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September 14, 2004
toy story
I was amused to see a commercial for the new "Tokyo-A-Go-Go" line of the Bratz skanky plastic moneyspinners fashion dolls the other day. How far we have come from a few years ago, when Mattel launched a new Barbie line (the "high school Barbie") and one of the dolls had a manga as an accessory. But it wasn't Barbie, oh my no. Can't have our all-American blondie associated with that foreign stuff, now can we?
It's funny to see toy manufacturers blindly leap onto the trend bandwagons without really understanding the trends. I remember seeing (during the Harry Potter explosion) a line of "teen witch" Barbies (of which Barbie was one) wearing frothy gothy velvets and complete with cauldrons, wands, and spellbooks. (Ah, here's a link from SFGate....Secret Spells Barbie. Funny stuff. PG-13.) I wonder how those went down in Peoria.... more than that, though, I am seriously curious about how Wiccans reacted.
:edit: oh-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho... it's not just Secret Spells Barbie, it's Secret Spells Barbie and the Charm Girls. Mm yup. This was a real product line.
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Posted by Innocent Sidekick of Evil at September 14, 2004 01:15 PM | Posted to Miscellaneous
