This is the first Barbie commercial that first aired during Mickey Mouse Club! Ruth Handler watched her daughter Barbara at play with paper dolls, and noticed that she often enjoyed giving them adult roles. At the time, most children’s toy dolls were representations of infants. Realizing that there could be a gap in the market, Handler suggested the idea of an adult-bodied doll to her husband Elliot, a co-founder of the Mattel toy company. He was unenthusiastic about the idea, as were Mattel’s directors. During a trip to Europe in 1956 with her children Barbara and Kenneth, Ruth Handler came across a German toy doll called Bild Lilli. The adult-figured Lilli doll was like what Handler had in mind, so she purchased three of them. She gave one to her daughter and took the others back to Mattel. The Lilli doll was based on a popular character appearing in a comic strip drawn by Reinhard Beuthin for the newspaper Die Bild-Zeitung. Upon her return to the United States, Handler reworked the design of the doll (with help from engineer Jack Ryan) and the doll was given a name, Barbie, after Handler’s daughter Barbara. The doll made its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York on March 9, 1959. This date is also used as Barbie’s official birthday. Mattel acquired the rights to the Bild Lilli doll in 1964 and production of Lilli was stopped. The first Barbie doll wore a black and white zebra striped swimsuit and signature topknot ponytail, and was available as …

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Barbie dolls for the 1990’s. Not my best era, going to colledge, starting to work. But Some of the barbie’s where real cool. Song: Right Said Fred-I’m Too Sexy (1992). I have been collectiong for 20 years and have over 5000 dolls.

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2010 Barbie In A Mermaid Tale Movie Trailer Barbie(TM) stars as Merliah(TM), a surfing champion from Malibu. One minute she’s a normal teenager and the next she learns a shocking family secret: she’s a mermaid! Merliah(TM) and her dolphin friend Zuma set off on an undersea adventure to rescue her mother, the queen of Oceana. With help from her new mermaid friends, Merliah(TM) saves the ocean kingdom. In the end, she discovers what makes you different can also be your greatest strength.

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Learn how to collect accessories for your Barbie dolls in this free toy collecting video. Expert: Sonja Fischer Bio: Sonja Fischer live in Los Angeles, California. She has been collecting barbie dolls all her life. Filmmaker: Nili Nathan

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