Barbie has been inclusive by creating several versions of the beloved doll, including different skin tones and hair textures, and various disabilities, such as deafness and Down Syndrome.
Now, there is an autistic Barbie, whom they have spent the last 18 months working with ASAN, a nonprofit disability rights organization run by and for autistic people, which advocates for the rights of the autistic community to perfect her and her accessories.
Body: The autistic Barbie doll features elbow and wrist articulation, enabling stimming, hand flapping, and other hand gestures that some members of the autistic community use to process sensory information or express excitement.
Eye Gaze: The doll is designed with an eye gaze shifted slightly to the side, which reflects how some members of the autistic community may avoid direct eye contact.
Accessories: Each doll comes with a pink finger clip fidget spinner, noise-cancelling headphones, and a tablet.
Fidget Spinner: The doll holds a pink finger clip fidget spinner that actually spins, offering a sensory outlet that can help reduce stress and improve focus.
Headphones: Pink noise-cancelling headphones rest on top of the doll’s head as a helpful and fashionable accessory that reduces sensory overload by blocking out background noise.
Tablet: A pink tablet showing symbol-based Augmentative and Alternative Communication apps (AAC) on its screen serves as a tool to help with everyday communication.
Sensory-Sensitive Fashions: The doll wears a loose-fitting, purple pinstripe A-line dress with short sleeves and a flowy skirt that provides less fabric-to-skin contact. Purple shoes complete the outfit, with flat soles to promote stability and ease of movement.
“Barbie has always strived to reflect the world kids see and the possibilities they imagine, and we’re proud to introduce our first autistic Barbie as part of that ongoing work,” said Jamie Cygielman, Global Head of Dolls, Mattel. “The doll, designed with guidance from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, helps to expand what inclusion looks like in the toy aisle and beyond because every child deserves to see themselves in Barbie.”
My father raised me on Horror movies, so as a little girl, I never had any dolls from my favorite films to play with.
That was then. Now, Monster High has created four dolls from three classics. There are the twins from The Shining, Two-faced M3GAN, who is posable to dance, and Young-Hee from Squid Games. Just make sure not to Red Light, Green Light, Go, with her anywhere nearby.
The four of them join Wednesday (two) and Enid, Elvira, and Betelgeuse and Lydia in the Monster High Universe.
The Monster High Skullector Dolls are the perfect gift for the little girls and boys in your life who are true horrors. Don’t wrap them, just put them in their bed on Christmas Eve, right after they go to sleep, and give them a reason to scream on December 25th. And that is why my nieces hate me!
Even though KPop Demon Hunters is the most popular movie of the year, fans won’t get any of the animated film’s toys until next year.
However, that wasn’t stopping Mattel from not only revealing the HUNTR/X Barbies, but also making them available to preorder.
HUNTR/X brings their iconic style to Mattel in this three-doll set. Looking sen-slay-tional in outfits from their final performance in KPop Demon Hunters, these HUNTR/X heroines are ready to give their fans the concert of a lifetime. Lead singer Rumi’s look shows off the patterns that mark her skin, with Mira and Zoey beside her in complementary styles.
The three-doll set is going for $150, and I hate to tell you, but they are already sold out. Hopefully, they will make more. If not, there will be a lot of upset fans who wanted their very own HUNTER Barbies to play with. Worst comes to worst, they can always get the dolls from the sequel in 2029.
Stevie Nicks’ 2023Barbie sold out in a landslide, so Mattel gave the Fleetwood Mac singer a second one.
This time, she looks like an angel as they recreate her look from the album cover for Bella Donna, her debut solo album.
Her Bella Donna doll is wearing a white dress with a tight bodice, long flowing sleeves, and a long layered skirt. She is donning a black top hat and white high-heeled boots. The cherry on top is a microphone so that you can sing along with her.
The two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee appears to be the white winged dove she sings about. It is gorgeous like her and her voice.
Debbie Allen has been dancing her way into our hearts for over 50 years. In 1980, she found international fame by starring as Lydia Grant, the tough but caring dance teacher in the movie Fame. She followed that up by reprising the role in the TV series and earned a Golden Globe for her performance on the coming of age drama based in a performing arts high school.
Due to that role and many others throughout her career on Broadway, and on the big and small screens, she has been an inspiration to children all over the world by sharing her love of dance with them.
Therefore, Mattel is honoring her with a Barbie doll recreating her signature look on the series which earned her four Emmy nominations.
The posable doll is wearing a fuchsia off-shoulder top which is cinched at the waist with a gold belt connecting the shirt to the purple fringe pants with matching legwarmers to complete a look that was so ’80s thanks to her.
In 2001, the triple threat opened the non-profit Debbie Allen Dance Academy, and has been teaching there ever since. While not every wannabe dancer can take classes there with her, they can learn to love to dance with her through a lookalike Barbie!
The Debbie Allen Barbie is available to own via Walmart, Target, and Amazon for a limited time. She is the perfect gift for all the dancers in your life. And you can tell they are going to love it just as much as her littlest students do when she unboxed her mini-me for them.
