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☆ Mattel’s ‘Barbie’ Movie Boosts Toy Sales
  + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Ben Glickman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” topped more than $1 billion in global ticket sales, according to research firm Comscore. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures/Associated PressMattel ’s bet on “Barbie” is paying off, with the summer big-screen hit lifting the toy maker out of its quarterly sales slump. Mattel’s runaway box-office hit boosted sales of dolls, accessories and Dreamhouses, fueling a 9% increase in third-quarter sales that topped Wall Street’s estimates.
Persons: Greta Gerwig’s “ Barbie ”, Associated Press Mattel, “ Barbie ” Organizations: Warner Bros ., Associated Press
☆ How Those ‘Barbie’ Dreamhouses Came to Life: ‘We All Had to Believe in It’
  + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Kyle Buchanan | More About Kyle Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To simulate that feel, “the Dreamhouses in the film are 23 percent smaller than they would be, as are the cars and roads,” Greenwood said. When Barbie opens her refrigerator, most of the foods are simply flat cartoon decals. “Once you’ve done that once or twice, those moments of dollness, it makes the whole thing believable,” Spencer said. With few walls to speak of, Barbie Dreamhouses are the definition of “open plan,” which presented its own logistical problems. If it feels artificial, that’s the point: Why preserve the fourth wall for homes that barely have any walls to begin with?
Persons: ” Greenwood, Margot, Ryan, Spencer, Barbie, Barbies, ” Spencer, Barbie Dreamhouses, ”, Greenwood, Greta
☆ Living in a Barbie World, Through the Decades
  + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Mathew Brownstein | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The article, which was published this past week, documents the ways in which Barbie’s Dreamhouses reflect the social, cultural and economic evolution of modern American life. By 1974, when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act was passed, banning credit discrimination, Barbie’s Dreamhouse got a glamorous upgrade to three stories. Ms. Kodé wrote about this rich history, using Barbie’s Dreamhouses to mark different historical moments. But they also practiced moving and photographing Barbie using the stop-motion technique. Some Dreamhouses took over an hour to set up; the longest shoot required moving Barbie 137 times.
Persons: Barbie’s Dreamhouse, Kodé, Tony Cenicola, Michael Kolomatsky, Gabriel Gianordoli, Barbie, Dreamhouses, Cenicola Organizations: Mattel, Times, Digital News Design, eBay, Calif Locations: Barbie’s, El Segundo, New York
☆ Barbie, Her House and the American Dream
  + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Anna Kodé | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +17 min
Barbie, Her House and the American Dream Take a stop-motion journey with the young, single homeowner of the Dreamhouse. Today according to Mattel, the toymaker behind the iconic doll, a new Barbie Dreamhouse is sold every two minutes. A vintage Barbie doll puts a record on, dances and sits down. He came to Barbie’s house.”Now, Ms. Dalsing lives in Saint Joseph, Mo., in what she called her own dream house. “In the early 2000s, single women were the fastest growing group of home buyers in the United States,” she said.
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☆ 9 fascinating details hidden inside Barbie Dreamhouses throughout history
  + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Zoe Rosenberg | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The Barbie Dreamhouse debuted in 1962, three years after its plastic resident hit toy store shelves. Nine details in the homes show us what Barbie — and we — value, from ambition to accessibility. Barbie hit toy store shelves in 1959, with the first Dreamhouse following three years later for $8. The new book "Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey" takes a look at Barbie's history through the architecture and interiors of her consistently updated bachelorette pad. When the Barbie Dreamhouse debuted, it was a vision of a bachelorette pad for a woman unmoored from the expectations of her day.
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