Night Of The Living Barbies

February 8, 2011 Matt Desiderio Conventions, Horror, Stuff We Like, Toys Comments Off

Last week Mattel created quite a buzz with the release of their Barbie dolls based off of the 1980’s television show Dynasty.

Honestly I barely remember the show but I’m guessing it has a pretty big cult following cause the dolls sold out immediately and people are still asking for them. What I do know is that Mattel and Barbie have actually been putting out some pretty interesting products in the last couple years. I really dug their Ladies of the 80’s line which included a Deborah Harry doll, and much respect to who ever decided to make a Hitchcock’s The Birds inspired Barbie.

Now listen up Mattel cause I’m gonna let you know about my boy Mike Smash. I’ve run in to Mike at quite a few horror conventions and he always blows my mind with his custom dolls. His work is mostly based off of classic cult films and TV shows like Return Of The Living Dead, Twin Peaks and Frankenhooker, just to name a few. But the piece that made this collector cream was his Human Centipede figure. I mean just look at this thing, who wouldn’t want this on their mantle.

So how bout it Mattel, give Mike Smash some type of high paying, art directorial, descision making job so we can see something as beautiful as this Human Centipede doll made available to the masses. O.K., Well at least check out his stuff at http://smashcustoms.carbonmade.com/

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Matt D has been a manager, buyer and event coordinator at Forbidden Planet since 2005 or maybe it was 2006. Who can remember? We didn't even have computers back then. A native New Yorker from the borough of Queens, raised on Sunday Funnies, Monster Movies and Rock N' Roll. What better place to end up than Forbidden Planet where he can use his position to influence the city's pop culture. A responsibility he takes seriously more now than ever due to New York's consistent change for the worse. The last thing NYC needs is another cafe or bank so thank whatever it is you believe in that Forbidden Planet is here to stay. Beyond the walls of FP, Matt is a publicly recognized expert in cult and horror cinema with a focus on VHS. He is the founder of Horror Boobs a collective that books screenings and distributes weirdo films, the producer of the documentary Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS collector, the publisher of the Blood Video zine, and is regrettably responsible for resurrecting the career of schizophrenic Shot-on Video director Carl J Sukenick. E-mail him at Mattdfpnyc@gmail.com Follow him on various social media at @horrorboobs