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zsana
PostPosted: Mon 23 Jun 2008 05:05 
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German Toymaker launches Barack Obama Doll... Or Something Like That

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Expert German dollmaker Marcel Offermann has immortalized presidential hopeful Barack Obama in the form of a collector's doll. But the maker of the mini-Obama admits that it was tricky to get the skin tone correct (no kidding). Offermann explained that he was forced to adapt an off-the-shelf black doll's head for his tribute to Obama, which is his first attempt at making a black doll (it shows).

"We tried to make it even lighter so that it would look more like Obama, but then it didn't look so good," he said. (Hahaha!) "So we said, let's stick with this skin tone." (And this guy is supposedly an "expert dollmaker???)

The Barack Obama doll is available in a limited edition of 999 and costs €139 ($216). The 36-centimeter (14-inch doll) sports a black suit, complete with a Stars-and-Stripes lapel pin, a white shirt and Obama's trademark sky-blue tie. Get yours now - that is if you haven't been sufficiently turned off!

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zsana wrote:
German Toymaker launches Barack Obama Doll... Or Something Like That

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http://obensonreport.blogspot.com/2008/ ... obama.html

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Expert German dollmaker Marcel Offermann has immortalized presidential hopeful Barack Obama in the form of a collector's doll. But the maker of the mini-Obama admits that it was tricky to get the skin tone correct (no kidding). Offermann explained that he was forced to adapt an off-the-shelf black doll's head for his tribute to Obama, which is his first attempt at making a black doll (it shows).

"We tried to make it even lighter so that it would look more like Obama, but then it didn't look so good," he said. (Hahaha!) "So we said, let's stick with this skin tone." (And this guy is supposedly an "expert dollmaker???)

The Barack Obama doll is available in a limited edition of 999 and costs €139 ($216). The 36-centimeter (14-inch doll) sports a black suit, complete with a Stars-and-Stripes lapel pin, a white shirt and Obama's trademark sky-blue tie. Get yours now - that is if you haven't been sufficiently turned off!


well that looks...accurate... :roll:

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LMAO! Yeah, try again.
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Looks like someone is waaaaay overdue for a new eyeglass prescription :?

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Does it come with a free slice of watermelon?

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Here is a doll of Japanese make that most will agree is much more accurate than the one by the "expert" dollmaker.




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http://gamu-toys.info/sonota/sw/obama/obama.html

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I want to buy one of those....The real Obama is a little slimmer than the doll. Obviously they patterned the body after GI-Joes from the 70s.
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