Teresa is Hispanic/Latina. Her full name is Teresa Rivera, she’s my favorite of Barbie’s friends :)

LOL. My take on her disappearing siblings is that Tutti started using her real name "Stacie" as she grew older, just like Kelly became Chelsea. As for poor Todd, much like what happens on some reality shows, he opted out of being in the limelight and embraced his preteen privacy.

When I was a kid my mom used to make comments about Barbie’s parents waiting too long between kids and occasionally insinuated they were way too young when they had her and I was just like “this dress has glitter”.

I get why barbies current friends have no names (so they're more customizable for play, like you get to make the name/story etc) but I do miss when they had names and were a lot of times released alongside barbie in all the different barbie lines.

You forgot about Brooklyn, she's been in two movies and has a couple of dolls. She's pretty interesting, you know how Mattel will often produce both a white and black version of Barbie dolls? Well, it's part of the lore now. When she went to art school, Barbie befriended another girl named Barbie. They call each other Malibu and Brooklyn, for obvious reasons.

id 100% watch a 4 hour version of this where you cover every single barbie character

So many of Barbie's friends were put on the bus in 2015 and I will probably never let that down 😂 Raquelle, Ryan, Summer, midge... I just miss them so much 😭

I’m actually really surprised at how inclusive barbie was during time periods that weren’t that inclusive. Like, the wheelchair doll shocked me! I thought that was only a recent thing

Seeing Tommy, Ken's baby brother unlocked some core memories for me 😅

Christie and Teresa are so iconic from my childhood and it kills me that Christie isn't still around. 😭

accept it, Old Barbies will always be the best in her history

This is just a reminder of how KZfaq channel “Sam and Mickey” keeps their Barbie sketches very accurate to the dolls canon family tree

Kelly-Shelley-Kelsey.....Chelsea needs an "it`s editing Joey, here" too...hahaha. Great work!!!!

Blaine actually started in the Generation Girl line before he became her boyfriend. And the reason why the friends “disappeared” in 2015, was the fashionistas reboot (yeah, it was rebooted). The modern fashionistas is actually a budget line that took the original name from the pivot Barbies from 2010 to 2014, including the original Fashionistas (who could move, whole point of the fashionistas, so they could pose), the Life In The Dream House line, and any doll with articulation from that time. So when they rebooted the line, they removed the articulation and thus also removed the names. But the dolls are still in production under the line, just named different. Honestly I wish they would bring back Raquelle, Summer, Midge (who I always think has duck like features, in a good way), Miko/Kira, Grace, Darren (from the Sis line), Ryan, and a bit more for the It Takes Two line, so they can have more characters in the line and the show. Also Barbara “Barbie/Brooklyn” Roberts wasn’t added. She’s new, but I think she’s going to be one of Barbie’s/Malibu’s friends.

I was born in 82, but I remember finding an original Skipper doll as a small kid and thinking that it was so weird that this doll was completely flat chested. All dolls that weren’t babies had bumps there. Also, her hair was broomstick straight and that was very different. OG Skipper was dark tanned, but maybe she just oxidized that way. I really love watching these videos. Thank you for making them

Its really sad to see the old and new Barbie and friends next to each other - the quality has really gone these days! The face sculpt you referred to a few times is Steffie Face, a favourite of many collectors. And you didn't show the iconic 90s Christie. She was a beauty.

Raquelle is my favorite character in Life in the DreamHouse. I miss her and Midge.

How I miss the days of Barbie having friends with names. I lived for Teresa, Christie, and Kira. (I never had a Midge doll.) I also was absolutely obsessed with the Generation Girl line and got all of them because they were from different countries, had different hobbies, interests, backgrounds. I read all the chapter books and it made playing so much fun because I felt like I knew them! I wish they would go back to that. How awesome would it be to have Barbie Extra with names and hobbies other than the girls enjoying being...extra?

5:13 Now I don't know how much Todd was promoted as Stacie's friend but for the most part Todd was actually branded Stacie's twin brother. A lot of packages that included 90s Todd mentioned him as "twin brother of Stacie" they even shared a birthday at McDonald's together. This could possibly mean that Stacie is some sort of retcon of Tutti. Also for the most part I think his relation to midge was just being the ring bearer for her wedding.

Miko and Kira are two different characters, Miko is supposed to be pacific islander and Kira is supposed to be Asian, and Teresa is supposed to be of Latin American origin, in one of the newer Barbie vlogs, she says that her family is from Mexico

I wish Mattel would go back to giving Barbie’s names, it would add a little character I think, it’s hard to get into the new Barbie’s when they’re literally just called Barbie 158

I just discovered your channel while shopping for a dream house for my great nieces. Being one year older than Barbie herself, I was fortunate to own the original ponytail Barbie, the original Ken, Skipper, Midge, and Alan dolls, as well as the cardboard fashion shop (my fave), the plastic Barbie "apartment", the orange Austin Healey car, and boxes and boxes of Barbie clothes. I have so many amazing memories of playing with Barbie and her friends and MY friends throughout my childhood. Not content with a fashion model Barbie, we would build entire Barbie CITIES, complete with many businesses run by my friends' Barbies and Kens. We had gas stations, grocery stores, hospitals, schools, swimming pools, all operated by Barbie and her friends for the rest of the Barbie "townspeople". We made "playing Barbie" an extensive, intricate, and beloved experience. Through the years, Barbie has been so criticized for her appearance, her "dumb blonde-ness", her unnatural body type, and her elitism, and although warranted in some cases, it makes me sad. The way WE played with Barbies, it was extremely educational and it positively impacted our intellectual and social development. I haven't approved of everything about Barbie throughout her history, but I hope her critics realize she can play an extremely important role in childhood creativity and learning. Thank you for your channel and for bringing back some wonderful memories of my own 1960s childhood.

A good list. You did forget a few of the earlier dolls. Barbie's "MODern"" cousin Francie (Fairchild) had a friend named Casey (1967-70) with the same face mold and body size. Mattel also introduced British fashion model Twiggy (1967-68) using the same face and body which was the first doll in the Barbie world based on a real person. There were plans for a Becky doll in this line, which was advertised, but never produced. Later, Mattel released this as a special edition doll in 2009. Another famous friend of Barbie was Julia (1969-1972) based on the television character played Diahann Carroll. This era also produced a Truly Scrumptious doll based on the character from Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang, and a Miss America doll all in the Barbie line, some of which were absolutely lovely dolls.

Fun Fact: Blaine and Summer were brother and sister.

4:10 Scott looks too old for skipper 🤣

I love this video! When I was a little girl, I remember the 90s Barbie video games always had Barbie, Theresa, Kira, and Christie. I always played as Theresa because she looked like me with the olive skin and brown hair 💕

There was a happy family line for midge, which introduced Barbie as a doctor, midge’s husband and older son, and and little babies. They also had grandma and grandpa dolls.

Her full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Raquelle was also featured in "A Fashion Fairytale" and "A Fairy Secret." Maybe Mattel just figured that the little girls who received the newer dolls would give them their own names that they thought of. I literally just got an advertisement for Barbie Dream Closet, coincidence, I think not!

I really love how big and unique Barbie's family tree is. I grew up with the three main sisters, and they're my most favorite out of Barbie's family tree, but I also really like Jazzie, Millicent, and George and Margaret ^o^

I really miss when more dolls had names. The silkstone Kitty Corner Francie is one of my grail dolls (one day...) and I also really want a Dreamhouse Midge

I have the Midge wedding set. It was my big Christmas present when I was a child (not the year it came out, my grandma would save things for years that she loved so I think I got it in1998) Allen was/is my favorite Barbie doll, and I loved that whole set. The dolls all had great hair!

It would be pretty cool if Barbie had like older couple packs with the little kids or more mature designed characters for Barbie looks. It would make since for a playset ideas.

Wow 🤩 I really want the midge and Alan dolls

Memory unlocked! I had a Tropical Miko doll and never knew that was her name! I don’t remember seeing a doll like her before and just assumed it was a Teresa doll. Awesome video!

PS- Reina is pronounced "Ray-nah". My favorite Barbie was the "Jamie" doll of 1970. I also thought the Ryan doll was a good guy doll. With the new line of adult collector Barbies they are making them MTM. It reminds me of marionette puppets. How do you feel about the MTM?

Omg! A Barbie Family Reunion Line would be AMAZE! Then a Skipper & Friends and Stacie & Friends lines. Why does Bar ie and Chelsea get all the friends?

I'd love too see some vintage barbie characters be brought back with a modern look

LOVED it. I would really like to see the movie version of this too. I do think it makes sense that some people we are friends with drift away from us in time and disappear, but I do really dislike that her new friends have no names.

I miss Barbie Friends so much. But you forgot about Steven.

The 90’s Todd era seems like such a fever dream. I didn’t know anyone who had him, but I remember he was always in the peripheral whenever I would go down the Barbie aisle as a kid. Definitely one of the most underrated characters in the Barbie line. There’s something about his big round blue eyes and brunette buzzcut that give me those weird “Mandela effect” memories, similar to when people listen to Vaporwave.

What a fantastic video!!! I so enjoyed watching this! May I mention one more 1960s friend of Barbie? At the same time as Stacy and PJ, there was also a short-haired brunette called Casey. I have her, though she has a case of green ear (oh, those metal earrings!) and a broken ankle. I really wish Mattel would re-release Midge’s Happy Family grandparents. I would also love it if Barbie’s parents were released as dolls. To my knowledge, they never were. Nice job! 👍🏼 A+++

Steffie is so cute, it's sad that she barely appeared... she would be perfect for a more "countryside" approach to Barbie dolls

Random Fact : Allan was named after the real life Barbie (Ruth Handler 's daughter ) 's husband and was discontinued when they got divorced .

I remember having Krissy knock off :D I always thought they made this doll for kids to pretend it was barbie's baby, but branded it as her sister because well...barbie wasn't married 😂 Also, I think Kayla and Lea were different characters although maybe their names were interchangeable depending on the market? In Poland we had some imports from Europe and some from US (so we'd get both Madison and Westley for MyScene line). Anyway, I remember Kayla and Lea sometimes being in the same doll lines, with Kayla having more Southern-Asian look and Lea having more East-Asian look. I had Lea with necklace making set and my sister had Kayla with fake nails set - they were deffo different characters :)

Awesome video. While I knew some if the Barbie family tree.... thanks to a Barbie parody channel called Sam & Micky, rated MA+15.....I learnt a lot more. The 70s dolls bring back memories for me. My first Barbie doll was called Julia. She was a nurse, based on a TV character of the same name. Wish I still had her 😢

Barbie and her family and friends has changed a lot during the years

Raquelle was so iconic. They should have kept her if they were going to keep Niki and Teresa. I think they attempted to replace her in the dream house adventures Netflix series, with a girl named Tammy who gave off similar vibes. Just not as fashionable 😅

Apparently PJ 's last name is Robert's and is listed as Barbie's 1st cousin so maybe it's milificent daughter. Francie Fairchild is Barbie's British cousin. Who has a friend Casey Truehart who is also double for twiggy.

Well….it is interesting that in ‘Barbie Life In The Dreamhouse’ raquelle has always mistake chelsea (her youngest sibling) as kelly 😮 What a great foreshadowing that chelsea’s previous name was kelly

Skipper's friend *Skooter* was available in three hair colors, blonde, brunette, and titian. *Midge* also was available in those same hair colors in the Vintage era, she wasn't just red haired. After Midge was reintroduced in 1987, she became canonically ginger haired. *Tiff* and *Fluff* were not sisters. They were unrelated characters who were offered as friends of Skipper at different times. Living Fluff was Skipper's friend in 1971, while Pose 'N Play Tiff was Skipper's friend in 1972. *P.J.* was available until 1984, at least, that's when new P.J. dolls were last introduced. 1984 was the year the Sweet Roses P.J. and Sun Gold Malibu P.J. were both first introduced, and both were available for at least part of 1985 as well. *Whitney* was only available from 1987-1989, and there were only four versions ever produced: 1987 Jewel Secrets Whitney, 1988 Perfume Pretty Whitney, 1988 Nurse Whitney and 1989 Style Magic Whitney. I don't know where the 1999 year is coming from, unless they are conflating the Stacie friend Whitney with the Barbie friend Whitney. This face sculpt was not unique to Whitney, and Whitney was not the first character to use the face sculpt. This is the 1972 "Steffie" face, which was used that year for three Steffie dolls, a P.J. doll, and a Miss America doll. Later, the sculpt would be used for lots of other characters, including Kelley, Cara, Valerie, Vicky, Christie and even Barbie herself (both 1980 Black Barbie and 1980 Hispanic Barbie use the Steffie face).

I remember the Tracy & Todd dolls. In 1983 or 1984 my cousin and I went to a Barbie fashion show to promote some of the newer dolls. It was the highlight of our summer!

Whitney was Steffie that became PJ Jamie Kelly as you later point out, that they used for Midge later etc. It's a popular sculpt. Great work. Here's a like.

You've a crazy amount of research for this - thanks! I have the Midge doll that was closest to you in the video. She's my favorite doll of all of them! she has real eyelashes, too!

I had the special edition smile Becky doll. She was in a red wheelchair, flannel plaid shirt with jeans and red sneakers and a was a photographer. If I remember correctly, someone complained that Becky's wheelchair could not fit in the dream house and they actually rebuilt the dream house so she could fit. My name is Barbie by the way, but Becky was my favorite doll because I was a wheelchair user when I was little. I wish they would bring her back. I think it would be cute if they gave her service dog

I thought the loss of friends was because it was the Barbie doll line - Tereasa's not a Barbie - only Barbie is a Barbie (in the minds of children) - that's why you have Malibu and Brooklyn both named Barbie Roberts. Skipper doesn't have friends - they are all Skipper, they are all Chelsea. You have the "main" Barbie, Chelsea, and Skipper - but ALL female adult dolls in the Barbie line are now named Barbie. MGA has it easier because their doll lines aren't named after a single doll and they didn't shoot themselves in the foot in the late 50s. I'm happy with this in part because when I was growing up the stores around me only sold blonde barbies - if there was a Raquelle or Kira or whomever there'd be one in a smushed box hiding behind the barbies.

Kayla was Latina and Lea was Asian. They appear in the Amazing Nails Line along with Christie and Barbie.

Thank you so much, I really miss Summer and Raquelle

The type of content i could watch for hours and never get bored. Love the extensive research. Now make more indepth analysis into each character lol. ❤

The reason the new dolls don't have names is because of a rebrand in 2015 with the introduction of the modern fashionistas line. The idea is that ALL the current dolls are "Barbie"

Joey you put so much research into this video! Thank you soo soo much, I have this journal I write these kind of lists and timelines in and seeing another person do that is awesome!

i remember Skipper and courtney. also barbies little sister kelly the toddler one. and i do remember the baby baby one. but lets be real we all used kelly and the baby one as barbies kids.

I loved Krissy when I was a little kid, and even now as a doll customizer she’s perfectly proportioned for my other dolls

I heard that Tutti and Stacie are the same Character.

This video series of all things Barbie is amazing! I'm sure you're getting a lot more traffic to your site this year, with the release of the big Barbie Movie. And you deserve it. The work you have put into each video is astonishing. Thank you! Interest in Barbie has definitely been reignited and for those of us who played with some of the originals, then had daughters who played with more current ones, this is a trip down memory lane.

I loved this Barbie "family tree". Soo many of the dolls I remembered. Yeah- I had one of the first Barbies. Yeah, I am OLD! But, like Barbie, still smiling.

Reina is so cute!

Omg I had that grandparents set and I never knew they were supposed to be Midge’s parents and not Barbies! I loved having them

6:38 Chelsea (pronounced like the football team) did have some named friends in the beginning (and I do not agree that Chelsea is Shelly anymore than Stacie is Tutti or random Mattel babies are Krissy). The very first boy had rooted hair and was called Darrin. Then there was Delia and Renee who looked Asian, Kira and Kitsie with brown hair and blue eyes, Madison with dark hair and brown eyes, Tamika who was of African decent, and Viveca with strawberry blonde hair. I think that just before Mattel decided that everyone should find a Chelsea, Stacie, Skipper or Barbie similar to themselves (so no names on friends), Madison became a redhead.

Omg it’s always kinda made me a little curious of the entire line of family and the confusion with the names, and relatives. Some of these brought the nostalgia at the toys I had and remember wanting too. This was a great thorough history!

Omg I'd LOVE a video about Barbie characters from the films!!

Ahhh!!! I LOVE that you made a chart and everything!!

Kayla was the name of two different friends and Lea is a separate friend from Kayla. A couple of lines had both Lea and Kayla.

I had a PJ growing up mid-70’s. My main Barbie. Had sewn on sunglasses I cut off because they kept getting in the way of playing with her hair! LOL Thanks for all this info! Confirmed I’d not made up her name and she actually existed the way I remember. 😁 Still wondering what PJ stood for!

Wow! What an extensive chart! I knew she had a lot of "relatives" but not That many! 😲 Really interesting. Thank you so much for all the time you put into making this chart for us, truly appreciate it! 💜

9:11 Kayla was my favorite doll back on the 2000ths

I like to think we’re in class together and you’re giving your end of the year research presentation to the class.

I still have so many of these!! I'm so glad my daughter gets to have them too.

I'm born in 83 and Skipper has always been my fav!

They were not Mattell nor Barbie, but the Quints dolls by Tyco were Barbie-like enough that I played with them alongside my Barbies and pretended they were my Barbies' babies.

This is cool to see because recently I was looking into this myself; the history of Barbie’s various siblings/cousins and how some of them get scrapped/discontinued or they evolve into something new/different. I find the evolution of Skipper in particular quite fascinating. Would have liked if you put more pictures up in the video, but still - really cool!

“ no I’m not investigating the murder of barbie “ 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I would love to see a history of the Kelly/Shelly/Chelsea dolls!

Thank you for doing all this research, it must’ve taken ages! It’s worth it though, I feel more educated now!!! A video about the rest of her family members and friends from the movies would be great 😍

Superstar Barbie & Ken... . Those dolls had stars in their eyes. As kitschy as Magic Nursery Babies.

I am a new subscriber of yours and I just wanted to say after watching a few of your videos it has sparked my inner childhood when I was heavy in collecting dolls and now I refound my love for Barbie’s and collecting again so for that I thank you and I just love your channel♥️♥️Also I literally purchased 7 Barbie dolls today ❤

This was a great video! I miss the baby Krissy dolls too! I was lucky enough to have a couple tiny Krissy baby dolls. My sister and I must have both got them and so naturally we made them twins! Thank you for this well researched trip down memory lane. 💗💗💗

12:39 the reina doll is so fricking adorable!!! i’m super into gyaru/ko-gal fashion so everything about her uniform fit and the leg warmers are the cutest thing ever 😭

This video was amazing !!!! Absolutely loved getting to see some of the dolls I had in the 90's... A great stroll down memory lane :)

I really love how much effort you always put into your videos :)

This was so interesting, I love that you made that entire poster!

Raquelle and Ryan are truly icons. They deserve a return

I had the Big Brother and Baby Tommy one! And Palm Springs Midge was my favorite Barbie ❤️

Great breakdown of Barbie's family and friends! I do want to point out that you forgot Tara Lynn, she was in the "Western Stampin Barbie" line in 1994 and sadly was never seen again. Beautiful doll that had black hair and wore the red outfit and they also used the steffie facemold. ❤

Barbie and ken are technically brother and sister ! In the 90s ,they released a wedding set and gave a ken a little brother was was Stacy brother who was Barbies sister . Way to go Mattel 👏

Great job on the list! It's fun to look back on the past on all Barbie's counterparts! My favorites are Midge and Whitney (I'm an 80s kid) and I always thought Alan was much cuter than Ken. I had Cool Times Midge and Bride Midge and now I have that awesome early 90s Wedding set you showed. You did miss Dance Club Kayla from the late 1980s, she was one of my faves. I don't know if she ever appeared again.

I would love to see the the family and friends in the show!!! This video was great!!!

I love this! I’ve been looking for more history on Kelly and Barbies sisters! 💖

Wow! That was quite a research, but I really love it! Great work, Joey

Really cool! Love seeing the dolls from back in my day! I had Christi when I was a kid. Hilarious take 😂❤️

Great video interesting how they reuse names throughout barbie history. I really like your videos you are one of the few doll channels I watch because you are authentic and natural on video.