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Hey there, Honeys !
Kind of a joke - a weak one. Continuing with the ‘Agatha's Underwear' theme, I think we finally have a winning pattern. It's a bit loose on ‘Honey' here, but on a Barbie, that top is as ‘boobalicious' as Agatha's. I kind of messed up on the pants. See that little pleat on the left side ? Makes the pants too tight for a Barbie, and there's not much of a way to fix it, so smaller-hipped Cutey Honey got this outfit. Simplicity 9334, view 8 for the top. Emby Quinn patterns ( see Links on the main site) for the knee-length pants.
I got Honey almost by accident. When I was just ‘getting into' Barbie as an adult, I droooooled over the Ma-Ba Barbie dolls. They almost always have straight blonde hair and big blue anime eyes with friendly, closed-mouth smiles. Her almost uncountable friends had a variety of faces and eye/hair color and styles, and as is usual for me, I liked the ‘flotilla' better than the ‘flagship' ! Made by a partnership of Mattel and Bandai - basically Japan's Mattel - the Barbies and her friends were all so lovely. Want settled in, big time. My second-favorite activity in those days was cruisin' eBay for that undiscovered gem, that rare rough emerald everyone else thought was glass.
One day, I found this blonde doll, listed as MABA Barbie. I swooped in, and she was a cutie. Had no idea who she is, or what the heck she was wearing. It looked sort of like a blue and white mix of a bellhop uniform and a carhop waitress costume. Well, with less than an hour to go, with about $5. total for doll and shipping, I took the bait and chomped down with a bid. No one challenged. Mine !
Some after-win research showed me who she was. A 1997 Bandai Cutey Honey ! I'd heard of her series, and had seen episodes of both the vintage 1973 Cutey Honey and the then-new 1995 Cutey Honey Flash series. But Cutey was a short-haired redhead. I had no idea how this blonde was supposed to be her. Turns out that, as a robot, Cutey can appear any way she wants. She simply never appeared as a nurse in the shows I watched ! And that's precisely who she is, a Cutey Honey nurse. If you'd like to see her still in her box, check out eBay auction #290152225613.
I have to admit, I was a little disappointed. I have no idea why the seller had her listed as ‘MABA', her markings clearly read ‘Bandai', with no mention of Mattel. But once I had her, I could have cared less who she was supposed to be, or who made her. She was just so darn cute ! I'd never seen a doll with palms to the front ! Her slight figure means that most Barbie dresses sort of hang on her, but she wears the new Fashion Fever clothes beautifully !
That's what I love about having so many non-Mattel dolls. If it don't fit Barbie, it's gonna fit somebody around Chez Insanity !
