Posts Tagged ‘barbie dolls’

Barbie Basics – New Future Line – Faces

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

12 dolls – 12 different Little Black Dresses – 12 different faces

Barbie_Basics_LBD_Faces

01 – Steffie – light beige skin – straight brown hair with bangs
02 – Mbili – light brown skin – wavey dark blonde hair
03 – Lea-Kayla – very pale skin – straight black hair in a high ponytail
04 – Lara – medium beige skin – straight brown hair
05 – Tango – medium beige skin – shoulder length blonde hair
06 – Mackie – very pale skin – straight blonde hair
07 – Teresa – medium beige skin – straight brunette bob
08 – Kentucky – medium beige skin – straight red hair
09 – Goddess – dark brown skin – short curly black hair
10 – Eternal – medium beige skin – shoulder length wavey blonde hair
11 – Diva – very pale skin – short platinum bob with bangs
12 – Adria – medium brown skin – straight black hair

Please note that the names used above are the names of the face moulds NOT the actual doll’s name… and the descriptions are from sighting (yours truly) of this one image only.

Initial thoughts -
- yay! an Asian doll! then… why only *one* Asian? and why pale? why can’t there be a pale, medium beige and light/medium brown Asian dolls?
- South Asian and Middle Eastern (ok, maybe Teresa might do) representation still totally lacking
- oh look, two of the black dolls have straighter hair than me!
- who’s doll #5? – I am *not* convinced it is the Tango sculpt (of course I could be wrong…) – yep, turns out I am wrong LOL
- why the heck did it take me this long to get around to posting this?
- why so many blondes? (Mbili AA doll included)
- if you look long enough at this image, you start seeing tiny white squares where the black lines cross!
- yeah yeah, of course they’re all absurdly skinny… it is the modelmuse body after all…

So what do YOU think?

ETA (091108) – check out this album by the flickr user dastinkytwinz for real life (and full length) photos the Barbie Basics dolls! – and I’ve also found out that doll #05 does use the Tango face mould…

Brief Update + Lots of Bragging…

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Hello my friends :)

Real life has been hectic (mostly of the work kind) and I haven’t had a proper chance to add a post of which I have many still sitting in my mind as is usual…

I have requested an email interview with Stacy McBride Irby – she has said yes – so now I have to start putting together some questions to ask her! Feel free to help me out with suggestions! So far, I am hoping to ask her about getting into toy design, her early influences and the SiS dolls… particularly the hair and fashions.

And hmmm… seriously, I’m actually thinking about work so eeks… brain not good for dolly or sociological stuffs at the moment, so onto the brag part of the post…

I did make a consumerist splurge recently… it was on lipsticks though hehehe

Barbie, MAC and BLACK!

Barbie, MAC and BLACK!

Also finally picked up some dolls I’d purchased off another collector that I’m slowly cataloging… (more…)

Mattel and the Qing Dynasty

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

The original title for this post was going to be “Someone at Mattel must love the styles of the Qing Dynasty” except that was way too long… sorry if the new title misled anybody :(

Anywhooo… I have come to this thought because out of the few dolls Mattel has made of an East Asian Barbie wearing historic Chinese fashions, they have been from the Qing Dynasty – except the new-ish Empress of the Golden Blossom who is in a Tang Dynasty looking style as well as being super expensive – it is funny that out of thousands of years of recorded Chinese history and culture, only the Qing Dynasty has been noticed and that era was only around for about 300 years (ok, less… but almost) AND the rulers were actually sorta invaders in the first place… sort of not because they are part of China but sort of yes because they weren’t of the majority Han Chinese people, well nowadays they are mostly assimilated into the majority Han population…

Anyway, onto the dolly pics – Princess of China SKU# 53368 (official release year 2002) – this doll was actually made in China too in 2001.

Princess of China

Princess of China

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Luna & Luka say hello :)

Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Luna: ooooh, where are we?

Luna: ooooh, where are we?

Luka: wait for me, I think I'm stuck...

Luka: wait for me, I think I'm stuck...

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Missing Shade(s) of Black?

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

This is a question for fellow Barbie doll collectors…

I seem to have a gap in dark skin tones… yes/no?

missing shade(s) of black?

missing shade(s) of black?

Are there any dolls that have a skin tone that is in between light brown and dark brown? Most of my other AA dolls are the same colour as Uhura (second doll of the left) and a few ever so slightly a teensy bit darker… but nothing quite medium-ish…

image belongs to Mattel - BarbieMedia.com

image belongs to Mattel - BarbieMedia.com

ADD – I *think* the shade I’m looking for is used for the doll head on the stick labelled 17442 Asha (left of image), or maybe even the shade used for 4092 Christie – apparently Barbie uses seven different skin tones… I’ve counted a lot more than that, must be the variations in different batches of dolly plastic…

doll skin shade scale

doll skin shade scale

haha… I’ve even created a quick scale to compare the skin shades (seven variations as according to “official info”)… hmmm (am I weird?)

Aside – even my partner reckons his skin shade is in between (I’ve checked, it’s true lol)

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