#8: Ken’s Buddy, Allan…
Did you know that Ken was created to be just a companion to Barbie? She always had main-character energy… However, when Barbie went out with her friends, Ken would feel lonely, so Mattel created a buddy to keep him company. Thus, Ken’s buddy Allan came to be…
Did you know Allan, too, will be featured in the Barbie movie? We don’t know if he’d appreciate being marketed as fitting into Ken’s hand-me-down clothes. Then again, he was always designed to be his “buddy,” whatever that meant… Either way, we had no idea that Allan ever even existed!