Comments on: You Won’t Find This at Toys-R-Us

By: Charlene

Charlene — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:05:52 +0000

I had one of these dolls until my house burned. They are getting harder to find.

By: vicky

vicky — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:11:22 +0000

Yea like number 23 said. I mean come on it was made in both black and white version. So white people could be pissed off because they’re calling them Oreo’s too. Right? So when did it become bad to call anyone an Oreo?

By: Idi Amin

Idi Amin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:02:36 +0000

Get over it. It is not like it was called “Nigger Barbie”

By: Sandra

Sandra — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:00:39 +0000

I also have this doll. I am an African-American and I bought it because I thought it was cute. The “oreo” concept escaped me when I purchased it. I bought three dolls. One for my daughter, one for my niece and one for myself. I still have mine in the box. I will not part with her, unless there is someone out there who seriously would like to purchase it from me.

By: Lynda

Lynda — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:56:13 +0000

I just stumbled on this site, and I have one of these dolls – new in box, since 1997, when I bought it at the checkout counter at my local grocery store. How Mattel couldn’t have know the controversy they would create with a black version of this doll is beyond me! I knew it the second I saw it, and bought it to collect. That’s why it’s still in the box! If anyone seriously wants it, let me know. It truly is a collector’s item. Mattel recalled all units once they figured out their idiocy! Very few left in the world, especially still in the box, never opened. Serious inquiries only though…

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I Love Peaches » Blog Archive » BILLION DOLLAR BABY! — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:16:31 +0000

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By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:18:04 +0000

Soo… I am too am just stumbling across this. I was looking for something to send my cousins and I thought about the Kenya and Baby Kiana dolls that we got as children in our skin shades (we are buttermilk, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate). I wish I could locate my dolls today, sigh…

By: nolagirl

nolagirl — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:50:40 +0000

okay so I have free time and I am just reading this 2 years later ( sad but true)

Kenya wasn’t a africa doll just for afro American s ( as it became popular to name your child something ” African”
I remember that “Kenya’s hair looks great magic lotion makes it straight making Kenya look pretty makes me feel pretty too.”
she came with pretty curls until yyou put magic lotion on it and it was straight…. forever….. they could have warned me, mais non! I was so upset. I had the doll but not the one in my color they ran out my doll was a caremel color.

I also had no idea that oreo was not a widley used term. the things you learn when you read.

By: Kayleigh

Kayleigh — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:35:55 +0000

Well, Mattel origianlly made the doll in both skin colours to please everyone. (I am not being racist. This was standard procedure. Please do not take that the wrong way as I am not trying to offend ANYBODY.) Now I admit the marketing was bad on this one…but if you can see where Mattel was originally coming from and trying to do…These dolls are highly sought after..

By: jay

jay — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:53:39 +0000

The best thing about the oreo doll is the fun you can have with it now in retrospect. Especially when you pair it with a white ken doll…nothing funnier!