In January 2010, American toy company Mattel released a Cyndi Lauper Barbie doll as part of their " Ladies of the 80s " series.

She quickly moved on to do voice-overs and commercials, including several as a Barbie Girl for Mattel.

Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy-company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959.

Barbie is the figurehead of a brand of Mattel dolls and accessories, including other family members and collectible dolls.

It is estimated that over a billion Barbie dolls have been sold worldwide in over 150 countries, with Mattel claiming that three Barbie dolls are sold every second.

* The Official Barbie Website – Owned By Mattel

Ken ( Ken Sean Carson ) is a Mattel toy doll introduced by Mattel in 1961 as the fictional boyfriend of toy doll Barbie introduced in 1959.

In February, 2004, Mattel announced a split for Ken and Barbie, with Russell Arons, vice president of marketing at Mattel, saying that Barbie and Ken " feel it's time to spend some quality time – apart ... Like other celebrity couples, their Hollywood romance has come to an end ", though Arons indicated that the duo would " remain friends ".

Midge Hadley is a fictional doll character in the Barbie line of toys by Mattel that was first released in 1963.

In 1992, when Mattel Inc. began selling a Barbie doll that said math class is tough, the voices of protest that started with the Systers list played a role in getting Mattel to remove that phrase from Barbie's microchip.

In 2004, sales figures showed that Bratz dolls outsold Barbie dolls in the United Kingdom, although Mattel maintained that in terms of the number of dolls, clothes and accessories sold, Barbie remained the leading brand.

In April 2005, MGA Entertainment filed a lawsuit against Mattel, claiming that the " My Scene " line of Barbie dolls had copied the doe-eyed look of Bratz dolls.

Mattel eventually obtained the rights to the Lili dolls and Barbie went on to become the best selling doll of all time and recently celebrated her 50th anniversary.

In recent years they have also become known for producing most of the Barbie film series for Mattel.

She went on to appear in over thirty commercials for products including McDonald's, Amtrak, Kenner's " Strawberry Shortcake " dolls, Burger King, Mattel, Barbie, Maybelline, Shout Detergent, Pillsbury Pop ' n Fresh Rolls, Apple Kool Aid, Prell, Texaco and McCain's Chicken.

In the genres of toys and comic books, toys were given their first prominent supercouple with the creation of Ken and Barbie by Mattel in 1961 and comic book supercouples such as Clark Kent and Lois Lane ( created in 1938 ) and Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson ( created in 1966 ) are still popular today.

Skipper Roberts was a doll created by Mattel in 1964 to be Barbie's younger sister, as well as to oppose controversies directed at Barbie.

It is often believed that this " neutral " role was Mattel's original concept behind Zodac, and the labelling of him as ' Evil ' was done purely to even out the evil figures against the heroic, or that he was classed as an Evil Warrior simply because the ' Heroic ' and ' Evil ' groupings on the boxes did not have a ' Neutral ' category, but Mattel has never confirmed this.

Tog ' l was a construction set produced by Mattel from 1968 through 1970, similar in concept to Lego.

Ultimately, this fulfilled the original promises of turning the Intellivision into a computer, making it possible to write programs and store them to tape, and interfacing with a printer well enough to allow Mattel to claim that they had delivered the promised computer upgrade and stop the FTC's mounting fines.

The injunction was to have been enforced on February 11, 2009, at the earliest, the same date that Mattel and MGA would once again be in court to present their cases for appeal, and mandated that MGA must remove, at its own cost, all Bratz product from store shelves, reimburse retailers for the product, turn over the recalled product to Mattel for disposal, and destroy all marketing materials and molds and materials used in the production of the dolls.

Dora the Explorer as a preadolescence | tween. On March 8, 2009, Mattel and Nickelodeon announced that Dora will receive a tweenage makeover, switching from a young age to a teenage attending middle school.

SSI was acquired by Mindscape in 1994, spent time as part of Mattel, and finally became part of Ubisoft ( in March 2001 ), which has since retired the brand name.

In March 2001, Gores Technology Group sold The Learning Company's entertainment division ( which includes games originally published by Brøderbund Software, Mattel, Mindscape and Strategic Simulations, Inc .) to them.

In March 2009, the Fisher-Price division of toy maker Mattel announced that they had stopped production in December 2008 of the scenic disks depicting tourist attractions.

When Tyco was purchased by Mattel on March 27, 1997, it was the third largest toy company in the United States.

*" Ken ", a doll to accompany the popular Barbie that had been brought out by the Mattel toy company introduced on March 9, 1959, was introduced at the annual American International Toy Fair in New York City.

On September 7, 2007, Out of the Box Publishing sold the rights for Apples to Apples to Mattel.

At Mattel, just after the 7 a. m. recall announcement by federal officials, a public relations staff of 16 was set to call reporters at the 40 biggest media outlets.

The Mini Boglins were first released in 1991 with 36 Boglins subdivided into 6 ' tribes ' with six Boglins in each tribe over time they were produced by several companies including 7 Towns Ltd. for Mattel.

* Minotron: 2112 ( iPod Touch / iPhone 3GS / iPad / iPhone 4, 2011 ) ( Represents the Mattel Intellivision )

Mattel Inc. and MGA Entertainment Inc. returned to court on January 18, 2011 to renew their battle over who owns Bratz, which this time includes accusations from both companies that the other side stole trade secrets.

On August 5, 2011 Mattel was also ordered to pay MGA $ 310 million for attorney fees, stealing trade secrets, and false claims rather than the $ 88. 5 million issued in April.

In 2011, Mattel introduced Japan Ken, the first Ken doll to be included in the Dolls of the World collection, which was formerly a Barbie-only line.

Mattel Inc. and MGA Entertainment Inc. returned to court on January 18, 2011 to renew their battle over who owns Bratz, which this time includes accusations from both companies that the other side stole trade secrets.

On August 5, 2011 Mattel was also ordered to pay MGA $ 310 million for attorney fees, stealing trade secrets, and false claims rather than the $ 88. 5 million issued in April.

In October 2011, it was announced that American toy company Mattel had concluded a deal to purchase Hit Entertainment for $ 680 million.

* Mattel released an action figure of the comic book version in its DC Universe Classics line in January 2011.

* Mattel released an action figure of the Justice League Unlimited version in its DC Universe: Justice League Unlimited Fan Collection line in November 2011.

In 2011 Mattel released a DC Universe Classics 6 " Toyman figure based on the Jack Nimball version of the character.

* Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge ( Cache Sales, 2011 and Mattel, 2011 )

Dolls ( Mattel, 2011 )

* Doris Day ( Mattel, 2011 )

* Faith Hill ( Mattel, 2011 )

* Farrah Fawcett ( Mego, 1970s and Mattel, 2011 )

* Johnny Depp ( Mattel, 2011 )

* Nicki Minaj ( Mattel, 2011 )

* Penélope Cruz ( Mattel, 2011 )

* Prince William, Duke of Cambridge ( Mattel, 2011 )

* Reba McEntire ( Mattel, 2011 )

* Rock Hudson ( Mattel, 2011 )