If your toy company's boy-oriented doll doesn’t set the world on fire, you might take comfort in the fact it partially inspired a series of slasher movies. That was the case for My Buddy, an ...

The Loyal Subjects revives the iconic 1985 Playskool My Buddy doll in 2025. ... which was introduced in 1985 and was designed to teach boys that it was okay to have a doll to play with, too.

In 1985, Hasbro’s My Buddy doll followed suit by courting the then-controversial idea that boys should play with dolls, ...