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(More customer reviews)I was a huge fan of Farrah when I was a small child and always wanted a Farrah made by Mattel. I did have two versions of a Farrah doll made by a different company at the time and they featured accurate facial sculpts, rendered somehow rather hideous with nasty textured hair and on a body with funny stork thin shapeless legs. The same could be said of yet another doll of Farrah rendered in miniature. But I took what I could get.
So, I was very excited to hear Mattel was finally going to issue a Farrah doll. I have a small child of my own now and we play Barbies together. I was looking forward to a version I could play with along with my daughter, after all these DECADES! Unfortunately Farrah is frozen in her famous bathing suit poster pose. She is for display purposes only and that limits my enjoyment of her.
However, adult collectors will appreciate the excellent facial sculpting. Some pictures make it appear that the head is disproportionately huge in relation to the body but in person, this is not the case. The head IS a little bit large but Farrah did have a large strong square jaw in real life.
They did an excellent job capturing her eyes, the shape of her brows, the unique hook of her nose, and her cleft chin. My doll has some dark streaks in her hair as in the original poster. I have seen photos of very platinum hair, which is highly inaccurate representation of Farrah's hair at that time. So, buyer beware if you are a stickler for accuracy.
The suit is accurate. The blanket is spot-on accurate. Her graceful signature adorns the front of the plastic box.
If you are thinking of, as some people have suggested on some forums, of popping her head off and putting it on a poseable body, be aware her eyes gaze off to her right, not straight ahead. And I'm not sure how her head would fit on existing body molds that I'm familiar with.
I started rating this doll only 3 stars because it's not poseable, but I realized that was not fair. In no way is this doll advertised as poseable. They state quite clearly she is frozen in position. The quality and sculpting are superb. They captured her look very well. The hair is not the true "Farrah Cut" that we all know and love, but it is pretty, and mine is the accurate color, which was a pleasant surprise.
Oh one last complaint--the paint for her "lipstick" slightly bleeds over onto the teeth. She has "lipstick teeth". Its at the periphery and can be overlooked unless you are REALLY particular.
Summary:
Pros: Accurate Hair color
Accurate facial sculpt
Excellent copy of the look on the original poster.
Peeves: Not poseable
Haircut is not the real Farrah style, not even close
Lipstick teeth.
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Barbie Collector Farrah Fawcett Doll: Farrah Fawcett, an American icon and world famous for her classic red bathing suit from the iconic 1976 poster. The Farrah Fawcett doll's body is molded in the pose from the poster. She wears her iconic red bathing suit and comes with a blanket that is displayed in poster. A must have favorite for any Barbie Collector. For the Adult Collector.
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