Crazy collection: Meet the toy nerd with 6,000 Barbie dolls | The Economic Times:
The white exterior and spartan grey staircase of Jian Yang’s tidy rowhouse give no hint of the shock that lies within - a pink living room floor and his collection of more than 6,000 Barbie dolls.
In Pic: Collector Jian Yang arranges his Monster High dolls among other dolls at his home in Singapore on September 2, 2013. 
Yang said Barbie was an icon that still had a future but “the relevance is waning” as princesses and ballerinas give way to the ghoulish imagery and stories popularised by vampire movies such as “Twilight” and “New Moon”.
"That’s where Mattel has taken it," he said. "They have taken the craze of ugly is hot and made Monster High because they know Barbie will never be the monster."