as a doll collector, seeing the growth of dolls and what they've come to today just from my childhood 20 years ago is amazing. there are so many and their outfits are always so good. my favorite thing about naturalistas is that they're budget friendly! there's another doll company out there prototyping fat dolls!! can you imagine plus sized dolls? the lil chunky kids who get to see themselves in the dolls too? ❤❤❤ love love love dolls, and im so glad they've helped the world grow as much as they have.
I love the focus on bratz! I remember news stories having the opposite sway as a child that loved bratz, so as an adult who still loves them I'm glad to hear a different song being sung!
I know right. Parents had a fit over Mattel's Flava and My Scene lines. I love them. Doll companies need to realize there is an adult doll community. We spend more on dolls than any parent buying for children. What child has 1000s of dolls? 😊
Bratz were definitely the blueprint for diversity in the fashion doll world. I'm so glad we're getting more and more brands, because every little kid should be able to feel represented by the dolls they play with
@@Adv18yet I’m gen z and remember walking through toy’s r us as a little kid and they were only very few diverse dolls on the shelves. They looked more like tokens than a part of the line
Thank you for this. In the 60's I used a large Coke bottle and a clothes pin (spring removed) the clothes pin would hold rope tightly in the top of the bottle. I. Combed and rolled the rope hair. The rollers were brown paper bag. My grandmother Maude Lewis taught me that. I remember telling her but it doesn't have a face but the hair is beautiful. 😊
You didn't have a Christie doll? I grew up in the 70s and 80s. I'm white but I had quite a few dark skin dolls. There was a doll , Disco Wanda I think her name was, she had the best outfits.
i'm so glad i was able to experience that diversity as a kid with Bratz and now other little girls can too with Naturalistas, Bratz, Rainbow High, etc. 🧡
On a fashion doll iceberg i saw that there were many attempts at creating doll lines with african american girls in mind, sadly none of those really seemed to be able to stay. I hope the Naturalistas and similar dolls will keep going strong
Love this but it's not new. Mattel has been doing this since 1968. Barbie's friend Christie had afro. Julia and the first Black Barbie have "short" afros. Now the Barbie production has skyrocketed in diversity with doll with down syndrome, hearing aide, teeth braces, wheelchair, prosthetic, afro, short hair, shaved sides, bald... This line has one doll with short hair and it's molded. Not a quality mold either. Diversity include dolls with short hair that can be restyled. Not all black gyrlz have hair to the paducah. Did I buy them? Yes!!! I customize. 😉
Yes. Thank you. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. There were many dark skin dolls. I had a Christie and I think Disco Wanda. A few others that were similar to Barbie. I'm white by the way. I adopted my biracial daughter in the early 2000s and I had a hard time finding any ethnic dolls. I'm glad they are expanding with diversity. I bought my daughter a Barbie with Vitiligo. And just bought her a Barbie with Down Syndrome for Christmas. My daughter is autistic and her best friend has Down Syndrome. Love the new dolls.
@@justmejenny7986 that's cool you bought your daughter a variety of dolls. One of my Aunt's had vitiligo, she was my favorite. Ethnic dolls can be hard to find. It's not like they don't exist. Stores don't stock enough. Ours are getting better. I was disappointed Mattel didn't make a black Barbie with down syndrome. I'll paint the head and give her a black body. I used Asian Kira doll to make a MiniMe. Now Mattel has one, must've seen mine. 😆
I love love love this! This is progress and positive. I personally think this is way overdue. Finally young children will have a toy that they relate to and they perceive has as much as if not more value than a Caucasian toy. I just think this is wonderful.
Same here. Although, I'm Caucasian, I find it so heartbreaking that black and brown children would opt for a Caucasian doll than one close to their color and race. Being close to something that is closely related to you vibrates, affirms, conditions, and strengthen who you are, positively and brightly!🙂💓🤎🖤💞🥰😇🤗
@@dorothyedwards7225 finally tots and dolls that are made in the beautiful likeness of the children who are going to play with them rather than them just being altered Caucasian dolls…. I love the hair fiber and the sculpting of the beautiful bone structure.
@@bishopsdad I hear ya and see ya. I have to say, when I was young I did like dolls, though I did have one here and there. My most favorite doll was this I guess/ I think it was a native doll because she her skin tone was a lite brown and beautiful long straight hair, which was similar to Cher's back in that time. I loved that doll, it was my favorite doll. I don't recall the clothes and I didn't have a change of doll clothes. And I guess, taken from the movie Toy Story, one day it was gone!! I had noticed it one day not around. I didn't ask my mom, but I was so heartbroken. For some reason, I related to that doll. That doll had an image that I wanted to have and be, but it never was. But I still remember that doll and how it made me feel.🥰😍🥰🤗👍
I didn't realize girls and boys still played with dolls in 2023. A lot of the toys today are nothing like the toys I played with as a boy growing up in the early 60's.
If you ask me Mattel has been killing the game when it comes to diversity. I mean look at G3 Monster High, every character comes in different shapes and sizes. Barbie has been doing this for awhile now. As an adult collector I would have never thought I would be alive to see this
I adore Bratz, but this is actually soooo disrespectful to both Mattel & Disney. Mattel produced black barbies since the 60s, with curly & non-curly hair lol... and later on asian & hispanic characters too. In almost all Barbie lines, you have a black AA doll dressed in completely identical outfit (equality) And Disney included gypsies, natives, arabs, greeks & asians in their 90s films - which were all represented in dolls too... Saying that 'bratz started it all' - seems like a tag sponsored by MGA themselves
I've seen some in the toy aisle at a Target in Phoenix. There were Afro-Latina ones and I was so thrilled. I wish I could remember the company that made them.
Where's the doll with the short hair, more realistic hair? MOST Black women don't have long hair like that, these dolls are going to make little Black girls feel inadequate. 🙄
I'm never a doll person being a man,did find out that men do want dolls too,but not me though.Some boys want some dolls, to know of. The Naturalistas dolls are a sort of diverse dolls.They and other diverse dolls of whatever should add having much fuller figured characters if they have diversity like they say they do,not just other races like Samoans,Arabs,and Albanians.As you see for the most part,dolls that are children and adults are still slim bodied,maybe too thin but not too fat.
Mattel's Fashionista line has different body types/sizes, male and female. I know several adult men who collect dolls and action figures, Toohunky Toys and Jouets en Jeu. There are more but can't recall their YT IDs.
Bravo Ladies for Pushing these Black Dolls to the Mainstream. For so long, It was always Barbie, Because she was White and Blond. Mattel didn't make a Black Doll until the Late 1980s or 1990s. Seeing sll these Beautiful Dolls is that are Diverst. Love it ❤❤❤❤.
actually the first black doll by mattel made its debut in 1967 known as “black francie”. which was just a darker version of an already existing white character. barbie’s first official black character known as “christie” made her debut in 1968.
@@justmejenny7986 What am I'm WRONG about. You know in the 1950s and 1960s The Perfect Blonde, White Doll was made by Mattel called BARBIE into 1970s through out. In this year alone, In Hollywood made a Movie 🎥 about Barbie, SERIOUSLY 😳. These Manufacturers has to Start making Ethnic Dolls, Because the OUT CRY was to Enormous. So saying that, If anyone that's been Misinformed, It YOU. BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL ❤️❤️❤️
@@daelitecityride Yep…..I’m a realist, a realist that’s still around distressed neighborhoods, like the ones I grew up……The new younginz definitely carry weapons in those lil “man-purses”…LMAO….So why have that influence in a toy, is all I’m sayin, everything else is top notch on the designs from what I can see….🤷🏽♂️🤟🏿❤️
@@SpiritMover314 I'm a realist too. I live in Metro Atl where someone is shot and/or killed daily. Younginz carrying weapons in a "man purse", I doubt would get their influence from a doll. That influence stems from elsewhere: tv, video games, upbringing or the lack thereof. In today's climate even politicians. 🙄
@@EnriqueSebastian-vd9uo I'm just going to pray that they don't go too far. And I wish I could say more but political correctness will remove my reply to you. Have a great weekend!
Mattel has already made their line more inclusive. I already commented about it. More realistic dolls will help teach children to be more tolerant of ppl who are different. Well, not if their parents aren't. Anyway..., search Barbie Fashionistas. 😂
@@delanceysdollhouseshe's the type that sees anything positive about the word "Black" and automatically thinks it's "political" which is sad. There's nothing bad about having a greater variety of dolls for kids to play with and see themselves in.
As a black child, and now as an black adult toy collector, I don't like dolls w/ textured or curly hair. I want straight, stylable hair, that's NOT like mine. I HATE MY HAIR, and I'm not crazy about being black. I never would have wanted these dolls as a kid, and wouldn't want them now.
There's not one commercial or movie out now that doesn't push a white and black couple. And they add in the gay people too. I always thought the majority ruled and movies would stay all black couples and all white couples. Even the new Dr. Who got ruined by adding in the pronoun crap. I don't let my kids watch tv anymore unless i have seen the show or cartoon first. People black and white are so fed up with it all.
as a doll collector, seeing the growth of dolls and what they've come to today just from my childhood 20 years ago is amazing. there are so many and their outfits are always so good. my favorite thing about naturalistas is that they're budget friendly! there's another doll company out there prototyping fat dolls!! can you imagine plus sized dolls? the lil chunky kids who get to see themselves in the dolls too? ❤❤❤ love love love dolls, and im so glad they've helped the world grow as much as they have.
I love the focus on bratz! I remember news stories having the opposite sway as a child that loved bratz, so as an adult who still loves them I'm glad to hear a different song being sung!
I know right. Parents had a fit over Mattel's Flava and My Scene lines. I love them. Doll companies need to realize there is an adult doll community. We spend more on dolls than any parent buying for children. What child has 1000s of dolls? 😊
Bratz were definitely the blueprint for diversity in the fashion doll world. I'm so glad we're getting more and more brands, because every little kid should be able to feel represented by the dolls they play with
Lol. No. Guess you weren't around in the 70s.
Bratz were from the 2000s, we had black dolls before the 2000s and doll lines that were diverse.
Christmas 🎄 1964 my Parents 🙏🏾 Surprised me and my 2 Sisters with "Beautiful Black Walking Dolls" PRICELESS! 😘🤗
@@Adv18yet I’m gen z and remember walking through toy’s r us as a little kid and they were only very few diverse dolls on the shelves. They looked more like tokens than a part of the line
Thank you for this. In the 60's I used a large Coke bottle and a clothes pin (spring removed) the clothes pin would hold rope tightly in the top of the bottle. I. Combed and rolled the rope hair. The rollers were brown paper bag. My grandmother Maude Lewis taught me that. I remember telling her but it doesn't have a face but the hair is beautiful. 😊
You didn't have a Christie doll? I grew up in the 70s and 80s. I'm white but I had quite a few dark skin dolls. There was a doll , Disco Wanda I think her name was, she had the best outfits.
I had a "Beautiful Black Walking Doll" in 1964
So glad the naturalista line will have male dolls!! ❤ looking forward to purchasing.
And their boy doll is so cute!!
Greg doll is almost sold out in my area.
i'm so glad i was able to experience that diversity as a kid with Bratz and now other little girls can too with Naturalistas, Bratz, Rainbow High, etc. 🧡
On a fashion doll iceberg i saw that there were many attempts at creating doll lines with african american girls in mind, sadly none of those really seemed to be able to stay. I hope the Naturalistas and similar dolls will keep going strong
I wished for a doll that looked like me and I could identify with. These are on my Christmas list this year.
i have a couple and they are great! i hope you love them too :)
Never been happier to be a doll collector today and an illustrator hopeful to join the industry
About time! 👏This is so great!!! Asian and mixed ethnicity dolls too!
Check out Fashionistas, very diverse.
I wish The Fresh Dolls would make a bigger splash. They are so under the radar and usually have great hair, great clothes, and posability.
Love this but it's not new. Mattel has been doing this since 1968. Barbie's friend Christie had afro. Julia and the first Black Barbie have "short" afros. Now the Barbie production has skyrocketed in diversity with doll with down syndrome, hearing aide, teeth braces, wheelchair, prosthetic, afro, short hair, shaved sides, bald...
This line has one doll with short hair and it's molded. Not a quality mold either. Diversity include dolls with short hair that can be restyled. Not all black gyrlz have hair to the paducah.
Did I buy them? Yes!!! I customize. 😉
Yes. Thank you. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. There were many dark skin dolls. I had a Christie and I think Disco Wanda. A few others that were similar to Barbie. I'm white by the way. I adopted my biracial daughter in the early 2000s and I had a hard time finding any ethnic dolls. I'm glad they are expanding with diversity. I bought my daughter a Barbie with Vitiligo. And just bought her a Barbie with Down Syndrome for Christmas. My daughter is autistic and her best friend has Down Syndrome. Love the new dolls.
@@justmejenny7986 that's cool you bought your daughter a variety of dolls. One of my Aunt's had vitiligo, she was my favorite. Ethnic dolls can be hard to find. It's not like they don't exist. Stores don't stock enough. Ours are getting better.
I was disappointed Mattel didn't make a black Barbie with down syndrome. I'll paint the head and give her a black body. I used Asian Kira doll to make a MiniMe. Now Mattel has one, must've seen mine. 😆
I had a "Beautiful Black Walking Doll" in 1964
Beautiful! I love it!❤
I’ve seen the same thing in American girl dolls. Really cool and happy to see it
I love love love this! This is progress and positive. I personally think this is way overdue. Finally young children will have a toy that they relate to and they perceive has as much as if not more value than a Caucasian toy. I just think this is wonderful.
Same here. Although, I'm Caucasian, I find it so heartbreaking that black and brown children would opt for a Caucasian doll than one close to their color and race. Being close to something that is closely related to you vibrates, affirms, conditions, and strengthen who you are, positively and brightly!🙂💓🤎🖤💞🥰😇🤗
@@dorothyedwards7225 finally tots and dolls that are made in the beautiful likeness of the children who are going to play with them rather than them just being altered Caucasian dolls…. I love the hair fiber and the sculpting of the beautiful bone structure.
@@bishopsdad I hear ya and see ya. I have to say, when I was young I did like dolls, though I did have one here and there. My most favorite doll was this I guess/ I think it was a native doll because she her skin tone was a lite brown and beautiful long straight hair, which was similar to Cher's back in that time. I loved that doll, it was my favorite doll. I don't recall the clothes and I didn't have a change of doll clothes. And I guess, taken from the movie Toy Story, one day it was gone!! I had noticed it one day not around. I didn't ask my mom, but I was so heartbroken. For some reason, I related to that doll. That doll had an image that I wanted to have and be, but it never was. But I still remember that doll and how it made me feel.🥰😍🥰🤗👍
I had a "Beautiful Black Walking Doll" in 1964
@@dorothyedwards7225they opt for it because that’s what’s marketed as the only beauty in the world (at least until now)
isaac the og brat! thankyou! loved yasmin from day 1! got her a season late compared to my afab cousins and sis but recently got the debut reissue 💜
Jasmine Larian is fabulous honey! She’s also the owner of Cult Gaia.
It's about time❤❤❤
I didn't realize girls and boys still played with dolls in 2023. A lot of the toys today are nothing like the toys I played with as a boy growing up in the early 60's.
OMG yes. Adults too. There are many guyz on YT and IG. TooHunky Toys, Jouets en Jeu are my faves. 😊
No more opression these dolls are georgous no denying it just as the people are ❤😊 im happy
Lmao “oppression”
Oppression?! With dolls?…pffft….talk about first world problems😂😂
100%!❣
Love that the Bratz heiress is an IRL Bratz doll 💅🏽
bratz 🔛🔝💋
If you ask me Mattel has been killing the game when it comes to diversity. I mean look at G3 Monster High, every character comes in different shapes and sizes. Barbie has been doing this for awhile now. As an adult collector I would have never thought I would be alive to see this
I remember when G.I. Joe had issued a line of collectible action figures portraying the Tuskegee Airmen.
I adore Bratz, but this is actually soooo disrespectful to both Mattel & Disney.
Mattel produced black barbies since the 60s, with curly & non-curly hair lol... and later on asian & hispanic characters too.
In almost all Barbie lines, you have a black AA doll dressed in completely identical outfit (equality)
And Disney included gypsies, natives, arabs, greeks & asians in their 90s films - which were all represented in dolls too...
Saying that 'bratz started it all' - seems like a tag sponsored by MGA themselves
Well Stated!🎯💯👏🏾🤜🏾🤛🏾
I had a "Beautiful Black Walking Doll" in 1964
This is so amazing.💖🎀💖
I like that we are mentioning of black dolls but what about the Latin and Asian ones?
I wish we had more Hispanic dolls but in different shades
I've seen some in the toy aisle at a Target in Phoenix. There were Afro-Latina ones and I was so thrilled. I wish I could remember the company that made them.
love bratz
3:18 Marcus Garvey had nothing to do with making black dolls🥴🥴🥴
Where's the doll with the short hair, more realistic hair? MOST Black women don't have long hair like that, these dolls are going to make little Black girls feel inadequate. 🙄
LFG
There are so many other important things going on in the world right now. Like it's insane that this was worth spending any time on air
I'm never a doll person being
a man,did find out that men do want dolls too,but not me though.Some boys want some dolls, to know of.
The Naturalistas dolls are a sort of diverse dolls.They and other diverse dolls of whatever should add having much fuller figured characters if they have diversity like they say they do,not just other races like Samoans,Arabs,and Albanians.As you see for the most part,dolls that are children and adults are still slim bodied,maybe too thin but not too fat.
Mattel's Fashionista line has different body types/sizes, male and female. I know several adult men who collect dolls and action figures, Toohunky Toys and Jouets en Jeu. There are more but can't recall their YT IDs.
They wanna make money , right?
Bravo Ladies for Pushing these Black Dolls to the Mainstream. For so long, It was always Barbie, Because she was White and Blond. Mattel didn't make a Black Doll until the Late 1980s or 1990s. Seeing sll these Beautiful Dolls is that are Diverst. Love it ❤❤❤❤.
actually the first black doll by mattel made its debut in 1967 known as “black francie”. which was just a darker version of an already existing white character. barbie’s first official black character known as “christie” made her debut in 1968.
You're spreading misinformation. Sorry. Do some research.
@@justmejenny7986 lol look it up.
@@justmejenny7986 What am I'm WRONG about. You know in the 1950s and 1960s The Perfect Blonde, White Doll was made by Mattel called BARBIE into 1970s through out. In this year alone, In Hollywood made a Movie 🎥 about Barbie, SERIOUSLY 😳. These Manufacturers has to Start making Ethnic Dolls, Because the OUT CRY was to Enormous. So saying that, If anyone that's been Misinformed, It YOU. BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL ❤️❤️❤️
@@jillmarshall4718 idk what you’re yapping about but ok whatever
Greg gotta pistol in that bag!…..😂😂🤣🤣……Lose the bag..👎🏽…Everything else …💯👌🏾
fragile masculinity has u scared of a messenger bag on a boy doll? lol, don’t project your insecurities onto kids toys.
That's his barber bag. I know what you mean tho. Backpack more realistic, in my opinion.
@@daelitecityride Yep…..I’m a realist, a realist that’s still around distressed neighborhoods, like the ones I grew up……The new younginz definitely carry weapons in those lil “man-purses”…LMAO….So why have that influence in a toy, is all I’m sayin, everything else is top notch on the designs from what I can see….🤷🏽♂️🤟🏿❤️
@@SpiritMover314 I'm a realist too. I live in Metro Atl where someone is shot and/or killed daily. Younginz carrying weapons in a "man purse", I doubt would get their influence from a doll. That influence stems from elsewhere: tv, video games, upbringing or the lack thereof. In today's climate even politicians. 🙄
Great! Now, how about normal body types!
They’re producing them already!
@@PinkRibbonsCoveredInBlood good!!! Ty
there is no such thing as a “normal” body type.
Mattel's Fashionistas. 😉
Just as long as they don't go too far, please. Stick to race/culture and that's it. Kids don't need political correctness sh...
Because you decide how all parents should raise their kids?
@@EnriqueSebastian-vd9uo I'm just going to pray that they don't go too far. And I wish I could say more but political correctness will remove my reply to you. Have a great weekend!
what about anything that could be taken from this video was political? you’re telling more about yourself than you think.
Mattel has already made their line more inclusive. I already commented about it. More realistic dolls will help teach children to be more tolerant of ppl who are different. Well, not if their parents aren't. Anyway..., search Barbie Fashionistas. 😂
@@delanceysdollhouseshe's the type that sees anything positive about the word "Black" and automatically thinks it's "political" which is sad. There's nothing bad about having a greater variety of dolls for kids to play with and see themselves in.
As a black child, and now as an black adult toy collector, I don't like dolls w/ textured or curly hair. I want straight, stylable hair, that's NOT like mine. I HATE MY HAIR, and I'm not crazy about being black. I never would have wanted these dolls as a kid, and wouldn't want them now.
Just because you hate your hair and hate dolls that resemble your hair doesn’t mean that children should have the same self hate
If you’re a mother, your mentality will make your own kids hate their genetic features…
We already have many people in the black community that uplift and worship light skin and looser hair textures. We need change
Get help. If you're a bot, shut down.
Not a bot and don't need help.@@kimberly8695
There's not one commercial or movie out now that doesn't push a white and black couple. And they add in the gay people too. I always thought the majority ruled and movies would stay all black couples and all white couples. Even the new Dr. Who got ruined by adding in the pronoun crap. I don't let my kids watch tv anymore unless i have seen the show or cartoon first. People black and white are so fed up with it all.