New Tokidoki Barbie to be released this year... and more!

The Doll Genie is offering a special preorder for the latest Tokidoki Barbie to be released later this year. No actual photo is available yet, but she is part of the Pop Like Series, scheduled to be released in August 2015 for $75 MSRP (that we know). She celebrates Tokidoki's tenth anniversary, and includes a Tokidoki printed skirt with an underlayer of bright tulle, silver sequin top, plus her standard heels and coordinating jewelry. She's said to have blonde hair with pink tips and a headband. Additionally, she includes her pink cactus pet on a leash and a shopping bag.

Cult of Doll: taster to be published on New Year's Day!

Dear readers and doll fans--

It's what you need to start off 2015 with a bang: a chance to preview Cult of Doll with an exclusive taster of this wonderful almanac on New Year's Day!

Go subscribe to the blog today, so you won't miss out.

What is Cult of Doll? It's an eclectic collection of short stories featuring the dolls and characters that the Cult of Doll members have created over the past year. Read, for example, this preview, about Miss Araminta and her Curiosity Shop, a character created by Yve Hooson and Grace Garton:

Miss Araminta's Curiosity Shop sits quietly among the other shabby retailers on Goldfinch Lane in Whitechapel. This well trodden thoroughfare's once genteel aspirations are now just a mocking dream as poverty and vice creep ever closer, the tiny brass bells over the doorways tinkle less frequently and many despair. Not Miss Araminta. She revels in obscurity and finds comfort in the shadows at the back of her establishment. Customers disturb her infrequently and even the weak rays of sunshine that permeate the grimy window panes enter here cautiously, tentatively picking out the glint of a glass eyeball or twinkle on the matted fur of the Taxidermy tableaux which sits on the desk beside her armchair. Miss Araminta knows that this shop finds those who need it. As for the rest? She gives not a care.

Don't you want to know more? I do!

Additionally, you can preview Hally Levesque's story, "Nefarious Nelle," also titled, "A Cautionary Tale of Sweet Revenge or How Nelle Grey Arrived at the Notion that Sometimes Learning to Love Thy Neighbor Can Be Murder."

Don't wait--subscribe now, and be the first in line for a free preview!

Tonner Doll new releases: Mainline Preview Tiny Patsy

Easy Breezy Patsy LE500 $149.99 TBD
Cameo skin tone, blue/green eyes, strawberry wigged hair

Nighty Night Sleep Tight outfit only LE300 $89.99 TBD
Yellow robe and cotton PJs, with slippers.

Pink Peppermint Patsy  LE500 $149.99 TBD
Cameo skin tone, green/grey eyes, wheat blonde hair
Pale yellow dress with pink flowers, pink and whit striped tights/
No photos available yet

Spring 2012 preview at Barbie Collector

BarbieCollector.com is offering free standard shipping on all purchases through December 12, 2011 and not-so-sneaky previews of 16 new dolls, apparel, accessories and more.

The collection include new Barbie Basics 4.0 (Swimsuit editions), Pantone Barbie, Dancing with the Stars Barbie (the affordable kind), and more Dolls of the World.

Check them out!