Went with JA, my ex-toy dept. friend and someone who gets very excited about all things girly and pink! There was some cool stuff, one of however many surviving of the original Barbie, but I would have liked to see a little historical context there, eg. these were the kind of toys/dolls available at the time and why Barbie was such a revolutionary concept!
Highlights included; Elvis and Priscilla wedding dolls, Cher doll with very Cher cheekbones, Twiggy doll with totally different body shape to the regular Barbie. I also loved the old origional Barbie Dream house which was all cardboard and had Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole records.
But the definite highlight was a little story about a boy whose (very cool and progressive) Nana bought him a golden dream barbie for his 5th birthday and helped him to hide it from his dad!
The rest of it was a big (expensive) disappointment, including the gift shop, (although there was a really nice girl working there who let us take one of the barbie paper bags each even though we didn't buy anything... It pays to be cheeky!!!!) and I reckon JA and I could have put something 10 times better together... Or we could have just gone to a toyshop and seen nicer ones!!!
P.S. one of the comments in the comments book was "I want to be just like Barbie, hey mum when we get home i'm gonna go throw up"
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I want the Cher dolly now but I want the one where she's singing to the sailors going ape shit, you know the panty hose one.
with the seat belt outfit!!!
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