All About Midge: Barbie’s Misunderstood BFF

"She's given birth a few times, in my house." 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Midge was a terrific idea with terrible execution. I think her wandering eye problem is called being "wall-eyed" as opposed to "cross-eyed," but yes, almost all of the '60s Midges suffer from this affliction to some extent. I've seen Midge repainted with brown eyes and she looks much better. I do love me some '80s Midge, though. First, the Steffie sculpt rocks, as everybody knows. And the diva sculpt, while not quite as good, is a huge improvement over the '60s version. I thrift '80s and '90s Midges whenever I find them and now have quite a few, including Happy Family (sadly missing tummy and baby), Cool Looks, and most recently, Earring Magic. Always glad to see you've uploaded a new video! Keep em coming.

My sister and I each got an original Midge for Christmas in 1963. One had blonde hair and the other had Titian hair. I remember being not all that thrilled with Midge, tbh. At that point I also had a 1961 blonde ponytailed Barbie and a 1962 Titian bubble cut Barbie and I thought Midge was kind of goofy looking. I know, I know. But it didn’t really matter because the Beatles came along a couple of months later and that was all she wrote LOL. P.S. Love your channel, you have the most amazing vintage collection I’ve ever seen!!!

They did midge so wrong in the movie 😂. I remember happy family midge as a kid even tho I didn't have her. I actually think she was one of the cutest faces of midge they ever had along with the barbie life in the dreamhouse midge. I think many doll collectors have a soft spot for red headed dolls and therefore midge. The treatment of midge in the barbie movie almost feels ginger-phobic tbh lmao

Midge is one of my favorites - love the face mold. P.J. Was my first love. I’m 56 and I’ll never forget, one Christmas when I was 5, that Mom slipped me one. I was so thrilled. It was a twist n turn

It's a shame that Midge's first marriage to Allen didnt work out, but im so glad she found her second husband, Alan.

Wow!!!!!! That Midge wedding set!!!!💗 Oh my!!!!!!💗

Midge is definitely my favourite Barbie friend! Vintage Midge sometimes reminds me of Doris Day, especially the bend leg and wig wardrobe ones. But Midge is always cute to me! Never had one growing up (I had Barbie's other 90s friends but never Midge) but I've made up for it now haha thanks for another fun video :)

Your setting us for jokes is hilarious (at least to those of us Barbie fans)!

When Midge was introduced in the movie, I turned to the girls next to me and said that is not correct, she was Barbie's first friend, and she has come back more than once and not discontinued. I fell out of touch with the Barbie world in the late 80s through most of the 90s as the girls I babysat for were older and stopped playing. I was sad when she went away with The Mod era, but as a boy I couldn't own Barbies (until I was older!) Thank you for bringing some correct information about Barbie's first best friend!

Oh Midge 💕😅 I had a pregnant Midge when I was little. When I was older I would mention that my favourite barbie was pregnant Barbie and people had no idea what I was talking about so I chalked it up as a fever dream….I was so excited when I watched the movie and realised she was real! 🤣🤣🤣

Very interesting Midge’s story! Thanks for sharing! ❤❤

Midge has had quite a tumultuous time of it. I mean, the name alone...Midge?? Given the responsibility of being Barbie's first friend (think of the pressure she was under - but her boyfriend WAS cuter than Barbie's!), mostly dismissed as ugly, only to be unceremoniously dumped in a few years. Then she's haphazardly brought back decades later in a few inconsistent reincarnations...and THEN suffers probably the worst backlash anyone in Barbieworld ever had to endure....the public pretty much wanted to burn her at the stake for being pregnant and unwed. Oh, and when Barbiedom finally gets the royal treatment with a blockbuster movie, Midge is nothing but a brief punchline. I personally love Midge, especially the vintage version. She's got to be the most neurotic character in the Barbie universe considering all she's been through, and I'm totally there for her.

You’re hilarious! Yep Midge is definitely a trooper lol

It seems like Midge gotten hotter over the decades, the glow up is real.

Pregnant Midge is my holy grail! I will hopefully have her in my collection at some point.

Midge and Teresa are my favorite Barbie's friends. The first versions are pretty cute!

Midge is amazing, they really did her dirty. Also how dare PJ, SHE STOLE MIDGES BEST FRIEND AND HER FACE. vote midge for president!

Love the hat and the Allan looking shirt you have on 🤪 great video!! The baby part was so funny, great job !! You have a cool personality!

Wow well done ....* I found out many facts I wasn't aware of about later Midge . Which the collector in me is now on the look out for some of the later Midges. I was already collecting when the Midge wedding gift set came out , but was way to involved in completing my early Midges then . The later Midges are so cute & some of the prettiest ones as depicted in your segment ! Thnx again for creating the best content out there on Barbie collecting ! Cheers Matt Sky