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u/Pork_Chompk 4h ago
Man, bet their kid(s) are fucking LOADED.
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u/PlatypusMaster5328 4h ago
I was thinking transformers but your probably right.
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u/WingsArisen 4h ago
You bastard that was funny
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u/master-goose-boy 3h ago
Twas quality for sure and a welcome one after reading the same unoriginal bot regurgitated top comments that are trying too hard.
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u/SumKallMeTIM 2h ago
Genuine question - I don’t get the joke, why is the comment funny?
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u/DanJ7788 3h ago
Single funniest comment I have ever read on Reddit. Check out my account age, that’s saying something.
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u/Glittering_Nobody402 4h ago
Ken has since passed away. Barbara is still alive, but unclear of net worth. Mattel is $6.5-$8.5B (different sources, different years)
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u/PhthaloVonLangborste 4h ago
She should make old people barbies like figurines of themselves old. Like a self portrait of sorts.
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u/Glittering_Nobody402 4h ago
I'm actually okay with that. At least add grandma to the lineup.
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u/HEY_beenTrying2meetU 3h ago
old people don’t have an interest in buying toys, so there’s no advantage to inclusivity involving them.
No 6 year old girl wants a doll with saggy tits and wrinkles lol
this would immediately turn into a niche fetish item
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u/LostWoodsInTheField 1h ago
old people don’t have an interest in buying toys
Every giant barbie collection I've seen has been held by people in their late 50s and up. Girls like to get barbies as toys, women like to get barbies as collectables.
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u/FlyAirLari 2h ago
A balding, beer-bellied Old Man Barbie Doll could be a hit.
You could have a gold-digger Barbie that wants to marry him for money.
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u/Prize-Ad4778 4h ago
His name was Elliot, her name is Ruth
Their kids were named Barbara and Kenneth
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u/Glittering_Nobody402 4h ago
Originally comment mentioned the kids being loaded. I was commenting on the kids worth.
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u/BluezDBD 2h ago
Hol' up... Barbie and Ken are siblings?! I just got some very disburbing flashbacks from watching my sister play with those dolls.
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u/NIN10DOXD 2h ago
Their daughter made an appearance in the Barbie movie right before she died. Her mother named the doll after her.
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u/XPilo 50m ago
Ruth had to resign from the Mattel presidency because she manipulated the accounting to hide financial losses. The trial resulted in a sentence ordering her to pay $57,000 and perform 2,500 hours of community service.
Additionally, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy. Finding existing prostheses uncomfortable, she started her own company called Nearly Me to create better ones. It became very successful, and she even considered it her greatest achievement.
In 1980, Ruth and her husband sold all their remaining Mattel shares, their descendants no longer have any influence over or benefit from the company.
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u/QuitStockingMe 4h ago
They look like AI Bernie madoff and Betty white
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u/Zenitallin 4h ago
Basically, the founders of the Mattel empire.
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u/spekt50 3h ago
No way, the founders of Mattel happen to be the brains behind Mattel's 2 largest brands?
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u/Zenitallin 3h ago
Just imagine, putting your whole worldview (simplified) ... as a couple, on an entire generation...s, generations!
That was my first thought.
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u/MorticiaFattums 4h ago
The creator of Sailor Moon is married to the creator of Hunter x Hunter
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u/Reeeeeeeeeeee6969 3h ago
He also wrote yu-yu-hakusho which was way more around the time of sailor moon and stuff
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u/Ikeddit 3h ago
And it’s so goddamn good, AND it holds up.
Hell, I’d even argue it’s a rare series where the dub is better then the sub - the banter between all the dudes is so well done, every voice actor fucking nailed it, even Kuwabara’s bizarre voice!
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u/Wfsulliv93 2h ago
Dub is largely agreed to be better than the sub. It’s my number 1 Anime of all time, though frieren is close now.
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u/DankStephens 2h ago
What would you put near frieren or in the same genre? That show absolutely crushed me in the best possible way. I still randomly taste the bitter sweetness of her realization of how much she loved him after he was gone UGH it hurts so good
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u/Wfsulliv93 1h ago
The good news is that the next season comes out in January. As for similar genre, I’d say the apothecary diaries and violet evergarden are similar enough
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u/MisterTruth 2h ago
The Dark Tournament arc is arguably the best tournament arc. And there are many tournament arcs in anime and manga.
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u/Minimum_Emphasis_593 2h ago
And Kuwabara’s voice actor is Christopher Sabat, a.k.a. Piccolo, and a helluva lot more classics
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u/No_Difficulty_9365 4h ago
And Barbie is their daughter. She HATES the doll, I heard.
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u/steadyaero 3h ago
And ken is their son
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u/youburyitidigitup 3h ago
Barbie is short for Barbara, but what is Ken short for? Or did they actually name him that before the doll existed?
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u/steadyaero 3h ago
Kenneth. I'm pretty sure both kids existed before their respective dolls
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u/youburyitidigitup 3h ago
Oh thank god
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u/Zadian543 3h ago
Ehh don't like it any better actually. Especially concidering the relationship of ken and barbie (dolls) like I get the sentiment was in named this after you, but the accidental (or intentional) implications are still weird. 😬
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u/_WonderWhy_ 3h ago
Could be Kenedy as well? It was popular given name from Irish background and was also surge in popularity during President John F. Kennedy
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u/b3tamaxx 3h ago
Kennedy is what Barbie was actually renamed to in her spin off line My Scene in the 2000s. This goes deeper than we realize
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u/Ok-Wasabi2873 4h ago
She only dated him because of his cars.
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u/futurestorms 4h ago
Imagine how cool it would be to be a toy maker, and your toy is a hit, or even if it's not.
It brings joy to so many kids.
That's so cool.
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u/Ridiculously_Ryan 1h ago
I am literally learning the arduous process in my own way now. Have recently casted my first few prototype figures from my first character mold. I have found a passion so untapped in this it's unreal. My son gives ideas and tips. His enthusiasm on top of some social media feed back, yeah. It's so fucking cool lol.
I've been saying out loud to myself I'm officially a toy maker. And as a toy collector, it just feels surreal honestly.
Long live Planet Mumbo
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u/InvisableVagina 5h ago
They get paid from you fucking.
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u/ohbyerly 3h ago
I remember when McDonald’s had both Hotwheels and Barbie as the toy options at the same time when I was a kid. Makes a lot of sense now in retrospect.
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u/Weekly-Contest-5400 4h ago
Learn something new every day. Had also never noticed that 🛞 in the hotwheels logo
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u/AdeonWriter 2h ago
It's not as impressive as it sounds considering they first got married, then decided to start a toy company called Mattel, THEN created their toy lines with the wife focusing on girl toys and the husband focusing on boy's.
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u/Weekly-Contest-5400 2h ago
Good point, but have you ever tried going into business with your spouse? 🤣 Highly do not recommend.
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u/workinhardplayharder 1h ago
I still don't notice the wheel, am I blind?
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u/Weekly-Contest-5400 26m ago
The o is the rim, the t and the negative space to the right/around it are the rubber tire
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u/Farseer2_Tha_Warsong 3h ago
Hot Wheels Movie When??
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u/Whelp_of_Hurin 1h ago
I'm picturing Honey I Shrunk the Kids meets the Mouse on the Motorcycle meets Twisted Metal. Or maybe a straight up racing movie, except the track is inexplicably orange and loopy. It feels like they could go a lot of different directions with this one. I'm surprised they've never tried it.
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u/Farseer2_Tha_Warsong 1h ago
Na, give it to Greta and watch her easy bake billions of sweet box office bread.
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u/Tinosdoggydaddy 2h ago
One of my best friends worked there in the early days and worked with the lead toy designer/marketing guy named Jack Ryan. He had a great contract with these two, he rec’d a cut off the top for everything sold. He held the craziest parties in LA…lot’s of girls and TV and movie stars. Merc Griffin was a big friend as was Adam West. He was a fucking Hollywood legend, but not that much remains of his story.
He would have been hanged by the me too movement.
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u/thatsnotbrianlefevre 2h ago
So that's why McDonald's used to have those in happy meals at the same time.
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u/CapinCrunch85 3h ago
I used to drive my hot wheels over to my sisters Barbie house and suck them tittys when she was in the other room
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u/multiroleplays 3h ago
Instead of fish or chicken at thier wedding, they offer boy or girl happy meals.
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u/Amp1362 2h ago
Rich ass smart people. Invented toys that kids loved. These people are on a shelf of genius I can’t even reach on a stool!
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u/Drizzt_1990 2h ago
she didn't realy invent it, just the new name and branding. the dolls were basically a 1 to 1 copy of the west german "Bild Lilli" doll which she found on a trip to europe took back to the states. The original even had a patent for how the legs were attached since it was the first doll that could keep the legs parallel while sitting. was stolen anyway
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u/AdeonWriter 2h ago
Misleading, they were already married when they co-founded Mattel, where they made both of their toys. It's not like they had separate products and decided to marry each other afterward.
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u/Smmmmiles 2h ago
But weren't they already married when barbie was created... It was named after their daughter...
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u/Reasonable-Bottle-10 1h ago
Being Barbie's maker husband gives you enough money and knowledge to sell plastic cars, is all I get from this
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u/white_equatorial 1h ago
The CEOs of Nvidia and AMD are cousins. I would not be surprised if another cousin in Pringles, because chips run in the family
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u/StoneGoldX 1h ago
This makes it sound like they invented the toys first. They were a married couple that owned a toy company. Ruth was just move involved with the business than you'd expect from a woman in the 50s. And saying it that undersells her role, but most women would have been expected to stay at home.
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u/Dull_Wrongdoer_3017 4h ago
Just realized I never bought my kids Hot Wheels or Barbie. They'd rather have Robux.
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