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  1. 03-12-2009, 09:51 AM #1
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    Default My Obama Doll > Yours ((pics))

    I don't even know what to say about this...








    http://www.spiegel.de/international/...558768,00.html

    German Toymaker Launches Barack Obama Doll

    By David Gordon Smith
    A German toymaker has paid the ultimate tribute to presidential hopeful Barack Obama by immortalizing him in the form of a collector's doll. But the maker of the mini-Obama admits that it was tricky to get the skin tone correct.

    Expert German dollmaker Marcel Offermann has garnered much media attention in the past with his dolls of famous people such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Pope Benedict XVI, the Dalai Lama and Lady Diana. Now he is paying tribute to the latest political figure to make history: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

    The Barack Obama doll is available in a limited edition of 999 and costs €139 ($216). The 36-centimeter (14-inch doll) sports a black suit, complete with a Stars-and-Stripes lapel pin, a white shirt and Obama's trademark sky-blue tie. Offermann, who runs a doll hospital in the western German city of Neuss near Düsseldorf, explained that he chose the sky-blue tie because Obama wears it at 80 percent of his campaign appearances. "We originally wanted the doll to have rolled-up shirt sleeves but that wasn't practical," he told SPIEGEL ONLINE Tuesday.

    However it was difficult to replicate the attention to detail given to the clothing when it came to the doll's head. Offermann explained that he was forced to adapt an off-the-shelf black doll's head for his tribute to Obama, which is his first attempt at making a black doll.
    Offermann did, however, lighten the standard skin color of the doll's head. "We tried to make it even lighter so that it would look more like Obama, but then it didn't look so good," he said. "So we said, let's stick with this skin tone."
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  2. 03-12-2009, 09:52 AM #2
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    uhhhhhhh
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    um... i thought barack wouldn't even wear a flag pin?
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    disgusting.

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    That is completely retarded. Everything is always about trying to get every penny possible.
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    *Whistle* Fail on the play
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    lol fail
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    haha that doll is just as much fail as the real version is!
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    thats fail..as much fail as that idiot who tried to make money off of that kaylee doll (i think thats that little girls name, RIP)



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    The doll is a little dark, Don't you think?
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    ROFL What a POS!
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    It does not even look like him
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    The doll looks more like Arnold from Diff'rent Strokes than it does Obama.
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    Obama's head is not even that round!

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    Quote Originally Posted by aaronfelipe
    Obama's head is not even that round!
    nor is his hair line that straight



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    doesnt even look like im, all you had to do is take curious george and put a suit on him and shave him. I mean the same goes for bush, but you'd have to make him white.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nemesis
    haha that doll is just as much fail as the real version is!
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    That's the "Obama stood outside waiving to America on the White House balcony for many hours in the sun" doll.
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    Eyebrows to thin ____________bush brow = FAIL
    Offset hair line ______________str8 hair line = FAIL
    Rounded head _______________triangle head = FAIL
    lip-face color ________________WAAAAY off = FAIL
    small ear ___________________Dumbo ear = FAIL


    And alot more.
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    (QUOTE)
    He admits that the physical resemblance to Obama could have been closer. "The doll works more on a symbolic level," he said. "It's a symbiosis of the clothing and the fact it's a black doll." Although "90 percent" of the feedback so far has been positive, he admits that "10 percent of people said the doll doesn't look like Obama." (QUOTE)
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    WAIT WAIT WAIT....How bout the other version? fucking 249 Euro!

    http://www.deutsche-klassiker.de/ber...b4d0666007.php
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    What the hell it looks like Singh

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    Quote Originally Posted by ALVIN
    WAIT WAIT WAIT....How bout the other version? fucking 249 Euro!

    http://www.deutsche-klassiker.de/ber...b4d0666007.php


    Ears are still a bit too small, but its MUCH better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ALVIN
    What the hell it looks like Singh

    thats PS'd



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    No Singh is not photoshopped haha...
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    I'd love to hear Barack's take on this.

    I know what my reaction would be.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BanginJimmy
    The doll looks more like Arnold from Diff'rent Strokes than it does Obama.
    I agree.

    Or Mr. T, the toddler version.

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    hahahahhaha

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    i saw this in another forum, its by a japanese maker:






    http://gamu-toys.info/sonota/sw/obama/obama.html <-- more pics
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    It doesnt even look like him...

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    ^^^LMFAO @ POST #30

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    Quote Originally Posted by GKtib®
    ^^^LMFAO @ POST #30

    YES - THAT is the JDM version of our country's leader
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    wow....
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    haha just because the doll is black and has the american flag its obama.


    Where can i order one!?!?!
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    When are they supposed to come out with the Obama love doll?
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    Yeah, pretty soon everyone will have to hang his portrait up in their house
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