Why Do We Pick on Barbie Games?

What is it about the beautiful blond doll that makes us want to pick on her so badly. Like most girls, I loved Barbie when I was younger – much younger – but now that I’m older, I can’t faithfully declare my allegiance to my Barbies without having to hear horror stories of the things people have done to the dedicated little doll. Barbies are a classic toy, even if yours are all new, and the classic beauty of Barbie is obviously to blame.

Barbie is easy to love or hate. She’s beautiful. She’s classy. She’s well dressed. She’s plastic. And we abuse this poor plastic doll unmercifully. If you’re like me the first thing you did to your Barbie games were to cut their hair. It starts innocently enough with trying to create an actual hairstyle for Barbie, but then it dissolves into humor and Barbie ends up with a shaved head. Then, my Barbies started to sport tattoos and clothing that were a bit skimpy for her usual wardrobe. Skimpy clothes or not, however, I’m just proud I can say I never blew up any of my Barbies.

Barbie Games and Me

I’ve always loved Barbie games. The small dolls with their adorable fashions and accessories have always appealed to me. I know I’m not the only one who loves the Barbie games, but among my friends I’m easily the most obsessed. It’s nice in a way though to have a hobby that’s not especially expensive and doesn’t create much of a stir. I collect Barbies and entertain myself making Barbie clothing for me and for friends, or children of friends, or for those who like to buy such things online.

It’s a fun hobby to have since it’s so nicely simplistic and yet fashionable. Barbie has changed so much over time it’s a joy to look at my collection and watch her grow and change. It makes you wonder what it might have been like to play with Barbies in the fifties or the sixties. The Barbie doll looks so dramatically different you just know it had to be a world away from what we know and enjoy now. As far as I’m concerned, I’m not convinced it wasn’t better back then.

Barbie Games and Little Girls

There is something about the Barbie games out there that always seem to bring out the child in me. I fee like a little girl again when I play the Barbie games either online or off. For example, my young cousin was over just the other day and brought along a giant box of Barbies and accessories. I sat down to play Barbies with her and looked up to find that hours had gone by while I dressed the dolls and did their hair. I made Barbie pretty and, much to my cousin’s delight, got her ready for a big date with Ken.

She had Ken drive up in the Barbie car and they rode off together into the sunset. Things were so simple playing Barbie. It didn’t matter that I wasn’t “supposed” to be crawling on the floor pushing the Barbie car around. It didn’t matter a bit that I spent thirty minutes fixing Barbie’s hair for a big date. It reminded me of how I would spend my time when I was much younger and life was carefree and easy. Not, of course, that I have a hard life now, but there’s something to be said for flashing back to the good ol’ days when you can.

The Newest Barbie Games

Barbie has spent a lot of time updating its line of Barbie games to introduce new games that resonate with kids today. These games are a bit different than the ones just a decade ago. Bratz forced Barbie to reconsider her look and her image and now Barbie is much more fashionable both in clothing and in the minds of girls than she was just a couple of years ago.

Barbie’s new line of clothing and accessories is more in line with what we’d expect from the leading fashion princess in the doll world. The Barbies have cooler jobs. They have cooler cars. They also have really cool houses. The pink and black boxes of Barbies include housing accessories and furniture for the Barbie dream house that are really pretty awesome. I might not be doing much with Barbies these days personally, but even I was tempted to check out the new rooms I saw while shopping the pink aisle a few days ago. The Barbie games are on a role – getting better and better. I, for one, am glad to hear it.
 

Barbie Games Going Up

Recent news has shown that Barbie has seen an upswing. Barbie games are more popular now than they have been in the last two years and Mattel couldn’t be happier. The Barbie games have struggled in the last ten years as society changed and fierce competition moved in. The Bratz games took sizable portions of the market away from Barbie, but she rebounded in a fierce way by suing for ownership rights of the Bratz games and winning.

So legally, Barbie has been helped along in her popularity by eliminating the competition to a degree, but that’s not all. Barbie has had a dramatic makeover of late and has reached a new place in the hearts of girls. They want her $200 three-story dream house. They are dying for her $80 camper. They want the new and improved fashionista Barbie dolls to grace the interior of those campers and houses. Barbie has been redone to reflect what girls today are looking for in a fashion doll. The more they approve, the more Barbie games will keep moving off the shelves.