has a smiley face and 2 eyes that move from side to side when the bus rolls. It has an opening door with a spring to close it, a red rectangle-shaped stop sign, and 4 red wooden seats inside that the people don't actually sit on - they stand on the floor in front of the seat (the last 2 people have no seats behind them). The bus rolls on 4 black wheels. Measures 14-1/2" long, 6" high, 5" wide.
• FIVE tall wooden Original Little People (taller and wider than regular straight-sided people:
  

  KKWW

  BFWW

  KMWW

  HAWW

  GPWW

  • KKWW - Blue male with a thin depression circle around his base about 1/3 up, dot eyes, triangle mouth, dot nose, and black heat-stamped hair. *See Variations below.
  • BFWW - Brown male with a bald head, dot eyes, a crooked smile, no nose, and a thin depression circle around his base about 1/3 up.
  • KMWW - Green female with a depression to form waist and bust, closed eyes with eyelashes, dot nose, triangle mouth, and black heat-stamped hair with curles on the ends. *See Variations.
  • HAWW - Yellow mad female with a depression to form waist and bust, frowning, freckles, wearing a red beret. *See Variations below.
  • GPWW - Red female with a depression to form waist and bust, 2 circles around the base below the waist, dot eyes, half-circle nose, triangle mouth, and a yellow disc hat.

• AAWW - The blue male could also have light brown heat-stamped hair opposed to black.
• KLWW - The blue male with light brown hair has also been seen without the circle around his waist.
• FRWW - The greem female has also been seen with red heat-stamped hair opposed to black.
• KNWW - The yellow female has also been seen with dot eyes, a half-circle nose, and a triangular mouth opposed to frowning and freckles.