[uujudy]

Hahah! Boomer! So glad I found you! I am having a nutty time with TOTV. I'll have 5 pages of new posts (rubbing my hands with glee to warm up my typing fingers) and next thing I know there are only 8 new topics! Total! Not even a whole page of them, and 1/2 of them are political! Where did the other 4 pages go? Ay carumba!

Getting back to Barbie, it's hard to believe Barbie is turning 50. My first Barbie was the one with the attitude and the black & white striped bathing suit. She had that face, remember? Kind of a mad-at-the-world face.

I did let babygirl play with Barbies, but she always wanted to play Space Girl Barbie from Planet X-10. We're a spacey (space-ish?) family. We had the Barbie motorhome, which worked very well as the mother ship, and the Barbie corvette was the little fly-about vehicle for visiting nearby planets. Barbie the Pirate was also popular in our home, as was footless Barbie (after the dog gnawed off her foot). Babygirl designed a wonderful wheelchair for footless Barbie, complete with a large umbrella, drink holder, cooler, and a flip-up tray for her snacks and laptop computer. Barbie paved the way for lots of imaginative play, because what else was there for girls to play with? Baby dolls? Puhleeze! There sure weren't any female action figures! I think they (Mattel?) lost a huge market share when they insisted on staying with the "blondes are beautiful but dumb/math is hard" concept.

Thanks for the info & Klaatu barada nikto,
Judy