Here's what Barbie looked like the year you were born

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Barbie's Fashionista doll collection is more diverse than ever.

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The Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Trailers at Summer Game Fest 2024

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E3 may be dead, but its spirit lives on in the Summer Game Awards.

The 'Barbie' movie turning into a global phenomenon helped boost sales for the plastic doll – but not by as much as you might expect

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Ryan Gosling as Ken and Margot Robbie as Barbie in
Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie as Ken and Barbie in "Barbie."

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In Barbie lore, Allan was actually the father of pregnant Midge's unborn baby

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Michael Cera as Allan in "Barbie."

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'When I think of Bratz I think of Black girl': Bratz fans want to know why Kylie Jenner is the brand's first celebrity doll

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Kylie Jenner attends the 2022 CFDA Awards on November 7.

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Midge, the pregnant doll mocked in 'Barbie,' may have failed in the 1960s because she was friendlier and 'much more girl-next-doorish' than Barbie, Ruth Handler once said

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Emerald Fennell plays Midge in "Barbie."

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Barbie owes her existence to a 1950s German comic strip

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"The 'Lilli' doll was the embodiment of an idea I'd pitched to Elliot and our other Mattel toy designers some five years earlier," Handler wrote in her autobiography.

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Barbie and Ken, this summer's hottest couple, were actually named after a brother and sister

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Ryan Gosling as Ken and Margot Robbie as Barbie in "Barbie."

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Barbie is the star of the summer's hottest blockbuster. The much-hyped movie is the pinnacle of a 60-year history filled with rejections, lawsuits, and controversies for the world's most iconic doll.

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A chronological order of all the Barbies throughout history, ending with Margot Robbie in the Barbie movie.

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From one of Britain's most popular toys to the target of police raids: how a children's doll became a symbol of racism

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Detail of a shop window selling seaside holiday trinkets including different sizes of racist dolls, on July 14 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
Detail of a store window selling seaside holiday trinkets including different sizes of racist dolls, on July 14 2017, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.

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