Barbie MEGA Barbie Horse Stables Building Set with 304 pieces including accessories and 3 micro-dolls, toy gift set for ages 5 and up -

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The rituals of BarbieCon and Mattel’s movie merch outpour share a common motivation: buying Barbies. But the kind of accumulation on display at the convention is more complex than the average gotta-catch-em-all mentality. Here, Barbie is both the center and a starting point; between sales and swaps, attendees studied at various workshops on everything from the intricacies of collectors’ insurance to “Making Doll Size Tropical Drinks”. And while conventioneers revere Mattel, they are clear-eyed about corporate priorities. During one such seminar, the collector and historian Bradley Justice Yarbrough was leading a panel on preserving Barbie collections, when an older man asked why certain Barbies’ faces paled dramatically over time.

Little horse lovers can spend a day at the Horse Stables with 3 Barbie® micro-dolls and 9 animals. Kids can play as they build the barn to care for animals. They can feed and groom the 2 horses, 2 bunnies, 2 birds, a pony, lamb and puppy with accessories like carrots, a brush, water bowl and more. Then, Barbie® and her horse can get ready to ride when kids build the stables. Kids can build the garden to plant flowers and give the animals a place to play and rest. Designed for beginners, this building set is easy to build and provides storytelling play with every step. Wonder Builders building toys are designed for ages 4+ Everyone has their own reasons for being at BarbieCon: parents inheriting kids’ inventory, investors building retirement funds, nostalgics recapturing their childhood, being named Barbie or Ken and just rolling with it. But as the questions in the seminar made clear, the panelists were not the only experts. Here, everyone seemed an autodidact archivist at the small museums they stored in their homes. The most competitive, and surprisingly moving, moment came on the penultimate night, when the awards are handed out. This portion of the event was hosted by the Barbie designer Carol Spencer. In a world of miniatures, Spencer, who oversaw the doll’s wardrobe from 1963 to 1998, is the closest the Barbie fandom gets to a giant. The 90-year-old, still agile and omnipresent at Barbie events, announced the event’s Oscar: the “Barbie’s Best Friend Award”.

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The seminar on proper storage practices and cleaning protocols was not, as it may sound, dry, but a study in the breadth of amateur Barbie scholarship conducted by conventioneers. For two hours, Yarbrough took questions on rubbing alcohol concentrations, basement humidity monitors, the acidity of cardboard display boxes, and the chemical composition of Barbie’s plastic body parts – all tailored to the particular year and model of any given doll. On the penultimate night, the Barbie’s Best Friend award was handed out. Photograph: Héctor Mata/AFP/Getty Images

These options range from chic hairstyles to trendy dresses. Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures offers a variety of thrilling challenges and adventures in addition to fashion and design. Players can go on adventures with Barbie and her friends, take enticing vacations, and take part in enjoyable activities like baking, dancing, and caring for cute animals. The game offers countless opportunities for entertainment and imagination thanks to the abundance of adventures available. Spencer handed out trophies to two longtime volunteers, including one of the Barbaras. As she introduced the last honoree, her voice became garbled. “I’m presenting two awards to these partners, both in life and somewhere beyond all this,” she choked. A man took the stage and embraced her; the speech became still harder to hear. Eyes watered around the ballroom, including my own, though I had no idea what she was saying. “That’s a famous dealer,” Dale whispered. “His partner passed last year.” The doors opened as she recounted the years she’d spent saving and spending, gradually amassing the exact assortment of dolls she’d acquired as a child. Yarbrough launched into a detailed description of vinyl injection molding and how sculpting Barbie’s body parts yields a byproduct of excess plastic called slag. “It’s supposed to be thrown away,” he explained, “because once it’s remelted and reinjected, it’s no longer colorfast or chemically stable.” But occasionally, Mattel had dabbled in slag recycling, he went on, not least in the early 1970s. No one needed to ask what he meant: the SEC charged the manufacturer for fraudulent accounting in 1973.

In the 90s, restoration was quasi-taboo. ‘People were scared because they could be passed off as fakes.’ Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Young horse lovers will go wild for the Barbie Hugs 'n Horses playset that comes with 2 dolls, 2 horses, a puppy and 15+ accessories Makes a great gift for kids who love animals, especially horses -- simply set up the fence as home base and let imagination ride because when a girl plays with Barbie, she imagines everything she can become Our most gregarious companion was Arnaldo, a landscape architect and natural storyteller whose hobby of refurbishing damaged dolls has made him into one of the highest-regarded doll doctors (Arnaldo asked me not to use his last name as, like many conventioneers, he prefers to keep his Barbie and professional lives separate). When he started in the 90s, Arnaldo told the table, restoration was quasi-taboo. “People were scared,” he said, “because they could be passed off as fakes.” This was the true attraction of BarbieCon: collectors are aware their obsession attracts sneers. The external disregard has made them secretive, but still more devoted to one another.

You’re right,” Yarbrough sighed. “I talked to a chemical engineer about that and you see it a lot in dolls from 1970 to 71. What happens is – this is going to get complicated, I’m sorry …” This year, it took place in Orlando from 4 to 8 July, overlapping with the film’s global cast tour to six different cities, and ending on the eve of its Hollywood premiere.While trying to find the convention, I took the elevator with a pink-clad woman whose Barbie lanyard suggested she knew where to go. A Barbie tote bag dangled from her walker. The 30-year collector had played with dolls as a child, but gave them away in her teens. “A woman I knew told me she didn’t have money to get her kids anything for Christmas, so I gave them to her,” she explained, as the elevator dropped. “I felt good about that, but as soon as I handed them off, I started to cry.” Imagine the possibilities with Barbie! There’s a wide range of Barbie dolls, playsets and fashions to explore, from the beautiful Barbie Dreamhouse to the latest Fashionistas. Play as you build the garden, barn and stables that include roleplay accessories like a carrot, ribbons, brush and more Migrating between rooms at the convention amounts to a crash course in collector argot, with terms like ‘NRFB’ for ‘Never Removed From Box’. Photograph: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images The 10-person arrangement included a “Table Host”, assigned to steer the activities among each group, who sat beside her “travel Barbie” – a common accessory among conventioneers. (“I bring her with me everywhere,” she said. “Last year, we went to Paris.”) Eight, 10 and 11-year veterans sat alongside a young mother who, like me, had arrived alone and for the first time. Another tablemate, who tagged along with her niece, did not own a single doll. At least until that day. “I have three now,” she said.

Players can interact with Barbie’s friends and other characters in the dreamhouse in this game which emphasizes the value of friendship. Players can deepen their friendships and gain access to exclusive rewards by conversing and completing tasks together. Players can also connect with actual friends and family members to visit each other’s dream homes, enhancing the gameplay experience overall by introducing a social component. Set off on camping adventures with the Barbie camper van, create your own fantasy world with Barbie Dreamtopia and discover what you could be with Barbie careers dolls. Kids can play out all kinds of open-ended dreams with Barbie and Ken, Stacie, Chelsea and Skipper. Mattel had been “in financial difficulty, so they were trying to pinch pennies”, Yarbrough concluded. The discoloration “is just low-quality vinyl that they were trying to maximize and kept re-melting”. There’s a whole range of Barbie Fashionistas and career dolls to explore too, encouraging real-world storytelling. Discover the widest range of Fashionista dolls to date, celebrating diversity with unique fashion dolls in a wide variety of skin tones, eye colours, hair colours and textures, body types and fashions. Or realise you could be anything with an exciting range of Barbie career dolls, from teachers, vets and doctors to Barbie pilot dolls and sports stars.Barbie doll and Chelsea doll are ready to ride wearing casual outfits and riding boots -- a cactus on Barbie doll's t-shirt is a perfect statement