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~ Why Are People So Hyped About the Barbie Movie? ~ Chances are you have heard about Greta Gerwig’s Barbie feature film  spectacular, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and slated for release July 21, 2023.  A  survey was recently conducted to find out   why people are so excited to about the upcoming Barbie movie  and the results were translated into an infographic. In the visual below, you can find out  why people would watch it,  which  other actors they are thrilled to see , whether people  know what the movie is about , and more! 💅 Y ou can find the full story  here . Related Articles: Barbie Red, White & Blue for Memorial Day, Flag Day, July 4 Chelsea Is Growing Up Little Green Chelsea Merboy Doll The Changing Face of Chelsea, Barbie’s Youngest Sister   Back to Basics: New Barbie Looks Collection

As reported in part one of this series, I found a broken 1978 Barbie Dream House by the side of the road recently and brought the middle piece home. Also in the same pile of trash was a broken modern Barbie house. I harvested it for its removable kitchen and a couple of other pieces to use in the Barbie Dream House. As you can see from the photos, the kitchen had small plastic tabs at the bottom which would insert into the side of the modern Barbie house. The Dream House has no place for the tabs to go. This means I could either try to remove the tabs or add something to balance them. Currently, I am trying to add something to the front side of the kitchen set to make it stand straight. Ideally, someday I hope to find original pieces to the Barbie Dream House, but for now, the kitchen set will make a good prop and help fill in the hole in the back of Barbie's new home. I tried a large bottle top from a gallon of Arizona tea, but it was too big. You can see how high the kitchen set...

1978 Barbie Dream House provides fun fixer-upper opportunity Recently while visiting Oklahoma, I encountered the phenomena known as "Big Trash Day." This is a day when people leave larger objects than will easily fit in a trash can by the roadside for the garbage men to pick up. On this last Big Trash Day, I found a broken vintage Barbie Dream House by the side of the road. The house had been painted, marked with magic marker, and was filthy. Before I took any photos, I cleaned the first layer of dirt off of it. I left the two broken side wings by the side of the road. Maybe in hindsight I should have taken them, too, but I have limited space while we are here in Oklahoma, and the full Dream House takes up quite a bit of room. I opted to only take home the central two-level structure of the dream house.  This is not an article about repurposing or restoring this Barbie Dream House. I don't intend to make it into something new, nor do I intend to restore it to like-new con...

  New Barbie Dreamhouse Experience opens in Berlin; protesters tackle toy  The opening of the the Barbie Dreamhouse Experience near Alexanderplatz square in Berlin, Germany, was marred by a crowd of feminists with nothing better to do than protest an 11 inch plastic child's toy on May 16, 2013. Earlier this month, the first Barbie Dreamhouse Experience opened in South Florida. Read more: New Barbie Dreamhouse Experience opens in Berlin; protesters tackle toy - National Barbie Collecting Examiner