Happy 21st birthday! Turning 18 is such a special milestone in one's life, especially when you're already 30 by that time. BTW, you look really young, I would have never guessed you are 45.

Ohh I’d love to see you rank all of the “Bridal Barbies”

That vest-sewn-on-shirt look wasn't just Mattel being cheap on details; they *actually* made and sold false-vest tops and people bought them and wore them, in suburban America, in 1996. I know, I saw my *own mother* wear one, a jaunty fall seasonal number with a faux turtleneck and little pumpkins embroidered on it. I can still see the cheap brocade when I close my eyes.

Your comment about Barbie's vest sewn onto her shirt has me screaming because that was actually a thing that companies did in the 90s lmao I remember my teachers having shirts with the vest sewn onto the front like that. It is still lazy, but it was absolutely something you would find at Walmart or Kmart in the 90s 😂

Favorite quote: That’s not a Bob; that’s a Robert. 😂😂😂

Starlight Dance Barbie's dress is actually accurate to how it looks in the picture. But the way it was placed in the box made it look frumpy.

Honestly I’m here for wicked stepmother Barbie

i owned blossom beauty barbie and the flowers were not fragile, they were really stuck on there. i was obsessed with this doll, especially with the skirt flipping function and the glitter! and the way you could put the little glitter fairy into a pocket and it would conceal her within the dress! i always thought that was so cool omg. i ALSO had an obsession with the movie free willy!!! that was the same reason my mom bought me ocean friends barbie!! she was my favourite and i loved the colour changing legs and the little orca

I think the reason why we don't get puffy dresses anymore is because they fell out of favor of the new generation. When we see formal dresses nowadays it's sleek and simple now. Which isn't bad by any means. It just shows how varied fashion and always changing it is for the human race.

I can't believe you'd say that about butter pecan, you're lucky it's bingo night or else I'd be going off.

i recently saw angel princess barbie in person at an antique mall and just...she is so STUNNING. especially the AA version, she's so gorgeous. it was very difficult to leave the store without her...

I’m not in a nursing home and I love butter pecan ! Nothing wrong with that flavor. Only crave it during fall though

i am so pleasantly surprised your birth year still falls solidly within my childhood. based on how young you look (in a good way) i would’ve guessed this video would make my 30something ass feel old AF 😭

1996 was right around the time I started my 'adult' Barbie collection (ok I was 16 at the time but 🤷‍♀ it felt very mature to be buying my own dolls 😅). I was totally drawn to the floofy ballgown Barbies that were reminiscent of the ones I'd had as a kid in the 80s. I remember particularly loving Angel Princess, Blossom Beauty, Songbird, and Children Collectors Series Cinderella, as well as a ridiculously pretty collector Rapunzel that came out around then too (I thiiiiink the year before?). Never had any issues with the flowers on Blossom Beauty's dress, but I only ever had her on display, so I can't speak to how it would have stood up to regular stress from play. This year is also memorable to me for the debut of Teen Skipper (and Nikki, and Courtney), who I was and still am inordinately fond of for having IMO one of the prettiest face sculpts Mattel has ever produced.

Your humor fits so well with ranking videos. Would love an updated RH/SH ranking video if that is something you would like to make!

oh my god i loved the blossom beauty barbie commercial SO much. i haven't thought of her in two decades, seeing a picture of her now hit me like a nostalgic pink brick lmao

1996 was a pretty good year for Barbie. I have several of the ones on this list, and there are several others that I would love to add to my collection!

The Angel Princess Barbie is captivating me, with her fluffy platinum hair. 🥰😍

That inclination to adore every superstar in a big poofy gown is absolutely shared, I LOVE that era of Barbie

I started excitedly listing which ones I had until I realized my mom just spoiled me rotten. 😂She was really out there giving a toddler collector's editions to play with lol

Happy 27th birthday! Thanks for always providing us with awesome content. Seriously I was so bored today and got so excited when I saw the upload :3

Workin' out barbie is my all time fave. I got her for my birthday (I think my birthday?) In 1996 when I was 5. I remember bringing her to kindergarten. Her cassette tape was iconic and I still get the song stuck in my head at least once a month. "You! Me! Workin out workin out barbie!" I chewed the heck out of those rubbery shoes, 10/10 barbie, no critiques. Glad you included her.

Happy Birthday! That winter fantasy barbie actually made me look her up because I got some real "crimson peak" vibes so I thought it was funny that you got totally different vibes. Also wow there was some good barbies this year. I want that coca cola Edwardian barbie so badly. Edit: oh no there were three of these Edwardian coke bottles? and I want them all? and they're not insanely priced? oh no....

Easy chic Barbie is hilarious. And as someone who graduated college in 1996 , some of the fashion definitely brought flashbacks. Neon dressed Barbie reminds me of a very distinctive outfit my mom bought me in that time - bright pink fuzzy sweater over matching pink stirrup pants ( which have not come back in fashion, shockingly).

Happy birthday! Shoppin' Fun would totally be a T-shirt PRINTED with a vest today. You know I've called it.

I had a few of these! Winter Fantasy Barbie looked SO much better in the brunette version (which I luckily had). The dark hair worked a lot better with the darker lips and dress.

This was a real treat as a 90s Barbie girl.

This is such a fun way to celebrate your birthday!!! I really wanna see what kind of Barbie’s came out the year I was born now…

I was also obsessed with Free Willy as a kid & also could not name any of the major plot points now. Lol it was SUCH a moment at the time tho

Oh my gosh, I had the orca barbie, songbird and the shopping one with Kelly. They were all hand me downs from my older cousins, and while some items where already missing (or I ended up losing lol) I still loved them! PS: I'm not a collector myself but I've been enjoying watching your videos for a while now, reminds me a lot of the joy I had playing with Barbie as a child!

Happy birthday! 🎉 Evening pearl barbie is so unhinged that I kinda love it

96 Holiday Barbie is one of my favorite dolls. I absolutely loved her in 96 and still do. One of the first Barbie’s I bought when I got into collecting.

"All the people who are offended by it are probably in a nursing home and pose no threat to me." Bold words from a man in his nineties, I'm just saying... Happy birthday! I always enjoy your ranking videos :D

Happy Birthday!! Thank you for celebrating with us with such a great vid! For me, chocolate chip cookie dough and butter pecan are friends, not enemies. Although I will say butter brickle is superior to butter pecan, not to sound completely ancient. 😆 Songbird Barbie took my breath away! I've just met her and she's everything to me! The face, the hair, the dress; she is everything that's good in the world poured into a plastic doll mold. 💖

happy birthday!!! if you're ever anxious about running out of video ideas, know that i for one wouldn't mind watching ranking videos like this for like every year of barbie releases

Omg I remember having a Barbie and Ginger set! That dog was low-key creepy. When the battery got low, it sounded like a demon dog 😅

Hey, that's the year I was born too! Great lineup here. Your comment about Easy Chic Barbie using her hat to smuggle TVs out of Best Buy made me straight up choke on my drink.

Honestly a video on poodle skirts would definitely be something I'd watch. I have seen some historical photo references of other designs than poodles, they could definitely be very fun for more thematic outfits, especially on dolls. I'm also curious about what other skirt designs could help signify the 50s.

Happy 68th birthday!! Your ranking vids are so much fun! It's so funny how our tastes are so similar but also extremely different imo cookies and cream and cookie dough are the same so i was so shocked when its revealed lol Also love your shirt! Slay your 22nd💕

Omg my birthday is one day before yours (aka the day you uploaded this video). I absolutely adore you videos, all are such a treat to watch and I hope you have a great birthday!

like you with free willy, i was OBSESSED with "oh brother where art thou" at that age. i would take the movie with me to watch at my grandma's when she would babysit me. i would watch it CONSTANTLY at home. do i know what it's about? absolutely not.

14:04 blossom beauty Barbie the flowers stayed on super well!! I remember having the dress for ages and I would toss it in with my Barbie clothes, it never got messed up.

13:55 i had this doll as a hand me down and the flower petals did hold up, though frayed on the edges. They had little spongy rings underneath each flower to help them stand up, which were very fun to pick off. I actually had no idea that was the doll the dress came from, I love watching these ranking videos and discovering the origins of my (now long gone) dolls and their outfits

Happy birthday! And thank you for introducing me to so many dolls I would've never known about through all your videos, it's been a delight 😊

This video actually helped me identify some dolls I recently got at a yard sale! I was just picking out anything bright and pretty and I got the hula hair doll, and a doll wearing the workout outfit. Sadly none of the dolls and outfits matched up perfectly but they were only $3 each so who can complain Happy birthday btw!!!

"That's not a Bob, that's a Robert" you're so funny ahahha

Happy Birthday Cammy! I can mostly agree with everything but Butter Pecan being the bottom tier concept 😭😭 But I think Babs had a really nice 1996 for sure and a few of these were ones I loved but forgot about because there are just SO many dolls.

In 1996, my older sister was 6 and I was 4. So I can attest that the flowers on Blossom Beauty Barbie are very easily pulled off XD. Long after the doll met her demise, I would find the flowers floating around in the toybox.

About the fragility of the flowers on Blossoming Beauty Barbie…they’re not actually too fragile, IIRC! She’s in storage at the moment so I’d have to get her out to check, though. She was one of my fav Barbies growing up! Her hair was so soft.

I was well past the age of playing/collecting Barbies in '96, but I did have nieces that played with them. I remember most of these. Pink Ice Barbie is beautiful. I've always loved the little plumage puffs on her shoulders. So cute.💞💕

Happy Birthday!! 🎉

I was 6 in 96 so a lot of these are my childhood Barbies and this video gave me flashbacks to dolls I had entirely forgotten about! I had horse lovin’ barbie along with her horse (who walked) and a stable. I entirely forgot that my sister had songbird barbie and honestly the bit I remember most about her was her bird accessory that you could balance on your finger. My sister also had ocean friends barbie, but Keiko the orca belonged to me because I was the biggest orca nerd and loved Free Willy and Keikomore than anything else in the world 😂😂 the fact the toy orca even had Keiko’s three chin spots still amazes me to this day, it’s such a small detail but I remember being obsessed with it. I also had Ginger who was, indeed, an absolute queen. I still have Keiko somewhere, the rest of the barbies moved on, but Keiko is eternal.

This video was such a trip down nostalgia lane! I recognized so many of these dolls and my sister and I had the following: Angel Princess Barbie We both got this doll as a Christmas present and she was a favorite of my sisters. I later took the angel wings off my doll to play with them on other toys lol Beaupeep Barbie I do not remember the doll herself, but I do remember the bloomers and the shepards crook. So either the og doll was lost or those items were taken from a cousins doll. Working Out Barbie A favorite of mine! She was the first bendy Barbie we had. Also my mom worked out to those home VHS tapes allot, so we use to make the dolls do the same poses as her. Blossom Beauty Barbies Another that we had two of, and the dress flowers did fall off. They think they were sewn on, but I pulled off all the loose ones that were on mine. I remember collecting them into a little bag to play with. Also that little glitter fairy bottle got cracked open during a move and Covered all our toys in that box with glitter. Bubbling Mermaid Barbie My all time favorite bath toy! Her color changing tail blew my little mind. Also her tails was not solid plastic! It was actually hollow. That’s how you got it to blow bubbles, you would squeeze the tail to push out the air through her bubble wand crown. You could also squeeze the air out of her underwater to make bubbles in the bath that way. Thank you for making this video! I hope you had a lovely birthday!

Yeees!! Happy birthday!! I love your videos so much Darlingg, thank you for posting!! I'd love to see a tour of your collection btw

Always excited to watch your videos! Thank you so much for the effort you put into creating these vids 🥳

Happy birthday, best wishes!!! And thank you for the quality of your videos, I love the topics you talk about and the overall aesthetic!💖💕

Happy birthday!! And omg this is such a cute idea!

1996 was the first year I started getting Barbies (as a 4-5 year old) so this list was a fun trip down memory lane for me, a 21 year old! I took weirdly good care of the Barbie and Ginger accessories, I still have the milkbone box and it is like MINT condition.

happy birthday!! wishing you the sweetest year yet 🎉

Happy (late) birthday! I really enjoy your content; it never feels “click-baity”, and finds that rare balance of snark without being mean-spirited. Keep up the amazing work!

Happy birthday!! love ur vids and ur style!

happy birthday! 🎉 as a fellow 1996 baby this was a special watch. overall seems like a very fun and strong year for Barbie.

I love how informative and fun your videos are. Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday Cammy! Love your content as always. Wish u the best and more ❤

Happy Birthday! 🎂🥰🥳

Happy birthday!!!! I hope your day is so special and magical!

I had a lot of these Barbies! Angel Princess and Blossom Beauty were gorgeous and I remember them fondly. The flowers on Blossom Beauty's dress were very sturdy! Each of the flowers were sewn on pretty well. I don't remember any falling off. Poor Angel Princess took a beating though! I don't know what I did as a child but the wings ended up getting super bent out of shape.

Happy Birthday! Love your videos😍🎂

happy birthday !!! ✨

Happy birthday!! A barbie ranking video is a gift to us

Back when i was a newer doll collector, about seven years ago, I'd come from another collector community (vintage housewares) and one of my friends from there sold me her late mother's collection of Barbies, almost all from the '90s, alll in box; 100 dolls for $100! I recognize so many of them from your video. So nice. But i also just randomly have the Ginger dog Barbie's cute plaid pants from the thrift.

💖happy birthday!!💖

Happy Birthday! 🎉🥳

Happy birthday girlie!!

Happy birthday!!! 🎂

Happy birthday!!!

Definitely the best content on the net and the cutest content maker. Happy Birthday. 💖💖💖

Happy birthday!!! I love listening to your videos :)

happy birthday gem!!!

Happy happy birthday!!

Happy birthday!!! 🎉

Happy Birthday! I absolutely love your videos and I know so many other people do too! Keep up the fabulous work and have a wonderful day ❤️❤️❤️

Happy birthday! Love your videos! Wish you all the best 🥳

happy birthday leo legend!!! you are such an incredible asset to this community, thank you for what you do!

HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYYY💗💗💗💗

Happy birthday! Thank you for inspiring me to pick doll collecting back up as an adult!!

At first when you said you were born in 1996 and turning 21 this year you had me second guessing my own age because I was born in 2002 and did turn 21 this year (or so I thought 🤨) 😭🤣 happy birthday!!! 🥳

Happy Birthday! 🎂

Happy Birthday!! I adore your videos and your amazing fashion in every one. I had the Blossom Beauty Barbie! The flowers shockingly stayed on really well at least on my doll, the "blossoming" effect was super fun.

HAPPY (late) BIRTHDAY!!! Hope you had a great week ur videos are always amazing 💗💗💗

Happy birthday!! Love your videos ❤️ edit: all these barbies are so cute, I love the first one who is the princess, and all their faces are super sweet, makes me nostalgic 😭

Happy birthday!! I loved my Bubble Mermaid Barbie because her tail would change color under hot or cold water and honestly that was the main feature for her more so than the bubbles. Like the bubbles were cool and all but being able to have a barbie I was able to have in the bath tub and take to the pool and play mermaids with was the real big thing for me.

I love your ranking videos!

Happy Birthday!! 🎂 💃

This was great. That Holiday Barbie is iconic. I also appreciate that you got to play with dolls as a kid. It makes your videos so much richer and interesting. Thank you for sharing!

Happy birthday!!!

I love your ranking videos ❤

Blossom beauty's dress held up pretty well from what I can remember, it was so iconic and beautiful. I also had song bird barbie, and i s2g i remember making her tge blossom beauty's little sister since their dresses had the same vibe. And bubbling mermaid was great for the bath. I had a distinctive memory of loving tiny branded products that came with the shoppinf barbie and kelly.

Happy birthday!🎉 I love your videos!💕