I think Barbies will live on with Twinkies and roaches after civilization is destroyed. I mean how can Barbie be destroyed? She’s reigned as the queen of all fashion toys – arguably all toys – for half a decade and she’s not showing any signs of weakness moving into the next decade. Barbie is a tough cookie and she’s ready to take whatever the world can throw at her. Her improved plastic body and ready smile can certainly take her places and that just might be her saving grace.
How many time capsules can you even presume that Barbie is part of? She’s likely buried in the earth countless times as part of a child, class or community’s time capsule and someday when we’re gone and those few survivors are looking for tokens of the past, they will have a large supply of Twinkies, some roaches to share them with and of course more than a few Barbie dolls to play with. I will say this – after leaving one of my Barbies in a box in the attic for years in the hot summers, I’ll be willing to bet that the Barbie games that live on for decades will be missing their hair, but who needs hair in a few centuries?
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