What do you think keep the BARBIE doll so popular ?

Marketting! They have built up an image that barbie like women are hot lol. Most of them want to look like a barbie. They also have community sites to attract kids and they are pretty creative. They change through the times and come up with a collection of different toys and accessories as you said the dresses, the paraphernalia etc. If it weren't for the marketing it wouldn't have survived and this holds for majority of the companies.

barbi was sort of the first cabbage patch kid where no-one could get enough of them, i think mothers passed them down. it was the time of baby boomers and a new model type doll was exciting and just passed down over the year's,. hasbro who makes the barbi doll is starting to re introduce the old, tried and true doll as is g.i. joe for boy's. from what i nunderstand hasbro thinks that bringing back the old model of barbi will sell but comes with a 2 piece bathing suit.oh yeah transformers are comming back in lue of the new movie comming out this summer.

I think maybe it's the change of dresses and there are so many different barbie looks to chase after too! I remember I saw a line called Top Model Barbie line and it was done fantastically *smiles*.

I believe barbie has been around so long because of good marketing.. Children are the best marketing targets... Barbie implements a false dream of looks and gives little girls the wrong impression of appearence. Every little girl who had a barbie wanted to look like barbie. and they have different cutltures now so its world wide. plus barbie had all those great clothes, and cars and houses... for girls she was the best toy

Barbie changes to reflect the current trends. Barbies may have been popular for the last 50 years, but she sure isn't the same Barbie that she was 50 years ago! She isn't even the same Barbie that was out when I was a little girl! I know she doesn't seem like 'real' but there is something about Barbies that make a little girl go crazy (well at least my girls) When Patsy turned 3 my grandma went at bought her her very first Barbie doll, she was so thrilled! I don't know if it was over the Barbie per say... or the fact that she had somehow been accepted into the big girl world with her big sister and they could now play Barbies together. Haha. I bought my oldest, Clara, her first Barbie at 2 because I just couldn't wait. Haha. She was already past the stage of putting things into her mouth and I hadn't been allowed to play with Barbies as a child so I jumped to get her a Barbie and the case with all the outfits and everything. The only thing I truly have a problem with is that the pieces get tracked all over the house! Let me tell you, it's no fun stumbling through a dark livingroom in the middle of the night to step on a Barbie shoe barefooted! Ouch! Haha. But, I do love being able to provide my little girls with a rather cheap (relitively) toy that is still considered cool to have after all these years.

ya u are right..barbie dolls are very famous..even i like barbie very much..its very famous for the addition things given with the doll dresses,comb,colors for her hairs..even i don't have even one my i asked for barbie many times..but my mom bought me some other doll instead of barbie..

Without a doubt it is little girls who keep Barbie from becoming a has-been. Every little girl wants to be just like Barbie and to have lots of Barbie dolls. Cheers!!

She is popular because she is an adult doll. Most dolls offered are babies used to train adolescent females for their ultimate role as mothers and caregivers. Barbie as an adult, although sexist and anatomically exaggerated, was possible the first icon that adolescent females could aspire to that did not stress mother and caregiver roles, other than maybe some of the professions that were chosen for her.