Shortly after obtaining the 2002,
I was able to locate a 2001 Celebration Barbie at about the same price as the 2002.
Just like the 2002, I had to be patient with the auctions, but it paid off and we were able to grab this one!
We're waiting for this one to arrive as well and we will be doing a full inspection of it when it does, but like the 2002, it looks in great condition!
The reason these Barbies are not called 'Holiday Barbies' but are still part of the collection is due to Matell trying to take a sharp left in the series after the value of the collection crashed...
After 1998 Holiday Barbie was released, everything that seemed collectable started to become... worthless. There were just too many too soon, and when everyone has one, then no one wants one, making the overall value next to nothing.
With the new millennium coming up, they decided to release a new Barbie at the same time as they would the Holiday Barbies, but they just gave them a different name, the Millennium Barbies. They were set up for 1999 and 2000 release... however, they decided to try and 'rename' the Holiday series again, and moved onto a new name, the 'Celebration' Barbie... which would be the 2002 and 2001 releases. In 2003, Matell even went further then that to come up with a completely new Barbie, name it the Winter Fantasy 2003 Barbie, again releasing it the same time the Holiday Barbies would have been released... it wasn't until 2004 that they finally decided to go back to the Holiday Barbie name.
Many thought and still think today, that because of the 'break' Matell took in the name, that the 1999 through 2003 Barbies shouldn't count as part of the series, but after awhile, it just became accepted.
I mean, how can you have a 'series' if there's 4 years missing of Barbies, it would seem very odd.
So now we have the Millennium Barbies for 1999 and 2000, the Celebration Barbies for 2001 to 2002 and the Winter Fantasy for 2003!
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