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The NY Times is reporting that Mattel is making office Mad Men Barbie dolls. And I guess they're not lying, because they have the above picture of the dolls of Joan Holloway, Roger Sterling, Don Draper and Betty Draper (left to right) above, and that would have been an elaborate amount of work to report fake toys. The dolls will be limited to 10,000 or less each, and available at AMCTV.com and Mattel's official Barbie Collector site for $75 each. Now, it's a little weird that Barbie is now depicting television characters whose hobbies consist solely of smoking, drinking and adultery, although the toys won't come with any toy cigarettes or martinis, but I figure the whole stylish '60s thing makes more than enough sense to make up for it. What I don't get is why Mattel didn't trot out the old 54-24-48 or whatever Barbie doll body for the Joan/Christine Hendricks Barbie. I mean, Mattel finally found a human being with the original Barbie's insane proportions; why not go for it?
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Herman said:
I was just thinking that the red haired one needed MUCH larger boobs... that doesnt look like Christina Hendricks' body at all...
Prophet for Profit said:
I say we rise up and slay them. Finally, FINALLY we have a woman on television who LOOKS like a woman, not a fucking twelve-year-old boy with hair extensions, and this is the doll representation? Fuck this revisionist crap. I don't care how much the production cost to create dolls that don't fit the production mold. Correct this or die! My Christina will not be denied!
John Hazard replied to Prophet for Profit:
PREACH, BRUTHA!
Brett said:
If Draper looked slightly more like Jon Hamm I would want these so bad...
BorgQueen said:
And when BarbieDon tries to bone BarbieTeacher/BarbieHippie/BarbieFlightAttendant and finds out he has no genitals, what happens then?
The Revolutionary said:
FINALLY. Mattel has released a Barbie doll that won't make me look gay if I buy it. By the way, I don't look gay if I buy this. Right? RIGHT?!
Anonymoose replied to The Revolutionary:
No more than you do buying anything else I suppose.
Adam said:
Re: Hendricks dolls
It's very simple, Rob.
If it were proportionate... people would try to fuck the dolls.
Granted, thats probably not a first, but I'd be willing to bet no guy has ever been caught in Toys R Us trying to shove a barbie up his ass in the aisle.
...no money on that bet.
Prophet for Profit replied to Adam:
If they made an anatomically correct Joan doll, I promise you, I'll fly over to Japan or Korea or wherever in Asia they conduct these crazy ass person/inanimate object weddings that TR loves to cover so much and get hitched faster than you could say "sanctity of marriage". We'll go on double dates with the one dude and his pillowcase bride. We'll have weekly bridge games with Mr. and Mrs. Nintendo DS character. Hell, we'll Facebook Friend the woman who married the Eiffel Tower! And we'll all be the jolliest motherfuckers south of the North Pole. And I dare you, I defy you, I CHALLENGE YOU, to find some way, any way to wipe the smile off our faces.
*pant, pant, pant*
Adam replied to Prophet for Profit:
I promise you... I am not the person you want to make that dare with.
DoctorSmashy said:
I would buy these if they looked more like the actual actors, especially Joan.
I'm not kidding. She's awesome.
demoncat said:
no doubt Mattel like all of its old molds proalby no longer has the old Barbie doll mold. or if they do they proably decided its not the right way to make barbie any more . espically when she is now being made into tv characters . and sad to see a show like mad men wind up becoming another victim of the evil of Barbie.
Izandra said:
I love the Joan one, even though it doesn't quite have Joan's fabulous figure. Not $75 worth of love though.
crooow said:
The dolls do not look like the current Barbie dolls because Mattel decided to go retro and model the Mad Men Barbies on the original designs for Barbie and Ken, complete with Barbie's sideways glance and painted fingernails. Nice touch.
Snoodle said:
I appreciate what they're trying to do with the retro look, but:
a)They don't look like the characters beyond hair colour.
b)Joan is far less curvy-fabulous than she should be.
c) Betty's tiny head/long neck combination is utterly creeping me out.
Wesley Street replied to Snoodle:
Dolls are always creepy. You can't name one that isn't. Hello Uncanny Valley.
