"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Hi Barbie! It's nearly time to wake up (again) in your own pink world. Yup. Greta Gerwig's mega-summer ...

The plot of the Barbie movie may still be shrouded in mystery, but one controversial doll might just be the secret to it all. Her name is Midge. She’s pregnant. Her belly is partially made of metal, ...

Within the Mattel toy universe, there's Barbie, there's "just Ken" ... and there are the dolls you completely forgot existed until seeing Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" movie. "Barbie" features a few such of ...

(CNN) — In Barbie’s world, she’s the star. Her face launched a global empire, with over 1 billion dolls sold by Mattel to date; she has, for better or worse, the power to set beauty standards; and for ...

Mattel's Midge doll may have failed in the 1960s because she was "less glamorous" than Barbie, Ruth Handler once said. Midge had the same body shape as Barbie but a "much more girl-next-doorish" look, ...

Allan is actually a real doll in the Barbie lineup and was first introduced by Mattel in 1964. Officially named Allan Sherwood in a series of novels (yes, there’s novels. It’s a whole thing), the doll ...

In "Barbie," Allan appears as a kind but lonely man who just wants to hang out with the Kens and Barbies. He didn't interact with Midge in the movie. But he was actually the father of her unborn child ...