Pansy is 5m tall and was one of 12 giant kewpies that appeared in the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics in 2000, they twirled around the arena to John Paul Young's Love is in the Air bringing back memories of Strictly Ballroom. Apparently the people who made these giant fibreglass dolls named each of them, this one is Pansy.
Pansy now lives at an antique shop in Bungendore NSW about 30 mins from Canberra
When I was a little girl and my family went to the Royal Melbourne Show I always wanted a kewpie doll on a cane stick. My parents bought me one and she was treasured for years.
I've known of kewpie dolls all my life but it all changed in grade 9 or 10 drama class when we had to do a production of "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll". Haven't been able to look a kewpie in the eye since.
Oh, and the channel 9 morning tv people did an impromptu thing on the kewpie doll toilet roll holders a week or two back. Reminded me of my nanna.
@filsie65 - they used to be at carnivals in the US, and you could throw balls at skittles or through hoops to win a Kewpie Doll. i think they used to be hung from sticks or I could be wrong there... There is a Kewpie Doll on facebook that has travelled the world and I took its photo at the Eiffel Tower last year.
A play I saw many time as an usher at Melbourne Theatre Co when I was an usher in the 70's. A kewpie doll as in the play wass won at fairs and carnivals. a doll that was dressed and had a walking stick style cane behind it
@bobfoto@peterdegraaff Well thanks chaps, you learn something new on 365 every day! Can't believe you took a doll to Paris Jason!! Love the idea of the little Jesus etc travelling the world, bit like Flat Stanley.
How odd that we all ended up looking at this photo today - Megan if you're listening get your camera out - we clearly need you! :)
Oh, and the channel 9 morning tv people did an impromptu thing on the kewpie doll toilet roll holders a week or two back. Reminded me of my nanna.
A play I saw many time as an usher at Melbourne Theatre Co when I was an usher in the 70's. A kewpie doll as in the play wass won at fairs and carnivals. a doll that was dressed and had a walking stick style cane behind it
Kewpie is short for cupid allegedly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kewpie_doll
How odd that we all ended up looking at this photo today - Megan if you're listening get your camera out - we clearly need you! :)
@lbmcshutter Amen to that!! Hope you're keeping well and everything's hunky-dory :)