I feel the need to warn potential buyers of their danger."īarry asked his readers to send him one of these banned Barbies and successfully put its fire-starting potential to the test, once even appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman using the doll to set a pair of underwear doused in hairspray on fire. My little girl innocently ran the skate across her brother's bottom, which immediately ignited his clothes. There are no warnings concerning fire on these toys. After spraying him with hair spray, the children began to play with the boot to Rollerblade Barbie. On March 8, my 8-year-old daughter was playing beauty shop with her 4-year-old brother. In one, he shared a letter from an alarmed parent who wrote, "Last year, my two daughters received presents of two Rollerblade Barbie dolls by Mattel. Humorist Dave Barry took a particular interest in this dangerous doll and his columns on the topic are weirdly some of the only media I could find about it on the internet. However, this doll got recalled in 1991 because her skates posed a potential fire hazard. Rollerblade Barbie Flicker 'n Flash came with a cute skating outfit, knee pads, and some sick 'blades that sparked when you rolled them across a surface.
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Full disclosure: I had this Barbie, I loved her dearly, and I never successfully lit anything on fire with her - but I tried, oh how I tried.
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