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How do you know what year a Barbie is?
- 30-10-2023
This is the great dilemma that many collectors or non-collectors face when they want to date a Barbie doll. Many people mistakenly believe that just by looking at the date on the body or the date on the...
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Barbie family and other main characters
- 28-03-2020
Over the years, Barbie's family and her friends have grown, both at the market level and at the fictional level. Sometimes the names of the characters are modified by Mattel, and sometimes they even changed...
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Barbie Fashionistas
- 30-12-2018
In 2005 many collectors stopped buying the vast majority of Play Line Barbie dolls due to the appearance they had, most of the molds of their heads looked strange, Mattel decided to buy them. Their heads...
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Barbie Catalogs 1968
- 15-10-2018
The Barbie commercial catalogs of 1963 brought many dolls and accessories coveted by collectors. Below are images from the commercial catalog "Barbie's World: bright, swinging, now". ...
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Welcome to BarbiePedia
- 18-02-2018
When Ruth Handler and Mattel introduced Barbie in 1959, they created a magical and revolutionary world. Barbie was created by Ruth, who was inspired by in her own daughter, Bárbara. Ruth's idea was to...
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