In Barbie news, I tried again to remove the legs from my Aztec princess Barbie, but failed. I realized that it's not just a hip joint I'm fighting. It's an armature going down the whole leg. Mattel used this skeleton-like structure for their "bend and snap" knees.
This screenshot is from a Youtube video on the history of these bendable knees. It goes from the 1960s Mattel through different types of articulation like pivotal bodies and Made to Move bodies.
So it appears that I must do an amputation to cut the armature and remove the leg. Then I'd have to recut the hip joint somehow to be compatible with the other "beach feet" legs I have. Why couldn't they have made the Aztec princess Barbie with flat feet to begin with? Or made actual high heel shoes if they were going to insist in high heel feet? Ugh.
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