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The Dollhouse / Re: Mattel launches Dia de los Meurtos Barbie
« on: September 16, 2020, 04:51:40 AM »
I'm usually so positive in my posts here but I must say, I am so dissapointed in this doll! 
She could have been a gorgeous girl, but I am just not feeling any part of her design! Her dress is okay, but her sugar skull design is way too busy for such a tiny canvas, imho. I was very excited about her, which may play in to part of my level of dissapointment. The 2019 DotD doll was so much prettier.. Still too busy in her sugar skull paintwork, but prettier, all the same.
As for the price tag. I think Mattel is making it perfectly clear that these dolls are not for children, but adult collectors. While I certainly don't have a problem with that (I get super annoyed whenever I hear talk of Smartdoll, my doll of choice, being for children; uh-huh, cause everyone gives their kids $500 dolls.
) I do wish that Mattel would come out with similar, less expensive, PLAY quality dolls with cool themes instead of merely pumping them out in their designer label with double-digit price tags. I'd have a lot more of Barbie if I could find cool dolls for less than $50 on the shelves at Target...
Oh well, can't make everyone happy!
She could have been a gorgeous girl, but I am just not feeling any part of her design! Her dress is okay, but her sugar skull design is way too busy for such a tiny canvas, imho. I was very excited about her, which may play in to part of my level of dissapointment. The 2019 DotD doll was so much prettier.. Still too busy in her sugar skull paintwork, but prettier, all the same.As for the price tag. I think Mattel is making it perfectly clear that these dolls are not for children, but adult collectors. While I certainly don't have a problem with that (I get super annoyed whenever I hear talk of Smartdoll, my doll of choice, being for children; uh-huh, cause everyone gives their kids $500 dolls.
) I do wish that Mattel would come out with similar, less expensive, PLAY quality dolls with cool themes instead of merely pumping them out in their designer label with double-digit price tags. I'd have a lot more of Barbie if I could find cool dolls for less than $50 on the shelves at Target...Oh well, can't make everyone happy!
