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Re: Family diversity
« Reply #40 on: December 30, 2015, 08:43:30 »
It is a business, and as a business it exists solely to make money. 

I seriously doubt that. I have no idea what their goal is, but it seems to me that isn't it...


I believe they had barbies of different ethnicities, but did they ever have a ken doll who was not white?

I am pretty sure they did.. like in the 70s.

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Re: Family diversity
« Reply #41 on: December 30, 2015, 14:21:48 »
It's a business with severs control syndrome. It starts contradicting itself for its own good
It's supposed to seek out capital (your funds) but then the syndrome kicks in

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After having all these kids and providing toys for them these type of subjects became very important to me personally. It's the future generations and the toys adults provide for them set patterns, ideas, concepts, values, ??, that they build on and draw upon in their maturing processes....then put them into practice when it's their time as the adults....repeat
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Re: Family diversity
« Reply #42 on: December 30, 2015, 14:59:41 »

I believe they had barbies of different ethnicities, but did they ever have a ken doll who was not white?



African American Ken, "Big Jack" from the "Big Jim" action figures, and Action Man's "Tom Stone".I still have 2 original "Tom Stone" action figures.  :)
I also have lots of darker skinned Playmobil warriors, race car drivers, astronauts, cowboys...So what's the point?
I have two sons who grew up with Playmobil, and they never questioned any figure's skin colour, a hero can be white, brown, black, yellow or blue.  ;)
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Re: Family diversity
« Reply #43 on: December 30, 2015, 17:01:43 »
I want to see playmobil brand evolve from love
I do not want to see it stay the same
I do not want to see it regress to older times
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Re: Family diversity
« Reply #44 on: December 30, 2015, 18:30:06 »
Depends on the theme. The medieval and western themes would be greatly improved by going back to earlier days.

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Re: Family diversity
« Reply #45 on: December 30, 2015, 20:43:04 »
Quote from: Rhalius
I believe they had barbies of different ethnicities, but did they ever have a ken doll who was not white?

To add to what others posted: yes:

http://kattisdolls.net/KDold/faces/kethnic.htm

There were also Brad, Curtis, Steven, Jamal, and Alan - plus Tre in the Flava doll series.

http://i-luv-dolls.blogspot.com/2011/04/black-male-faces-in-barbie-line_16.html

Oh... and I also used to collect Barbie/Mattel dolls!
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Re: Family diversity
« Reply #46 on: December 30, 2015, 20:44:32 »
Oh... and I also used to collect Barbie/Mattel dolls!

So did my sister :)

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Re: Family diversity
« Reply #47 on: December 31, 2015, 05:08:10 »
Where though? Sets only have a couple of klickies in them. If you try to represent different groups you end up not representing the main group which is your current target audience.

I was looking at some older sets recently and many of them had more klickies in them. How many sets today have seven or eight klickies in them, any?
The original redcoat soldier set had something like five in it including one black klicky. The "re-released" version had three including the black guy.
They need to produce more sets that have larger numbers of klickies in them, then they can add the diversity some are wanting without removing options for others.

It doesn't have to be in the same set. There are certain types of klickies that are doing well in diversity (like the modern theme), but angels, wedding couples, and fantasy princesses/princes are always white. Angels are usually blonde; the remaining few have brown hair. And how many blonde pink fantasy princesses are there? We haven't had any shortage of these three categories, but very little diversity in them.

Angels and fairies are always female. Even Tinkerbell movies have boy fairies!

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Re: Family diversity
« Reply #48 on: December 31, 2015, 09:40:32 »
Well they did make some improvements, I believe they did have a black fairy in that theme so thats a step in the right direction.

Might be nice to see more non white parents with their children or with a partner in sets though. Like having a black mom with her black children in a playground set. Or a black dad with his child at an amusement park. It does happen at times but could be a bit more common since often when we see black clickies in sets with various clickies, its often a single black child or a single black adult.

Same goes for asian and tanned clickies though. But the tanned ones seem more common since they could be used as Latino, Indian, Native American, middle eastern and mediteranean. Or a white clicky with a tan.

Still, it is nice that asian clickies are seen more often in recent years in the modern themes. Now we just need an asian baby.


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Re: Family diversity
« Reply #49 on: December 31, 2015, 11:12:50 »
I started to wonder if the new eyes that people refer to as animation eyes is an attempt at creating a Japanese distinction ?
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