from across the world, and make a barbie doll figure of them. and i think it s trying to promote a sort of a diversity of different careers and encourage young girls to consider careers in stem science, technology, engineering, and maths. as a child growing up in the 19705, barbie dolls really didn t look like me. so the idea of having a barbie doll that actually was not based on my likeness was quite mind boggling. and it does look like me, but it looks like me on a really good day! and now the first ever live action barbie film, which finally opens this friday. at the age of 64, this doll is set to have a blockbuster summer. and we are inside the barbie house now. this is barbie s room, if you look around a lot of pink, a lot of dolls, a lot of old books. let s speak to two people. this is india,
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to buy them something. by the end of the year, 350,000 barbies have been sold. now mattel announces live action, barbie, live action pj, the new fashion dolls that you can really move, you can pose barbie continually. developed in the 1970s, there were experiments with the mobility function, got their own new touch and go stands that let you make them dance to any kind of music. this is one here called peaches and cream. she s really collectible and she is one that i had as a child. claire rawling from blackpool has
one of the uk s biggest barbie collections. the barbie collection that i ve got, i genuinely stopped counting. so what i have here and what you see in the background is just a very small selection of what i ve actually got, and it s probably somewhere in excess of about 1,000 now. it s a huge draw back to childhood. so barbie for me is a connection with many, many happy hours i spent playing in the loft of my parents home. a distinctive fringe and they captured that beautifully. and then there is an elite group of people who have actually been turned into barbies. my name is dr maggie aderin pocock. i m a space scientist and a science communicator, and this is my very own barbie doll. how did you come to get a barbie doll? well, it was a total surprise to me, but it turns out that every year, mattel, the people who make barbie, they nominate six scientists
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