“Mad Men” Barbie Dolls
Submitted by admin on Thursday, 11 March 2010No Comment
After three seasons, “Mad Men,” the television series about advertising in the 1960s, has attained a level of popular-culture cachet. Soon, the show will enter a realm of the pop-culture pantheon that its creator, Matthew Weiner, says has surprised even him: Mattel plans to bring out versions of Barbie and Ken styled after four “Mad Men” characters.
The dolls are part of a premium-price collectors’ series for adults that Mattel calls the Barbie Fashion Model Collection. Although there have been Barbies and Kens based on other TV series, among them “I Love Lucy” and “The X-Files,” the dolls will be the first licensed line for that collection, Mattel says, with a suggested retail price of $74.95 each. Due out this Summer!
