Do you remember these Sesame Street Friends from when you were a child? I do! (From friend’s houses! My mom never got us toys like this! We were so jealous of all of the other kids who had plastic toys!)
Click on their names to see how much lead, cadmium, arsenic and mercury each of these vintage (c. 1970s) Sesame Street Friends has!
Grover • Big Bird • The Count • Susan (?) • Bert • Ernie
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Here’s a link to a modern version (likely lead-free!) of Sesame Street figurines on Amazon*!
Tamara Elise Rubin
#LeadSafeMama
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Hi Tamara, I can’t get the links to work for the Sesame Street characters. I’m very concerned about kids using these at the grandparents’ house. Thanks
Hi Tami,
I will check and see if I can fix the links! Thanks for the heads up!
Tamara
Do you know Lead content of any other vintage Sesame Street Little people in those sets like Snuffleupagus, Sherlock hemlock, Cookie Monster, mr. Gordon, prairie dawn, Roosevelt?
Do you know lead content of actual Vintage Sesame Street Little people “building” set?
hi Julie – just the ones shown here on the blog. Here’s how to participate in the testing that I report here on the blog:
https://tamararubin.com/2019/08/tamara-can-i-send-you-one-of-my-dishes-to-test-for-lead/
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Hi Tamra,
Thanks for all the helpful information. I am considering purchasing for my daughter a vintage Sesame Street Clubhouse set with the same characters you are testing here. Besides paying attention to the Sesame Street characters, which I could remove from the set and replace them with something similar but new, do I also need to worry about the Clubhouse itself?
Thanks!
Lilly