{"product_id":"1990-barbie-applause-barbie-style-doll-2","title":"1990 - Barbie - Applause - Barbie Style - NRFB","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBefore She Hit the Department Stores She Went Through Applause and This Is What That Looked Like\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 1990 Applause Barbie is a special edition released through the Applause gift and novelty chain, a retail channel that ran parallel to the department store exclusives of the era and produced some of the more quietly interesting Barbie releases of the late eighties and early nineties. Applause operated as a gift shop network primarily in mall locations and airport terminals, which meant their Barbie exclusives ended up in the hands of people who were passing through rather than specifically collecting, which is one explanation for why finding them sealed is more difficult than their original wide distribution would suggest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe early nineties specialty retail Barbie market is one of the less documented corners of the collector landscape because the shops that carried these exclusives are mostly gone and the records of what they stocked went with them. The 1990 Applause Barbie is a specific artefact of that distribution moment, from a retail era that no longer exists, in a condition that the original retail context actively worked against.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nManufacturer: Mattel\u003cbr\u003e\nCountry of manufacture: China\u003cbr\u003e\nMelody Likes box condition grade: Very Good - \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/4504\/6718\/files\/MelodyLikes-Doll-Box-Condition-Guide_05303af8-20b2-4137-8091-87f3c51d9668.png?v=1773150063\"\u003eView our box condition guide\u003c\/a\u003e","brand":"Melody Likes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49180726984894,"sku":"BARBIE-1990-APPLAUSE-BARBIEST-DOLL","price":138.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/4504\/6718\/files\/1990-barbie-applause-barbie-style-doll-2-1.jpg?v=1790641737","url":"https:\/\/melodylikes.com\/products\/1990-barbie-applause-barbie-style-doll-2","provider":"Melody Likes","version":"1.0","type":"link"}