Barbie Doll - Ken Signature Looks Doll (Long Brown Hair) - Articulated Fashion Doll with Black Tank Top and Metallic Trousers - Children's Toy, Age 3 and Above HCB79

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And the same day it announced the dramatic split, Mattel also revealed that it would be producing a line of Cali Girl Barbies, surfer girls who were, notably, single. (Mattel also announced a new love interest for the newly solo Barbie – Blaine, a boogie boarder with chunky blonde highlights.) Ken had officially been friend-zoned. Ken Cool Career Fashions Coach (#866, 1992) details and value". BarbieDB.com . Retrieved 28 July 2022. Ken Cool Career Fashions Football Star (#866, 1992) details and value". BarbieDB.com . Retrieved 28 July 2022. Malach, Hannah (23 June 2023). "Remembering Barbie's 'Sugar Daddy Ken': The Doll for Adults Who Loved Palm Beach Fashion". Women's Wear Daily . Retrieved 10 July 2023. Barbie So Much To Do Bank Playset (#67401, 1995) details and value". BarbieDB.com . Retrieved 2 August 2022.

In 2011, Mattel introduced Japan Ken, the first Ken doll to be included in the "Dolls of the World" collection, which was formerly a Barbie-only line. The Japan Ken doll features a new face sculpt. [10] I Can Be Doctors Barbie and Ken Set (#W1379, 2010) details and value". BarbieDB.com . Retrieved 28 July 2022. ABC News | Business | 'Sugar Daddy Ken' Doll Raises Eyebrows". ABC News. 30 October 2009 . Retrieved 16 August 2010. Kenneth Sean " Ken" Carson is a fashion doll introduced by American toy company Mattel in 1961 as the counterpart of Barbie, who had been introduced two years earlier.Ken Doll Vintage Mod Clothes Identified 1969-1976". www.dollreference.com . Retrieved 29 July 2022. Barbie™ in Princess Power Reporter Ken Doll". Mattel Global Consumer Support . Retrieved 28 July 2022. Clips from the film appear to support Gosling’s stance, showing his Ken shedding real tears in a faux mink over Barbie’s disinterest before breaking out in song: “I’m just Ken — anywhere else I’d be a 10,” he sings to no one. Barbie I Can Be Dance Superstar Giftset (#V9308, 2011) details and value". BarbieDB.com . Retrieved 28 July 2022. Dijker, Anton J.M. (1 March 2008). "Why Barbie feels heavier than Ken: The influence of size-based expectancies and social cues on the illusory perception of weight". Cognition. 106 (3): 1109–1125. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.05.009. ISSN 0010-0277. PMID 17599820. S2CID 26233026.

Dr. Ken & Little Patient Tommy (#18898, 1998) details and value". BarbieDB.com . Retrieved 28 July 2022. Barbie Spy Squad Ken Doll (#DHF19, 2015) details and value". BarbieDB.com . Retrieved 28 July 2022. Nobody plays with Ken, man,” Gosling told host Jimmy Fallon. “He’s an accessory, and not even one of the cool ones.” The Barbie & Ken booklet which came with the ‘brownette’ version is not dated on the cover, but is otherwise practically identical to the regular one, with just slight differences to the printing and colouring. Both show the same generic illustration of Ken and have no mention of hair colour. It is missing part of Ken’s description, which (as it ends half way through a sentence) is presumably a printing error. Either that, or it was because some ‘brownettes’ really didn’t come with a towel (as alluded to in the Spiegel catalogue below). 1961 Barbie & Ken booklet (regular) From 1961 Barbie & Ken booklet (‘brownette’) Ken and Barbie met in 1961 while filming their first commercial together, according to Mattel. It was love at first sight and the two, who both hail from the (fictional) town of Willows, Wisconsin, started going steady. But, in the 2000s, things got a little more complicated for the couple.Delve into the history of Barbie’s male counterpart, from his origins as Kenneth Carson to his tumultuous breakup with Barbie in the mid-2000s to his rebirth, via Ryan Gosling, on the big screen. painted hair in blonde or brunette, same body as earlier doll wearing solid red trunks either cotton or stretch jersey material, a

For the first couple of years Ken was occasionally pictured with bendy arms, an artistic licence which sadly didn’t do him any favours. From 1961 Montgomery Ward Christmas catalogue It was love at first sight. “Somehow (Barbie) knew she and Ken would be going together,” said the narrator in the original 1961 ad that brought them together. They’d go on to attend fraternity parties (Barbie was a university student), picnics and, of course, countless beach trips. The omniscient narrator even teased a wedding between the two. Totally Hair Ken: It looks how it sounds — this ’90s Ken came with a long, unkempt mane, real hair gel and a small comb his owners could use to style him however they wanted. (His matching Barbie came with a much more successful crimped hairdo.) Of course he wore something absurd, opting for puffy purple pants and a colorful button-down with a popped collar.

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Ken® doll has a broad body shape and brown hair styled in a bun. His grey tee and aqua blue shorts sport an all-over paisley print for a fun mismatched look! Barbie TV GAME SHOW Playset (#7766, 1987) details and value". BarbieDB.com . Retrieved 2 August 2022. Barbie and Ken had been together for over 40 years, after all — they’d remained in love even as they moved in and out of dream houses, drove dozens of convertibles and changed careers countless times. But Barbie sales were in decline by 2004 — this was when Bratz, the pouty-lipped, sexily dressed dolls, reigned supreme — and this seemed to take its toll on the relationship between Mattel’s central couple.