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The Canal Boat A Brief History

The Canal Boat – A Brief History

 

A canal boat (also known as a narrowboat or narrow boat) is a boat of a distinctive design, made to fit the narrow canals of England and Wales.

 

Narrowboats at Calcutt Boats marina

 

In the context of British Inland Waterways, “narrow boat” refers to the original working boats built in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries for carrying goods on the narrow canals (where locks and bridge holes would have a minimum width of 7 feet (2.1 m)). The term is extended to modern “narrowboats” used for recreation and occasionally as homes, whose design is an interpretation of the

 

Canal Boat Terminology

 

Purists tend to use the term with a space (narrow boat) when referring to an original boat or a replica, and to omit the space when referring to a modern boat used for leisure or as a residence – but this is not a hard and fast rule.[citation needed] The single word ‘narrowboat’ has been adopted by authorities such as British Waterways and the magazine Waterways World to refer to all boats built in the style and tradition of the narrow canal locks.

 

Although some canal boats were built to a design based on river barges, it is incorrect to refer to a narrowboat (or narrow boat) as a barge. In the context of the British inland waterways, a barge is usually a much wider, cargo-carrying boat or a modern boat modelled on one, certainly more than 7 feet (2.1 m) wide.

 

It is also incorrect (or at least incongruous) to refer to a narrowboat as a longboat, although this name was sometimes used in the Midlands in working-boat days.

 

Usage has not quite settled down as regards (a) boats based on narrowboat design, but too wide for narrow canals; or (b) boats the same width as narrowboats but based on other types of boat.

 

Canal Boat Size

 

The key distinguishing feature of a narrowboat is its width: it must be no more than 7 feet (2.13 m) wide to navigate the British narrow canals. Some old boats are very close to this limit (often built 7 feet 1½ inches/2.17 metres or slightly wider), and can have trouble using locks that are not quite as wide as they should be because of subsidence. Modern boats are usually 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m) wide to guarantee easy passage everywhere.

 

Because of their slenderness, some narrowboats seem very long. The maximum length is about 70 feet (21 m), the length of most locks on the narrow canals. However, modern narrowboats tend to be shorter than this, so that they can cruise anywhere on the connected network of British canals – including on the “wide” canals (built for wider, but shorter, boats). The shortest lock on the main network is Salterhebble Middle Lock on the Calder and Hebble Navigation, at about 56 feet (17 m) long. However, the C&H is a wide canal, so the lock is about 14 feet 2 inches (4.32 m) wide. This makes the largest “go-anywhere-on-the-network” narrowboat slightly longer (about 60 feet) than the straight length of the lock, because it can (with a certain amount of “shoehorning”) lie diagonally. Some locks on isolated waterways are as short as 40 feet (12.2 m).

 

Hire fleets on British canals can contain narrowboats of many lengths from about 30 feet (9.1 m) upwards, to allow parties of different sizes or different budgets to hire a boat.

Development – traditional working canal boats

 

The first working canal boats played a key part in the economic changes accompanying the British Industrial Revolution. They were wooden boats drawn by a horse walking on the canal towpath led by a crew member, often a child. Narrowboats were chiefly designed for carrying cargo, though there were some packet boats, carrying passengers, letters, and parcels.

 

Boatmen’s families originally lived ashore, but in the 1830s as canals started to feel competition from the new railways, families (especially of owner/skippers of independent single boats) started to take up home afloat. This was partly because they could no longer afford rents, partly to provide extra hands to work the boats harder, faster and further, and partly to keep families together. However, as late as 1858, a “Household Words” article states that the Grand Junction Canal company did not allow the boatmen’s families on board – and the crew of the non-stopping (“fly”) boat in the article (the skipper, two crewmen, and a ‘youth’) is said to be typical.

 

Historic working narrowboats on the Macclesfield Canal in Cheshire, England. The motor boat at the front “Forget Me Not” is pulling along an unpowered butty “Lilith”. This was the traditional working style used on working boats after motor boats became common.

 

The rear portion of the boat became the cosy “boatman’s cabin”, familiar from picture postcards and museums, famous for its space-saving ingenuity and for its interior made attractive by a warm stove, a steaming kettle, gleaming brass, fancy lace, painted housewares, and decorated plates. Although such descriptions rarely consider the actual comfort of a large family working an extremely hard and long day, and sleeping in the one tiny cabin, it is no doubt true that at the time there were many workers in harder, indoor, trades with less healthy conditions and worse accommodation where the family were separated for long hours rather than being together all day. Nonetheless it was impossible for such mobile families to send their children to school, and most boat people remained illiterate and ostracised by those living ‘on the bank’.

 

As diesel and steam replaced the tow horse in the early twentieth century, it became possible to move more cargo with the same manpower by towing a second unpowered boat, commonly referred to as a “butty”, “buttyboat” or “butty boat”. There was now no horse to look after, but someone had to steer the butty, unless on a wide canal such as the Grand Union Canal where the two boats could be roped side-to-side or ‘breasted up’, and handled as one while working locks.

 

Cargo-carrying by narrow boat was almost extinguished as a way of life between 1945 and the last regular long distance traffic finishing in 1970. However some traffics continued into the 1980s and beyond including over 2 million tonnes of aggregate carried on the Grand Union (River Soar) from 1976 to 1996, latterly using wide beam barges however, and aggregate currently carried by narrow boats (and wide barges) between Denham and West Drayton on the Grand Union Canal. A few people are doing their best to keep the tradition alive, mostly by “one-off” deliveries rather than regular runs, or by selling goods such as coal to other boaters.

 

There are many enthusiasts dedicated to restoring the remaining old boats, often members of the Historic Narrow Boat owners Club and there are also many replicas ornately painted with the same traditional designs, usually of roses and castles. If the boat is not horse-drawn, it may have a refurbished, slow-revving, vintage diesel engine, and there are even some steam-driven narrow boats such as the ex-Fellows Morton and Clayton steamer President.

 

Painted decoration on canal boats

 

Decoration on a traditional English canal boat: roses on the water can (top) and castles on the open doors to the cabin

 

By the latter part of the 19th century it was common practice to paint roses and castles on both narrow boats themselves and their fixtures and fittings. Common sites include the doors to the cabin, the water can or barrel and the side of the boat along with ornate lettering giving the boat’s name and owner.

 

The origin of the roses and castles found on canal boats is unclear. The first written reference to them appears to be in an 1858 edition of the magazine Household Words in one of a series of articles titled “On the Canal” but while this shows that the art form must have existed by this date it doesn’t provide us with an origin. For some time, a popular suggestion was that it had some form of Gypsy origin, however there does not appear to be a significant link between the Gypsy and boating communities. Other suggestions include transfer of styles from the clock-making industry (in particular the decoration on the face), the japanning industry or the pottery industry. There is certainly a similarity in style and a geographical overlap, but no solid proof of a link. There are similar styles of folk art in Scandinavia, Germany, Turkey and Bangladesh.

 

In the eighteenth century, the similar Dutch “Hinderloopen” paintwork would only have been a sailing barge journey away from the Thames. There is also an article in the Midland Daily Telegraph of 22 July 1914 that credits the practice painting of water cans, at least, to a Mr Arthur Atkins. The date of the events make the claim possible, but would require the Household Words article to be reporting on the very start of a phenomenon, rather than – as its tone suggests – something that had existed for some time. Until further evidence comes to light, it is impossible to support or deny the claim that Arthur Atkins was responsible for the start of the practice and thus the origin of the paintings remains uncertain.

 

While the practice declined as commercial use of the canals dwindled, it has seen something of a revival in recent times with the emergence of leisure boating. Narrowboat decoration with roses and castle themes are a reasonably common sight on today’s canals, although these may utilise cheaper computer-printed vinyl transfers in place of the traditional craft of hand-painted designs.

 

Modern canal boats

 

The number of licensed boats on canals and rivers managed by British Waterways (BW), a government organisation, was estimated at about 27,000 in 2006. There are perhaps another 5,000 unlicensed boats kept in private moorings or on other waterways. Most of the boats on BW waterways are steel cruisers popularly referred to as narrowboats.

 

Modern narrowboats are used for annual holidays, weekend breaks or as permanent residences. Usually, they have steel hulls and a steel superstructure, but when they were first being developed for leisure use in the 1970s glass re-inforced plastic (fibre-glass) or timber was often used for the superstructures. They are usually powered by modern diesel engines, and are fitted inside to a high standard. There will be at least 6 feet (1.8 m) internal headroom, and similar domestic facilities as a small landward home: central heating, flush toilets, shower or even bath, four-ring hobs, oven, grill, microwave oven, and refrigerator; quite a few also have satellite television and mobile broadband via the use of 3G broadband technology. Externally, their resemblance to traditional boats can vary from a faithful imitation (false “rivets”, and copies of traditional paintwork) through “interpretation” (clean lines and simplified paintwork) through to a free-style approach which does not try to pretend in any way that this is a traditional boat.

 

They are owned by individuals, shared by a group of friends (or by a more formally organised syndicate), rented out by holiday firms, or used as cruising hotels. A few boats are lived on permanently: either based in one place (though long-term moorings for residential narrowboats are currently very difficult to find) or continuously moving around the network (perhaps with a fixed location for the coldest months, when many stretches of canal are closed by repair works or “stoppages”).

 

Modern canal boat types

 

On most narrowboats steering is by a tiller, as it was on all working narrow boats, and the steerer stands at the stern of the boat, aft of where a person emerges from the hatchway and rear doors at the top of the steps up from the cabin. The steering area comes in three basic types, each meeting different needs in terms of maximising internal space; having a more traditional appearance; having a big enough rear deck for everyone to enjoy summer weather or long evenings; or protection for the steerer in bad weather. Each type has its strong advocates. However, the boundaries are not fixed, and some boats blur the categories as designers try out slightly different arrangements and combinations.

Canal boats with traditional stern

 

Many modern canal boats retain the traditional layout of a small open, unguarded “counter” or deck behind the rear doors from which the crew can step onto land. It is possible to steer from the counter, but this is not very safe, with the propeller churning below only one misstep away. The length of the “tiller extension” allows the steerer to stand more safely on the top step, forward of the rear doors (on a working boat, this step would have been over the top of the coal box). On cold days, the steerer can even close the rear doors behind them, and be in relative comfort, their lower body in the warmth of the cabin, and only their upper body emerging from the hatchway and exposed to the elements. In good weather, many trad-stern steerers sit up on the hatchway edge, a high vantage point giving good all-round visibility. On trad boats, the bow “well-deck” forms the main outside viewing area, because the traditional stern is not large enough for anyone other than the steerer to stand on safely.

 

Canal boats with cruiser stern

 

Cruiser stern narrowboats are designed to allow more people to be on deck during the reasonably good weather of the British summer holiday season. The hatch and rear doors are farther forward than on a traditional boat, creating a large open deck between counter and rear doors, protected by a rail (perhaps with seats) around the back and sides. At the rear, a “cruiser” narrowboat looks very different from traditional boats. The large rear deck provides a good social space or al fresco dining area, but in the winter (or the occasionally less than perfect weather of the British Summer) the steerer is quite unprotected from wind and rain. The lack of an enclosed engine room means that engine heat does not contribute to keeping the boat warm and there is wasted space above the deck area. The name for this style arises because the large open rear deck resembles that of the large rear cockpits common on glass-fibre (GRP) river cruisers. The “cruiser” stern also allows the engine to be located under the deck and not in the cabin as it is in a traditional-stern boat. Although this then makes access to the engine for maintenance more difficult,[citation needed] it does have the advantage that the engine is not located in the cabin and the ensuing noise and smell are not as much of an issue.

 

Canal boats with semi-traditional stern

 

A semi-traditional stern is a compromise to gain some of the “social” benefits of a cruiser stern, while retaining a more traditional design and providing some protection for the steerer in bad weather or in cooler seasons. As with the cruiser stern, the deck is extended back from the hatch and rear doors, but in this case most of the deck is protected at the sides by walls which extend back from the cabin sides – giving a more sheltered area for the steerer and companions, usually with lockers to sit on. The engine is located under the deck, much like a cruiser, again allowing a separation between the cabin and the engine bay, with the steps down to the cabin being located past the false sides of the “semi-trad” social area.

 

Canal boats with a butty stern

 

A butty boat is an un-powered boat traditionally with a larger rudder with (usually) a wooden tiller (known as an elum, a corruption of helm as the steering does not benefit from the force of water generated by the propeller. The tiller is usually removed and reversed in the rudder-post socket to get it out of the way when moored. A few butty boats have been converted into powered narrowboats like NB Sirius. The term butty is thought to have originated from the French, bateau, meaning boat.

 

Centre cockpit canal boats

 

A small number of steel narrowboats dispense with the need for a rear steering deck entirely, by imitating some river cruisers in providing wheel steering from a central cockpit.

 

Source: Wikipedia

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Beauty Makeovers

This is like the virtual version of those big fashion doll heads they used to make, except now, instead of brushing hair and applying real makeup to the doll, your little girl can makeover a doll with a few clicks of a mouse.

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Have you ever asked yourself why Barbie doll collecting is so popular? What drives tens of thousands of people to snap up every type of Barbie doll imaginable?

Barbie Was Brilliantly Marketed Mattel learned early on exactly how to market the Barbie doll. No other doll maker has come close to her. Barbie has been seen on TV commercials since the early 1960′s. With over 40 years of continuous television exposure you can’t help but see the ads throughout your childhood and into adulthood. This exposure has led Barbie to being one of the most popular toys in history.

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If you are a woman under the age of 60 then you most likely owned a Barbie when you were a kid. Just like baseball cards, if you collected Barbies’s when you were young, the chances are good that you enjoy it now.

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Barbie Is Not A Fad

You know that when you buy a Barbie doll that you will always be able to buy new clothes and accessories for her. She is not here today, gone tomorrow. No other doll can say that.

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That’s right, the online world has helped promote Barbie doll collecting to the next level. You can find all sorts of Barbie doll forums as well as websites to purchase Barbie’s. Ebay is a great example of this. Both advertisers and collectors alike can get together and discuss anything and everything to do with Barbie, as well as buy and sell.

What does the future hold in store for Barbie doll collecting? No one can say for sure, but if it is anything like the past, you can expect some really great things to take place.

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Anastasia together in paris barbie doll?

Hello. I need to know if the “locket/necklace” that comes with the Together In Paris Barbie doll is an exact replica of the real thing. The movie is very close to my heart and I need that necklace! But I’m not gonna bye the whole thing if it doesn’t look like the necklace in the movie, you know what I mean?! So, if you or someone you know has had this can you please tell me if it is in fact an exact replica? Thank you.
Here’s a link to what the doll looks like in the box-

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I think it is a very close replica, but probably not an “exact” replica. I think the point was simply to make it look like the real thing, but not to make an exact replica.

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Barbie outfit help for school play?

im going to be barbie in a school play and i need to know where to get a hot pink dress at. can you help me? and shoes and accesories.. please make an outfit up that you think will be perfect!

oh my gosh it would be so fun to be barbie! ha ha

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Barbie Dolls–history of the Most Popular Doll Ever

In 1959 the first Barbie doll was shown at the New York toy fair. Billed as “New For ’59,The Barbie Doll:A Shapely Teenage Fashion Model Price $3.00.” Thus was born the Barbie doll phenomenon which is certainly one of the greatest success stories in toy manufacturing. Prior to Barbie nearly all children’s dolls were child dolls rather than adult figures. Barbie changed all this.

In 1945 Elliot and Ruth Handler formed a partnership with Harold Matson to manufacture picture frames. The two names Matson and Elliot were combined to form the company name Mattel. Elliot used the picture frame wood scrap to make doll house furniture. This was the start of the Handler furniture business.

About this time Ruth noticed that her daughter Barbara and friends preferred to play with adult paper dolls rather than child or baby dolls. The girls preferred a doll which could be their role model when they grew up. Ruth realised that there could be big commercial possibilities in the adult doll market. She discussed the idea with her husband but he felt that it would be too expensive to start making the dolls.

Soon after this Ruth made a trip to Germany and purchased a doll called Lilli. This adult type doll was based on a German comic strip. On returning to the USA she began work to redesign the doll working with a doll clothes designer. The barbie doll was the result and it was named after Ruth’s daughter Barbara. The doll was patented by Mattel in 1958 and introduced in 1959. She was to become one of the most well known and well loved toys ever made.

Barbie soon became a collectors doll and was avidly sought after by adult collectors. From 1959 to 1972 the Barbie doll had seven distinct changes in her appearance and design. These Barbies made up to 1972 are recognised as vintage collectible dolls by their fans and are eagerly sought after. The 1959 Barbie doll in mint condition will sell for thousands of dollars. Some have sold for as much as $8000 to $10,000 but you can buy them for much less and $2000 to $3000 is quite common. Later editions fetch proportionately less. Dolls made in the 1969 to 1972 period can often be bought for a few dollars. Garage sales and flea markets are still the source of a few early dolls. About 300,000 of the 1959 Barbie were made and there are undoubtedly many out there still undiscovered.

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Where is the best online place to help me identify my nude Barbie Dolls?

I have many nude Mattel Barbie dolls that I would like to get images and descriptions for. What site on the Internet would you recommend? I have some vintage but mostly TNTs. I also have a couple of Mackie mouths.

Actually, your best bet may be to take them into a doll shop (not a toy shop, but a store that specializes in vintage/antique dolls). These are usually run by very knowledgable people, and if they don’t know the answer, they may be able to find you someone who can.

(You may also want to try taking pictures and adding them to this question…someone on here may know!)

Good luck!

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Every little girl loves playing with dolls. These dolls allow little girls tremendous scope for exercising their imagination. One of the many innovations that allow girls to have even more fun playing with Barbie is that of Barbie games. These games come in a variety of forms. You will find there are video games, online computer games, story book games and even vinyl sticky Barbie games.

With each of these games the main character will be a Barbie figure. In the online Barbie games you will have the opportunity of dressing a Barbie doll. There are different versions of this game. In one you will find a Barbie doll inside of a store. There will be different long dresses and short dresses for you to select. You will be able to change Barbie’s hair color and style too.

For girls who love shoes this fashion conscious Barbie will have different styled shoes for you to choose from. You will also find many interesting accessories like jewelry, hair adornments, gloves, stockings and of course hand bags. In another Barbie game you will have a scene that is filled with lots of glamorous dresses. You get to choose the dress that you like and place it on Barbie.

The selection of hairstyles can be achieved by the click of the mouse by on a panel which is appropriately called hairstyles. The changing of lip colors is achieved by selecting a lip shape that has the color that you want to use. While these Barbie games can be played online there is another option that you can have fun. This is the many different Barbie computer games.

In these computer games you will find yourself going on various adventures with Barbie. As these Barbie games have been aimed at young girls you can be sure that the content of these games will be suitable for your daughter. There are a few Barbie games that will be based on certain Barbie videos. These games will mirror the video quite closely.

To have some fun with these games it is not necessary to have watched any of these movies. As these Barbie games are complete adventures in themselves you will find that it is easy for your daughter to navigate through the game without requiring to much help from you. If you are a Barbie fan then you may have some fun playing this game with your daughter too.

The many different Barbie games that are available will allow you to choose ones that will let your daughter or some other little girl that you know have fun. From dressing an online Barbie doll to following Barbie on her adventures there is a world of fun to be discovered. You can always count on Barbie games for lots of hours of fun for your little girl.

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Which famous person is about as close to Barbie as we’re going to find in real life?

I nominate Pamela Anderson (before being despoiled by Tommy Lee and Hep C) or Hayden Panettiere.

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The Effect of Toys based on Gender and Sex on this Society

Girls have dolls. Boys have figures. Action figures. But guess what? Its still a doll. We just cant quite bring ourselves to tell our sons to go and retrieve their doll from under the sofa. Its been drilled into us since birth. Okay, so what about the boy that wants to play with dolls? Is he destined to grow up to be gay or experience gender confusion? Its possible, but that would happen whether he is permitted to play with dolls or not. You cant create a more manly boy by handing him a toy gun and you cant create a more feminine girl by handing her a Barbie doll. We react to children who wish to experience traditionally opposite gender toys with our own fears and discomfort. Theres shame (although not a necessary one) for the father who tries to admit that his son would rather play with his sister and her girly toys than be outside with his father roughing it around with a football. Theres a sense of disappointment and fear of the future. 

In most cases children who experiment with the opposite gender toys are either simply curious, are weeding out their own feelings about ideas and concepts that have nothing to do with sexuality, or are just going through a harmless phase. We dont worry too much about a girl who wants to play football but we march the boy who was found playing with his mothers make up off to the nearest psychologist. 

When my son was about to turn three, the only thing he wanted for his birthday was an Easy Bake Oven. When he opened it (a gift from a family friend) his eyes little up like he was on fire and he twined the expression, “My Eeeeeeeeasy Bake!” He loved it. He also played soccer the following year. He likes to cook, and thats all it amounts to. Society decided that Easy Bake Ovens should be pink and therefore are for girls. If it was a neutral color, people would have reacted a bit differently. But his Easy Bake Oven made members of my family uncomfortable. 

Children are pretty slick creatures, picking up just as much on what adults around them neglect to say as often as what they do say. There is more damage done in making a child feel abnormal for playing with the “wrong toy” than there is his or her experimentation. It can be a little disconcerting for a parent when their child seems drawn to the opposite gender toys, but at the same time it can be very liberating for the child. Theres nothing wrong with a man who can hold his weight in the kitchen and can sew his own buttons back onto his pants and theresnothing wrong with a woman who has learned to use her brains over her good looks to achieve things in life. These traits start out with the toys kids play with when they are young.
We expect girls to start beautifying themselves at a young age. We give them dolls to practice on, play make up, and little dresses to climb into. This is fine for some girls, who enjoy the process. There is nothing wrong withenjoying your own gender. However, for the girl who would rather read a good book than paint her nails, this expectation can be a little overwhelming. The same rings true for boys, as there are those who think gardening and baking are the two best hobbies in the world and just arent interested in tossing around a baseball. Having non-gender related toys in the house, or a mix of gender based toys in the house, is one of the best ways to handle the situation. Normalizing childrens toys makes everyone, especially the child, more comfortable. Perhaps one day Junior feels like whipping up some of those really great chocolate chip cookies that an Easy Bake Ovencan turn out and the next day he is finding worms for the garden. Theres not a woman in the world who complains because her husband is too helpful in the kitchen. Allowing boys to access their nurturing side doesnt mean they will turn out to be gay. They just might turn out to be incredibly faithful and involved fathers. Allowing girls to access their intelligence and their own power of perceptive ability doesnt mean they will turn out to be deficient. It means that they will have achieved success in life by using their faculties, and no one will be able to claim that they slept their way to the top. 

Lifes expectations are changing. What is actually acceptable is changing. Our fears are the last on the list to readily change. Its unfortunate, really, how our own fears inhibit our childrens ability to learn about themselves and the world around them in an unstructured and free fashion. We teach them at such a young age that they have a role to fill, and those who deviate are somehow destined for futures of mishaps and shame. Its just a childs toy playing to a childs imagination which, in all reality, is one of the most beautiful graces in the world.

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Investing in Barbie Dolls: Why So Popular?

There are many unique styles of dolls and practically as many types of connoisseurs, but there’s something wonderful about Barbie dolls. What is it about Barbie dolls that promote such intense dedication and appreciation from collectors? Collectors of both contemporary and traditional Barbie dolls cramm Internet Forums to explore their passion with other devoted collectors. Regardless if it’s tips on how to price a given doll, something about repair or perhaps to share the latest find, Barbie collectors are a devoted group. Upon reflection it’s easy to see that Barbie dolls fascinate collectors for a variety of reasons. Let’s have a look at the elements that seem to draw in many.

Going Classic With Barbie

Ladies from all backgrounds normally connect the toys of their youth with a more simple untroubled time in their lives, so buying Barbie dolls creates a nostalgia. Having played with Barbies in their younger days , women are especially attached to Barbie and there is certainly a connection between toys from childhood and subsequentlater collecting. With Barbie dolls, some collectors turn to the specific childhood dolls or the traditional Barbie, while some like assembling a group of the recent collectible Barbie dolls. Many collectors start by looking to buy a stand in for a precious childhood doll and eventually realize that the fascinationwith collecting Barbie as well as her accoutrements too strong. In some cases, many fans enjoy the adventure of tracking down classic Barbie dolls, doll clothing and accessories to get the traditional feel of the earlier Barbie dolls. Regardless if it’s a trip down memory lane or the elation of finding a period-specific Barbie, the nostalgia factor is a substantial part to the fascination of collecting Barbie.

Barbie is the Perfect Size

Ruth Handler, the mother of Barbie doll, developed a perfectly sized fashion doll that makes it it simple to collect. A properly sized doll for little girls, it’s lucky that the size and style of the Barbie doll is helpful for big girls too. The Barbie doll’s apparel and accents are tiny enough to be miniature, yet substantial enough so they can provide substantial detail. If by strategy or fortune, the scale of the Barbie doll greatly contributed to the popularity of the doll and even encouraged the development of sub-genres like designer Barbie clothes, including accessories. Certainly, the proportions of the Baribe doll itself is a large part of its popularity.

The Online World: Collecting Barbie is Simpler

When Barbie doll collecting met the online world, it started to be less complicated to research and collect Barbie. Changes in electronic communication and the launch of websites like e-Bay, Craigs List and more made seeking out Barbie dolls online easier. In addition, new collectors are able to find information to learn more about collecting Barbie and get the fundamentals of how to create a Barbie doll collection of which they can be proud. Furthermore, novices can use the internet to better grasp the valuation of Barbie dolls and avoid getting taken by less scrupulous sellers. Because of this, the world wide web has shown to be the great equalizer and has been a sizable factor why collecting Barbie is so prevalent.

A Big Barbie Collecting Community

Though facilitated by the web, the Barbie collector network is potent and self-sustaining. Whether it’s The Barbie Doll Collecting Forum on About.com, the Fashion Doll Guide Blog or another Barbie source, these groups generate increased interest and fun in collecting all things Barbie. Showing fresh discoveries, presenting a recently renovated vintage Barbie or talking about the latest collector Barbies are only a couple of activities that can be pursued. Barbie doll collector forums and websites can be busy, fun places where collectors can express their experiences, delight and passion for Barbie collecting which ultimately becomes quite contagious!

Advertising the Barbie Doll

Since the early days of the Barbie doll, Mattel has understood the strength behind advertising. For that reason, Barbie is amongst the most marketed doll ever and preserves an iconic spot in the realm of toys for girls. Other popular dolls just couldn’t contend in the early 1960s as soon as the Barbie television marketing began, and no other doll can compete today. Television marketing of the Barbie play dolls has been continual since the early 1960s; that’s over 40 years and Barbie advertisements are still going strong. Whether it’s loved or hated, advertising has made the Barbie doll what it is and has had a large impact on this timeless doll.

The Barbie doll is an iconic toy, still its popularity can’t be credited to only just one thing. Classic popularity, size, the internet, a collecting community and strong advertising have emerged to produce a doll that can fascinate almost anyone making Barbie the “it” doll of collecting.

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What does 1/12 scale refer to with dolls houses. Would this be like a barbie size??

A Barbie house is usually 1:6 scale, meaning one inch in the dollhouse would be six inches in real life. A barbie house would be twice as big as a regular doll house. That’s why they usually build Barbie a condo or apartment as opposed to a 10-room house.
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Is this Barbie worth money.?

I have a Barbie and Skipper from the 60′s. They are not in mint condition but this is what the barbie looks like http://www.english-online.at/hobbies/barbie/barbie-famous-doll-at-50.htm. This is what the skipper looks like http://www.petpeoplesplace.com/petstore/Mattel-Skipper-Curly-Pigtails-Doll-1967-Bendable-Legs_160564114951.html. Skipper is in much better shape than her sister Barbie. Are they worthless or worth anything at all?

i would think any barbie is worth money, me as a guy never had one for G.I.Joe, Now, Joe is history, and i have a Barbie 1966, Topless sitting on my computer monitor.

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Barbie Games

Barbie games are ideal activities for little girls who are in love with these beautiful dolls. These games are available online in a huge variety which allows players with different likings to indulge in the activities which they enjoy the most. Unlike the past, you do not have to buy a doll to play with her as you can enjoy as many activities are you like with the Barbie games online. They are entirely free which means that kids no more have to ask their parents for money to have some fun with their favorite dolls. It saves considerable money of the parents as instead of buying these dolls for their little ones they can simply allow them to indulge in the online activities.
There are numerous amazing Barbie games which you can find on the internet. Owing to the great creativity and innovative ideas, these activities are extremely entertaining and intriguing. They provide kids with positive fun as well as learning that are desirable qualities in any activity. As they are designed keeping in view the inclinations of the little ones, they are ideal activities for them which are perfectly according to their interest. 
Some of the most popular Barbie games include:
• Barbie dress up • Barbie make over• Barbie party games• Barbie home décor • Barbie model • Barbie puzzles
There are hundreds of activities that you can enjoy with your favorite dolls. In each category, there is an unfathomable collection of games which are waiting for you. You can dress up your favorite Barbie in any clothes of your choice. You can also select the shoes, jewelry and other accessories for her. Likewise, some games allow you to decorate different parties related to these dolls. The puzzle games are also available in great variety and are considered as one of the hottest activities.  
Other than entertainment, these games are also very useful in terms of learning. They perk up the IQ level of the little ones and also induce creative thinking within them. Girls also get to learn about different dresses and colors, as well as how to use different accessories. Once they experiment on these dolls, they can also benefit from the same fashion themselves. Games such as puzzles are also very helpful to build analytical skills. 
All these games are free and require no complicated set up. You just need an internet connection and start playing them. They are very easy to play and even if you are not familiar with the use of computers, you will not have any issue playing the Barbie games online.

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Barbie themed party..?

Turning seventeen and having a barbie party, im not sure whether to have it be based off of barbie dolls or the barbie movies or both, what do you think?

dolls, but instead of having tons of barbie dolls all over, use LOTS of sparkles and glitter and stuff

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Greek Islands Holidays – The Perfect Next Season Sailing Holidays Experience

It’s never too early to start thinking about next year’s summer holidays – particularly when the holidays in question are as popular as the wonderful sailing holidays it’s possible to take around the Greek islands. Greek islands holidays done by boat are a popular and different alternative to the usual British Med resort break – a chance to really get away from it all, to soak up that Aegean sunshine and revel in the crystal clear, permanently warm waters around Ionia without so much as a drunk football fan in sight.

 

There’s no need to wait all the way until next summer, of course. Sailing in the Grecian Islands has a pretty long running season, from May to October – so get those yachting caps out now and wait for May Day to hit! You’ll find that early season sailing holidays are both relatively quiet and, to the British constitution, wonderfully warm – while as you move through to July and August those Greek islands holidays become positively sweltering. You’ll need a dip in the sea just to cool off!

 

The pre Christmas season is an excellent time to inquire and book for both kinds of Grecian break – either full sailing trips or island breaks where sailing is part, but not all, of the experience. In either case, holiday makers are offered three levels of attention – a bare boat charter, which involves hiring a yacht with no crew and crewing it yourself; a skippered charter, where you crew under the command of a qualified skipper; and a fully crewed charter, where you get to laze around drinking ouzo while a professional crew do the work.

Greek islands holidays give you all the benefits of any of these three sailing holidays, but with the added attraction that you sty and sleep in a genuine Greek villa. The combination of days on the sea, scudding smoothly over tranquil blue, watching the fish dart over the white sands and hiding from the midday sun under ropes and rigging; and nights sat out in the tumbledown garden of a beautiful pink or yellow villa nestling on the side of a Grecian hill, is almost too much for the winter imagination to bear.

 

That’s reason enough to call up and get booking now, really. What better way to turn all that winter dreaming into reality than by booking Greek island holidays or sailing holidays while those long dark nights still have the country in their clutches? Things on the wrong side of the solstice look a lot better when you know there’s something warm and wonderful waiting at the end of it all.

 

Getting in early avoids disappointment and assures a full choice of boat’s availability. First timers for sailing holidays are of course advised to seek the advice of the expert sales team at your agency – they’ll be able to tell you which boat and which crewing options will suit you best. So forget the doldrums of winter for a few days and let your mind wander to next summer, and sailing holidays or Greek islands holidays amongst all that blue water and white sand.

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BARBIE DOLLS TURN ME ON is this normal?!?!?!?!?

so i was looking through all my old toys and i came across a bunch of barbie dolls. I started to touch them and i felt really turned on. Their perfect proportions drive me wild especially thei plastic body and bleached blonde hair. this might sound weird but sometimes i make the dolls do stuff to each other, mostly girl on girl. i really don’t know what’s wrong with me and why im so ridiculously turned on by this. Is this normal and if not is there some kind of cure for me like a chant, i do believe in witchcraft.

First, I realize that Barbies are only fantasy and not reality. Barbies are only toys. I’ve always known that fact. I could pretend as a young kid that barbies were alive in the world of fantasy. I was attracted to Barbie because she was female and I being male. I have no desire to be female or for other males. What turns us on can be touching fruit or watching someone eating it. Is the thought of cheating punished or the actual act.? Realize that Barbies are just lifeless toys. You can manipulate them as long as there is a clear seperation between fantasy and reality. Some are turned on by the air brushed models in film and print. These images have had their flaws digitally removed. Who calls those that get turned on by them weirdos or perverts? See the stupidity of it all? Which of you has watched a film of someone eating fruit and got turned on? Are you a weirdo or pervert? You can use any lifeless object to turn yourself on. Barbies have been used as guns by little boys. Does those boys get called weirdos or perverts? No. They are treated better. because of hypocritical conduct of behavior in traditional child rearing. The majority of society thinks boys transforming these female toys into weapons by their imagination is acceptable behavior. If they are turned on by them, they are perverts and weirdos. What is ignored is that these things are ONLY LIFELESS TOYS. Toys have one purpose. They are to bring joy to the owner of them.

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