G1 Dudettes

There were twelve dudettes in the entire run of TDD.  They all came out in 2002 during the G1 (armless) phase.  Not a single dudette was re-released with arms (nor was a new dudette ever added to the toyline).  These images come from the G1 poster.

These additional images were taken from the TDD website when it was active. You can see that the artwork was updated for only four characters.  Arms were added to Cutie.  Laverne, Whitney, and Barbie were substantially redesigned.  Despite the changes to the images of these characters, I reiterate that no new figures were ever made. 

Laverne and Laura came out in Crew 8.
Yoko came out in Crew 9.
Andie and Natalie came out in Crew 10.
Barbie came out in Crew 11.
Suzy, Crystal, and Candie came out in Crew 12.
Helen came out in Crew 13.
No dudettes showed up in Crew 14.
Cutie and Whitney came out in Crew 15.

Andie has 5 variants.
Suzy, Laverne, Crystal, Yoko, and Barbie each have 3 variants.
Natalie, Helen, Laura, and Candie each have 2 variants.
Cutie and Whitney have only one figure each.

This makes a total of 30 dudette figures derived from the 12 characters. 

The single versions of Cutie and Whitney are the hardest to find.  Crew 15 was the last G1 series and had a very limited production since the toyline was being revamped with G2 (arms).

The dudettes can be found in the first series of trading cards (2003), but were replaced in the second series (2004).  They were replaced with cards that show more than one dude hanging out together or these strange cards where a G2 dude was looking at an image of his armless G1 self.  Weird.

Additionally, Yoko, Helen, and Natalie can be found on these back-to-school folders that came out in 2002.  I am betting the idea here is that they wanted you to sync these with your foreign language, world history, and health classes.  Hey, Helen and Natalie didn't even bring boards.



I mentioned that no other dudettes were ever created.  Yet, we do have to say that one other female figure does exists, and that is Pam, #112 in the Creatures series.

There are also three females (Toof Fairy, Cindyrella, and Red) in the Grimm Dudes series (which is not part of the TDD numbering system), but still worth a mention.