Answer: "How To Lose Weight"
The only advice offered in the book was "Don't Eat". Also included was a cute, pink bathroom scale permanently reading 110 pounds. Was Barbie responsible for a generation of girls taking diet books to slumber parties? Some critics thought so. Actually they charged that the set played into Barbie's extremely slender image which they didn't consider healthy for young girls.
From Quiz: Barbie The Role Model
Answer: It was from watching her daughter play paper dolls.
Ruth would watch her daughter, Barbara, play with paper dolls. Barbara and her friends would play as adults with jobs and mimic what they would hear their parents say. Ruth felt the girls were expressing their future dreams through play. She realized the lack of adult dolls on the market and recognized the need.
From Quiz: Barbie Beginnings
Answer: March 9th, 1959
Barbie was first released on March 9th, 1959, her official birthday, at the International Toy Fair in New York City.
From Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Barbie Doll?
Answer: 1959
Despite the Cold War and the Presidential Campaign being fought out between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, the United States still had the capacity and moral courage to bring out the doll of the future - Barbie.
From Quiz: Barbie And Her Friends
Answer: 1959
The number one Barbies can fetch up around {$8,500} for a mint condition with original box and accessories.
From Quiz: The Barbie Doll
Answer: Pooper Scooper
According to Mattel, it was not just any scooper but a "special magnetic scooper." Additionally, the set included plastic doggie waste for Barbie to scoop up.
From Quiz: Barbie The Role Model
Answer: Barbie Mariposa
Small children seem to love to take my clothes off and wash me. My name is "Barbie Mariposa" and I am the subject of a DVD that Mattel has released. The message of my movie is "The most beautiful thing you can be is yourself". When cold water is put on me, my hair changes color and you can see a beautiful little butterfly on my cheek. The word Mariposa means "butterfly" in Spanish and I am a Butterfly Fairy from the land of Flutterfield. I have glittering butterfly wings and I love to read and dream.
From Quiz: Dismembered Barbie Speaks Back
Answer: She found a doll in Europe similar to the one she was describing and brought it back to the designers.
During a 1956 trip to Europe with her daughter, they spotted a doll that looked like the one Mrs. Handler had in her mind. They went into the store and found more of the dolls in several different outfits. Mrs. Handler asked if the outfits were available separately, but the answer was no. You wanted a new outfit, you bought a new doll. She found more of the dolls through Europe and took them back to Mattel to be checked out. The doll was named Bild Lilli and was based on a German cartoon character.
From Quiz: Barbie Beginnings
Answer: Her daughter
Mrs. Handler named the Barbie doll after her teenage daughter, Barbara.
From Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Barbie Doll?
Answer: Ken
Mattel made Midge so that Barbie could talk about Ken with a friend.
From Quiz: The Barbie Doll
Answer: McDonald's Restaurant Funtime Playset
Some detractors have suggested that the 1992 "Teen Talk Barbie" set in which Barbie said "Math class is tough" led her into a low paying employment track. In 1982 Barbie had visited McDonald's as a customer in the "Barbie Loves McDonald's Playtime Playset". At that time PJ worked the counter, serving burgers and fries to Barbie and Ken.
From Quiz: Barbie The Role Model
Answer: This was for the ease of dressing the doll.
The market savvy Mrs. Handler knew that if all Barbie dolls were made in a uniform size and shape, that it would be much easier to sale changes of clothes and accessories to go with them. She knew from experience with the Bild Lilli doll that the larger legs, slightly bent wrist, and larger waist made actually changing the clothes more difficult for children. These were changed in the production of Barbie. Charlotte Johnson, Barbie's first personal designer, made sure the dimensions were tightly adhered to.
From Quiz: Barbie Beginnings
Answer: Lilli
On a trip to Germany, the Handlers found a doll named the Bild Lilli doll, which was the type of doll Ruth Handler wanted to create. Mattel bought the rights to the Bild Lilli doll in 1964.
From Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Barbie Doll?
Answer: After the creator's daughter.
It was named after a young Barbara Handler. Ruth Handler, in the early 1950s, saw that her young daughter and her girlfriends enjoyed playing with adult female dolls as much or more than with baby dolls - and the idea was born.
From Quiz: Barbie And Her Friends
Answer: Dolls of the World
From Quiz: The Barbie Doll
Answer: Midge was "pregnant".
This Midge doll had a tiny baby inside a womb that was attached with a magnet. Despite the fact that Midge and boyfriend Alan had "married" years earlier, some parents felt that the doll promoted teen pregnancy. Perhaps the fact that Mattel initially produced Midge without a wedding ring contributed to this idea. Responding to customer complaints, Wal-Mart took the Happy Family set off its shelves.
From Quiz: Barbie The Role Model
Answer: Our eyes were glued on and they came off when our faces were squashed
From Quiz: Dismembered Barbie Speaks Back
Answer: It was at the 1959 American International Toy Fair.
Barbie was met with mix reviews at the toy fair. The toy industry was skeptical of a smaller sized doll. Half of the people who looked at the doll, did however decide to order her for their stores.
From Quiz: Barbie Beginnings
Answer: A black and white zebra striped bathing suit
The first Barbie doll came dressed in a black and white zebra striped one-piece bathing suit.
From Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Barbie Doll?
Answer: After the creator's son.
Ken was the son of Ruth Handler. Unlike his sister, however, he did not inspire his mother by playing with dolls.
From Quiz: Barbie And Her Friends
Answer: They placed a Viewmaster with slides of Barbie in her different outfits at each display.
Mattel felt that since separate outfits was such a new idea, that people would need help realizing the use of the product. It turned out kids were so drawn to the dolls and outfits, that stores had difficulty keeping them in stock. The Viewmasters weren't needed for this after all.
From Quiz: Barbie Beginnings
Answer: Barbie Millicent Roberts
Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts. It is true because, in Barbie's passport, which came with Barbie's Beetle, one of the stickers, which was to go in her passport, said Barbie Millicent Roberts.
From Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Barbie Doll?
Answer: Ken, Midge, Skipper, Christie.
Ken came first in 1961. Next was Midge in 1963. Skipper appeared in 1965. Christie came along in 1968. There have been many other friends who are not listed here.
From Quiz: Barbie And Her Friends
Answer: Made in Japan
From Quiz: The Barbie Doll
Answer: Potential of skin cancer caused by excessive tanning.
Barbie was already a doctor so you'd think she would have been aware of the potential dangers of exposure to UV rays. The Malibu series of sun-worshiper dolls included Barbie, Ken, Francie, PJ, Christie, and Skipper.
From Quiz: Barbie The Role Model
Answer: Girl Scouts of America
After a $12,000,000 Mattel promotion called 'Total Go', Barbie's fan club soared to 600,000 strong. In 1988 there were a reported 650,000 members. In 2007 they limited the numbers to 7,000 a year to enhance a sense of community within the Barbie Fan Club.
From Quiz: Barbie Beginnings
Answer: Willows, Wisconsin
Barbie's hometown is a fictional town called Willow, Wisconsin. Barbie is said to have gone to Willows High School. This can be found in many Barbie knowledge books and websites.
From Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Barbie Doll?
Answer: Teenage Fashion Model.
Barbie started her career in the workforce as a Teenage Fashion Model in 1959 - she was a working girl from the very start.
From Quiz: Barbie And Her Friends
Answer: Purple Sunglasses
From Quiz: The Barbie Doll
Answer: When her arm was rotated her breasts grew.
When you rotated Skipper's arm she grew an inch taller and, uh, "matured". Not content with one round of hostile reviews, Mattel recycled the idea in their 2007 "Growing Up Glam" dolls. These dolls' growth features were activated by a switch on the back rather than moving the arm.
From Quiz: Barbie The Role Model
Answer: Vinyl, Dioxin
Barbie is made from vinyl that varies in hardness and bendability. Vinyl that is used in many dolls is called polyvinyl chloride, or PVC. PVC contains chlorine which produces dioxin when I am incinerated or accidentally burned. Many PVC's additives and stabilizers, such as lead, cadmium, and phthalates, are hazardous as well.
Since 1992 Mattel has stated that they will be trying to eliminate PVC in packaging. I told the world that "the children who love me deserve toys that don't leave a toxic legacy for the planet".
From Quiz: Dismembered Barbie Speaks Back
Answer: 'Oily Head' Barbie
In 1961, the vinyl mixture was experimented with. Due to unstable oil concentration the dolls eventually developed oily, shiny faces, arms, and legs. The oils seeped out to the point they left stains in their boxes. Live and learn.
From Quiz: Barbie Beginnings
Answer: A black and white zebra-striped bathing costume.
As a fashion model Barbie first appeared in swimwear. She also had a ponytail hairstyle, open-toed shoes, sunglasses and ear rings
From Quiz: Barbie And Her Friends
Answer: Live Action Barbie
Barbie was dressed in a muli colored purple jumpsuit with a brown vest that had long fringe.
From Quiz: The Barbie Doll
Answer: Barbie wasn't dressed for camping.
Later playsets would equip Barbie and the gang with tents, cookstoves, campfires and other useful gear, even a pink RV! But the first Camping Barbie came dressed in pink platform wedgies, Capri pants, and a fashionable pink top. Her gear consisted of a pink lawn chair. Critics said this was camping only if camping meant sitting in the back yard sipping lemonade.
From Quiz: Barbie The Role Model
Answer: Charlotte Johnson, Barbie's clothing designer
Although the early Barbie dolls make-up does remind us of Audry Hepburn during the same era, the actual facial mold was made after Charlotte Johnson.
From Quiz: Barbie Beginnings
Answer: Swimming
Barbie first appeared as an Olympian in 1975. She hit the shelves the year before the Montreal Olympics.
From Quiz: Barbie And Her Friends
Answer: Her legs would fall off
Today, finding a Made in Mexico Barbie, with her original legs in good working order and that have not been glued on, fetches a good price.
From Quiz: The Barbie Doll
Answer: Stomach
During the Gulf War (1990_1991) Mattel made a publicity stunt, by dressing me in uniform and making me go on a tour of duty with a squad of marines. The pentagon had to check my uniform to make sure that it was exactly perfect before I was sold. Operation Desert Storm was the U.S. name of the air and land operations between Iraq and a coalition force from 34 nations.
From Quiz: Dismembered Barbie Speaks Back
