Barbie Land

Another Barbie Land item, this time a store.

Like the other two this will end up as part of my Disneyland type amusement park.

The park is full of little shops that sell gifts, and toys, and foods.

So this certainly will lend itself to that environment.

While these items are about heroic 32mm size, I think most will be fine with my 1/72nd scale figures.

The shopping is cool but it is a bit big!

These are the only three sets I have and the only ones I have seen.  There may be others.

Put together they make a nice little vignette and here is a Hot Wheels Batmobile and Batman in 1/72nd scale.
 

Barbie Movie

This is another Barbie Land playset.

These are a little bit like the Polly Pocket playsets, only Barbie is bigger.

I am building an amusement park, based loosely on Disneyland, in California.

They have these popcorn carts in the park and they little puppet show theater is also like some of the things they have too.

The movie camera on the roof is very cool and it may get cut off and used as an actual camera on a tripod.  These items are about a heroic 32mm size, and my collection is 1/72nd scale, mostly.  Still I think these can be adapted to my scale.
 

Barbie Meets Batman

While shopping recently I came across several little Barbie sets that are interesting.  This one is an ice skating pond.

The bits are useful in my American Cities project, I think.

They are well packaged.

And are a complete diorama with little accessories.

The whole set.

Batman in 1/72nd scale, about 25mm from bottom of base to top of head.  Barbie is a heroic 32mm size figure.

I think the seat on the bench can be cut down, the counter top is probably okay, and so is the tree.

I think with a little surgery Barbie may also be able to lead a normal life in Gotham City once she is reduced from 8 feet tall.
 

Amazon Statues

A while back I got some Mummy and Skeleton warriors at the dollar store.  Now it's time for Barbie to arm up.

I took some of the weapons from those warriors and shields too.

Attached them to some dollar store mini-Barbies.

Then primer painted them.

Then painted them brass.

Now they are statues of Amazon Warriors.

Their modern clothing and hairstyles are classic enough to work for ancient attire.

Swords ready!

Even the shoes look good I think.
 

Amazon Barbie

These skeletons have donated weapons and shields to a higher purpose.

I pin this type of conversion using guitar string and super glue.

Dollar Tree Barbie got a shield and sword.  Her clothing was trimmed down to be less modern.

The other Barbie got a sword and different shield.

Their BARBIE bases were remove and they got new, smaller bases.

Side view.  They will get painted and used as statues with my Amazon Army.
 

Draftee

That helmet looks a bit large for this GI.

He is PVT Billy Nelson they youngest member of the platoon.

Rather a maniacal look in this view.

But in reality he is quite tame.  In fact, he is Barbies boyfriend Ken, drafted into the Army when my daughter stopped playing with dolls.

He wears the standard Third Squad gear, the shirt is so old it has faded in the light.