The end of "Pink Box" Barbie?: With this year's Barbie dolls (and friends!) sporting new logos, could this be the end of the term "pink box" Barbie? Also this year, Barbie has sported a hipper look, logo and attitude--Barbie is more technological, more career-oriented, and more of everything little girls are today. After all, Barbie has her own computer terminal, is now a Generation Girl, and there are great licensed products like the Barbie i-Zone camera (have you seen these i-Zone cameras? They are GREAT for kids--my son just got a regular one, and has been taking pictures everywhere. I will surprise my jealous daughter with a Barbie i-Zone for Christmas!) Read more about how Barbie and her friends and how they have been updated, plus about new products like the Barbie i-Zone, in Barbie Doll Marks a New Millennium.

New Doll Links!: Congratulations to Dolls and Dreams (listed in Modern Barbie: Customizers), Robyns Paper Doll Page and I Love Paper Dolls (listed in Paper Dolls) and Angela's UK Barbie (Listed in Modern Barbie: Around the World) which join our family of over 1,200 linked doll sites! All sites added to the Subject libraries here at About Dolls have been reviewed before inclusion and are selected from hundreds of submitted sites each month. Keep current with About Dolls Daily to find new sites, and to find out if YOUR site has been listed!

Barbie Sale!: At the Doll Gallery; includes the beautiful Arthur and Guenivere set, and also Nolan Miller (which I have, and which is gorgeous!) Visit the DOLLS FORUM for full information on the Doll Gallery Sale.

Auction site shake-out?!: Auctions.com joins the list of defunct dot-coms and becomes one of the first victims in the online auctions area to close its doors, effective August 31st. The closing of this site also proves that the perfect, easiest to remember URL isn't enough anymore. Will other sites follow?

If you could keep just ONE doll...Wouldn't that be a difficult decision? ROMAMAY has reprinted a delightful poem in the Dolls Forum that captures this dilemma beautifully. Doll Poem. Which doll would YOU pick--would it perhaps be that expensive, very limited modern fashion doll you just bought, an antique handed down through the years in your family, a childhood doll, or that doll you saved for YEARS to buy? Tell us in the Forum.

Welcome to Our New Feature! Welcome to the NEW news column on Dolls here at Doll Collecting at About--About Dolls Daily™. So much is happening in the world of Dolls, that the "Dolls This Week" format simply couldn't keep up with it all! About Dolls Daily™ will help keep you up to date on all the new dolls, events, doll news, and hot gossip that simply didn't fit a weekly format. Dolls Daily will be published several times a week, as news and events warrant it. If YOU have a news item, a doll event, an upcoming convention, a doll sale, a doll review, an event review, or a press release that you would like to be featured in Dolls Daily, please e-mail it to your Guide at collectdolls.guide@about.com!

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About Dolls Daily Archive:

August 25, 2000: Ask the Editor Chat; AA Prince Ken; Doll Reviews
August 25, 2000: Auction-Site Shake-Out; Barbie in the New Millenium; New Links

2000 Doll News Archive:

January
Madame Alexander 16" Fashion Doll; Mattel Execs Leave *
Doll Costumer Guild Announces New Publication; *
Barbie® PC; Barbie Auction *
February
Jill Barad Resigns From Mattel *
All The Toy Fair News! *
Toy Fair Recap; Toy Fair Toys are Technological *
March
New Theriault's Auctions; Dorothy Coleman Dies *
TRU Big Event, Virginia Graves Carlson Dies *
April
New Doll Books; New Barbie® Releases in Stores *
Jill-Neimrow Nelson Resigns; Americana 2000 Projects; Fashion Doll Convention *
Barbie for President, Sign Language Barbie®; Betty Spagetty and eBay Antique Dealers *
Special Online Doll Auctions; Pleasant Co. Toys For Boys, Cool Collecting Barbie®*
May
Pleasant Company Founder Retires/Doll Discounts/Harley Ken HOT! *
Who's Brave Enough to Run Mattel/Hello Kitty Barbie®/Barbies in stores now *
Toysmart OUT of Business; Where are Asian Barbies; NEW Mattel CEO *
June
Barbie®20001 line info; Gene News; Sailor Moon NEW USA Dolls! *
eBay users dislike advertisements; GI Joe in a Dress; new 16" Fashion Dolls *
Barbie® Bazaar, ITCA, Simply Gene Platinum, Barbie Convention
July
New Doll Costuming Magazine; Harry Potter Mania; Dollmakers Convention *
UFDC Sky-High Convention Dolls; Online Convention Clubs Voted In; NEW Fashion Dolls Magazine *
Paralymics Becky; Sotehby Barbie® Auction; HSN Doll Event
August
New Elle Dolls; Teri Lee Repros; iDolls Sale; TRU joins Amazon

For all 1999 editions of "Dolls This Week" please go to the 1999 Dolls This Week Archives.