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Barbie: Ken Carson
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Barbie is a waste of money, if you buy her then you'll have to buy her friends, and her house and her sisters and her car and her ken. BARBIE IS A BIG WASTE OF MONEY!
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Barbie -- who doesn't look a day over 20 -- made her debut on the shelves on this date in 1959. Although she and her longtime beau, Ken, split in 2004, they are still the best of friends. Ruth Handler, who was responsible for developing Barbie, later became president of Mattel, Inc, the toy company that marketed and sold Barbie, Ken, Skipper, Midge, and their accessories.
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A commercial by automobile company Nissan featuring dolls similar to Barbie and Ken was the subject of another lawsuit in 1997. In the commercial, a female doll is lured into a car by a doll resembling GI Joe to the dismay of a Ken-like doll, accompanied by Van Halen's version of the song You Really Got Me. According to the makers of the commercial, the dolls' names were Roxanne, Nick and Tad. Mattel claimed that the commercial had done "irreparable damage" to its products, but lost the copyright infringement lawsuit.[26]
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There have been a number of Barbie-related games for nearly every console imaginable. The Nintendo Entertainment System release was one of the first, and is either a cult classic or a train wreck -- it depends entirely on who you ask. This game, simply titled 'Barbie', was released in December of 1991 and was developed by Hi-Tech Expressions. The game begins as Barbie is going to bed and thinking about her plans for the following day. Players can see into her mind thanks to thought bubbles; she looks forward to a trip to the beach, shopping for a new dress, and a date with Ken. She drifts off to sleep and dreams of the shopping spree from hell.
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It all started with the Barbie-Ken separation this year after 43 years as a couple. As a newly single girl -- Cali (read California) Barbie, deeply tanned, with pierced ears and trendy outfits -- is hanging at the beach with a new Australian fellow named "Blaine."
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You can visit Barbie and Ken dressed in various costumes including those of the seven Polynesian nations: Fiji, Hawaii, The Marquesas, New Zealand, Samoa, Tahiti, and Tonga. Barbie and Ken can be seen modelling various muumuus, pareos, holoku, holomuu, and ancient hula costumes and aloha shirts handmade by Florence Marton.
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