This is all too interesting (and hilarious)... I did a massive paper on Barbie for a Women's Studies class.
Did y'all know that if Barbie was a human being she would have to walk on all fours like a monkey? She's so ill-proportioned there would be no way her waist would hold up the upper half of her body. She would be well over six feet tall and probably have severely mauled feet from walking on her toes for 50 years, as well as some serious internal organ problems because she would have an 18 inch waist.
I gotta say the most disappointing day in this history of Barbie (to me) was the day Barbie got a VISA card and went shopping. Sad sad sad....
I worked at Toys R Us for a year as well, and let me tell you some of those discontinued Barbies were pretty umm... interesting.
And Ken gets even more strange every year. Last I saw he was a figure skater wearing some sort of shiny disco-ball lookin' shirt with tights... *shrug*
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