Editing Cindy Smart (section)

== History ==

Toymaker Bob Del Principe spent 10 years working on Cindy Smart.<ref name=theage/> He completed the doll in 2002, when he was Vice President for Research and Development at a Los Angeles subsidiary of Manley Toy Quest, a Hong Kong–based toy manufacturing company.<ref name=nytimes/><ref name=latimes/> The doll was first sold in the United States for [[United States dollar|US$]]99,<ref name=time/> with a number of sales coming through the [[Home Shopping Network]].<ref name=wired/>

Manley Toy Quest expanded sales to Australia beginning on 19 August 2003 with a launch event at a [[Myer]] department store in [[Melbourne]].<ref name=theage/> The Australian version uses [[English in the Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth spelling]] and says "Mum" instead of the American "Mom", but otherwise retains her [[American English]] dialect. The doll first sold for [[Australian dollar|AU$]]149 in Australia.<ref name=advertiser/>