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[erbie]

O.M.G.

Just, wow. Headphones if you're at work.

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And this, my friends, is why I will never buy a Barbie for my kids.

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[merina.livejournal.com]

I never bought a Barbie either. They really had no interest either. :D

[alunatic.livejournal.com]

Dude, they made that up, right? That's not a real toy? Right?

[llnaughty.livejournal.com]

alas they are real:

http://www.amazon.com/Barbie-Forever-Doll-Tanner-Dog/dp/B000ELIXA4

http://www.amazon.com/Barbie-Forever-Theresa-Doll-Mika/dp/B000ELIXAO/

[alunatic.livejournal.com]

*eyes roll to the point of spasming*

My daughter has Barbies. They are hand-me-downs from her cousins and the ones my mom saved, except for her Kelly dolls.

I hope she enjoys the hand-me-downs, though. As I recall, they had a LOT of sex.

[llnaughty.livejournal.com]

As I recall, they had a LOT of sex.

lol!!

[erbie.livejournal.com]

You'd think, but yes, they are.

[llnaughty.livejournal.com]

what's so bad about that? i mean the ad design and music make me want to gouge my eyes and ears out and scrub my brain, but hey at least they're showing that you have to look after pets.

[specialknives.livejournal.com]

The plethora of toys that wet and soil themselves - usually aimed at girls - are certainly intriguing, as it is difficult to imagine:
a) Why a child would want one - I certainly never did. Bodily functions are pretty normal and everyday; not sure what makes them interesting...
b) Why a parent would think a child might benefit from having one (regardless of whether the child wanted one)
c) What process leads to toy companies coming up with this stuff... do they sell? Presumably they must. Strange world.

[erbie.livejournal.com]

I can just see them sitting around a table.

"Let's give Barbie a dog!"
"Yeah, and let's make it eat and shit!"
"Oh, and a cat that you give a BOTTLE, because, you know, cats love to drink from bottles and then you squeeze its side to make it pee!"
"Huzzah! Great idea"

WTF?

[merina.livejournal.com]

It is sick.

[lietya.livejournal.com]

I really wanted a doll that wet because I wondered how they made it do that.

I was quite disappointed when I took her apart and it was basically just a straw running from one end to the other.... (and my mother was Not Amused at me destroying the toy, for that matter!)

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Is this the Barbie Cat Litterbox thing? (Sorry - dialup.) I get enough litterbox cleaning as it is. :)

I liked having Barbies as a child, though. They formed large matriarchal societies with complex customs signaled by hair and Kleenex clothing design - and they all carried weaponry. I took great delight in finding how many places you could conceal "daggers" and "swords" (sewing needles and hatpins) on them. Of course, this makes it somewhat risky when I find them in my closet these days....

[wickedrad79.livejournal.com]

My barbies, many of which I inherited from my older sister (and there weren't many), went on adventures with my other action figures and figurines (thundercats, poseable cabbage patch kids, and care bears, etc. I don't think my transformers were involved, though). Often this involved mountain climbing or being stranded in the jungle or a deserted island. For example, I would get those little, fruit shaped candy "Runts" from the quarter vending machine at the bowling alley and those would be the fruits they'd find to survive! I would use sword toothpicks from bars for weapons, and once I was fixated on trying to make bows and arrows out of toothpicks and rubber bands for them!
Besides survival scenarios, they also went on archaeological expeditions a la Indiana Jones and spy missions. And sometimes they'd build lucrative ice cream kiosks out of legos.

[lietya.livejournal.com]

That's really cool! I especially love the fruit. Did you ever manage to get a bow and arrow design to work?

Oh, and I loved those sword toothpicks. I'd forgotten all about my collection of them for the Barbies!

[wickedrad79.livejournal.com]

Well, for Barbies and Carebears to use, yes. More or less. Basically, I just bent one toothpick so it curved as much as I could get it to without snapping or splitting, sometimes a larger one if I could find one, like a sandwich pick. I would cut a rubber band and tie each end to an end of the pick. And I'd use regular toothpicks as arrows. It wasn't pretty, but it worked for my purposes!

[lietya.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed. I'm also tempted to try it....

[archaica.livejournal.com]

Did the barbies do awful things to your Star Trek action figures? or was that just your friends? :)

[archaica.livejournal.com]

Honestly, this stuff is just stupid.

[gwentopia.livejournal.com]

wow. and just when you'd thought they'd already come up with a Barbie for everything.

My Barbies went on adventures too! Usually it ended a damsel in distress situation, but she'd always kick butt too. I always hated Ken dolls. I got a Rio doll instead (from Jem). He was MUCH more masculine. Of course I has a Jem doll too... she looked older so she was always the "mom".
I used to make slutty clothes out of the footings of old black nylons. :-)