Grab A Cat And Barbie: Kickstarter Project Offers Roman Add-Ons For Barbie And A Chariot Fit For The Cat

Barbie only needs a cat and a chariot to get around these days. Forget the horse or the sports car: Barbie is going Roman and riding into battle.

A new Kickstarter campaign is driven to raise $15,000 in order to get mastermind Jim Rodda’s “Roman Barbie” off the ground and prepare him for something better, according to Newsmax.

While Rodda is not affiliated with Mattel, the maker of Barbie, Rodda is influenced by “sword and sandal” movies, according to the Huffington Post. The chariot he made from a 3-D printed project, and his cat Coco inspired him to make the chariot in such a way so that it could be attached to cats.

Besides, Rodda pointed out, cats often go viral on the internet.

“The cat was really important. I wanted to do something that was going to be really fun and I know that people on the Internet really like cats.”

Rodda’s Roman Barbie accessories can be downloaded as a 3D-printable digital file for $25. The accessories can then be printed on a personal 3-D printer.

For a donation of $75, a person can receive a printed gold-colored chariot.

Rodda maintains everything on his Roman Barbie’s Roman Faire Play set, which includes the dagger, a trident, laurels, gladiator armor, and the chariot designed to be pulled by a cat, was designed to fit Barbie’s Fashionista doll.

Rodda understands that cats really aren’t all too cooperative when it comes to doing anything for humans.

“I will actually be amazed if anyone can get a cat to pull this thing,” Rodda told the Huffington Post.

“Trying to get cats to do anything is just impossible.”

Rodda said he tried to bribe his own cat with salmon, but the cat refused to pull the chariot.

Since a cat can’t really be counted on to do anything but what it wants to do, the 3-D printing can be scaled to different sizes, depending on the size of the 3-D printer.

“This will also fit a chihuahua, maybe,” Rodda claimed.

“You know, if you had a big enough printer I’m sure you could hook it up to a German shepherd, or a horse, whatever.”

So far, the Roman Barbie chariot project on Kickstarter has earned over $1,000. This project is a jump start to something bigger and better for Rodda. He plans to use the money he earns to start a business making toys kids find interesting.

“[My friends have] all told me that their kids don’t really play with dolls. Their kids don’t play with action figures anymore. Everybody’s on screens and iPads. So one of the things that I’m trying to do here is to merge screens and toys and get people to make stuff again.”

If a cat pulling a gold chariot with Barbie covered in Roman armor inside of it can’t turn a few heads, we’re pretty sure nothing will.

[Image via Jim Rodda/Kickstarter]