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Look Out, Barbie, There’s A New Doll In Town
The toy company Spin Master, which hit the big time making high-tech boys’ toys, is now trying their luck with toys for girls. The Toronto-based company hopes their Liv dolls, which aim to be more realistic than Barbie dolls (an admittedly modest goal), will bring an end to the half-century reign of the world’s most popular doll. The four Li...
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Win a Barbie Thumbelina Prize Pack – ENDED
This competition has now ended. Winners will be contacted shortly. Barbie has gone eco-concious with a new range of environmentally aware friends who aim to teach not only Barbie, but everyone that every little girl can make a world of difference. In conjunction with the recent release of Universal Pictures, ‘Barbie presents Thumbelina’ m...
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New ‘Bogan’ Barbie Comes With Tattoos
They're calling her 'Bogan Barbie'. Mattel's iconic doll now comes with a removable tramp stamp, as part of the Totally Stylin' Tattoos range. Just... wow. I thought that was more Bratz territory. Available for about $AU30, the doll pack is advertised as containing 'Over 40 easy, no-mess tattoos to design and decorate Barbie doll's fashions'...
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Should Batman and Barbie be Banned at Daycare?
The issue of branded merchandise in the playground has hit the headlines this week due to a decision by a childcare centre in Melbourne to discourages superhero or Barbie-themed clothes and toys, and remove commercial characters from its toy and book collection. Official's from Fitzroy's John Street Community Early Childhood Co-op say that they...
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Heidi Klum Celebrates Barbie
Heidi Klum looked awesome, as always, while celebrating Barbie's 50th birthday. The birthday party was held at Barbie's Dream House, yes, they actually built a real one. Read more...
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Lawmaker Tries To Make Barbie Illegal
A West Virginia lawmaker's heart might be in the right place. But his head? It's clearly in a different part of his body. State delegate Jeff Eldridge, a Democrat (or commie?), wants to ban Barbie and other 36-24-36 ilk from store shelves around the state. This leads me to ask many questions, starting with: Has this guy ever heard of the Inte...
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Barbie Teaches Kids About Obesity
A new ad campaign by an organisation called the Active Life Movement is relying on the paragons of impossible beauty to teach kids about the perils of obesity. Since toys like Barbie really encourage healthy body images and lifestyles…. The goal of the Active Life Movement is laudable—to encourage kids to be active and healthy—but this ad...
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Adolf Hitler And Your Little Pink Princess
The BBC has an interesting story on the impact the color pink can have on a girl, but what I found truly amazing in the story was the role reversal colors have undergone in the previous 100 years. According to the story, in the early 1900s, pink was the preferred colour for boys while girls were adorned with blue, which was considered the paler,...
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Smackdown: Barbie And The End Of The World
We planned this Smackdown awhile ago, not long after my daughter opened a Scuba Barbie for Christmas. Her grandparents, who had refused to purchase a Barbie for their own daughter, were beyond thrilled to buy one for mine. "Every girl should have a Barbie," they gushed. My wife stared at them in slack-jawed, open-mouth wonder. "What the hell...
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