Aw. This was one of my favorite toys as a little girl. I can still remember how heartbroken I was when he stopped working, and how excited I was to find him back under the Christmas tree when he was repaired! After he quit working again, I still had him as a stuffed toy, voice box removed, for a long time. If you go to the link, you can watch him on the video.
I loved this toy!
Larry the Lion. A Mattel chatter pal from 1962. How this toy survived all these years I’ll never know. All my life up until I was 19 I had this on a shelf somewhere in my room. Girls would love to pull his string. If you look closely at the bottom left corner of this pic from when I was 17 you can just see his eyes. After I moved out of my parents house I moved him to the storage space above the closet. wpe70799.jpg (22424 bytes)My sister left him there. And that’s where I found him when I moved back in with my parents in 1992. So naturally I took him with me when I moved in with my roommate. Well. Women still liked to pull his string. But he was usually just putting them to sleep.