As many of you may already know, the very first blog post here is by far the most popular. So, given that, I decided to make a follow-up post with new pictures and commentary. Here it is!
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| All three structures together! This would make a wonderful Christmas morning indeed! |
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| I am not sure of the exact year, but I am supposing this is about 1981-1983. |
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| One thing I really love about the box is the comic strip panels showing all the different rooms, features and play possibilities. |
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| The lesser known Finishing Touches accessory packs. I was never into these, but it was cool that they made the attempt to add things to fill out this admittedly sparse house. |
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| This shipping carton is in GREAT shape. My original A Frame memory at ToysRUs is that they strung these up high in the ceiling far above the shelf, with no boxed houses on the lower shelves amongst the Barbie items. Maybe there was one of those ticket stub dispensers, so once paid for, a stocker would retrieve one (in a carton) from the back. Sadly, many ebay sellers ship the house in the original shipping carton, requiring the carton to be written on/tape/shipping label applied, and then go through shipping getting dirty and banged up. Mwa, mwa, mwaaaaaaa.... |
Even now, 30-40 years after these mammoth toys rolled off the factory conveyer belts minty new, surprising treasures pop up every once in awhile online. I always hope that the buyer does not open these extremely rare finds since its too easy to recreate the flowers as seen in previous posts.
