I wonder, though, if Horsman could have gotten it right no matter HOW they’d marketed such a bed! I mean, the act of including only the children with the “action” bed might have struck some unaware (Unfamiliar with the movie, that is) people as being wrong…just wrong. Including only Eglantine Price AND Professor Browne would have raised SOO many eyebrows (those of the people who knew about the movie, AND those of the people who didn’t know about the movie), considering the nature of the bed! Including the entire group of characters (The adults, AND the children) might have had some clueless people asking, “Just WHAT kind of group activities does Horsman ENCOURAGE these days?”

By including only Eglantine Price with her bed, Horsman was teaching kids about “the personal habits of lonely, 40-something women”…by being subtle! LOL! Had that movie been released during about the mid-1980s, kids might have gotten the subtlety…of Horsman’s “marketing strategy”… 😉 JK, with regards to my comment about Horsman…I HOPE!

Really, though, any way by which Horsman sliced THAT pie, they were guaranteeing that their new toy was going to be looked at strangely…by SOMEBODY or another…but, then again, “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” WAS a strange, cool, sort of early Goth(?)-flavored movie.

It’s only fortunate (in my opinion, anyway) that early 1970s audiences (for the most part, anyway?) were able to accept the idea of some Disney witchcraft…WITHOUT picketing, rallying, and otherwise crying “Total blasphemy!”

I like to think of Horsman’s “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” Action Bed set as a friendly reminder that “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” was/is a cool movie!

If I owned that set, I’d keep the bed, and the doll outfit, but I’d replace the doll with a blonde Bubble Cut Barbie, as I think that she resembles Angela Lansbury as Eglantine Price (Fairly fit figure, but “old-fashioned”…new, by 1940s standards, hairstyle).

Thanks again for the cool memories that I was, unfortunately, not born in time to experience…(I was a baby of the late 1970s).