World of Barbie Experience Open Now in Santa Monica

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• Barbie Chelsea Club House Playset Doll House w/ Working Elevator Mattel 2013
• Tornadoes collapse buildings and level homes in Nebraska …
• Barbie Mattel Glam Refrigerator Mini Play Food Miniatures NIB 2013
• Mattel Barbie Closet with Clothes and Accessories 13 Pieces in all
• Vintage Barbie Wardrobe Double Door Pink Closet Carrying Case Clean Good Cond

From the 60s inspired Barbie kitchen to the Ken's Den inspired by the 70s Barbie era, this house is a sight to see from top to bottom including the exterior. From what we've seen so far, it's nothing short of any Barbie lover's dream, but we expected nothing less from our favorite HGTV stars. I never had a Barbie Dreamhouse as a child, but I remember drooling over my friend’s extensive Barbie collection. Not only does the updated Dreamhouse have an elevator, but it has TWO working elevators!

Barbie Chelsea Club House Playset Doll House w/ Working Elevator Mattel 2013

The house is situated in a neighborhood of Santa Clarita called Canyon Country in Northwestern Los Angeles County. Whether you come to HuffPost for updates on the 2024 presidential race, hard-hitting investigations into critical issues facing our country today, or trending stories that make you laugh, we appreciate you. The truth is, news costs money to produce, and we are proud that we have never put our stories behind an expensive paywall. After about minutes of my kids trying to put the Barbie Dream House together they called in my husband for help. When he got into our daughters room some of the pieces had been put together and many of the decals were put on the house.

Tornadoes collapse buildings and level homes in Nebraska …

When young imaginations move into the Barbie® Dreamhouse™, they turn this amazing dollhouse into a dream home! Plug-and-play design helps keep pieces in place as small hands move around (and make clean up easy for adult hands!). Lights and sounds add even more delightful touches -- the oven lights up and the timer ticks, the stovetop sizzles with the frying pan and whistles with the tea kettle and the toilet makes a flushing sound. Pool parties, friend sleepovers, sister bonding, backyard BBQs, birthday, holidays and every day -- there are endless stories to tell and limitless ways to explore living in the Barbie® Dreamhouse™ because with Barbie®, anything is possible. Includes Barbie® Dreamhouse and 70 accessories that include furniture, household items and a puppy; dolls, fashions and car not included.

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If you can manage a drive by of the area, the house will be hard to miss as it has a massive pink handle labeled with the classic Barbie 'B' sticking out of the roof and larger-than-life pink flamingo statues lining the path to the front door. One lucky Barbie superfan will even get the chance the stay in the Barbie Dreamhouse, which will depend on which design duo wins the competition. “After all her travels, Barbie realized that Malibu is where her heart is and has decided to stay there in a newly renovated Dreamhouse! Barbie’s brand new 2013 Dreamhouse is now available at retailers nationwide for every girl who has always wanted a Dreamhouse of her own.

The year the house came out, Elliot Handler, Mattel’s president and husband of Barbie inventor Ms. Handler, told Time magazine how the company manufactured accessories that were part of the Barbie ecosystem in order to boost sales. “You get hooked on one and you have to buy the other,” he said. Now, Ms. Dalsing lives in Saint Joseph, Mo., in what she called her own dream house.

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I was hoping for a review on this product and I don't feel like I got one. I was expecting info like its all plastic sturdy easily washable ect but seems like only real review was on the assembly. I love your sight and your give aways I just wanted to give my opinion on the review hopefully no hard feelings. Society has held up “this promise of homeownership as part and parcel of the American dream,” for centuries, said Ms. Castro. More than 60 years of Barbie’s Dreamhouses have further instilled that in us from a young age. The Dreamhouse designers chose to acknowledge the pandemic — Barbie had her own work-from-home station.

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It’s an Instagrammable approach to design and décor — a skill influencer Barbie perfected through her @barbiestyle Instagram account, with a following of over 2 million. “The size of the average American house rose from about 1,500 square feet in 1970 to more than 2,300 square feet in 2001, with a particularly big growth spurt” in the late 1990s, The Times reported. Barbie’s signature pink began increasingly popping up in the 1970s, part of Mattel’s effort to brand toys to stand out from competitors, said Mr. Burrichter. Though it might’ve been successful marketing, Mattel’s pink dousing would later be criticized for perpetuating gender stereotypes.

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Mattel Barbie Closet with Clothes and Accessories 13 Pieces in all

The production also features a museum exhibit where guests can see how Barbie, her Dreamhouse and her various vehicles have evolved over the years. You can even see the Barbie doll that started it all, clad in a black and white striped swimsuit and her iconic ponytail. A few weeks ago my daughter and I had the opportunity to check out the Barbie is Moving tour in Times Square. She received the Barbie VIP treatment, complete with a fashion show, hand painting, and crafts.

From July 2021 to June 2022, home buyers were richer, whiter and older than they had been in decades. The share that were first-time homeowners was the lowest it’s been since at least 1981. And, the median home price exceeded $400,000 for the first time. To impress men, Ms. Brown instructed women on having a “wall of pictures,” a “sexy kitchen” and plenty of books — features found in Barbie’s townhouse. This was contrary to many early dollhouses, which were made with the intent of teaching young girls domestic tasks.

Let me tell you how it all started… Barbie visited various locations throughout the United States to see where she would want to relocate. I guess she was getting bored being in Malibu all her life and needed a change of scenery. I was hoping she would find solace in NYC, because who wouldn’t, but after all her travels, Barbie decided to stay in Malibu because that is where her heart is.

The features that led them to choose this house include its two-story layout, the existing backyard pool, views of the surrounding area and a space that could easily be converted into Ken's Den. My daughter just LOVES the working elevator that can bring Barbie from the bottom floor all the way up to the third floor, and her clothes from the bathroom to the third floor as well, yep, two working elevators. This dreamhouse also comes complete with furniture, accessories, even a dog! I’d advise you to get a small baggy to let your little one store all of her Barbie pieces in.

But for a more accurate guesstimate, it might take the expertise of local real estate experts who are familiar with the homes in the area and what they usually fetch on the open market. The massive compound features a massive pool and waterslide, a dance floor, several Barbie-inspired bedrooms and plenty of pink. Aspects of the Dreamhouses are meant to appear “architecturally implausible” to keep things toylike, said Ms. Spencer. The four Dreamhouses had no walls, and there were also no toilets, no shadows, no color white.

In 2015, she had new seven-room digs, complete with a garage for her convertible. The home’s glittery facade also spoke to the ethos of the McMansion, which prioritized showiness and size over quality or utility. Houseplants saw a bloom during the environmental movement of the 1970s when people filled their homes with macramé plant hangers and terrariums. Financial institutions frequently turned down mortgage applications for women without male co-signers when Mattel debuted the Dreamhouse in 1962, three years after Barbie shook up the toy world, arriving in a one-piece bathing suit and kitten heels. Take a stop-motion journey with the young, single homeowner of the Dreamhouse. The immersive activation — which is now open at Santa Monica Place — was imagined by live entertainment company Kilburn Live, Mattel, Inc. and global sports, fashion and events giant IMG.

After welcoming more than 100,000 guests at its Toronto location, World of Barbie made its U.S. debut Friday in Santa Monica. The first episode of the four-part series aired on July 16, and the subsequent three episodes will air the next three Sundays at 8 p.m. The book is being released in an edition of 200, with 50 collector’s editions available for the most ardent fans. As Americans head to the polls in 2024, the very future of our country is at stake. At HuffPost, we believe that a free press is critical to creating well-informed voters.

“Every little girl needed a doll through which to project herself into her dream of her future,” Ruth Handler, the inventor of Barbie, told The New York Times in 1977. She named the doll after her own daughter (Ken was named after Ms. Handler’s son). After leaving the event, my daughter  begged for the Barbie Dreamhouse. She didn’t know that the Barbie folks already had one in the mail with her name on it, and I didn’t tell her. With her birthday just around the corner, I thought it would have been the perfect surprise.