cardboard The first Dreamhouse was made of cardboard and had one room. It had a television set, a record player, and no kitchen. By 1974, the Barbie Dreamhouse was a townhouse with three stories and six rooms. In 1979, as cities shrunk, the house was a suburban-seeming A-frame with two stories and six rooms.

More than 3 feet tall and 4 feet wide, the Barbie® Dreamhouse™ has so many amazing features -- three stories, eight rooms that include a carport (car not included) and a home office, a working elevator that fits four dolls or a Barbie® doll in a wheelchair, a pool that has a slide descending from the story above, five ...

Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse is an American web series of CGI-animated shorts produced by Arc Productions and Mattel. The series was released on YouTube and the official Barbie website from May 11, 2012 to November 27, 2015.

More than 3 feet tall and 4 feet wide, the Barbie Dreamhouse has so many amazing features -three stories, eight rooms that include a carport (car not included) and a home office, a working elevator that fits four dolls, a pool that has a slide descending from the story above, five pieces of transforming furniture, ...

Barbie (and all of her plastic “friends” and accessories) are made with at least five types of fossil fuel-based plastics: polyvinyl chloride (PVC), ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), and hard vinyl - plus additive chemicals.

Mattel shut down its last U.S. factory - in Murray, Ky. - in 2001. Barbie, Hot Wheels and other Mattel toys are now made in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico and Thailand. It's a familiar narrative.

In the early 1950s, Handler had the rather revolutionary idea that playing with dolls modeled on grown-up women would help girls imagine what they might be when they grew up. Handler drew inspiration from her daughter Barbara, who would play dress-up with paper dolls.

Margot Robbie, also an executive producer, leads the musical comedy as Stereotypical Barbie, who experiences a full on existential crisis and embarks on a journey of self discovery. Along for the ride is her beau Ken, played by Ryan Gosling.

Barbie is a fashion doll created by American businesswoman Ruth Handler, manufactured by American toy company Mattel and launched in 1959. The toy is the figurehead of the Barbie brand that includes a range of fashion dolls and accessories.

The house used for the show, Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge, is located in Santa Clarita in Southern California. This picturesque suburb of Los Angeles is one of the most expensive places to live in the country, so of course it has stunning views and everything you could possibly need.

Barbie: 10 Best Dreamhouse Sets

1. 1 1962 Barbie Dreamhouse. via Mattel, Inc.
2. 2 1979 A-Frame Barbie Dreamhouse.
3. 3 2020 Barbie Dreamhouse With Accessible Elevator.
4. 4 1974 Barbie Townhouse.
5. 5 2000 Barbie Victorian Dreamhouse.
6. 6 1990 Barbie Magical Mansion.
7. 7 2023 Barbie Pool Party House.
8. 8 1998 Barbie Deluxe Dreamhouse.

Barbie was a role-playing doll, a way for girls to act out their possible selves (astronaut, doctor, president) in a way they couldn't with a baby doll, which limited them to the role of caregiver.

Recognizing a gap in the market, which only offered baby dolls for girls to imagine themselves as caregivers, Ruth invented the fashion doll category with a three-dimensional doll that girls could use to imagine their future selves.

They're made out of a polyethylene plastic similar to the material that's used to make plastic carrier bags. This type of plastic is cheap flexible. And fire retardant.

The film will centre on a doll living in Barbie Land, who's forced into exile due to her so-called imperfections – setting off on an adventure in the real world and discovering along the way that perfection can only truly be found within.

And so you probably already know the basic plot: Barbie (Margot Robbie), the most popular of all the Barbies in Barbieland, begins experiencing an existential crisis. She must travel to the human world in order to understand herself and discover her true purpose.