Got Milk? Barbie — Mattel Special Edition #15122 (African American)
Category:Licensed merchandise
Collections:Merchandise
Type:Licensed doll, second issue
Notes
A second Mattel issue of the Got Milk? Barbie under its own stock number, #15122, described in dealer listings as the African American edition. Mattel routinely released a doll in two versions on consecutive stock numbers, so this is a separate product with its own box and its own list entry rather than a variant of #15121.
Got Milk? The Book (1999): the Barbie brand manager at Mattel telephoned the board in September 1995 about a new “Cookies and Milk Barbie”, in cow-print clothes with Nestlé’s chocolate chip cookie recipe, planned as a national Toys “R” Us exclusive, and asked to rename her got milk? Barbie. Manning agreed, no money changed hands, and Mattel told him the doll sold very well (pp. 139–140). This supports the 1995 date; the 1999 trade report placing the doll about three years earlier was approximate.
Evidence
Dealer listing titles record ‘BARBIE Got Milk Special Edition 15122 African American 1995’. The stock number is distinct from the #15121 edition already held.
About this entry
Got Milk? Barbie — Mattel Special Edition #15122 (African American) is an entry filed under Licensed merchandise dated 1995, filed in the collection “Merchandise” of the Milk Mustache Database, which lists 2,339 entries from the got milk? and Milk Mustache campaigns. Type: Licensed doll, second issue.
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