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[senoritafish]

Urk! Barbie now has a dragon! Named Penelope. She's purple. This is so wrong. What has Barbie done that she deserves a dragon?

This is my teenage geeky science fiction club self (which is still a rather large part of me) being jealous that the popular kids have dicovered what I thought was really cool. Did someone at Mattel suddenly start reading Anne McAffrey or something?

I have never been fond of Barbies. My mother gave me several when I was a kid and spent all kinds of time crocheting little outfits for her. I think she was disappointed that I spent most of my time playing with my brothers' Tonka trucks and my Breyer horses. I did have a Dawn doll that I liked, but she was only half the size of Barbie and less well endowed. I've always favored the underdog and I think Barbie intimidated me. I was watching some history thing about Barbie, and although her creator named her after her daughter, her shape was inspired by a German doll of an adult character from a men's cartoon. This one was was usually getting men to buy her drinks in bars. Named Trixie or Floozie or something.

The local Toys R Us has a giagantic Barbie section - it hurts my eyes, it's so neon pink.

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[puddinhed.livejournal.com]

i went through a phase where i enjoyed playing with barbie's hair, but yeah, the breyer horses did a whole lot more for me.

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

I think mine are still in a box out in the garage. My favorite was Misty of Chincoteague.

[li-kao.livejournal.com]

What I always wanted was an electrically driven mini-gun that would mount on top of her pink corvette. And a pintle mounted flamethrower. And a Barbie Apache helicopter in ground-support/attack configuration. And an array of cutting-edge fashion flak bikinis.

But a dragon? Come on, Barbie wouldn't ever have one of those!

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

I expect a Barbie for each branch of the military to be appearing in the stores any day. With Special Forces and SEALS editions as well.

Of course, if she breaks a nail or gets her hair mussed, you have to cancel the war.