NZ Baby Blog

I was going through my trunk of “stuff”, doing a cull, and found again my giant Barbie doll. I didn’t know much about her except that my Great Aunt Patty gave her to me when we visited her in Florida in the 80’s, and she’d said that I should take care of her. She made and collected dolls, so I figured she might be collectable.

So tonight i spent some time on the interwebchatthingy, trying to find out more about my Barbie.

Turns out she is an 18 inch supersize Barbie Bride, with 1976 Mattel printed on her, but probably made in about 1977. She is missing her shoes (Of course! What Barbie ever kept her shoes?) and her bouquet. But she still has her original dress and veil. She’s never been really played with but there is a bit of a rip in her dress at the back (or maybe just stitching coming undone).

I found 2 listings for the same sort of Barbie on different e-Bay’s, one for $84sish, and one for $34ish - mine doesn’t have her box (but does look just like the one on the picture, so I think shes all original).

She’s heading back to her trunk now, but it was a fun outing, maybe I’ll check the auctions again in another 10 years.