Little People

Little People is the name of a toy brand, produced since the 1960s, originally by Fisher-Price. Little Peoples have no arms or legs, their bodies and head shapes are circular, and they come in Black and White skin colors. Little People also include dogs.

History

Fisher-Price produced wooden toy dogs for four decades before deciding to try their new line of toys. The first Little People set included a school bus together with characters. The toy gained instant popularity and other sets soon came out. At first, Little People characters were produced with wood; plastic was used for their vehicles and buildings. In the middle 1970s, Fisher-Price produced the Sesame Street town, with various Sesame Street stores, a bridge with stop lights and Sesame Street characters such as Bert and Ernie. Soon after, the Little People Discovery Airport, a hospital and a school would also be released. Little People characters had by then been also produced with plastic products exclusively.

After Fisher-Price was bought over by Mattel in the 1990s, Little People reappeared on the markets, their figure slightly larger in size from the original Little People characters.

Likenesses

Although Fisher-Price never actually reproduced the figure of a real-life celebrity with the Little People line, some have argued that many of the Little People toys, particularly during the 1970s, resembled super-stars of their era, more famously their Black female singer ( like Donna Summers) and a Black male whose face resembled that of famous boxer Earnie Shavers.