#barbie and the diamond castle icons

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Barbie and the Diamond Castle, (2008).

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-Barbie (diamond castle).

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Barbie and The Diamond Castle icons

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Some Barbie icons that i made faster when i was bored

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Hello, everyone! These were created for bloodmoney on AO3 for the 2023 Late Treat Bonanza.

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barbie and the diamond castle

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Barbie and the Diamond Castle, (2008).

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“It’s not a ✨Barbie Movie✨ barbie movie it’s a -Barbie Movie- barbie movie”

-me, trying to explain to my dad the difference between the 2023 barbie movie and the animated movies that I watched growing up

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girlhood in old barbie films

when greta gerwig’s barbie adaptation was first announced, everyone was talking about how barbie will become a feminist icon. it didn’t make sense to me at all, since growing up with the dolls and movies i never saw barbie as anti-feminist or some thing i needed to compare myself to. her characters in the old films were always ones i looked up to as a little girl.

the old films are very overlooked when it comes to the actual stories and messages in the plot. due to the low-budget animation, people assume they have badly written stories. no hate to greta gerwig, i loved the barbie movie but the storylines in a lot of the older movies were more well-developed. a majority of the classic barbie films are adaptations of popular fairytale stories, just with some different takes. all the main characters (played by barbie, who’s an actress in this universe) are their own characters, with different issues, flaws, and personalities. they all have character depth and development throughout the stories.

maybe due to the super pink and girly style of the films, they’re seen as shallow. but all the movies have such interesting stories and themes. they also don’t all follow the typical damsel in distress plot line, some do but others have completely different endings. they show that there’s many different ways a girl can live her life. for example, the 2004 film princess and the pauper. the two main characters, anneliese (the princess) and erika (the pauper) both have different endings. anneliese goes on to marry her best friend, rather than the king she had an arranged marriage with. erika gets engaged to the king, but decides she needs to live her life as a singer first, then return to marry him. in the 2008 diamond castle film, both main characters don’t end up with their love interests, and go on to live in a cottage together. some of them end up marrying their princes, while some go on to travel the world. or both.

another big thing is the flawed characters. none of them are perfect, they’re all 16-17 year old girls so it’s defeated more realistic. in the princess and the pop star, a film that is a bit hated, the main character tori acts immature and is very out of touch on what’s going on in her kingdom. in magic of the pegasus, the main character annika is very reckless and sarcastic. in princess charm school, blair is very clumsy and is struggling a lot on school. even barbie in a christmas carol, where barbie basically plays a villain. all the characters have development throughout the story. same with the characters relationships, they all have different dynamics. my personal favorite is in magic of pegasus. anika and aiden are stuck having to do a quest together, there’s so much banter between them and it takes them a while to start liking each other.

obviously when talking about the feminism in barbie, i need to mention the feminist MASTERPIECE, barbie in the three musketeers. in this, barbie and her friends are training to become musketeers in Paris. throughout the entirety of the film they have all these men telling them they can’t fight cause they’re girls. my favorite part is that if this were any other film, barbie’s character probably would have ended up with the misogynistic prince. he does learn that his opinions were wrong but they don’t have anything going on with each other.

personally, i found the feminist takes in the new barbie movie to be very surface level. it wasn’t bad, just not as revolutionary as people made it out to be. the whole idea of trying to “rebrand” barbie into a feminist makes no sense to me, since she was never anti-feminist. there’s such a big stereotype in media about barbie or princesses and dolls and how “harmful” they are to young girls. none of me or any friends of mine saw barbies as something degrading. the dolls, and films especially were such a big part of me and so many people’s childhoods. i looked up to the barbie protagonists so much and i feel that they were a better representation of barbies brand than in the new movie.

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Note that I said most iconic, not best :3. Reblog for bigger sample etc etc.

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