Elton John
The Elton John celebrity depicts him as himself, a singer, piano playing musical entertainer and songwriter in his forties. The doll was manufactured by Yaboom Toys in 1999. It is the Singing Crocodile Rock version. A button on the doll’s stomach is pushed for it to sing.
Proceeds from the sales of the doll went to The Elton John AIDS foundation.
The doll comes wearing a silver cuffed and collared red suit with a sleeveless peach satin turtleneck silver button shirt underneath. The suit jacket and pants are decorated with sliver and white glittered paint and the jacket has a silver collar with silver cuffs and is sewn shut. The pants have a Velcro fly in the back. The body has white painted on jockey underwear. The clothing is removable if you cut the tacking stitches closing the jacket. You can reach the battery compartment and switches without removing the jacket by untucking the shirt from the pants. The doll can be balanced to stand on its own.Accessories are a plastic pair of rose colored windshield sunglasses, red loafer shoes (no socks), a plastic silver video camera, a plastic cd player, and a black and silver boom microphone stand with a small removable black microphone (The one in the photos belongs to the Vanilla Ice doll. My bad, new photos are in the works).
The singing mechanism has a cartridge for Crocodile Rock and uses four LR44/A76 button batteries. There is a switch for the two programs (30 second demo and full versions) of the song. There is also a volume control. The audio track cartridge pulls out of the back with a white ribbon tab above the screw secured battery compartment.
To hear the full version of the “Crocodile Rock” singing doll audio track recorded from the belly speaker:
To hear the short abrupt demo version of “Crocodile Rock” singing doll audio track:
The Elton John singing doll is articulated at the neck (side to side only), shoulders (full ball joint), elbow (bend), knees (click joint), and waist (twist side to side), The feet are soft and rubbery and are part of the legs.
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Hi there! I just got one of these wonderful dolls in and I’m just smitten! What a great likeness of the fabulous Mr. John <3 I'm a bit sad that the singing feature on mine doesn't work (changed the batteries, adjusted the cartridge, I tried everything) but I'm glad I got to hear how it would have sounded on your website! Hopefully I can get him restored someday!
That’s sad it doesn’t work. Touch wood, I’ve been lucky so far bringing back old used dolls with corroded battery compartments.Maybe it is like the old Atari cartridges, you have to blow on it.
Did you see my Elton John youtube video? https://youtu.be/WDpDN-JM5L0 I made the doll play the piano. It is one of my favorite dolls.
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hey so i have one of these particular doll I’m wondering if you could tell me the price its 1999 please get back to me soon thank you
I just got one on ebay for 125..but that’s because I had to bid on him ..I’m a huge fan and a toy collector so he was well worth it new in box and he works great