Through computer animation, バービー has become the 星, つ星 of several feature films, including “Barbie in the Nutcracker,” “Barbie as Rapunzel,” “Barbie of 白鳥, スワン Lake” and “Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper.” And she has staked her claim on the Web with the 人気 Make Up バービー Game, which allows girls to alter her hair, makeup and 全体, 全体的です look.
In the late 1990s, computer technology boomed, and in 1996, Mattel launched www.barbie.com, the official バービー website. In 1998, “My Design” was introduced on the site, allowing girls and collectors to decide what their バービー doll friend would look like によって 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 バービー worshippers, those grownups who collect, display, buy, sell and for whom the words “mint in box” have a freighted significance. Today, バービー 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 もっと見る than 100,000 active バービー collectors, 90 percent of whom are women with an average age of 40. Forty-five percent of them spend もっと見る than $1,000 a 年 on their dolls. Vintage バービー ドール 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 バービー was at a Christie’s auction in ロンドン on Sept. 25, 2006. This was a 1965 バービー dressed in Midnight Red, which had been part of a private collection of 4,000 バービー dolls. The バービー was sold for 9,000 sterling pounds (U.S. $17,000). She was sold によって 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 バービー website. In 1998, “My Design” was introduced on the site, allowing girls and collectors to decide what their バービー doll friend would look like によって 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 バービー worshippers, those grownups who collect, display, buy, sell and for whom the words “mint in box” have a freighted significance. Today, バービー 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 もっと見る than 100,000 active バービー collectors, 90 percent of whom are women with an average age of 40. Forty-five percent of them spend もっと見る than $1,000 a 年 on their dolls. Vintage バービー ドール 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 バービー was at a Christie’s auction in ロンドン on Sept. 25, 2006. This was a 1965 バービー dressed in Midnight Red, which had been part of a private collection of 4,000 バービー dolls. The バービー was sold for 9,000 sterling pounds (U.S. $17,000). She was sold によって two Dutch women, Letje Raebel and her daughter, Marina.
