{"product_id":"1996-barbie-valentine-fun-barbie-doll-nrfb","title":"1996 – Barbie – Valentine Fun Barbie – NRFB","description":"\u003ch3\u003eShe Comes With Stickers for You and a BenFrank Price Tag That Nobody Ever Quite Got Around to Removing\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eValentine Fun Barbie is a 1996 Special Edition dressed entirely for the primary school Valentine's party: white heart-print top, pink heart-scattered skirt with ruffle hem, pink beret and a heart-shaped bag. Packaged alongside her is a sheet of Valentine's stickers for the child and a small blue metal mailbox prop for receiving the valentines. The BenFrank retail sticker ($11.99) on surviving boxes places this in the American party supply and craft chain that operated through the mid-nineties and has since vanished entirely — which makes the sticker its own small piece of retail archaeology from a very specific moment in the American shopping landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Valentine Barbie line ran annually throughout the nineties in several distinct registers: Pretty Hearts went for European fashion doll aesthetic, Sweet Valentine for the Hallmark collector angle, and Valentine Fun went fully for the child's classroom experience — stickers, a mailbox, and the implicit suggestion that Barbie herself would be sending and receiving valentines this February. It is the most cheerfully unpretentious of the three, and the one most likely to make you remember being eight years old in a way you weren't quite expecting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eManufacturer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mattel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCountry of manufacture:\u003c\/strong\u003e China\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModel #:\u003c\/strong\u003e 16311\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMelody Likes box condition grade:\u003c\/strong\u003e Excellent — \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\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eView our box condition guide\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mattel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47696701030590,"sku":"BARBIE-1996-VALENTIN-DOLL0001","price":100.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/4504\/6718\/files\/1996-barbie-valentine-fun-barbie-doll-nrfb-front.jpg?v=1782133773","url":"https:\/\/melodylikes.com\/products\/1996-barbie-valentine-fun-barbie-doll-nrfb","provider":"Melody Likes","version":"1.0","type":"link"}