#barbie mod

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Silkstone Barbie in Floating Gardens (1967)

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So About an Hour ago I decided to Head Swap my New Jazzie on to a Made to Move Body, and surprisingly it came out PERFECTLY. Unlike Most Vintage/Older Barbie heads, Jazzie’s Fits Perfectly on MTM Bodies (maybe most other more modern/recent bodies too, i’ll have to look into that). I was using The Pink Top MTM Body Here and it mostly Matches with Jazzie’s skin tone. Tried on a random assortment of outfits just to see how they’d look with MTM Jazzie. I think the 90s shirt, Rainbow Belt Pants, and white fashionista shoes in the 2nd photo and the Mermaid Tale 2 Bikini in the 3rd photo look really good on her

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Felices 60, querida Francie

¡Hola a todos! Este año cumple sesenta años la prima MOD-erna de Barbie y estoy muy feliz porque la adoro y porque Mattel Creations ha decidido sacar una reproducción silkstone de la muñeca con la que debutó en 1966. Os digo desde ya que tiene que ser mía. Simplemente Francie La muñeca diseñada por Carlyle Nuera (¡gracias, Carlyle!) luce un traje de bañador compuesto por un top rojo de lunares…

Felices 60, querida Francie

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Quién es Francie

¡Hola a todos! Hace unos días Mattel Creations anunció que va a sacar una nueva muñeca de Francie, la “prima moderna” de Barbie. La que trajo la estética MOD a la marca desde Londres. Estará a la venta el 30 y 31 de julio para los miembros del Barbie Club 59. Gracias al usuario misterfreehugz podemos ver la muñeca original que inspiró esta otra. Francie es uno de mis personajes favoritos…

Quién es Francie

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National Barbie Doll Collectors Convention - Gettin' Groovy Dinner (2002) Evento con temática 60s en la convención de muñecas Barbie de 2002. La mujer del peinado increíble es Dorinda Balanecki, la artista que hizo la Barbie con el pelo blanco y negro que se ve en la foto.

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A Barbie le gusta el movimiento mod

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El movimiento mod (de modernista) surgió a finales de los 50 y eclosionó en los 60 en Londres, principalmente. En él, la rebeldía, la música y la moda tuvieron mucho que decir. Barbie también fue una mod y Bill Greening ha querido reproducir un set del momento con Christie, Stacey y nuestra amiga rubia. Se llama: Barbie Mod Friends (50th Anniversary).

En el caso de Barbie, podemos…

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Barbie and Ken get Mod!

Live Action Barbie and Ken  1971

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So goes the age old saying: Why on Earth doesn't a Fashionista Barbie body get the same amount of motion as her Pivotal cousin, Fashion Royalty rivals or even Monster High despite having a similar system of joints? Well, turns out the only reason why this is so is because there's WAY too much plastic around the joints. This gives a smoother appearance but it definitely affects the play value of the bodies to me.

I've been meaning to test this theory for awhile but in between lacking a good carving knife, moving, and having a lack of test bodies I haven't been able to properly put to the test.

But then I picked up a Fashionista body from Savers today before crashing at my boyfriend's house, with the intentions of painting it to match my Wicked Witch doll's head. But I realised with the current Fashionista joints it would chip really badly, so I figured i put my theory of expanding her motion range AND limiting how much joint friction there would be for this test body.

So I asked my bf if he had any sharp knives I could whittle my doll body with and he whipped out this crazy sharp knife cuz he's into that kind of hunting biz.

I first turned her upper arm elbow socket from a U shaped socket to a completely straight line so her arm could turn inwards at a 90 degree. I then carved a crescent moon shape on her forearm following her elbow joint so the arm could in deeper. I whittled her upper arms to taper to her lower arms to look nicer aesthetically but to also minimise the amount of plastic between the joint so she could get the maximum fold.

I then carved the plastic around her wrist to expose as much of the hand post as I could without exposing her wrist post so she could get at least a 90 degree bend.

I left the arm on (our) left untouched to show how limited the range of movement is in comparison to what I did to her right arm.