It's true. I'm blogging about Barbie. Why? Because I saw a recent episode of the Simpsons where Lisa got a talking doll which got her to thinking it is not what it appears to be.
It was a Malibu Stacey doll and all it would say is:
"Let's put make up on for the boys"
"My name is Stacey but you can call me [whistles]" and so on and so forth.
It reminded me of the Barbie dolls I had when I was young.
I don't know if I had a talking one but I know I had one that did had gymnastic moves and another that had long hair and when you cut it, you attach another piece of hair to it.
It was weird.
I had a lot of Barbie dolls. I vaguely remember many of them.
Lisa hated this particular Malibu Stacey because of what it was saying and wanted to change it. Kathleen Turner voiced the women who created the dolls and they make another that they named Lisa Lionheart and well, the people who run the Malibu Stacey productions wanted to destroy, by any means necessary, the production and what do they do.
Give Malibu Stacey a hat. At least someone got a Lisa Lionheart doll at the end.
And with Barbie being in production for a long time, it seems she never ages, but they have changed the look of the dolls to make them more realistic. They made the chest wider and they have them in different stiles and different cultures and heritages. One can be African American, another can be Irish looking. It's all in the doll. But the talking Barbie's came out in the early 90's just like that episode of the Simpsons with the talking Malibu Stacey's and it very equally matched in every way down to what the doll says.
Now it is very different. If Malibu Stacey was talking again, it would be just what Lisa have wanted. Believe me. Now a days, it is different than it was in the early 90s.
And the Malibu dolls would have different body shapes as well, and look a lot like the Barbies of today.
Ciao Bloggers.
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