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When we talk about America’s eras of indulgent overabundance, why do we never mention the 1990s? As a ’90s baby myself, I’m sick of it. Our minds jump to the poshness of the art deco Roaring ’20s or the Wall Street-y greed of the ’80s, but the ’90s had its own profusion of bigger and better. Food got larger, cars were more expensive, and houses became big enough to justify the absurd prices that would lead to a housing bubble.
If you’re looking for the perfect distillation of this unique sense of ’90s excess, you can find it in a very unexpected, magical place: a 1994 videotape entitled Barbie’s Birthday Party at Walt Disney Epcot, thrown in for one additional cent with the purchase of any of a select batch of 1994 Barbie dolls. My family welcomed the Barbie birthday tape into our lives alongside Bedtime Barbie. The special doll had a “soft body” (not as weird as it sounds) and could “open or close its eyes” with icy or warm water (incredibly terrifying, thanks to Mattel making Barbie sleep with eyeshadow on).
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