I love Barbie dolls. I always have ever since I was a kid. I wasn't a girly girl, I didn't do makeup or tea parties or played house, but I'd play with my Barbies hours on end. I'd always play adventure games and my favorite ones were the ones that did stuff. I don't play (much) with them anymore, but I do collect them. For the past few years there haven't been a whole lot of dolls I'd like to get, but this year some of the designs are cool and drop dead gorgeous!

Follow up:

This one my friend is getting. I'm a huge DC comic fan (I like Marvel too, but I like DC better) and this is the prettiest version that Mattel has done

^ that's the one they did a couple of years ago. It's heinous.

And I'm going to be ordering this one in the next couple of days:

But when I keep checking Mattel's site, I'm seeing some gorgeous, unique and funny dolls, nothing like I've ever seen this company do before:

This one almost makes fun of itself, I laughed when I first saw it.

And these two almost have a Gothic Lolita feel to them:

so kudos to Mattel for the extraordinary work this time around.

And are you guys hiring?