Takara Jenny

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

This popular Japanese fashion doll was originally a Barbie. In 1981 Mattel licensed Takara to sell a fashion doll under the Barbie brand. However, she was redesigned for the Asian market - slightly younger looking than Barbie - Jenny is a schoolgirl, slightly smaller, and with a big eyes ‘manga’ style face-paint.

The deal with Mattel only lasted for 5 years. When the arrangement broke down, Takara relaunched the doll as Jenny.

Jenny also has lots of friends that appear in the series with different hair colours and skin tones and back stories depicting them as coming from different countries.

Clothes and accesories are also available, of course, including typically Japanese costumes such as sailor-blouse school uniforms and kimonos.

Like Barbie, Jenny comes in a wide variety of price ranges, from simple play dolls for little girls, to much more expensive collectors items in more lavish costumes.

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