u/Storm_BloomX

Another holy grail of mine checked! Princess Amara of Princess and the Pea won’t be lonely, now that Cindy is here. 2 down and 5 to go!

I just need to collect Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, Little Bo Peep and any of Rapunzel from the 90s although they aren’t from the same collection to complete my Fairy Tale Princesses line ✨

Personally big part is I never really had access to any kinds of dolls growing up so currently I’m making up for that childhood now that I have the financial capability to do so.

And the other reason is Barbie is the quintessential doll. She can be anything you want her to be whilst neither not being borderline out of this world or being realistic. She gives the fantasy, the glamour, the sophistication, the telenovelas which I usually look for a media I consume and would argue she’s the only doll in the market who can pull off.

On top of that she isn’t snobbish, mean girls and cartoonish like Bratz, Kardashian coded mature versions of Bratz like Integrity Toys, avant garde like her toy sister Monster High etc. Reasons why they never spark my interests and got into her competitors in the first place.

Too bad Mattel is creatively bankrupt and have no idea what to do with her nowadays. The only positive thing is she’s still Barbara Millicent Roberts and we can always look back to her long legacy that cemented her status.

If any Mattel PR team / higher ups lurking this sub. Yall better get yourselves together before it’s one last hurrah for Barbie.

Obviously Barbie is the titular central character and the other dolls are friends / secondary characters but I like that each of them have their own names, personalities, they were also treated on the same caliber of quality of Barbie in terms of fashion and I would argue they’re already diverse. And we can pretty much differentiate them with each other like we know it’s Teresa, the Christie, the Kira, Midge, Summer.

I prefer when they are their own characters. Mattel made sure of that before like idk what happened now. Yeah we got more diversity but at what cost?

As both a BCU Barbie and Winx Club fan. I have plans to have a customize Winx Club Barbie dolls as my first project as a new doll collector. One of this days once I would be able to get any of the dolls used in the collage.

That being said. Mattel used to produced dolls for Winx Club during its peak in the early 2000s while they’re high quality but they don’t really look or feels Winx-y to me. Their dolls are giving My Scene & Bratz more.

I feel like the standard Barbie doll face sculpts and body already captured the essence of the Winx which is all about fashion & fantasy. On top of that Barbieverse has already characters that can pass off as a Winx Girl including Barbie herself with Stella in her super star era, her Latina bff Teresa with Flora etc.

What are yours?

Out now for streaming in Netflix ✨

The Barbie face I grew up with and many would say she’s the definitive Barbie face if not Super Star.

I’m currently reconnecting with my childhood by buying lots of discarded / rescued dolls with her face sculpt and I’m obsessed. I felt like Mattel perfected the Super Star face mold by modernizing her and GG is the result ✨

She can be a high fashion diva, a royal princess, your average girl next door and she won’t be out of place.

So I found Cinderella, Snow White and Angel of Peace with relatively good price in FB marketplace. I’ll gonna get Cindy by the end of this month then Snow and Peace by October.

There’s tons of Odette I see around but their prices are astronomical so I have to sit her one out for now. The Philippines exclusive Filipina Barbie series like Queen Elena from Santa Cruzan Line is the most elusive one in the bunch. The Enchanted Mermaid too.

Another Teresa appreciation post cause I’m currently obsessed with her. I tried to search for her back story but she don’t have much so what is your headcannon for Teresa?

Since she’s Hispanic / Mexican American. My head cannon for her is she’s the Thalia of Barbieverse. A successful Telenovela star who also have a career in Latin pop music and the first prima ballerina of Hispanic descent.

Finally got the Holy Grail of late 2000s Barbies and my 6th Holiday Barbie to add to my collection.

She’s a little bit pricey but definitely worth it. ✨

I read somewhere at one point that she become the most favourite friend in Barbieverse but why do we rarely see her being at the spotlight nowadays in comparison to Barbie’s golden days when she’s often seen together alongside Barbie? also correct me if I wrong but we haven’t gotten another Latina doll following her considering her success.

Credit and dolls by Jane Erika @fashionfairytale21 IG

*Like there is nothing wrong if Barbie is a tall skinny white blonde woman with blue eyes who have her own palace mansion and perfect fairy tale life. She is the main character of her world and the others are just secondary characters. She is the idea of an aspirational woman beyond surface level, she’s not to be relatable but meant to sell an escape fantasy and make believe play.

*As a POC kid who never had Barbie dolls growing up but she never make me insecure ( I don’t look like her and I never in my life I aspire to look exactly like her ) cause I understand her concept perfectly “She is a Doll and she is not real” so when society started to project realism into her was the start of her downfall.

*Not everyone under the sun needs to have their own Barbie doll.

*If Mattel truly cares about diversity. They could have developed Barbies friends of color and give them more spotlight like Teresa, Christie, Raquelle should be in My Scene, not random girls who were just there to piss off Bratz. They should have been included more in Barbie cinematic universe and have them their own fairy tale fantasy solo features ala Mariposa and Eden Starling from Christmas Carol who aren’t Barbie herself.

Arguably the prettiest doll along with Snow White in the Children Collector Series. Found and bought her from FB marketplace, so happy to finally have her ✨

5th Holiday Barbie and 2nd Mackie Doll. The way I kinda bought her bc she’s giving me Annika of Magic of Pegasus and well she’s a great substitute for now since I can’t find nor afford the Annika Doll yet. She’s stunning! ✨

My 4th acquired Barbie Holiday and 3rd Super Star sculpt Princess. She’s absolutely gorgeous! no wonder she’s one of the top Barbies of all time ✨

I believe this is the last year where the Super Star face mold and era would come to an end and Mattel did delivered. She’s a divine diva!