In the letter enclosed it says that some members of the Barbie Fan Club had been selected to become The letter of the Barbie Advisory Panel included a questionnaire of several pagesĪsking the little girls questions like how many Barbie dolls they owned, whether they would like a a boyfriend doll for Barbie and what they thought of Barbie’s hair. In 1959 for example, the company published a newspaper for members of the Barbie Fan Club to join theīarbie Advisory Panel. Mattel was interested in finding out more about what little girls liked about their dolls and how they expected them to Prototype doll with the same leg mold and no marking on the feet. In the “Miller’s” Magazine (October/November 1994) there's an article in which author states that she had seen a photograph of a Skipper In the meantime, I talked toĪnother original owner of a Test Market doll who also thinks she got her doll in 1963. I couldn't find any proof for this though. German lady who showed me her Test Market doll and told me that her father got her from the New York Toy Fair in 1963. But some of them definitely were also sold in stores to the public - in the same box and with the same accessories like the regular issue. For a long time it was assumed, that they were handed out to Mattel employees only, prior to mass Without much doubt though these dolls were the first Skipper dolls ever produced in These dolls are much rarer than the later Skipper dolls, but not as rare as they would be if they indeed were sample dolls,Īnd for sure they aren't prototypes. Doll markings: Skipper © 1963 Mattel, Inc. A very small number was sold as "Dressed Dolls" (pls. They came in the regular boxes and had the basic " Prototypes" I call them “ Test-market” dolls, because they definitely were neither Sample dolls nor Prototypes. These Skippers are often being referred to as “ Sample dolls” or During the last decades some SL Skippers were found which differ from the SL dolls sold in 19.
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