Meet the world’s most prolific Barbie doll collector

The doll assortment of the world’s most prolific Barbie collector is about to get greater. 

Bettina Dorfmann, who set the Guinness World Document for largest Barbie assortment in 2005, stated she’s already acquired dolls from the “Barbie” film, in response to the document tracker. Dorfmann had 2,500 dolls when she set the document. By 2011, her assortment had grown to fifteen,000. In line with some information stories, she now has as many as 18,500 Barbie dolls.

Whereas it isn’t clear how a lot her assortment is at present price, Barbie trend dolls at present up on the market on the Mattel web site vary in worth from about $10 to about $50. Some dolls from the corporate’s Signature assortment retail for $80.

The 62-year-old German collector acquired her first doll in 1966, a number of years after Mattel launched the doll in 1959, in response to Guinness. Her first doll was Midge, Barbie’s greatest pal and a personality within the new film, launched Friday. 

Dorfmann began amassing significantly in 1993. Her assortment contains an authentic Barbie from 1959. 

“I like Barbie dolls as a result of I performed with them in my childhood, and it was an excellent time for me,” Dorfmann instructed Guinness.

Whereas there is a “Physician Barbie” within the film, performed by Hari Nef, Dorfmann works as a real-life Barbie physician. She repairs dolls, changing lacking limbs and dealing with hair in want of restoration. 

Dorfmann is the co-author of a guide about Barbie dolls. She’s additionally labored on Barbie exhibitions at museums in Germany.