Barbie News

A dance-off at Chessington World of Adventures gave girls the chance to show off their moves to Barbie at the weekend.

Having fended off Hollywood's lascivious advances for five full decades, Barbie has finally collapsed onto its couch with her legs spread, exhausted from years of being chased around a desk by horny, pantsless studio-executive suitors promising to make her a big movie star.

Like a lot of women, I have a love-hate relationship with Barbie. In her current incarnation, she is a stripper image of femininity that, in addition to being a bad role model for girls, is just, well, tasteless.

Mattel recently released a new line of black Barbie dolls - they have wider noses and fuller lips, but their hair is smooth and silky, and little girls can keep it that way with a hair straightening kit.

It's not hard to see how the director of Forrest Gump would be thought a good fit to adapt the dearly beloved Dickens tale that has survived nearly two centuries of retelling if you count the Flintstone, Muppet, and Barbie versions.

Carrie Underwood's path to superstardom has been cut down the middle with savvy, razor-sharp precision.

Before you know it, we'll be heading into the holiday shopping season, which traditionally begins the day after Thanksgiving, dubbed Black Friday.

From licensed toys to active-play items, Walmart announced 100 additional toy Rollbacks in its intent to help families save more this holiday season.

As expected, vampires like dream houses too. Mattel has begun selling Barbie Dolls inspired by the "Twilight" movie franchise.

As the mom of a biracial daughter -- who has very curly hair -- I've been searching for a doll that looks like her for almost a decade.

An actress from China's Taiwan province poses with her design of Barbie doll at the Awarding Ceremony of the Selection Match of "Barbie Design" held in Shanghai, China, Oct.

Will there be a Gold Digging Barbie to go along with Mattel's new Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken? Probably not.

Barbie Through the Years Barbie's latest attention-drawing doll is one some call "Sugar Daddy Ken." Barbie Through the Years Sugar's Daddy Ken -- known to some as "Sugar Daddy Ken" -- is part of a line of Palm Beach dolls by Mattel's Barbie.

We aren't sure what to think of this unusual Ken doll from Mattel. Sugar Daddy Ken is described as wearing a "dashing jacquard-patterned jacket with a light pink polo shirt and crisp white pants." The product description says Ken "is ready for Palm Beach social season, sunning by the pool and a stroll with his little companion." Little is too large ...

Mattel will be releasing a "Ladies of the '80s" doll collection this December. Cyndi Lauper, Joan Jett and Deborah Harry of Blondie will all get the Barbie treatment.

The concept of Barbie and Ken dolls is purely an American invention. Only in America do our toys reflect what most people think they want to look like.

Deidre Scott compared her new home to one you would find in a toy store. "It's like one of those Barbie doll houses and you can stick little people in there," she said.

These new Barbie iPod docks are great if you live in an oversized Malibu dreamhouse, have never grown up and are female.

BROOKLYN a ' Now a Brooklyn man says he should have the copyright to the infamous Bratz dolls that have been the subject of a multimillion dollar legal battle between Mattel and MGA.

With the words, "Think pink!" sang by Kay Thompson in the video introduction, the David Dixon Barbie Collection commenced at the 2009 LG Fashion Week, showcasing a flurry of vibrantly pink ensembles, accented with bolts of black and ivory.