Everyone loves Barbie; the doll who seems to be able to do everything and has a long-standing reputation with little girls for generations. We’ve seen Barbie go through a lot of phases in her ever-lasting life, each with a new career and excitingও adventure. She’s been a doctor, an astronaut and everything in between. Most of us has a Barbie growing up, but even if you didn’t you’ve at least heard the name before. It’s been an iconic franchise in the toy industry that’s never faded out. For every new wave of children, there’s always been a Barbie doll waiting for a new home.
You would think with the kind of versatility Barbie has that she’d be a fantastic role model for young girls, but many seem to think that’s not the case. Barbie has been one of those dolls to hop on the trend of each generation fairly quickly and with one look at her older models, you’ll be able to tell the time period she comes froꦇm. There have been plenty of controversial Barbies over the doll’s history; sometimes she’s insensitive while other time🌟s she’s just entirely strange. We know they can’t all be winners, but surely the masterminds behind the doll’s creations would put a little bit of sense into what they sell kids? Right?
Well, not always it seems. We’ve found 25 of the weirdest and downright💦 bad Barbie dolls you’ve ever seen in your life. We know for sure that we’d never see these dolls on the shelves today!
25 The Kissin💫g Barbie 🅘
Barbie has been known for her relationship 🎶with Ken, and that’s not really a big secret. The couple have had a weird history, from being one of the most exclusive toy co🥂uples to an odd break up, but this doll seems to take it a little too far.
Kissing is innocent enough, but did they really need to build a doll that revolved around it? We’ve seen Barbie have some questionable styles in hobbies, but this just seems a little too c🧔entered on her boyfriend.
24 ෴ Happy Family Barb💙ie
The Hꦡappy Family Barbie caused a real outrage, if not massive disturbance. The Barbie doll allows you to open the doll’s stomach and either place or take out a small baby. The entire concept was extremely strange and, honestly, just didn’t look right for a doll design; it 🌼was certainly awkward.
The complaint seems a little weird too, doesn't it?
One of the bigger complaints Midge, the doll for this release, got was that she didn’t have a husband and looked a lit꧅tle young to be having children. The🍌y tried to fix this by adding a husband, but the doll still flopped for its strange design.
23 Rappin’ Rockin’ Barbie 🃏
Barbie always seems to hop on trends or look for new ways to seem interesting. The Barbie that rapped seemed no ℱdifferent, except for the fact it was really out there and super strange.
The doll was re♛leased in the early 90s and featured Barbie with a boombox that spit out a couple beats. The overalꦅl looked seemed to be tailored to the rap scene at the time, but Barbie still wasn’t reaching the youth with this new look. Besides, the boombox itself was a little annoying after a while.
22 Baywatch Barbie ⛎
Everyone loves Baywatch, but not everyone loves the Barbie that was themed after it. Considering the fact that Baywatch was primarily an adult show that had older themes in the series, it seems 𓃲a little strange that they would ever make a Barbie themed after it. Yet here she was, swimsuit and all; she even cam𒅌e with a dolphin.
Why was she even made?
We’d probably never see a Barbie made like this again, if not for the fact that Baywatch ⛄doesn’t have the following it used to and certainly because it wasn’t real🧸ly meant for kids in the first place.
21 💧 ♑ “Happy Birthday, Ken” Barbie
After a strange and sudden break up, Ken and Barbie would be reunited once again as the toy power couple people always saw them as. For his 50th birthday, we𝔍’d see a new release celebrating the male𝐆 doll’s successful years in shelves all over the world.
So why was his Barbie companion in this series considered controversial? Well, it wasn’t the doll as much as her packaging. It labelled her🍌 dress and herself as a “gift” for Ken’s birthday; a little strange if not totaඣlly wrong.
20 💮 Slumber 🌃Party Barbie
Barbie has had a couple different versions where she’s seen at a slumber party, and why not? Tons of young girls love going to slee𝓀p overs and having fun with their friends; it’d be silly not to have a doll themed af✱ter it, targeting the right age group.
Why would you even bring these things to a slumber party?
This particular model, however, was💝 heavily criticized for the accessories the doll came with which included a scale and a magazine. It was exceptionally wrong🍒 and we’d hope never to see this kind of doll on the shelves again.
19 ♌ Sun Gold Malibu Barbie
Barbie has had some qu🐼estionable hobbies, but this doll seems to really be taking it to another level. If “Sun Gold” wasn’t enough of a hint, this Barbie doll was themed entirely around the goal of tanning herself.
Nevℱer mind that skin cancer is definitely a thing; we have to get ou🐻t in the sun and really scorch our skin! Surely there were other things that Barbie could have been doing with her time other than hoping to grab some sun. At the very least, couldn’t they have included some sunscreen?
18 🌌 Barbℱie Video Girl
Video Girl Barbie was already a really interesting kind of doll, if not one that seemed entirely useless. While we’ve seen technology turn toys in✱to something else, most of the time more interesting or fun, this time it turned a 🐭doll into an actual camera.
The fact this Barbie turned out to be such a serious issue is reason enough not to bring it back!
T𓆏he video could play back the video on Barbie’s back while a camera lens came ou𝐆t of her chest. The worst part about it? The FBI was particularly worried that adults would try to get videos through the dolls.
17 🧸 ❀ Shaving Fun Ken
We’re not entirely sure who thought of this doll and why, but Ken al🦩so deserves to be on this list if he has a weird model release in his past. This shaving doll allowed kids to actually shave Ken’s face.
If you haven’t seen the commercial for this doll yet, you’re really missing out. The best part about it is t𓃲hat Ken looks like a total bum with his beard, his hair is also a mess, but once he’s shaven even the little girls are swooning over him! Really, were they running out of ideas in the mid-90s?
16 🦹 Black Canary Barbie💖
We’ve definite𓆏ly got some comic book fans here on the site, so you readers might actually like this particular Barbie model! Unfortunately, she didn’t go over too well with the parents.
She definitely would have been cool for an older scene!
People were furious when they saw her up on 𝓡the shelves because her look was so draღstically different from previous Barbie models. Her heavy makeup, leather outfit and fishnets may have worked for the DC character, Black Canary, but it didn’t seem to fit what Barbie had previously promoted.