I've been really getting into dance lately. I've taken up East Coast Swing, although I am not very good at this stage. You're not going to see me performing in a Jack N Jill any time soon.
This was a really awful segue into talking about a cool line of Barbies that have nothing to do with East Coast Swing.
The Tango Barbie giftset was an FAO Schwarz exclusive Barbie and Ken set, featuring Ken with a small amount of facial hair and Barbie with a rose in her teeth. This was released in 2002, and followed in 2003 by another giftset depicting partnered dancing.
In The Waltz, Ken has a Clark Gable moustache, and Barbie's gown is flowing everywhere you can imagine.
Neither of these were the first or only Barbies to be depicted around partnered or ballroom dancing. The Ballroom Beauties collection comes to mind, although I find quite perplexing. You see, Ken is on the box, but Barbie is actually alone.
Moonlight Waltz Barbie is absolutely beautiful, don't get me wrong. But why is Ken on the box art if he's not actually there? Did Mattel just not want to make a bunch of different Kens in similar suits? Because they could have been more creative with their menswear.
And later, we had tie-in Barbies for Dancing with the Stars - for example, Waltz again depicted above. This is a really interesting costume, actually, and I Love it.
But none of these reach the levels of Bob Mackie's Tango Barbie from the Celebration of Dance porcelain series.
Look at her. She's incredible.
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barbie was insane. there was a snyder cut justice league joke, greta gerwig acknowledged her white feminism during the narrative i choked on my drink when they said let ken play guitar At you (for four hours), as is traditional during cishetro relationships allan was nonbinary. Ken Discovered Patriarchy and Recreated it in Barbieland. i was briefly sexually attracted to ryan gosling and there was a homoerotic fight scene accompanied by a musical number
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oh oh ok yeah you "like his reactions" and his "weird sounds" when hes scared of you huh jimothy??
thats so normal of you.
anyways congratulations to jimmy on his first weird red name obsession godspeed big man i hope you obliterate that twink ❤️
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UM MASSIVE FUCKING L ON MY PART GUYS I SHOULD'VE PAYED BETTER ATTENTION TO THE SPRITES I THOUGHT HE WAS WHITE THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME
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we all do agree that between Wout and Mathieu, Mathieu is barbie and wout is ken, right ?
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After 6 years I bought a new dancing shoes 🙈 The old ones were literally falling into pieces and I felt like Barbie in 12 Dancing Princesses 🩷🩰 where the girls' shoes were in desolate condition every morning after they spent all night in an enchanted world dancing and dancing and dancing ✨
Old ones vs. new ones 🖤 I hate to let them go, because they experienced so many dancing adventures with me; they were here when I first entered the ballroom; when I learned the first basic steps of all 10 ballroom dances; when I had my first performance... 🪩 They will always remain in my heart and stored in a box so that everytime I look at them, the beautiful memories will come back to me 🫶
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That Barbie meme but with Fantasy AU King Henry.
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storytime- so me and my cousin loooove shitposting in any form, she's more boomer/millenial shitposting and i'm the genz central. So ofc we both went like "we're seeing barbie right?"
Like 3 days ago she texts me "so when can you go, i gotta ask the gc" i didn't know about that fact so i checked with my mom and dad, whose jobs kinda cross in the summer, and they said "yeah sunday maybe"
And ok so a little insight, back like a month, my friends were like "haha just tell your mom and dad you won't go to your grandmas" like bitch. no. "boohoo so what, just stay home" do you want me to get grounded for the rest of my life you stupid fuck. So I'm still pissed bout that.
AAAAND back to the main story ; so i say to the gc, "yeah sunday works for me" and these 2 motherfuckers start going like "shit i gotta go dig up potatoes" or "yeah i can't but from 7-8 pm i can"
LIKE WHAT. THE FIRST TIME THIS SUMMER I WANNA GO OUT AND ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING WITH MY LIFE AND THEY GO "HAH NAH"???
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Can we get more fashionable Tango? He is also a good barbie doll to dress up
He's a very different type of barbie doll, to me
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