Selena's Astrodome Concert Doll

When I first started this blog, I intended to feature one doll from my collection every week. I had the idea to create a post about a set of Selena dolls that I own. Selena is my personal heroine and main role model. I wanted to write about what she meant to me, how I came to find out about her, and about her life story. This post proved to be my downfall from my original intention of posting a doll a week. I was unable to satisfactorily come up with a blog that had all I wanted to post in it. I put off posting and writing, I was unhappy with what I was coming up with, and my Barbie blog fell into only occasional postings.

So today, I am still unprepared to feature all of my Selena dolls. I am going to post one of them, however. I am featuring today the Selena doll wearing the outfit made famous by what turned out to be Selena's final full-length concert. Selena performed a concert at the Houston Astrodome on February 26, 1995, to an audience of more than 67,000 people. She was on the verge of breaking into the English mainstream pop culture when she was murdered on March 31, 1995.

I post this particular doll in remembrance of the anniversary of the Astrodome Concert.

Here is my Selena Astrodome Concert doll:

I originally came across this doll in 1997, I think. I was at K-Mart on a 'date' (as much of a date as a 13 year old can have). I was unable to buy the doll because I didn't have the money on me. When I did have money, the doll was gone. Years went by - a decade and a half, in fact - before I came to own this doll. I found her on Ebay, of course. I also found an extra outfit from the same doll. I was also lucky enough to find another Astrodome Selena doll on craigslist.

Here's a picture of my Selena doll hanging out with my Debbie Harry Barbie :)

I also bought the latest releases of Selena dolls (available here, at Selena's official website shop), one of which I put the purple outfit on. The latest Selena doll release features a more realistic face, as opposed to the more cartoonish renditions of the original releases.

And here are both of them together:

I do hate to post this entry so hastily, but I do want to start posting regularly again. I will feature the other Selena dolls in the future, along with my many other dolls that I have yet to feature. I hope you enjoy, and I hope you look up Selena and enjoy her music as much as I do.