Post by gato on Jul 25, 2020 16:56:54 GMT -5
In the long list of toys that ... well.... shall we say, flopped, Mattel's "Growing Up Skipper," has to be one of oddest.
My 11 year old granddaughter introduced me to Skipper, as she flicked through the generations of Barbies displayed on her birthday iPad.
"Watch this," she said giggling.
The preteen owner of Barbie's younger sister, Skipper, was able to send the lesser sibling into the throes of puberty at will, by cranking her left arm around, in a move bringing on instant boobs now, and guaranteed bursitis in an aging Skipper later on.
"Growing Up Skipper" burst on the scene in 1975 to almost universal parental condemnation, I learned on Wikipedia, and only lasted two years on toy store shelves.
I gotta wonder how much of the parental uneasiness came about, when little sisters lost track of their Skippers, and they began turning up in the bedrooms of their adolescent brothers.
Note: one of the comments on the YT video: Where's "Growing up Ken?"
My 11 year old granddaughter introduced me to Skipper, as she flicked through the generations of Barbies displayed on her birthday iPad.
"Watch this," she said giggling.
The preteen owner of Barbie's younger sister, Skipper, was able to send the lesser sibling into the throes of puberty at will, by cranking her left arm around, in a move bringing on instant boobs now, and guaranteed bursitis in an aging Skipper later on.
"Growing Up Skipper" burst on the scene in 1975 to almost universal parental condemnation, I learned on Wikipedia, and only lasted two years on toy store shelves.
I gotta wonder how much of the parental uneasiness came about, when little sisters lost track of their Skippers, and they began turning up in the bedrooms of their adolescent brothers.
Note: one of the comments on the YT video: Where's "Growing up Ken?"
