Barbie is most famous doll in history. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts, named after the creator's daughter. Ken was named after the creator's son, Kenneth. If Barbie were the size of a real person, she would have a 39" bust, 18" waist, and 33" hips. (For comparison, Marilyn Monroe's measurements were 37"-24"-36".) The first Barbie doll sold for $3.00 in 1959, although one of the original dolls sold on eBay for $3552.50 in 2004!
In recent years, the plastic princess's reign has been threatened. MGA Entertainment came out with the Bratz dolls in 2001. By 2004 the Bratz dolls were outselling Barbies in the United Kingdom, and Barbie sales in the US have decreased by 30%.
Maybe the next Toy Story movie will be a Bratz coup d'etat with plastic explosives and fake hair and trendy accessories and oddly-proportioned body parts flying everywhere. Or that might make a decent YouTube video....
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