\u201cBoys and girls, Barbie has made a terrible mistake.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know what else you could say to a wide-eyed little girl who can\u2019t wait to get her very own \u201cTokidoki Barbie,\u201d<\/strong> Mattel\u2019s latest release in the specialty doll line.<\/p>\n Alas, the toy company\u2019s buxom beauty has gotten tatted up.<\/strong>\u00a0 And it\u2019s not just one temporary tattoo, like her predecessor \u201cTotally Stylin\u2019 Tattoo Barbie\u201d had.\u00a0 The new Tokidoki Barbie sports permanent ink running up her left arm and across her chest.\u00a0 Besides the tattoo, the slinky Tokidoki Barbie shows off in a hot pink bob hairdo, layers of smoky grey eyeshadow, and a slouchy off-the-shoulder black tee featuring a heart and crossbones.\u00a0 Add a pink leather miniskirt, leopard print tights and sparkly silver stiletto heels and she\u2019s ready for walking the streets, if you know what I mean\u2026.\u00a0 Barbie\u2019s image as a benign, albeit shallow fashion-plate is kaput; this one\u2019s smokin\u2019 hot and sexy.<\/p>\n Barbie has a pet\u2014and that concerns me, too.<\/strong>\u00a0 Tokidoki Barbie leads a snarling little bulldog dressed in a cactus costume, symbolic of the pop culture design company tokidoki, whose designer Simon Legno created the streetwalker get-up.\u00a0 The dog\u2019s name?\u00a0 No \u201cSpot\u201d or \u201cRover\u201d here\u2014Tokidoki Barbie\u2019s dog is named \u201cBastardino.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n I have one bit of Good News\/Bad News:<\/strong>\u00a0 The reinvented doll was introduced to \u201cadult collectors\u201d for $50 beginning on October 13.\u00a0 However, when I checked the website on October 17, four days later, they had already sold out their entire stock of 7,400 dolls.\u00a0 The good news<\/span> is that you can honestly say that your little girl can\u2019t have one, because there aren\u2019t any more.\u00a0 The bad news<\/span> is that so many people wanted this little tramp in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cBoys and girls, Barbie has made a terrible mistake.\u201d I don\u2019t know what else you could say to a wide-eyed little girl who can\u2019t wait to get her very own \u201cTokidoki Barbie,\u201d Mattel\u2019s latest release in the specialty doll line. Alas, the toy company\u2019s buxom beauty has gotten tatted up.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not just one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,260],"tags":[720],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","category-toys","tag-tokidoki-barbie"],"yoast_head":"\n