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05/02/2023

The original Barbie was available to purchase as either a blonde or a brunette. But according to Forbes, "the blonde doll sold so much better, the brunette was soon relegated to the back of the shelf.

05/02/2023

Considering the steady stream of TV commercials Mattel has produced for Barbie since her debut, it's not too surprising some celebrities got their big breaks via Barbie commercials. Mila Kunis, Fergie, and The Brady Bunch's Maureen McCormick are just some of the celebs who ap

05/02/2023

According to Time, Mattel became the first year-round sponsor of The Mickey Mouse Club in 1955. TV commercials were a novel advertising approach for toys at the time, and Mattel is largely credited with being the first company to broadcast commercials aimed at kids. When

05/02/2023

According to Mattel's official Barbie website, Barbie is from the fictional town of Willows, Wisconsin. And even though it's not a real place, the state of Wisconsin proudly claims her as a native daughter. An early version of the doll is even featured in the Wisconsin Historical Museum

05/02/2023

arbie was introduced to the world on March 9, 1959, at the New York Toy Fair. And when Greiner & Hausser, the company behind the Lilli doll, saw Barbie, they were not happy. They accused Mattel of copying elements of her design—especially her hip joint—without their per

05/02/2023

After designing the original Barbie doll, Jack Ryan married Gilligan's Island actress Zsa Zsa Gabor in 1975. At that point, though, the designer's relationship with Mattel was rocky, as he and Handler couldn't agree on who actually came up with the idea for the doll

05/02/2023

When it came time to create Barbie, Handler assigned Mattel designer Jack Ryan to the task. A Yale alum, Ryan worked for an aerospace company prior to joining the team at Mattel. In fact, he helped design the government's Hawk and Sparrow III missile systems before helping to create Barbie

05/02/2023

In honor of her source of inspiration—her daughter Barbara—Handler named the Barbie doll Barbara Millicent Roberts. Ironically, though, the real Barbie was 17 by the time the doll debuted, and therefore was not particularly interested in being associated with the child's toy.

"[Kids] would come up to me and say, '

05/02/2023

We have Barbara Handler, daughter of Mattel co-founders Ruth and Elliot, to thank for Barbie. When Barbara was a child, she would play with paper dolls for hours on end. According to Mattel's website, "this sparked

05/02/2023

While Barbie may seem as American as apple pie, she was modeled after a German doll named Lilli. As cultural critic M.G. Lord notes in Forever Barbie, the doll was based on a '50s comic strip about a high-end call girl that appeared in the German tabloid Bild-Zeitung.

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