16" #1 Barbie Prototype from Mattel Vault, Convention 2006 Designed by Janet Goldblatt

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Mattel has 2 dolls in process, it asks "What is your favorite 2019 Barbie® Signature Doll Design Showdown Prototype?" I think  the better question is "Which one will you buy if the unit price is $100". 1. Fashion Flight 2. Royal Court

MANDATORY CREDIT ©Michael Williams/MyLifeInPlastic.com For ANY AND ALL usage in print, online, or any medium, please contact me PRIOR to use at [email protected] Please also FOLLOW ME on Twitter @MyLifeIsPlastic Facebook MyLife InPlastic Instagram @MyLifeInPlastic Pinterest MyLifeInPlastic This gallery has been updated with my new parodies of MAD MEN Season 5 "prototype" Barbie dolls. This also includes a comprehensive selection of my MAD DOLLS feature photos along with "behind the scenes" outtakes from the March/April 2010 issue of Haute Doll Magazine (www.hautedoll.com) featuring fashions by Natalia Sheppard, Diorama and miniature furniture by Carolyn Allen, and Barbie repaints by Vin Trapani, with photography by Michael Williams.

During the last decades some SL Skippers were found which differ from the SL dolls sold in 1964 and 1965. These Skippers are often being referred to as “Sample dolls” or "Prototypes" I call them “Test-market” dolls, because they definitely were neither Sample dolls nor Prototypes. They came in the regular boxes and had the basic hair colors. A very small number was sold as "Dressed Dolls" (pls. see chapter "Dressed Doll Boxes). Doll markings: Skipper © 1963 Mattel, Inc. These dolls are much rarer than the later Skipper dolls, but not as rare as they would be if they indeed were sample dolls, and for sure they aren't prototypes. Without much doubt though these dolls were the first Skipper dolls ever produced in small numbers. For a long time it was assumed, that they were handed out to Mattel employees only, prior to mass production. This must have been in 1963. But some of them definitely were also sold in stores to the public - in the same box and with the same accessories like the regular issue. I once met a German lady who showed me her Test Market doll and told me that her father got her from the New York Toy Fair in 1963. I couldn't find any proof for this though. In the meantime, I talked to another original owner of a Test Market doll who also thinks she got her doll in 1963. In the “Miller’s” Magazine (October/November 1994)[1] there's an article in which author states that she had seen a photograph of a Skipper prototype doll with the same leg mold and no marking on the feet. From the time Barbie was introduced, Mattel was interested in finding out more about what little girls liked about their dolls and how they expected them to look. In 1959 for example, the company published a newspaper for members of the Barbie Fan Club to join the Barbie Advisory Panel. The letter of the Barbie Advisory Panel included a questionnaire of several pages asking the little girls questions like how many Barbie dolls they owned, whether they would like a a boyfriend doll for Barbie and what they thought of Barbie’s hair[2]. In the letter enclosed it says that some members of the Barbie Fan Club had been selected to become members of the Barbie Advisory Panel. And that Mattel, the creators of Barbie, wanted their advice on future plans for Barbie, because the members of the Fan Club were the people Mattel wanted most to please’[3]. Almost certainly Mattel did some market research on Skipper dolls as well before mass producing them. Maybe the girls interviewed found the very first issue too plump, and found that their legs were too short and looked chubby due to the wide stance. So the legs were altered before mass production. What differentiates the “Test Market Skippers” from the regular Skipper dolls? The legs of the Test Market Skippers are 0.2 inches shorter than the rest of their body and the body/legs of the regular Skipper dolls. Their legs are made of a different material (rougher and not as shiny, supposedly resin) and have a wider stance. Their feet have a slight incline and the JAPAN marking on the right foot is written from toe to heel. Additionally, one or (most of the times) two legs have markings on the inner part of their thighs (one or two digits and one or two letters). Test Market Skippers were found with shorter bangs as well as with bangs the same lenght like the ones of the regular dolls. They have two rows of bangs – instead of one like most Skipper dolls - but there are some regular Skipper dolls with two rows of bangs also. Some production issue dolls even have three or four rows of rooted bangs. Their hair of the TM dolls is made of a different fiber and looks more natural than the hair of the later dolls. Test Market Skipper’s heads don't have markings on the inner rim (the other Skipper dolls do, please go to the chapter “Head Markings” for further information). Test Market Skipper dolls weigh less than regular Skipper dolls. Following you can find pictures and some additional information about Test Market dolls as well as info about Prototype and Sample dolls, Salesman Sample dolls, ... [1] “Miller’s” October/November 1994, Cindy Blackwood: “Skipper … Still Sweet After All These Years” [2] Published in “Barbie Bazaar” May/June 1997, article by A. Glenn Mandeville [3] Invitation to join the Barbie Advisory Panel, enclosed in the Barbie Newsletter mailed Nov. 1959

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