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    Mad Men characters get the Barbie and Ken doll treatment.
“…The characters to become dolls are Don Draper, the show’s leading man; his wife, Betty; his colleague at the Sterling Cooper agency, Roger Sterling; and Joan Holloway, the agency’s office manager who was Roger’s mistress.  That two dolls represent a relationship outside wedlock, and Don Draper’s propensity for adultery, may be firsts for the Barbie world since the brand’s introduction five decades ago. But for the sake of the Barbie image, her immersion in the “Mad Men” era will go only so far: The dolls come with period accessories like hats, overcoats, pearls and padded undergarments, but no cigarettes, ashtrays, martini glasses or cocktail shakers…
— via The New York Times

    Mad Men characters get the Barbie and Ken doll treatment.

    “…The characters to become dolls are Don Draper, the show’s leading man; his wife, Betty; his colleague at the Sterling Cooper agency, Roger Sterling; and Joan Holloway, the agency’s office manager who was Roger’s mistress. That two dolls represent a relationship outside wedlock, and Don Draper’s propensity for adultery, may be firsts for the Barbie world since the brand’s introduction five decades ago. But for the sake of the Barbie image, her immersion in the “Mad Men” era will go only so far: The dolls come with period accessories like hats, overcoats, pearls and padded undergarments, but no cigarettes, ashtrays, martini glasses or cocktail shakers…

    — via The New York Times

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      lie, I totally want these
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      is curvy enough!?!? I think that is one...calling cards, it doesn’t look like her...
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      Well, then it’s not really Mad Men, is it? And where is Joan? I certainly don’t see anything resembling Joan up there.
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      omg…must have these…but where is Joan’s amazing body?
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      Joan isn’t curvy enough palonka:
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