There was this doll, Chatty Cathy, and I wanted it! She had blond hair, blue eyes, two mini-Chiclets for front teeth and a plastic pot-belly body that resembled my own 5-year-old self in 1961.

When Chatty Cathy stopped talking, the easiest way to fix them in the old days was to simply attach the old doll’s head onto a new body. McIntyre, 41, wasn’t a Chatty Cathy fan when he ...