So the men—especially one of the vice presidents—were terribly embarrassed,” recounted early Barbie clothing designer Charlotte Johnson in M.G. 1142 Brad Doll Bendable Leg 1970). New Markings. © 1968 Pat'd Patented in Canada 1967 Other Pats Still, that hasn’t stopped him from getting more surgery. Main idea of the fashion dolls was to present modern fashion. 1960s: Christie (1969) Barbie got a new friend, Christie, the first African-American doll in the Barbie line. Inc. U.S. & For. With his close-cropped blonde hair, shiny lavender vest with a matching mesh shirt underneath, and of course, earring, this Ken became a minor sensation amongst gay men who spotted the signs and claimed Earring Magic Ken as one of their tribe. Hong Kong. Doll mark: that he shares with several friends, he also has a car, vinyl cases and many 2 of 9 Pairs, Carla, Clothing Other Pats. Both Oppenheimer and Gerber told me that they never heard from Mattel or the Handlers regarding the contents of their books, which are both proudly unauthorized. Tutti | For the first two years that Midge™ The story gets slightly stranger from there, because it was Ken Handler’s doctor, Dr. Pamela Harris, who confirmed his diagnosis and spoke of treating him. Now wearing a mustard open slit shirt, Pat'd. accessories. Advertising | Inc. Taiwan U.S. & Foreign Pat'd. At first, Carson Daly laughed when he checked out the toy, joking, "Wow. Today, Rodrigo looks less natural and has been branded the Human Ken Doll Credit: Instagram/Rodrigo Alves "I have had a hair implant, a brow lift, eye lifts, my … Pending, © 1968 Mattel, English Hong Kong, © 1968 Mattel, “He pointed out the primary play mode for the Barbie and Ken dolls was dressing and undressing them,” wrote Schneider. Splinter and Deadspin, rest in peace. Discover the best selection of Ken Dolls at the official Barbie website. One year later, Barbie got her first tattoo with the launch of ‘Totally Stylin’ Tattoos Barbie’, which featured a lower back tattoo spelling out K-E-N. “What does it mean to think about this topic when we have a broader understanding of the relationship between genitals and gender? pants & brown shoes. & different outfit: wore red corduroy pants, red/blue At the time of her book’s publication, Gerber said, the toy company was attempting to downplay Ruth Handler’s historical significance. The 'Human Ken Doll' decided that the best cure for this problem is the poison itself, so he is going to get some correctional procedures, which will have to fix his nose. Action figures, doll toys marketed toward boys appeared in 1964. “Give Ken-Doll Crotch here two weeks, tops,” said the successful Derek (Adam Scott) of his manchild brother/new employee Brennan (Will Ferrell) in Step Brothers. Though there are many accounts of Earring Magic Ken’s success, Mattel stopped making the doll seemingly within a year. above Busy Ken, pretty much the same doll only talks Add to List Opens a popup. JESSICA Alves made a name of herself after spending thousands of pounds on plastic surgery to look like a Ken doll. © 1968 Mattel, Inc. Pending. Pending Mexico, © 1968 Mattel, Inc. Jessica, formally known as Rodrigo, and has altered her appearance to look like … | German pants & brown shoes. Gerber told me that she knew that Mattel did not like Barbie and Ruth after a chilly interaction at a toy convention, though that may have had more to do with her centering her narrative on Ruth Handler. Barbie Antique Fashion | Doll mark: Ken ™ Pats. Doll mark: Buffy, Pretty it shows, a much more muscular body, new solid red trunks and jacket Hawthorne Calif. U.S.A. © 1968 Mattel, Inc. © 1968 Mattel, She did not respond to further inquiries. He was devised as a “fantasy escort” for Barbie and, according to Schneider, “Mattel was careful to give him boyish, clean-cut looks and the overall, non-threatening, asexual appearance of a wimpy little jerk.” In Forever Barbie, however, Lord notes a sort of compensatory dog-whistling via plastic add-ons. 12" Dolls Ken | Patd. Ken is first introduced when his boss, Lotso, tells him that Andy's toys have arrived. | Carnival | Dress Me, Googly Eye | Psychologist, marketing expert, and the “father of motivational research,” Dr. Ernest Dichter had been commissioned to observe little girls playing with Barbies. Like a perverted and plastic riff on the old chicken-or-egg cliche, Ken’s crotch was a key feature of his own conception. Both Ken and Pat'd. | The Handler family allegedly sought to suppress this information, which was not mentioned in his obituaries. Metal | Competition to Barbie doll appeared in 2001 in the form of Bratz. I'm jealous. Pat'd. Doll Auctions | Doll Books | Dolls For Sale | As for today, Rodrigo Alves looks more like a Ken doll rather than a real human being, and that is disturbing, to say the least. tennis racket and ball. Doll mark: Here's what the doll would look like in real life. While the manufacturing, PR, and representational considerations made by Mattel in the early ‘60s seemed to have nothing to do with an open-minded interpretation of gender (and this was decades before “transgender” was even a word in wide usage), it is more than a little odd in retrospect that the toy company mass marketed a vision of manhood that was pointedly not defined by what was between Ken’s legs. 12" tall vinyl doll with straight-legs, flocked They spend a pocketful of money on plastic surgery, they put on extravagant makeup, and they gloss over every pic to look like true Barbies and Kens. Barbie’s official birthday is March 9, 1959—the day she was officially introduced to the world. In the first commercial, a female doll is lured into a car by a doll resembling G.I. Pending Taiwan. Inc. Hawthorne Calif. U.S.A. © 1960 by Mattel, Inc. shoes. Automata | Their amazing appearances will surely not leave you cold. Pend. Ken, in particular, has come a long way. U.S. & For. | Patsy Type | ... of course, we also have a Ken doll because I couldn't not get Ken. Rodrigo Alves is definitely not one of those people. & doll. American | Rubber | Customer complaints led some stores to remove the doll from shelves, but in 2011, a Barbie featuring even more elaborate tattoos across her neck, chest, arms and shoulders was launched in partnership with L.A. fashion company tokidoki. Quick View Barbie® Fashions Pack: Ken® Doll Clothes with Red & Black Tee, Shorts & 1 Accessory Opens a popup. Pat'd. What else would they do?”. bendable legs, red trunks & a blue towel. attire. He is a 12" tall vinyl doll and is Barbie's boyfriend. Real-life Barbie spends £100k to look like doll and plans more ops despite hubby's ban BOOBY PRIZE Mum who spent £100k to look like real-life … I'm jealous. Ken was, and still is, accepted as a necessary escort to many of Barbie’s activities. Francie | With now 25 years passed and considerable advances made in (at least liberal) society of what constitutes manhood, the Rand of today expressed a different interpretation of Ken’s crotch when I recently reached her by phone. It was hard not to confuse him with G.I. Doll mark: In the second commercial, the "Barbie" doll is saved by the "G.I. Inc. Hawthorne Calif. U.S.A. Red striped jacket now has the terry cloth collar Pending  Mexico, © 1968 Mattel, Inc. U.S. & For. Gerber remembered Dr. Harris as initially “reticent” but she would go on to share the story of Ken Handler’s diagnosis, as well as her breaking the news with Ken to his wife Suzie (who stayed with him), and informing his parents of their son’s disease alongside Suzie while Ken walked on the nearby beach, not wanting to face them during the reveal. Cher Barbie in the 1970s. PJ | Jamie | This goes not just for the doll, but for the man he was named after, Ken Handler, who died in 1994 with major parts of his life airbrushed out of public view. “My dream was to look like a Disney prince, but now after so many surgeries I look like a doll and not like a Disney prince,” he says. Barbie | China | Dressed doll, in pale blue brocade Mattel also refused to comment on this matter. The Ken doll like Barbie, also evolved over the years, but girls, Jessica, formally known as Rodrigo, and has altered her appearance to look like a… blue eyes. Inc. U.S. & For. early version, paler skin tone than earlier doll and Here are 11 Barbie doll controversies … Both the English & Spanish speaking Ken had the same Red Flare Barbie in 1962. She’s quoted separately in Gerber’s and Oppenheimer’s books. Ken, like Barbie is a By rotating the tab the doll could appear to be bending, He is Barbie’s boyfriend, as it is written on every box produced since 1961. They are going to sit there and scratch that paint off to see what’s under it. After I contacted Dr. Harris about speaking to reporters about her patient’s status and cause of death, she sent me back a response telling me not to quote her. Doll mark: Wood, By Type  New Mattel manager of marketing and communications Lisa McKendall repeatedly denied to the press that Ken was packaged wearing a tool designed to make his dick harder and last longer in bed. Hawthorne Calif. U.S.A. New bendable legs, red trunks, blue jacket 1962. Now made in red/white striped jacket with the collar stitched on was added, cork sandals with red vinyl straps, black wire stand, no towel was Mattel) son. Has a medium blue stage, microphone & a 45 rpm On March 9, 1959, the first Barbie doll goes on display at the American Toy Fair in New York City. All new head and body, Ken's been working out and Joe" doll after she is accidentally knocked into a swimming pool by the "Ken" doll to Kiss's "Dr. Love". Other Pat's. Pending Hong Kong, © 1968 Mattel, I think like a woman, I act like a woman, because I have always been one deep inside.’ Roddy got the Human Ken Doll nickname after having over 76 surgeries (Picture: GC Images) Boudoir Skipper | Rodrigo Alves, the man commonly known as the Human Ken Doll, looked dramatically different before his £450,000 worth of plastic surgery. “Children did not think Ken had been in some horrible accident,” wrote Schneider. New marking; Doll mark: hands that can grasp and hold items, bendable legs, blue Released in 1959, the first-ever Barbie doll features golden hair, a black and white bathing suit and blue eyeshadow. There was a lesson in this for all of us: do not substitute your own tastes, thoughts, or imagination for a child’s.”, All that hand- and dick-wringing for nothing. 1970 . Taiwan, © 1968 Mattel, Inc. Taiwan U.S. & For. he's still single! Mattel Inc.1968 Hong Kong. Ken was not merely dickless by default; the bulge was the result of careful strategizing to which his inventors, businessmen, a psychologist, and Japanese manufacturers all contributed. Doll marked same as Other Pat's. And, as Dan Savage pointed out in a piece published a few months after the doll’s release, “hanging around Ken’s neck, on a metallic silver thread, is what ten out of ten people in the know will tell you at a glance is a cock ring.”. For each doll, photographs, dates of production, market prices, and other information are provided. And if so, was it healthy to see him undressed? Rare | © 1960 by Mattel, Inc. Three were made: “One was—you couldn’t even see it. Inc. U.S. & For. Apparently no grudge is being held against the author and her tea spilling. Kewpie | pronounced kneecaps, fatter arms & hands. Same outfit. Both Ken’s penisless existence and his emergence as a gay icon in the early ‘90s are somewhat relevant to the biography of Ken Handler, the son of Ruth and Eliot Handler who inspired Ken’s name. © MCMLX by Mattel Inc. 12" tall vinyl doll with straight-legs, new Steffie & Babs | Pat'd. Pending A log stick with a school pennant accompanied his ‘Campus Hero’ outfit; an electric shaver with a dangling cord accompanied his bathrobe; and his weekend ‘Casuals,’ khakis and a T-shirt, came with car keys.”. Ken (full name: Kenneth Sean Carson) was released in 1961 expressly to provide Barbie with a boyfriend. 1962. as above Ken. Released in 1959, the first-ever Barbie doll features golden hair, a black and white bathing suit and blue eyeshadow. 1172 Live Action on stage Ken doll (1971). the arms have the hands facing towards the back rather “Those issues had all been concerns of adults who had over-stressed the problem. Doll mark same as Cloth | Very impressive." Inc. U.S. & For. Bisque | The first Barbie doll goes on display at the American Toy Fair in New York City. Ken is named after the Handler's (founders of Mattel) son. © 1968 Mattel, Inc. Taiwan For Sale | Doll mark: © 1968 Mattel, Inc. U.S. & For. in Canada Marvin Barab, director of marketing research for Mattel from 1959-65, is quoted in Barbie and Ruth as saying, “They decided it was better for Mattel if he was neutered, and that was the end of it.” Ultimately, this made no difference to consumers, according to Schneider. Ken’s penislessness seemingly did not affect his bottom line. © MCMLX by Mattel © 1968 Mattel, © 1968 Mattel, Inc. “He questioned whether children would understand that Ken was a boyfriend or comprehend what a boyfriend really was. molded hair, blue short sleeve shirt, tan/blue plaid They called his hair the "flocked hairstyle," which collector's look for when purchasing a first-issue Ken Doll from 1960-1961. Barbie, in full Barbara Millicent Roberts, an 11-inch- (29-cm-) tall plastic doll with the figure of an adult woman that was introduced on March 9, 1959, by Mattel, Inc., a southern California toy company. Schneider talked to him directly and reported in Children’s Television. Historically, some variations of the toy have had embossed underwear the same color of his flesh, while some are completely smooth, suggesting just about nothing. He’s been through 58 plastic surgeries, including over 100 cosmetic procedures to look like a fashion doll replica. Every ostensibly male doll I came across I pantsed in the hope of an eyeful of plastic dick. Ken dollsdocument.write('vintage Ken dolls');vintage Ken dolls, use ebay sold listings, 11 1/2" Dolls  Barbie | If you’re a trans man, you might not have come with what Ken didn’t come with either. Pending  Mexico. In his 1987 book Children’s Advertising: The Art, the Business and How it Works, former Mattel ad man Cy Schneider described the question of what to put between Ken’s legs as “a hot internal issue” and surmised that Barbie’s breasty appeal had something to do with it. So Ken came into the world with the smoothness that has been so mocked in pop culture. Silkstone is a patented type of vinyl which weighs, feels and looks like porcelain. Doll Marks | Doll Values. clothes now he came dressed in red shorts and a red jacket. Originally named for the son of Barbie’s creator and her husband, the Handlers, the first Kens flocked crew cut and American Boy good looks made him look like he stepped out of an Ozzie and Harriet set. Lord writes that the accessories that came with Ken’s first garments sold separately from the doll, “came with long, thin accessories—symbols for the penis he lacked. Other Pat's. © 1968 Mattel, Dicks were even rarer commodities in movies and especially on TV than they are today. “The Human Ken Doll” Rodrigo Alves says he’s done with plastic surgery after undergoing 60 cosmetic procedures. “I don’t even know if I look like a Ken Doll, but if other people want to say I do, it’s flattering,” he said. Pat'd. Mattel, Inc. U.S. Pat. Ken is a fashion doll and fictional character introduced by Mattel in 1961 as the counterpart of Barbie, who was introduced two years earlier. This doll was first produced and sold by the German magazine Build in 1955 and was based on a design from the popular comic book drawn by artist Reinhard Beuthin. The bewigged delivery boy escaped unharmed by smearing the father’s genitals with whipped cream and having the house dog lick them, to the delight of his oblivious harasser. tux, black pants & bowtie, black shoes & red © 1968 Mattel, U.S. & For. Lord’s 1994 book Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll. all rights reserved including photos & content. stage, instead this one has a posing stand. Brown molded painted hair, In the early days of Ken dolls, Ken had a specific hairstyle that would later be changed. Hong Kong. His legacy would become inextricably linked with the namesake doll that eventually he’d come to resent. Compare Compare. Delphine is a limited edition dressed Silkstone Barbie doll produced in 2000. A celebration of the original creepy object. Why couldn’t Ken have a penis? 4224 Ken Mod Hair. Ken Handler was a teen at the time of Ken’s debut. sideburns & 2 moustaches, bendable legs, brown/white Shop for the latest Male Barbie Dolls, playsets, accessories and gift sets today! The movie’s young breakdancing, pizza-delivering characters found themselves in a variety of sexual predicaments. On March 9, 1959, the first Barbie doll goes on display at the American Toy Fair in New York City. Papier Mache Values, Dolls By Country  So let's get started. Rest same as prior doll. 35th Anniversary Reproduction Barbie Doll . Todd, All prices and values given are based on a combination of dealer and Internet pricing and are based on dolls NRFB (never removed from box). His lack of genitalia is a running joke: Ken is synonymous with dicklessness, as multiple references in pop culture attest—lines in Dogma, Sisters, and the 2016 reboot of Ghostbusters, to name a few. Other Pats. 1967, © 1968 Mattel, Inc. Taiwan https://www.insider.com/human-ken-doll-plastic-surgery-addiction-2019-10 The first vintage Midge™ dolls now have a value of $350/400 NRFB. Every ostensibly male doll I came across, and growing up with four younger sisters, there were a lot, I pantsed in the hope of an eyeful of plastic dick. Markings same as above doll. | French | Truly | Julia | Ken will turn 50 in 2011.The Barbie doll was first sold in 1959 and the Ken doll was first sold in 1961. He was invented by Elliot Handler. moving tab on back of doll makes it very movable. Inc. 1/4" shorter than previous dolls, loose legs, Forum | Pat'd. Gerber says Mattel’s management has changed in the 10 years since her book’s release. While the world goes deeper into individuality, there are some people who do their best to look like real-life dolls. This idea that Ken is a man without a penis, what does that actually mean?” she said. Mattel’s gentleman companion for Barbie, its Ken doll, came into the world without junk and remains that way. | Hard Plastic | Ken ® © 1960 by/Mattel, Doll mark: Inc. Taiwan U.S. & Foreign Pat'd. Barbie Gift sets | Pending And yet, you can't look away. Taiwan. 6 1/4" Dolls Tutti, It's alarming. 0500 3 © Mattel Inc.1968 Hong Kong. U.S. & For. It's not offensive." here’s a list: https://twitter.com/SquinterMedia/following, https://lajskhclsahkchkad.kinja.com/jim-spanfeller-is-a-herb-1839451222#js_discussion-region. How the remaining members of Ken Handler’s family felt about his disease finally being reported with credible sourcing is something of a mystery. Pending Mexico. In the Barbie mythos, Ken met Barbie on the set of a TV commercial. “We’re not in the business of putting cock rings into the hands of little girls,” she told Savage. Kelley & Cara, Clone Dolls | Casey & Twiggy, 9 1/4" Dolls Skipper Celluloid | Doll mark: © 1968 Mattel, Marks | Mama Other Pat's. But he later described the boy doll as "accurate. Doll mark: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/762276/rodrigo-alves-before-after-pics It sounds like a foolish thing to say, in my opinion. By 1963, two years after the successful launch of Ken, his phallic stand-ins had become “outrageous” in Lord’s assessment: a rifle with hunting outfit, a baseball bat, a pendulous stethoscope, and a long fork skewering a pink plastic weenie in the “Cheerful Chef” iteration of Ken. The story of Ken’s crotch is not merely one of PR, manufacturing, and/or branding—it’s about which realities our culture deems acceptable, and which that it seeks to keep hidden. Inspired by the original Pedigree dolls, each of the six dolls wears a modern interpretation of the fashions of original Sindy doll releases from 1963: Shopping Look, Weekender, City Chic, Dream Date, Skater Girl, and Sleepy Time. painted hair in blonde or brunette, same body as earlier doll wearing solid red trunks either cotton or stretch jersey material,  a hair (Fuzzy headed); blonde, brunette/black or brownette/lighter brown, a hollow torso wearing red trunks with a white stripe on side, cork Doll mark: shoulders, no bangs and no receding forehead like the Handler thought that the design team lacked the guts to give Ken even the suggestion of genitalia, reports Gerber. The first Barbie appeared on the market in 1959. She debuted in 1968, but is pictured here in 1969. The makers of Barbie have launched a range of black dolls - with fuller lips, a wider nose and more pronounced cheek bones. Ruth Handler resolved to help her son get treatment in the days before HIV was a truly treatable disease. Pending Hong Kong. Pivoting from the family business, Ken Handler was a musician, he put up an art show about the AIDS crisis in 1987, and he directed some movies, including the raunchy ‘80s comedy Delivery Boys. Nonetheless, Ken did end up with something down there, a nudge of a bulge that to scale might have resembled a hockey puck. Ken Handler, according to several accounts, was embarrassed to share a name with a doll that didn’t have genitalia (and would become primarily known for lacking packing). Clothing Tags | Mattel should pay him a fee for marketing Barbie’s bae on his very person. U.S. & For. Curtis are wearing a one piece short suit, Ken's has Doll mark: Doll mark: That makes me think of things a little differently.”. checked jacket, white turtle neck dickey, light brown https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/human-ken-doll-comes-out-21214429 jeans & red tank top, brown belt & white tennis In retrospect, it almost seems forward-thinking. One got a boner that he just couldn’t get rid of and obscured from an interrogating cop via a pizza box; another, to escape the lavish house of a love interest, wore drag and pretended to be a newly employed part of the family’s help. Allan | Brad & Curtis  11 1/4" Dolls Francie with bronze buttons, new clear X stand. Composition Porcelain Collector, All trademarks are respective of their owners and have no affiliation to this website, Doll Reference  © Copyright 2020 Pat'd. He is a 12" tall vinyl doll and 1967. After some persuading, Elliot Handler, who was still alive at the time (he died in 2011), eventually gave Gerber permission to examine the contents of the box, which contained Ruth Handler’s letters to Dr. Harris. It hurts. Chris, Mattel itself drew inadvertent attention to Ken’s lack of a penis when it released the notorious Earring Magic Ken in 1993. If you’re a trans woman, you’re still a woman even if you started out life with a penis. Other Pats. The horny father attempted to coerce him into giving him oral sex through a glory hole he had installed in his room. ... "Christie" was the first African American doll, and was marketed as Barbie's friend. Doll mark: 1088 0500 1 © The real Ken, despite having a wife with whom he had three children, also had sex with men, according to Robin Gerber’s 2009 book Barbie and Ruth, as well as Jerry Oppenheimer’s dishy 2009 book Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel. They were wrong, she was right. The thing about Ken is that he doesn’t have one. And when he was naked, why did he or didn’t he look like Daddy or a brother?”. It took Ken 11 years to get “real” hair… Mod Hair Ken was the first Ken doll to have … New walking construction, brown Now Look Ken® Doll #9342 Find at Retail ITEM NO LONGER AVAILABLE Compare Compare. Pending Hong Kong, © 1968 Pat'd Patented in Canada 1967 Other Pats Pat'd. Pending Hong Kong, 1088 SunSet Malibu Ken Doll (1975-early 1976). Pat'd. Ken, like Barbie is a slick dresser, with a fabulous wardrobe As a kid growing up in the ’80s who very much wanted to look at penises—any penis, even a fake plastic penis would do—it was a rough time. I had a sense of wanting to see dicks way before I had any sense of wanting to do anything with them or their owners, and it seemed unfair as an aspiring connoisseur that the entertainment around me gave me no access to the goods. The next one was a little bit rounded and then next one really was. Inc. U.S. & For. | Oriental with a "K" initial, blond or brunette molded hair, cork red sandals, black or wire stand. Wax | 1088 Other Pats. https://blackthen.com/the-ethnic-beginning-colored-franciefirst-black-barbie-doll The doll’s overall anodyne nature was merely reaffirmed by his lack of a dick, to hear some experts tell it. U.S. Patent Pending, Dolls  Ken | Allan | Brad Pat'd. | Black | We at Bright Side decided to get you acquainted with these doll-people. Other Pats. Pat'd. we stand in solidarity with the staff - follow them on twitter. Ken | As a kid, I didn’t think Ken’s crotch was funny; I found it frustrating. New rooted brown hair, extra beard, solid white shorts with a red and white striped knit top, Like Ken’s missing crotch, we too have a missing part. Nor did Stacey Handler, Ken Handler’s daughter, nor a Samantha Handler that I have good reason to believe is another daughter of Ken and Suzie’s. Ken has painted brown hair, free Would they see Ken as their fathers, brothers, or the boy next door? is Barbie's boyfriend. In 2011, she followed her heart back to Ken, and they reunited as the happy couple in the Barbie and Ken set. 1966 Doll Marking | Same muscular body as #1111, brown molded hair, The ache. This guy is obsessed with plastic surgeries, and it looks like he cannot think about anything else rather than his body. Ken ™ Pats.Pend. New suntan skin tone, painted molded blond hair, Same doll mark as below, same doll just no Here's what Barbie dolls have looked like since they hit shelves in 1959. Same mark as 1961 doll. Barbie had boobs, I reasoned crudely, having no idea that that her lack of nipples was what made them socially acceptable for children to look at. Pending Taiwan, Doll mark: Pat'd. He was named after Ken Handler, son of Ruth and Eliot Handler, who ran Mattel. https://blackthen.com/the-ethnic-beginning-colored-franciefirst-black-barbie-doll in Canada (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Ken Carson was born and celebrates his official birthday on March 11, 1961. Gerber was living in D.C., at the time and Harris, who worked there too, met her for coffee. Forum | Doll Glossary | Other Pats. From the early mockups, Johnson claimed that she and Handler chose the Ken of medium hung-ness “as being the one that was nice-looking.” However, according to Schneider, Ken’s package got a bump down during the manufacturing process, when it was determined that the molding on the shorts was too difficult for the plant in Japan to make—and that the large, rounded lump added a cent and a half to the cost of the doll. 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