Comments on: Incan Barbie, Arequipa http://www.historiann.com/2008/06/26/incan-barbie-arequipa/ History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:26:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: carrie http://www.historiann.com/2008/06/26/incan-barbie-arequipa/#comment-94135 carrie Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:43:40 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=408#comment-94135 I was in the Shaun Cassidy Fan Club when I was young i'm still proud to admit!I have a Shaun Cassidy barbie doll and I still have my blue satin jacket with his picture on the back from his fan club! As an adult, I still listen to his records now and then, In my 20's as a ritual I used to listen to them while getting ready to go out on weekends. My friends and family still laugh about my infatuation with Shaun, but I don't mind. I was even able to find his song 'Walk Away' online to download... so i'm not the only one,lol I was in the Shaun Cassidy Fan Club when I was young i’m still proud to admit!I have a Shaun Cassidy barbie doll and I still have my blue satin jacket with his picture on the back from his fan club! As an adult, I still listen to his records now and then, In my 20’s as a ritual I used to listen to them while getting ready to go out on weekends. My friends and family still laugh about my infatuation with Shaun, but I don’t mind. I was even able to find his song ‘Walk Away’ online to download… so i’m not the only one,lol

]]> By: Historiann http://www.historiann.com/2008/06/26/incan-barbie-arequipa/#comment-30280 Historiann Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:25:12 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=408#comment-30280 GayProf, I found it! http://glamerboy.0catch.com/hardyshaun.jpg also here, http://totallyjem.jemmagic.com/hardyboys.html It was a Kenner product, and technically it was a "Joe Hardy" doll from the Hardy Boys TV show. (There's a Frank Hardy/Parker Stevenson doll shown in the second link, too.) For anyone who wants to see a *real* doll website, not the ersatz, dilletantte-ish discussions at Historiann, go see: http://dolllinks.blogspot.com/. (There's a good Mego site, which details all of the Mego dolls produced back in the day. There were actually Welcome Back Kotter dolls! (What weird kid would have wanted those--really! No wonder Mego isn't with us any more...) Looking around at all of the crazy Mego dolls, I remembered that I also have the complete Mego set of Wizard of Oz dolls (4 main characters plus Glinda and the WW of the West.) They're in pretty good shape too, although out of their original boxes. Mego link: megomuseum.com GayProf,

I found it!

http://glamerboy.0catch.com/hardyshaun.jpg

also here,

http://totallyjem.jemmagic.com/hardyboys.html

It was a Kenner product, and technically it was a “Joe Hardy” doll from the Hardy Boys TV show. (There’s a Frank Hardy/Parker Stevenson doll shown in the second link, too.)

For anyone who wants to see a *real* doll website, not the ersatz, dilletantte-ish discussions at Historiann, go see: http://dolllinks.blogspot.com/. (There’s a good Mego site, which details all of the Mego dolls produced back in the day. There were actually Welcome Back Kotter dolls! (What weird kid would have wanted those–really! No wonder Mego isn’t with us any more…)

Looking around at all of the crazy Mego dolls, I remembered that I also have the complete Mego set of Wizard of Oz dolls (4 main characters plus Glinda and the WW of the West.) They’re in pretty good shape too, although out of their original boxes.

Mego link: megomuseum.com

]]> By: GayProf http://www.historiann.com/2008/06/26/incan-barbie-arequipa/#comment-30256 GayProf Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:39:34 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=408#comment-30256 If there was a Shaun Cassidy doll, it had to have been produced by Mego (the same people who brought you the Cher doll and the Wonder Woman doll). Poor, doomed toy company of the 1970s. As for making a bad department good, the key in my mind is to install good people into positions of power, ensure that they hire more good people (so that they can eventually out vote the bad), and that they never try to compromise or appease the bad ones. If there was a Shaun Cassidy doll, it had to have been produced by Mego (the same people who brought you the Cher doll and the Wonder Woman doll). Poor, doomed toy company of the 1970s.

As for making a bad department good, the key in my mind is to install good people into positions of power, ensure that they hire more good people (so that they can eventually out vote the bad), and that they never try to compromise or appease the bad ones.

]]> By: Indyanna http://www.historiann.com/2008/06/26/incan-barbie-arequipa/#comment-30205 Indyanna Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:29:15 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=408#comment-30205 p.s. The dolls, I mean, not the Incas, apparently reached "The West" by that route! p.s. The dolls, I mean, not the Incas, apparently reached “The West” by that route!

]]> By: Indyanna http://www.historiann.com/2008/06/26/incan-barbie-arequipa/#comment-30204 Indyanna Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:25:46 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=408#comment-30204 My sister went to high school with Shaun Cassidy, who's now listed on the school's development office website under the "missing alumni" rubric. Fanzine websites, however, seem to locate him as a middle aged, married, and parental type living in Folsom, CA, who now works mostly "behind the camera," as the saying goes. I never met the guy, or heard that much about him, as to whether he was "doll-like" or whatever, but wasn't he some kind of a famous teen "idol" before we got to elect them? Anyway, great to hear that the Incas were already enjoying Barbies, and that they apparently reached the "West" by heading eastward, via the Columbian exchange! My sister went to high school with Shaun Cassidy, who’s now listed on the school’s development office website under the “missing alumni” rubric. Fanzine websites, however, seem to locate him as a middle aged, married, and parental type living in Folsom, CA, who now works mostly “behind the camera,” as the saying goes. I never met the guy, or heard that much about him, as to whether he was “doll-like” or whatever, but wasn’t he some kind of a famous teen “idol” before we got to elect them? Anyway, great to hear that the Incas were already enjoying Barbies, and that they apparently reached the “West” by heading eastward, via the Columbian exchange!

]]> By: Historiann http://www.historiann.com/2008/06/26/incan-barbie-arequipa/#comment-30198 Historiann Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:42:33 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=408#comment-30198 I was hoping you of all people would like it, Prof. Z! Keep an eye out for her, and like-minded sisters, in your travels. I was hoping you of all people would like it, Prof. Z! Keep an eye out for her, and like-minded sisters, in your travels.

]]> By: Z http://www.historiann.com/2008/06/26/incan-barbie-arequipa/#comment-30190 Z Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:17:03 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=408#comment-30190 What a great picture! What a great picture!

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