Disclaimers: Barbie is a huge honkin’ franchise. Of course I don’t own her! But again I plead my case: “Barbie” is such a generic name…
Notes: Eh. The gimmick is an umbrella that can squirt water. The concept artists are really scraping the bottom of the barrel these days.
Whenever she opens up her new umbrella, it always starts to rain. Weird. Usually a person opens up an umbrella after it starts raining, Barbie thinks. Maybe the umbrella’s magical.
“Why would you open up an umbrella if it’s not raining?” Discontinued Midge asks her, perplexed. Barbie doesn’t know the answer to that, either.
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Barbie is taking a walk along the beach when a hurricane blows in from the ocean.
“Oooh! Rainy!” Barbie exclaims, and quickly opens up the magic umbrella she’d brought with her for just this sort of emergency. The strong winds shriek past Barbie, filling her umbrella like a sail. Soon the force of the hurricane has lifted the umbrella straight up into the sky, with Barbie clinging to it desperately. The last thing Barbie thinks is “I’m just like Mary Poppins!” before she is blown headfirst into a palm tree and killed instantly.
The magic umbrella miraculously finds its way to the Kalahari desert, where a tribe of !Kung bushmen find it, decide it is a gift from god, and put its magical properties to good use.
