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Dream Pets - Lucy Lamb

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This is a drawing I did of Lucy Lamb, one of Dakin's Dream Pets toys. Drawn on January 3rd.

In case you don't know, Dream Pets are a bunch of small plush animal toys that were imported from Japan in 1957 by Dakin, which had actually ordered for a train set. To secure the trains, the Japanese company packaged them with small velveteen animal toys, which became more of a sensation than the train sets! And all the way up to the early 70s, Dream Pets has become a collectible phenomenon! With up to around 2,000 different types.

In 2004, Dakin reissued 24 of the Dream Pets, including the above Lucy Lamb.

I first heard of them last year in North Carolina, when I visited Toy-Riffic (a great store!) at the Scarborough Faire. They had all sorts of kids' collectibles, and the Dream Pets really caught my attention! They had awesome, beautiful designs, something you don't see in toys every day. So on January 2nd, I bought Lucy Lamb, who I thought was just adorable. (Mom thought she was a poodle!) The next day, I did a life drawing of her, not only to test my own life-drawing skills, but I wanted to do a fanart of the Dakin Dream Pets.

I heard that Dakin got bought out by Big Lots, which has had plans to revive the line. Even with the economy we have, I hope so! This is something that deserves more exposure than it has now.

I first did a pencil drawing, and then, traced over it with Derwent colored pencils.

Dream Pets is © R. Dakin & Co. and Applause (now with Big Lots).
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