The close-knit collectors’s community has been asked to keep an eye out for dodgy dealers after more than 150 collectable Barbie dolls stolen from their dream house.

The dolls were stolen from a home in the country Victorian town of Tatura, near Shepparton, in early December, along with Elvis Presley memorabilia and a Jack Daniels cooler.

Still in their original packaging, they were released between 1970 and 2017 and collected by their owner over 12 years.

They are estimated to be worth more than $15,000.

Police are investigating after 150 collectible Barbie dolls were stolen from their Tatura dream home.

Officers are asking for the public to keep their eye out for anyone attempting to sell the vintage dolls, particularly on online platforms.

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It’s believed the thieves could try to sell the vintage dolls online, and police have asked the public to keep an eye out for them.

Superstar Dolls Sydney owner Fady Abdel, who specialises in vintage, designer and collectable dolls, said there had been an increase in the amount of scammers since the Barbie movie was released in 2023.

He said scammers would often inaccurately advertise rare or vintage dolls when in fact they were fakes.

But he said it was unlikely the stolen dolls would be sold on the black market or to other collectors.

“That’s simply because the collector community is a small one that is tightly knit,” he said on Monday.

“It would be fairly difficult to sell-off stolen dolls as these would be quickly flagged by a community member.”

He said he hoped the stolen dolls would be recovered, and it may just be a case of waiting for them to be listed within the collector communities.

Acting Detective Senior Constable Lance Wiltshire said police didn’t believe stealing the dolls was a targeted crime, instead labelling it as an “opportunistic theft”.

“That said, the dolls are fairly unique and it will be terribly hard or reasonably impossible for the owner to replace them,” he told ABC Radio on Monday.

“It is pretty devastating for the victim, it’s obviously priceless for them.”

-AAP