Web hosting Custom Email SiteBuilder

Fun Facts about Barbie

Did you know........?

This page is dedicated to interesting and quirky facts that you probably never knew about Barbie.

• Chelsie^®, one of the dolls in the Generation Girl 1999 line of "pink box" dolls, shipped to several retailers with a nose stud! Approximately 5,000 Chelsie dolls were made with the nose stud, the remainder to be produced will not have one. Records indicate that these dolls were probably shipped to K-Mart, Target, and Toys 'R Us.

• Faberge™ Imperial Elegance™ Barbie® doll's dress is embroidered with over 50,000 stitches and accented with over 175 hand-sewn Swarovski^® crystals. Now that’s a work of art!

• When designing the sweater for Barbie® Loves Elvis, Abbe Littleton resorted to cutting up her own favorite sweater for the original sample because she could not find the right scale of knit.

• An original 1959 Barbie^® doll in mint condition has sold for up to $5,000.* Her original price: $3.00. * Not all dolls increase in value. Some appreciate, some lose, and some remain the same.

• More than 105 million yards of fabric have gone into making Barbie^® fashions. That makes Mattel one of the largest apparel manufacturers in the world!

• The best-selling Barbie^® doll ever was Totally Hair^® Barbie^®, with hair from the top of her head to her toes.

• Barbie^® doll has had more than a billion pairs of shoes.

• Barbie^® has had over 500 professional makeovers.

• The full name of Barbie^® doll is "Barbie Millicent Roberts." She is from Willows, Wisconsin and went to Willows High School.

• Barbie^® is currently sold in more than 150 countries around the world.

• Currently, approximately 120 new ensembles are designed for Barbie^® annually.

• The Barbie^® doll line is one of the most successful in history, with sales of more than $1.5 billion in 1999. The average American girl between the ages of 3 and 11 owns ten Barbie dolls.