Through computer animation, búp bê barbie has become the ngôi sao of several feature films, including “Barbie in the Nutcracker,” “Barbie as Rapunzel,” “Barbie of thiên nga Lake” and “Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper.” And she has staked her claim on the Web with the được ưa chuộng Make Up búp bê barbie Game, which allows girls to alter her hair, makeup and tổng thể look.
In the late 1990s, computer technology boomed, and in 1996, Mattel launched www.barbie.com, the official búp bê barbie website. In 1998, “My Design” was introduced on the site, allowing girls and collectors to decide what their búp bê barbie doll friend would look like bởi choosing her hair/eye/makeup colors, fashion, accessories, and personality traits.
And Barbie’s reach has extended still further, to the vast sub-cult of adult búp bê barbie worshippers, those grownups who collect, display, buy, sell and for whom the words “mint in box” have a freighted significance. Today, búp bê barbie Collector has a website all its own, www.barbiecollector.com. The collector line now even has a dedicated online store at www.barbiecollectiblesstore.com.
Mattel estimates that there are thêm than 100,000 active búp bê barbie collectors, 90 percent of whom are women with an average age of 40. Forty-five percent of them spend thêm than $1,000 a năm on their dolls. Vintage búp bê barbie búp bê are the most valuable: a mint-in-box from 1959 sold for $3,552.50 on eBay in October 2004. (It originally sold for $3.)
The highest price so far to be paid for a búp bê barbie was at a Christie’s auction in Luân Đôn on Sept. 25, 2006. This was a 1965 búp bê barbie dressed in Midnight Red, which had been part of a private collection of 4,000 búp bê barbie dolls. The búp bê barbie was sold for 9,000 sterling pounds (U.S. $17,000). She was sold bởi two Dutch women, Letje Raebel and her daughter, Marina.
In the late 1990s, computer technology boomed, and in 1996, Mattel launched www.barbie.com, the official búp bê barbie website. In 1998, “My Design” was introduced on the site, allowing girls and collectors to decide what their búp bê barbie doll friend would look like bởi choosing her hair/eye/makeup colors, fashion, accessories, and personality traits.
And Barbie’s reach has extended still further, to the vast sub-cult of adult búp bê barbie worshippers, those grownups who collect, display, buy, sell and for whom the words “mint in box” have a freighted significance. Today, búp bê barbie Collector has a website all its own, www.barbiecollector.com. The collector line now even has a dedicated online store at www.barbiecollectiblesstore.com.
Mattel estimates that there are thêm than 100,000 active búp bê barbie collectors, 90 percent of whom are women with an average age of 40. Forty-five percent of them spend thêm than $1,000 a năm on their dolls. Vintage búp bê barbie búp bê are the most valuable: a mint-in-box from 1959 sold for $3,552.50 on eBay in October 2004. (It originally sold for $3.)
The highest price so far to be paid for a búp bê barbie was at a Christie’s auction in Luân Đôn on Sept. 25, 2006. This was a 1965 búp bê barbie dressed in Midnight Red, which had been part of a private collection of 4,000 búp bê barbie dolls. The búp bê barbie was sold for 9,000 sterling pounds (U.S. $17,000). She was sold bởi two Dutch women, Letje Raebel and her daughter, Marina.
