I think Mattel’s new figures suck I mean they are so small and gay jakks figures were so much better bigger and had much more detail and least with them you got the title belts for figures which was nice now you can only by jakks online and some in stores until they all go least jakks has signed with tna and now tna can have some good detail bigger and better figures.
I’m not a big fan of Mattel either, but I do like their removable shirts and accesories. At least Jakks is making TNA action figures now, and let me tell you, they look amazing.
http://www.ringsidecollectibles.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=R&Product_Code=DI1-00&Category_Code=DI1
They’ll match up with my old WWE action figures so now I can have the coolest fantasy matches ever, even though I will probably buy them and keep them in the case.
I mean, what the heck? I saw it mentioned that they were only making a Johnny Depp Hatter Barbie. They create barbies for everyone in the Mad Men cast but they can’t even make a doll for the leading lady herself, Alice? Does anyone know why?
beacsue alice and the red queen and the hatter were already made but the hatter that was made beforehand looked like the mad hatter in the books alice and the queen looked fine the way they were
One thing that a lot of companies are doing is they are shipping jobs overseas because it is cheaper. They do this so that the CEO and Board of Directors can have their nice expenisive life. "Less money spent on labor the bigger boat I can buy." Amercian’s need to check the label before buying a product. If it says "MADE IN CHINA" put it right back on the shelf. They are getting what they pay for cheap labor-cheap quality. Unfortunately we Americans have to pay for thier selfish choices. Thanks corporate Amercia for looking for our future. Thanks for shipping jobs overseas-how patriotic of you. What do you think?
I have noticed that things made overseas are not any cheaper. They lose any savings by having to ship it into our ports and then pay to transport it across the nation. Bring our jobs back and buy US products only. It would work if everyone would do it. Alas, no one will.
I’m doing a project for my human geography class on industry. And I picked Barbie as my product to learn about. I called Mattel hotline and they directed me to another number, and they hung up on me!….i think. I just need a number where I could be directly connected to a person who knows as much about Barbie manufacturing as possible.
Try emailing them, or calling them more than once, god kids are so freaking lazy these days.
Wait, aren’t you the same person who asked about shipping times but didn’t specify where you would be shipping to? And then gave me a thumbs down for attenpting to answer your poorly phrased question?
Barbie is produced in a sweat shop in Thailand. 75% of the employees have respiratory disorders, and are very sick. It is not a good place to work, and the conditions of this sweat shop have been made public and have been in the news in previous years. The public was outraged! As such, they created a big cover-up so it is impossible to find out any information on Barbie production now.
Time to pick a new product… something local.
I know that Barbie was launched in March of 1959, but I was wondering if anyone knew the year (or even the decade) that Mattel began to introduce career-themed Barbies.
Technically 1959 Barbie No. 1 was career themed, as she was a teenage fashion model. In 1961 Registered Nurse Barbie came out, and in 1965, Astronaut Barbie started showing little girls that they can be anything they want when they grow up. Careers have been a constant theme with Barbie since day 1.
This case is white, metal I believe with a glass front. Barbie is written on it in the traditional pink lettering. It plugs in and has a working light and also locks. It was used in Wal Mart and Toys R Us stores by Mattel to display collection edition Barbies.
In all honesty, they aren’t worth much. There is someone who has been trying to sell those on kijiji.com for about 3 years, with no luck. They are selling 2 for $300.00, which is a damn good price, but the problem is that as a Barbie collector, if I am going to buy shelving, I will need something that will display up to 65 dolls at once, and those cases only hold about 5-10 tops. You might be better off selling them via a secondary market at a Barbie retailer.
I have one of those wooden artist’s figurines that I got at my local arts and crafts store but it’s too stiff to do some of the poses I want to do (i’m doing a comic book). I don’t care if it’s a superhero or WWE action figure, but is there something out there that might be a little more flexible?
I use 12-inch GI Joes, artiBabses (articulated Barbies) & similar for comic book-style drawing. They are more helpful for faces than Oscar & Emmy are. That is what I call my woodies… Did you know that’s where the idea for GI Joe came from?
I’m doing a project for school, and I need to buy figurines of the Greek gods and goddesses, but they can’t be expensive. Anybody know where I could get some cheap?
Hi Coolbean…!
You can buy Greek figurines on Amazon cheap
http://amzn.to/bYtXTE?dg20sy
My sister is pregnant with a boy, and I would like to start her and the baby on a set of figurines. I know of Willow Tree (which I love, and collect with my own daughter) and precious moments, but are there other good collections that anyone can recommend for collecting as my nephew grows?
While I agree with the first answer regarding children & collectibles maybe I should have specified more…these are collectibles for my sister & HER journey of having a child and being a mother,etc.
Kids don’t want things they can’t play with and aren’t supposed to even touch (or it will hurt the ‘collector value’). Kids have to be converted to an adult mentality to become collectors for the sake of collecting, and for a baby, that’s wrong, and a waste of money at the same time. 99% of modern collectibles are overpriced and not worth even a third of the original cost on the secondary market, yet the ‘limited edition’ hype is used to make them think that what they’re buying will be worth money.
I’m not saying don’t buy collectibles. Buy them if you enjoy them and couldn’t care less about future value. But for a kid that isn’t even born yet…let the kid live awhile and decide for himself what he likes and what he doesn’t. Let him choose his own interests, and then nurture them.
In short, be patient. There’s no rush.