wowww new video!! on my main channel. surprise, its barbie.
A LOT a progress has been made on the speedruns since it started, and with it just being me and a friend I wanted to make a proper guide so maybe people would get into it.
you can find the speedrun page and written guide here!
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@thebreakfastgenie asked about Kelly and as it’s her birthday around about now I figured I had best oblige.
The most important thing about Kelly is that Kelly is no longer. Officially this is not because Kelly has vanished from the timeline or been shipped off to boarding school or whatever unfortunate fate befalls discontinued characters like Midge and Alan’s twins or Tutti (more on Tutti later — I have a post in my queue about her). Actually, Kelly has changed her name to Chelsea.
The second interesting thing about Kelly is that I have absolutely no idea how old she is meant to be. This is probably a related phenomenon to Skipper, who was introduced as an elementary school character and aged over the course of approximately 50 real life years to her mid to late teens, but Kelly has been a part of the line for a much shorter amount of time.
The earliest Kelly-branded doll that I am aware of is as flower girl in Midge and Alan’s wedding in 1991.
In this release, she looks to be of a comparable age to Todd, and though I’m no expert in assessing doll ages I’d assume she’s no younger than 5, but no older than 9 in this release.
However as you may or may not know, Todd is more likely to be presented as comparable in age to Kelly’s older sister (and Barbie and Skipper’s younger sister) Stacie. I assume this early Kelly is really the character who would eventually become Stacie.
The next release of Kelly was three years later in 1994 - as Barbie’s new “baby sister”.
Although described as a baby on the box, I think it’s fair to say that Kelly is depicted as a toddler, in the ballpark of 2 years old.
That is on track with a 1996 release, in which Kelly could be potty trained.
Kelly “really drinks and wets” in this release and given how excited she is to use the toilet, I think it’s fair to say she’s toddler aged here also.
Like many young ones though, it seems as though Kelly didn’t grasp the toilet right away as she is still gaining independence with the toilet in the 2004 release, Tinkle Time Kelly.
In 2005, Kelly is losing her first tooth in Tooth Time Kelly. This would be very unusual for a toddler so I assume here she is somewhere in the ballpark of 5 - 7 in age. Perhaps she was a late bloomer in Tinkle Time; or perhaps an early tooth-loser here.
These days Chelsea has left the name Kelly behind her and has taken to jetsetting. She is prepared for her flight with carry-on luggage, headphones and Netflix. (Nice tie-in, Mattel…)
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With the release of the Barbie movie I figured it would be a good time to draw Barbie as a genie. Since I could decide on a single look I ended up giving her four different outfits with the same pose (to save time). The top left if based on her computer game Barbie: Magic Genie Adventure. The bottom left is based on the classic I Dream of Jeannie outfit (Barbra Eden would have been the perfect live action Barbie back then IMO). The top fight is slightly inspired by Jenni from the match 3 game Genies n Gems though I made some more creative differences with that one. Finally, the bottom right is inspired by a vintage genie art piece I came across while searching for inspiration.
Barbie belongs to Mattel.
As always, comments and critiques are welcome.
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Having an absolute nostalgia trip hang on
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Made in 2016, 2017 + 2019
If you’ve seen this anywhere else, I posted it back on my deviantArt when it was made.
Mario girls cosplaying as various girls
1. Fortune Teller - requested by sandsofeternaltime
2. Perfume Merchant - requested by sandsofeternaltime
3. Hawaiian Barbie - requested by marcusperez824
4. Kaguya-hime (Design by Shiitake) - requested by sweet-sharotto
5. Okashina Futari Bride (Design by Mashiro Yuh & Ohyuki) - requested by jamster93
6. Pink Star Genie - requested by sandsofeternaltime
7. Tamil Girl - requested by sandsofeternaltime
8. Turkish Vendor - requested by sandsofeternaltime
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Quick art dump, I've been drawing a lot recently
Some oc stuff too, the first two are Gee and Charm, Charm tends to make questionable decisions... too bad Gee has to put up with it!
That jacket has a huge hold on me..
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