Rapunzel ... Found?

The new style Classic Rapunzel and Classic Wedding Rapunzel.
[ DrJ1828's Flickr Image]

Today at the Disney Store, I was talking with one of the workers. She is one of the women that know me there as "Rapunzel" and we have a shared liking for Dr. Who as well. As I was purchasing a new Rapunzel hat, since it fit and I do need a hat, I asked her why the Rapunzel Dolls seemed to be missing the long blonde-haired ones (as I noted in my other post here: Where Has Rapunzel Gone?) and that they only had the brown-haired ones.

She stated that the reason was that they did not have enough of the blonde dolls in stock to list them for sale anymore. What this means is the Rapunzel doll with the long blonde hair was more popular than the doll with the short, gross hair cut and they had run out of blonde dolls. Thus, they had to take her down from the internet as well since they could not even send products to the stores. The European market, however, still had dolls, most with the old (and personally I think better) face design for sale on their websites since they got different shipments or were not selling them as fast / had more long-haired dolls sent there than they did in the United States.

Somehow I don't think that is the full story, but it's the only lead I have for now.