Countrywide Financial Corporation and Mattel Inc have joined forces to give little girls [and boys] a playful taste of reality featuring the ubiquitous Barbie doll.
The new Barbie Foreclosure Set comes with all the accessories a poor girl needs for getting thrown out on the streets. The set includes a house with boarded up windows and doors, an empty pocketbook, plastic food stamps, and a countrywide foreclosure agent Barbie can reason with. Best friend puppy comes along too, with a fish skeleton to nibble on when hunger sets in.
“This will give my little girl hand on experience for the future that awaits her,” one mother said.
The set, which is projected to be on store shelves nationwide by the end of September, is part of Mattel Inc.’s recent measures to give an educational purpose for their plastic products.
“We want our kids to have fun while facing reality,” a Mattel representative
In early 2009, Mattel Inc. says it will complete the set with Trailer Trash Barbie, and accessories including a flask and hooker clothes.
The new Barbie Foreclosure Set comes with all the accessories a poor girl needs for getting thrown out on the streets. The set includes a house with boarded up windows and doors, an empty pocketbook, plastic food stamps, and a countrywide foreclosure agent Barbie can reason with. Best friend puppy comes along too, with a fish skeleton to nibble on when hunger sets in.
“This will give my little girl hand on experience for the future that awaits her,” one mother said.
The set, which is projected to be on store shelves nationwide by the end of September, is part of Mattel Inc.’s recent measures to give an educational purpose for their plastic products.
“We want our kids to have fun while facing reality,” a Mattel representative
In early 2009, Mattel Inc. says it will complete the set with Trailer Trash Barbie, and accessories including a flask and hooker clothes.
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