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Post by MagdaFR on Apr 4, 2023 16:55:33 GMT
They released a trailer. I think it's awful but I read posts adoring it.
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Post by queenzod on Apr 4, 2023 17:28:45 GMT
I think it looks hilarious in a completely stupid kind of way. 😃👍🏼 |
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Post by llminnowpea on Apr 4, 2023 18:13:12 GMT
I just looked through the posters and all the men are named Ken and the movie posters really make a joke about it. Which really amused me in various ways.
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Post by jbc12 on Apr 5, 2023 4:15:53 GMT
It's not for me. I don't find this kind of thing funny. Then again, I was never a Barbie kid so I'm not the demographic they're after ha ha.
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Post by mllemass on Apr 5, 2023 5:49:31 GMT
It's not for me. I don't find this kind of thing funny. Then again, I was never a Barbie kid so I'm not the demographic they're after ha ha. Same here! I think the movie looks stupid, but I suppose Barbie fans will like it. I never had Barbies - I remember that they were expensive, compared to other dolls. And Barbies didn’t do anything, like eat or walk or talk or roller skate, like my other dolls did. So I never asked for one. I had a friend, though, who had lots of them so I did play with them sometimes. She had not only the dolls and their clothes, but also the dream house and cars and everything else that existed at the time. I was just remembering a very religious friend I had in high school who told me that her parents wouldn’t allow them to have the Ken doll. So instead, she and her sisters cut the hair off one of their Barbies and called it Ken. Ha! |
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Post by queenzod on Apr 5, 2023 6:05:38 GMT
I had one or two Barbies in the very early 60s. I think I might have had a Ken, too, but I was like 5 so I don’t remember very well. What I do remember is that my Grandma was a great seamstress and fiber person and she must have made me 200 outfits for my dolls. Gold lame evening dresses, (so many evening dresses!), short, sporty numbers, travel suits, hats, boas and shawls, swimsuits galore, and everything you can imagine! They filled up an entire drawer of my bureau. I felt so special b/c I had all these beautiful hand made clothes for my dolls and my friends had to beg their moms to buy them something manufactured which was way expensive and not as good. Both my grandmothers loved dolls and I still have a few of them. My most prized pair is two Greek dolls dressed in traditional costume. They’re very faded now. I don’t know who gave them to me but my dad’s family was Greek so maybe someone on that side? I also have my mother’s first and last dolls and one wooden one from Japan with a perfectly round head glued to a thick section/branch of birch tree. Very traditional. Oh! It just occurred to me my mother’s first doll is nearly 100 years old now. It’s not worth anything - it went through a flood in the 70s and got badly damaged, but it’s still nice to have.
Gosh, I haven’t thought about them for years - I keep them in my spare room (which I call France), along with all my crafting stuff.
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Post by jbc12 on Apr 5, 2023 6:15:31 GMT
Wow, these stories are awesome. Funny how something as simple as a doll can trigger memories from decades ago.
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Post by mllemass on Apr 5, 2023 11:46:57 GMT
I should have mentioned that I still have my dolls! They’re somewhere stored away, along with my Easy Bake Oven. We weren’t given “toys” as gifts for very long - maybe until I was 9 or 10, so that means I had 9 or 10 toys. After that, we started getting games as gifts instead. And I still have all the games.
Yes, my mother used to make clothes for our dolls, too. I remember especially a doll from Italy that my sister loved because it had long black hair, like her. My mother not only made little dresses for it out of recycled fabric, but she also made it a nylon slip and a pair of nylon underwear! Ha!
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Post by roverpup on Apr 5, 2023 12:25:09 GMT
I never had any Barbie dolls either. Never wanted them.
I had some dolls but mainly I liked stuffed animal toys (teddy bears, dogs, raccoons, ponies, etc.). One doll I did have was a little Jamaican boy. He was dressed in a colorful shirt and my sister Heather had his sister doll "Sarah" (can't remember the name of my boy doll). Heather still has "Sarah"!
I don't know what happened to all my toys. I can picture them in my mind but I'm not nostalgic for them or anything. At a very young age I was asking for gifts like chemistry sets and rock polishing kits. And always for more teddy bears!
The only thing from my childhood I have now is a "christening mug", which is ironic since from my early teens I became an atheist and have remained ever since.
The mug, which I got way after I was a baby, is kind of sleek and modern looking (and made out of stainless steel). I only got it because Heather had an engraved silver christening mug (that she got as a gift from someone when she was a baby) and I noticed I didn't, so I asked I asked my mum if I could have one too and they bought me one (but it isn't even engraved with my name). It's in a small china cabinet I inherited from my grandmother.
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Post by roverpup on Apr 5, 2023 15:28:45 GMT
All this talk about Barbie and it got me thinking and remembering my dolls from yesteryear. I did have one Barbie type doll - a Tammy doll. She was more realistically shaped. And the back story (yes there was a storybook that had a rundown of her family) was that her name was Tammy Roberts (my family name)! She had a little sister called Pepper, I believe (but we never had a Pepper doll). I looked her up and she was a Barbie competitor but was never very popular. She was cheaper to buy of course. Tammy doll's were discontinued in 1966. Here's a link to her "history"... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_(doll)I also finally found that Jamaican doll! The girl doll's official name was Calypso Jill (I guess Heather just named her Sarah). My boy doll's name was Calypso Bill. virtualblackdollmuseum.com/2021/12/10/calypso-bill-and-calypso-jill/My sister, as I said, still has her doll in a calico dress. I found this about it... imgur.com/a/9B7V8HJThat's the exact outfit that is on Heather's doll in her shelf right now! She keeps it in the spare bedroom that we always sleep in when we visit. It was Canadian made apparently and available in the 1960s - so that makes the timeline just right! |
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