The boxes on this page show examples of previous sets with updated packaging for the late 1950s and early 1960s.
    One obvious thing that you may notice about these sets is a strange twist of biology. The baby featured with the stroller, as in the earlier kitchen set, is completely human with no vegetable characteristics at all!
Hasbro released several other sets in the early 60s with designs similair to these boxes. They mixed and matched various vehicles and characters, and  added small openings on the front showing some of the parts inside. (see 1962 catalog at bottom of page)
Set #2050-Mr. Potato Head in white background box-Hasbro, ca. 1962
Set #2052-Mrs. Potato Head in white background box-Hasbro, ca. 1962

Set # 2053x100-Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head in white background box -Hasbro, ca. 1962
 

Set # 2055x200-Deluxe Mr. Potato Head in white box w/vehicles -Hasbro, ca. 1962

   
Deluxe Mrs. Potato Head in white box w/car and baby -Hasbro, ca. 1962

Set # 2075 x300-Deluxe Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head Super Fun Pak with baby, kitchen and vehicles. This set is
extremely rare and hard to find!-Hasbro, ca. 1962
 

Set #2050 featured on card #61 of the “Classic Toys” trading card set, ca. 1993

    If you are looking for unusual packaging, take a look at these rare Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head sets!  What makes these sets so unusual is the lack of a box. They are on blister cards! These sets contains all the normal  Potato Head eyes, noses and hats, each contained in their own compartments under a thin plastic cover.  The back of the cards are blank.
    It has been difficult to try to date these items. The item numbers don’t correspond with any other numbering system used by other Potato Head sets.  The instruction insert, the older style body, and the Hasbro Boy logo are consistant with the sets of the late 1950s. But the nautical boy and pigtail girl images was used for the first time in the 1962 Hasbro sales catalog below. So the items are obviously from 1962 and later.

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Set #7950-Mr. Potato Head on card-Hasbro, ca. 1960s
Set # 7952- Mrs. Potato Head on card-Hassenfeld Bros.-1960s