Barbie Collector Doll
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Barbie Collector Twilight Saga New Moon Jacob Doll Sale Price: $9.69  |
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Doll is inspired by the Jacob Black character from the New Moon movie, which is based on Stephenie Meyer's New York Times Best Selling book series Twilight. The stunning doll is created in the image of Taylor Lautner, who portrays the handsome and protective Jacob werewolf character... |
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Barbie Jailhouse Rock Elvis Barbie Doll Sale Price: $13.80 |
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Elvis Presley in Jailhouse RockELV75 Birthday 2010Pink Label Barbie CollectorSinger, dancer, and actor, he starred in 33 movies,including Jailhouse Rock, which inspiredthis portrait doll |
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Collector's Ency of Barbie Doll Collector's Editions (Collector's Encyclopedia of Barbie Doll Collector's Editions) Sale Price: $15.62 |
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Due to the overwhelming response to the bestselling Collector's Encyclopedia of Barbie Doll Collector's Editions, Collector Books has produced this all-new second edition. Over 150 new dolls have been added to this volume, bringing the total number of dolls and fashions featured in this book to over 1,000... |
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Barbie Collector's Request Vintage Reproductions - All That Jazz Barbie Sale Price: $31.00 |
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Representing the happenin' fashions of the late l960's, All That Jazz Barbie doll proudly joins The Collector's Request Collection. Chosen from the Barbie archives, All That Jazz Barbie doll reflects the bright, colorful mood of the mod decade! The bold, geometric design and hot colors are completely on-trend in this favorite fashion that debuted in 1968 as #1848 in the 1800 series fashions... |
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Hollaback Gwen Sale Price: $8.95 |
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Hollaback Gwen |
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Cra-Z-art Fashion Designer (12420) Sale Price: $6.14 |
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Create Doll Fashion Designs by simply rubbing your Crayon Holder over the fashion plates and then color and deign the outfits with the Colored Pencils |
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Warman's Barbie Doll Field Guide |
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This fun, affordable and fact-filled guide allows you to bask in the beauty of Barbie, while providing details to help you identify and assess the value of the dolls in your collection, or those you dream about owning... |
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Barbie: A Fairy Secret (Deluxe DVD Gift Set with Costume Fairy Wings) Sale Price: $21.73 |
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This special edition Barbie: A Fairy Secret gift set includes costume fairy wings just for you, with elastic straps that slip over the shoulders! Get ready for Barbie: A Fairy Secret, an amazing adventure with Barbie where she discovers there are fairies living secretly all around us! When Ken is suddenly whisked away by a group of fairies, Barbie's two fashion stylist friends reveal they are actually fairies and that Ken has been taken to a magical secret fairy world not far away! Barbie and her rival Raquelle take off with the fairy friends on an action-packed journey to bring him back... |
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Star Trek 30th Anniversary Barbie and Ken Collectors Watch Sale Price: $5.99 |
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This is a wonderful edition for any Star Trek or Barbie fan. Comes in collectible tin w/ Barbie and Ken in their Star Trek uniforms. Issued same year as the Barbie & Ken Star Trek Doll set. |
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Barbie in A Christmas Carol Soundtrack Sale Price: $0.46 |
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Soundtrack features Christmas carols from and inspired by the first Barbie holiday movie! Track listing: 1. O Christmas Tree 2. Deck The Halls 3. Jolly Old St. Nicholas 4. Joy To The World 5. We Wish You A Merry Christmas 6... |
In this article we're going to discuss a doll that was made specifically for boys, the classic G.I. Joe.
Back in the late 50s and early 60s dolls were just not something that boys played with. Your typical doll, even before Barbie came out, was a baby doll, maybe with a bottle and rattle. These dolls were made specifically for girls because boys didn't play with dolls. If they did, they were looked at as sissies.
So Hasbro had its work cut out for them. They already had great success with their Barbie Doll but wanted to break into the doll market for boys if it was at all possible. After a lot of thought and careful research, Hasbro decided that if they were going to make a doll for boys to play with then it was going to have to be a doll that ONLY boys would want to play with. It had to be tough and rugged, just like boys were supposed to be. So in 1964, Hasbro introduced the first doll made specifically for boys, the G.I. Joe Doll and ever since, it has been one of the most popular dolls in history.
G.I. Joe was indeed tough and rugged. The doll stood one foot high and had moveable joints so that it could be posed in a number of ways. He was a private in the United States Army and came with dog tags and boots and that was it. He was a pretty bare bones doll for boys to play with. And therein lies the genius of Hasbro's thinking.
If a boy wanted accessories for his fighting man he had to buy them separately. The doll itself sold for around $5.00. But where Hasbro really made its money was on the various accessories and uniforms that you could get for the doll.
The accessories were sold in flat packages as opposed to the dolls which were sold in boxes. The accessories usually sold for about $1.50. Some were more and some were less. They were usually sold in logical sets. For example, there was the infantry set which came with an M1 rifle, belt, helmet and hand grenades. Most accessory packages didn't contain more than 3 or 4 items in it. Some accessories, like the sandbags, came alone. Hasbro made a mint with these as there were just so many of them.
Aside from accessories, you could also buy different uniforms for G.I. Joe. You could dress him up as a Marine, Sailor or Pilot. In later years you could dress him up as an astronaut and even get a space capsule for him. The capsule was quite a piece and sold for about $10. Back then that was a lot of money.
In the late 60s, with growing outrage against the war in Vietnam, G.I. Joe became a very controversial figure. But Hasbro had won its own war. Boys were totally taken by the doll and it went on to become one of the best selling dolls of all time even though it only appealed to one segment of the child population.
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Michael Russell
Your Independent guide to Collectible Dolls
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im 27and i want to become an out of box barbie collector?
im 27 and i want to become a out of box barbie collector but there is one problem my mom she says that im too old to buy barbie dolls and barbie clothes and barbie cases and she also tells me don't waste my money on buying the dolls and clothes but i want to because the barbies and barbie clothes that i want are so pretty how can buy and hide the barbie dolls and clothes and cases with out her finding them ?
Tell your mom that it's your money and you are a grown adult for crying out loud!!!
You should be able to collect whatever you want...geez...
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