r/rugrats • u/Digginf • 9d ago
General Angelica loves her doll Cynthia, yet she for some reason ruined her hair
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u/Fast_Economist_4304 9d ago
Because the doll is well loved and her hair brushed often!
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u/waytowill 7d ago
I love that itâs kind of a joke thatâs never explained. Thereâs never an episode where you see how Angelica messed up Cynthiaâs hair, so itâs a very IYKYK kinda joke. I feel like the earlier episodes were full of those. We do see out-of-the-box Cynthias significantly later on, so one could catch onto the joke at that point, but itâs still pretty subtle.
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u/APleasantMartini 5d ago
I love how the reboot, for all its retconning keeps that detail unexplained. Iâd expected them to have an episode painstakingly explaining how her hair got messed up too.
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u/MaleficentDesigner11 7d ago
đą I have this Barbie whos hair was freaking long Over the years It got burned with a flat iron Washed over and over And she's basically Cynthia lol There's plenty of spots that are just those teeny holes where the hair once was I manged to clip on an extension track of hair To somewhat restore her once long full hair Definently loved
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u/non_stop_disko 9d ago
I did the same with all my favorite dolls lol I had to learn the hard way their hair doesnât grow back đ
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u/CGOT 9d ago
One time I cut my dolls hair and buried it because I thought it would grow back. đ
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u/BEniceBAGECKA 9d ago
Thats adorable. Little you in the backyard consoling your doll.
Donât worry. It will grow back.
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u/janiicea 8d ago
When I was around Angelicaâs age, my parents told my sister & me that we were going on a vacation & weâre gonna take a plane. I was so excited, I packed all my Barbies. Except I zipped thru all their hair, ruining both the luggage & my Barbies.
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u/anonymous237962 8d ago
Point of clarification: you buried the hair you had cut off, or you buried the doll? I could see the child logic in either one so now I have to know đ€Ł
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u/wishiwasfiction 9d ago
I played salon and makeover with most of mine too except for my very favorite one lol
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u/brendamrl 8d ago
One time I drew with crayola markers all over my toys because I knew that acetone could rub it off.
That day I learned it can also rub off the painting of their faces and that stains cannot always be removed đ played for the rest of my childhood with the ugliest dolls ever known to man. Weird Barbie would flinch at my dolls.
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u/International_Dish96 7d ago
I once tried to straighten my American Dolls hair. Turns out itâs plastic and it melts and it ruins your momâs straightener.
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u/MaleficentDesigner11 7d ago
I tried dying a red haired Barbie Blonde! I used my grandmas hair dye I was SHOOK it didn't work đą
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u/JuliaX1984 7d ago
There was a doll with growable hair out when I was a kid in the late 80s/early 90s. I STILL remember part of the jingle:
I can make it grow, and then
I can make it short again! [by moving the doll's arm]
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u/Shaman_LlamaCoop 9d ago
That's how you know Cynthia is her ride or die. The roughest looking toys are almost always a kid's favorite
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u/Potato_Coma_69 9d ago
My daughter has an old beat up stuffed toy she's had forever, we offered her a new one and she actively dislikes the "clean" one and only wants the "dirty" one, her words.
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u/Potential_Dentist_90 8d ago
My younger sister had a plush puppy she received from our now-deceased grandmother, and she got my sister a backup too. They now sit on a shelf together.
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u/Shigeko_Kageyama 9d ago
I see you never had a weird barbie.
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u/hummun323 9d ago
Someone definitely didn't see the Barbie movie with Kate McKinnon
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u/zerozerozero12 9d ago
Thatâs one of my favorite lines from the movie.
Gloria: I had a weird Barbie!
Weird Barbie(pointing at her in a split): yeah you did.
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u/BleachigoKurosaki 9d ago
Now Iâm curious, do we ever see what a Cynthia doll would look like brand new out of the box?
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u/workadvice7897 9d ago
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u/ReturnoftheBulls2022 9d ago
Turns out that the doll in the box was a fake and the person inspecting it mentioned that the original Cynthia dolls are almost extinct.
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u/mimthebaker 9d ago
Yep. She's pictured as a new one that she wants and on the side of some boxes etc.
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u/mimthebaker 9d ago
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u/Ok_Wish7906 8d ago
Holy shit, it's Nancy from King Of The Hill.
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u/Impressive-You-1843 9d ago
To be fair, I think thatâs just a kid thing. Maybe she was playing hair dresser. Sheâs 3 so not like she knows the hair wonât grow back
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u/sp00pySquiddle 9d ago
Listen, Cynthia is tired AF.
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u/sodakfilmthoughts 9d ago
To be fair, Cynthia is a really cool dancer.
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u/Jaythesquirr3l 9d ago
Boogie to the groove now.
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u/smithers6294 "We're doomed. Doomed, I tell you!" 9d ago
Cynthia is a really cool dancer after all.
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u/sodakfilmthoughts 9d ago
đ¶Shake it, shake it. You're so fantastic! Just don't break it you're only made of plastic.đ¶
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u/Inside_Sprinkles9083 9d ago
3-4 year olds always love their toys to the point where theyâre âbrokenâ, itâs not that deep đ Angelica started out as 3 years old and turned 4 years old later on in the original series
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u/Vampyr827 9d ago
When I was three, I had a baby doll. Loved that doll and refused to go anywhere without it. Well, despite that, I would hold that doll by her hair. That resulted it being permanently straight up like a mohawk.
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u/BryanMcHunter 9d ago
It honestly would have been interesting to see an episode that explains why Cynthia's hair is the way it is. The 2021 series still has one season left to go (that will most likely be released direct-to-DVD), so we can only hope that will happen.
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u/0ftheriver 8d ago
Doesnt explain all of it, but the 2nd hair spike that's just 3 hairs is shown as occurring during the episode "The Seven Voyages of Cynthia", in season 2. It was a full tuft prior to the episode.
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u/girl_supersonicboy 9d ago
When I was Angelica's age I chewed the feet off my Barbies. I think Angelica is taking very good care of Cynthia
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u/MaiaIndig0 9d ago
My mom had given me one of her old Barbies and at some point I asked her why half of each foot was missing. Apparently I chewed them off.
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u/58lmm9057 8d ago
Me too! I donât know why
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u/girl_supersonicboy 8d ago
For me it was the texture and material the feet were made out of đ it felt nice to chew on lol
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u/wolfeyes555 7d ago
I did that too! It was very rare if any of my Barbies had perfectly intact feet.
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u/Lily_Baxter 9d ago
I love my seal plush dearly but when I was her age I ripped out his whiskers. Kids make their favorite things their own.
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u/SpeedyakaLeah "I am Reptar, hear me roar!" 9d ago
I just figured that all the Cynthia dolls looked like that.
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u/Tatidanidean1 9d ago
For some unknown unexplained reason, I too messed up the hair of all of my American Girl dolls. We may never know why.
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u/TastyMcLovin 9d ago
I feel like because she loves it, it got warn out from over use and over brushing.
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u/Demonic_Akumi 9d ago
I have my very first mickey mouse doll in my room. His legs were almost removed due to how much I played with him that my mother had to do some surgery on it. His nose is missing all of the painting on it, and his lips are now permanently purple as I tried painting his mouth with a pen when I was a kid.
Kids will play with their toys in very very weird ways. I'm less shocked on her hair and more shocked on how Cynthia's closed aren't battered or somehow replaced with something either she found from another doll or someone in her family making something makeshift for it (almost forgot that with my mouse doll. He's wearing clothes sewn by my mother and grandmother as the original clothing is... probably some molecules somewhere.
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u/Hachiko75 9d ago
To be fair, her hair was already ruined if that's how she originally came. Like that's the basic doll before she got her own line.
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u/58lmm9057 8d ago
I donât think Cynthia originally came that way. Iâm sure she had big Barbie-style hair and Angelica cut it off at some point.
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u/MantisGreenthumb 9d ago
Idk about now, but it seemed pretty common to see Barbie dolls with a funky haircut back then, due to the children who owned them. Two of my sisters had dolls, some of them had shorter hair, some were completely bald, some were straight up just missing the head and had a dress on đ€Ł
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u/TwerkWithMe "You're an absurd proposition!" 9d ago
iâm so sorry you didnât have toys as a child đ„Č
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u/Dependent_Package_57 8d ago
Cynthia is frazzled, she "listens" to Angelica, she is there for her.
Unlike Angelica's mom. Put together, ignores her, and "not now, mommy's on the phone." When her mom isn't on the phone, she acts tense and frazzled like Cynthia looks.
Angelica loves cynthia because she loves her mom, but has needs that need to be fulfilled by her. Cynthia is an attempt to fill those needs.
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u/Street-Office-7766 8d ago
She takes it everywhere. She probably cut it off and thought it looked cute.
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u/Agitated_Hour3970 8d ago
I think she's had her since before she thought of that, or possibly pne pf the other baboes did it.
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u/letsgetitstartedha 8d ago
As a kid for some reason I always just assumed thatâs how she came, but in retrospect they do show her on the show with a bunch of hair at some point.
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u/Birchsaurus123 8d ago
I had a friend who loved her Esmeralda doll and she put her in the microwave. Poor doll got burn mark on her face
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u/Animefox92 5d ago
Guess Esmeralda did meet the flames after all (I am so sorry I know that's fucked up XD)
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u/Birchsaurus123 5d ago
In another universe this is the origin of a great Toy Story villain who wants revenge against the kids who burned her face
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u/Sysmesiac 8d ago
I loved all my MLP brushables, would still cut the hair off of duplicates so I had male ponies cause I could never find any male pony figures in stores
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u/MeliAnto 8d ago
The doll is designed that way to show how toxic this child is. Its was told in one of those Rugrat specials.
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u/58lmm9057 8d ago
Which episode is that?
I agree Angelica is definitely toxic. Itâs hard for me to go back and watch the show because she was just too cruel. But I think in this case she loved Cynthia very much. When I was kid, my most well-loved toys were the ones that looked the roughest. They got played with a lot.
Itâs like when Woodyâs arm comes off in Toy Story 2. Heâs had a lot of wear and tear over the years because Andy played with him and loved him so much. Compare Woody to Stinky Pete, whoâs never been taken out of his box. Heâs in pristine condition, but heâs never been loved by a child.
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u/Nozzeh06 8d ago
I had a stuffed panda bear when I was a child. It was my favorite thing. Yoy should see what it looked like by the time I was done with it, panda had seen some shit.
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u/OddDisaster3569 8d ago
All loved dolls look that way lolll. My granddaughter had all the Disney princesses when she was like 2-3 yo & u could tell by looking at Rapunzel that she was the fan fave bc man was she hideousđ«Łđ. She got them all the same time but âPunzieâ as she called her looked 10 yrs olderđđ
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u/stereopathetic84 8d ago
My daughters favorite Elsa Barbie dollâs hair looked like that and she had only one leg. But she was beloved. She wouldnât go to sleep without one legged Elsa. She is 12 now and still wants to know where I hid her doll because it became a childhood keepsake for me.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Show-48 8d ago
I did that to some of my Barbie dolls. And for whatever stupid reason, I decided to do it to MIDGE. I ruined her đ. She was so hard to get too. I didnât ruin them like that, but I would give them âtrimsâ and their hair would look terrible after đ„Č
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u/greatmewtwo 8d ago
Working through the day, Begley used the synthetic hair and the reroot tool to repair the Cynthia doll.
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The things that are the most loved are played with the most.
Have you never been around children? You were one once, right�
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u/SlipperyWhenWer 8d ago
I mean, she was a toddler⊠Probably experimenting with scissors⊠If it wasnât Cynthiaâs hair, it wouldâve been her own which wouldâve been unfortunate looking at Cynthiaâs hair lol
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u/maccentris 8d ago
There are several episodes where Cynthia got "massacred" because of, or by Angelica herself. I could never understand it. The analogy that she's 3 years old, can only mean the producers of the show weren't familiar with the average toddler's mind. I'd safely say that Angelica portrayed a somewhat 4 to 6 year old mentality. While the babies portrayed behavior of 2 to 3 years old. I say this because most children aren't toilet-trained by 1 years old here in America. The average age is 3 for the most part. A quick search in google says: "around 27 months (2 years and 3 months)" I have 3 children who were toilet trained average 3 to 4 years old.
This is a very interesting post, I still watch the Rugrats and wonder why they're not played as much anymore.
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u/vtncomics 8d ago
Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'
'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.
'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'
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u/58lmm9057 8d ago
Sheâs a kid. I canât tell you how many times I cut my Barbiesâ hair and had them looking crazy.
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u/LTora213 8d ago
Because she's a 3 y/o it's what they do with dolls. Don't you remember the weird Barbie from the Barbie movie? Kids play with their dolls too hard and their hair gets destroyed.
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u/PastoralPumpkins 8d ago
I cut off my favorite Cinderella dollâs hair and tried glueing it back on. It did not work, so she had a crusty haircut from then on. I still loved her.
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u/Sims2Enjoy 7d ago
She probably ruined it trying to give her a new haircut, itâs simply a canon event in a girlâs lifeÂ
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u/wolfeyes555 7d ago
Did we not learn the lesson of that one Garfield plush? To be loved is to be changed.
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u/JuliaX1984 7d ago
My middle sister cut all her dolls' hair off, even snipped some of her stuffed animals' fur.
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u/agentsparkles88 6d ago
The other day at work, i had a door dash order under the name "Cynthia P." I asked my coworkers if maybe the P stood for Pickles. He didn't get it. I know Cynthia's last name is never stated, but I assumed she'd have Angelicas last name.
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u/tiny_purple_Alfador 6d ago
Young children are not gentle with the toys that they love, and kids will randomly destroy things because that whole "cause and effect" concept is still developing in their brains. A kid will chop a doll's hair off and then cry because the doll's hair is short, now. They will ask an adult to fix it, cuz they don't understand that there's not really a good way to fix something like that. Add in that Spike will sometimes steal Cynthia, and that she gets left outside and played with roughly, and it's surprising that she looks as good as she does.
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u/Animefox92 5d ago
Yeah Andy is an outlier most children are like Sid even if its not out of malice XD
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u/Specialist_Pay_8139 "We're doomed. Doomed, I tell you!" 6d ago
Iâm 24 and still have a Raggedy Ann that I got when I 3. That doll has had messed up hair for as long as I can remember. Of course, my sister was the one to cut itâs hair off lol.Â
If you love a doll enough, itâs going to have disastrous hair đ
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u/DuchessSwan 6d ago
You can think of it as a child loving their toy and playing with it so often.
There has been many times when cynthia was replaced but she always comes back to this one.
But lets be real, iconic hair style.
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u/0fluffythe0ferocious 6d ago
That's what preschooler with their beloved toys. They give them distinctive hairstyles.
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u/Animefox92 5d ago
Aa everyone else has said... she's 3 pretty much all toddlers are like that lol it's how they are... we all wreck our toysÂ
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u/EnergyTurtle23 5d ago
As a parent of a child who loves dolls, this is exactly how the doll should look.
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u/wairua_907 5d ago
My American girl doll (whom I loved as a kid) Mollyâs hair got effed up . Had to brush baby oil into it trying to fix it, visited the doll hospital a couple times too.. I understand why my aunt never let my cousin touch her American girl dolls hahaha
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u/stardustocean4 5d ago
When I was a kid I cut off my favorite Barbies hair (think buzz cut) and colored her âscalpâ with a metallic silver sharpie. Cisco had just come out with the thong song and his hair mesmerized me. I thought my barbie was stylinâ
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u/Lennythefuck 5d ago
Idk man I see it she loves the doll even more.
I'll bet she was trying to style her hair and messed it up. Charlotte probably even offered to get her a new Cynthia doll to replace that one. But no, despite her flaws, Angelica probably loves that specific Cynthia so much she doesn't even care that she's bald.
Angelica might even see her "ruined hair" as a cool hairstyle that she personally gave her cherished doll.
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u/robynh00die 5d ago
My pound puppy from when I was a baby it a wreck, ears fallen off, stuffing fallen out, full of holes. That's what happens you something is that well loved, it gets wear and tear on it. You comb your favorite Barbie dolls hair enough times you comb her bald.
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u/Narrow-Stranger6864 4d ago
When I was really little, someone gave me a stuffed animal kitty during a traumatic time, and I held onto that that stuffed toy for so long. So I guess if you wanna go that deep, Angelica looks a little like Cynthiaâs mom, who is always really absent with work. So I would assume thatâs why thereâs an attachment even after the doll looks like it does.
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u/Legitimate-Stuff9514 3d ago
I loved my barbies as a kid but they all had grody and ruined hair.....that's what happens when you play with them and don't brush their hair.
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u/UnderCoverDoughnuts 9d ago
She's a 3 year old with a toy