More 80s nostalgia!
The success of the last poster has given me hope that someone else will know of an 80's cartoon based on a toy that I remembered seeing once upon an epoch ago.  I'm positive that it was based on a smallish doll which had retractable hair--there might have been a button or a wheel on its back that allowed you to operate it, but I can't say for certain if it the doll was a fairy or a princess or whatever.  I once recorded the beginning part of an episode of the show that was based upon this toy, but I can no longer find the tape.  All I remember of it was a princess with Rapunzel-long blonde pigtails running through a maze or a labyrinth inside her castle, who was probably trapped and looking for a way out.  There was a wizard standing on a stone bridge just outside the castle gates trying to free her with magic, but the castle was surrounded by an invisible barrier exactly like the one that surrounds the submerged Hyrule castle in Zelda:  Windwaker.  He used a spell that had the dual effect of creating a storm and summoning enormous, python-thick moving lengths of hair, which crawled up and over over the invisible barrier  to wrap him in an almost suffocating embrace (and now you know why this scene burned itself into my brain).  That's all I remember of the show.  *sigh* I realize that this isn't much to go on, but if anyone remembers a toy like this, I might have a chance of hunting down the cartoon.