What's Behind Door #20? A Christmas Surprise!

Hello everyone, can you believe we are already at December 20th? 

Both calendars are both mostly empty as we quickly make it to the 25th!

Eek!

We find our chocolate door on the very bottom left corner of the calendar. It has the back of a dog looking at Santa's bag of presents and the lower jaw of that deer who's just ... staring at us.

Unnerving.

We open the door to find ....

 a man's head!

I didn't think it was that kind of calendar, unnerving indeed.

I assume from his collar and hat he's some sort of jester character. He look a lot like the moon from the 14th. They even have similar headbands on. I'm all for artist's having a style, but could this be intentional? 

Maybe he's the man in the moon... who is not in the moon...

It's interesting to note that in the illustration he has a very round nose, but the chocolate piece has a down turned nose. I'm guess it's just easier for them to make the chocolate like that instead of following the chocolate exactly (but now that I'm thinking about it, which came first, the candy molds or the illustrations). It would make more sense if they were cobbling together a bunch of sources for the molds instead of following the illustrations. 

Anyway, our Barbie calendar door is in the middle row, two down from the top. The calendar doesn't have a true center, but it's as close as to the center as it gets. We're back on the illustration of Barbie as the ballerina.

Pulling back the door we find...

a bodysuit!

We finally get the bodysuit for the skiing outfit and we can change the doll out of the dress. It was quite an interesting look for her with those goggles on.

Made from a synthetic knit, which is actually very nice feeling, this bodysuit has green, purple, and white designs on it, including the Barbie signature on the front. It has a little circle on the bottom for the "TM" but it's empty (I guess it was too tiny to print). I really like the purple fading into white on the legs on her lower legs. Surprisingly the print even goes to the back! (I assume because it was easier to construct it that way than sew in a blank back). It's extremely fitted, you can even see her molded on underwear in a few places. It's in decent shape, there's a few minor sewing errors here and there, I might need to reinforce the back since the stitching has already started to come apart. It was a bit difficult dressing the doll in this, her hands did not want to go thru the sleeves. My dolls really aren't skiers, but I think it's a nicely designed outfit base. I'm kind of impressed by it.

Let's see what's in store for us for tomorrow!