[DeltaForceChung]

I wish the Professor X chair was available as a stand alone offering.

 

[DeltaForceChung]

At least I can finally finish creating my 1:6 recuperating stripper diorama in an arm sling and wearing leg casts with her stripper outfit while resting comfortably in her wheel chair. The poor thing tried to do a complicated pole dancing routine, but ended up inadvertently throwing herself out of the stage.

 

[DeltaForceChung]

When it comes to $, the bending and manipulation of facts and truths just to get our money is tried and true just like in politics, general business, etc.

Honesty, integrity, and just doing the right thing is seldom discussed and seen at times as of late. It's about public relations and projecting an image.

 

[DeltaForceChung]

Kind of an interesting story about Becky "Wheelchair Barbie" in the first place. Disability advocates took the opportunity to criticize Mattel on the basis that the door or elevator of the Barbie Dreamhouse couldn't fit the wheelchair. Mattel wasn't about to redesign the entirety of all Barbie world around the one wheelchair, and even if they had, there would still be bad PR because all the preexisting Dreamhouses didn't fit. The last version of Becky was a Paralympian athlete (which sidestepped the Dreamhouse issue), and then, Mattel abandoned her entirely.

Kind of an interesting story to debate. The disability advocates were right to seize the agenda as a way to draw attention towards necessary Accessibility issues. But in the result, they punished Mattel for making a gesture towards differently-abled inclusiveness, and it was disability advocates who caused the disabled Barbie to be discontinued. Whatcha gonna do.

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SO . . .

Becky is a collector's item now?

 

[DeltaForceChung]

What's next?

Amputee Barbie (Arm & Leg Variants)?

Paraplegic Barbie with accurate 1:6 crutches?

Adult Walker Barbie with accurate 1:6 walker?

Bi-Polar Barbie with two different head sculpts expressing different moods?

Opioid Barbie?

#MeToo Barbie?

In the grand scheme of things, I do believe at times there is always a bit of political correctness whether intentional or unintentional in such things.

Maybe try to do right thing, but it comes out the wrong way?

Given the recent discussions of Barbie items being utilized as 1:6 props, etc., I wonder how come such cool Barbie items always . . . always . . . always . . . end up with suck @$$ colors and the geniuses at Mattel either know it and don't care or they some peculiar rationale that explains the suck @$$ colors?

 

[DeltaForceChung]

I passed on a Becky, at a local thrift store, that appeared new in package for $15. Kind of wish I grabbed it because the chair really is decent and worth debarbify-ing. I guess I felt guilty about what to do with the Becky doll afterward, though I am fairly sure she is a "normal" Barbie body and able to stand.

Sorry to hear about the stripper accident. Is it possible you mis calculated the scale conversion on the pole and threw her off? Lol.

MoonBaseAlphaMale: It's interesting to note that Mattel tried to do the right thing and be inclusive of kids in wheelchairs, then took flack for "accessibility " issues. It's hard when an issue is so personal ( especially with a parent ) to see where the practical limits for the rest of the world are. As a person with bi-polar I could easily take offense over DFC's hypothetical "bi-polar Barbie" or Katy Perry's "Love Bi-Polar" lyric, when in fact, i am able to see the humor in it. There's nothing personally aimed at me about either one.
To bad for parents, since I'm sure Mattel would make some of the Barbies DFC postulated, if not for fear of reprisal.
Mattel was embrassing, not attacking handicapped children. Still, emotions run high

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You mean Becky CAN STAND? Praise the Lord! Our prayers have been answered! She can stand! It's a miracle! Can I get an AMEN?



Thank you for understanding the context and intent of my post (i.e. absurdist humor, etc.) and not take personal offense to it.

I was confined to crutches and wheelchairs in my childhood in my early teen years due to an accident from childhood. If someone else posted what I did, I too could have easily taken offense, but comprehending the humor context and intent I wouldn't.

I'm Asian, so I could take the path of least resistance and be offended by humorous 1:6 stereotypical posts about culture and ethnicity. However, I don't.

Excuse me. I need to go open up some new Asian female seamless figures. I'll open up some more after half an hour. I'm working on a 1:6 Asian buffet diorama.

 

[DeltaForceChung]

In the real world, how many pink and violet cars, houses and airplanes did you see today?

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In my old neighborhood (middle class area), a resident painted their house purple/violet/pink.

I $%^& you not. It caused a ruckus with the neighborhood association. I was a teen when this happened. At the time, I heard litigation was involved and it lasted a year. Afterwards, the house was painted green.

Then again . . . why are there purple/violet/pink lingerie colors? Not that it matters, but it's one of those things that make you go HMMM . . . or other.

 

[DeltaForceChung]

Well, there is a new Barbie wheelchair coming soon.
Even an amputee Barbie.

Barbie introduces dolls with wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs - CNN

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HOLY <CENSORED>!

You mean what I posted in jest over a year ago is actually coming true?