The Black Canary Barbie

I was running through the Internet as usual today when I ran across an article on a new Barbie doll called the Black Canary Barbie. I picked up on this one because I had never seen anything like it and I thought it was new and interesting!
Needless to say, the Black Canary Barbie is one of those perfectly harmless items that has come under attack. As the Chicago Sun-Times reports, a British Christian organization has attacked the Mattel toy company for releasing a Barbie doll dressed as the DC comic book heroine known as the Black Canary. The doll is clad in black, as the name suggests and in accordance with the character, and her habiliments consist of a leather body suit, jacket, gloves, boots, and fishnet stockings.
The dolls are intended mainly for adults, as part of the Barbie Loves Pop Culture series, and cost more than twice as much as the Barbie dolls marketed to children. One would imagine that the great majority of parents would steer their little dears toward the more conventional options in the Barbie line.
What I would like to know is; whatever happened to Skipper?? Now I had a Skipper doll when I was growing up. I did not like Barbie, my older sister had Barbie. I loved Skipper, she was just perfect! I loved combing her long blond hair and I did not mind she was Barbie's younger sister, we could relate!

The Skipper doll was released in 1964, 5 years after Barbie, and retired in 2003. She was restructured many times in between but many collectors consider the early '60 Skipper dolls to be superior in quality to those produced later on. I always thought so!

Anyways, I never had a baby doll or anything, I only had my Skipper and I'll stick to it. I hope today's girls are able to find something they'll love too!

Cheers!