Exploring Barbie's MASSIVE Family Tree!

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[supersailor]

Teresa is Hispanic/Latina. Her full name is Teresa Rivera, she’s my favorite of Barbie’s friends :)

[aprilperlowski]

LOL. My take on her disappearing siblings is that Tutti started using her real name "Stacie" as she grew older, just like Kelly became Chelsea. As for poor Todd, much like what happens on some reality shows, he opted out of being in the limelight and embraced his preteen privacy.

[sarahjaney]

I get why barbies current friends have no names (so they're more customizable for play, like you get to make the name/story etc) but I do miss when they had names and were a lot of times released alongside barbie in all the different barbie lines.

[SketchyCoyote]

You forgot about Brooklyn, she's been in two movies and has a couple of dolls. She's pretty interesting, you know how Mattel will often produce both a white and black version of Barbie dolls? Well, it's part of the lore now. When she went to art school, Barbie befriended another girl named Barbie. They call each other Malibu and Brooklyn, for obvious reasons.

[lilmisschrystyle]

So many of Barbie's friends were put on the bus in 2015 and I will probably never let that down 😂

Raquelle, Ryan, Summer, midge... I just miss them so much 😭

[anacalderon]

needs an "it`s editing Joey, here" too...hahaha. Great work!!!!

[fightthefairy]

Its really sad to see the old and new Barbie and friends next to each other - the quality has really gone these days! The face sculpt you referred to a few times is Steffie Face, a favourite of many collectors. And you didn't show the iconic 90s Christie. She was a beauty.

[BunnyGxre]

I’m actually really surprised at how inclusive barbie was during time periods that weren’t that inclusive. Like, the wheelchair doll shocked me! I thought that was only a recent thing

[camila_f_]

Seeing Tommy, Ken's baby brother unlocked some core memories for me 😅

[nyssane]

Christie and Teresa are so iconic from my childhood and it kills me that Christie isn't still around. 😭

[adamsmoberly]

Blaine actually started in the Generation Girl line before he became her boyfriend. And the reason why the friends “disappeared” in 2015, was the fashionistas reboot (yeah, it was rebooted). The modern fashionistas is actually a budget line that took the original name from the pivot Barbies from 2010 to 2014, including the original Fashionistas (who could move, whole point of the fashionistas, so they could pose), the Life In The Dream House line, and any doll with articulation from that time. So when they rebooted the line, they removed the articulation and thus also removed the names. But the dolls are still in production under the line, just named different.
Honestly I wish they would bring back Raquelle, Summer, Midge (who I always think has duck like features, in a good way), Miko/Kira, Grace, Darren (from the Sis line), Ryan, and a bit more for the It Takes Two line, so they can have more characters in the line and the show. Also Barbara “Barbie/Brooklyn” Roberts wasn’t added. She’s new, but I think she’s going to be one of Barbie’s/Malibu’s friends.

[ninnow]

id 100% watch a 4 hour version of this where you cover every single barbie character

[linsees]

How I miss the days of Barbie having friends with names. I lived for Teresa, Christie, and Kira. (I never had a Midge doll.) I also was absolutely obsessed with the Generation Girl line and got all of them because they were from different countries, had different hobbies, interests, backgrounds. I read all the chapter books and it made playing so much fun because I felt like I knew them! I wish they would go back to that. How awesome would it be to have Barbie Extra with names and hobbies other than the girls enjoying being...extra?

[NerakGreen]

I was born in 82, but I remember finding an original Skipper doll as a small kid and thinking that it was so weird that this doll was completely flat chested. All dolls that weren’t babies had bumps there. Also, her hair was broomstick straight and that was very different. OG Skipper was dark tanned, but maybe she just oxidized that way.

I really love watching these videos. Thank you for making them

[vanessaivonne]

accept it, Old Barbies will always be the best in her history

[kayeblack]

I just discovered your channel while shopping for a dream house for my great nieces. Being one year older than Barbie herself, I was fortunate to own the original ponytail Barbie, the original Ken, Skipper, Midge, and Alan dolls, as well as the cardboard fashion shop (my fave), the plastic Barbie "apartment", the orange Austin Healey car, and boxes and boxes of Barbie clothes. I have so many amazing memories of playing with Barbie and her friends and MY friends throughout my childhood. Not content with a fashion model Barbie, we would build entire Barbie CITIES, complete with many businesses run by my friends' Barbies and Kens. We had gas stations, grocery stores, hospitals, schools, swimming pools, all operated by Barbie and her friends for the rest of the Barbie "townspeople". We made "playing Barbie" an extensive, intricate, and beloved experience. Through the years, Barbie has been so criticized for her appearance, her "dumb blonde-ness", her unnatural body type, and her elitism, and although warranted in some cases, it makes me sad. The way WE played with Barbies, it was extremely educational and it positively impacted our intellectual and social development. I haven't approved of everything about Barbie throughout her history, but I hope her critics realize she can play an extremely important role in childhood creativity and learning. Thank you for your channel and for bringing back some wonderful memories of my own 1960s childhood.

[lilmisschrystyle]

5:13 Now I don't know how much Todd was promoted as Stacie's friend but for the most part Todd was actually branded Stacie's twin brother. A lot of packages that included 90s Todd mentioned him as "twin brother of Stacie" they even shared a birthday at McDonald's together.
This could possibly mean that Stacie is some sort of retcon of Tutti.

Also for the most part I think his relation to midge was just being the ring bearer for her wedding.

[WaitingForTnight]

Miko and Kira are two different characters, Miko is supposed to be pacific islander and Kira is supposed to be Asian, and Teresa is supposed to be of Latin American origin, in one of the newer Barbie vlogs, she says that her family is from Mexico <3

[cat]

Raquelle is my favorite character in Life in the DreamHouse.
I miss her and Midge.

[frannable]

A good list. You did forget a few of the earlier dolls. Barbie's "MODern"" cousin Francie (Fairchild) had a friend named Casey (1967-70) with the same face mold and body size. Mattel also introduced British fashion model Twiggy (1967-68) using the same face and body which was the first doll in the Barbie world based on a real person. There were plans for a Becky doll in this line, which was advertised, but never produced. Later, Mattel released this as a special edition doll in 2009. Another famous friend of Barbie was Julia (1969-1972) based on the television character played Diahann Carroll. This era also produced a Truly Scrumptious doll based on the character from Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang, and a Miss America doll all in the Barbie line, some of which were absolutely lovely dolls.