Mattel, Seriously, WTF?

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Ok so I have a Niece who is just about to hit Doll stage and I want to get her first one for he, normally I go for the odd ones, not barbie but some of the other ones in the set, well I want to get her a Skipper doll, namley because Skipper is cooler than Barbie* well guess what, Mattel doesn’t make Skipper anymore.

  • ok, Barbie is named for her "creator"s daughter Barbra, and Ken for her son, therefore they cannot be a couple, and Mattel actually had them officially break up a few years ago, now as we know since 59 Barbie has held a pile of Barbie's careers - Wikipedia’ off hand I can think of Astronaut, stewardess, pilot, mcdonalds cashier, different branches of the military, and originally when she was still a teen she was just a fashion model. Now Barbie has also owned a lot of stuff too, 57 chevy’s, a van, several corvettes, ferarris, Dream houses, now you tell me, where does she get the cash for this???

Simple, Barbie Roberts is married to a young man named GI Joe, and as we all Know Joe has been in the military aparently since he got out of Highschool, we know he served in Nam, and anyone who says otherwise is a lying bastard.
Barbie has since they married probably shortly after graduation (It was the pre hippie 60s) Ken joined the military and in probably 61 or 62 (it started in 59)
and shipped out, and Barbie lived on his paycheck spending it on whatever frivolous little thing she wanted.

sure Nam ended in 75 and came home, aparently but if you recall after Nam he went out on all these adventures from 70 to 76, when he was finally phased out.
where he went we dont know, but in the late 90’s he came back.

George and Margret Roberts had a daughter Barbie, and a daughter Skipper, what about Kelly? you ask. Simple, she is Barbies Daughter. concieved either with Joe or some liason on the side but Not with Ken, Why do I say this, Ken is named for the Real Barbie’s Brother therefore it is just wrong that they be a couple. Ken is Barbies Gay Hairdresser.

But I digress from the Rant, and ask, Mattel, why did you kill Skipper?

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Wikipedia states : “Mattel has created a range of companions for Barbie, including Hispanic Teresa, Midge, African American Christie and Steven (Christie’s boyfriend). Barbie’s siblings and cousins were also created including Skipper, Tutti (Todd’s twin sister), Todd (Tutti’s and Stacie’s twin brother), Stacie (Todd’s twin sister), Kelly, Krissy, Francie, and Jazzie.”

Who’d have thought it?

Just realised I did have a yoyo Skipper doll. Perhaps it was competition from the other siblings?

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Todd? Really? I only thought there was Ken and Barbie, to be honest.

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Yeah when I a kid one of my friends only had skipper because her mom was a tubby b*tch and was jealous of Barbie, so when we played I had full size GI Joe and she had skipper and they tended to kill enemy soldiers, she even borrowed one of Joes combat fatigues and studied them and made her skipper a set of fatigues that looked damn near identical only smaller.

The Yo Yo skipper is actually a nice collectors item.

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Cool. I think shes one of the dolls that avoided my scissors and felt pens when I was in a hairdresser-ie mood.

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I didn’t even own a GI Joe. I just had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures along with a few others.