[QueenAngie]

Can you believe it?

Barbie turns 50 tomorrow!

She is still just as pretty and perky as when I was a young girl.

Go, Barbie!

[browneyes01]

She was ll over the news yesterday, i didn't even know that she had kicked Ken to the curb in 2004, did you.

[ProudMommy77]

I had heard something to that effect. What was issue? No communication? :P

[deedee1231]

I saw an ad in the Target circular that they would have "classic" Barbie on sale for the original price of $3. I went to get a few, and I was really disappointed because it was really just 2009 Barbie dressed in a classic black and white bathing suit with a ponytail. Did anyone else think they should have made her look like the original?

[mcmama]

Well, I didn't get to look for this at all yesterday. Don't know how feasible it would be to make a doll that actually has the heavy feel of the 1959 version. But I hope she had those stiff straight legs!!!! And the hair only rooted in the perimeter of the scalp, so that if you undid the ponytail, Barbie was bald!

This was an unknown item back then - so Mattel did not commit their best doll making resources to the actual production of the doll until it became such a wild success. Their first attempt at rooted hair was the bubble cut - and while some of us like that, what we girls really wanted was rooted hair as long as the ponytail so we could do Barbies hair ourselves!!! Back then, toy manufacturers really did not know how little girls played with fashion dolls.

Sure wish they would re issue some of those gorgeous outfits from that time - at yesterdays prices!

[poliscmjr]

Happy Birthday Barbie!! She does look fabulous at 50!