What kind of things you like about Barbie?

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She has money, a great social life, she can be whatever she want and she don´t care what other people think about her.

Thats what I did with all my dolls, and once with my little brother. I still like to shave my head in sections.

I like how her unnatural proportions won't let her keep her balance. This way, nerdy girls who like physics won't want to be like her.

Well, I don´t know if there´s someone who wants to be like Barbie and have her body c:

Barbies do have really strange and unnatural proportions but Bratz were way worse. Imagine seeing someone shaped as a Bratz doll coming down the street towards you.

I really liked setting up the houses/scenes for whatever story my barbie was going to have that day. I'd play literally all day from morning to evening. I liked the miniature foods/items that added detail to the houses. Later in life I got a sewing machine and made some doll clothes for a Christmas charity thing so I bought some barbies to test fit them. I lost those during moving but recently bought some used ones about a year ago. They are sitting in a bag now. I think about making clothes for them again and having adventures.

Anyone try playing with them after you grew up? I got these ones recently and it's almost like I feel like I forgot how to play with them, quite depressing really. Like my imagination has been sucked out of me during adulthood.

I had a lot of Barbies as a child and played with them regularly but I think that's mainly because they were always being given to me and I wasn't given many other toys. I wasn't deprived of things to play with but Barbie dolls and accessories were what I was given, more often than not.

Mainly, I liked dressing them up although I did create some stories starring them. My favourite was a random doll who I created an original outfit for (from other Barbies clothes) and loaded up with the bags of other Barbie dolls. I called her "Runaway Barbie."

I dressed them, put them to bed in pajamas, I did reenactments with them and I also would pretend Stacie was Angelica and I had all these baby dolls that Mattel used to make for Barbie. I also liked the Kelly dolls and had some of them. It's a shame they stopped making Kelly. I even had a huge dollhouse that my dad and grandfather made me when I was six but I was forced to sell it in the year 2010 or so. It was just too big to carry and put in the basement and to move out here and told me they can always build me a new dollhouse for my little girl if I ever have one. I still have all my Barbie stuff but it's all in trunks and out in the garage. Someday my girl might play with them if she is into Barbies that is. Then she will have a bunch of vintage dolls and clothes and furniture. Barbies was about all I played with and was my main thing for having girl toys. All I got was Barbie stuff whenever I went to toy stores. I even remember when the majority of Christmas presents I got were all Barbie when I was five and that was the first year I had them and was introduced to my first Barbie doll for my 5th birthday. Then I was hooked on them. But sometimes I would cut their hairs because their long hair would get in the way and if their heads fell off, I would pop them back on.

I enjoyed playing Barbie dolls when I was young, I used to have a fairy one with a pink dress which was one of my faves. I liked her outfits and accessories but I one main thing i enjoyed, was when I had a barbie pink campervan, to pretend that barbie was going on her travels.

I loved building structures for them to live/interact in. I would take items we had around the house and immediately see their potential uses. We used to have a long staircase and I would often set up shoe racks and storage tubs on the steps, creating somewhat of an open apartment complex for several barbie families.

I also really liked the clothes. I have always been fascinated by colors/patterns/textures and pairing them together in difference combinations.

And the barbies that came with usable props where awesome! I used to be involved in gymnastics, so I received as gymnast barbie (or skipper?) that came with asymmetrical bars, and I could spend hours recreating the movements of the pros, and making up a few of my own.

I was also one of those who switched the Barbies' heads, and cut their hair. What I don't like is that they don't have a larger section of Barbie clothes like there was when I was playing with them on a regular basis. While I had Barbies, I was also into Star Wars toys, and Legos as well, and now my niece isn't that into Barbies either. She's favored My Little Pony and Monster High dolls over Barbie, which is perfectly fine for me.

I liked Barbies as a kid because I enjoyed changing their clothes and brushing their hair. I loved mixing and matching clothes that I had for them.

By the way, "Barbie" was one the first words I ever spoke. My mom told me I really loved watching Barbie commercials.

Yes I think that is why I played with her a lot. I'm not much into fashion but I still liked dressing her somehow cuz I liked every detail so it was about more than just the clothes.
I did have stuffed animals and played with them as well but not as much as the Barbies. Obviously there was more to her with the clothes accessories and houses. One thing I always really hated though was the male dolls. Ken is fruity as crap (and no I don't mean just gay cuz obv I love gay guys although in this particular scenario would not be good to be gay cuz he's supposed to be with Barbie) I had Elvis dolls to replace him so I used him eventually but it does suck to have the same face for a different boyfriend to a different Barbie. I can't find my fav one anymore. I don't know what happened to it. It was the one with the leather jacket.


I did. I still have mine but I haven't played with them lately. I wouldn't know how to play with them anymore so they're in my closet. But I am sure my imagination isn't gone haha. I've just "graduated" to Sims or internal fantasizing.

I had a bunch of Barbies! And my Barbie's had a corvette and a condo too! They had jewelry that was actually kept in a Barbie safe. Tons of clothes. And I had a Ken doll too - it was Shaving Ken so you could put a beard on him then shave it off with a play razor and water! My Barbies also had a big shaggy dog (I forgot the name) that would be all made up and participate in dog shows. My Barbie's were jealous though of my friend's Barbies because she had the actual Barbie Dreamhouse for them. Thing is, my Barbies felt tons better about their situation and their little condo when they found out that my friend liked to pop the heads off of her Barbies. That's just unnatural. Oh! I just remembered that I also had Dr. Barbie. I don't know what job Ken did - I guess he was Barbie's arm candy.

Ooh I remember him!! I can't remember if I had him or if it was my friend's doll.

Was it this one?

Yeah! My Ken had really dark brown hair - I used to give him a 5 o'clock shadow (I'm sure Barbie liked that - a more scruffy look). He also wore shorts.