Hi everyone,
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Just wondering if anyone else collects Archie merchandise? I am currently building a collection of Marx figures from the 1970's. Just got a boxed Jalopy in great shape!
Anyone else?
I have 10 commissions . 2 from Dan Parent & 2 from Fernando & 2 from Gisele & 3 from Gabbie Gross & 1 from Thomas Pitilli. I have been talking to Sandy Jarell about doing Reggie but make him be a kid. His young Reggie is adorable.
Is original art really "merchandise", though? I never thought of it that way. The way I figure it, merchandise is something manufactured to sell. Custom-made things aren't really merchandise, even though you might have paid for them, and original artwork is "custom made".
Have you taken photos of all your original art and posted them in your gallery? You should.
I have Archie, Betty and Veronica Christmas ornaments from the 80s. I also used to have an Archie iphone 4 case back in the day
At Lot Less, I bought 12 boxes of Betty & Veronica bank cards that has their pictures on them . And you can color them, I use them as thank you cards because you can write anything in them. I even sent some to Dan & Fernando & Gisele & Thomas Pitilli & Gabbie Gross. I want to some to Sandy Jarell if he does my commission.
Quote from: BettyReggie on March 04, 2017, 05:44:32 AM
At Lot Less, I bought 12 boxes of Betty & Veronica bank cards that has their pictures on them . And you can color them, I use them as thank you cards because you can write anything in them. I even sent some to Dan & Fernando & Gisele & Thomas Pitilli & Gabbie Gross. I want to some to Sandy Jarell if he does my commission.
Oooo... pictures, please. I have some but I wonder if yours are the same. ???
I don't really have anything
I had a Barbie Betty but it's totally hideous I also got a custom funko pop and some note books and letters and a shirt.
But aside from that I find it extremely hard to get merchandise and merchandise that actually looks good!
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I have (or had) a few things. I have an Archies LP and an Archies CD. I have the Archie Bobble Head Doll. I have a complete set of the Archie Cars McDonalds gave out in the 1980s (actually New Archies.). I had a small puzzle of Archie on a bed when I was a boy. I have some Archie T-shirts. I had a Jughead costume and an Archie Comics hat. I have an Archie Comics Pinball game from the 1980s. I had Archie figurines and dolls but sold them because I needed the money.
I have the Archie Cd that Archie Comics sold for 99 Cents & 3 Archie stamps. I have Archie Weird Mysteries on dvd.
I have a Betty and Veronica barbie doll too :smitten:
Quote from: kassandralove on March 09, 2017, 04:20:05 PM
I don't really have anything
I had a Barbie Betty but it's totally hideous
It doesn't sound like you have the actual Mattel Barbie version of Betty. Earlier versions of B&V dolls were made by companies like Marx Toys and Playing Mantis that look pretty bottom-of-the-barrel embarassing, but (from the photos I have seen, I don't actually own them) the versions Mattel made in 2004 actually look quite good:
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/e8/20/40/e82040670e92818f2ee0796ec27a4e5e.jpg)(https://www.archiefans.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-Hs8B3tLIAuo%2FTw8Sx9DUsWI%2FAAAAAAAAAR0%2FyQSfs4bQ0Hw%2Fs1600%2Fbetty%252B%252526%252Bveronica%252Bclose%252Br.jpg&hash=e988dd5990c7a861c7cbc36ff4a263d1f40bc01c)
Actually, I'd been thinking about these Mattel Barbie dolls because the last BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST (#251) had two separate (but parallel) 12-page stories by Dan Parent - Betty in "What A Doll!", and Veronica in "Doll Yourself Up!", that had each of them entering a contest to design a new Barbie doll -- and I thought immediately... well, that's weird. Normally when they reference something from pop culture in an Archie story, they don't use the actual name, but a sound-alike so the reader gets the general idea of what or who is being referred to, and ACP avoids stepping on anyone's toes legally or infringing on any copyrights. But these two stories had them both designing actual Barbie dolls, and they're both entered in this contest so that they're competing to win it. The twist ending is that Betty designs a Barbie doll based on her BFF Veronica, and Veronica designs a Barbie doll based on her BFF Betty, and they both send their designs into the contest, while keeping them secret from each other. Both girls' designs get chosen by the Barbie people to be turned into actual Barbie dolls. At this point it became obvious that the two stories were tie-ins to the actual merchandising of B&V as Mattel dolls. I wonder if each of the individual stories was included as a pack-in custom comic with the dolls, or whether they just each appeared in separate issues of the BETTY and the VERONICA comics in the same month or something.
Anyway, after googling the photos of the dolls to show you here, I found them being sold very reasonably on Amazon for $25 each (with free shipping!), so it sounded like too good a deal to pass up, and I ordered them.
There's a video review of the Mattel B&V dolls on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ocLTtIVkI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ocLTtIVkI)
And here's a couple of quick silent YouTube videos that give you a better close-up view of each individual doll:
Betty : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km2oMqfU_N0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km2oMqfU_N0)
Veronica : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h1gOD0O3v8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h1gOD0O3v8)
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EDIT: I pulled out the digest again because I wanted to re-read the stories. What Dan did with the two stories is kind of interesting, and I didn't really totally notice it the first time I'd read them. In the Betty story, the first 7 pages are told from Betty's POV, as she learns of the contest, gets excited about it, and begins designing her Barbie doll. Likewise, the first 7 pages of the Veronica story tell a different story, entirely from Veronica's perspective. Then on page 8, they've both finished their designs, and Veronica shows up at the door of Betty's house after having submitted her Barbie design to the contest (Betty having already done likewise). In the Betty story, she finished her design earlier, and rushed over to Veronica's house to see how Ronnie was coming along with hers. Veronica still hadn't finished her doll design yet, and didn't want Betty to see it, so she told her she was too busy and rushed Betty out of the house, so Betty got mad. Now when Ronnie shows up at the Coopers', Betty's still kind of miffed at her for having been given the bum's rush, but Ronnie then reveals why she didn't want Betty to see her design -- she decided, after having a lot of her professional personal designers submit their ideas, that none of them were right, and she was inspired by Betty to design her own Barbie doll based on her. Then Betty reveals that she had done the exact same thing, basing her design for a Barbie doll on Veronica. From the 3rd panel on page 8 of both stories, the scenes and dialogue of both girls in each of the corresponding panels on the rest of the pages of the both stories is exactly the same -- but Dan didn't just merge the stories, and print the same ending for both from pages 9-12. Instead he re-drew every panel from a different angle or different distance for each of the two stories, even though what's happening and the dialogue is exactly the same for both stories. That's actually kind of neat!
Quote from: Upsiditus on March 09, 2017, 09:43:41 PM
I have (or had) a few things. I have an Archies LP and an Archies CD. I have the Archie Bobble Head Doll. I have a complete set of the Archie Cars McDonalds gave out in the 1980s (actually New Archies.). I had a small puzzle of Archie on a bed when I was a boy. I have some Archie T-shirts. I had a Jughead costume and an Archie Comics hat. I have an Archie Comics Pinball game from the 1980s. I had Archie figurines and dolls but sold them because I needed the money.
I'd love to see your pinball machine!
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on March 10, 2017, 02:44:17 AM
It doesn't sound like you have the actual Mattel Barbie version of Betty. Earlier versions of B&V dolls were made by companies like Marx Toys and Playing Mantis that look pretty bottom-of-the-barrel embarassing, but (from the photos I have seen, I don't actually own them) the versions Mattel made in 2004 actually look quite good:
I totally want these dolls now. They actually do appear well made. I'll put them next to my Josie and the Pussycats dolls.
Quote from: kassandralove on March 09, 2017, 04:20:05 PM
I don't really have anything
I had a Barbie Betty but it's totally hideous I also got a custom funko pop and some note books and letters and a shirt.
But aside from that I find it extremely hard to get merchandise and merchandise that actually looks good!
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Maybe this is the doll you have:
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81tq7Yt9lqL._SX522_.jpg)
Here's the Veronica in the same line:
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91C-xI9CLUL._SL1500_.jpg)