Well, it’s about time…love the doll.

Cute! I don’t like those MS-13 brows…but cute…

I bet they have a fat azz too!!! LOL

WELL THATS BECAUSE THE BRATZ DOLLS WAS TAKIN ALL OF BARBIES FANBASE THE BRATZ DOLLS WAS THE FIRST DOLL TO HAVE THE FULL LIPS AND LONG EYELASHES ASK EVERY LITTLE GIRL WITH DOLL THEY LIKE MORE THEY’LL MORE THEN LIKELY SAY THE BRATZ DOLLS ARE BETTER

@ RE:Cute! I don’t like those MS-13 brows…but cute

LOL LOL LOL i fell out!

i like the dolls but too late. looks just like a bratz doll

BRATZ DOLLS CAME OUT WITH THE FULLER LIPS AND EYELASHES AND MORE STYLISH CLOTHES AND ENDED UP GIVIN BARBIE SOME MAJOR COMPETITION…SO BARBIE HAD TO STEP THEIR GAME UP

much pettier than the white Barbie, lol. heck I identify more with this barbie than the blond one…and I’m not black, or Latin. Way to go Mattel.

RE YOU SAID “MS-13 EYEBROWS”

**DEAD**

O enneh. Rocawear has Barbie’s

Good, it is about daxn time.

Mattel is trying to stay recession-free as well.

DID YALL NOTICE THEY GAVE THE BARBIES BLACK NAMES AS WELL TRICHELLE,JANESSA AND KIANNA

The first Black Barbie came out in 1980 but she basically looked like a White one dipped in chocolate. I guess they’re going into detail by make some of them light-skinned, giving her fuller lips and a broader nose. It’d be funny if they really did give her a bigger ass. But I’m just glad they’re making Barbies that our girls can identify with more.

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Sep 29, 2009 – 3:10 pm
CaptainRoastAHoe

DID YALL NOTICE THEY GAVE THE BARBIES BLACK NAMES AS WELL TRICHELLE,JANESSA AND KIANNA

That’s better than Keisha

Wow, I forgot about those Bratz dolls. They had much larger heads though.

I collect the Byron Lars Designer Barbie Dolls. They are very beautiful! He’s a designer that made the clothes and styles for these REALLY UNIQUE Black Barbies Dolls. The used to sell thems on Barbie . com but they are hard to get now. Google them!

Damn they perfected that doll, they even got the synthetic weave right!

All 3 could use a fashion tip.

@6am

lol. What up?

great mattel only how many decades later…?

BARBIE STRUGGLED FOR A LONG TIME TO PRODUCE A LIGHT SKIN BLACK BARBIE I REMEMBER THEY MADE DESTINY’S CHILD BARBIE DOLLS BUT BEYONCE LOOKED LIKE A STRAIGHT UP WHITE BARBIE DOLL WITH NO BLACK FEATURES

I like it

I bet the little ones are suppose to be their kids instead of little sisters! LMAO!

@Infinit45 (Kanye was out of pocket)

Calm down… if you click on the link you’ll read the child is introduced as their “KID SISTERS” not daughters. LMAO.

I LOVE THE NEW DOLLS!!!! YOU KNOW THEY’LL BE EXPENSIVE.

They have kid sisters (just like the white ones) but you know that’s not what a lot of people’ll be thinking when you see them on the shelves. They’ll have to write it in BIG letters.

highly adorable. I would buy for any girl.

@Simone
If you say so! I read it but just wait, parent will be complaining that they have kids.

They look like they have attitudes. Why couldn’t the doll eyes look directly ahead oppose to looking to the side?

about damn time!

funny, they do look like they have attitudes! what’s that all about?!

WHAT A UGLY DOLL
IT LOOK MORE WHITE THANK BLACK
MAYBE SPANISH , BUT FAR FROM BLACK

Finally…Great!…even better if they had brown colored eyes, like most black females…I’ll even settle for light brown, or hazel…LMAO, at being able to “juice” up the hair…

I think Im gonna name mine “She’Nikwah” yea thats cute!

It kinda looks like Tyra

haha..it sure do, those lips OMG, they went there.

WOW! It so easy for the white amn to collect the black man’s money.

I just have a question. DID BLACK PEOPLE JUST GET HERE OR SOMETHING?

How many years did we not have a black barbie and nobody cared……….I’m waiting…..

Did Mattel care to elaborate on what took them so long, is is that topic not up for discussion?

Oh! O.K Now that we have a Black President, now they can see us and feel the need to cater to our market. As far as I’m concerned they are a few decades to late. They can keep doing what they been doing. (Pretending we doen’t exist)

I’ll keep supporting the Black Owned doll makers that thought I was revelant well before 2009.

They wonder why we don’t have money in our communities. It’s because we are too busy giving it away everytime we become the target market for their latest so called bright idea.

NO THANKS!

So when does the Maxwell-looking Ken come out?

I remember when the first Black Barbie came out and her name was Christie. She didn’t look like these dolls and was basically Barbie’s sidekick.

Mattel and Disney finally realize that black people spend just as much (if not more) on their kids as other races….Now they want to see us as viable consumers and come out with these dolls…Im not impressed and Mattel will not be getting my hard earned duckets this Christmas…

..thats not black sorry.

^^^^A lot.

im not impressed with thesedolls at least christie and theresa were beautiful reps for the blacks slash/ latinas and whatever the chichks names in between were that were on the shevles when i was younger. these girls just look stank. no real women looks like that with those collegen looking lips blue eyes is a rare trait in blacks and the hair is a mess

FAIL…they could have come out with something better than this!

Black Women come in every Exotic skin tone there is we are the only women in the world with the Dominant Gene we can create every skin tone in the world.

That’s why other women envy and hates us at the same time not only that were blessed with the best body parts.

You see white women use black men to have kids with skin color.

I’m so happy we now have black dolls woth skin tones to choose frome I have light skin full lips and curly long hair I can’t wait to get my daughter this doll.

It’s about time black dolls with different skin tones.

Good for Mattel.

But of course, some folks are going to say “what took them so long, yadda yadda yadda”. I applaud their effort cause they clearly didn’t have to make a black doll in the first place and they certainly didn’t have to try to make different shades. They may not be where they need to be with diversity but they’re taking steps and I can respect that.

cute.
but she’s kind of light skin have a variety of browns.lol

Cosign @Lala

LMAO!!! I was thinking “why she look like she got an attitude” as SOON as I saw the doll. But it could just be our perception. Overall I think they did a good job on the dolls except the orange hair, but they are very pretty. Hey, u cant please everybody.

THATS RIIIIGHT CAPTAIN ROAST A HOE !

are they gonna make a black ken? maybe change his name to curtis

I AM IMPRESSED. THEY DID THIS STINT BACK IN THE 90′S THEY HAD A LINE UP OF BLACK DOLLS WITH DIFFERENT SKIMN TONES AND LOOKS BUT THIS IS WONDERFUL AND IT GIVES LITTLE GIRLS DOLLS THAT LOOK LIKE THEM..KUDOS MATTELL.

What’s with the light hair?

@ Xtra Special
I was thinking along those same lines. They have exhausted other marketing groups or maybe it has become slow, so now is the perfect time to target a group of people that they usually don’t pay too much attention too.

Ok ppl can we be a little realistic here? You guys talking about the dolls don’t represent true blacks. Now you all know most whites do not look like barbie…GTHFOH…lol
Shoot the dolls look good to me…the fashion could do with a little help though.

Am I the only one that thinks these dolls look a little sad…im guessing black girls don’t smile based on what I’ve seen here….

I guess. What’s up with the colorful eyes though? One of the “little sister” Barbies has blue eyes…what are the chances of a little Black girl having Blue eyes?

they are cute!

better than those pasty pale white ones

she kinda looks like me. i dont like the makeup though.

Darkesthourglass

So when does the Maxwell-looking Ken come out?
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lol, I know right?

@Darkesthourglass

So when does the Maxwell-looking Ken come out?
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lol. There it goes again. What is it about Maxwell that I don’t see?

I would rather Ken look like Morris Chestnut or some-damn-body. But Maxwell? Only if they are doing the Three Snaps edition of Ken.

those dolls dont look like me. i looks more liek the origanl balck barbie only with shorter hair.

lol. There it goes again. What is it about Maxwell that I don’t see?

I would rather Ken look like Morris Chestnut or some-damn-body. But Maxwell? Only if they are doing the Three Snaps edition of Ken.
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Nothing wrong with Maxwell. So what he’s more of a gentleman than a thug. I like the Morris Chestnut idea as well.

@Darkesthourglass

Nothing wrong with Maxwell. So what he’s more of a gentleman than a thug.
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Is that what it is, that he lacks thug appeal? He just isn’t good-looking to me at all. But oh well, to each his own…

This is not new blacks just don’t support dolls marketed toward us. In the late 80′s early 90′s Matel had the “Shani” line one light,brown and dark nobody bought it.My sister is a big collector and still has her’s.They actually looked better then the dolls here & why do the darker skin barbie littl sister have green/blue eyes.Black people buy white dolls I’m a store buyer & whites buy the black which are limited.I hope this line stays around this time.

Love it! WIsh the hair was a little more realistic but please believe, my baby will be gettin the blackest one on the shelf! LOL!

‘Bout time! But she’s only half black.

I like the lips and the nose; but I’m not too sure about that hair.

I think they are cute! as far as people complaining about the clothes, you CAN buy different barbie clothes!!

I also like the lips and the nose, but I see Mattel still couldn’t bring itself to portray Black women, without adding yellow/hazel, and blue eyes.
Perhaps something is better than nothing, but they look like sistas wearing colored contact lenses! Like Pharrell said on the Blueprint 3: “Oh well”.

Wow shm at the jackasses that think these barbies are single moms. (white) Barbie has a little sister and so does Theresa (the Hispanic/Spanish) barbie. But leave it up to ignorant the jump to conclusions w/o being bothered to read the details. FAIL! but fu*k it I’m too old for dolls and don’t have a daughter. And some ppl are lying their a$$es knowing good and well they will be getting their lil’ girls these does this holiday season. And as far as ppl getting our money. You might want to add Arabs, Jews, Indians, and Asians to that list of ppl we give our money to before each other.

Many years ago for a brief period of time, Mattel had an African American line of dolls. They weren’t called Barbie, they were called Shani. It was Shani and her friends Nichelle and Asha. They were beautiful and had 3 different complexions. I always wondered what happened to those ethnic dolls. I like these new dolls also.

They’re adorable!
I’d buy it lmao

I don’t know about y’all but I’m not 100% satisfied. I am happy that they’ve made Barbies that look like actual black girls — my mama never let me own a white Barbie, and is raising my baby sister the same way — however, I think they missed the mark on the eye color and hair. WTF is with the “aqua curls” and blue eyes? Let’s face it most black girls have nappy hair and dark eyes. If you’re going to depict African-American girls and women do it right!

Lol, omg I am so through!

I went to the official website, and the one pictured up top is suppose to be the one with the “attitude”; that’s why her eyes are to the side. I was wondering why she was the only one who looked two seconds away from snappin’ her neck. Lord Jesus, why?

Will these doll be full of lead too Mattel?

This is nothing new I always had pretty black dolls.. I also had a pretty dark skinned barbie with a barbie car.. People who say this is not a Black doll need to look at all the picture their all different colors from light to dark..

BARBIE HAS ALWAYS HAD BLACK DOLLS. I COLLECT DOLLS AND I HAVE SEVERAL BLACK BARBIES AND THEY ALL LOT DIFFERENT. SOME OF THEM ARE LIGHT AND SOME OF THEM ARE DARK AND THESE ARE NOT THE FIRST DOLLS THAT BARBIE HAS MADE WITH BLACK FEATURES.

cosign with everyone would said this is not the first black barbie lines. i know a woman who has a balck babie collection and the dolls loook better than these even has a special african barbie addition. balcks just aint buying the black barbies is all never did. just like latians arent buyuing the latina barbies.

about time

The already did this before. Does anyone remember the Shani dolls back in the day???

There has been black Barbies. I had them growing up and I’m 31. Plus my mom collects them and sometimes they don’t make the holiday barbie in black but Beyonce and Kimora have dolls as well.

She looks like “Danger” from for the Love of Ray J. LMAO

ok but why does the black barbie have a baby in high school(CHEERLEEDING BARBIE)? why does the black barbie have a child anyway? SMMH…SMMH…SMMH! AT THIS CRAP THO…