On the new Hello Kitty Barbie

No Throwback Thursday this week, y'all.  My sister and brother-in-law are in from Lexington, Kentucky and they won't be here but a few days so I want to make the most of our visit.  However, I do have some downtime right now and fancied a post.  I just saw the new Hello Kitty Barbie, and she is so adorable!

This shouldn't surprise me since there's been a sudden stream of Sanrio-themed doll clothes available, but...well, it did surprise me.  It certainly is a pleasant surprise though, given my fondness for Hello Kitty.  The new Barbie is a departure from the past Mattel-Sanrio collaborations; the dolls in 2007 and 2008 utilized the Steffie sculpt (my all-time favorite head), but the 2017 doll has the Lagerfeld sculpt instead, a sculpt that I don't think I own yet.  This particular doll looks enough like the 2008 doll that they could be siblings, so using a different head was probably a wise idea in the long run.

Hello Kitty Barbie is already available for pre-order (for a hundred friggin' bucks) on the Barbie collector's website, and if y'all can possibly believe it someone has already left this poor doll a bad review!  Someone actually had the gall to moan about the lack of originality and start pining for a revamp of the My Scene dolls instead.  <insert eyeroll>  There's always going to be at least one squeaky shopping cart in the bunch.  I liked the My Scene dolls while they lasted, but I view them as rivals for the Bratz more than collector's items, and since the Bratz are once again discontinued I see no reason for a My Scene revamp.

Given my track record with collector-end dolls, I probably won't be able to get this one, but I can still admire her from afar!

Joy to the world,

RagingMoon1987