These just look so deluxe compared to current Barbie. I shouldn't have taken them for granted. They are harder to get where I live in Canada than in the US. It's generally eBay and at least $25 shipping.
Hello...I'm from Germany and was living f 15 years in the Emirates....it was around 94 to 2009...and I was collecting all those dolls you just showed up....it was just a lovely memory to see them all again in box...love all your presentations...and I'm in now again for Rainnbow High a LOL dolls...thanks for inspiring me again to continue collecting....Love and all the best f your new start .Nora
“Collector Bubble” is such a perfect term for it 😭😭 People will find some in their basement and think they struck gold, no babe it’s mass produced and not even slightly rare 😭😭
YUP! And then they just want it gone because it’s “not valuable” like the thought it would be and then they mostly go for under retail cost! It’s crazy!
I'm not a fan of the faces on barbie through that era, but truth be told it's her best one. Her looks are amazing but also the dedication on detail for packaging, she really looks like a queen whether on everyday outfits or movie ones. Nowadays barbie is more of a commoner than a fashion icon. That includes the Extra dolls that look more like fashion designers students than anything else.
I used to play with my dolls like that too! It would drive my sisters crazy because I would set up the scenes and doll houses and make everything look beautiful, change their clothes and then pose them and it could take a hour or two lol! My sisters used to get so impatient with me because I was always done playing by the time I was done setting up🤣.
My mom would be furious that my room became a doll house and I didn’t want to clean it up because it would take a damn eternity to set it up the next day 😭 and everything had a specific arrangement that I preferred too
@@xCanadensis omg. YES. also like I didn't have doll houses so I would stack VCHs up and make a whole house that way everytime and it drove my mom NUTS lol!
If you want to keep them all in box, you might want to do some box surgery to get the batteries out of Julia in case they decide to corrode/leak over time. I’ve had it happen to a one of my childhood doll and its a very not fun time haha
i’d love to see you tap into the early mattel disney princess dolls!! the ones from 1995-2005 !! they have a super unique vibe once one starts seeing their potential
Clara is amazing she's just ethereal. I unboxed mine solely just bc she is so fun to pose in different ballet positions! Also the jewlia doll omg...I have the crystal from my childhood and had the same issue with her skirts snapping 😔
I had that Clara as a kid! I’m casually recollecting my childhood dolls and I hope I can get her again one day, but I rarely see her for under $100. Seeing you get such a great deal gives me hope that I’ll find her too! 🤗
I’m actually shocked she’s THAT much?? I thought she sat around $50 which I still thought was outrageous! Search “barbie” on Facebook marketplace! I’ve stumbled upon perfect Clara dolls in box many times but I’m usually a bit too late to get them!
@@xCanadensis Yes it’s so crazy! I did see one on FB marketplace recently but she was also priced at $100 😂 I live in an unfortunate area for doll collecting, none of the thrift stores here even stock dolls and gas is just too expensive right now to drive, but I’m willing to be patient!
@@avalinejennings8687 I wish you luck in your doll collecting! Where I live theres a small good will and it usually just had baby dolls in very bad condition. Hoping one day I'll find something good there! I did find a porcelain doll there she's very beautiful!
Hi Brooke! Just wanted to say congratulations on the new house, job, and the great lot! When you mentioned Georgia I wanted to tell you about the Atlanta doll show, it was last Saturday on the 21st so another year till the next one but just wanted to let you know about it since that’s the only show in Georgia really.
I love the Barbie Basics line. At that time they were out I was collecting only Monster High but I have since kept my eyes open. I am also looking for that model muse body because its easy to spot and you know its either a Basics or a holiday doll. I have 2, 4, 8, 10, an 11. I was also lucky enough to find one of the Target girls, the one with the blonde bob although I missed out on the one with the long brown hair and the straight bangs. They are so fun to dress and I would have a hard time not taking them out of box. What I would recommend is leave them in and just keep hunting and someday you may find them OOB. I will say though that number 8 is one of those rare and delightful dolls that looks good in everything. She is a stunner. Some dolls you just have such a hard time finding the right outfit but not her. Her issue is wanting to put everything on her all at once. I understand the joy of the first doll in the Disney lines. When I was little I asked for Aladdin and Jasmine and she was my favorite doll. After a few years her neck broke and I cried. I still have her and was lucky enough to find a replacement but I still kept my beheaded one. lol. I also adore my first Megara. One of my grail dolls is the Midnight Masquerade but I am not sure if I will ever drop that much money on a doll. She is so lovely though. I am not into the fairy dolls or the fairy tale dolls but I love watching your excitement and interest in them. I just love seeing you ramble on. Great find!!!!
Morning Sun Princess is so incredible. I legit pine for the three girls in that line. 😍 She's usually a little pricey, so $20 is a good deal for her. The Barbie Basics are so beautiful, unfortunately many of them suffer from glue head, but their faces are stunning.
I wanted to get the rest of the set after seeing them on the back of the box and they’re a bit higher than I want to pay… dang it! I’ll find them someday though :) God I hate glue… maybe I should open them to treat them… LOL
I had the butterfly art barbie when I was a kid! I vividly remember getting her for my 5th birthday, and she was my absolute favourite barbie (until I decided to cut her hair 🤣)
That butterfly art Barbie is one of the very few Barbie’s from my original collection that I still own, a few years ago I went on a Barbie collection spee buying up all the Barbie’s I remember having as a kid, I have quite a few of them I managed to get the same doll boxed. ❤
That Sleeping Beauty Barbie actually was going to be a Barbie movie! The first one ever, if I’m not mistaken. They made a small teaser trailer but couldn’t make an actual movie as Disney tried to copyright Mattel over the name Aurora: despite the fact that’s the original name from the ballet. Definitely with you about keeping old Barbies in the box! The pictures and colour pallet is too pretty. And yes! Magic of the Rainbow Elina’s wings are fabric. They are so easy to break tho aha 🥲
Hi Brooke firstly congrats on the move what a lovely house you have and your new job, and how cute does Brett look with his new hair cut. Wow what a haul $20 each fantastic I have both those Barbie Basic myself I have a few I wish I collected them all when they where out. Bindi doll was funny I never saw her on sale her being an Australian doll funny that she is now married with child her self. So happy for you with your Tiana grail doll. Have a great dolly day 🥰
I got so giddy when you pulled out that Clara and Elina. Gosh, I remember the ads for Fairyoke as a kid, they looked like so much fun, but I can't think of a single song from those movies that you'd include with a toy like that. XD But Clara, Clara I have a story about. We have a similar history, my first Barbie movie dolls were from Rapunzel! I had a bunch of them, the main doll, her prince, the Kellys, heck my Lorena (the peacock themed Kelly) lost an arm at one point and I'm so mad she got thrown out when I wasn't looking. I don't have most of them anymore but I want her back specifically. Rapunzel was my jam, that and the ballet movies were my favorites after her, but the Nutcracker kind of fell by the wayside. I didn't fully appreciate it until I was in college. I had it, and I had Clara as my one doll from it growing up, had a ballet phase and got her as a gift during it. She was well played with, her hair is matted, she's missing a foot, her joints are loose, but she was loved. (I really want to repair her with a reroot and made-to-move body, but I keep debating it since I've never rerooted before, and she's so sentimental.) Well, when I got into dolls, two distinct things happened. One, my roommate brought her doll collection to our dorm and decorated her half of the room with it. Before I got my first two collection dolls, Clara was a doll I brought from home to display in the room. Reason being, I was falling into the Nutcracker fandom. There is an artist known as ShinyZango who has a really beautiful adaptation of the nutcracker story that she draws, and I fell head over heels for her work at the time, brought me back into my old love for the nutcracker ballet. And when I found a fellow voice actor dubbing her work (who is now my friend AJ at BigBlueVA), he asked me to join in as Clara. Zango loved our dubbing so much that we've been her voice actors for Hans and Clara ever since, and we met a ton of friends with their own takes on the nutcracker story and original ones. And what do we do every Christmas together? Hop on a discord call and watch Barbie in the Nutcracker (among other nutcracker films) to ring in the holiday season. The movie didn't mean as much to me before that, but now it's a comfort film and reminds me of what great friends I have. There was another thing: because I met these folks while I was working on my final college illustration course, I ended up with the nutcracker as the subject of two of my projects. After four years, that work has now become an original story that's in progress, and my nutcracker character, Auran Dulce, has a doll within my collection. He's currently borrowing my dad's childhood toy horse, Duke the palamino, as a mount, and I've been snuggling up with him a lot. He's a custom I made with an Invisi Billy head on an Obitsu male body, so he can have a bunch of poses in order to dance (he's a ballerino!). I've also since collected the dolls of Prince Eric and three of the Kellys (I'm missing the ones based on Captain Candy, Major Mint, and the Flower Fairy, still hunting). They all get displayed with Clara and my customs around the holidays, and I love them, so much. The pink haired fairy that's a Ginger custom I shared with you before, Delilah? She's a part of Auran's story, a bunch of my customs go to that, it's so special and important to me. The tldr is I get really excited whenever I see someone with a fondness for nutcracker dolls, Barbie related or otherwise. I'm so happy you got to find Clara and hope she continues to spark joy for you for a long time!
I've been collecting this spesific era too. Because thrifting isn't as common here, I must settle for $30 in box on eBay. This era just reigns Supreme for me. The Cinderella collectors edition is also stunning.
You are making me feel old now lol, i was 14 in 2001 and always wanted the Barbie movie dolls, I used to watch my nieces and fell in love with the Barbie movies from 2004- on up, now at 35 Im still hunting 1980's-2000's dolls this is an amazing find
Barbie Basics are AMAZING! I collect them, too (even though they are very expensive 😭☠️) I have 3 from this line and 1 from the jeans collection. I don't plan to get every single one of them, but there is still a few that I really want to get! When it comes to Barbie I basically only collect Basics and the new line of Looks dolls. Are you planning to get any dolls from the Looks line?
That Julie fairy doll is beautiful, I always went for the blonde Barbie’s even thou I have brown hair and hazel eyes. I only started going for the brown haired ones when I was much older.
Lawd i had the fashionista dolls glam, sweet, skipper look a like and more but omg !!! I cannot believe you unlocked one of my core memories as a kid !!! I didn’t like Barbie all that much but I loved fashionistas a lot (right next to 12 dancing princesses)
Such an awesome find! Funny enough I found the Barbie and the nutcracker doll at a goodwill and I believe she has everything still on her, she's just dirty lol.
I have several of those in box that the daughters have threatened me if I were to sell! I really need a magic of Pegasus doll in box because she was played with so hard! Honestly the light up staffs were the biggest hit. I had to put their initials on them 💜 Good memories! I love that you have been having fun playing with your dolls 🎉
actually their is a budget magic of the ranbow elina I think! (also funfact mariposa has one with her smaller wings which I found out was very shook by- but that was a DVD exclusive I think) and one of my fave variants was the rainbow lights elian which they used the of elina scupt for!
omg i remember having that glam barbie when i was super young! she was one of my favorites and i adored how she had articulation out of my other ones. i also have the barbie movie clara still, she was from my older cousin but i don't ever remember having her as a kid lol
Omg the magic of the rainbow one i still have! Unfortunately she is very destroyed and i also though i've lost the shoes lmao. Lost the wings of mine, although i love her still🥰
Additional comment the snowflake and flower fairy dolls are actually part of the same line, unconnected to the movie! Theres also a marzipan and peppermint candy from the nutcracker ballet, and a swan queen and swan ballerina from swan lake
16:53 I have this one (But without video game, the box and without any other stuff)! I got her used with some other dolls from Ebay and if I didn‘t „repaint“ her wings and if I didn’t used the skirt for my other dolls, it would still be like new, even her hairstyle is not ruined yet (if I remember right). I don‘t know why, but I was most of the time scared of her. 😅 So, I never really played with her and she always was somewhere in my room on the floor, with other stuff that I didn’t play with (but I was too lazy to tidy my room 🤷♀️) around her.
My literal favourite Barbie of all time is still Barbie Fashionistas Wild with the poofy cheetah print dress. I got her for my birthday and I played with her until she was bald and legless lmao. I’ll find her eventually!
I only own one Barbie basics doll, wish I was able to get more, there was one that I really wanted to buy but I no longer remember what she looked like. I also remember seeing them in stores wish I paid more attention to them.
omg i have the sleeping beauty one, my cousin gave her to me a few years ago!! i took her out of box and she sits happily on my shelf :D she is so beautiful!!
I used to have the same Barbie magic of the rainbow :D ! The game was fun but short, Barbie as a controller was cute but made the doll really heavy, stiff and hard to place anywhere (she fell from my book shelf all the time xD) I honestly didn´t like her bcs of that, but Im surprised that you got her sealed in such good condition o: I cry bcs I been trying to find an affordable nutcracker one but they are all SO expensive around here (I live in mexico btw) and ebay is such a scam most of the time :( I´m so happy for you getting all of those beauties ! Thanks for yet another fun and amazing video :D
The Bindi Doll is Bindi Irwin. Bindi Sue Irwin is the daughter of Steve Irwin and Terri Irwin. She has a brother, Robert Clarence. She has a daughter with her husband Chandler Powell.
I'm so jealousssss but happy for you! That was such a great deal on them! I would definitely keep them in box! Also fun fact the Sleeping Beauty doll was supposed to be a movie but it never happened due to Disney copyright.
All the Barbie dolls looking so beautiful But I loved the first one u shown sleeping beauty and fashionista pink one. And third sun Barbie. Can you Unboxing that pink fashionista doll or sleeping beauty doll but fashionista pink doll would be fun seeing Unboxing. Please do more such videos on Barbie coz we all love Barbie dolls. Thanks in advance.🥰😊
Good haul but you make me feel old lol I also only do Barbie from my childhood and that would be late 70s early 80s for me 😂 see the difference rotfl 🤣
$20 was a good deal for all of the doll. Clara was one of popular doll yet so rare in here. and i can pay at least $50-$100 for Clara.. I can get for that price. But, its on bad condition one.. And the children's collection one have at least 9 dolls on the line with Cinderella, Rapunzel, snow white, etc. The sugarplum was from Classic ballet series (The other that you mention indeed are from the same line)
AWESOME HAUL! The Bindi doll is actually Australian! She's an Australian personality. Her father was famous animal adventurer and TV personality Steve Irwin. She's grown up now and we'll in to her 20s
The Looks dolls were the ones I lost my mind over when the seller said $20 each LOL. I was going to try to buy 20+ but the seller was firm on the $20 each price so I went with these!
I totally relate to seeing a doll I really like listed for super low prices everywhere and it negatively affecting how I view them. It's weird because I know my original opinion is all that matters, but still.
I prefer seeing low prices because it means I can easily snatch them up! I may not have been clear there aha. I meant that I LOATHE high priced online dolls because I know I can find them cheaper if I’m patient. Or is this in reference to the star wars/beanie babies crash anecdote?
@@xCanadensis I also loathe high doll prices lol. I more meant in the beanie baby crash way. I like to look up my random thrift store finds and when I see people struggling to give away the same thing I was happy to purchase I get weirdly self conscious that this thing I really like has no value to others. But low pricing is definitely handy when searching to find a doll.
AH YEAH! That totally makes sense. I like it because I can get them more easily and then generally once those are eaten up people want them again. It’s funny to me because those 90’s Star Wars figures are genuinely AMAZING but nobody cares because they’re bargain bin
Oh so much fun! I love the fairytopia doll. I have one second hand. I am a barbie collector mainly but love pretty much all dolls. We have a little of everything. Thank you so much for sharing. Also thanks for the metal brush tip. It was totally a game changer for fixing hair. When I got a few 18 in dolls for my little one I was not sure how to carefor their hair. Got a few american girl and OG second hand and they cleaned up nice with the metal brush. I have been brushing doll hair since i was probably 3 and wish I had known that. I had lots of dolls with missing plugs and frizzy hair as a kid. But I did use shampoo and conditioner. Neither caused long term issues after 30 plus years just the brushing hard as a kid pulled out hair. I may have to try re rooting some childhood dolls following your videos.
I have Butterfly Art Ken and Steve. They're hilarious. Also, pretty sure there was a sh!tstorm around the butterfly art series. My niece had all of them. Her mom called them her 'slxt' barbies... But yeah. I likes them tho. Wish I'd have saved them. Alas
Let’s take a moment to appreciate how gorg Brooke looks!!
Quit!! Thank you 🥺
she’s slaying as always
Gorge!
These just look so deluxe compared to current Barbie. I shouldn't have taken them for granted. They are harder to get where I live in Canada than in the US. It's generally eBay and at least $25 shipping.
Hello...I'm from Germany and was living f 15 years in the Emirates....it was around 94 to 2009...and I was collecting all those dolls you just showed up....it was just a lovely memory to see them all again in box...love all your presentations...and I'm in now again for Rainnbow High a LOL dolls...thanks for inspiring me again to continue collecting....Love and all the best f your new start .Nora
“Collector Bubble” is such a perfect term for it 😭😭 People will find some in their basement and think they struck gold, no babe it’s mass produced and not even slightly rare 😭😭
YUP! And then they just want it gone because it’s “not valuable” like the thought it would be and then they mostly go for under retail cost! It’s crazy!
I'm not a fan of the faces on barbie through that era, but truth be told it's her best one. Her looks are amazing but also the dedication on detail for packaging, she really looks like a queen whether on everyday outfits or movie ones. Nowadays barbie is more of a commoner than a fashion icon. That includes the Extra dolls that look more like fashion designers students than anything else.
I used to play with my dolls like that too! It would drive my sisters crazy because I would set up the scenes and doll houses and make everything look beautiful, change their clothes and then pose them and it could take a hour or two lol! My sisters used to get so impatient with me because I was always done playing by the time I was done setting up🤣.
My mom would be furious that my room became a doll house and I didn’t want to clean it up because it would take a damn eternity to set it up the next day 😭 and everything had a specific arrangement that I preferred too
@@xCanadensis omg. YES. also like I didn't have doll houses so I would stack VCHs up and make a whole house that way everytime and it drove my mom NUTS lol!
@@xCanadensis I like your doll room I like your rainbow high dolls collection I love your dolls room
@@xCanadensis I did that with my LPS collection.
If you want to keep them all in box, you might want to do some box surgery to get the batteries out of Julia in case they decide to corrode/leak over time. I’ve had it happen to a one of my childhood doll and its a very not fun time haha
Ohh that’s good advice, thank you! That would be awful :(
Yes, please.
i’d love to see you tap into the early mattel disney princess dolls!! the ones from 1995-2005 !! they have a super unique vibe once one starts seeing their potential
Clara is amazing she's just ethereal. I unboxed mine solely just bc she is so fun to pose in different ballet positions! Also the jewlia doll omg...I have the crystal from my childhood and had the same issue with her skirts snapping 😔
I had that butterfly tattoo one and her hair was soooo soft she was one of my favorites. She would always ride around in my barbie minivan with ken
I had that Clara as a kid! I’m casually recollecting my childhood dolls and I hope I can get her again one day, but I rarely see her for under $100. Seeing you get such a great deal gives me hope that I’ll find her too! 🤗
I’m actually shocked she’s THAT much?? I thought she sat around $50 which I still thought was outrageous!
Search “barbie” on Facebook marketplace! I’ve stumbled upon perfect Clara dolls in box many times but I’m usually a bit too late to get them!
@@xCanadensis Yes it’s so crazy! I did see one on FB marketplace recently but she was also priced at $100 😂 I live in an unfortunate area for doll collecting, none of the thrift stores here even stock dolls and gas is just too expensive right now to drive, but I’m willing to be patient!
@@avalinejennings8687 I wish you luck in your doll collecting! Where I live theres a small good will and it usually just had baby dolls in very bad condition. Hoping one day I'll find something good there! I did find a porcelain doll there she's very beautiful!
Hi Brooke! Just wanted to say congratulations on the new house, job, and the great lot! When you mentioned Georgia I wanted to tell you about the Atlanta doll show, it was last Saturday on the 21st so another year till the next one but just wanted to let you know about it since that’s the only show in Georgia really.
Love your Barbie hauls!
Great Barbie Haul :) such a good fb marketplace find
Yay! A Barbie video! :) I was in the generation before the Barbie movies, but it seems like they were very influential for kids at that time!
I'm pleased you found the Sleeping Beauty Barbie. She was my first Collector doll. I got her when I was 12-13 years old.
I love the Barbie Basics line. At that time they were out I was collecting only Monster High but I have since kept my eyes open. I am also looking for that model muse body because its easy to spot and you know its either a Basics or a holiday doll. I have 2, 4, 8, 10, an 11. I was also lucky enough to find one of the Target girls, the one with the blonde bob although I missed out on the one with the long brown hair and the straight bangs. They are so fun to dress and I would have a hard time not taking them out of box. What I would recommend is leave them in and just keep hunting and someday you may find them OOB. I will say though that number 8 is one of those rare and delightful dolls that looks good in everything. She is a stunner. Some dolls you just have such a hard time finding the right outfit but not her. Her issue is wanting to put everything on her all at once.
I understand the joy of the first doll in the Disney lines. When I was little I asked for Aladdin and Jasmine and she was my favorite doll. After a few years her neck broke and I cried. I still have her and was lucky enough to find a replacement but I still kept my beheaded one. lol. I also adore my first Megara. One of my grail dolls is the Midnight Masquerade but I am not sure if I will ever drop that much money on a doll. She is so lovely though. I am not into the fairy dolls or the fairy tale dolls but I love watching your excitement and interest in them. I just love seeing you ramble on. Great find!!!!
I swear 8 looks so much like Tyra Banks. She's the irl doll Life-Size lol.
i remember KB toys as a kid omg 😭😭 i remember the fashion fever dolls at kb toys UGH I MISS TOY SHOPS
Morning Sun Princess is so incredible. I legit pine for the three girls in that line. 😍 She's usually a little pricey, so $20 is a good deal for her.
The Barbie Basics are so beautiful, unfortunately many of them suffer from glue head, but their faces are stunning.
I wanted to get the rest of the set after seeing them on the back of the box and they’re a bit higher than I want to pay… dang it! I’ll find them someday though :)
God I hate glue… maybe I should open them to treat them… LOL
@@xCanadensis I mean, I always advocate for any excuse to take a doll out of the box 😁
I'm so glad you got a first Edition Tiana
I had the butterfly art barbie when I was a kid! I vividly remember getting her for my 5th birthday, and she was my absolute favourite barbie (until I decided to cut her hair 🤣)
Cutting hair is so fun until it isn’t…
Love Barbie Basics!!! Trying to collect them and so far I have 6. I found a couple of them at thrift. Congrats on a great find!!!! 🙂
That butterfly art Barbie is one of the very few Barbie’s from my original collection that I still own, a few years ago I went on a Barbie collection spee buying up all the Barbie’s I remember having as a kid, I have quite a few of them I managed to get the same doll boxed. ❤
I Absolutely Love 😍that Bindi doll!
I'm a sucker for some late 90's early 2000's barbie dolls.
That Sleeping Beauty Barbie actually was going to be a Barbie movie! The first one ever, if I’m not mistaken. They made a small teaser trailer but couldn’t make an actual movie as Disney tried to copyright Mattel over the name Aurora: despite the fact that’s the original name from the ballet. Definitely with you about keeping old Barbies in the box! The pictures and colour pallet is too pretty. And yes! Magic of the Rainbow Elina’s wings are fabric. They are so easy to break tho aha 🥲
She was! There’s a lil game based on it too? I wish she’d gotten her movie!
Hi Brooke firstly congrats on the move what a lovely house you have and your new job, and how cute does Brett look with his new hair cut. Wow what a haul $20 each fantastic I have both those Barbie Basic myself I have a few I wish I collected them all when they where out. Bindi doll was funny I never saw her on sale her being an Australian doll funny that she is now married with child her self. So happy for you with your Tiana grail doll. Have a great dolly day 🥰
Wow! This was a trip down memory lane for me 😍 I had a lot of these as a kid
YOO!! I have that Elina too!! Shes so fun, i need to get a DVD player for my CRT to play with her :DD
Yay, happy to see some Barbie love!
I got so giddy when you pulled out that Clara and Elina. Gosh, I remember the ads for Fairyoke as a kid, they looked like so much fun, but I can't think of a single song from those movies that you'd include with a toy like that. XD But Clara, Clara I have a story about.
We have a similar history, my first Barbie movie dolls were from Rapunzel! I had a bunch of them, the main doll, her prince, the Kellys, heck my Lorena (the peacock themed Kelly) lost an arm at one point and I'm so mad she got thrown out when I wasn't looking. I don't have most of them anymore but I want her back specifically. Rapunzel was my jam, that and the ballet movies were my favorites after her, but the Nutcracker kind of fell by the wayside. I didn't fully appreciate it until I was in college. I had it, and I had Clara as my one doll from it growing up, had a ballet phase and got her as a gift during it. She was well played with, her hair is matted, she's missing a foot, her joints are loose, but she was loved. (I really want to repair her with a reroot and made-to-move body, but I keep debating it since I've never rerooted before, and she's so sentimental.) Well, when I got into dolls, two distinct things happened. One, my roommate brought her doll collection to our dorm and decorated her half of the room with it. Before I got my first two collection dolls, Clara was a doll I brought from home to display in the room. Reason being, I was falling into the Nutcracker fandom. There is an artist known as ShinyZango who has a really beautiful adaptation of the nutcracker story that she draws, and I fell head over heels for her work at the time, brought me back into my old love for the nutcracker ballet. And when I found a fellow voice actor dubbing her work (who is now my friend AJ at BigBlueVA), he asked me to join in as Clara. Zango loved our dubbing so much that we've been her voice actors for Hans and Clara ever since, and we met a ton of friends with their own takes on the nutcracker story and original ones. And what do we do every Christmas together? Hop on a discord call and watch Barbie in the Nutcracker (among other nutcracker films) to ring in the holiday season. The movie didn't mean as much to me before that, but now it's a comfort film and reminds me of what great friends I have.
There was another thing: because I met these folks while I was working on my final college illustration course, I ended up with the nutcracker as the subject of two of my projects. After four years, that work has now become an original story that's in progress, and my nutcracker character, Auran Dulce, has a doll within my collection. He's currently borrowing my dad's childhood toy horse, Duke the palamino, as a mount, and I've been snuggling up with him a lot. He's a custom I made with an Invisi Billy head on an Obitsu male body, so he can have a bunch of poses in order to dance (he's a ballerino!). I've also since collected the dolls of Prince Eric and three of the Kellys (I'm missing the ones based on Captain Candy, Major Mint, and the Flower Fairy, still hunting). They all get displayed with Clara and my customs around the holidays, and I love them, so much. The pink haired fairy that's a Ginger custom I shared with you before, Delilah? She's a part of Auran's story, a bunch of my customs go to that, it's so special and important to me.
The tldr is I get really excited whenever I see someone with a fondness for nutcracker dolls, Barbie related or otherwise. I'm so happy you got to find Clara and hope she continues to spark joy for you for a long time!
I've been collecting this spesific era too. Because thrifting isn't as common here, I must settle for $30 in box on eBay. This era just reigns Supreme for me. The Cinderella collectors edition is also stunning.
It’s crazy to me how cheap most of them are on eBay considering how amazing they are! But they were “over-collected” and people just want them gone
Wow so lucky 😢❤ they are so pretty wow 🎉❤
Girl you are so pretty! Also good deal!
Yes! I love barbie so much 90s and early 2000s are my absolute favourites!! 💕💕
You are making me feel old now lol, i was 14 in 2001 and always wanted the Barbie movie dolls, I used to watch my nieces and fell in love with the Barbie movies from 2004- on up, now at 35 Im still hunting 1980's-2000's dolls this is an amazing find
We get a lot of those older boxed Barbies in my area. They dont seem to get a lot of love. I appreciate you showing us your finds.
Barbie Basics are AMAZING! I collect them, too (even though they are very expensive 😭☠️) I have 3 from this line and 1 from the jeans collection. I don't plan to get every single one of them, but there is still a few that I really want to get!
When it comes to Barbie I basically only collect Basics and the new line of Looks dolls. Are you planning to get any dolls from the Looks line?
OMG you got all these beautiful dolls for a really good price!! 💕💝
Love the 2010s hair!
I remember seeing those types of Barbie dolls, I think the only one I ever bought was a Re-Punzel one. I still have her to this day. 🥰
Oh my gosh i had the the magic of the rainbow fairyoke wings and that exact Elina doll!
I love those dolls I miss having all my barbies
What an Amazing haul 😱! So so Beautiful 🥹
I have a sleeping beauty Barbie she came with a pillow that makes music when you press it and she has eyes that close when you lay her down
That morning sun doll is really beautiful. I have her in my glass cabinet
That Julie fairy doll is beautiful, I always went for the blonde Barbie’s even thou I have brown hair and hazel eyes. I only started going for the brown haired ones when I was much older.
Lawd i had the fashionista dolls glam, sweet, skipper look a like and more but omg !!! I cannot believe you unlocked one of my core memories as a kid !!! I didn’t like Barbie all that much but I loved fashionistas a lot (right next to 12 dancing princesses)
Such an awesome find! Funny enough I found the Barbie and the nutcracker doll at a goodwill and I believe she has everything still on her, she's just dirty lol.
I have several of those in box that the daughters have threatened me if I were to sell! I really need a magic of Pegasus doll in box because she was played with so hard! Honestly the light up staffs were the biggest hit. I had to put their initials on them 💜 Good memories! I love that you have been having fun playing with your dolls 🎉
Barbie and the 12 dancing princess is my favourite Barbie movie I watched it till the dvd got all scratched up
Sooo jelly 💖
Check Facebook marketplace!! There’s so many amazing deals!
@@xCanadensis haha I know!! You have taught us well 🤣💖
actually their is a budget magic of the ranbow elina I think! (also funfact mariposa has one with her smaller wings which I found out was very shook by- but that was a DVD exclusive I think) and one of my fave variants was the rainbow lights elian which they used the of elina scupt for!
so gorgeous!!!!!!!!!
I remember the OG Barbie Fashionistas. I used to play the the Photoshoot thingy when I was a kid. I liked the 2nd wave tho more than the 1st wave.
omg i remember having that glam barbie when i was super young! she was one of my favorites and i adored how she had articulation out of my other ones. i also have the barbie movie clara still, she was from my older cousin but i don't ever remember having her as a kid lol
Omg the magic of the rainbow one i still have! Unfortunately she is very destroyed and i also though i've lost the shoes lmao. Lost the wings of mine, although i love her still🥰
Additional comment the snowflake and flower fairy dolls are actually part of the same line, unconnected to the movie! Theres also a marzipan and peppermint candy from the nutcracker ballet, and a swan queen and swan ballerina from swan lake
8:17 to me you look like bloom but with brown hair, idk why
Red hair was aspirational to me as a child so I could never relate myself to them because they were better than I could ever be
Tiana is so cute! I found that doll on eBay last year😊
16:53 I have this one (But without video game, the box and without any other stuff)! I got her used with some other dolls from Ebay and if I didn‘t „repaint“ her wings and if I didn’t used the skirt for my other dolls, it would still be like new, even her hairstyle is not ruined yet (if I remember right).
I don‘t know why, but I was most of the time scared of her. 😅 So, I never really played with her and she always was somewhere in my room on the floor, with other stuff that I didn’t play with (but I was too lazy to tidy my room 🤷♀️) around her.
My literal favourite Barbie of all time is still Barbie Fashionistas Wild with the poofy cheetah print dress. I got her for my birthday and I played with her until she was bald and legless lmao. I’ll find her eventually!
I only own one Barbie basics doll, wish I was able to get more, there was one that I really wanted to buy but I no longer remember what she looked like. I also remember seeing them in stores wish I paid more attention to them.
omg i have the sleeping beauty one, my cousin gave her to me a few years ago!! i took her out of box and she sits happily on my shelf :D she is so beautiful!!
I love you fairytopia 💕💞
I loved the Barbie butterfly tattoo the best : )
I used to have the same Barbie magic of the rainbow :D !
The game was fun but short, Barbie as a controller was cute but made the doll really heavy, stiff and hard to place anywhere (she fell from my book shelf all the time xD) I honestly didn´t like her bcs of that, but Im surprised that you got her sealed in such good condition o:
I cry bcs I been trying to find an affordable nutcracker one but they are all SO expensive around here (I live in mexico btw) and ebay is such a scam most of the time :(
I´m so happy for you getting all of those beauties !
Thanks for yet another fun and amazing video :D
YAY i was so excited for this video to come out
so cool! From what I learned about the box dates is that the dolls were released one year later.
My faves are the Barbie Basics dolls you have, I remember back when they launched those two dolls reminded me of Tyra banks and Naomi Campbell.
I have all the Butterflies tattoos Barbie , Teresa , Kira
The Bindi Doll is Bindi Irwin. Bindi Sue Irwin is the daughter of Steve Irwin and Terri Irwin. She has a brother, Robert Clarence. She has a daughter with her husband Chandler Powell.
I know who she is ;-; I was saying the DOLL is unfamiliar to me
Would of really loved to get her moon friend.
Literally trying to collect old Barbie dolls like the Fashion Fever line
I’m a collector of vintage Barbie dolls. My dolls are from 1959-1969. These dolls she is showing are mostly play dolls and are not considered vintage.
I'm so jealousssss but happy for you! That was such a great deal on them! I would definitely keep them in box!
Also fun fact the Sleeping Beauty doll was supposed to be a movie but it never happened due to Disney copyright.
All the Barbie dolls looking so beautiful But I loved the first one u shown sleeping beauty and fashionista pink one. And third sun Barbie. Can you Unboxing that pink fashionista doll or sleeping beauty doll but fashionista pink doll would be fun seeing Unboxing. Please do more such videos on Barbie coz we all love Barbie dolls. Thanks in advance.🥰😊
"I would have sued if a doll of me looked like this." LOLOlololo
I cried!!! 😭😭😭😭so happy for you and jealous 😭😭😭
These are absolutely everywhere if you keep looking!
@@xCanadensis haha in India there are no thrift stores and no eBay works here and conversation of dollar to ruppess is sooooo expensive
Good haul but you make me feel old lol I also only do Barbie from my childhood and that would be late 70s early 80s for me 😂 see the difference rotfl 🤣
$20 was a good deal for all of the doll. Clara was one of popular doll yet so rare in here. and i can pay at least $50-$100 for Clara.. I can get for that price. But, its on bad condition one..
And the children's collection one have at least 9 dolls on the line with Cinderella, Rapunzel, snow white, etc. The sugarplum was from Classic ballet series (The other that you mention indeed are from the same line)
That sun princess looks like a fusion of Stella and Daphne 😂
Hello! I'm from Canada and a barbie collector!
Id like to know where you purchase your beautiful dolls. Do you buy in lots? Thank u 😊
i have the nutcracker one, but the box already gone
Those basic barbies are so expensive but $20 for each is a steal
To me $20 is the ideal doll price as it’s what they tend to retail for so I’m very pleased
When you open her if you do her hair is very long, I always went for the very long haired dolls.
Such a good haul ✨⚡️✨
Omg so cool
AWESOME HAUL!
The Bindi doll is actually Australian! She's an Australian personality. Her father was famous animal adventurer and TV personality Steve Irwin.
She's grown up now and we'll in to her 20s
Oh I know who she is- I just mean I’d never seen the doll before aha. I loved her as a kid and still do!
@@xCanadensis oh cool. She's still on TV here. You don't really see her dolls around anymore though. At least not here.
I was going to comment this she has an adorable baby girl now to. They have a RUclips channel.
Brooke for the ones you’re opening! Could you make a video opening them
Some of these doll retail for like 100-200 dollars on the second hand market, so this is definitely a steal
The Looks dolls were the ones I lost my mind over when the seller said $20 each LOL. I was going to try to buy 20+ but the seller was firm on the $20 each price so I went with these!
I totally relate to seeing a doll I really like listed for super low prices everywhere and it negatively affecting how I view them. It's weird because I know my original opinion is all that matters, but still.
I prefer seeing low prices because it means I can easily snatch them up! I may not have been clear there aha. I meant that I LOATHE high priced online dolls because I know I can find them cheaper if I’m patient.
Or is this in reference to the star wars/beanie babies crash anecdote?
@@xCanadensis I also loathe high doll prices lol. I more meant in the beanie baby crash way. I like to look up my random thrift store finds and when I see people struggling to give away the same thing I was happy to purchase I get weirdly self conscious that this thing I really like has no value to others. But low pricing is definitely handy when searching to find a doll.
AH YEAH! That totally makes sense. I like it because I can get them more easily and then generally once those are eaten up people want them again. It’s funny to me because those 90’s Star Wars figures are genuinely AMAZING but nobody cares because they’re bargain bin
@@xCanadensis That's a really good point I'm new to collecting so I haven't really witnessed the popularity waves people talk about.
I wish I grew up with very easily 2000s barbies but I grew up with late 2000s and early 2010s
Oh so much fun! I love the fairytopia doll. I have one second hand. I am a barbie collector mainly but love pretty much all dolls. We have a little of everything. Thank you so much for sharing. Also thanks for the metal brush tip. It was totally a game changer for fixing hair. When I got a few 18 in dolls for my little one I was not sure how to carefor their hair. Got a few american girl and OG second hand and they cleaned up nice with the metal brush. I have been brushing doll hair since i was probably 3 and wish I had known that. I had lots of dolls with missing plugs and frizzy hair as a kid. But I did use shampoo and conditioner. Neither caused long term issues after 30 plus years just the brushing hard as a kid pulled out hair. I may have to try re rooting some childhood dolls following your videos.
I have Butterfly Art Ken and Steve. They're hilarious. Also, pretty sure there was a sh!tstorm around the butterfly art series. My niece had all of them. Her mom called them her 'slxt' barbies... But yeah. I likes them tho. Wish I'd have saved them. Alas
I know this is a weird question but where do you get your mental hair brushes??? Love your videos soooooo much!!
Amazon! Or beauty supply stores (specifically those that sell wigs!)
Thanks!
You remind me so much of Allison Harvard, have you ever tried dyeing your hair bonde? You arre so pretyyy
I haaate bleaching my hair because it absolutely destroys it but I like how I look in blonde wigs for cosplays!
And thank you :) I get that a lot!
If any of these have batteries, you might want to find a way remove them, so they won't corrode over time. 🐱❤
Barbie princess charm school was one of the top searched things on Netflix in my country
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Omg i got the morning sun!! Now i just braid her hair hhehe