123 Fun Facts About Barbie

Ruth Handler got the idea for Barbie from watching her daughter play with which toys?

Paper dolls: her daughter gave the cut-out figures grown-up roles, so Handler pushed Mattel for a grown-up doll girls could dress, when shops sold little but baby dolls.

Barbie's official birthday marks her 1959 unveiling at a toy fair in which city?

New York: Mattel unveiled her to the trade at the city's annual Toy Fair, where many buyers thought a doll with an adult figure would never sell and refused to stock her.

What is Barbie's full name?

Barbara Millicent Roberts: Barbie is short for Barbara, and the doll was named after her creator's daughter Barbara.

What pattern adorned Barbie's original 1959 swimsuit?

Zebra stripes: the doll was sold wearing the black-and-white swimsuit and every other outfit cost extra, a plan her creator likened to selling razors in order to sell the blades.

Barbie and Ken were named after two real people who were what to each other?

Siblings: the dolls' creator named them after her own daughter and son, so the toy couple's names come from a brother and sister.

What was Barbie's very first career when she was introduced in 1959?

Teenage Fashion Model: Mattel marketed her that way from the start, a grown-up figure with a wardrobe when most dolls were babies to be mothered.

Which Stanley Kubrick film does the opening scene of the 2023 Barbie movie parody?

2001: A Space Odyssey: the film restages Kubrick's 'Dawn of Man' sequence with a towering Barbie, dressed in her original outfit, standing in for the alien monolith.

Who directed the 2023 live-action Barbie film?

Greta Gerwig was first brought in only to write the script, agreed on condition that her partner Noah Baumbach wrote it with her, and signed on to direct two years later.

Which wrestler-turned-actor has a cameo as a merman Ken in the 2023 Barbie movie?

John Cena is credited as Kenmaid: he was filming Fast X nearby when he ran into the film's star by chance, and she asked him on the spot to join the cast.

What was the title of the first CGI-animated Barbie movie, released in 2001?

Barbie in the Nutcracker: New York City Ballet dancers were motion-captured for its ballet scenes, danced to Tchaikovsky played by the London Symphony Orchestra.

Which friend, introduced in 1963, did Mattel market as Barbie's best friend?

Midge: Mattel gave Barbie a freckled, gentler-faced best friend to answer critics who called Barbie a sex symbol, and the two dolls could share clothes.

Mattel's first Black Barbie arrived in 1980 alongside the first Barbie from which other American community?

Hispanic: Mattel launched Black Barbie and Hispanic Barbie together in 1980; until then dolls of colour had been sold as Barbie's friends, never as Barbie herself.

Which tiny book, sold with a 1963 Barbie outfit, advised only 'Don't eat!'?

How to Lose Weight: the booklet had nothing more to say, and after decades of criticism over Barbie's figure Mattel added curvy, tall and petite dolls in 2016.

Which 1960s supermodel became the first celebrity to get a Barbie-line doll in her likeness, in 1967?

Twiggy: Mattel's 1967 doll of the British model opened the door to celebrity Barbies, a line that later took in Cher, Audrey Hepburn and Diana Ross.

Who earned an Oscar nomination for playing Ken in the 2023 Barbie movie?

Ryan Gosling played the film's main Ken and sang 'I'm Just Ken' live at the 2024 Oscars, while Simu Liu and others played rival Kens.

In the 2023 Barbie movie, which actress played 'President Barbie'?

Issa Rae's President Barbie leads a Barbieland where the Barbies hold every powerful job in law, science and politics, the mirror image of the real world the film sends up.

What relation to Barbie is Francie, the 'MOD'ern doll introduced in 1966?

Cousin: Francie was built slimmer and smaller-busted than Barbie, which meant Mattel had to bring out a whole new line of clothes to fit her.

Which actress voiced Barbie in Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3?

Jodi Benson, also the voice of Ariel, got the part after Mattel changed its mind: it refused to license Barbie for the first Toy Story, then asked for her to be in the sequel.

Which actress narrates the 2023 live-action Barbie film?

Helen Mirren is heard but never seen in the film, yet the marketing still gave the narrator a character poster of her own.

Which singer's life was told with Barbie dolls instead of actors in a 1987 film?

Karen Carpenter: the dolls acted out her struggle with anorexia, but her brother Richard sued over the film's unlicensed Carpenters songs and it was withdrawn from circulation in 1990.

What is the name of Barbie's youngest sister?

Chelsea, Barbie's youngest sister, was sold as Kelly (Shelly in Europe) from 1995 until Mattel renamed the character Chelsea in 2011.

Which Saturday Night Live alumna plays Weird Barbie, the 2023 film's doll with chopped hair and a marked-up face?

Kate McKinnon plays the outcast doll who was played with too hard, and it is she who sends Barbie off to the real world to find the child playing with her.

In the 2023 Barbie movie, which character is the only one of his kind in Barbieland?

Allan: the film makes a running joke of there being just one of him, a nod to the 1964 doll sold as Ken's buddy who could fit into all of Ken's clothes.

Who voiced Ken in Toy Story 3?

Michael Keaton's Ken starts out as one of the villain's henchmen at Sunnyside Daycare, then changes sides after falling for Barbie at first sight.

What surname is Ken given in the 1960s Random House Barbie books?

Carson: the novels made him Kenneth Sean Carson, and Mattel's own backstory has him meeting Barbie on the set of a TV commercial.

Who played the Mattel CEO in the 2023 Barbie film?

Will Ferrell's unnamed CEO presides over a Mattel boardroom made up entirely of men, a joke at the expense of the company that co-produced the film.

Which Cheers star plays Barbie's creator Ruth Handler in the 2023 Barbie movie?

Rhea Perlman plays Handler as a ghost who still keeps an office on the 17th floor of Mattel's headquarters.

Barbie ran for president before which woman first led a major-party ticket?

Hillary Clinton: when a woman finally topped a major-party ticket in 2016, Barbie had been running for president since 1992 and, as Mattel admits, had never won an election.

In which 2007 Barbie film is the heroine Ro raised by a red panda and a peacock?

Barbie as the Island Princess: washed ashore as a child after a storm, Ro is taken in on a South Seas island by Sagi the red panda and Azul the peacock.

Which friend of Barbie, introduced in 1968, is usually regarded as the line's first African American doll?

Christie: she arrived as a talking doll with a face sculpt of her own, unlike a 1967 doll that was simply a white doll's mould cast in darker vinyl.

Which pop star is one of the Mermaid Barbies in the 2023 live-action film?

Pop star Dua Lipa appeared in the 2023 Barbie movie as one of the Mermaid Barbies.

What hairstyle did the original 1959 Barbie doll wear?

Ponytail: Mattel chose the high ponytail with curly bangs as the fashionable look of 1959, and sold the first doll as a blonde or a brunette.

What was the initial price of the first Barbie doll when it debuted in 1959?

$3.00: a mint first-edition doll fetched $27,450 at a 2006 auction, enough to have bought 9,150 of them new in 1959.

Which actress voiced the villain Gothel in the 2002 film Barbie as Rapunzel?

Anjelica Huston's Gothel keeps Rapunzel as a servant by claiming she was abandoned as a baby, then turns her bedroom into a tower when she slips outside.

What is the fictional Wisconsin town Barbie's biography says she is from?

According to her fictional biography, Barbie is from the town of Willows, Wisconsin.

Barbie was modelled on Lilli, a risqué gag-gift doll for men created in which country?

Germany: Lilli began as a cartoon character in the tabloid Bild and was sold to men in tobacco shops before children took to her as a toy.

Which magazine's 2016 cover showed curvy Barbie asking to stop talking about her body?

Time put the curvy doll on its cover in early 2016, as Mattel began selling Barbie in curvy, petite and tall body types beside the original.

Mattel moved into television advertising in 1955 by sponsoring which new children's series?

The Mickey Mouse Club: Mattel bet half a million dollars on a full year of ads aimed straight at children, the same route it later used to sell Barbie.

The 2004 film Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper is based on a novel by which author?

Mark Twain: his 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper has two lookalike boys swap lives, while Barbie's first musical swaps in a princess and a pauper girl.

What were the names of Barbie's twin younger siblings introduced in 1966?

Todd and Tutti: the bendable twins left US shelves in 1971, and only Todd ever came back, twenty years later, while new little sisters took Tutti's place.

After surviving cancer, Barbie creator Ruth Handler started a second business, Nearly Me, selling which product?

Breast prostheses: unhappy with what was on offer after her own mastectomy, Handler designed a more realistic one and fitted customers herself, First Lady Betty Ford among them.

Ruth Handler first saw the Lilli doll on a 1956 trip to which country?

Switzerland: in her memoir she describes standing transfixed with her daughter outside a toy shop window there, though exactly where the shop stood changes from one telling to the next.

Which Mattel engineer helped Ruth Handler rework the Lilli doll into Barbie?

Jack Ryan, a former Raytheon missile engineer, reworked Lilli's body into Barbie and later had a brief marriage to the actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Which Mattel designer created the wardrobe for the very first Barbie?

Charlotte Johnson dressed the first doll: her opening range ran to twenty-two outfits sold separately for one to five dollars each, so a single outfit could cost more than the doll.

About how many Barbie dolls did Mattel sell in her first year on shelves?

350,000: roughly that many sold in year one (some counts say 300,000), though trade buyers at her launch had doubted that a doll with an adult figure would sell at all.

Where were early Barbie dolls manufactured, with clothes hand-stitched by homeworkers?

Japan: the early dolls and their hand-stitched outfits were made there, and by 1964 the Barbie line employed far more workers in Japan than in California.

What did Mattel do about the Lilli doll in 1964, after a rival's lawsuit?

Bought its rights: the suit over Lilli's patented hip joint was settled out of court in 1963, and the next year Mattel bought her maker's copyright and patent rights outright.

Why were Barbie's creators Ruth and Elliot Handler forced out of Mattel in the mid-1970s?

False financial reports: investigators found Mattel had issued misleading statements to lift its share price; the Handlers resigned in 1975 and Ruth was later fined and given community service.

As of 2006, Mattel claimed how many Barbie dolls were sold every second?

Three: that was Mattel's boast in 2006, but sales fell by a fifth between 2012 and 2014, and by 2016 the company was redesigning Barbie's body to win buyers back.

Which channel aired the Barbie animated films as promotional specials until 2017?

Nickelodeon premiered the Barbie animated films as TV specials from 2002 to 2017, after which new films moved mainly to Netflix.

Mattel announced Barbie and Ken's breakup in 2004 around which holiday?

Valentine's Day: after 43 years together the pair split on the most romantic date in the calendar, and Mattel reunited them on Valentine's Day 2011.

Which Australian surfer did Barbie befriend after her split from Ken?

Blaine: in 2004 Mattel invited fans to help choose Barbie's new beau on Barbie.com; more than two million took part and the Australian surfer won.

Which toy-car line did Elliot Handler, husband of Barbie's creator, launch at Mattel in 1968?

Hot Wheels: Elliot Handler wanted a toy car to outrun Britain's Matchbox and to do for Mattel's boys' range what Barbie had done for its girls'.

Which 2013 film co-stars Barbie with all three of her younger sisters?

A Pony Tale: Barbie and her younger sisters head abroad for a summer of riding, where Barbie goes looking for a mount everyone else calls a myth.

Which pop artist's 1986 painting of Barbie sold for $1.1 million?

Andy Warhol wanted to paint his friend BillyBoy*, a jewellery designer and Barbie collector, who told him to paint Barbie instead; the canvas sold for about $1.1 million in 2014.

Where did the first Barbie-themed restaurant, Barbie Café, open in 2013?

Taiwan: the first Barbie Café opened in Taipei in January 2013, run by the Sinlaku group under license from Mattel.

Mattel's first Adventure Park, still unopened in mid-2026, is rising near which US city?

Phoenix: the park in suburban Glendale, Arizona, with its life-sized Barbie Beach House, was meant to open years earlier, but delay after delay had pushed it back to 2027 at the earliest as of mid-2026.

In the 2023 Barbie movie, what one-word job do the Kens hold?

Beach: not lifeguard, not surfer, just beach; the Kens spend their days standing on the sand while the Barbies hold every real job in Barbieland.

Which organization did Mattel partner with for the Dreamhouse's 60th anniversary in 2022?

Habitat for Humanity: for the Dreamhouse's 60th anniversary in 2022, Mattel partnered with Habitat for Humanity and committed to 60 home-building and preservation projects.

As Barbie sales slumped, which rival overtook Mattel as the world's biggest toy company in 2014?

Lego: its girl-focused Lego Friends sets helped it pass Mattel in 2014, while Barbie sales fell by a fifth between 2012 and 2014.

Which group criticized Teen Talk Barbie's 'Math class is tough!' phrase?

American Association of University Women: the AAUW objected to the phrase in 1992, and Mattel dropped it that October and offered to swap dolls.

Which sister of Barbie, younger than Skipper, starred in her own Netflix film in 2024?

Stacie first appeared in 1990 as a flower girl called Kelly, was renamed two years later, and saw her old name reused for another doll; Barbie and Stacie to the Rescue followed in 2024.

Which country temporarily outlawed Barbie sales in September 2003?

Saudi Arabia: in September 2003 the kingdom's religious police outlawed Barbie sales, calling the doll a threat to morality.

Which doll was introduced in 2003 as an alternative to Barbie for Muslim-majority markets?

Fulla, made by NewBoy, reached Middle Eastern shops in 2003, following earlier hijab-wearing dolls such as Razanne, and went on to sell as far afield as China and Brazil.

Which Barbie book drew criticism in 2014 for leaving the coding to two boys?

I Can Be a Computer Engineer has Barbie say she only creates the design ideas and needs Steven and Brian to make the real game; Mattel apologized and pulled the book from Amazon.

Which 1967 doll is sometimes described, inaccurately, as the first African-American Barbie?

Colored Francie reused the head molds of the white Francie doll in a darker vinyl, so the title of first African American doll in the line usually goes to a friend introduced the following year.

Who designed Mattel's first African American doll sold under the Barbie name itself?

Kitty Black Perkins, hired by Mattel in 1976, designed Black Barbie; until then the line's Black dolls had been sold only as Barbie's friends.

Which 1985 Barbie does Mattel's own history call a CEO?

Day-to-Night Barbie was Mattel's nod to women moving into management in the 1980s: her pink office suit turned into an evening outfit, and the company says she showed girls 'they can have it all'.

Which cookie brand's Barbie tie-in drew criticism from the African American community?

Oreo is also a slur for a Black person seen as 'black on the outside and white on the inside', which is how critics read the name once the doll was sold in a Black version.

Which 1997 doll came in a pink wheelchair that would not fit the Dream House elevator?

Share a Smile Becky's flaw was spotted by a 17-year-old from Tacoma with cerebral palsy, who pointed out that the chair was too wide for the house's lift; Mattel said it would redesign the Dream House.

Mattel worked with a US charity on the Barbie released in April 2023, its first to represent which condition?

Down syndrome: the National Down Syndrome Society advised on the 2023 doll, and a second, Black doll with Down syndrome followed in 2024 alongside the first blind Barbie.

Which medical device came with the Type 1 diabetes Barbie released in July 2025?

An insulin pump: the July 2025 Type 1 diabetes Barbie, made with Breakthrough T1D, wears an insulin pump at her waist and a glucose monitor on her arm.

Which accessory comes with the autistic Barbie released in January 2026?

A fidget spinner: the Autistic Self Advocacy Network advised on the doll, whose eyes gaze slightly to one side because some autistic people avoid direct eye contact.

Which painter was among the Barbies unveiled for International Women's Day 2018?

Frida Kahlo joined Amelia Earhart and Katherine Johnson in a line Mattel launched after its survey found most mothers worried about the role models their daughters were exposed to.

Which tennis star got a Barbie role-model doll in July 2021?

Naomi Osaka: the four-time Grand Slam champion got a Barbie Role Model doll in July 2021, and it sold out within hours of release.

Standard Barbie dolls are made to approximately what scale?

1/6, also called playscale: every inch of doll stands for six inches of person, so collectors' dollhouses, usually built at 1/12, are too small for her.

Which 2023 soundtrack single by Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice samples Aqua's 'Barbie Girl'?

Barbie World loops the chorus of Aqua's 1997 hit and credits the band as performers and co-writers, although Mattel once spent years fighting that song in court.

Mattel lost its suit over 'Food Chain Barbie', photos showing the doll inside what?

A blender: Tom Forsythe posed nude Barbies in blenders, ovens and a fondue pot; an appeals court called the photos parody, and Mattel was ordered to cover his $1.8 million legal costs.

A US court ruled against Mattel over Aqua's 'Barbie Girl' and advised both sides to do what?

Chill: Judge Alex Kozinski ruled the song a parody protected as free speech, also dismissed the record label's defamation claim against Mattel, and ended with 'The parties are advised to chill.'

Which environmental group's 2011 parody pushed Mattel to adopt a paper sustainability policy?

Greenpeace: in June 2011 activists dressed as Ken scaled Mattel's headquarters to hang a banner, and four months later the company dropped its paper supplier and adopted a sustainable-sourcing policy.

Which pop star played Barbie's sister Skipper in a 2002 Saturday Night Live sketch?

Britney Spears was that night's host and musical guest: she played Barbie's kid sister in the sketch and sang 'I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman' on the same show.

Which doll parodies Barbie in a 1994 episode of The Simpsons?

Malibu Stacy's talking version says 'Don't ask me, I'm just a girl', so Lisa builds a rival doll, Lisa Lionheart.

Which company launched the Bratz dolls in 2001, giving Barbie serious competition?

MGA Entertainment launched Bratz in 2001, and by 2004 the big-headed dolls were outselling Barbie in the UK.

Which Bratz creator did Mattel claim was working for it when he conceived the dolls?

Carter Bryant: a 2008 jury agreed and awarded Mattel $100 million, but an appeals court threw the verdict out in 2010 and a second jury sided with Bratz's maker in 2011.

Which Indigo Girls song does Barbie sing at full voice in the 2023 film?

Closer to Fine, the duo's 1989 single, comes back several times in the film, and a cover by Brandi and Catherine Carlile was added to the deluxe edition of the soundtrack.

Which two actresses were attached to play Barbie while the film was at Sony?

Amy Schumer and Anne Hathaway were each lined up for the part at Sony: Schumer left in 2017 citing scheduling, then said in 2023 that the real reason was creative differences.

Barbieland was built at which English studio complex, also home to the Harry Potter studio tour?

Leavesden: Barbieland filled stages at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, outside London, where the sky and the mountains were painted backdrops instead of computer effects.

Which Universal film opened the same day as Barbie, spawning a double-feature meme?

Oppenheimer opened against Barbie on July 21, 2023; instead of a rivalry, fans made a double feature of the two, and their joint opening weekend was at the time the fourth-largest in US box-office history.

Who was Oscar-nominated for playing Gloria in Barbie?

America Ferrera's supporting-actress nod was one of the film's eight Oscar nominations, on a list that left out its lead actress for acting and its director for directing.

'Barbie' won which brand-new Golden Globe category in 2024?

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement was created for films that had grossed at least $150 million; Barbie went in with nine Globe nominations, the most of any film, and won only this and Best Original Song.

Which physical afflictions strike Barbie after her existential crisis in the film?

Bad breath, cellulite and flat feet arrive overnight, after she is struck by thoughts of death at a dance party; the cure, she is told, is to find the child playing with her in the real world.

Which teenager does Barbie first assume is the girl playing with her in the real world?

Sasha, played by Ariana Greenblatt, rejects Barbie at school; it turns out her mother Gloria is the one playing with the doll.

What name does Barbie use at the end of the film when she becomes human?

Barbara Handler is the name she gives at a gynecologist's office in the last scene: the surname of the doll's inventor, whose daughter Barbara gave Barbie her name.

Which discontinued toy dog, notorious for pooping, appears in the 2023 Barbie film?

Tanner has a wordless cameo in the film; in real life Mattel recalled his play set in 2007 because a magnet in its scooper could come loose.

Which 1993 blockbuster did the star of 2023's 'Barbie' invoke when pitching the film?

Jurassic Park: in the green-light meeting she argued that studios win by pairing a big idea with a visionary director, 'dinosaurs and Spielberg', and predicted a billion-dollar gross.

Which 1994 book about American teenage girls helped shape the story of 2023's Barbie?

Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher's study of what social pressure does to adolescent girls, gave the film its arc: a carefree Barbie who is suddenly made self-conscious.

Which Matchbox Twenty song does Ken adopt as his anthem after visiting the real world in the 2023 Barbie film?

Push becomes Ken's favourite song and a tongue-in-cheek anthem of male rule once the Kens take over Barbieland; a cover recorded for the film joined the deluxe soundtrack.

Who sang the Barbie film's Oscar-winning ballad?

Billie Eilish wrote 'What Was I Made For?' with her brother Finneas, the first song the pair finished after a long spell of writer's block; it won the film's only Oscar.

Which two producers scored 'Barbie'?

Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt also wrote 'I'm Just Ken', which began as a demo Ronson sent to the director without expecting it to end up in the film.

Which rental platform listed a real-life Barbie Dreamhouse as part of the 2023 film's marketing?

Airbnb's listing was one of many brand tie-ins in a campaign that rival studios put at $150 million, which would be more than the $145 million the film itself cost to make.

Which two names were combined to form 'Mattel'?

Matson and Elliot: 'Matt' was Harold Matson's nickname and 'El' came from Elliot Handler; ill health made Matson sell his share within about a year, but his half of the name stayed.

Which costume designer, nicknamed the 'Sultan of Sequins', has created a long series of collector Barbies?

Bob Mackie, who made stage outfits for Cher, Tina Turner and Elton John, brought the same sequins and beads to collector Barbies and gave them features and costumes drawn from many cultures.

Mattel's first dollhouse furniture was made from the leftover wood of which product it already sold?

Picture frames came first: Elliot Handler designed dollhouse furniture from the leftover slats, and within two years of its founding the company had its first hit toy.

Ruth Handler was the youngest of ten children of immigrants from which country?

Poland: her father, a blacksmith, landed at Ellis Island in 1907 and was sent on to Denver, where Ruth was born in 1916 and raised from infancy by an older sister.

What material was the fuzzy, glued-on hair of the first Ken doll made of?

Felt: collectors call that first doll the 'flocked hair' Ken, and Mattel switched to a molded hairstyle after finding that the felt came off when it got wet.

Which 1977 Ken introduced a dimpled smile, bent arms and a swivel head?

Superstar Ken (1977) introduced a dimpled smile, permanently bent arms and a swivel head; from 1961 until then Ken's arms had not bent.

Which doll was the first African American male in the Barbie line?

Brad arrived as a talking doll with a face sculpt made new for him, about a decade into the line; Curtis reused that sculpt in 1975, and Steven did not follow until the late 1980s.

In 1993 the Barbie Liberation Organization swapped Teen Talk Barbie's voice box with which action figure's?

G.I. Joe: the group said it had swapped the voice boxes in a few hundred dolls and put them back on store shelves, so Barbies barked 'Vengeance is mine!' while the soldiers spoke Barbie's lines.

Which desert resort city's mid-century houses inspired the Dreamhouses of the 2023 Barbie film?

Palm Springs: the designers borrowed from its mid-century modern houses, then left out walls and doors, because a Dreamhouse, as the director put it, has no place to hide.

Which 1975 Skipper doll was criticized for its arm-twist gimmick?

Growing Up Skipper grew about an inch taller and developed small breasts when her arm was rotated, a puberty-on-demand trick that set off a row in the newspapers.

What color streak did Skipper's 2009 redesign add to her hair?

Purple: the 2009 relaunch gave Skipper a purple streak in her brown hair, a look Dreamhouse Adventures kept for its tech-savvy 14-year-old Skipper.

Which Aqua album included 'Barbie Girl'?

Aquarium (1997): the album's liner notes carried a footnote that 'Barbie Girl' was a social comment not created or approved by the doll's makers.

Which singer performed the track 'Pink' on the 2023 Barbie soundtrack?

Lizzo: in the studio she began narrating what was happening on screen, and that became the lyric; the film also uses an alternate version called 'Pink (Bad Day)'.

What was the first Barbie Dreamhouse of 1962 made of?

Cardboard: the 1962 Dreamhouse was a fold-out single room with a TV and a record player but no kitchen, sold at a time when it was rare for a woman to own a home of her own.

Which 1992 doll is the best-selling one in Mattel's history?

Totally Hair: the 1992 Totally Hair Barbie, with floor-length crimped hair, sold more than ten million units and earned about $100 million that year.

Which prankster group did a leader of the Barbie Liberation Organization go on to co-found?

The Yes Men: Igor Vamos, who led the doll swaps, started the group with Jacques Servin, and the pair became known for hoaxes in which they impersonate the companies and officials they are attacking.

In a 2023 hoax video, the Barbie Liberation Organization claimed Mattel would stop using what by 2030?

Plastic: the video had actress Daryl Hannah pose as a Mattel spokesperson unveiling compostable dolls, timed to ride the publicity around the Barbie film.

Where do Barbie and Ken first arrive in the real world in the 2023 film?

Venice Beach is where the pair roll in on skates in neon outfits, and within minutes Barbie has punched a man for groping her and been arrested.

Barbie's 'What Was I Made For?' was the first film song to win Grammy Song of the Year since which track?

My Heart Will Go On won in 1999, and 25 years passed before the Barbie ballad repeated the feat; even 'Shallow', a nominee in 2019, went home without the award.

Which Guns N' Roses guitarist played on 'I'm Just Ken'?

Slash was sent the track once the vocal was recorded, thought it was cool and agreed to add guitar; Wolfgang Van Halen and Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese also played on it.

Which actress voiced Barbie in most animated Barbie films from 2001 to 2015?

Kelly Sheridan voiced Barbie from the first CGI film until Diana Kaarina took over in 2010, then returned in 2012 and stayed until 2015.

What was Mattel's first successful toy, in 1947?

A ukulele called Uke-A-Doodle was a child-sized instrument and the company's first big hit, and a run of other musical toys followed it.

Which 2012 web series showed Barbie, Ken and friends in mockumentary style in Malibu?

Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse ran from 2012 to 2015 as a self-aware mockumentary web series, with characters speaking to camera about life in Malibu.