My OperaAll about barbie dolls
Saturday, February 6, 2010 6:32:00 AM
Barbie was the must-have doll soon after she was released in 1959, and apparently that's still true. According to Mattel toys, Barbie is the biggest selling doll in the U.S. and the #1 toy brand in the world.
The doll, based on a German sex toy called Bild Lilli, which itself was based on a foul-mouthed promiscuous newspaper cartoon character, was originally created by Ruth Handler, a co-founder of Mattel, and nicknamed after her daughter.
Since her debut on March 9, 1959, Barbie's maker Mattel has sold more than 1 billion Barbie dolls - and nearly 100 million of those were in the last year alone, according to Forbes.com.
This is really an incredibly busy and culturally noisy year for Barbie," says Richard Dickson, Mattel's general manager for Barbie.
Barbie represents a tragic thread in American culture -- that assimilation is important if you want to be accepted as American," Rogers told the Tribune regarding the popular Mattel toy
I never wanted to be Barbie, nor did I ever want to look like her, but she was just a doll that could be anything and do anything that my imagination created," said Richmond resident Suzanne Keesler, who remembers saving her money and begging her parents to take her to buy the newest Barbie gear
The doll, based on a German sex toy called Bild Lilli, which itself was based on a foul-mouthed promiscuous newspaper cartoon character, was originally created by Ruth Handler, a co-founder of Mattel, and nicknamed after her daughter.
Since her debut on March 9, 1959, Barbie's maker Mattel has sold more than 1 billion Barbie dolls - and nearly 100 million of those were in the last year alone, according to Forbes.com.
This is really an incredibly busy and culturally noisy year for Barbie," says Richard Dickson, Mattel's general manager for Barbie.
Barbie represents a tragic thread in American culture -- that assimilation is important if you want to be accepted as American," Rogers told the Tribune regarding the popular Mattel toy
I never wanted to be Barbie, nor did I ever want to look like her, but she was just a doll that could be anything and do anything that my imagination created," said Richmond resident Suzanne Keesler, who remembers saving her money and begging her parents to take her to buy the newest Barbie gear
