NEW Barbie Dolls Spring/Summer 2022! My Thoughts & Opinions!
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
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The difference between Barbie’s now and Barbie’s when I was a little girl I’m the 90s is mind boggling. As a little girl I would have never ever wanted anything they release now. The Barbie’s when I was a little girl we’re so detailed, beautiful and well thought out. They came with so many accessories and pieces and I don’t remember anything being molded on… just sad.
You said it so well! I'm a 90s kid too and honestly, if the Barbies had looked like this then, I would have probably just been into Sindy and Steffi Love. Speaking of which, these 2 doll lines have also gone mad lately... I want the 90s back!! 🥲
@@AlexandraZe What do you mean by 'gone mad lately' about Sindy? Are you talking about the new playline dolls?
Same! I grew up with 80s Barbies, and they were outstanding, whether budget or not, always impeccable quality, absolutely beautiful and even always came with a brush and other accessories. I can't fathom that kids today get crap like this as birthday and Xmas presents!
@@fightthefairy yes! Me too I had the late 80's and early 90's Barbies. Cool Times Midge was my favorite and I had the Barbie and the Rockers. The quality was really nice. It kills me that the faces look so pixelated now. I also think the playsets were more creative than they are now. The only change that I am happy about is that there is more diversity with curvy figures and different ethnic features rather than just different color plastic.
I grew up with 90s and early 2000s Barbies and even the ones from 2000-2004 I had were spot on. Even the Mermaid Fantasy dolls with their non-removable tails at least had movement in the knees and a rubber-like tail, not hard plastic. The only doll I felt limited with was my Twirlin' Make-Up Teresa. Due to her twirling skirt feature she had a plastik thingy unterneath her fabric skirt which you couldn't remove so she couldn't wear pants. And the Palm Beach Midge had a painted on Bikini, but in a way so you could still put different clothes on her. I loved to put all the dolls in different clothes and I would've hated it if my dolls would've been so limited.
I feel like Matel is constantly slapping us in the face. They are fully aware of what Barbie fans want, but choose to pump out disappointments.
Mattel is doing great right now as a company. It had a great year last year, share prices are up, and it projects net sales going up 8 to 10% this year. As a publicly-traded company, what indication does it have that it is on the wrong track and should do something different? Your statement attributes way too much personal consideration to what a minority (i.e. collectors) of it’s market wants.
@@Toywithme200 It all boils down to demographics and production costs and kid interests .... Back in the 80's and 90's kids would still play with Barbies/Action figures a lot longer.... Now with social media, tablets, games etc interest in Dolls is reduces.... No matter how much you want to scream "greed/icon/"
Sorry to break it you.... but "Barbie Fans" is not their biggest market... these are aimed at young kids.... these are the people who will produce the most revenue....
@@alejandromolinac - Sorry to break it to you but kids deserve better than that junk of an excuse of a toy. If I got that as a kid I would of cried because I can’t really do anything with her. The Barbies that I had as a 90’s kid could do a lot more. Like move their knees.
@Cicillia Citra - Wasn’t that latter one the guy who designed the RH dolls?
These dolls look like ones you'd get from the Discount Store. I remember in the 90s when a budget Barbie doll was even more high quality than any Barbies you get now.
I hate the molded on clothes, but kind of understand it. My sister used to buy only those kind of barbies to my niece when she was really young because she used to strip the dolls the moment she got them and their clothes were lost forever.
Maybe that's the goal of those dolls, being rough played by really small kids.
Never thought of it that Way but i def agree
Yes, totally. It’s kind of like Legos, there are so many adult fans who complain about the sets, but they really forget that it’s a TOY for kids. I buy the cheap dreamtopia and swimsuit barbies for my son who’s 4. He also has a made to move doll, but it’s too finicky for him to play with when he has to adjust 50 joints before the doll sits down.
Ikr I hate it too
What I don’t understand about Mattel is like, if you’re gonna make a repro/inspired doll from an older doll why can’t they make it look like the old one? Like put the same facemold but update it a little bit 🫠🫠
Because the Superstar face sculpt triggers some people apparently.
@@fightthefairyhow?
yes i love brooklyn barbie for the same reason!! it honestly felt reductive for the black dolls to be barbie, but black; it's really exciting that they're making her her own person who just so happens to also be named barbie. idk I love it!
The quality of these dolls may be lacking, but if you look at the rest of the doll market i.e. mostly MGA, Barbie is filling the category of more affordable, super kid friendly dolls. At least a 3 year old can't lose a molded on top or choke on an articulated hand that pops out. It would still be nice for them to make a greater range of dolls in terms of quality in addition to these though.
As for the tie-in dolls, yes her name is Brooklyn because she and "original" Barbie were roommates at a summer arts program, so they nicknamed each other "Malibu" and "Brooklyn" after their hometowns. The twins from the set with the dogs are named Jackson and Jayla. They are characters from the new show Barbie: It Takes Two starring the two Barbies. The twins are Brooklyn's parents' godkids *and* they canonically have two dads who are the first same-sex couple in Barbie media (but they don't show up on screen). The show is only 13 episodes and is actually pretty good, so I'd recommend it especially if you want to be borderline queerbaited by Mattel because Brooklyn and Malibu's friendship sure is... close haha.
I want a Barbie movie called "Barbie as a Lesbian" or "Barbie in Her Gay Awakening" niw
Mattel NEEDS to give more of their dolls articulation. It's much more playable for both adults and children. The soccer/ football dolls don't even have articulation. That's so dumb. They're sports players. The whole thing of sports is to move!
If every doll I buy has to have its body replaced with a made-to-move and I need to fuss with finding a good skin match, I end up not buying any dolls at all. It feels like Mattel is trying to stop people from buying their products.
Regarding the Totally Hair Barbies, I agree with everything you said. Usually when a doll line is remade, there is a nod or a definite connection from the original to the remake. I would NEVER guess these are Totally Hair Barbie's remade. There absolutely should be 60s mod reference with these.
I'm 25... I'm not a doll collector... So why am I addicted to this channel?
nostalgia and for me just to make fun of Mattel for their bad choices lately
The fact that kids won’t get the opportunity to own truly beautiful barbie movie dolls like I did in my childhood with Swan Lake makes me sad :(
Brunette Totally Hair Barbie is one of my favorite childhood dolls. That said, I don't hate the new ones but they should have called it something else. The basic mermaid in teal has a really cute face. I think Mattel does this on purpose because her and the purple haired mermaid have older sculpts and smaller heads that adult collectors might like, so they get a sale from the people who just want to head swap.
I don’t understand Mattel - are they even looking at their competition?
Maybe... Just maybe, Matel is cutting quality on the Barbie line because they are going to focus more money and resources on the reproduction of MH. Only time will tell 😌
this is why I'm moving over to mga, smart dolls, and ball jointed dolls bc not only they are worth buying but have loads of articulation and their price is worth it because of the care and effort
i think i would LOVE that budget dreamhouse as a kid! knowing my parents wouldn’t pay a huge chunk of money for a regular dreamhouse
The Dream house looks like a Dream house for minimalists.
Oh wow totally hair Barbie I didn’t know she was a best seller I don’t think I ever had her but I remember her I bet I wanted her cause I love that extra long hair. I would have been 9 or 10 in 1992 😉🤗. 😂😂😂 my fav in those 4 is the 1 with curtain tassel earrings and flat shoes.
I really wish they put more time and effort into the totally hair barbie revamp. They feel like hallowed out husks of their former selves. Not to say that theyre all bad but they definitely left more to be desired :(
I wish Mattel would go back to the quality of like MyScene Days...I don’t understand why Barbie is so cheap. RH is killing them.
I also can think of other brands like smart dolls and they are made in japan. they are more expensive but the attention and care for the dolls and fashion is worth getting
With so many awesome competition dolls from mga...youd think barbie would be trying harder, but sadly it feels like barbie has just given up! I realise basic models are necessary for younger kids but no articulation or real clothes...well, that's just like a lump of plastic, how does that encourage play. Watch any kid with a doll..the FIRST thing they play with are hair and clothes. Wake up Mattel! I think barbie has lost touch over recent years with their audience. I no longer buy barbie, the quality is just too disappointing 😢. I treasure my vintage ones more than ever now.
Mattel please bring back the quality of barbie and detailed fashion. Even in barbie collector dolls their are very low quality. MGA is producing high quality and detailed fashion dolls but why Mattel doesn't do it now just like before?
I want all the new totality hair Barbies! They look like they have pretty faces, and it will be fun to get all the accessories
I hope that MATTEL should try to reproduce fashion style dolls like Superheroes from the marvel collection series line like they'd did in the early 90's and late millennium era of 2000 with less disappointments to our scenes also, less boring for being a collector. I love how Barbie has different characters during the 90's she can be a princess, fairy, mermaid, bride, American Indian/Native American and a superhero! Dear MATTEL please hear our prayers 🙏 to reproduce fashion style dolls like you did during the late millennium era of 2000
The crimped hair Barbie also comes with a protective hair bonnet!
Getting none of those dolls (with some I can hardly even call them dolls since they are so static). They all look garish and uninspiring.
OMG and Rainbow High are getting my money.
they're more like cheap action figures with a girl tone mixed in now a days
i had a mermaid doll that you could squeeze her hips and her knees would bend, it was so fun! i can't believe how few barbies have even bend and snap knees, never thought my expectations would be so low i'd be thankful I had those at least.
me too! I named her aqua. there were 3 in the line of the onw i had. the main pink barbie one. a purple brown haired one and an African American blue one. (thats the one I had!!l
So what I would like from Mattel for their non-fantasty type dolls is clothing that looks like it would be worn by that age range. So, there is nothing wrong with the Kelly and Skipper range. They are wearing patterns, colors and styles that fit that age. Barbie on the other hand, is also wearing a fair amount of patterns, colors and styles that would work for Skippers age range. I know that they are selling to kids of a specific age range BUT, dolls of previous eras were dressing in age appropriate outfits. Day to Night Barbie from 1984 is a good example. The style of the clothing was what a young woman could have been wearing at the time but the color was the part that drew in a kid with the pink and sparkles. I am not wanting them to make Barbie look like she dresses at Fashion Nova but a bit more glamour and style would be wonderful instead of skirt and a t shirt or a little floral dress that would be worn for easter. If you think back to the My Scene line of dolls and the details, different fabrics and styles of the clothing pieces and then compare them to the Barbie Extra line.....Oooffff.
In the fantasy line they really should be doing more articulated mermaid bodies. Even a MTM with a removable fabric tail would be fine with people. And if they dont want to paint all those gems and flowers and details on the dolls....dont put them on. Heck, make a set for kids that is detailed and give them washable paint and the kids can paint up their own dolls!!! If I was a little girl walking down the toy aisle at walmart and I saw the recycled princess or mermaid dolls and then I saw Rainbow High and OMG LOL on the other side.....yeah. I know which one I would be excited for. And I know the pet thing is a sore spot for you, but if Mattel made realistic looking dogs, that had articulation? With nice fur? I would love me a well articulated Grey Hound for my barbie to lead around on a jeweled leash, flocked and NOT cartoonie.
it would be better a made to move mermaid with ARTICULATED TAIL
Makes me wonder if Mattel will b releasing Hollywood hair barbie. I agree Mattel needs to go back to the bend and snap knees and the soft n silky hair.
It all just looks so cheap and desperate. The jett dawson aliexpress version on the totally hair line… it’s one thing to be cheap and tacky, but to go out of your way to copy everything in a desperate attempt to grab MGA’s consumer’s attention? It’s sad to look at. Plus the children and collectors that buy mga won’t buy barbie if she looks like she got dressed in the dark with the worst quality fabric and hair quality…
"We have jett dawson at home"
Jett dawson at home:
(I do actually like her, though)
very true, and the fabric is plastic!
I really like the new dreamtopia mermaids, especially the dark skinned one. She is beautiful, I will try to get her if she's not too expensive
Of course barbie has to jump on the mermaid train again in competition with the mermaze dolls coming out
all these new Barbie mermaids are 1000 times better than Mermaze Mermaids
Barbie Dreamtopia and budget mermaids have gorgeous designs with actual fishy scailed tails and shells/starfish tops, Mermaze Mermaids instead have HIDEOUS tail designs
Some of the dolls are getting better but I mainly miss the magic with their hair, all the hair is just kinda thesame. It's nice that there are different textures for darker dolls, I love that, but all the dolls that have straight hair have just straight boring hair instead of some special hairdo's like the dolls in 2000's had. I think the clothing can be very simple for me but just the hair, i want more differences.
I soooooo miss Barbie from the 80s and 90s! They were so detailed and beautiful with clothes and hair you could play with for months without ever getting bored. These are honestly as boring as pet rocks. Literally plastic pieces of junk. Kids and adults have imaginations but there is nothing to create any variability or stories or displays or anything with these cheap nonarticulated hunks of plastic without any real clothes. And dont get me started about that “dream house”. Google the 1970s and 1980s dreamhouses and compare with this new one…. Uuuuggghhhh Mattel, what are you doing?
I really wish I grew up in the 80s or 90s bc Barbie’s were literally my childhood (My childhood=early 2010s lol) and when I look at pictures of Barbie’s then ik I would’ve loved playing with them I still have some of my dolls from 2014 and stuff but the rest are bland boring and blonde 😑I get where ur coming from
Oh I missed your videos. You are always on point with your reviews. Thank you again. Love your videos.
I’m happy to see Skipper coming back as a babysitter & she & Stacie get to be mermaids
"If I CARED about football...." LOL, classic [its like a bunch of excited puppies chasing a ball in my eyes]
YIKES. This just makes it easier for me to give my money to MGA Entertainment.
Mehhhhh… For me, these Barbie dolls are just not it. They all look like large-scale McDonalds toys. Barbie will always have a special place in my heart but, honestly, Rainbow High is just putting her to shame with the quality of their dolls and the concepts they come up with. I know these are play-line dolls intended for children but that doesn’t make it ok. I would have hated these dolls as a kid.
I cannot wait for the new mermaid skipper dolls !! Very gorgeous ill be buying them so quick!!
I've been waiting to see what you think about the totally hair Barbie's 😂. I agree with you. It would have been better imo of their hair went down to their feet like the original, I think I'll buy two of each and try to re-root with the same colours/styles just making the hair longer.
I love your videos! I've got just a few Barbies in my collection, but I'm very fond of them. They're basic Barbies.
Those first dolls look 🔥 but yeah I agree we with the longer hair
Hi- The Extra doll with the pink hair (the one you don't like the fashions), I also think I will buy her. I like her clothes also- they are kind of funky in a 1970s kind of way.
They really need to change Barbie's face again, or at the very least give each mille different makeup from doll to doll, so they don't all look the same. They also need to make the clothes better quality
I don’t know, the new Barbie extra gives me more Totally Hair vibes than the ‘reboot’ dolls. I find them very disappointing!
The mermaid at 12:41 is very pretty. I like the Skipper playset with the carseats.
The new barbie mermaid power dolls both barbie and barbie Brooklyn and the dreamtopia with the different fins are really speaking to me !!!,btw you are wicked awesome I ljust love your channel
I want the . mermaid power boat and doll playset
She is so right for me 1:41 Thanks for showing!
I don't watch Barbie movies so didn't know about "Brooklyn Barbie". That doesn't sound cool to me. The dark Barbie is actually named *Christie* , I hated when they started calling her "Barbie" in the 80s, it took away her identity. Later in the 90s they called her "Nikki" but soon went back to calling her "Barbie".
I disagree with your thought about hair play dolls; I hate when the hair is an unrealistic length. To me any hair length past the waist is annoying.
I wish some of the new dolls had curls or afros. The braided one is cool.
PS - I appreciate your validation of everything I hate about Barbie post 1999.
I think the basic mermaids are for bath toys
Might get the new totality hair Barbie wished they had included a steffie mold.
I'm sorry to everyone who loves these, but I hate all of them except the pink hair on the extra doll. I never thought the day would come when I would be most likely leaving Barbie for other dolls, but it has come. Over the last at least three years, if not more, I haven't liked any Barbies. I grew up with Barbie and they were always so beautiful and quality, but not anymore. Whoever is making the outfits just looks like they grab a bunch of fabric and sew it together even if it doesn't match. Their design ideas are trash to me; the colors are atrocious. As far as I'm concerned, Ruth Handler would be turning over in her grave if she saw what has happened to her dream and beautiful Barbies of the past :( Lately I'm actually looking at Rainbow dolls and maybe some others to take the place of Barbie as I don't know when they will ever bring back the beautiful dolls of the past. This saddens my heart so much :( Btw, does anyone know what happened to the new Bratz line I heard was supposed to come out months ago? I was thinking of trying one of them.
i like only the new mermaids, they have gorgeous designs, but the quality could be better
I think that the dreamtopia princesses (i think) are aimed at a far younger age group.. like.. toddler even? with the molded tops and cheap material, I think that a mother (okay, I'm speaking as a mother of a 1 year old and as a BIG Barbie fan) I think that I would feel comfortable giving one of those to my child. (I love your channel and I NOSHAME will talk back to you like you could hear me. You're great.)
Everytime I see there is a new video from you, I open it right away all excited. :D I'm totally gonna get the new Barbie Extra doll. I actually like the over the top clothes on her, and she is beautiful!
Looovee love love these “new dolls” videos as well, so entertaining thanks for this 💕💕
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I don't care for the molded on tops either. They used to make snap on tops and Mattel should do that. Limiting the doll so you can't dress her defeats the purpose of Barbie.
I also just received the 2 twin teen dolls with the pups, they are named Jackson and Jayla and very cute. I haven't seen the Big City Big Dreams movie or the new one called " It takes two? Something like that anyway the Twins are supposed to be in the second movie.
I am thinking these mermaid dolls are looking so similar that Mattel figures we change the tail, hair and top and sell her, no one will notice she's the same doll done over and over again. I do like the new mermaid tails though. Other than that mattel is going to have to improve their line for me to buy them for myself or my granddaughter. Great video as usual, thanks.
A new vid..ON MY BD! Yaaaa!!😍
I like the hipster foldable dream house. It's one of their compact houses obviously.
I agree with you about the painted on clothing. I especially dislike it in the beach line dolls. The Ken dolls in the line have real trunks, why can't the Barbies have a real swimsuit like they used to? Makes them no fun to dress either, because the painted suit shows through the other outfits.
I loved Barbie as a child. But now I don’t, because the quality is so bad.
Reason for the molded in clothing is for parents not having kids naked dolls laying around the house. They feel it's not appropriate when adult guests come over for dinner etc. Brooklyn Barbie has a new cute face. I really like her.
I cant tell if this is a joke 😂
@@peacipessa yeah it's the weirdest reason I've heard. I bet this is a prudish American. Sadly, they dictate what Mattel should and shouldn't do. It's a doll. The clothing was removable so kids could mix and match plus Mattel made more money when parents had to buy new outfits which were also decent quality back in the 80s and before.
@@rewghob I have actually heard it from parents. I think it's weird too because they are dolls. But to people with sorts of " important lifestyles" the impression they make on certain guests matters. I don't see a problem with that choice.
@@peacipessa it's not.
Welp parents for over 60 years dealt with that I suppose parents of young children can deal with that now
That last Brooklyn Barbie Mermaid is a direct ripoff of RH's Phaedra (change my mind, lol). I know - I would just love to see more articulation, period. And I agree that Mattel knows what we want - they just don't care.
Wow I am so disappointed with every last one of these dolls honestly 😞 I can't believe what Barbie has become 💔 I try not to be one of those people who speaks so negatively about current Mattel, but sheesh they're making it hard 😭 The amount of sculpted or painted on "clothes" these days. I cannot. And the excessive mix matched colors! Man... 😪
Barbie is so disappointing 😭
I don’t know if I will ever get any of them or not because I am not really crazy about any of them
Wait a minute that new meditation Barbie? Why does it look like she only has made to move legs? Does she really just have regular articulation on her arms? I wonder how much that saved them?
Totilie hair Barbie1990 ist die beste die jetzige gefällt mir Christie und die Brünette am besten
I wish the TH Barbies had more longer hair too. It's cool Mattel is remaking popular Barbies from back in the day however the new TH Barbie is a pass for me
I love the house
I NEED ARTICULATION!!!😭😭😭😭 total disappointment. I prefer barbie extra and barbie looks line. They should focus that more.
rip barbie articulation also if you can make the doll have articulation but yea it's sad
Best doll reviewer ever !!!
Are you excited for Shadow High
There's a new tooth fairy Barbie that just came out and I went down a rabbit hole of all the tooth fairy Barbie dolls. There's actually a few of them.
I’m agreeing with you 💯on your review here. How did basic Barbie’s become so, so … basic! I will be buying the Barbie extra tho!
They from take two and the black hair one is barbie Robert's as well as the normal barbie
Shadow high
I love them
I think totally hair barbie reboot suffers from the fact it's trying to capture the 90s when the original was trying to capture the 60s/70s with its groovy pattern. I think if they just used the same pattern but different colors and cut. Like the same pattern, but it's a 2 piece now.
There are a couple here I will probably buy. The purple mermaid with the new face sculpt looks interesting. And the blue mermaid with the Tori face sculpt is so pretty. You have to imagine them on different bodies and with different outfits. I only ever look at hair and face now because I'm going to be changing all the rest.
I wish you would make a video. If you have the authority or you are the owner of a doll-making company, what will the doll you want to make look like?
Barbie has lost most of they appeal for me. Even their collector dolls have been going downhill. Made to move tall barbies are all I buy nowadays.
I love your Doll Passion lol. I have only one Barbie Doll (customized). The Rest of my Dolls are in porcelain.
Skipper cute
I hate all of these. Everything looks the same and they're all cheap looking and tacky.
The mermaid Barbie looks like Simone Summers from pacific coast high
Meditation cute
4:10.... they added a Pettit Barbie
Barbie's in they're flop era 🥳🥳
they're so cute...why cant they MOVE?! only TWO of those dolls had full articulation so its not like they CANT do it. also peep the dream house having one mtm barbie while the others were static. super mean.
Well, that was indeed a lot of plastic trash!
I want the original Barbie totally hair I won't use the goo
Barbie cute
I am going to be buying the mermaid Barbie dolls
I hate hate hate Barbie but Ngl those first four dolls the ones with the long hair are actually to die for
Barbie boat cute I would call the African American Christie
Hello, I’m new here. Are all the dolls you mention for sale in the UK that you know of? I’ve tried to buy Jackson and Jayla (the twin children from big city, big dreams) but I can only find them in the US, I could get the shipped here at high costs but I’m holding fire in the hope they are coming here. Could you please tell where you read about the new mermaid movie please, I’m like a Barbie stalker 😆 and I’ve not seen anything about it.
Thank you
I would like another merman