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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 6 Comments
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Despite the fact that they did slim down Joan, I really love how the face molds for all dolls looks like the vintage 60's Barbie dolls. It's a cool decision, since they could have easily gone with the dolls looking more like the characters from the show.
I do like the retro faces. It perfectly captures Betty Draper's pinchy faced superiority and disdain.
Wait, wait. When they're making dolls that represent real people, you expect them to use something other than their standard body molds? Madness, I say! No one can live at that speed!
(By the by, my six-degrees brain can sort of justify the sci-fi angle since most of us grew to love Ms. Hendricks because of Firefly, and um… Jon Hamm was in the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still? Well, okay, that's a bit too much of a stretch.)
I was thinking of trying to justify it with the X-Files Barbies and the Star Trek Barbies, but I like your idea much better.
Dolls are freaks, aliens, and demons! Some people use them for sinister curses, splash them with blood, and stick needles in them! Some are life-size and are used for sick and twisted naughty things. A guy in Japan has a whole room of them—because—he says—real women have “hurt” him! Dystopia NOW! Now THAT’S SciFi, baby! If you think about it—ALL dolls are nightmarish images from the dark bowls of our collective Id. They remind me of flesh colored Giacometti figures—with EYES! EEEEAAAAHHIIIEEE!
another scifi connection - Vincent Kartheiser was Connor on Angel. obvious I know