To keep costs down (I use namecheap to host) I am no longer paying for Content Views and FooGallery plugins or for Premium Shared Hosting. As soon as I can afford it, or if namecheap lowers the price I will add these again.

Now I am reducing the amount of photographs so I can move to a cheaper hosting plan. I had over 20 Gigabytes of files!! I’m leaving up the most popular articles: my Fashion Avenue Guide and Doll Guides. I encourage everyone to download my photos and articles I only ask that you give me credit by adding a link back to my website if you use it. I know It will be more tedious to download from barbiereference.com without the pro plugins. You will have to download one image at a time, and on some browsers may have to go to the page source code to get the actual image links, but for now this is the best I can do.

Based on downloads the most popular images are the full “front-view in-the-box” images of dolls and fashions, so I will focus on uploading them instead of photos of out of box dresses or shoes.

The Fashion Avenue Guide seems really popular. I have seen it mentioned on reddit and other forums as a good reference source for the entire line. It’s really gratifying to see all the time I spend writing code, descriptions, gathering details, photographs and putting it all together lead to website that is useful to other collectors!

So now instead of building the database you can search with terms like “blue flower skirt” or “pink boots” I will build more guides like Fashion Avenue. I will start with just a list of dolls and fashions in a series or line, then add the box images, and eventually hope to expand back to photos of pieces and a searchable database.

I think there are a lot of good websites and books that cover the dolls and fashions of the Vintage, Mod, and start of the Superstar era. There are books that cover most of the 1980’s – early 2000’s play line dolls. And several books that with complete lists of all the Barbie Collectible dolls produced since 1989, with detailed pictures, some including hundreds of store exclusive dolls. It’s impossible to stay if these are complete lists though because they are based on the Author’s personal collections, not published by Mattel. But I wonder if Mattel even has a list of all the Barbie and her friends, family, and “inspired by” dolls that they have officially authorized or sold the license for? There must be over 10,000, 20,000, maybe 50,000!!

What series of dolls, fashions, accessories, years or whatever do you want to see first? Let me know in the comments below.

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Thanks for being a fellow doll fan all these years and sticking with the site even though I only update about once a year.

Thanks for being patient with me while I moved from a personal opinion blog to a more objective reference site.