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Barbie Update: Black and White Dolls Now the Same Price

by Brett Singer, Posted Mar 12th 2010 1:00PM

Can't we all just get along? White and black Barbie dolls are now the same price at a Louisiana Walmart. Credit: Michelle Chidoni, Mattel
Barbiegate ends here.
When Mattel found out a Louisiana Walmart was selling the dark-skinned Ballerina ...
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Breaking Barbie News: 'Mad Men' Dolls and Discounted Black Barbie

by Brett Singer, Posted Mar 10th 2010 3:14PM

Sorry, "Mad Men" Barbies will not come with cigarettes or martinis. Credit: Mattel, Inc.
On "Mad Men," Joan Holloway is used to being called "doll" -- now she really is one. Mattel has announced plans to make dolls based on four characters ...
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Barbie Dolls: A Brief History

by Sally Worsham, Posted Oct 27th 2009 3:00PM

Barbie, quite possibly the most iconic of all dolls, was introduced on March 9, 1959 at the American International Toy Fair in New York. Ruth Handler, the Mattel co-founder, based the design for the first Barbie off a German doll, Bild Lilli, which ...
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Barbie Girls in a Barbie World - At the Prom?

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Jul 10th 2009 5:00PM

Teens are all dolled up for prom. Image: Mikael Buck, Solentnews.biz
Prom has always been about going over the top on the glam front, but two British girls have gone to new and unusual lengths: They had themselves delivered to their prom in ...
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Barbie Designer was a Pervert?

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jan 9th 2009 5:00PM

Mattel's beloved Barbie will turn 50 on March 9th and already the stories celebrating her life and style are popping up on the Web. But, according to a new book, there are hidden secrets in the fashionable, anatomically-impossible doll's past that ...
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Barbie gets leather and fishnets

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jul 17th 2008 3:00PM

Barbie has always provoked strong emotions in some, but with the introduction of Bratz dolls, she seemed downright quaint. Well, she is quaint no more. With Mattel's September release of a doll based on the DC comic superhero Black Canary, Barbie is ...
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Barbie sells for 17,000 dollars

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Sep 27th 2006 1:08PM

The most expensive Barbie doll in the world was sold at an auction yesterday for $ 17,000.00 US. "Midnight Red Barbie" was sold by a woman in the sale room at Christie's, on behalf of an anonymous collector. Most of the dolls, from the personal ...
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When girls attack … Barbie

by Karen Walrond, Posted Dec 19th 2005 7:57AM

According to an academic study reported by the UK’s Telegraph, Barbie dolls have so lost their value to today’s children that they “maim, burn or microwave them to show their disgust.”  Apparently, experts at Bath ...
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