How Mattel rewrote toy history to put Barbie on top.
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
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Sorry my review for the movie will be late. I really wanted to get this video out first. Here I explain how Mattel rewrote toy history to put Barbie on top. Barbie was not only not the first fashion doll, she was pretty late to market and a pretty blatant copy of another doll. So here I go over the unsung women of doll history, some of the dolls that predated Barbie and what Bild Lilli actually was.
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Just wanted to clarify at the end when I'm talking about Bild Lilli I misspoke about the toy company name. Bild is the newspaper that published the Lilli comics but they contracted a toy company called Hauser to make the dolls themselves. The dolls all had Bild on the stands so I misunderstood that Bild wasn't actually the one manufacturing them. Hauser is the company that was crushed by Mattel and gave the quote at 20:14 but Bild themselves were able to continue on without Lilli. Sorry for the oversight. Hope this helps clear things up. Sorry again for the confusion.
BILD is a german Newspaper.
Not a magazine.
It still exists, even the paper version.
It's mostly read by men of lower education and low income nowadays.
Yeah. Bild is known to be a purposely misleading newspaper that uses exxagerated headlines and twists up or ignores facts to spice up it's stories
Greatly investigated. Thank you from Germany.
Age 10, back in 1960, I had one of the first Barbie dolls. She had black hair, bobbed and a distant, rather cold calculating look to her face. I turned her into 'French Resistance Barbie' who took down Nazis! She would blow up my brother's military game sites, for example. She was lots of fun. Then they made barbie a blonde with a goofy smile. YUCK. She is still goofy.
Isn't it funny how the real history is always more interesting than the lies Hollywood tell?
And they say real life is miserable, well not completely.
I agree. That's I became a history buff. Real history has always been super interesting.
Reminds me of the time I saw a Disney movie about the life of Walt Disney, and the founder of Warner Bros. was basically a villain. I thought "Huh...well isn't that convenient..."
It's really sad how real talented women have been erased in favor of a woman who stole someone else's product.
Even worse Mattel is erasing successful and business savvy women from decades before them to make themselves into a feminist icon. (Kind of like how they trashed Lilly to make Barbie seem more progressive).
well the women behind this are more talented than the hacks of mattel.
@@logicvc506not the anti feminist comment under a comments about women being done dirty by others
It's true. There's the Gesbuilt doll in Germany that came before Barbie.
Well, that's what feminism is for.
As a vintage doll collector, this is nothing new to me, but thanks for sharing all the same. I too get tired of the myth that Lilli represented a literal sex worker which silly click-bait articles love to repeat. Doll history is very nuanced, way more complex than "all baby dolls before 1959". To be fair to Mattel, as beautiful and popular as Little Miss Revlon and Cissy were, they still looked more childlike than Lilli and Barbie. Baby dolls were by no means the only dolls available, but they were very popular, so if you asked the average person in the 1950s what they pictured when they heard the word "doll", they probably would say baby or toddler doll.
Thank you for singlehandedly making me, a grown-ass man, interested in the history of fashion dolls. I would not have even called them fashion dolls before stumbling upon this channel.
I know, right?
Wow, what a sad fate for Lilli. I had no idea she was a more rounded character... The fact that she's only remembered as the "slutty sex toy" that inspired Barbie is just disgusting.
The whole video, I kept thinking of the phrase, "history is written by the winners." It sounds like Barbie has become such an icon that it effectively erased its contemporaries and bastardized its inspiration... What a shame...
Thank you for this video! =)
Precisely what I was going to say except this part where I would say, "history is too easily REWRITTEN".
The History rewrite is despicable, but I'm also shocked to find out that the Dollikin doll had 16 points of articulation! So ahead of it's time!
Wow, how scummy of a company do you have to be to slut shame a coopetitor's toy line for decades?
Right? Having female anatomy is apparently slutty now? LOL
Pretty damn scummy I’d say
Average. This time they jsut happen to do it in the business world. How are you even pointing this out when knowing these are women speaking about any kind of competitor? Women don't typically compete, that would be acknowleding and overstating the grandeur of your opponent, so there's more to WIN... if it WAS a competition.
inb4 its mattel behind the slut shaming of mga dolls
Facts, they’re so shitty
I can only imagine the kind of shade a teaser trailer for a Madame Alexander movie would throw at Barbie.
I find it hilariously ironic that the Barbie movie was supposed to be empowering women and rejecting gender roles but Mattel proceeds to sweep the stories of women who made popular dolls and overcame challenges under the rug to promote themselves. Corporate feminism at its finest.
They’re all about strong women….until they get in the way.
It's "First Female Lead" with dolls.
You mean feminism at it's finest....
You’re conflating the present movie made by WB with old history of the toy company Mattel, and general feminism with corporations that USE feminism, and gender roles breaking with ruthless capitalism. THEY’RE NOT THE SAME. These things DO NOT contradict each other and can coexist concurrently.
@@LilacSreyaThe movie itself promotes some of the lies Mattel likes to keep going. I enjoyed the movie a lot but this is important to acknowledge
The fact you bring this to attention is a breath of fresh air.
GREAT MJTANNER BARBIE MOVIE FEMINIST FILM DISASTER.
Sounds familiar
Hmm
I wasn't aware of Mattel shenanigans. Especially of those efforts to "erase" Lili. But for some reason, I'm not surprised.
Mattel basically did the same thing 25 years later to Jem & The Holograms.
I like barbie herself i dont like what they did to other companies 😤
@@unigenius And to Maxie also
Mattel is the Nestle of the toy world, apparently.
Ladies, how can I tip you for this video? This was one of the most informative and historically fascinating things I have watched on UA-cam. I’ve always wondered how far back does the history of toys go. It’s an underrated facet of human history that gets over looked because history is generally made by adults. But, we all start as children; therefore, how did the world treat and nurture children historically is fascinating to me.
Do you not read the descriptions?
Have you ever tried to search the history of playing cards?
@@HypercomboProduction I’ve not. But, I do know that The Great Cardini is a playing cards “magician” who learned his tricks in the trenches of WW1.
@@lethalbox909 you should, playing cards and by proxy dice have been around since the dawn of time. As it feels like since (at the time of my research) no one knows to this day when playing cards were invented.
As a man who collected action figures as a child, this was amazingly informative. I loved it! Thank you!
I second this.
This was so sad... Seeing the inspiring history of these women and the Lili doll, until they were all obscured. Thanks for all your research
Wow. That is just so incredibly scummy to erase the history of other fashion dolls and especially what they did to Lilli
Wow, to see how those women strived to keep their companies float and provide toys to children through world wars and personal loss is very inspiring!
Those women went through so many hardships, and they were still able to make their businesses grow and flourish. They are all truly inspirational!
Man, you really did your research and all these women who made strives in the doll industry were inspiring as heck.
I'm finding everything This Movie has done utterly Despicable.
Mattel, you are disgraceful. You have Sown the Wind, and I pray you Reap the Whirlwind.
Mettel are that incompetent, they gave that cuck the okay to make netflix shera, and that crocodiles tears guy to make he man revelations.
Supposedly, Mattel was pretty hands-off with the movie, only really intervening when they wanted a specific scene cut to protect their brand.
@@KeybladeMasterAndy They made that mistake already with MotU Revelations. You would have thought they learned from it.
Well there Hasbro i hope they bring back Maxie and give her a movie
Yes the fact that barbie was the first fashion doll is a lie but nothing the movie did was “despicable”. Its honestly an amazing movie that repeatedly makes fun of Mattel.
I heard that Barbie was based on a "German prostitute" and I had no idea about this history. Really, thank you so very much for posting this.
Lili reminds me a lot of Betty Boop, a character that is more adult focused but kids do enjoy.
It's what she reminded me of when I saw people saying Barbie was based on an 'adult' toy and looked into it. The 'adult' part didn't seem quite right and it wasn't really, but this video filled in more of the gaps.
Even Betty Boop was considered 'slutty' a good amount of times before.
@@disappearingangel4972 Oh Betty was a flapper originally so that comes with the territory, but today she's a well known icon of sass and flirt.
I had no idea there was even a propaganda campaing to make Barbie seem like the only doll in town when it came out. All this info it's mindblowing
It wouldnt be the first time that a company says they were the first to make something and bury all the evidence from before.
Nor the first time people missrepresent the lifestyle and beliefs of people from the past.
This is the perfect time to release a video like this. Infinitely more valuable than the 'current thing' and will probably stand the test of time better than the Barbie movie.
DOLL HISTORY.
I mean from what I heard the Barbie movie was pretty popular
Until this video I thought "Doll Hospitals" were just doll stores with a gimmick, but a specialty store for porcelain dolls does make sense now.
I never knew this much about the history of barbie and the first dolls that came before her. This was fun to learn about.
But tbh. Im not surprised Mattel chose to bash the history of Barbie(and disregard the existence of other dolls makers, all of whom were women with knowledge and determination under their belts). Why did that documentary have to be so douchy :(
You are literally one of the only people I REALLY trust to know about this stuff. Excited to see another review.
I didn't expect to learn so much about doll history, but you did an outstanding job! This is seriously quality stuff, well done. Also, while I was listening to this, I couldn't help but imagine a scenario were Barbie and Lili meet up and just become best friends. Lili could be like a big sister to Babs ^^
Someone from Germany speaking here.
I didn't even know about Lilli before watchig documentaries like this. (the magazine promoting her comics back then has become infamous for having sometimes very questionable headlines, smear campaigns and other articles nowadays and a lot of people mock the newspaper)
It's sad to see something like this happening. All these women with big dreams ambitions and ideas were all overshadowed by Barbie. Smearing Lilli and everything about her really wasn't necessary for everything after they already made Barbie a knockoff version of her and made big cash with her...
We do have a off-brand Fashion Doll called Steffi Love here nowadays. It doesn't have a big history but it's still an alternative to Barbie here.
Still I wanna thank you for all the research for this video and now really is the right time to publish it. Watching your vids for a long time now and I've always enjoyed them! Keep up the great content!
I think there were a Danish movie back in the 1950's about Bild Lillie
Women are their own worst enemy.
Steffi has been there for a long time, but only in discounter stores. Now she is in every store next to Barbie
Barbie’s age is catching up to her.
Dementia is a sad way to go.
LOL I see what you did there ;)
Of all the things I'd get from this channel I never expected the history of gril's doll's and the business woman behind them
-A surprise to be shure but a welcome one
Is it really that surprising? This channel was built on dissecting a trash reboot of the show meant to promote dolls adjacent to He-Man and M and J have voiced their love for the original Monster High run and MGA’s offerings (LOL Surprise and Rainbow High).
Wow, thank you for doing this research! I never knew about any of these women, and it's absolutely malicious for Mattel to try and erase all this history. The way they literally stole from Bild and then didn't own up to it was especially egregious. Can't wait to see your next video!
This history deserves a movie far more than Barbie.
Agreed!
It doesn't matter what it's about, all attempts to re-write history, are gross.
As much as I like the new Barbie movie, what Mattel did was shitty
@@hiim4212I agree. They shouldn't rewrite and lie about history
This video is great. None of the pretentiousness or time wasting of most "video essays", self-irony, fake rage, bad jokes or other trends that plague videos like these.
Just a person talking about something they are interested in, keeping to the important information in a well structured analysis, delivered with a unqiue personality.
I never knew all this history behind girl dolls be this big, I did knew Barbie wasn’t the first doll brand to make the first ever movable girl fashion doll. However the fact that they stole and practically erased and shamed the very brand they stole from is downright awful. I never knew of lilli but for sure have grown to like her and the other great dolls these other humble women did and wanted to do. I truly feel inspired and want to maybe draw some of their dolls for appreciation, Barbie has enough “appreciation” mind as well give that to the other inspiring dolls, lilli included.
You know, I watched the Barbie episode of The Toys That Made Us, and I didn't think about any of the setup at all; I didn't question it. As soon as you showed a picture of the old-timey porcine dolls and Raggedy Ann dolls I realized how crazy a claim that was.
And that's just the American/European side... Traditional fashion dolls from Asian countries have been around for hundreds of years.
Great video. Respect to the innovative ladies that predate Barbie/Mattel in the fashion doll industry. And shame on Mattel for erasing/ slandering their names.
Thank you for this video. I’m was not aware of a couple of these myself, but the Lilli doll story was especially egregious on Mattel’s part.
The least the movie could’ve done was make a small comedic reference like the narrator going “There were these other dolls too, I guess, but this isn’t their movie” or something.
If you had told me I would spend 20 minutes watching a history video about dolls, I wouldn't have believed you. But here we are. It was very interesting and super well done.
This was actually really interesting to learn about, thank you for explaining the more accurate history of these dolls
You guys should be given your own doll documentery, since you clearly know your stuff and are well actually honest to your audience. unlike Mattel who are basically whitewashing doll history and as well as gaslighting people with this narrative.
I have been an avid Barbie collector for over 25 years…. Love watching vintage doll commercials….. this flick lacks the various Barbie doll that took care of her toddler/child siblings or child centered careers that Barbie has had….. also the gazillion Bride Barbie fashions…..
Thank you so much for doing research and looking up all those women
Ok, this is a discussion I didn't predict anyone focusing on with this movie release.
Very cool to see this issue brought up and really good work on the research.
This is the reason I follow this channel, but even I didn't expect this level of detail for this. It's fantastic.
I would also like to point out that, as a China and porcelain doll collector who also has a great aunt who is an avid vintage doll collector, many of these dolls were assembled by the girls themselves or their parents. A number of my dolls were stuffed to appear to have very large, full breasts. One of my girls even has a longer neck plate that is attached to a breast plate of porcelain to make a porcelain chest.
Many, many of my and my aunt's dolls are adult women. To name, she has, a princess, a queen, a peasant woman, a bride, and an opera singer.
All made to represent adult women.
I'm really glad you made this video. I'm sick of Mattel claiming that there were no fashion dolls prior to Barbie. I'm a fan of antique French fashion dolls, such as Bru, which made baby, child and lady dolls; so I knew for a fact that there were beautiful fashion lady dolls made of wood or porcelain from the 1700's and 1800's.
In the novel "A Little Princess", Sarah Crew had Emily, a Porcelain doll with real eyelashes, and I think she had different clothes for different occasions. Emily was like Sarah's sister and friend to her, probably less than 10 years old in design but certainly not a baby doll. Wouldnt she be classified as a fashion doll?
Yes, she would be. Also Sarah was gifted another doll later in the book that was as big as she was and had several TRUNKS of doll clothes.
@@glitzarprincess627 honestly I thought that first part in the novie about how Barbie was the first non baby doll for girls was a joke or an exaggeration. I didnt know Mattel was also saying that in the documentary. Lots of old novels mention fashion dolls
@@MaddieDeux yeah, and the stupid thing is, they could have turned it into an exaggerated joke. As a different commenter pointed out, they could have said she was the only doll and then had a little aside like "okay, fine, there were other dolls but this isn't about them!"
@@glitzarprincess627 right, cos they were already having Helen Mirren do meta narration anyway. Making that into a joke wouldnt have cost them anything extra, wouldnt have made movie goers think any less of Barbie, and most importantly wouldnt imply erasure
I’m definitely a Barbie girl at heart but I’m so happy that you shed some light on the history of fashion dolls! It erks me to no end that Barbie gets the credit! I’m a historic doll collector and I’m always shocked how Mattel controls the narrative!
Just another movie that takes a stand against a non-issue. I was really hoping this movie would be a meme.
Yeah woman doesn’t have a right to her body!!
Barbie is a toy, not a real human being.
I first learned about Madame Alexander dolls in the early 2000’s. The doll company had a deal with McDonald’s where they would create and manufacture Madame Alexander dolls for their happy meals. A few of their lines were: Wizard of Oz inspired, Disney inspired, and fairytale inspired with dolls like Rapunzel. You get the gist. These were my favorite dolls to have aside from Barbie.
It was fascinating and enlightening to hear about other fashion doll inventors. Thanks for the short retrospective!
I hope this video gets many views so ppl can call out Mattel for trying to rewrite history. Basically the same shit Netflix did for queens of Africa
You made the most interesting "barbie" video. I just heard about the story of Lilli this morning and thought it was a bit strange so thanks to reveal the truth about her
Could you please cover more doll stuff? I'd love to hear your thoughts on things like what happened with Takara and Mattel when they tried to launch Barbie in Japan.
Ooh, yes! While I know little about Licca-Chan other than that she’s the most powerful character in Konami and Takara’s Smash Bros wannabe, I’d love to hear M and J’s insight into the matter.
May i ask what the japanese barbie is? I might wanna get my hands on something like that.
@@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho There's also a documentary on her in "Did you hear? History of dolls" if you look up History of Licca-Chan or History of Barbie in Japan.
@@yuri-sama.questionmark The Japanese barbie was what Jenny is now. if you look up Takara Jenny, that's what the original Takara Barbie was, since it varied so much from classic Barbie they just rebranded the character. Look up "History of Barbie in Japan" while I would love to hear M and J's thoughts on it, that doc is also very fun!
Its sad that many dolls that werent baby dolls were overshadowed when the first barbie doll came out. I get how mattel wanted to give young women a way to feel inspired and to feel like they can do anything but at this point it feels like mattel is just doing it for the money. I enjoyed the Barbie movie but Im thinking about a lot of things now just from this video.
it was always about he money and he wanted women away form falmy that the true nature of Barbie
Wow. This is just… wow. Excellent work, gals. I knew about Madame Alexander’s dolls, but I had no idea that she basically kickstarted the American doll industry alongside Jeannie Graves and Nancy Ann Abbott. I never knew that Bild Lilli had such a storied history. And my hatred for Mattel has only grown. Not only did they steal Lilli’s design to make Barbie, but they smeared her as a thot and destroyed Bild as a company through their lawsuit.
May Mattel reap what they’ve sown with the Barbie movie’s failure and may your tribe increase, M and J.
Saddly, the movie didn't flop as hard as it deserved. Here's to hoping this week brings it empty theaters.
@@baalfgames5318 I think the only reason the movie did so well in its first week is because the trailers did everything in their power to hide every political moment in the film. Hopefully now that there are reviews out telling people what the movie is really about, we'll have less people wasting their money to see it.
Sadly the Barbie movie was a success, it didn't fail :(
@@RedRoseSeptember22 we don't know for sure never judge by the 1st week
This is so fascinating! Those dolls look adorable and amazing! Shame for Lilli. That company didn’t deserve that, and neither did she. Overall very informational. You worked very hard to find this information and it was an enjoyable video.
Not even Aqua's Ironic one hit wonder and nostalgic song doesn't deserves to be part of this movie nor legacy!
So an industry catered exclusively to women, run largely by women, acts like a typical club of mean girls?
i'm shocked. shocked i say.
In any case, this history is fascinating & the video is very well done. This is quality content.
Kudos to you for researching the history of dolls J, when Mattel couldn't be bothered to.
This is by far the best video that you have ever done. I had no idea about these other doll companies and creators. Thanks for all your research and hardwork.
Im so glad you mentioned Madame Alexander, I own a few vintage ones and they are gorgeous! Such a shame they don't get attention like Barbie.
Growing up, my dolls were some of my most treasured possessions--whether they were paper or plastic. The history of certain doll brands isn't exactly easy to dig up, so thank you so much for all the time and effort you spent on this video. It was fascinating, informative, and made me feel a bit nostalgic.
20:30
that's like Disney, stealing small artist's work and then muting them by paying them off.
Absolutely disgusting.
Basically they just steal a doll from other country and call it a day ....if this was happening nowadays they will get really massive problems...thank you so much for telling everyone about those ladies and those beautiful dolls...
There was also a doll named Patty Jo created by Jackie Ormes in the 40’s, it was the first black doll and it was made after her cartoon comic book character. Not many people know about this doll or her comic book, but most dolls that came before the Barbie era kinda sadly faded into obscurity as said in this video.
Thanks for bringing this up. I'd love to research Jackie Ormes and her doll. :)
Thank You for this video. These are the facts that need to be known and given more attention too. It is so sad dolls are being using to tear down girls, woman and motherhood.
I'll not have you besmirching the good name of paper dolls, Mattel! There is nothing so satisfying as cutting out your own fashion and easily being able to swap outfits without having to worry about the pant legs getting stuck on rubbery Barbie legs when you wanted to take them off.
Yes! I've been waiting for this vid! I love your channel! I wish more people in the doll community where more critical like you, most people just eat this stuff up. Today you actually taught me a thing or two. Keep up the good work!
If they really wanted to make a “feminist doll” movie, they should have picked any one of these women and done their life story. Even just a documentary! It…honestly doesn’t surprise me that Mattel has used dishonest tactics in the past. From what I have heard from people who collect dolls and figures, Mattel has gained a reputation for either very expensive (arguably overpriced) collectors pieces or pieces that just have inconsistent build or paint quality.
I do would fear they would push their anti-men stands into those movies though and would still pretend no men ever would support a woman.
@@BlackCroft666 yup heck one of them husband only refuser cause he didn't want to take a risk of starting a business witch is understandable
This is rth wave feminism not real remiss. Those women u listed aren’t var 💩 men haying crazy rthnwave
@@BlackCroft666yup. 4th wave feni,ism ruined real feminism
Awesome video with great research. Business is brutal when it comes to cornering the market on a product. We've seen this many times. People badmouth Mattel for the wrong reasons. Thanks for putting history into perspective.
Thank you so much for this video, and debunking the AWFUL myths about Bild Lili. I honestly didn't know that she wasn't a call girl?? I hate that that is what people see her as :C I wish so much that the Bild company could've propsered cuz I honestly love the Lili doll's look so much more? The face is what's so pretty. So sad Mattel really dug that deep of a pit for a competitor that had NOTHING to do with them.
Thank you so much for making this and highlighting other women who deserve more than being swept under the rug by Mattel. I did know there were other fashion dolls and that Barbie was not the first non-baby doll to exist. I did not, however, know about them literally stealing the design from Bild. I genuinely feel sick for supporting Mattel all these years.
i am SO happy you put in translations for the Bild Lilli comics!! i love the Bild Lilli doll and ive never been able to find translations for the comics. thank you!!!
This is one of the reasons history is one of my favorite subjects. You learn so much about stuff you may not have known about. Thank you so much for sharing this. It's sad that Mettle was so shady, especially to Bild Lilly. And all these women not getting the credit they deserve.
TBH just a cursory recollection of the ‘dolls’ I can remember from historical fiction immediately discredits Mattel’s lie. For example, in A Little Princess, Emily the doll is Sara’s best friend, not usually her imaginary baby, and is clearly both a proxy for her at her own age and an examplar of that day’s grown-up fashion trends.
WOW! This is an absolutely amazing video. Engaging, well made, and well researched. A wonderful job. Barbie really stood on the back and hard work of a lot of people and it's a shame that those people are forgotten to time, when Alexander, Graves, and Abbott's stories are more inspirational than Handler's. Just, absolutely brilliant. I hope these stories get better showcased in the future. I hope you get more popularity because of this. You are very very underrated.
Women that should be highlighted
Great video! The history of fashion dolls in America is actually pretty inspiring.
this such a great video 😭❤️ incredibly well researched, i love how you took the opportunity to uplift lesser known business women, and bild lilli's story is really quite sad but definitely deserves to be told. props to all the archival efforts i imagine this video took!
Happy 100th Anniversary to Madame Alexander toy company!
There was a UA-cam video I watched some time ago (unfortunately, I can't remember the channel name) that explored an iceberg of fashion dolls. There are lots more obscure fashion dolls that unfortunately became lost to time.
Jem and the Holograms is an interesting story, with rumors of Mattel directly ripping off the brand in order to keep Barbie at the top.
I have to say this was a very detailed and professional documentary style video. This was more impressive anything the History channel ever produced. I see a bright future for you!.
I knew about Bild Lili, and I was going to bring it up if you hadn't, as the existence of just that disproves that Barbie was the first plastic doll out there...
This video is so well made! I hope it gets around more so more people can be educated on history instead of falling for a slanderous ad campaign.
You did excellent research on this, and I am glad you're helping put these extremely talented women in the spotlight. This is why I love your channel.
4:45 In my personal experience girls who play with baby dolls like this are mimicking their mothers and not because a toy commerical told them to.
That’s what I usually think, plus it’s also probably basic biology.
Kids are of course way too young to fully understand the “birds and the bees” of life, but they do have certain ideas and behaviors encoded in them.
Boys naturally are more rambunctious, prefer rough and tussle play, and have a tendency to look up and admire their icons. That’s why they don’t tend to care much about “seeing” themselves in their heroes or characters, as it’s ultimately the journey of discovery and end goal they care about.
Girls are naturally more subdue, don’t rough house as much, and like to put themselves in situations and think through the events. They are alright with following along the journey, but they latch on a lot to characters or scenarios that speak to them and thus want to “be” the hero or character they see.
Nothing bad one way or the other and of course there are exceptions, but people really meed to stop acting like boys and girls don’t have natural tendencies even when they’re young. Baby dolls appeal to a girl’s nurturing nature and action figures appeal to a boy’s rough housing nature. It’s also why boy’s toys are usually more durable than girl’s toys, the little buggers are way more likely to smash, crash, and break their stuff than girls.
I am never disappointed when I see your shows. You do fantastic work in research and on a personal note makes me want to research the subjects you bring up further. Very well done! I have nothing but the best for this channel and look forward to see what’s ahead.
Amazing video and, I believe, your best to date. I had never heard of Lily, which was exactly what Mattel wanted. I really appreciated the fact you put in good old analog research. Keep up the great work.
Great video. Thanks a lot.
The story behind Lilli resp. Bild-Lilli is really interesting. As said it was based on a comic strip from the popular german Bild-tabloid newspaper, depicting a young, sassy office employee that had the occasional relationship with different older men. Initially the dolls were made as some kind of early form of merchandise for the comic strip and they were aimed at the newspapers target audience (mostly german adult males). So they were intially only sold at newspaper stands and tobacco stores. However, the doll became popular among girls quite fast, so the range was unsurprisingly expanded with additional clothes and larger accessories (a dollhouse for example) from third party companies. Apparently, there were even some cheap copies form China floating around at the time.
Enter Ruth Handler and Mattel. The former found the Lilli-doll on a trip to Europe in 1956 and more or less copied her to make the Barbie doll (Lillis success in Germany might have had an influence, i think). Barbie was released in 1959 in the US and was an immediate succes. The rest is more or less history. Mattel finally bought the rights to Lilli in 1964 and basically discontinued the range immediatly.
Framing the Lilli doll as being based on a comic strip about an escort girl is a blatant lie, however and dosent do the "mother of Barbie" justice imo.
a small side note: Bild never acually produced the doll, this was done by the mentioned german toy company named Hauser via a contract, which was oviously revoked when Bild sold the rights to Mattel. Bild was actually not a small company in germany in 1964, but i would thnik that they simply were not that interested in fighting this out and took the money from Matell instead. The toy company apparantly did not recover from this though.
my grandmother had lots of different dolls when she was a kid, I remember playing with them
Lilli was definitely a bit promiscous in some of the comic strips (the German wikipedia for her references one where she's in a bikini at the beach and a police officer tells her two-pieces aren't allowed and she responds "which piece would you like me to take off?" lol) but that's obviously not the same as a call girl, she's just being sassy and flirty! But god forbid women have some sexual agency...
Wow you did what mattel wouldn't, You spoke the facts and remained informative about it!
An excellent video, WAY BETTER than the obviously paid "the toys that made us" advertisement series. well done and I could really see more of this kind of video, thanks.
This was such a great video, thank you for making it! I learned so much!
I grew up on Barbie, but had no desire to watch the Barbie movie. Maybe because I saw Barbie as something different than most girls that grew up with them. I never really saw her as a career or fashion doll to play with, I mostly played with her in a mother type role. When I heard what they were planning for the Barbie movie it made me know I'm not going to like it. Watching this video now, I'm like yeah that's pretty messed up and I'm definitely not gonna like it.
I wish it had been a fun adventurous movie instead and not some boring preachy femnazi message.
I say the Barbie movie was pretty good but may not be what u looking for. It’s a very fun social commentary movie on how we treat women and men. And how social norms can hurt men and women. The solution was not to make a 100% one gender dominating society wether it’s female or male. Even at the end it gives a montage of girls,mothers, older women of them experiencing joys of life. I say u should try to give it a shot.
Nonsense. The Barbie movie is excruciatingly bad as either a story or a satire. Its set design was the only quality feature.
Let the set designers and costumers write and direct the movies. They couldn't do worse, and they would probably be much better.
@@suburbanbanshee how, cuz right now u sound like ur parroting conservative outlets. Did u even watch it? Be honest
And Greta Erwig is gonna direct the Narnia series for Netflix. Just imagine what she will do to Aslan
Will no doubt omit any messianic imagery associated with Aslan, if the character even shows up-which is a lot considering Aslan is supposed to be Jesus of Nazareth. I have zero confidence in Gerwig's ability to be faithful to the source material. I suspect it'll be disastrously offensive.
She's going to make the witch misunderstood and a victim. Bet on it.
@@AnimaVox_how could they possibly remove the messianic imagery from Aslan? That the core of the character.
@@philltheotherguy1868 I know. But I'm sure they'll find a way. I read a rumor that Aslan won't even show up, but Idk if that holds any credibility. Either way, I'm not giving Greta Gerwig my money.
Oh No! I don’t want Netflix anywhere near one of my favorite books series! They will 100% try to turn it into a game of throne clone!😭
Wow, thank you for bringing this to light!! I have always wanted to know more about the original Lilli doll since JonTron mentioned it in his Barbie Games review years ago, but all I found over the years was the same tired "sex doll" narrative. Lilli's comic reminds me of Jucika, a similar Hungarian comic from the same time period about an attractive, independent woman. Weird how whenever a new more "progressive" female icon comes about they always have to bash their predecessors as either dirty or oppressed when in reality they refuse to admit that they stand on the shoulders of giants, and that modernity didnt start with them. Great video, I am really lovng your channel ❤
This video is awesome! I learned so much about the doll industry and all the awesome ladies who were a part of it! I’d love to see more of this stuff!
Wow. This is so cool! Thanks so much for this. I can only imagine how much time and research went into it 👍🏾
Wow, the backstory for how Barbie came to be was heartbreaking 💔. That’s it I’m boycotting Barbie dolls, I never hated them, I still don’t but Mattel doesn’t deserve to get away with this! What they did was despicable! Supporting Barbie would be supporting those terrible actions, and I believe they don’t deserve support!
I dont really agree with boycotting but after this i feel like I dont want to buy an original barbie doll anymore as well. The fact they call themselves feminist icons but they are the same people who would sl*t shame women after getting unsolicited voyeurs or harassed or put other women's legacy's in the dirt just to make themselves look better like that one "anti-barbie" line (i forgot the name) who would make a doll out of spite just really broke my heart as well. I guess my childhood is ruined even more. Oh well, maybe those fake barbies aren't so bad anymore, and I'll just embrace looking for more anime dolls or some other alternatives as well.
Just wanted to congratulate and commend you for this epic project. I appreciate the research and editing and production. Your passion for this subject really shines through and you did a fantastic job! Great work!