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Girls Everywhere Clamor For Uplifting 'Pecked to Within an Inch of Her Life' Barbie
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 3:35 AM on June 21, 2008
On a weekend when the wholesome American Girl doll "character" movement rocks its pre-pubescent influence at the box office for the first time, a loyal reader points us to a bit of perverse toy revisionism for the rest of us. Behold, in recognition of the Hitchcock film's 45th anniversary, The Birds Barbie:
This Barbie is for The Birds! Actually, this Barbie from The Birds is for you! Celebrating Alfred Hitchcock's classic film, this incredible collector's doll features our heroine being attacked by a trio of fine feathered foes, just like in the movie. Will these plastic birds damage her delightful handbag or her carefully styled hair? We certainly hope not! Be sure to let Barbie into your home and pray that the birds don't come in with her!
Modeled after the ritually abused Hitchcock blonde Tippi Hedren, we're told the figurine features "real fake birds" and a "high-quality head [that] looks scared and has awesome hair!" And at the low, low price of $44.99, fetishized victimhood has never been more affordable for the little girl in your life. Still, here's hoping this is just the start: When Shower-Scene and/or Notorious Spy Slut Barbie hit the market, then we'll know Mattel has really hit its empowering stride.
- Alfred Hitchcock The Birds Barbie Doll [Entertainment Earth via Boing Boing]
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NoGrumpys
Posted 5:12 AM 21/6/08
The Ken doll comes with chickens because he's henpecked
NoGrumpys
theCrippleCricket
Posted 5:03 AM 21/6/08
My mother seriously almost named me Tippi after watching "The Birds" about a million times. (The nurse on maternity ward duty refused to actually let her sign it on my birth certificate. Thank God for that woman)
I am -so- ordering her this!
theCrippleCricket
Embot
Posted 4:59 AM 21/6/08
Love it. I would like to see Kathy Bates Barbie with sledgehammer and typewriter.
Or Eva Marie Saint Barbie hanging off a miniature pink Mount Rushmore!
Embot
FancyInk
Posted 4:52 AM 21/6/08
Or a Grace Kelly Barbie to receive an ill-fated phone call but fortunately have scissors nearby.
FancyInk
Doreen DelPurgatorio
Posted 4:51 AM 21/6/08
just pre-ordered one on ebay. I wonder if they have the bird-covered-jungle-gym (sold separately).
MUST MUST MUST HAVE!
Doreen DelPurgatorio
Benovite
Posted 4:47 AM 21/6/08
[insert joke of Jodie Foster's "Accused" Barbie doll with pool table here]
Benovite
juniperjenny
Posted 4:44 AM 21/6/08
This is awesome. If there is a Madame Alexander version, I want it. I get a MA doll every year (until I turn 30) - its time to graduate up to the macabre ones.
They should come out with a Vertigo one that you can dress up as somebody you're obsessed with.
juniperjenny
heidiho
Posted 4:42 AM 21/6/08
I would carry a Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? in my handbag at all times.
@Trixie from Toronto: Ahhh... gotcha. The things I remember and don't (like my phone number sometimes) astound me.
heidiho
kookla
Posted 4:41 AM 21/6/08
Does it come with Barbie's mini innoculation kit for the bird flu?
kookla
Whiteboyfunfark
Posted 4:41 AM 21/6/08
My parrot is saving his pecker for Earring Magic Ken.
[en.wikipedia.org]
Whiteboyfunfark
NoWireHangers
Posted 4:40 AM 21/6/08
I'd love to see a Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. Or a Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie. Or a Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest. A girl can dream...
NoWireHangers
NoWireHangers
Posted 4:39 AM 21/6/08
@Trixie from Toronto: It was the Madame Alexander version, no? Nothing can compete with Patsy, darling.
My dark confession is that I collected Barbies for awhile. They're safely tucked away in their original boxes in my counsin's basement back East valuing up for Ebay.
NoWireHangers
The Bitter Librarian
Posted 4:36 AM 21/6/08
Birds aside, the suit is rather fab....
The Bitter Librarian
TurdBlossom
Posted 4:33 AM 21/6/08
@DebbieDoesDamage: Sort of like Nicole Kidman trying to emote.
TurdBlossom
Trixie from Toronto
Posted 4:28 AM 21/6/08
@heidiho: Something very similar to this was my avatar for awhile. I even changed my name to Tippi!
Trixie from Toronto
DebbieDoesDamage
Posted 4:27 AM 21/6/08
She doesn't look all that scared, really. More like she's waving a fly away than trying to escape blood-thirsty birds.
DebbieDoesDamage
NefariousNewt
Posted 4:26 AM 21/6/08
What's next? Ripley-vs-Alien-Queen Barbie?
NefariousNewt
recidivicious
Posted 4:20 AM 21/6/08
This is too bizarre for me not to want one.
recidivicious
NefariousNewt
Posted 4:11 AM 21/6/08
@DorothyZbornak: Or Cary-Grant-pursued-by-airplane Ken, for that matter?
NefariousNewt
Buffalo_Gal
Posted 4:10 AM 21/6/08
I once read that Alfred Hitchcock gave a young Melanie Griffith a doll that resembled her mother (Tippi) in a coffin.
I'd like to see the Alfred Hitchcock doll with little Tippis and Melanies smacking him around.
Buffalo_Gal
heidiho
Posted 4:06 AM 21/6/08
Wasn't this Trixie's avatar for a while? I bet she already has one!
heidiho
hughman
Posted 4:04 AM 21/6/08
WANT!!!
hughman
embobly
Posted 4:04 AM 21/6/08
I'd love to see Shirley MacLaine from The Trouble with Harry with a big ol' shovel in her hands. :)
embobly
Looker
Posted 4:03 AM 21/6/08
I want one of these. "Real fake birds" and all.
Looker
Hav
Posted 4:00 AM 21/6/08
Or Miss Lonely Hearts Skipper.
Hav
DorothyZbornak
Posted 3:57 AM 21/6/08
Where's the Norman Bates dressed as mother Barbie? Or the Jimmy Stewart in a wheelchair Ken?
DorothyZbornak
shaboomy
Posted 5:51 AM 21/6/08
Dear Lord!!! (finding cell phone) must. call. Kevin. Kevin is my most fabulous friend, and the only thing he loves more than eccentric barbies, which he uses in his art, is Hitchcock blondes. if he doesn't already know about this, he will shit his pants. love it!
shaboomy
FourInchHeels
Posted 5:45 AM 21/6/08
Barbie must have gone for botox recently, as her scared face looks awfully similar to her other "expressions." She should use her words to tell people how she's feeling.
FourInchHeels
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 5:40 AM 21/6/08
At first glance, I just assumed it was Nicole Kidman being mistaken for a pile of dried up sticks and grass by some nest-building crows...then upon closer inspection, I realized the hair actually had low-lights...
I personally will wait for the Diane Keaton "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" doll...
Little Mintz Sunshine
EuroDad
Posted 6:27 AM 21/6/08
@Benovite:
or perhaps a nice Nell doll?
EuroDad
el smrtmnky
Posted 7:01 AM 21/6/08
Mighty Aphrodite Barbie
Kiss of the Spider Woman Ken
el smrtmnky
harshmellow
Posted 6:53 AM 21/6/08
This doesn't have anything to do with the upcoming Michael Bay remake does it? The movie's gonna suck, but that gas pump explosion is gonna ROCK.
harshmellow
Doreen DelPurgatorio
Posted 6:47 AM 21/6/08
@shaboomy: I hope Kevin does not literally shit his pants. That would not be fabulous.
Doreen DelPurgatorio
taffy
Posted 6:41 AM 21/6/08
MUST.HAVE.IT!!!
taffy
harshmellow
Posted 6:39 AM 21/6/08
This will be my first and only Barbie. That is, unless this is the first of the "Hitchcock Series." AWESOME.
harshmellow
harshmellow
Posted 7:22 AM 21/6/08
@Benovite: Wasn't that a pinball machine? Collect them all! LOL
harshmellow
el smrtmnky
Posted 7:10 AM 21/6/08
Sopie's Choice Barbie (no Skipper)
Leaving Las Vegas Ken
Kramer vs Kramer Ken and Barbie
Driving Miss Daisy Barbie w/Hoke Ken
el smrtmnky
Whiteboyfunfark
Posted 8:05 AM 21/6/08
@harshmellow: Can't wait for the Tallulah Bankhead 'Lifeboat' Barbie: diamond bracelet, run in her nylons, lipstick at the ready, a little camera that disappears shortly after purchase, and no underpants.
Whiteboyfunfark
Whiteboyfunfark
Posted 7:53 AM 21/6/08
@FourInchHeels: Unfortunately "Will we ever have enough clothes?" "Math is tough!" and "Wanna have a pizza party?" just can't express the giddiness of having your eyes pecked out by a gigantic ravenous flock of pissed off starlings.
Whiteboyfunfark
laughingacademy
Posted 7:40 AM 21/6/08
I want a Marnie doll. It can come with blonde and brunette wigs, a suitcase full of cash, and a gun for shooting horses.
laughingacademy
raincoaster
Posted 8:28 AM 21/6/08
There is indeed a Madame Alexander version:
[www.madamealexander.com]
also Psycho:
[www.amazon.com]
raincoaster
CaveatLector
Posted 10:46 AM 21/6/08
I would still kill to have that frickin suit.
CaveatLector
bizhistories
Posted 10:21 AM 21/6/08
No wonder Barbie has been one of the best-selling dolls for so long! This is insane!
[www.fundinguniverse.com]
bizhistories
Topsyjane
Posted 10:17 AM 21/6/08
@Whiteboyfunfark: Makeup artist and hairstylist sold separately.
@raincoaster: Ah, the Madame Alexander version of Psycho is no good - the doll looks like a ten year old. We need the Barbie version with the giant bra and slip pre-shower outfit.
Is it too much to hope for a 'Vertigo' Barbie? She comes with a brunette wig and slutty change of clothes, but only one necklace! Or a 'Rebecca' Barbie? Or would she be Mrs. Danvers? "Organizing underwear is fun!"
Topsyjane
wackiland
Posted 4:08 PM 21/6/08
Can I have one? Can I? Please? Pretty please?
wackiland
imogengibbons
Posted 4:07 AM 21/6/08
It's nice to finally see Barbie out in the real world.
imogengibbons
NotReadyForPrimeTime
Posted 1:06 PM 22/6/08
Why don't they make a "Sunset Boulevard" Barbie? Norma Desmond could kick Tippi Hedren's ass.
NotReadyForPrimeTime
bigkongfan
Posted 3:05 AM 24/6/08
@DorothyZbornak: That would be the Norman Bates Dressed As Mother KEN.
bigkongfan
katiebug
Posted 2:09 AM 24/6/08
there is something strangly satisfying about seeing Barbie picked apart by wild animals
katiebug
NotReadyForPrimeTime
Posted 3:34 AM 24/6/08
@laughingacademy:
I think they would need to include a fireplace poker as an accessory, would they not?
NotReadyForPrimeTime
Whiteboyfunfark
Posted 7:21 AM 24/6/08
@NotReadyForPrimeTime: Norma Barbie wouldn't need dialogue either, because she had FACES.
@katiebug: It also lets the little brothers of the world off the hook for that shoebox full of disembodied Barbie parts found at the bottom of the toychest.
Whiteboyfunfark