davidd’s A DOLL A DAY 2022

[davidd]

I've been enjoying the anklyosaur week photos a lot....

I'm happy to hear that. Ankylosaur Week is a fun little diversion the second week of February... on those years when I remember it!

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14 February - A Doll A Day 2022:

14 February - Barbie & Ken Halloween Party Gift Set: Pirates

Picked this up cheap via eBay last week. I believe it is a 1998 release, so it's pushing a quarter century in age. My intent when making this purchase was to try the costumes on other dolls and figures. Now that the set has arrived, it is in such nice condition that I am hesitant to open it. I mean... somebody took remarkable care of it for twenty-four years!

But... these sets, mint-in-box, are quite common on eBay. The asking price is not always as reasonable as what I paid, but they are not ex-pensive or "valuable" either, and they are certainly not rare or even uncommon.

I saw a comment about this set somewhere online that I found amusing. Somebody pointed out that part of the charm of the set is that the figures are not actually meant to be pirates; rather, they are wearing pirate costumes for Halloween!

Speaking of Barbie, many of you guys probably did not see the Rocket Mortgage TV commercial featuring Barbie and her Dreamhouse that aired during the American Super Bowl football broadcast. I happened to catch it live, and I was totally cracking up! Apparently others agreed - the ad was ranked as the best commercial among the Super Bowl ads. Here are a couple of links; maybe one of them will work for non-US viewers:

https://www.yahoo.com/now/anna-kendrick-...09694.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukLeyxOA8uk