When Sonya Larson needs to escape to her happy place, she just walks down a few steps into the basement of her Johnson County split-level and sits in a windowless room with bright pink walls where hundreds of Black fashion dolls in boxes are neatly lined up on shelves, floor to ceiling. It’s her Barbie Room. It is the manifestation of an obsession that began three decades ago and has become what Larson believes to be among the largest collections of Black Barbies in the country. She hasn’t taken inventory, but guesses she owns more than 1,000 Black Barbies. The country will meet Larson in the coming weeks when she appears on HGTV’s “Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge,” a new Sunday night decorating competition tied to Friday’s opening of the “Barbie” movie starring Margot Robbie as the doll and Ryan Gosling as her accessory, Ken. If Larson’s team wins, she will be crowned a Barbie Superfan. But she doesn’t need HGTV to prove that. Read more about her collection at the link in bio. 📸: ...