Family Concerns

By now, most people have studied Russian dolls and their beginnings and how they are all hand painted by very particular artists using very small brushes to make an entire set come to life. All that is awesome but I wanted to explore some very different doll concepts for a nesting doll set that I am not sure have been created (this could be a great idea for someone with an artistic flare who can bring a couple of these sets to life for us). I have been studying this concept for quite some time and am now ready to announce these ideas to the world – here we go.

My first idea is to develop a set of dolls around great TV families. Families that we grew up with, that are a little bit nostalgic but who would also be very recognizable are the types I am referring to. I would start with the Brady Bunch and include the Mom and Dad, Alice and the 6 kids in one set. I think that dolls nesting set would be a great seller and would serve to honor what is probably the number one family of that generation. The next family to be enshrined in a set of nesting dolls would be the Partridge family. I would include the business leader, Mr Kincaid, to be sure that there were enough dolls to make a complete set. The Clampett family of Beverly Hillbillies would be next and I would be sure to have a doll made out of the likenesses of Miss Hathaway and the banker to round out the set.

I would then progress to the greatest sports teams of all times. I would include a couple sets of Yankee teams with Babe Ruth, maybe another with the Boston Celtics when they were winning all those championships, and maybe another of Cincinnati’s best team ever the Big Red Machine, since many people in the Midwest would probably love a set and they are my favorite team of all-time.

I would also include a best players of all-time set where you might be able to take your favorite sport and have dolls that look like a set of a couple of years of hall-of-fame inductees. I think these would also sell well because a doll set could be made for every season and sport, so there are lots of great groups to select from to start sets.

My next group to do would be custom to individual groups such as a team of corporate executives. This may sound a little corny but I think thatmost corporate leadership teams would buy a set made up of themselves, especially after they have had a good year. This one may be working from the fringe, but I think there are lots of items in popular culture that are not being done at the moment that could be good for tine nesting doll industry and be fun for the people who are in the sets.