The doll is based on the cartoon. The first doll sold in Europe was based on the Bild Lilli comic strip and was meant to be a gag gift for adults. Barbie creator Ruth Handler first saw the Bild ...

Mattel is exceedingly talented at mashing up the words "bride" and "Barbie." There's Barbie Bride Doll, Beautiful Bride Barbie Doll, Rose Bride Barbie, Romantic Bride Barbie and Romantic Rose ...

It’s Barbie Week at The Daily ... This helped establish MyScene dolls, like Bratz, as distinctive personalities. It felt like you were engaging with a cartoon character, first and foremost ...

The doll, a German-made model ... Tell that to Lilli. Barbie’s embarrassing European ancestor (how American!) began as a lewd cartoon, developed by and for men. Lilli was born as a postwar ...

Barbie likely wouldn't exist if Mattel's founder hadn't stumbled across Bild Lilli, a plastic doll based on a comic strip. For years Ruth Handler had struggled to convince her colleagues to make ...

Barbie’s physical appearance was modeled on the German Bild Lilli doll, a risqué gag gift for men based upon a cartoon character featured in the West German newspaper. Despite fierce ...