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Annette Price stands in the gift shop at the Toy & Action Figure Museum in Pauls Valley and admires a newly released special edition Pink Ribbon Barbie Doll designed to help raise money for breast cancer research. (PVDD photo by Jim Richardson)
Think Pink
Toy Museum joins fight against breast cancer
The Toy & Action Figure Museum is urging Barbie collectors to “Think Pink” this summer, since the museum is an official dealer of the new, limited edition Pink Ribbon Barbie Doll.
The specially designed doll has been created as way to help promote the awareness of breast cancer, while also raising funds to help fight the terrible disease.
Mattel, who manufactures Barbie dolls, has committed to donate a minimum of $100,000 to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and the donation may grow, depending on the number of dolls sold.
The Komen Foundation has been leading the fight against breast cancer for almost 25 years by funding research grants and supporting education, screening and treatment projects in communities around the world.
Annette Price, whose Norman-based store Speeding Bullet Comics helps the museum stock its gift shop with hard-to-find toys such as the Pink Ribbon Barbie Doll, has good reason to believe raising money for cancer research is vitally important.
“My grandmother, Ethel Berry, lived in Pauls Valley for more than 55 years until breast cancer claimed her life in 1967. She would have loved this doll,” Price said.
“She owned one of the early Barbie dolls and used it as a model to crochet Barbie clothes for all the little girls in her neighborhood,” she said.
“This doll is a tribute to her and to the millions of women who have fought similar battles against this disease. Not only is it a beautiful doll, but a portion of the proceeds of every doll sold will go back into breast cancer research.”
The Komen Foundation is not the only worthy cause to benefit from sales of the Pink Ribbon Barbie Doll.
Price said money raised from the dolls will go toward helping the museum keep its doors open and continue to make a positive impact on the community.
“Every time a parent, child or collector shops at the museum and purchases one of the special edition Barbies, money goes directly back into the museum,” Price remarked.
“The more funding the museum receives from ventures like the gift shop dolls, the greater the resources it has to attract tourism dollars and build Pauls Valley into a true destination town.”
Price reminds shoppers they can purchase some of the Barbie dolls without paying a tour fee, since there is no admission charge to the gift shop portion of the museum.
Besides raising money for the toy museum and breast cancer research, Price said the Pink Ribbon Barbie Doll is also being used to launch the gift shop’s new line of collector edition Barbie dolls.
“The collector dolls will complement the fashion dolls priced for all ages, which are already featured in the gift shop. These dolls include Disney princesses, like Cinderella, and superhero-inspired Barbie dolls, such as the new Superman Returns Lois Lane,” Price explained.
“Upcoming dolls include All That Jazz Barbie, a reproduction of a Barbie doll wearing a 1968 mod fashion; 45th Anniversary Ken, a reproduction of the very first Ken doll released in 1961; and Friday Night Dream Date Giftset, reproductions of a set of vintage Ken and Barbie dolls from the early 1960s.”
As described by Price, the Pink Ribbon Barbie doll, which sells for $29.95, wears a frothy pink organza gown featuring a shirred design with tiers of ruffles.
A sparkly, tulle stole and long pink gloves highlight her ensemble while an attached pink ribbon on her shoulder proudly states Barbie’s support for the ongoing fight against breast cancer.
For more information about the Toy & Action Figure Museum, visit the museum’s web site at www.actionfiguremuseum.com, or call 238-6300.
To learn more about breast health or breast cancer, visit the Komen Foundation’s web site at www.komen.org or call its Breast Care Helpline at (800) IM-AWARE (800-462-9273).
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