Polly Pocket
Polly Pocket is a toy line of inch-tall dolls and accessories sold by Mattel.
Origin Products (Chris Wiggs and Chris Taylor) had the basic concept in 1983 influenced by Torquil Norman's pre existing ideas for minature portable playsets. At this point it was a simple wooden stick figure that did not bend. The interior was a basic fabrication inside a powder compact. After it was shown to Bluebird Torquil Norman asked if the figure could be made to bend, this problem was duly solved by Brian Whitehead at Origin and after purchasing the licence Normans' team of designers at Bluebird created a series of Clam-case playsets available for sale on the toy market circa 1989, and with Mattel the main distributor. Between 2012 and 2018, it was not sold in the US and declined in other countries, with Brazil being the only country to sell the products throughout that period.
Concerns grew due to loose magnets and the small size (which caused injuries to some children when ingested) and caused millions of Polly Pocket toys to be recalled from the shelves.
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