It is Barbie’s 50th birthday this year and thanks to plastic surgery (or should that be injection mould technology?) she does not look as if she has aged a day. Strangely (or perhaps not, I don’t know) as part of the celebrations manufacturer, Mattel have seen fit to honour German Chancellor Angela Merkel by turning her into a Barbie doll. (Der Spiegel report here)
The Angela Merkel Barbie Doll made its debut at the 60th annual International Toy Fair in Nuremberg on Thursday. While the hair colour and cut are spot on, as is her respectable black wool crepe trouser suit, complete with pink lining that's pretty much where the similarities end. The Merkel Barbie apparently has a figure closer to that sported by Heidi Klum and perhaps it does not quite do justice to Merkel’s other attributes.....
That said it is far more flattering than her transformation into a caganer, a pooping figurine found in Catalan nativity scenes.
I bet the other EU leaders are jealous of Merkel. I can imagine Sarkozy and Brown would b delighted to be portrayed as Ken. Berlusconi on the other hand has probably had one of his tv stations make a show where he is portrayed as a superhero with a gigantic member....
