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The Winner Is Revealed
- 09-01-2024
Members voted for the vintage repro Christie doll we’re bringing to our Spring 2025 collection. Which of the three choices came out on top? Find out in the forums. On the forum you can find this...
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Members’ Choice: Pick Our Next Christie Doll
- 17-12-2023
Mattel has sent an email to the members so that we can vote for the Christie doll that we would like them to launch... Below you can see which dolls are presented, I love all 3, I wish they would release...
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Mattel Creations
- 13-11-2023
Businessman Harold "Matt" Matson and the duo Elliot and Ruth Handler founded Mattel as Mattel Creations in January 1945 in a garage in Los Angeles. The company name chosen is a portmanteau of Matson's...
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Barbie family and other main characters
- 28-03-2020
Over the years, Barbie's family and her friends have grown, both at the market level and at the fictional level. Sometimes the names of the characters are modified by Mattel, and sometimes they even changed...
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Barbie Fashionistas
- 30-12-2018
In 2005 many collectors stopped buying the vast majority of Play Line Barbie dolls due to the appearance they had, most of the molds of their heads looked strange, Mattel decided to buy them. Their heads...
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