Oh damn it. She has these like over the need dominatrix boots and I lost one somehow in the car. Who is that and what is that?

This is blazing fire guardian goddess part of a test line the material least in the late 70s

The guardian goddesses were not technically, you know part of the Barbie line, but they were using Barbie bodies. I brought a couple of them

You've seen this where okay, let's activate her mechanism. You squeeze her thighs together until they click and then to release it

You spread her legs

She throws off her clothes

I so demonic I don't know what they were like. I really love the love this thing

I mean, I think it's kind of cool. No, and I do I you know, there is something kind of entrancing about the mechanical dolls

In the late 70s, Mattel added a lot of dolls to their line that had

Mechanical functions. They were designed by male designers who thought that girls like boys preferred action figures

I I kind of love them and I love all the accoutrements to go with them

Then there's kissing Barbie from 1978

Kissing Barbie scares me

You press a button on her back and her neck lurches forward and pushes her pocket lips and face at you

I mean, she's like an elderly female relative Thanksgiving just suffocating you

In 1980 there was Western Barbie who had a pointless bit of movement

Oh my god actually I watched this clip earlier and it kills me. Have you seen it? Not recently. Oh my god, okay

Here's new Western Barbie when you press her back she winks. I really love the wink. I think it's kind of fun

That's former marketing executive Judy Shackleford

She in a group of women executives who are trailblazers

Entered Mattel about that time to put a stop to this

Mechanical madness and get Barbie back onto her tiptoed feet

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