In honor of Polly Pocket’s thirty fifth anniversary, Airbnb on Wednesday unveiled a brand new journey expertise: a life-sized model of the Mattel doll’s iconic plastic home in Polly’s hometown of Littleton, Massachusetts.
Its host, Polly herself, is inviting nostalgia seekers to her “Slumber Party Fun” residence whereas she’s away on trip, writing in a itemizing that she turned it right into a ‘90s time machine “where your imagination can run wild.”
There are some small caveats, nevertheless. The home, which is formed like a make-up compact, doesn’t have a roof and doesn’t shut as a result of, like its host, “it’s always open to adventure,” in line with the itemizing. The property additionally doesn’t have showers on web site, and warns of potential noise from “nature sounds at night.”
Nonetheless, Airbnb says the house is “straight out of a ‘90s dream” and open for an journey of “life-sized proportions.”
Visitors can attempt on garments in Polly’s closet, decorate with press-on nails and butterfly hair clips, make appeal bracelets, and luxuriate in a film marathon with popcorn and video cassettes. The home can also be stocked with quintessential ‘90s treats, together with Ring Pops, Push Pops, and Child Bottle Pops.
“Try on my most iconic outfits—yes, the ones you used to chew on when you were younger—in my closet,” the itemizing reads.
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Whereas the two-story, 42-foot-tall construction is full with a retro fridge, meals should not supplied, and it’s lacking a key amenity for “slumber party fun”: a mattress.
Choices for sleeping preparations as a substitute embrace a pullout sofa or a tent parked 10 toes away from the home. The itemizing additionally warns you’ll additionally have to “BYOB (Bring Your Own Blanket)” or use one in every of 4 accessible sleeping baggage.
“I wanted this sleepover to feel like you’re still actually in the ’90s!” Polly writes in her itemizing.
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Icons solely
Polly’s compact is the most recent addition to Airbnb’s Icons Class, a program devoted to one-of-a-kind stays and experiences.
Final yr, the corporate launched an actual, and really pink Malibu DreamHouse expertise in California in honor of the Barbie film’s launch. Primarily based on the well-known Mattel dollhouse design, the itemizing supplied two one-night stays for as much as two friends alongside the Malibu shoreline.
Different latest viral listings embrace a reproduction of the home from Disney and Pixar’s Up, a re-creation of Marvel’s X-Males mansion, and a non-public front room live performance by rapper Doja Cat.
“What if these worlds, that only exist in your imagination, could somehow become real?” CEO Brian Chesky mentioned in a Could interview with CBS Mornings.
Like her Mattel colleague, Polly can also be getting a big-screen characteristic. First introduced in June 2021, the live-action film is about to star Emily in Paris actress Lily Collins because the title position. However final month, Ladies creator Lena Dunham instructed The New Yorker she dropped out of directing and producing the film after engaged on a script for 3 years.
“I feel like the next movie I make needs to feel like a movie that I absolutely have to make, no one but me could make it,” she instructed the outlet. “And I did think other people could make Polly Pocket.”
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Whereas they anticipate the big-screen movie, ‘90s kids can still relieve their childhoods in Polly’s residence later this summer season.
Beginning Aug. 21, friends can request to guide one-night stays within the compact between Sept. 12 and 14. With a price ticket of $89 per individual in honor of Polly Pocket’s launch in 1989, the house can accommodate a most of 4 folks and presents a non-public half-bath.
Whereas one X consumer chalked the itemizing as much as a “silly marketing gimmick,” Chesky says “that’s the point.”
As for cleansing charges, Chesky instructed one other X consumer there are none, not like most Airbnb listings.
