Are they really modeled after Robert Redford and John Schneider? I don't really know, I do know that Mattel tends to change the look of their dolls based on who is deemed most attractive by society at a particular era. Ergo, late 70s and early 80s, they kind of looked respectively like Robert Redford and John Schneider (remember him from the Dukes of Hazzard? That show fell apart when he left)