December 26, 2005
Fulah : the dream of every arabic girl
The above slogan does the explanation, this new arabic doll was made in someways to strike against Barbie, the maricain doll, a way to re-educate children while playing with dolls like their mom's, ant's , tecaher's ,... I was delighted discovering Folla in the Champion stores and Monoprix too for a very reasonnable price (five times less than barbie).
It other ways, the wish of the inventor is to create a local product with more respectfull clothing when babrie seems like a real slut, so if we need to offer dolls to our princesses we won't offer them an expensive americain doll that could inject dirty toughts unless beeing her dream...
Even if ther's a Nancy Ajram's style version, it should matter just for marketing purposes, we have to offer many aspects of the sme product to avoid beeing extremist, it should show the customer that he have the choice between the well covered doll and the less one, so the partents -or the kids- should at least be able to choose and assume that choice by the way.
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I was really amazed at how counterfeiting is such a big problem even Fullah was not spared such a blow.
PS: check my post, which I wrote sometime in september 2005, on the same subject and you can clearly notice the point of my remark.:)
http://thysdrus.blogspot.com/2005/09/fulla-doll-with-muslim-values.html
Dreadful! So, who is Folla's husband doll?? Abdessattar??
Hannibal : nice scoop , I haven't red it before.
Tarek : Abdesttar is the husband of Jamila :)
Hi all,
Well I like the idea very much indeed, I just hope there's no counterfeiting in all this. I can hardly imagine any.
New Boy is a reputable company, they're very popular in the Middle East, but they don't seem to be as well known in Tunisia.. New Boy have been using the "wrong" language (Arabic) in their ads maybe if they start running ads in French we'll start buuying their toys :(
-Imed
The original name of the doll is " Fulla", and not "Folla". New Boy owns the brand name of this doll. What the counterfeiters did is just change the name from "Fulla" to "Fulah" .
its gr8