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40 unusual facts about Barbie


Anita Borg

In 1992, when Mattel Inc. began selling a Barbie doll that said math class is tough, the voices of protest that started with the Systers list played a role in getting Mattel to remove that phrase from Barbie's microchip.

Ashley Taws

Both prior to her accident, and after her return, Taws was sponsored by Mattel with her driving a pink "Barbie" car.

Barbie Barbie

The title track, "Barbie Barbie", is written about the popular Barbie doll, and has been dubbed "Robot Honey II" by some fans for its similarity in style.

Barbie Horse Adventures: Blue Ribbon Race

The player takes on the role of Barbie and races horses through various tracks of the Primrose Hill Charity Cup.

Barbie Horse Adventures: Blue Ribbon Race is the first game of the Barbie Horse Adventures video game series based on the Barbie line of dolls by Mattel.

Barbie Horse Adventures: Mystery Ride

Barbie Horse Adventures: Mystery Ride is the second game of the Barbie Horse Adventures video game series based on the Barbie line of dolls by Mattel.

The plot involves Barbie having to solve the mystery of the missing horse of Barbie's friend Teresa.

Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp

Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp is the fourth game of the Barbie Horse Adventures video game series based on the Barbie line of dolls by Mattel.

Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue

Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue is the third game of the Barbie Horse Adventures video game series based on the Barbie line of dolls by Mattel.

Barbie Liberation Organization

They gained notoriety in 1993 by switching the voice boxes on talking G.I. Joes and Barbie dolls.

Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse

Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse is an online computer-animated web series produced by Arc Productions and distributed by Mattel.

Barbie: Princess Charm School

Shannon Chan-Kent as Princess Isla - another one of Blair's best friends and fellow student at the charm school, who loves music.

The film debuted on TV on the 22nd October 2011, when it was shown on Nick Jr at 5pm.

Vincent Tong as Prince Nicholas - a prince who attends Prince Charming Academy, and later befriends Blair.

Barbie: Super Model

Barbie: Super Model is a one or two player multiplayer educational action video game that allows the player to play as Barbie.

Bianca Lawson

Lawson began acting at the age of nine, having appeared in commercials for Barbie and Revlon.

Children's Defense Fund

Since then Ms. Witherspoon has regularly participated in fundraising events and contributed financially, including donating all of the proceeds from sales of the Legally Blonde Barbie Dolls to CDF.

David Levinthal

His works touch upon many aspects of American culture, from Barbie to baseball to X-rated dolls.

Denise Duhamel

Her best selling and most popular book to date, Kinky (1997), marries her bent for satire, humor, and feminism in portraying an icon of popular culture, the Barbie doll, through an extended series of satirical postures ("Beatnik Barbie," "Buddhist Barbie," etc.).

Diane Levin

BusRadio, Barbie, Channel One News, marketing in schools, marketing to infants and children under 8, and highly sexualized marketing.

Epyx

The company also branched out into "Computer Activity Toys", licenses of Hot Wheels, G.I. Joe, and Barbie.

FUCM

Featuring an afro-clad Ken doll, some Chinese made Barbie lookalikes and a Bratz doll on the cover; the guide reviewed what it felt (as suggested by its readers) were the best clothing stores, hair salons, bars, tattooists, and other random retail outlets in the coolest locations throughout Melbourne.

Futera

Futera was the official licencee for non-sport titles including Mattel's "Barbie", BBC Television Sci-fi Series "Red Dwarf" in association with Grant Naylor Film Productions, and the feature film "Chicken Run" with Universal Studios, Aardman Animations & Pathé.

Igor Vamos

Another successful early project was the "Barbie Liberation Organization," where Vamos and his cohorts purchased three hundred Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls, exchanged their electronic voice boxes, and then returned them to the stores; the soldiers ended up saying things like "Let's go shopping!", while the Barbies exclaimed "Vengeance is mine!".

Knowledge Adventure

During that time, Knowledge Adventure released many branded games such as Dr. Brain, Barbie, Jurassic Park III, Captain Kangaroo, Curious George and American Idol.

Life-Size

The film is a family comic fantasy starring Lindsay Lohan and Tyra Banks in a tale of a young girl's Eve Doll (somewhat like Barbie) that is transformed into a living Perfect Woman.

Ma vie en rose

Hanna follows Ludovic to a billboard where she is shocked to see Ludovic in the picture, running away with a living Barbie-like doll named Pam.

The film features a fictional fashion doll brand, Le monde de Pam; this brand is fashioned after the similar, yet real, doll line, Barbie.

Mega Brands

Mega Brands currently has the rights for making Thomas the Tank Engine, Hello Kitty, the video game franchises Need for Speed, Halo and World of Warcraft, Barbie, Hot Wheels, Skylanders Giants, and starting late 2013, Call of Duty collector sets will be available

Mona Sahlin

In 1964, at the age of seven, Sahlin founded the Swedish "Barbie Club" (Barbieklubben).

One Leg Kicking

In a party Gavin held, he is revealed to be keeping a Barbie doll, showing his extreme sadism he tries to hide from others.

Phenolphthalein

Phenolphthalein is used in toys, for example as a component of disappearing inks, or disappearing dye on the Hollywood Hair Barbie hair.

Pigs in Heaven

The trio are temporarily joined by Barbie, a waitress obsessed with the dolls of the same name, who appears to be down on her luck but later proves to be a thief and counterfeiter.

Purple Moon

The company folded in 1999 and merged with Mattel, creators of Barbie, one of the most famous and well-known franchises aimed at young girls.

Re-Ment

Targeted at the adult collecting community, these 1:6 scale toys are typically displayed in dioramas and dollhouses or used with action figures and fashion dolls such as Blythe or Barbie.

Runecraft

In the years following Runecraft rapidly expanded on the back of a number of successful projects including Spec Ops, Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX, Caesar's Palace, Scrabble and Barbie.

Sara and Dara dolls

They were first introduced in 2002, as an alternative to the Barbie doll.

Sociology of gender

These differences are epitomized in the example of children’s toys; G.I. Joe dolls depict the physical ideals for boys and Barbie dolls embody the ideals for girls.

Vanessa Mendoza

Despite suspicion that she had won the contest so that rumors about racism in it would be eradicated, Mendoza became popular among Colombians, who gave her the nickname "Black Barbie".

Vladimir Dubossarsky

Our Best World (2003) created a common ground for stars such as Sylvester Stallone, Spider-Man, Barbie, Madonna, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Marilyn Monroe, and even Picasso.


Ana Obregón

This led to a spat with Beckham's wife Victoria who famously referred to the 50-year-old as a "geriatric Barbie".

Backwoods Barbie

Backwoods Barbie is the 40th studio album by Dolly Parton, her first mainstream country album in nearly a decade.

Band-Aid

They continue to be a commercial success today, with such themes as Superman, Spider-Man, Hello Kitty, Rocket Power, Rugrats, smiley faces, Barbie, Dora the Explorer and Batman.

Barbie and The Sensations: Rockin' Back to Earth

At the end, after a performance at Cape Canaveral, Dr. Merrishaw helps Barbie and the Rockers return to their time.

Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper

It is directed by William Lau and stars the voice of Kelly Sheridan, who has been voicing Barbie in all the CGI films to date, as both Anneliese and Erika.

Bild Lilli doll

Ariel Levy refers to her as a "sex doll" in Female Chauvinist Pigs and in interviews on the Lilli-inspired Barbie doll, Eve Ensler refers to Lilli (without elaboration) as a "sex toy".

Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center

These include Bird Respirator and a variety of inventions ranging from The Barbie doll by Ruth Handler to the Apple II primarily by Steve Wozniak.

Bolivian Socialist Falange

Linklater, Magnus, Hilton, Isabel & Ascherson, Neal, The Fourth Reich: Klaus Barbie and the Neo-Fascist Connection, Hodder & Stoughton, 1984

Burning Farm

The other CD bonus songs are either "Watchin' Girl" and "Twist Barbie" live (Oglio Records, USA), or "Ukkari Hachibei" and a cover of The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated" (MCA Victor, Japan).

Christopher Gaze

Additionally, he has also performed voiceover roles for animation, such as Turaga Vakama in the first three Bionicle movies, Diagnostic Drone in Beast Machines and Major Mint in Barbie in the Nutcracker.

Everything Is Nice: The Matador Records 10th Anniversary Anthology

# One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Barbie Dolls – Pizzicato Five

Gypsy Grind

In 1995, the band decided to go further and auditioned at the underground venue Club Dredd, which launched the careers of artists including Grey Houndz, Cheese, Eraserheads, Barbie's Cradle (formerly known as Greem Tea, Hungry Young Poets), Moonstar 88, Itchi Worms, Put3ka, NTOTN, Wolfgang, River Maya, and Color it Red.

Katrina Hodge

She reported for duty at their barracks in Winchester, Hampshire, wearing kitten heels, false eyelashes and with her clothes in a pink suitcase, earning her the nickname Combat Barbie.

Mall of America

Also coming shortly after Barbie opens is an exhibition based on the TV show CSI and a rumored third exhibit.

Mattel

In December 2000, Mattel sued the band Aqua, saying their song "Barbie Girl" violated the Barbie trademark and turned Barbie into a sex object, referring to her as a "blonde bimbo."

Nina Baden-Semper

Nina Baden-Semper (born 1945) is a British actress of Trinidadian descent, best known for her role as Barbie Reynolds in the controversial sit-com of the 1970s, Love Thy Neighbour for Thames Television.

Pullo Center

, Tracy Lawrence, Mary Ann Winkowski "The Ghost Whisperer", Man of La Mancha, Jason Aldean, Barbie Live in Fairytopia, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Bob Saget, 42nd Street, Secondhand Serenade, Parachute, and The Rust.

Showbag

Common themes for showbags include confectionery brands, trademarked toys such as Barbie, The Simpsons, G.I. Joe and Batman, broad areas of children's play interest such as "cowboy" or "pirate", and sporting teams.

Steve Siegel

He successfully negotiated, secured and managed licensing for brands such as Nickelodeon’s Blues Clues, Mattel’s Barbie, Pokémon and Betty Boop and expanded the company’s product line into national retailers including Sears, Target, JCPenney and Toys "R" Us.

The Sandman: The Doll's House

As she tries to track their whereabouts, Rose takes up residence in a boarding house full of peculiar characters, including Chantal and Zelda, an ambiguously lesbian couple who always wear bridal garb and own a collection of stuffed spiders; Ken and Barbie, an extremely yuppie-ish couple; the eccentric Gilbert, a self-described "amateur knight errant"; and the landlord Hal, a gay man who performs at nightclubs in drag.

The Towers of Silence

Barbie, wanting to show her affection for Susan with a nice wedding-cum-21st birthday gift, buys a set of silver Apostle spoons and gives them to Sarah to pass on.

Tokidoki

Tokidoki has collaborated with several industries such as Levi’s, Skull Candy, New Era, Mikasa, Fujitsu, Be@rbrick, RIDE Snowboards, ASICS Onitsuka Tiger, Hello Kitty, Smashbox, Barbie LeSportsac, Ju-Ju-Be and FlowPlay.

William Bemister

Included in the film were scenes identifying the then home in La Paz, Bolivia, of Klaus Barbie, former head of the Gestapo in Lyon, France, and the first confirmation by a Bolivian law officer of Barbie’s true identity.