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The Totally Hair Barbie from 1992 featured the longest tresses ever and still stands as the best-selling Barbie doll to date—but even if you weren't born that year, maybe you were lucky enough ...
Barbie Baby-Sits Outfit (1963): Released just a few years after the original Barbie, this outfit and toy set is worth $1,036. It includes a variety of items like a baby, a baby bottle, a pink ...
Barbie is shown in various outfits, scenarios and occupations, from a tourist on vacation to a model on the runway, accompanied by boyfriend, Ken. What a doll! Barbie exhibit shows icon's ...
Since Barbie's introduction as a teenage fashion model in 1959, the doll has been portrayed with many careers. [1] Dolls are sold with sets of clothes and accessories that fit the career being portrayed.
Barbie is a fashion doll created by American businesswoman Ruth Handler, manufactured by American toy and entertainment company Mattel and introduced on March 9, 1959. The toy was based on the German Bild Lilli doll which Handler had purchased while in Europe.
Barbie's age has fluctuated. She was originally a 19-year-old, [4] but she is often shown as an older character in adult careers. The inaugural episode of Life in the Dreamhouse even jokes that she is over 43 years old. Barbie has three younger sisters: Skipper, Stacie and Chelsea. [5]
Barbie began as a blond 19-year-old — but the definition of who could be Barbie changed as the years went on. Christie, the first Black character in the Barbie universe, was introduced in 1968 ...
In 1987, Mattel produced two television specials with DIC Animation City and Saban Productions; Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World and its sequel Barbie and the Sensations: Rockin' Back to Earth, both featuring Barbie as the leader of a rock band (often seen as being Mattel's answer to rival fashion doll Jem from Hasbro); Mattel had previously avoided media projects for Barbie “for ...