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Aug 17, 2023

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The recently released Barbie movie started a renaissance of the iconic doll, sending quite a few of us down memory lane. Kids for generations were dying to lay their hands on a Barbie at their time, some being lucky enough to become the proud owners of one or two.

Since the first Barbie was introduced in 1959, there have been an abundance of variations of the doll; some more bizarre than others. We have gathered some of its most unusual or unexpected types for you to familiarize with in case they weren’t popular when you were a Barbie fan. Scroll down to find them and enjoy the quick trip back in time.

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Goth Barbie! Yayy!

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We should normalize gothic, dark and creepy barbies!

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I love it!!!! 🧜🏻‍♀️

Barbie’s story started back in March 1959 when, created by Ruth Handler, it was launched into the American toy market. According to the History Channel, co-owner of the toy company Mattel, Inc., Handler came up with the idea after watching her daughter play with dolls made from paper, and thus came to life the 11-inch plastic version. It reportedly became the first mass-produced toy doll with adult features in the US.

The History Channel pointed out that Barbie—or Barbara Millicent Roberts in full—was modeled after a different doll, known at the time by the name of Bild Lilli.

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So cool

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Kids could actually make Skipper's boobs grow by rotating her left arm. The doll also got taller in the process

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So Puberty Skipper then

Over Barbie’s more than 60-year-long history, there have been plenty of different versions of the doll. They include not only Barbie with different clothing or hair, but her depicting representatives of different occupations, and—eventually—body types and ethnicities, too. Back in 2016, Mattel introduced Barbie Fashionistas, which featured four body types, seven skin tones, 22 eye colors, and 24 different hairstyles.

Harper’s Bazaar revealed that the new body shapes were introduced after the head of the Barbie brand, Evelyn Mazzocco, undertook a poll of ‘Barbie haters’ in order to see what were the main things the doll was ridiculed for. The most common responses stated it was ‘out of touch,’ ‘materialistic’ and ‘not diverse’.

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Midge is married and not a teenager. It's a shame it couldn't be produced anymore because people think pregnancy ist scandalous.

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This is a power rangers villain and you can’t convince me otherwise.

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I got given this from my step dad when I was 7.🤣

Barbie is believed to have represented over 200 different career choices, ranging from an astronaut to a singer, a computer engineer, and way beyond. In addition to all sorts of the Barbie doll herself, in 1961, the toy company also introduced Ken Carson—Barbara’s plastic significant other, who reportedly has tried out roughly 40 different professions.

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Do you feed him his own poop?

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That looks like Baby Billy lol

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I like the “Dolls need child’s help to pose as shown. Dolls cannot bend at knees”. You know some mom complained and they were forced to add that.

Time pointed out that Barbie and Ken’s love story started back in 1961 when they were working on a commercial together. Unfortunately, after more than four decades together, the couple broke up in 2004. Mattel’s vice president of marketing at the time, Russell Arons, shared the upsetting news in a statement, saying that “their Hollywood romance has come to an end”.

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Disabled Doll Rights!

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Barbie’s wearing RED? We’ll miss you, Babs.

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It was discontinued almost as soon as it came out. But still the best-selling Ken of all time.

But Barbie dolls didn’t stop with countless variations of Barbara herself and plastic figurines of Ken; back in 1967, the first celebrity-lookalike doll saw the light of day, dedicated to the supermodel Twiggy.

Other famous people with their own Barbie dolls include Cher, Beyonce, Elton John, Katy Perry, Naomi Osaka, Jane Goodall, Audrey Hepburn, Zendaya, and more.

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Nothing could go wrong with a video camera in a doll.

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Nearly as horrific as the Cats movie.

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She... she killed him and is wearing his pelt?!

Over the years, the Barbie doll has become so widespread that Mattel estimates it has more than 99 per cent global awareness, Harper’s Bazaar reports. It also pointed out that, according to recent statistics, as many as three Barbies are sold every second, adding up to over a billion of them sold since it was created.

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Those of us who were young in the 90s will remember Puppy Surprise and Kitty Surprise. Our animal toys giving birth is nothing new! XD

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That's kind of what MY hair looks like XD

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The dolls contained a voice box programmed with a random assortment of four phrases out of 270 possibilities, including "Will we ever have enough clothes?", "Let's plan our dream wedding!", "Want to go shopping?" and "Math class is tough", which was objected by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics as detrimental to the effort to encourage girls to study math and science

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ALL of those listed phrases are hideously misogynistic. Ugh.

Considering the doll’s popularity and long-lasting history, it’s no surprise that the recently released Barbie movie created quite a buzz as well. According to CNN, just three weeks into its run, it already surpassed the billion dollar mark at the global box office. This makes Barbie’s writer-director Greta Gerwig the first solo female director with a billion-dollar movie.

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I thought Little Red Riding Hood was a child and... not supposed to be sexy? :( I'll take the wolf toy, though! I'm gonna just pretend he's licking his lips because he's hungry and wants that... mysterious... orange... square... sandwich?

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you mean helen mirren as the queen

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Georgina Barbara Washington? 😆

Barbie’s unparalleled success has now been marked by a movie dedicated to the iconic doll; but long before its release, the name was everywhere thanks to another phenomenon—the Barbie Girl song. Released in 1997, the song about “life in plastic being fantastic” was presented by a Danish-Norwegian group, Aqua.

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Why is he kinda…

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Don't look now Barbie, but their is a creepy clown following you!

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Yes, I totally also keep my extra pairs of shoes in my mesh laundry bag, which I am also wearing as a dress for some reason.

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Cool outfit honestly

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"Yo!" -as a child of the 90s, I can confirm that we did, indeed, often use the word "Yo!" Thus, this is an authentic doll.

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And they wonder why we like tattoos so much

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This should have a comeback!

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I remember these. Why can't dolls be old?

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He'd have said, "Too fat, darling"

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Ooof.

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So they have Ken and Barbie? Cool 😎

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