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(NB: picture below is NOT a Rollerblade Barbie)
"Ask Jack Sunn" from the Dec. 13, 1993, issue of the Jackson, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger. Here's an excerpt from a consumer's letter to this column: "Last year, my two daughters received presents of two Rollerblade Barbie dolls by Mattel. On March 8, my 8-year-old daughter was playing beauty shop with her 4-year-old brother. After spraying him with hair spray, the children began to play with the boot to Rollerblade Barbie. My little girl innocently ran the skate across her brother's bottom, which immediately ignited his clothes." The letter adds that "There are no warnings concerning fire on these toys . . . I feel the need to warn potential buyers of their danger." In his response, Jack Sunn says, cryptically, that "Mattel does not manufacture Rollerblade Barbie any more." Huh? Rollerblade Barbie is basically a standard Barbie, which is to say, she represents the feminine beauty ideal, if your concept of a beautiful female is one who is six feet, nine inches tall and weighs 52 pounds (37 of which are in the bust area) and has a rigidly perky smile and eyeballs the size of beer coasters and a one-molecule nose and enough hair to clog any drain. But what makes this Barbie special is that she's wearing two little yellow Rollerblade booties, each of which has a wheel similar to the kind found in cigarette lighters, so that when you roll Barbie along, her booties shoot out sparks. This seems like an alarming thing for Rollerblades to do, but Barbie, staring perkily ahead, does not seem to notice.
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WARNING! DO NOT SPRAY HAIR SPRAY ON THIS OBJECT AND SKATE ROLLERBLADE BARBIE OVER
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