Damn, there went one of my primary reasons to visit Shanghai, China. Hint: it has something to do with a sexy, slender blonde with…ah…unusually big “proportions.”

And I was so looking forward to my date with that divine doll.

 

The story in the Washington Post broke the bad news:

“Mattel decided to shutter its massive, pink-themed Barbie flagship store on Shanghai’s fashionable Huaihai Road.”

“The three-story, 36,000-square-foot store was a veritable pink shrine to All Things Barbie, with 900 display cases, a cocktail bar, spa, a makeup studio and a runway where young girls could imagine themselves on the catwalk.”

 

You may question if Barbie is even old enough to allow a cocktail bar on the premises. I know she looks barely legal, but in reality, she is pushing 52 years of age. (Which is a resounding endorsement of the body work she must be getting at her spa and makeup studio.)

 

An architectural website described Barbie’s home in China:

“[It] holds the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of Barbie dolls and licensed Barbie products, as well as a range of services and activities for Barbie fans and their families.

 

That website went on to describe the entrance where,

“Visitors are enveloped by curvaceous, pearlescent surfaces of the lobby, leading to a pink escalator tube that takes them from the bustle of the street, to the double-height main floor.”

 

    

 

 

I found this somehow suggestive of something else…hmmm…

 

(No, I’m not touching that, no way, no how.)

 

Yes, I’m sorry Barbie couldn’t have waited for me, but, hell, if I’m going to fantasize, it probably won’t be about a woman who got her AARP membership card years ago.

 

Well, Angelia is only 39 and, currently, she’s not officially married. And, at least in certain movie roles, she sure seems quite Barbie-esque.