Peanuts vinyl collectible dolls

This ain’t the kind of thing that I buy (being the intersection of “ain’t cheap” and “ain’t books”) but I liked seeing this line of vinyl collectible dolls, in part because they give us an early version of Snoopy, and in part because they give us an attempt at Pig-Pen.
Snoopy VCDThe line includes:

These are preorders, but some of them are already technically “sold out” (which means you can get on the wait list for them, should someone’s order get cancelled, credit card gets rejected, whatever.) But lookin’ at the pictures is free!

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