I'll tell you something. If I was coming up with a Barbie fantasy world, it would have been nothing like that misandrist wet dream they made in the film. My Kens would have been treated better, had homes, not everyone would have to be named "Barbie" or "Ken," they could reproduce and have families with children (albeit they'd resemble Kelly's, Skippers, and their male counterparts, and the births would be akin to what you see in Sims 2; first you see no baby, now you do!), and if something truly awful happened to a Barbie's real-life counterpart, she could always have a place to go to get support from the community. I wouldn't be against having a diverse community either, though to be fair, due to their popularity in the real world, you'd still find a lot of blond, blue-eyed barbies and kens around as the majority.
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kspkap (13622)
2 years ago
”Barbie Toys 'Flying Off Retail Shelves:' Analyst Lifts Mattel Price Target On Upbeat Q3 Trends After Blockbuster Boost”
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/barbie-toys-flying-off-retail-shelves-analyst-lifts-mattel-price-target-on-upbeat-q3-trends-after-blockbuster-boost-1032483883
My big question is WHY? Don’t get me wrong because as a Mattel stock holder I hope I see a significant bump. Mattel stopped giving dividends in 2012. Back to my query. WHY? Has the Dark Side won over the ignorant? Have brains finally turned to mush due to reprogramming?
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AmeriGirl26 (15062)
2 years ago
To be fair, I think people are going to forget about it soon after it comes out on digital. They made a big deal about "The Force Awakens" too, and yet now nobody wants to say a word about it unless it's to complain. It brought in a lot of money to Lucasfilm...for a brief time. Whatever money WB gets from Barbie is going to be spent very quickly to pay off studio debts and to pay off investors. Do you really think they'll have a lot left over in the end? Lucasfilm thought the same way about their trilogy...and yet its "legacy" fizzled out very quickly in just a few years. I suspect Barbie will have a similar thing happen, but in the end, it will be forgotten just as quickly and on a smaller scale.
Plus, there are plenty of family-friendly barbie movies people can have their kids watch instead.
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kspkap (13622)
2 years ago
”As of July 23, 2023 , Barbie has grossed $155 million in the United States and Canada, and $182 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $337 million, and was a "record-breaking" box office success, greatly exceeding expectations, and marking the highest grossing weekend for a film directed by a woman.
Doesn’t that just stir you? 😳
” ‘Barbie 2’: Everything We Know About A Sequel”
https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/barbie-2-5138577/
LOL! What I recall when my 2 girls and their friends played with their Barbies it always seemed the Barbies were left naked. I chalked it up to they got tired of dressing & undressing Barbie. 🤣
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AmeriGirl26 (15062)
2 years ago
I hated seeing my dolls naked. I felt like I was neglecting and embarrassing them :( They may be lifeless lumps of plastic, but when you have a strong imagination and love your toys, you want to do nice things for them, even if that sounds silly to some people.
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kspkap (13622)
2 years ago
Not silly at all. Barbie was a comfort item for kids. Barbie became a sentient being for mostly little gals. My daughter’s Mrs. Beasley became Grandmother (my mom) when I had scolded her. She still has her with one arm just barely hanging on which was the arm my daughter grabbed to hold onto. Minus the glasses of course.
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AmeriGirl26 (15062)
2 years ago
Call me weird, but I actually was sad I didn't have more Kens. I only had an old vintage one inherited from my older cousin, a dark-haired one that went missing for some reason, (Kens made after the 90s were handsomer than the 70s ones anyway), and I also had a Ken doll of the prince from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" who came with a Beast costume and was in a box with my Belle doll, and he was the one who got to play the "prince" in all my fairy-tales. Sadly, ballroom scenes for Cinderella weren't as fun because I didn't have enough Kens for the other dolls to dance with :( And I never dressed them in pink or the silly fashions you see the Kens wearing in the movie. They wore proper men's clothes.
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kspkap (13622)
2 years ago
Here ya go! She has amassed a small fortune if she sold them. I do believe from looking at her she is a Barbie wanna-be.
”Meet This German Woman With 18,500 Barbie Dolls, The Largest Collection In The World”
https://www.ndtv.com/feature/meet-this-german-woman-with-18-500-barbie-dolls-the-largest-collection-in-the-world-4259946
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/topstories/meet-bettina-dorfmann-the-barbie-superfan-with-record-breaking-collection-of-18500-barbie-dolls-watch/ar-AA1eDXN9
Her amount is just over $38,000.00 in U.S. dollars. I think her math is wrong. There’s no way she bought 18,500 Barbies for just $38,000 unless many were gifts.
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AmeriGirl26 (15062)
2 years ago
WOW!!!! :O 18,500 dolls?! Holy God!
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kspkap (13622)
2 years ago
I cannot fathom having 18,500 of anything when it’s a collection of things. The rare first Barbie is probably worth more than all the others put together. The one in the black & white striped swim suit. They lost their value as soon as she removed them from their boxes. It’s the same as buying a new vehicle and driving it off the lot.
She also had to have paid more than she stated unless she purchased most second hand. Ebay would be a guess. When they plant her they should throw all of them in with her. I would have nightmares if I had that many dolls around me!
Here ya go. The young Kirsten Dunst before the wet shirt she had on when kissing the upside down Spiderman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7KKfjFRw8w
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kspkap (13622)
2 years ago
Why in the hell was this movie an “in your face” damn social engineering film? I haven’t watched it, but I did watch the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKWiNi9hcsk
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AmeriGirl26 (15062)
2 years ago
I think I might have seen this video, in addition to others. Despite several of my favorite channels having mostly male hosts and friends, I feel the same way they're feeling about the way the Kens in the film were being treated. I honestly have never seen Ken and his friends treated so badly in Barbie lore, whether it be books or cartoons. He was always treated like a real person, Barbie's love interest, sometimes her husband, her best male friend, her confidant, and her soulmate.
It seems some of the subliminal messages in this new film are, "Women should treat men like shit because they're worthless, and getting pregnant is disgusting. People shouldn't fall in love or breed, because all it does is lead to misery. Being perpetually young and partying all the time is the only way to be happy and to live."
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kspkap (13622)
2 years ago
And…the dead shall speak. Those who have dead souls. They are akin to vampires when the truth hits them in their vicious fangs. All they can do is hiss and spew lies. They will never be free because the truth sets you free. The following describes the left perfectly:
”And perhaps no group is more invested in that than the gaggle of pearl-clutching conservatives who see it as a parable of toxic, anti-man feminism.”
For some reason I thought the phrase “pearl-clutching” was equated with male genitalia.
” For the New York Post, Piers Morgan declared: “If I made a movie that treated women the way Barbie treats men, feminists would want me executed.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/07/barbie-conservatives-curious-truth-political-polarization.html
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AmeriGirl26 (15062)
2 years ago
I'm not usually a fan of Piers Morgan, but even a broken clock can be right twice a day.
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kspkap (13622)
2 years ago
But, what he said goes right along with your opinion about this movie.
Some times I have to gulp, grit my teeth, etc. when a truthful statement is made by the left. I’m not referring to Piers Morgan, but to the left as was stated in the Slade article. It’s only shallow minds who won’t admit the factual truth.
This movie continued with the misandry dogma. The left needs to accept this movie for what it conveyed…men need to be put on the back burner.
Barbie should have started singing “I am woman; hear me roar”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rptW7zOPX2E
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