When the company tried again to focus on high-tech toys, introducing a talking Barbie with Wi-Fi and an artificial intelligence device designed to listen to babies and respond to their cries with ...

The Twist N Turn Barbie was the most popular in the 1960s, according to Mattel. The first talking Barbie had a string at the back of her neck that had to be pulled. She had rooted eyelashes ...

Mattel itself sometimes reinforced the bimbo stereotype: in the nineties, a talking Barbie sparked backlash over its ditzy declaration that “math class is tough.” By the twenty-tens ...

Over the decades, there has been a persistent release of other Yikes Barbies, like the memorable Teen Talk Barbie that was programmed to say, “Math class is tough!” ‘I’m doing the thing ...

And we've been talking about her, writing about her ... color her face and tear off her head. She's Barbie: The doll that's launched the imaginations of millions of girls − and maybe as many ...

July 26, 2024 – The final scene in Barbie, last summer’s biggest movie blockbuster, lasts less than a minute. It’s essentially a one-line joke: Barbie walks into a building, wide-eyed and ...

The Twist N Turn Barbie was the most popular in the 1960s, according to Mattel. Released in: 1968 The first talking Barbie had a string at the back of her neck that had to be pulled. She had ...