Images via the Daily Mail
Readers! You strike me as the type of grown adult women (and men?) who collect dolls. Did I guess right? No?
Anyway, that’s why I’m coming to you for advice. I, too, am the sort who shells out for limited-edition dolls—it’s kind of a celeb idolatry thing, kind of a simulacrum thing, but mostly a leftover from my action-figure-collecting days—but I have to admit, I’m just not sure about this one.
You see, the new-ish Farrah Fawcett Barbie is flying off the shelves. But I kind of have to side with CNN on this—the doll is a teensy bit creepy. But why is it creepy? Is it because of the dead-on likeness (absent her two most salient features)? We’d all like to remember Farrah at her 1976 best, but do we really want her plasticized?
But most importantly, how will Farrah Barbie look next to my Cyndi Lauper Barbie? It’ll look weird, right? Ugh, that’s what I thought.
It looks more like a “Kate Gosselin Trying to Look Like Farrah Fawcett” Barbie.
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lol! shit it does
I don’t like it at all. I generally find dolls that are based in real people a tad creepy. Shivers!
This doll looks exactly like Heidi Montag.
I don’t collect dolls. Nor action figures. Never did. Sorry.
As to why this one’s creepy, it’s clearly the “smile”. God that’s one creepy smile. As if someone pointed a gun at her (the doll, not the real person).
Also the barbie with the smallest (and most natural looking) rack.
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It’s only creepy because you know there are some freaks out there that bought it so they could masturbate to/on it. Other than that, I see no problem with this.
Sorry, there aint a doll-maker in the world that could capture the essence of Farrah’s beauty. Timeless beauty.