Post by sadistictoaster on Feb 12, 2022 1:03:28 GMT
Hi everyone! First time posting on the forums.
So there's something I've been thinking about ever since I was a kid. I used to watch the cartoon Princess Natasha on Cartoon Network. It was produced by KOL (the kids version of AOL), and I remember being obsessed with the show. I used to play the Princess Natasha games on the KOL website a lot, one of which was a dress up game. I believe the game was a Flash game.
In the game, you could dress up Natasha in three different outfits: Her everyday clothes, her princess gown, and her spy outfit. Before you started the game, you would see this screen:
imgur.com/a/Kno2Mfm (Sorry, I can't seem to directly insert the screenshot here...)
I took this screenshot using the Wayback Machine before Flash support ended, and the game was fully functional. The game advertises a Princess Natasha fashion doll, only available at Toys R Us. I remember begging my grandma every weekend to take me to our local Toys R Us to find the doll and have her buy it for me. But every week we went there, and asked the employees about it, no one had ever heard of Princess Natasha or seen the doll. And ever since then, I've always wondered if the doll was ever made.
I'm guessing the image of the doll used in the game is just a prototype. And it seems to be an actual photo, not a 3D rendering or a mockup. I've tried searching eBay to see if there was at least one listing for this doll on there, but all I was able to find were listings for Princess Natasha on DVD and the video game for the Nintendo DS.
If anyone is familiar with the show or has any information about this doll, please leave a reply. This has been a mystery to me for years.