Too cute. Mattel knows that there are plenty of us adults who gleefully collect Barbie dolls. They’ve always given us a wonderful selection of Dolls of the World, I Love Lucy dolls (LOVE them!), and other beauties we simply must have, whatever the cost.
They’re at it again.
According to the NY Times:
Mattel plans to come out with versions of Barbie and Ken as the colorful characters from the popular series Mad Men.
The dolls are part of a premium-price collectors’ series for adults that Mattel calls the Barbie Fashion Model Collection. Although there have been Barbies and Kens based on other TV series, among them “I Love Lucy” and “The X-Files,” the dolls will be the first licensed line for that collection, Mattel says, with a suggested retail price of $74.95 each. Mattel is licensing rights to the characters from Lionsgate, the studio that produces “Mad Men” for the AMC cable channel. There will be 7,000 to 10,000 copies of each doll, to be sold in specialty stores and on two Web sites, amctv.com and barbiecollector.com. The characters to become dolls are Don Draper, the show’s leading man; his wife, Betty; his colleague at the Sterling Cooper agency, Roger Sterling; and Joan Holloway, the agency’s office manager who was Roger’s mistress.
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Now if they’d only make Roseanne, Dan, Darlene, Becky, Jackie dolls…. Mattel, if you’re listening, I’d buy two of each!
