#barbie repro

[humanrinds]

i missed out on the silkstone swirl ponytail repro so i got the my favorite barbie repro instead 🩷💖

[alldollsarevalid]

Isn't she fabulous

Eventually I would like to get another vintage repro to redress in modern clothing bc I'm leaving this one exactly as she is.

[crazed-reviews]

Review: "Enchanted Evening Barbie" Fashion doll reproduction from Mattel (1996)

Starting in 1993, with Barbie's 35th anniversary, and lasting for a few years, Mattel began producing reproductions of Barbie dolls and fashions from 1959 through the early 60s. The reproductions were sold in both blonde and brunette, just like the original dolls.

This particular doll is the blonde version of Enchanted Evening Barbie, from 1996. I purchased her for $18.00 USD off of Facebook Marketplace.

Barbie comes in a blue box, with sparkles on the backdrop behind her, which I believe is supposed to look like the night sky. The front reads:

"1960 Fashion and Doll Reproduction

Collector Edition

Enchanted Evening Barbie"

The back shows Barbie standing by some bushes, and reads:

"Stars sparkle overhead. And there's magic in the air. It's the most exciting evening Barbie can remember. The year is 1960, and Barbie wears one of the most popular vintage fashions, Enchanted Evening®️. In her white furry stole, exquisite ice pink satin gown, and opera length gloves, she is the height of early sixties elegance.

This Collector Edition, which reproduced the ensemble #983, is a second chance to start a Barbie®️ doll collection of your own or for a special person in your life. Because you're never too old for Barbie."

It also advertises an ornament of Barbie in the same outfit.

I like the note that you're never too old for Barbie.

Barbie had a lot of papers tucked in her box! One is a postcard asking questions like "How many Barbie dolls do you own?", "How much do you spend on Barbie yearly?", etc. There's also a 2-year warranty, which ended in 1998, 25 years ago as of this post's writing, and an advertisement for a magazine called "Barbie Bazaar", which was marketed towards adult Barbie collectors.

Barbie comes with a doll stand and a pink shell-shaped brush, just like the one my Coca-Cola Party Barbie came with.

Barbie has a tight-fitting light pink satin gown, with a gathered waist, a pink rosette at the hip, with a long draping section off to her left. To accessorize, she wears a furry white stole around her shoulders, which closes with a clasp, long white gloves, sparkly clear open-toe heels, and a white faux-pearl necklace and faux-pearl stud earrings.

She looks so elegant! I just love the aesthetic of 60s Barbie dolls.

Barbie has 5 points of articulation, with movement at her:

Head

Shoulders

Hips

Her arms and legs are a slightly flexible rubbery material, almost like those of 90s Barbie dolls with the click bend knees, but they don't bend.

Barbie has dark blue eyes that look off to her left, and slightly downwards, with light blue eyeshadow, and bright red lipstick. Her nostrils also have a red dot painted in each.

Her long light blonde hair came styled in a high ponytail, with a section of hair wrapped around the hair elastic, and another elastic tied towards the end of her ponytail, but due to age, the elastics have disintegrated in her hair, leaving a clumpy, gluey mess. I had to wash and restyle her hair after these photos.

After washing the elastics out, her hair is very soft! It's densely rooted, so her hair can be styled without showing bald patches, unlike the originals, who were only rooted around the hairline since their hair was intended to be left in the ponytail.

Her necklace came taped down in the back to hold it in place. The tape was very yellowed, but I managed to remove it without leaving any sticky residue.

Here's Barbie's dress without the stole! It gives a very different look.

And here's the dress with the skirt draped in front of her legs.

Here's Barbie's shoes, which are clear open-toed heels with glitter embedded in them. They've yellowed a bit with time, but aren't sticky. They aren't plastic but more of a vinyl, which I was pleasantly surprised by. My grandmother's Barbie and Midge doll's heels were all a thin, brittle plastic that always cracked at the strap. These seem much more durable.

Barbie's toenails are painted the same red as her lips, as are her fingernails.

Overall, I love this doll! She isn't a perfect replica of a 1960s ponytail Barbie doll, but she has her own charm. She's also very easy to find secondhand! I would pay $30.00 USD at most for her, but you can easily find her at $25.00 USD.

This Barbie really is a stunning doll, and I'm very happy to have her in my collection. Now, I'm on the lookout for the brunette Solo in the Spotlight Barbie doll!

[theguythatcollectsdolls]

60th anniversary Silkstone Swirl Ponytail Barbie

[lesbianlorna]

i swear to god if one of the effects of the barbie movie is allan being pulled from the depths of shelved barbie friends purgatory, i'll lose it. like it'd make sense to at least release a repro of him with how popular he's turned out to be.

[candyhorse]

found a random 35th anniversary Barbie at a comic book store. it’s fun comparing her to my MTM Barbie no. 1 custom and seeing how despite 60+ years of development and body shape revisions, they can more or less share clothes.

[dat2ndaccount97]

Since Mattel never made a Reproduction Superstar Ken, my Repro Superstar Barbie started dating another 70's Superstar.

[smallfavorsboutique]

Halloween doll clothes. My other dolls are above and below.

[asterkurayami]

Primary color vibes.

[britneyshakespeare]

i am at the looking-at-dolls-as-self-soothing part of the night. i definitely wanna beef up my bratz collection since unboxing my alwayz bratz yasmin was just like... oh... oh man... and... and i didn't think it'd be like that for me man i didn't think i had as much nostalgia for bratz as i actually do not just buy owning some but by touching them and playing w their clothes and their hair.

and one of my issues of course is that i'm a redhead and as a redhead my Default Lookalike Doll is meygan (not that having a doll that looks like you is the most important part of bratz, but it is so much of the fun right? the fact that there's a character out there for just about everyone?). and i like meygan as a character well enough, that's not the issue. but of the meygan dolls that have been reproduced, there's none of them that are like, hardcore needs for me except for sweetheart meygan. and i did not buy sweetheart meygan in time. i was not really collecting at that point. that was like 2022. i had a few... na na na surprise dolls at that time. which is funny bc i have four of those that i got all either on clearance or w giftcards and i do really like them even though a lot of doll collectors thought they were kinda dumb, and they were. i just liked the gimmick of the fabric bodies and there were just enough dolls i thought were really cute that i kinda caved at one point. i also knew it was a brand i wouldn't go overboard with. anyway. we were talking about meygan...

sorry meygan back to you girl. i know original 2000s bratz that have not yet been reproduced at crazy expensive on the secondhand market and it's genuinely out of control. but sweet heart meygan, both the repro and the original, are selling for triple digits on mercari, ebay, what have you. that's just ridiculous. frankly. i'm not buying her at that. i don't even like her enough to hunt for her regularly, if that's how it's gonna be. there are plenty of more readily-available bratz dolls that are either regular retail price or clearancing online andin stores. did you guys know alwayz bratz jade is going for 15 bucks on amazon right now? that's crazy. the other always bratz dolls aren't going for that low if they're even marked down yet. that release wasn't even that long ago. anyway i'm thinking of getting jade from that line bc i know some ppl thought that alwayz jade was a let-down, but i thought she was cute. yasmin was my favorite from that line and that's why i got her but jade was my second fave there easily.

i also wanna get the kumi they reproduced sometime and maybe girls nite out cloe since i see she's still available. it's funny there aren't that many core girls i've wanted from the repros but if i go for any of the cloes, new or old, it's gotta be girls nite out. cloe isn't even usually my favorite character no offense blondes she's just kinda. she's just kinda cloe to me. idk i love her but i'm not gagged over her most of the time. these are still bratz standardz we're talking about here so obviously i love her.

there's nothing going on in the world right now other than my bratz dolls. and if someone we won't mention wins the election, i'm definitely going doll crazy. i'm gonna be buying dolls after this anyway, but i'm gonna justify spending an unusual, nearly-irresponsible amount of money. you know. bc i'm an adult and i can.

hey also and of all the lines they could've reproduced why is their most recent slumber party? why? why? when the poll posted by mga had tokyo a go go WINNING? bc tokyo a go go is the correct option? i mean the slumber party line is cute and i like the base dolls and the accessories especially the stuffed animals are cute. but. everyone knows the bratz audience these days is adult collectors. which adult collectors are losing their minds over dolls in pajamas and bathrobes? again they're CUTE. but why. also why did they reproduce bratz babyz when those things were nightmare fuel

[humanrinds]

1965 miss astronaut barbie! i wish the helmet showed more of her face but it might just be the way i put it on her

[alldollsarevalid]

This dress looks like it was made for Millicent

[sweet-pearl]

Margot Robbie at the Barbie movie premiere in custom Schiaparelli referencing the 1960 Solo in the Spotlight Barbie

[theguythatcollectsdolls]

Barbie’s closet - Suzy Goose

[prudencepaccard]

Barbenheimer Purim party vibes

[wildflowercryptid]

doll companies need to slow down when it comes to their doll releases bc i do not have the money to buy all the ones i want. 😭😭😭