American Girl Dolls TV Movie
American Girl dolls headed to U.S. TV "Julia Roberts' production company has developed a U.S. TV movie based on the popular American Girl dolls, it was reported Wednesday."
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Official American Girl site
Mattel 2nd-quarter profit up 12 percent"Due to solid growth at its Fisher-Price and American Girl divsions
American Girl dolls boosting Mattel as Barbie slumps
July 29, 2004 in Barbie | Permalink | TrackBack
Barbie and Blaine
From the "kind of creepy of Mattel for thinking so much about Barbie's relationships department" comes news that Barbie has finally found a new boyfriend after her breakup with Ken in February. (I wasn't aware that they were even fighting).
The Seattle Times: Living: Single Barbie finds new boy toy
The article ends on another particularly odd note:
Voelker-Ferrier theorizes that Mattel never had Ken and Barbie marry because of perceptions about his latent sexual preference. "What if Ken is gay and coming out?" she says, pointing out the 1993 "Earring Magic Ken" doll, which gave him a pierced left ear and had him clad in a lavender mesh vest. That Ken doll became extremely popular in the gay community.
It's not like "Blaine" seems particularly straight.
