C/D: Torturing Barbie and breaking your toys

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― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I used to tie a string to my trucks and then drag them down the street behind my bike, making sure bounced over every curb (although this was back in the height of Evel mania)

― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

and blowing up army men with firecrackers in the sandbox was way cool (although never as extravagant as that guy on SCTV.)

― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

I read this article in the Times on the train home last night. It made me sad, I don't know why.

― Kate Classic (kate), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:wcS8vbcynZYJ:www.huninfo.hu/torzi/weblog/tesco%2520barbi.jpg

― Gravel Workelsworth, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

I once trashed a toy rally car to bits with a hammer to simulate the effects of a crash. And during the first gulf war I threw an Airfix Tornado fighter out of my window when one crashed over Iraq.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

It makes me a bit sad too - and I would always get really upset if one of my toys broke when I was little.

(hell, I still do)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

In fact, now I think about it, I intentionally trashed loads of toys when I was a kid.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

i simulated date rape scenes with my sister's barbie and ken when i was young.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

The furthest I went with my sister's Barbie was removing her eyelashes with peanut butter. (I was a resourceful tyke.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Agnes Nairn, one of the researchers, said

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Sticking a matchbox car on the railway for a train to squash was always fun.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

I used to remove the screw from the back of my GI Joes, disassemble and then reassemble new GI Joe characters in a frankenstein-like procedure.

I gave Scarlet Destro's head.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Or Destro Scarlet's body depending on how you look at it.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Hahah latebloomer noticed what I just did, in the article =)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

I never felt hatred towards my dolls, even if I did cut off their hair or draw on them; what a strange article. Did any of the kids actually SAY "I hate barbie so I hurt her" or suchlike?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

i remember mutilating barbie when i felt too old, but it wasn't that i hated barbie. she was just boring, barbie medusa was more fun.

in my senior year of high school, we melted plastic army men into "sculptures" with lenses and the sun. this was in physics class. totally classic.

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

I didn't have a Ken doll so all my Barbies lezzed up. Seriously!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

the horsman cindy dolls >>>>> barbie

http://www.beautifulhorsmandolls.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/pict2380smallwebview.jpg

― bob abernethy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

http://www.beautifulhorsmandolls.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/gold.jpg

― bob abernethy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

I had a My Buddy doll. cut off most of its its hair, poked holes in its eyes, poured white-out all over it, covered its face in hairspray and lit it on fire, etc.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

I never destoyed my Barbies. I would cry if I lost one of her shoes.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

God, I was too anal. Once I gave'em to my friend so she could play with'em while I was away on holiday. When I returned she had destroyed'em. The bitch. I'd never ever mutilate'em. Let them have sex, MAYBE, but never EVER kinky sex.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

i would guard barbie's clothes, accessories, houses, cars, western rodeo sets, etc like they were made out of gold, but the doll herself... meh. like maria said, she was kind of boring so why not try some modification? even if she ended up as a limbless torso, you could still have fun redecorating the dream house.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

http://time.com/barbie-new-body-cover-story/

“Hello, I’m a fat person, fat, fat, fat,”
A 6-year-old girl giving voice for the first time to curvy Barbie sings in a testing room at Mattel’s headquarters. Her playmates erupt in laughter.
When an adult comes into the room and asks her if she sees a difference between the dolls’ bodies, she modifies her language. “This one’s a little chubbier,” she says. Girls in other sessions are similarly careful about labels. “She’s, well, you know,” says an 8-year-old as she uses her hands to gesture a curvier woman. A shy 7-year-old refuses to say the word fat to describe the doll, instead spelling it out, “F, a, t.”
“I don’t want to hurt her feelings,” she says a little desperately.

― j., Thursday, 28 January 2016 14:55 (ten years ago)

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