There are four basic girls in the Dawn line: Miss Dawn herself, a lovely blonde, Miss Glori, a charming red head, Miss Angie, a coy little brunette, and Miss Dale, a mod African-American.

The easiest way to tell if these charming ladies are or are not the real Topper Toy Company Dawn item, is to look on the back of their heads for their factory stamp.

These numbers are not the only numbers for these dolls: it is a guide! Topper monkeyed around with different numbers, and I don't know why.

Dawn is H11A, 811A, or P11A, and occasionally 47 S11A and A11A.

Glori is K11 and H11.

Angie is K10 and P10.

Dale, the most varied, has been seen with HB7, 4H8P, and H51, and H132 as well as H95 and (this long list provided by Joedi Johnson) H53, H61, H63, H64, H65, H68, H76, H77, H79, H82, H86, H96, H97, H101, H110, H124, H126, H127, H129, H130, H140, H144, and H187.

Jessica (added later) is 11C or H11C OR H47. Note: Model agency Denise has also been spotted with an 11C, so this is not definitive!

Lovely Longlocks (added later) is H17 and P17.

Other dolls have similar numbers, and the boys have none.

More dolls were added after the "fantastic four" came out, bringing the total population of the standard Dawn line up to nine. There are three boy dolls: Gary, Ron and Van (Gary's a brunette, Ron's a blond, and Van is African-American), Longlocks, a real honey-pie with blue eyes and really long brown hair, and a blonde stewardess, Jessica.

In addition to these dolls, packaged rather in unassuming yet cute boxes, new Dawn dolls came out in several different packages. A personal favorite is the Dance Party series (featuring all nine dolls in hep-cat go-go outfits), but the Majorette dolls are also pretty hot! (The batons glow in the dark.) There were also Head-to-Toes, which came with three little wigs (Dawn, Angie, and Longlocks only for this series, looking their Star Trek seductress best), and the extremely elaborate model agency dolls, which came complete with fancy gowns and their own portfolios. (Is that the cutest thing you ever heard of, or what!) Ultimately obscure are the Flower Fantasy Dawn dolls, which I have found to be as elusive as the Loch Ness Monster.

More about the model agency dolls: model agency dolls are extremely different from regular Dawn dolls. Their hair styles and colors are completely different from the main line, although of course they are six and a half inches tall, made by Topper, etc. etc. The dolls are as follows: Maureen, a brunette with a pony-tail on the side and brown eyes that look ahead ; Dinah, a blonde with her hair in braids ; Daphne, who has auburn hair in a pony-tail on top of her head styled in two curls that fall to the sides; Denise, a blonde with her hair pulled on top of her hair in a big upsweep (she has very thick hair); and Melanie, with black hair styled in a ponytail and brown eyes glancing to the right.

Note: Regular Dawn dolls have bendable ("clickable") legs that, when working, will "walk": when you swing one of the legs back and forth, the other one will swing opposite to it. Dancing Dawn dolls "do the frug" when you move their left arms: their heads and hips turn when you raise their arms. Majorettes, in addition to having a spot hollowed out to hold their baton, are supposed to keep their arms in opposition (to get a marching effect): however, Dawn abuse may make this not a valid identifying factor. Finally, to put your fears to rest (did someone stick this head on some other doll's body?) there are indeed straight leg Dawns: they were "special models" (such as the fashion show Dawn and beauty pageant dawn) that needed to have straight legs to fully take advantage of their Topper environment.

There are several different specialty dolls, that is, dolls that only came packaged with Dawn accessories like the car. There were two of these for the Dance Party: a blond boy (Kevin) and a fabulous platinum blonde, "Fancy Feet." There was also a Beauty Pageant Dawn and Gary. (Dawn came with a tiara and bouquet, with a cool cape you could special order. Gary was only needed to walk Dawn down the aisle... and only halfway at that! I have a great picture of the beauty pageant from a comic book...take a look!) There was also a Dress Shop Dawn. All five of these dolls had the straight legs (so they could fit on the pegs of their respective worlds), but there were many others released with the various Dawn accessories that had regular legs.

Quality issues: we all love Dawn, but since time immemorial (say, the 80s), she has suffered from green knees. This is a problem even for dolls that have never left their boxes! Longlocks have heads that may split under the weight of their hair (of course, only if they have survived the decades of "love" by little girls who love to try out hairdos on their dolls). We love Dawn, but we love her best when she has all of her own hair and it's not tangled, when her skin is its natural color, when her pretty little eyelashes are in good shape, and when her knees work like Topper intended them to. And while Dawn is fairly fabulous in her birthday suit, she's a million times more stunning in some cute little number with lots of gold lame'.

To save downloading time on this page, I am allowing you to view the dolls I do have pictures of by category. Choose your poison below.

I want to see pictures of the girls!

I want to see pictures of mint dolls in boxes!

Dance party dolls rule! Show me those!

Head to toe is the coolest!

Model agency for me!

How can I bring these visions of True Beauty into my life?

You weren't kidding about you being a nut! How do you get out of here?