Mattel takes a stand to promote kids in the outdoors by coming up with Bird Watching Barbie! Now I won’t be the only girl in the woods with lipstick and mascara. Although, Barbie, babe, you might want to consider trading in your fold up chair for a set of binoculars. You know, girl, you’re popular enough, I bet any number of optics companies would love to sponsor you. I think Swarovski is a natural fit–you could have crystal bins!
Can I say how much I love that Mattel went the extra distance to prove she’s a birder by giving her a vest? Granted, it’s stylish and pink and helps accentuate her ample figure (wow, imagine her with a binocular harness) but I am so grateful they left off the Tilly Hat (no one looks good in those–no one).
I wonder how long Barbie’s Life List is? And does she prefer Peterson to Sibley? Or is she a Kaufman girl?
Oh good, you found the image! the pics on the mattel site didn’t have the thought bubble. I had a camping barbie in the mid-eighties that had orange binocs and a big ugly green backpack. This one looks to be more of a motor-home camper tho’. . .
Birdwatcher Barbie has Paris Hilton’s cold, dead eyes. I think she’s there for the birds to see *her*.
If she drives a yellow Mustang, than she is definitely a Kaufman girl.
(those that have read “Kingbird Highway” should get it.)
Hmm, well Barbie drives a silver corvette so what does that tell us. I think that still puts her in the kaufman camp. Though she could be a G3. Golden Guide Girl.
So does she haul the folding chair all the way out to the mudflats or does she just sit at the trailhead with a high powered scope?
No electric blue fingernails? Barbie is a pale image of a real Birdchick.
And I like my Tilley, whether I look good or not.
The Barbie I had drove the MOTORHOME! I love the bird that seems to be attacking the bow in her hair. Serves the B*ch right! What is that her ‘magic mirror’ that is under her left hand?
What? Don’t all us brrdrr grrls wear capris and hot pink flying-monkey-from-Oz vests when we go out looking for Roseate Spoonbills and Greater Flamingos and Pink-footed Geese and Pink-footed Shearwaters and Pink-headed Warblers and Pink-backed Pelicans?
But srsly, pink in just a step or two down the list from white on my what-not-to-wear-birding list. I’d definitely bring a loaner camo poncho if I ever went birding with this babe.
This is hilarious!!! I am really wondering what they were thinking when they put this together, because nothing I see really makes it look like she is any kind of birder! An armchair (er..folding chair) birder I guess?
Sheri, I think you are this close to starting a nudist birding movement.
No wonder I can’t seem to add Rosy Finch to my list! That no noise realtree camo jacket just isn’t cutting it. Who knew?
Barbi is not a REAl girl. The LAwn Doctor is not a real doctor either.
Aunt Lynne would totally go for this.
Now THAT is a frightening prospect, B’Chick – though I’m intrigued by the idea of disguising my melanin-challenged complexion with a full-body tattoo of Realtree Mossy Oak.
Well I like the idea of Mattel, and sure she don’t looks like a common twitcher, but hey she is Barbie!
I would be even more thrilled if Barbie were to consider getting into digiscoping. I know Mattel must have Nikon Coolpix P5100 cameras (in pink or purple), and if Swarovski and/or Eagle Optics were to sponsor Barbie’s outdoor agenda, then they could custom design a pastel hued 80HD ATS spotting scope complete with adapter. I mean, let’s make it easy for her.
A much better (and frankly quite unsettling) bird-related Barbie is here:
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