You know in the Barbie movie when Gloria was like “you should make ordinary Barbie”? My first thought was how we have ordinary Barbie already. They’re called the fashionistas lol.

I've said it once and I'll say it again Mattel needs a 12-15$ Barbie fashionista line with at least elbow and knee articulation and more budget spent on the clothes and hair

Fashionistas are so frustrating. They rarely can get everything right on one. If the doll has a great screening, she comes with poly hair, if the hair is beautiful, she has wonky eyes, if the hair is nice and the eyes match, the face is going to be pixelated. I always try to buy them in-store so I can find one I like.

What a missed opportunity to use classic head sculpts for a special wave of Fashionistas paying tribute. They could've gone with a Superstar, Steffie, Diva, Christie, Teresa and the sculpt used for Jazzy. Honestly, I think that Barbie Rewind would've been a better line to pay homage to the vintage Barbies because they seem to have a better budget and that's basically the whole point in having that doll line. Barbie Rewind probably could've pulled off the original designs as intended.

I'll never stop being amazed at just how badly Mattel is fumbling the bag for nostalgia

I think the fashionistas line is dying out. They keep producing less dolls in each issue and the fashions have been so stale for so long now…my guess is there wasn’t enough budget for the designers to make these dolls represent the original inspiration doll. They need to either reinvent this line or cancel it. I’ve gone back to buying thrift store and second hand dolls. So many there to buy and customize.

Barbie Fashion fever 2.0 needs to happen...or Barbie fashionistas blast from the past early 2000s revive

Barbie has gone so downhill over the years. I cannot believe these Barbie’s are the same dolls that I had as a kid.

Wow. .. these so-called "homages" are outstandingly bad. It's kind of hilarious.

I doubt Odile could ever become the main Barbie sculpt should they boot Millie. There seems to be an unwritten rule that the main face should have an open-mouthed smile, a precedent set since Superstar 1977. Even the open-mouthed Odile’s expression isn’t smiley enough to come across as friendly, vibrant and - most importantly nowadays - relatable. Her face serves a little too hard to become the face of the modern brand imo 🤷‍♀️

Bratz stans on twt are really funny, like they're always complaining about other doll lines, not long time ago they complained about Rainbow High's face sculps, like girl you only has 2 head sculps and the difference is only one of them showing teeth lol🤣

Omg the rage I felt when you said Twist & turn was going to have the Steffi face sculpt. PJ was my favorite Barbie and I love that face so much!!

The Barbie and the Rockers homage is actually referencing the second year dolls with pink cl9thes and stars patterned on it, while I think the sweater Ken is referencing Picture Pocket Barbie and black Ken is referencing the late Mod era or early Malibu era with his stripes.

The last doll I bought was Ken, and then stopped purchasing the new Barbie doll after the quality declined. I feel sad and disappointed by the quality. I remember there was Barbie Style, and they were made with the real material, it was the best era tbh. Furthermore, I start to buy the bjd doll from the online shop and quality is better than new Barbie doll. Their clothes are made with the real material and better style.

I’m kind of surprised they didn’t do one based on totally hair or Barbie in the nutcracker for instance to add to the line

Maybe, they have plans for those other head sculpts ? I'd like another Looks line.

Totally agree with you! ❤️I also ask why they doesn't use Superstar facemold in the play line? Just pixelated Millie with lack of articulation again and again...🤦You have so fresh ideas👏, you should work for Mattel!❤️

I just took the fashionistas as "bounding" as the older dolls. Ultimately these are playline dolls and are doing exactly what their base purpse is being just attention enough getting for adults buy them for their Kiddos. Not saying Mattel doesn't know Adult collectors exist because why else have dolls call back even remotely to 80s and older dolls but they know what they are doing. It is more revenue for them if they only give Adult Collectors some of what they want in a playline doll and then add the rest in fashion packs or in lines that cost a bit more like the Looks line.

Thanks for giving your feedback. They could have had a play line of the vintage/mod head sculpts but that is Mattel's cash cow, when they over charge for average dolls. There is a few of these I like, but not WOW. And repeating the head sculpts over and over is getting boring but it's all cost cutting. Other companies seem to be able to produce quality at the price though.

The mermaid line is a such a winner. I feel like everyone will need to get MTM bodies for them.

You know this is a bad wave of fashionistas when the Millie is one of the dolls that stands out the most. Man I wish we got more headsculpts, I sincerely think it's not fault of the designers, but the budgeting people 😢 PS: I wonder if they have the 2009 toy fair headsculp archived, I think that would make for a cute new headsculpt for barbie the only time I've seen something remotely similar used to that sculpt was with the recent spa day doll 🤔

Those mermaid dolls by Angel have me on chokehold, what a legend, the Saran won me over

I so agree with you. This next Fashionista line is so sad. What were they thinking? What tribute? I have been collecting forever, but I never had an Odile face sculpt so I am really looking forward to these new mermaids to rebody.

Haha! The potato mold! True!

I love your shirt! As for the Barbie dolls i will get maybe 1 or 2 when they go down in price. I can't justify buying these dolls with no articulation and dumb outfits.

Gosh I wish so hard they would up the budgets and also make it easier for us in the uk too. Great video. Thanks for the breakdown on the dolls

Thanks for the video and your analysis. It’s puzzling that Mattel seems to disregard its own legacy. I love the 60th anniversary Millie. She’s a keeper. It’s a shame Mattel couldn’t have thrown more effort in the execution. I’m sure the designers had wonderful and creative things ideas. Mattel did a better job with the Kens that were inspired by classic Kens.

I think that Barbie and the Rockers inspo skirt is supposed to look like 80s holographic or iridescent 🤔

I just want items from certain dolls. That Ken pastel sweater is super cute and those sandals look like the ones that came with the Ken Extra. I like how they styled Millie’s hair but I understand your underwhelming feeling. Superstar Barbie with flat feet and black sandals 🩴? No! I love the hair, the face sculpt the dress 👗 and the Star 💫 necklace. I’ll rebody her.

I agree with you about Odile and Barbie´s facepaints. :) I still hope we will get new doll with Teen Skipper sculpt one day.

The tajin in the background 😭

The aniversary inspirated dolls seriously need the advertising cos no one would realise the reference on them otherwise, they are so ordenary Fashionistas.😅

I agreed with you 100%. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. It’s so refreshing to hear logical thinking from people, when it’s lacking in today’s society 😊😊😊

I hope to see you talk about your top Barbie and Ken head sculpts! That would be great!

I feel like there are so many choices out there for non fat head fashion dolls that Mattel could bomb and I would be ok, I'm not a collector but an OG headswapper, all of my dolls are characters that I had to create, so lame factory dolls don't bother me. One exception is the Spanish actress Barbie signature doll that's coming out (that's already sold out)that I want as is

He’s always so detailed and points out things I missed ultimately deciding on how one’s pockets are going to look like at the end of the day. Great review #myIGC

They did a reproduction of a 2000s Era Barbie. A ballerina movie that released in 2001 I think. They did her dirty too with a pixelated Millie sculpt and to cut corners we ended up with just basic fashionista with bendable limbs. Smh

I normally don't look at people complaining, but you are perfectly right and do it so well!! 😁 Both interesting and good ideas you present. 😊

The only two I plan on getting are the black striped top, and the Rockers tribute.

the homages are just very confusing

Good points all around! And I'm a big fan of those sandals! I wish he looked a little different from his several recent versions, too (love the hearing aids, though!)

I want to get is the one with the rainbow top. Remind me of Care Bears . So I am going to get her and some of the miniature Care bears that are been out in the stores as her as her teddy bears.

I wanna see a remake of the original red swim suit Barbie! ❤️👠❤️👠❤️

Loved this video !

"Because it's Mattel, they have to screw something up." True dat! lol. I think it's cool the Great Shape homage was a curvy doll, but would it have killed them to dress her in something you could actually work out it? If they had just made the top a running bra style. I can live with the skirt - I can imagine it being a skort or tennis skirt. These are so boring! Like, did they show a dozen preschoolers with ADD/ADHD the original dolls for 5 minutes then tell them to draw pictures of the dolls? They are so disconnected from the original style. I don't care for baby-doll face Barbies, the ones with over-simplified features that are the bare minimum needed to make it recognizably represent a human, and soooo many Millies fall into that category. I like the BMR Millie for some reason, but the one you showed was gorgeous! Tennessee??? I'm in west TN, just hours from Memphis and a little further from Nashville. Cool beans :)

Don't know why Mattel uses Poly hair on fantasy colors. RH uses good quality nylon which is so soft and is easy to style.

The Fashionistas line has to die or change completely

Me personally I will only be getting the Millie and the twist and turn bc I like the twist and turn face and milkies outfit lol as far as kens I’ll just get the deaf one lol

I see people saying the budget is going up from the movie but i really dont see that much off a difference this new wave of fashionistas is a example. Also i hope the Odile dreamtopia dolls actually look like that and are not exclusive like that Romeo doll Angel Kent made fingers crossed .

First, and i agree i hate the new fashionistas. I think u could still keep the glam and diversity at the same time! Like imagine a pettite, curvy, tall and such with articulated body! It will save us alot of money for buying made to move dolls! And it will solve our problem with articulation. THey also need to improve their fashions like maybe we can make the dolls have fashion aesthethic,

I kinda want fashionistas to be awful so they get finally discontinued . I hate them.

Great video,as always!How do you feel about the Maria Felix doll?

I want the twist and turn one, and the rock star one, maybe the super star one, and I’d like both Odile mermaids! Thanks for this video

Can you tell me who is the tall black Barbie eyeballing the camera. She is gorgeous. Great video.

It's like they decided at the last minute that they wanted to piece together the dolls in this way. They're all disappointing

Thank goodness for Angel Kent pulling through with the mermaids. I want more Odile because there's barely any out there. Steffie has been used a ton before, though not recently. But she's available in a number of screenings on the secondhand market, whereas Odile is not. Millie is so bland. They probably could make her much nicer looking, but for some reason, they keep going the plain Jane old fashioned Midge route. Mattel must be making dumb restrictions on the designers, but I think increasing the price a few dollars to make actual clothes and always have good hair and articulation would make the dolls actually worth buying. I've been buying dolls from other brands so much more because Barbie can't compete. I saw a picture of the fully designed 2022 holiday doll, and the dress was gorgeous! A few more dollars to keep the details on the gown would have actually made it worth keeping. The clothes as they were sold on the dolls look unfinished. A nice looking $20 Fashionista is better than a plain bland looking $10 doll that can't even bend its knees. They don't even need to use mtm. Mattel has different types of articulated bodies.

Where do you get the clothes for your barbies? The barbie in the front with the black top and black polka-dotted (?) shorts has such a cute outfit! Also the barbie with the blond afro.

I am too lazy to make a video like this one but I enjoy them a lot. :) I do want the twist n turn one and the two O mermaids. I just now hear they will have saran! This just hyped me up more for them!

13:04 wow, they should use his drawings more often.

These dolls are garbage. Like, landfill fodder. They can't get a face right, (or rarely) they can't get hair right, they can't get the body right, and the clothes are just as bad. Not a dart to be found anywhere. Perpetual tubes are not clothing. I've unboxed several Cali girls and their play sets recently, and it's enough to make you weep. Fabric bags and hats, adorable, DETAILED clothes designs, gorgeous hair color blends in saran or kanekalon, and the beautifully graceful bellybutton body with its lovely hand position and bend and snap knees which at least made the legs heavy and substantial enough for the doll to sit on the ground without falling over. And none of those dolls or play sets were meant for collectors. They were ALL meant to be played with by children. I think people have forgotten the quality we used to get less than twenty years ago, or maybe they're too young to remember. But it's a travesty, and Mattel is a giant, sucking hole in the universe absorbing all that is good and beautiful and spitting back detritus and expecting us to be apologists for them and thank them for their shit dolls.

Mattel just makes me giving my money to MGA Entertainment so much easier lol

What if, Odile is the next barbie face?

Love your too Mr Honduras 🇭🇳 ❤

🤗🎈🔥😍🔥❤️ fashionista Barbie doll from 1959 look's

Lmao i think i know who that odile- bratz stan on twitter🤭 but i do hope u get the odile barbies tho

Surprisingly, the Milie one is the best one in this wave for me.

Where did you read or hear about that this fashionistas would be inspired of this dolls? thanks

the dreamtopia millie is actually cute. I might get her too/

Yeah, they need to hire a new designer who actually likes fashion. These clothes are so boring, sometimes straight up ugly. The reason other fashion dolls become more popular among children is because their clothes are detailed and aspirational. The Fashionistas look like they belong at the dollar store.

Oh yes, after the Tons of money Mattel has been making with the movie, a liitle more interesting clothing and accesories would be too expensive, I guess.... :D

Where’s the fashion 😭

They're going in a better direction, but they could do SO MUCH BETTER. They're acting like they have to take a snails pace to improve the quality. But compared to the earlier fashionistas from 2015 era even, these are weak designs. And the base dolls all pretty look basic, nothing unique or interesting that usually gets me to buy a fashionista. 🤦 Also, where is the black Barbie in this line? The darkest one does not look black to me, she looks indigenous (which is great) but I'd like them to keep up with the skin tone diversity. The twist and turn one is sadly ironic 😂.

Just paused the video to state at that line of homage dolls and i'm not seeing the references, the striped swimsuit has been done and better. oof. you're going to have to point out the references because "so subtle" even fans can't recognize them.

You are such a beautiful man!❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤

Just do the reproduction of these dolls

I’m going to get the Asian mermaid barbie

😝😝 Sometimes its just good to get it off your chest.

Sometimes I forget the the original Fashionista line had themes. Honestly the Fashionista line made me rethink what I wanted to collect. I’m tired of buying body donors for $10 pixelated heads in t-shirt dresses. It hurt to see the cute red under dress and realizing they would never give these dolls layered outfits. Just let us pay $15 for articulation & nice clothes & faces (& NO PETS). We are already paying more to customize them anyway. The superstar inspired doll made me appreciate the 2009 version that was a special $3 price to celebrate Barbie’s birthday. Her dress is simple too, but a much better homage. I want an Odile so bad, but I loathe fantasy hair colors & don’t want a mermaid, so I’d only be paying for a head. They are really lovely though.

Honestly, the only thing the modern fashionistas has going for them is the diversity angle. Other than that, they’re fashions are all cheap, horrible and outdated. Bring back Fashion Fever.

Omg please marry me!!!!

Let’s go

thank god the mermaid dolls hair is saran...anyhow i ll not get fashionista dolls oly kens i ll get....shame on mattel aft getting profit frm the new barbie movie...still dolls r cheap!! dollar store dolls oly better thn thz 🙄🙄

Me first!

You should have the Barbie Extra 2 doll and the pale Odile head sculpt girl be fans of Share Bear. And honestly Mattel should strive to improve more and more otherwise Doll Collectors won't feel as inclined to get any of them. Also, are you going to review any ILY4Ever dolls and/or fashion?

Please can we rub our beards together?

Barbie Fashionista are my favorite