I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world.

[enamoured]

So, I was up last night and just thinking of random things, and something came to mind:

Was I the only girl who didn't have Ken dolls to go with my Barbies?

I never owned a single Ken. For a short time, my brother had a few Kens--I don't know why, but he had the rollerblading one and the one that came with a battery powered boom box that played techno rap beats--but I never had any, nor did I want any. The only male Barbie-related doll I had was the little sister Stacy's brother Todd.

I had about... thirty Barbies. Half were black and half were white. The black Barbies from the late '80s through the early '90s had the worst hair EVER--it was extremely nappy. The little Barbie brushes used to get stuck in their hair. About the time I stopped playing with Barbies, they changed the hair from the Brillo material that they used to use to this super-silky stuff. It was like they gave Barbie a really good relaxer--or a great weave. [g] I had one Skipper, and about four of the Stacys. I never had a Barbie car or the dream houses, but I had a gym playset (that my mom bought with '80s Areobic Barbie, with the crimped hair and god-awful workout outfit with sparkly leg warmers. That doll was purchased sometime in 1989 or so) and a zoo playset.

I think whenever I played with the Barbies, they were always just lounging around or going on adventures to Europe and stuff. Because I didn't have any Kens, my Barbies didn't date--they had lots of parties, though. My brother used to let me use his Land of the Lost car so that they could drive and stuff. I can't believe I remembered that.

So, yeah, was I the only weird girl who had no Kens and didn't care?

Comments

[wickedwest.livejournal.com]

I had no Kens, but I cared A LOT. I begged my parents for one until I gave my barbies up.

I had that barbie that came with this Scuba tank that made bubbles but it would drag the barbie to the bottom of the swimming pool. But Not the new dream house with the Elevator that actually moves by it's self.
I miss Barbies.

[classicalhllywd.livejournal.com]

But not the new dream house with the elevator that actually moves by it's self.

I had that, and the elevator wasn't exciting. Trust me.

[sara-says--grrr.livejournal.com]

i had a polly pocket house that had an elevator!




but you had to push it x_x

[wickedwest.livejournal.com]

But it's really the thought that counts to your 3-9 year old brain. I guess I feel a teeny bit better knowing that I wasn't missing much.

[classicalhllywd.livejournal.com]

I had no Kens and I never gave a crap. My Barbies had the coolest accesories like the Dream House and the Dream Boat. Who the hell needed a Ken when you could party with your friends?

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

Who the hell needed a Ken when you could party with your friends?

Heh, that's probably what I was thinking!

[euterpe.livejournal.com]

Oh, did you have the Barbie and the Rockers, too?! Those were my first/favorite barbie dolls, EVER. I had the stage and EVERYTHING. It was my obsession.

I had two Ken dolls. They weren't very liked. One looked like my Dad and the other one had a head problem. It would pop off at the worst moments. Like when he was going to kiss Barbie or something. So I just gave up on the Ken dolls and Barbie became a lesbian. Was quite fun that way.

[sara-says--grrr.livejournal.com]

i had pound purries

[sara-says--grrr.livejournal.com]

and pound puppies

[waderapspoorly.livejournal.com]

I was a Barbie kid. My parents overcompensated with me because my older sisters weren't very girly and I kind of was so I had hundreds of Barbies--we had two of those gigantic totes full of dolls and their accessories like cars and desks and stuff. And then we had three of those popcorn tins they sell at Christmastime full of dresses, shoes, and smaller accessories like Barbie Food and Barbie Phones.

And the coolest Barbie thing I had was this Barbie doll house. It was so big my parents put it on a platform so we could move it easily. It had two floors and the doorbell rang and the lights worked and the kitchen had running water (though I wasn't allowed to have it).

The funny thing is, with all the money my parents spent on Barbies for me, they could have bought me an American Girls doll and I would have been so elated that they would have never had to buy me a Barbie again.

PS: My Barbie's boyfriend was Joey from New Kids On The Block. He had a letterman's jacket and looked like Todd from Sweet Valley High.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

my Barbies all lived in two baskets that, for some reason, were kept on the tallest shelf in my closet. And dude, none of my Barbies had shoes. They all disappeared somehow.

Heh, to think of all the cash that was spent on Barbies. I could've had all the American Girls stuff, like the school desks and the birthday tables and crap.

[missdarksoul.livejournal.com]

lol I never had a ken doll i only had about two barbies and i drew on them and cut there hair, my sister had all the barbie stuff. I was more intested in legos and toy cars though lol. I never did get any decent cars though didn't even get the road map rug *cries* lol though i did like crashing my sister barbie car. she was a bitch and never let me play with it

So no i had no ken dolls

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

I think every girl drew on at least one Barbie. I tried to color my first one orange. And for some reason, it ended up getting these weird splotches on its legs so I kind of threw it around and beat it up and stuff. [g]

[missdarksoul.livejournal.com]

I only ever had a few lol but they were prettyied up with black pen and bald heads

[hannahlulubelle.livejournal.com]

I had a total of one Ken doll and he came with the little Tommy kid who was like his little brother or something. Yea, he was interesting. I had a lot of the Disney barbies. I had Aladdin and Jasmine, Ariel and Eric, Belle and the Beast, Mulan and Shang...so those guys were usually my Barbie's boyfriends. I also had a Harvey doll from Sabrina because I was obsessed with that show and they had the dolls for it. Except Sabrina was very ugly as a doll so I didn't play with her, I just used Harvey. He came with a locker which was very fun becuase I could play that they were in high school.

I had a dream house. It had these three blocks, one was the kitchen, one was the living room, and one was the bedroom. You could move the blocks around so the house could be a town house (3 stories), a two story house, or a one story house. If you had the two story house it had this little porch off the side so I usually did that. My barbies had three cars. One was a red mustang convertable that could either be a two seater or (this was really exciting) you could extend it so it could be a four seater. So the single Barbie's had the small two-seater ones and the Barbies that had kids like Kelly and Stacy (I know that they are her sisters but it seems like they would be her daughters) had the four seater. Then I had a the camping-mini van that came with luggage and this cool thing that popped out the back when you opened the trunk so it was like a stove or something but that thing was always falling apart. The wheels were always falling apart and such. It was very depressing. So that was the poor Barbie's car before she rose to stardom as a singer and got the red mustang. And then in the last few years I played with the Barbies I got a yellow Bug. It had keys that actually opened up the trunk and all sorts of cool stuff.

I also had a big case that looked like a makeup case but it was a little hosue for Barbie that had like a bed and then a chair but it had all these buttons and things would pop up and out and shit. It was interesting.

I have the urge to go down to the basement and dug up my barbies now...

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

I still have a few of my Barbies. Sometimes I want to buy them clothes.

Oh, I wanted the van and the Mustang really bad! But I never got them, along with the dream house and the real-life treehouse I begged my parents for when I was younger.

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

I didn't have a Ken for the longest time, but I finally got one. I only had the one, though...
Man, my barbies had the weirdest family dynamic. Ken (who for some reason I decided to renamre Christopher) lived in the bigger house with his wife, kids, and a couple realatives. And then her sisters and his sisters lived together in the smaller house down the lane.
I had two Skippers, maybe seven or eight barbies, two Kellies, two of Kelly's friends (Melody and Chelsie), the one Ken, and a Baby Spice doll, playing the roll of the beloved Aunt Emma. I also had the two houses (though one was more of a careboard box, really) two horses, a horse-carriage, and a pony.
No cars, though. Guess my barbies were stuck in the past...

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

hee! with the horse and carriages. I never even had the horses. I didn't go through a horse stage like most girls. I was too busy doing other things, like trying to figure out how to fly.

[precioustears.livejournal.com]

I was obsessed with Barbies. According to my mother, they were always naked. I don't know why. I remember her sitting in the floor and dressing them though.

I had a washer and dryer thing. That was pretty cool. I could "wash" Barbie's clothes. I had a dream house type thing, but it wasn't near as cool as the REAL Barbie Dream House. I also had a Barbie Limo. She'd go to all her parties in it.

I had maybe one Ken. And he wasn't even a REAL Ken. Just a cheap knock-off. Whenever I would try to dress him for his wedding, a tennis game, a cookout, or ANYTHING his legs and arms would pop off. He'd just be a head and torso. Kinda funny now that I think about it.

*sigh* I wish I had Barbie's wardrobe. Hell...I wish I had her lifestyle! Hahaha.

[hannahlulubelle.livejournal.com]

I had the washer and dryer too. I totally forgot about that until now. I also had the computer desk with fishtank and fax machine.

[ihatebreakfast.livejournal.com]

I only had a couple Barbies, but I was a crazed Beanie Baby fan. For some reason I just loved making them act out dating scenarios. ("Peace Bear, I love you! *beanie baby kiss*") I do remember using Barbie cars a lot though for their dates.

That really tells you everything you need to know about me.

[hannahlulubelle.livejournal.com]

I loved Beanie Babies but I don't think I ever had them date. I remember I used to have them go on adventures though

[alice-ash.livejournal.com]

i had an aladdin but no kens, and aladdin's head fell off :(