The Barbie Tapes: When Girls--and Barbie--Could Do Anything

California Love

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Ruth and Elliot Handler are gone, and the new Mattel team, led by a man who feared the volatility of the toy business, diversified the company and made a big gamble on electronics. It didn’t work. Fortunately, Barbie ends up in the sure hands of some trailblazing women executives, who could see that the culture was moving in a direction very compatible with Barbie’s persona. From the workforce to the workout, Barbie was a doll of her times.

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0:45.6	Oh, damn it.
0:49.2	She has these like over-the-kneed dominatrix boots,
0:51.7	and I lost one somehow in the car.
0:52.8	Who is that?
0:53.6	And what is that?
0:54.2	This is Blazing Fire Guardian Goddess, part of a test line that Mattel released in the late 70s.
1:01.8	The Guardian Goddesses were not technically, you know, part of the Barbie line, but they were using Barbie bodies.
1:08.1	I brought a couple of them.
1:10.1	You've seen this where to activate her mechanism, you squeeze her thighs together
1:15.3	until they click.
1:16.5	And then to release it, you spread her legs.
1:22.5	She throws off her clothes.
1:26.5	It's so demonic.
1:27.9	I don't know what they were like.
1:30.3	I really love this thing.
1:32.5	I mean, I think it's kind of cool.
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