Beautiful! Your photos are magnificent! Do you print all those perfect backgrounds? Or is it photoshopped?
I have some of those too but they don't look half as nice as yours.
Oh WOW all your Barbie and other horses and animals are fantastic!
I had Prancer Prince as a child and Dallas, Both so very beautiful!! My Dallas has the articulated legs, I also had Sindy horses by Pedigree, I love collecting dolls horses, there is something so very nostalgic for me.
I have Snowball the dog or Fluffy as i call him! and Beauty barbies lovely Afghan. Infact i have quite a few Beauty's as i love her so much! I got my first in 1980 as a child. Lovely times and lovely playtime memories, too!
Any way thank you for all the lovely photo's, what with the world as it is at the moment, I have really destressed looking at this thread! :) THANK YOU!!
No, I first came to Japan in college. (2000ish )Not sure about vintage days, but lately there's a fair bit of brand recognition for Barbie. Though I can't say I've seen the dolls themselves outside of specialty doll shops or TRU.
Horse toys in general are much rarer here. I'm always on the lookout, but hardly ever see any. Especially horses in scale with dolls. Probably because they're usually big toys, and horses themselves are pretty far outside the reach of most kids here. It's rare to have kids who say horses are their favorite animal. I've asked literally thousands of kids that question over the years, and only gotten horse twice. Though unicorns know no boundaries. Everyone loves those, lol.
Most main stream dolls here are hyperfeminine. And large, realistic farm animals clash with the happy homemaker/ magical girl/ music idol aesthetic, apparently. The toys exist, but you won't see them in most local toy shops. Disney, or fantasy horses would be a lot more likely, because Disney is everywhere.
When the FiM show ran here, mlp became popular with very young kids, so I see a fair bit of pony merch on my students, but I've never seen a Barbie horse for sale anywhere, not even in collector resale shops, which usually have....everything. Aaaaaall the things.
Though you can definitely get them on amazon.jp, but they all have english packaging.
I encourage you to search for a Sun Runner for youself, it's really, really one of the most common and it's a georgeous horse!
Cats:
Fox:
Aaah your collection is so beautiful! I'm jealous :P
As a UK resident I grew up wi Sindy & only had one childhood horse of hers, who came with a gig. I believe his name was Dragonfly. I THINK I might have him & his gig back, but I need to check... I have a couple other horses too, but how authentic they are is another thing I'm unsure of. Your farm animals are to die for btw!!! I need to look up Barbie Farm now... (think I might have the cats)
Omg - Where are these guys from? <3 I see them every so often and want them eventually but never know what to look for to find them.
Well usually I search "barbie animal" - I'm not sure but the cats came with a veterinarian set and the fox from a swann lake set.