In the early 1980s, Kenner sold up to 1 million Baby Alive dolls annually. Unlike other plastic babies who boasted only of clothes or strollers, Baby Alive simulated the perils of caring for a ...

It was shaped like a baby and miraculously could do some things that babies did. The Baby Alive doll was introduced to the shelves in 1973. It could eat packet foods mixed with water that were fed ...