Barbie News

Two teenage girls took the concept of getting all dolled up for the school prom to an extreme - dressing as life-size Barbie dolls and being wheeled in still sealed in their boxes.

Less than an hour after a sonogram revealed I had a baby girl on the way, I found myself hyperventilating in a Toys R Us aisle.

For almost 20 years, the youth-services manager for the Terrebonne Parish Library System has collected more than 150 Barbie dolls a ' a majority of which are in mint condition and original packaging.

SHE'S stylish and on-trend, but certainly no fashion tragic. Meet Melbourne Barbie, designed especially for The Sunday Age by the plastic diva's very own fashion designer, Robert Best.

The stars of teen vampire drama Twilight are to be immortalized with their own Barbie dolls.

Any rumors of friction between Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck -- who is increasingly seen as a younger, weepier contender to Bill-O's cable-news crown -- were put to bed when Beck appeared on O'Reilly's show to discuss ACORN.

Of all the places for a dinner date in Shanghai, grown-ups are now choosing a pink doll shop that they enter after riding an escalator through a narrow pink tunnel.

Australian News.Net Thursday 25th June, 2009 Melbourne, Jun 25 : Aussie actress Cate Blanchett has been deemed as a better choice to have a Barbie doll fashioned on than actress Nicole Kidman.

Can the dolls possibly be as pretty as their human counterparts? Mattel has recently announced new coming attractions to its lineup of Barbie dolls: one in the likeness of supermodel Heidi Klum, and doll versions of the hero and heroine from "Twilight," Robert Pattinson's Edward Cullen and Kristen Bell's Bella Swan.

Heidi Klum may never consider plastic surgery , but she's clearly not opposed to plastic altogether.

Twilight has finally been introduced to Barbie. It was only a matter of time before Stephenie Meyer's characters became toys for 6-year-olds, and soon you'll be able to get your very own Edward and Bella Barbies.

Six collectible Barbie dolls were alleged to have been taken from a residence in the 200 block of Mountainview Drive sometime in the last two months.

BARBIE has never looked more transparent... or more human. This hi-tech CT scan of the doll reveals a surprisingly detailed skeleton.

If you love Barbie , you can have a real-world experience where you can live just like her.

Former advocate Cezanne Visser was "uncompromisingly obedient" to her parents and later to her lover Dirk Prinsloo, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Wednesday.

Megan Fox has revealed she used to decapitate her Barbies as a child. The 23-year-old actress - who stars in Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen with Shia LaBeouf - revealed while she played with girlie toys when she was younger, she wasn't so sweet and nice to them.

Cora Taylor holds up a brown Barbie doll outfitted in one of her creations: a long dress and headdress in brightly printed African fabric.

Ever since Barbie was introduced on March 9, 1959 by Mattel, ita s being perceived as a ideal symbol of femininity, but French designer Chloe Ruchon plans to make it a hit with the opposite sex with his innovative football table concept called a oebarbiefoot,a traditionally called 'babyfoot' in France.

The Joliet Area Historical Museum celebrated Barbie's 50-year reign as the world's most popular fashion doll on March 29 with Fifty Fabulous Years of Barbie, an enormously popular event.

Boca Raton: Barbie, Museum of Lifestyle and Fashon History, March 2009 marked the 50th birthday of the world famous Barbie Doll.