Yes Childhood I still love Barbie I Grew up with Chelsea but I am making a Barbie doll series and adding Kelly and Krissy To my barbie Universe also because yes they are adorable love the description of kelly in the old barbie movies proves her canon personality is bossy which funny Enough I have her the personality Trait but the boring Truth is that kelly and Chelsea are the same person but I'm changing up the barbie canon slightly
Kelly IS Chelsea, they’re the same character. They had to change her name due to legality issues with the UK and a few other countries because they already had the name “Kelly” copyrighted for another character already. So in the lore of Barbie, Chelsea is her first name and Kelly is her middle name.
@@MugshotMidge I remember reading about this in the book "Dressing Barbie" by Carol Spencer, the original designer of Kelly. She said they couldn't "clear the name for international use" or something like that, so they decided to re-name her.
I can respect that being the actual explanation for what happened. However, if Mattel had wanted to avoid the confusion of a character just suddenly disappearing/being replaced they could have come up with a Barbie story that included an explanation for the sudden name change so that there was an in Universe explanation for the situation. By choosing to go about the name change the way they did it does kind of seem like the original Kelly fell victim to a kind of horror movie plot of having her life stolen.
My theory is that when Chelsea was a baby, she couldn’t pronounce her name, saying Kelly or Shelly instead. This became a nickname for her in the family, but when she became a little older, she asked them to stop, and now they call her Chelsea. The same thing happened with my little sister.
Forget Kelly. The REAL missing sibling of Barbie’s that should be talked about is Todd, Tutti/Stacie’s twin brother who has disappeared from existence twice.
when i say the name "Kelly" in front of my gen alpha cousins they'd look at me like I'm a grandma with dementia, but they could never use their gaslighting on me because to this day I still keep my two Kellys, one from the Swan Lake (the baby swan) and the other that came with a Barbie
If you're from Europe, you may know many of Barbie's friends by different names too. Kira was called Marina, Whitney was called Laura, Madison from My Scene was Westley, almost all of the Generation Girls went by different names, etc.
@finland4ever55 I actually didn't exist during the Generation Girl Era nor was a fan of my scene as a kid, it just wasn't really promoted here all that much where I live
I had the sims revelation not too long ago when a male friend was talking about her little sister playing the sims. He asked me why girls love playing the sims. I paused and said “…the sims is just dolls” and we both laughed at that revelation
Back in 1999 when the creator pitched the sims, it was originally pitched as playing with virtual dolls and was called “Dollhouse”! So you guys are right
I told my boyfriend that if it wouldn‘t be so ”weird“ to play with barbies in my age i would still play with them. He was a bit… well… shocked but when i told him that sims is just a more accepted way to play with dolls he agreed.
The theory of Chelsea replacing Kelly out of jealousy makes sense with her characterization in Life in the Dreamhouse. She's an unstoppable manipulative mastermind with too much power in that show. She also somehow knows how to operate a car (but definitely not drive), so she could be incredibly smart, especially thanks to being related to Barbie and her never ending plethora of careers.
I miss when Barbie movies sometimes started with Barbie telling a story like in the first three. Years later, I like to think that it was Mattel’s way of speaking to you using Barbie to tell Kelly the story
i grew up having a little Shelly doll and when i was older and went on the internet i saw the name Kelly for the first time and i was like WHO the hell is that
yo, that thing seemed rad as all getout. i'm honestly surprised they didn't try to make a bunch of them, but I guess that's like buying a new piece of furniture with how much space she took up. what did you do with yours? was it mostly just good for dressing up in a standing position, or could you sit it down in chairs for tea parties and stuff?
Hi Id like to add something I think is Important. Raquelle refrences Kelly in the Episode Barbie Life in the DreamHouse in the episode Sour Loser Now you could chalk it up to her misremembering her name. But if you look up Kellys Clubhouse. Theres an episode where in the end Kelly does make a lemonade stand. Its possible that Raquelle is the only one who remembers who Kelly Is. Now theres one more thing Kellys Friends do make a cameo Its in where Chelsea makes a dreamhouse for herself So I surmise that Chelsea did over take Kellys life
In the first couple movies, Barbie is an actor and she's telling Kelly her movie plots to help her get through her problems, show all the movies where she's doing fantastic things are just movies, and in the movies without Kelly there. She's just with her parents, who are also absent in most movies.
I kinda thought of ‘Chelsea’ as her ‘Stage Name’. She wanted to be well known and big all around the world, right? (The whole copyright thing, she couldn’t use her actually name “Kelly” but “Shelly”) . I say Kelly is her birth name but for “work” purposes her stage name is “Chelsea”
As a child, I can confirm all the Kelly dolls were named Shelly in my country (from Europe). When I discovered the internet later on in life, I was shocked and confused when I heard the name Kelly, as I grew up with Shelly. What still baffles me to the present is what happened to Krissy??? If you remember, the Barbie website had some games with another baby sister of Barbie (Krissy) in the early 2000s, plus a lot of playsets with Barbie and Krissy were released during that time, before being discontinued.
the sims was actually called dollhouse originally, but since back then video games were a "boy thing" they didn't think it'd sell w that name, and they already had the sim branding from the other games
Growing up I thought it was Barbie, Skipper, and twins Tommy and Kelly, and the rest were their friends. But maybe that's just how I always played with them.
I had a Barbie and Kelly book when I was younger and was so confused when I watched Life in the Dreamhouse lol. But yet, not confused enough to ask why she was being called Chelsea instead.
as someone who grew up with Chelsea (born while Kelly was still around but I don’t remember her), finding out there was an og version of her named Kelly blew my mind considering I had an old playground set with giant letters saying KELLY. It explained a lot lol now I’m such a Barbie buff that the name change kinda bothers me even growing up with Chelsea and knowing why it happened lol great video 💟
Love how we have such an underwhelming answer (? This is Mattel lmao), meanwhile we are completely ignoring the fact that Tutti, Todd, Tommy and baby Kristie haven’t been heard from in years. Are they all playing house nearly 20 years later somewhere in either the Roberts or Carson basement and everyone just forgot their existence? How’s Kristie doing being outcasted for always being mistaken as Barbie’s baby, something that she couldn’t control? *How* does a parent forget their own newborn for 20 something years? I need answers in their story lore. Rip gang 😭
There was another infant sister that came out around 2001, I think her name was Chrissy? Anyway I loved her because she was super tiny and came with a ton of baby clothes and accessories. I also had a sick day Kelly doll with chicken pox that went away with warm water!
my theory is that Chelsea is a shape shifter who can also manipulate minds and has made everyone believe that Kelly was really Chelsea this entire time. I believe she is obsessed with Barbie but knew she could never be her because Barbie is the most powerful being in the universe, so she became her sister instead and took Kelly out of the picture by making everyone forget about her. She first became friends with Kelly and became a member of her Kelly club (or Kelly dream club if you have seen the cartoon) to gather information on Kelly. She then shapeshifted into an older version of herself, also changing the spelling of her name from Chelsie to Chelsea (so no one would get suspicious), and became Barbie's friend in My Scene so she could learn even more about Barbie. She then put her plan into action, getting rid of Kelly and taking her place as Barbie's sister fooling everyone to believe Kelly has just been Chelsea this entire time. BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ME CHELSEA! I AM ONTO YOUR LITTLE SCHEME AND I WILL GET JUSTICE FOR KELLY!
Jordy is asking the REAL questions -- love that this came out as soon as soon as I woke up from my jet lag induced sleep. the classic era is where it is at when it comes to barbie movies
To the regard of u saying that customer services said the Kelly doll was discontinued, I actually bought two KELLY DOLLS in 2019 for my little sister, I don’t remember where I got them, but I think there are still kellys out there..
Okay Kelly didn’t disappear. I’ve done some research on this myself. What it seems like is that the creator of Kelly left Mattel and turns out Mattel didn’t have the rights to all the characters she created so unfortunately they had all this art and ideas for Kelly but had no rights to produce it, so they changed her name to Chelsea so they could do so as in produce the toys
I feel like Chelsea is a grown up Kelly cuz in the Christmas carol one, when Kelly is hiding fro, Barbie, it sounded like Barbie was calling her “chelly” which means that Kelly could’ve just been a nickname and her name was always just chelsea
ACKK I LOVE HOW SHE MENTIONED THE TED NIVISION THEORY (basically ted watched all the barbie movies, gave reviews, then created an elaborate theory connecting it all
this feels like the correct comment section for me to expose myself and reveal the fact that i had a Kelly doll as a kid (she was a redhead though??) that I called my guardian angel, I carried her in my pocket and made her a bedroom out of a shoe box and various items i constructed out of cardboard. i would cut out food from catalogues and give it to her as a meal. she had a marble she used as a crystal ball to look over me whenever she wasn't with me. im obviously a normal and well adjusted 29 year old adult now.
kelly like "witness protected" that's mattel changed her name to "Chelsea" cause some reason the name "Kelly" is copyrighted in some countries and the United Kingdom
It's so funny when we get to see people's first reaction to noticing Barbie's sister dissapearing- I swear I've seen so many people pointing it out when bingeing through the movies
I also had a TON of Kelly club dolls as a kid, mostly the ones from Swan Lake but nonetheless, I didnt know of the name change until years later when I grew out of barbie dolls but not dolls as a whole (EAH and MH ^^;;) and wondered why cause I remember Kelly!
My sister’s name is Chelsea so I clocked the change RIGHT away. There was a Chelsea doll who was Kelly’s red haired friend Chelsie. There were a number of Chelsie dolls. After the change I thought I was loosing my mind
Completely unrelated but I still love 2008 Christmas Carol Barbie dress with the like cupcake liner skirt and low pony. I want that doll so badly. Also to add my theory: Barbie multiverse. Chelsea and Kelly are multiverse variants of Barbie’s sister. And we know a Barbie Multiverse possible because My Scene Barbie is an only child living in New York. There is obviously evidence of Chelsea replacing Kelly in the most literal of senses to though, given that Mattel also did that with My Scene. Barbie left and introduced an identical clone named Kennedy, who stole her friends and her dog and her wardrobe and her boyfriend. I love my scene and its lore.
I definitely believe the theory of her other name being Chelsie. Lots of ppl go by their middle name sometimes- I have a group of friends who call me by my middle name 😆
I remember when I saw Kelly in the Christmas Carol movie as a kid. I always just asumed she was a neice, cousin, or stand-in sister for the movie since some of the movies would give Barbie completely new families for the stories (I ignored the names at the time so I'm about characters like Blair, Anneleise, Genevieve, Merliah, Rosella, Lumina, etc). My personal headcanon would be that Barbie is an actress so popular (in her world) that while her careers started with simple movie parodies of fairytales, they would start featuring her to introduce certain movies, add in bloopers, and even start making movies to mirror her real life and sell it off as such. With this hc, we can't really if ANYTHING we see on screen is her real life or not, especially when it comes to her family being in so many movies and other products. Who knows, though, maybe her family is just really famous.
Oh wow you unlocked some precious memories with this video, I was starting to convince myself that I'd imagined this because Kelly is never mentioned anywhere! my family would always but two dolls; a barbie for me and a kelly for my little sister. She used to pour over the kelly club promotional material to pick out which doll she'd ask for for Christmas, and for some reason her all time favourite was chicken pox kelly lmao
This video was amazing!!! Funny, full of heart, and well put together ❤ thanks for taking the time to do the research to make such a great video. Would definitely love to see more Barbie videos
Yes! I still watch Barbie and the Nutcracker every Christmas! That movie is how I discovered Tommy! I loved Kelly as a kid! She was my favorite! I had a life sized baby doll of her that I adored for years. I was and am so sad that they got rid of her. Thank you for talking about it.
We had a lot of issues in the world right now...and then I saw this thumbnail converning where's Barbie's Kelly...something about that just made me laugh a little. Thanks
I remember the Kelly Dolls when I was a kid--I'd never met anyone else who shared my name, so it was a big deal to me to have a doll that did. I had a few Kelly dolls, who I think were given to me by relatives for that very reason. Also throwback to MyScene Girls made me so nostalgic! I used to spend hours playing the games on that site! I had a few of the dolls, too!
This is really interesting. I grew up watching the old Barbie movies so when my niece started watching Life In The Dreamhouse, I was like "Wait a second. What happened to Kelly?" I didn't even know Barbie had any other siblings honestly. LITD was the first time I'd heard of Skipper and this video is my first time hearing of everyone else.
omg youre right tho about barbie and the sims !! especially as i love the sims 3 and really dislike sims 4 i love both franchises but as time has gone on they both lose their storytelling and lore efforts to become palatable to everyone
I remember loving my little Shellie doll as a kid but then seeing her listed as Kellie in a magazine. In my head I decided that Kellie and Shellie were twins. This made me feel all girly and nostalgic 💓
FINALLY IVE BEEN ASKING ALL MY LIFE SINCE FOREVER!!!!!! I specifically remember pretending to be Kelly as I rode my little pink Barbie bike in kindergarten!!!! Thanks so much for this video!!!!
just found your channel, i like your personality and how you dig into things that feel obscure but really are the kind of thing I love to watch! i'm from Europe so i can ay that yes Kelly was called Shelly here. when I saw Chelsea I was really confused but i get it now.
What interesting theories. Thanks for explaining. It's so funny that you went through so much trouble to make this. What fun content to watch.😁 Thank you
Kelly was murdered by Barbie’s boyfriend Ken, which is why they divorced back in 2004. They late got back together when in court, they made the realisation that realised Ken was framed, but he actually wasn’t. Then Ken got with another girl who looks exactly like Barbie, who was called Georgia. They had a kid together called Reesa, all behind Barbie’s back. Then Ken decided to replace Barbie’s sister Kelly, with Reesa. He got his other girlfriend (that he was cheating with) to get super drunk, then he hid Reesa in a secret basement and said to Georgia that Reesa was missing, Georgia then flipped out and divorced Ken for losing their kid. Ken got Reesa out of the basement and gave her really hard drugs, it made her lose her memory. Ken then said to Reesa to pretend to be Barbie’s new sister called Chelsea (he forgot that Barbie’s younger sister was called Kelly). Barbie and the rest of the family was so depressed and desperate to find Kelly, or a replacement to fill the Kelly-empty void in their hearts so when Ken gave them Chelsea, Barbie’s family was so happy that they found a girl that at least looked like Kelly and started to look after her. She became Barbie’s new sister and Ken is still Barbie’s boyfriend.
Even in the live action movie that no one mentioned of Barbie that came out not to long ago. We didn't saw her sister there but it's funny when we saw Ken
Wait what if the new barbie family replaced the old one out of jealousy? (except Barbie) like who wouldn’t want to be in the spotlight? Or maybe someone did replace barbie? Bc she’d probably suspicious that she wants her name to be Chelsea
I think Raquel made a joke on Netflix’s Barbie Life in the Dreamhouse. Raquels says, “Kelly, is it?” Chelsea says tartly, “It’s Chelsea.”
LMAO
Omg I never connected that thank you for this gift of knowledge. Life in the Dreamhouse was peak Barbie.
Yes Childhood I still love Barbie I Grew up with Chelsea but I am making a Barbie doll series and adding Kelly and Krissy To my barbie Universe also because yes they are adorable love the description of kelly in the old barbie movies proves her canon personality is bossy which funny Enough I have her the personality Trait but the boring Truth is that kelly and Chelsea are the same person but I'm changing up the barbie canon slightly
I loved that reference.
That scene was so funny 😂😂
Kelly IS Chelsea, they’re the same character. They had to change her name due to legality issues with the UK and a few other countries because they already had the name “Kelly” copyrighted for another character already. So in the lore of Barbie, Chelsea is her first name and Kelly is her middle name.
I guess to modernize her too, cause apparently Mattel thought “Kelly” sounded a bit too old fashioned for Barbie’s youngest sister.
I always thought Kelly was a diminutive nickname, like how Richy and Rick are nicknames for Richard.
@@angelface540 not exactly, it was simply just over a copyright dispute and go homogenize Barbie’s youngest sister lol
@@MugshotMidge I remember reading about this in the book "Dressing Barbie" by Carol Spencer, the original designer of Kelly. She said they couldn't "clear the name for international use" or something like that, so they decided to re-name her.
I can respect that being the actual explanation for what happened. However, if Mattel had wanted to avoid the confusion of a character just suddenly disappearing/being replaced they could have come up with a Barbie story that included an explanation for the sudden name change so that there was an in Universe explanation for the situation. By choosing to go about the name change the way they did it does kind of seem like the original Kelly fell victim to a kind of horror movie plot of having her life stolen.
My theory is that when Chelsea was a baby, she couldn’t pronounce her name, saying Kelly or Shelly instead. This became a nickname for her in the family, but when she became a little older, she asked them to stop, and now they call her Chelsea. The same thing happened with my little sister.
Ok yeah this is my canon now 👍
Awww, that's a really cute theory!
I fully thought Kelly was just a nickname for Chelsea
Oh my f***** god! Are you me in another universe? Are we the same soul? That's literally the same theory that I had! 😵😵😵 that's incredible!
Yea I always assumed they just changed her name for whatever reason
Forget Kelly. The REAL missing sibling of Barbie’s that should be talked about is Todd, Tutti/Stacie’s twin brother who has disappeared from existence twice.
Yes haha I had a stacie doll but never heard about Todd.
You shall not say their names!
You mustn't speak their names!
Getting flashbacks to that one episode of Sam & Mickey
Shh... we don't talk about them
when i say the name "Kelly" in front of my gen alpha cousins they'd look at me like I'm a grandma with dementia, but they could never use their gaslighting on me because to this day I still keep my two Kellys, one from the Swan Lake (the baby swan) and the other that came with a Barbie
Same. Had several Kelly dolls as a child!
Kelly disappeared to pursue her true passion of haunting my dreams👹
mystery SOLVED
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LOL
Omg Tutti... Absolutely ate glass
When she said that I couldn't stop laughing 🤣
Tutti means poop in my language lol
Tutti looks like a demon lol 😂
It's nice to finally know why Kelly was called "Shelly" here in Europe, I actually thought it was a dubbing mistake but it wasn't in the end!
omg how did i run into you here i love elemental faes
Omg it's you from the crystalwinx server
If you're from Europe, you may know many of Barbie's friends by different names too. Kira was called Marina, Whitney was called Laura, Madison from My Scene was Westley, almost all of the Generation Girls went by different names, etc.
@finland4ever55 I actually didn't exist during the Generation Girl Era nor was a fan of my scene as a kid, it just wasn't really promoted here all that much where I live
In Russia she was know as Shelly too
I had the sims revelation not too long ago when a male friend was talking about her little sister playing the sims. He asked me why girls love playing the sims. I paused and said “…the sims is just dolls” and we both laughed at that revelation
Back in 1999 when the creator pitched the sims, it was originally pitched as playing with virtual dolls and was called “Dollhouse”! So you guys are right
My favourite part is creating my sims and creating their house
I told my boyfriend that if it wouldn‘t be so ”weird“ to play with barbies in my age i would still play with them. He was a bit… well… shocked but when i told him that sims is just a more accepted way to play with dolls he agreed.
My boyfriend realized this, and I was like "wow you're right. It's just a doll house. "
Essentially yes
The theory of Chelsea replacing Kelly out of jealousy makes sense with her characterization in Life in the Dreamhouse. She's an unstoppable manipulative mastermind with too much power in that show. She also somehow knows how to operate a car (but definitely not drive), so she could be incredibly smart, especially thanks to being related to Barbie and her never ending plethora of careers.
Also would add on to the fact that Raquel calls her Kelly at at least one point
she also knows how to play poker, which is very odd for someone her age
@@estrellapascalurie haha right
@@Graycata You're right!
Kelly and Chelsea are the same person just with different names g o o g l e itttt
I miss when Barbie movies sometimes started with Barbie telling a story like in the first three. Years later, I like to think that it was Mattel’s way of speaking to you using Barbie to tell Kelly the story
One of my favorites was barbie Christmas Carol
@@ShannonAdams-d1s It’s one of my top 5 Barbie movies and I always watch it at Christmas time with Nutcracker and Perfect Christmas
I miss the old movies
i grew up having a little Shelly doll and when i was older and went on the internet i saw the name Kelly for the first time and i was like WHO the hell is that
I had a my size Kelly when I was 4 and saying I was obsessed with that doll would be an understatement 😅 come back to us dear Kelly!
yo, that thing seemed rad as all getout. i'm honestly surprised they didn't try to make a bunch of them, but I guess that's like buying a new piece of furniture with how much space she took up. what did you do with yours? was it mostly just good for dressing up in a standing position, or could you sit it down in chairs for tea parties and stuff?
so it's funny that you brought up the sims basically being virtual dolls, bc the prototype name for the sims was actually dollhouse
Hi Id like to add something I think is Important.
Raquelle refrences Kelly in the Episode Barbie Life in the DreamHouse in the episode Sour Loser
Now you could chalk it up to her misremembering her name. But if you look up Kellys Clubhouse.
Theres an episode where in the end Kelly does make a lemonade stand.
Its possible that Raquelle is the only one who remembers who Kelly Is.
Now theres one more thing
Kellys Friends do make a cameo
Its in where Chelsea makes a dreamhouse for herself
So I surmise that Chelsea did over take Kellys life
Idk😅
thank you for this important piece of evidence
@@jordysyoutubechannelI DIDNT DO ANYTHING.
In the first couple movies, Barbie is an actor and she's telling Kelly her movie plots to help her get through her problems, show all the movies where she's doing fantastic things are just movies, and in the movies without Kelly there. She's just with her parents, who are also absent in most movies.
I kinda thought of ‘Chelsea’ as her ‘Stage Name’. She wanted to be well known and big all around the world, right? (The whole copyright thing, she couldn’t use her actually name “Kelly” but “Shelly”) . I say Kelly is her birth name but for “work” purposes her stage name is “Chelsea”
I feel it might be the other way around. It just makes more sense to me.
As a child, I can confirm all the Kelly dolls were named Shelly in my country (from Europe). When I discovered the internet later on in life, I was shocked and confused when I heard the name Kelly, as I grew up with Shelly. What still baffles me to the present is what happened to Krissy??? If you remember, the Barbie website had some games with another baby sister of Barbie (Krissy) in the early 2000s, plus a lot of playsets with Barbie and Krissy were released during that time, before being discontinued.
I think Krissy is actually Barbies daughter with Blaine. Barbie and Ken went on break and Barbie got pregnant. So the parents took custody of the baby
the sims was actually called dollhouse originally, but since back then video games were a "boy thing" they didn't think it'd sell w that name, and they already had the sim branding from the other games
My uncle got to play the original pc prototype dollhouse I always wandered why it was so much like the Sims but better
a girly version of sims named "dollhouse" would make me so happy tbh
I always thought she was just a bad actor so they threw her out of the studio and stopped selling her merchandise
u may have been absolutely correct!
Growing up I thought it was Barbie, Skipper, and twins Tommy and Kelly, and the rest were their friends. But maybe that's just how I always played with them.
Oh, and an unknown baby sister no one wants to talk about.
Child you completely missed are missed Stacie somehow
@@candydemure Krissy
I had a Barbie and Kelly book when I was younger and was so confused when I watched Life in the Dreamhouse lol. But yet, not confused enough to ask why she was being called Chelsea instead.
as someone who grew up with Chelsea (born while Kelly was still around but I don’t remember her), finding out there was an og version of her named Kelly blew my mind considering I had an old playground set with giant letters saying KELLY. It explained a lot lol
now I’m such a Barbie buff that the name change kinda bothers me even growing up with Chelsea and knowing why it happened lol
great video 💟
So Chelsea and Kelly were one person the whole time! I'm happy Kelly wasnt.. erased.
Love how we have such an underwhelming answer (? This is Mattel lmao), meanwhile we are completely ignoring the fact that Tutti, Todd, Tommy and baby Kristie haven’t been heard from in years. Are they all playing house nearly 20 years later somewhere in either the Roberts or Carson basement and everyone just forgot their existence? How’s Kristie doing being outcasted for always being mistaken as Barbie’s baby, something that she couldn’t control? *How* does a parent forget their own newborn for 20 something years? I need answers in their story lore. Rip gang 😭
“And Tutti… looks like she ate glass” made me fall of my couch
There was another infant sister that came out around 2001, I think her name was Chrissy? Anyway I loved her because she was super tiny and came with a ton of baby clothes and accessories.
I also had a sick day Kelly doll with chicken pox that went away with warm water!
Meanwhile, Tutti and Todd got completely pushed to the side. 😭
Yeah I didn’t know they existed until seeing this
I was today’s years old (literally) when I find out she has more siblings than what we have seen in shows and movies
@@sweethistortea I think Tutti became Stacie.
11:04 "showing everyone the potential of their own selves" UNBURDENED BY WHAT HAS BEEN
YOU GET ME
I’d love to see this type of video for the other siblings! Specially Krissy, they could add her so easily
my theory is that Chelsea is a shape shifter who can also manipulate minds and has made everyone believe that Kelly was really Chelsea this entire time. I believe she is obsessed with Barbie but knew she could never be her because Barbie is the most powerful being in the universe, so she became her sister instead and took Kelly out of the picture by making everyone forget about her. She first became friends with Kelly and became a member of her Kelly club (or Kelly dream club if you have seen the cartoon) to gather information on Kelly. She then shapeshifted into an older version of herself, also changing the spelling of her name from Chelsie to Chelsea (so no one would get suspicious), and became Barbie's friend in My Scene so she could learn even more about Barbie. She then put her plan into action, getting rid of Kelly and taking her place as Barbie's sister fooling everyone to believe Kelly has just been Chelsea this entire time. BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ME CHELSEA! I AM ONTO YOUR LITTLE SCHEME AND I WILL GET JUSTICE FOR KELLY!
Jordy is asking the REAL questions -- love that this came out as soon as soon as I woke up from my jet lag induced sleep. the classic era is where it is at when it comes to barbie movies
To the regard of u saying that customer services said the Kelly doll was discontinued, I actually bought two KELLY DOLLS in 2019 for my little sister, I don’t remember where I got them, but I think there are still kellys out there..
i loved playing with kelly and tommy when i was little. also kelly had the most insane computer game called kelly club
Forget Kelly, I need to know what happened to Tutti, Todd, and Krissy!
Right like who are those people
Tutti became Stacie I think. The others just… vanished.
@@IHARumorbut she said stacey
Okay Kelly didn’t disappear. I’ve done some research on this myself. What it seems like is that the creator of Kelly left Mattel and turns out Mattel didn’t have the rights to all the characters she created so unfortunately they had all this art and ideas for Kelly but had no rights to produce it, so they changed her name to Chelsea so they could do so as in produce the toys
This was the rabbit hole we all needed
I feel like Chelsea is a grown up Kelly cuz in the Christmas carol one, when Kelly is hiding fro, Barbie, it sounded like Barbie was calling her “chelly” which means that Kelly could’ve just been a nickname and her name was always just chelsea
For a long time, I thought polly Pocket was barbies midget sister. Or the thumbelina in the barbie universe
2:30 The brat reference ☠️😭💚💚
lol so true 😂
ACKK I LOVE HOW SHE MENTIONED THE TED NIVISION THEORY (basically ted watched all the barbie movies, gave reviews, then created an elaborate theory connecting it all
Margret Roberts being Barbie’s mom and Margo Robbie playing her in the live action is so satisfying to my brain
0:59 Kelly actually appeared in the 1990 “Wedding Party Midge” line/giftset, 5 years before that play set
this feels like the correct comment section for me to expose myself and reveal the fact that i had a Kelly doll as a kid (she was a redhead though??) that I called my guardian angel, I carried her in my pocket and made her a bedroom out of a shoe box and various items i constructed out of cardboard. i would cut out food from catalogues and give it to her as a meal. she had a marble she used as a crystal ball to look over me whenever she wasn't with me. im obviously a normal and well adjusted 29 year old adult now.
kelly like "witness protected" that's mattel changed her name to "Chelsea" cause some reason the name "Kelly" is copyrighted in some countries and the United Kingdom
The day 'Kelly' went to 'Chelsea', my heart sank 😔 I remember it all too well
It's so funny when we get to see people's first reaction to noticing Barbie's sister dissapearing- I swear I've seen so many people pointing it out when bingeing through the movies
I also had a TON of Kelly club dolls as a kid, mostly the ones from Swan Lake but nonetheless, I didnt know of the name change until years later when I grew out of barbie dolls but not dolls as a whole (EAH and MH ^^;;) and wondered why cause I remember Kelly!
I love a BCU mystery 🔪💗
Tommy is the name of Clara’s brother in The Nutcracker !
Yep, Mattel sure loved to recycle the names lol. The gingerbread boy is ‘played’ by Tommy, Kens brother in real life. Sorry Tommy, brother of Clara 🫣
My sister’s name is Chelsea so I clocked the change RIGHT away. There was a Chelsea doll who was Kelly’s red haired friend Chelsie. There were a number of Chelsie dolls. After the change I thought I was loosing my mind
Completely unrelated but I still love 2008 Christmas Carol Barbie dress with the like cupcake liner skirt and low pony. I want that doll so badly.
Also to add my theory: Barbie multiverse. Chelsea and Kelly are multiverse variants of Barbie’s sister. And we know a Barbie Multiverse possible because My Scene Barbie is an only child living in New York.
There is obviously evidence of Chelsea replacing Kelly in the most literal of senses to though, given that Mattel also did that with My Scene. Barbie left and introduced an identical clone named Kennedy, who stole her friends and her dog and her wardrobe and her boyfriend. I love my scene and its lore.
All I can think about is the Sam and Mickey parodies I used to watch 😂 Barbie would always switch Chelsea’s name and she’d get so mad
Omg yes!! Same for Tutti and Tod lmao 😭
As someone who ALSO randomly changed my name for my high school debut, I get it Chelsea. I get it.
I definitely believe the theory of her other name being Chelsie. Lots of ppl go by their middle name sometimes- I have a group of friends who call me by my middle name 😆
@@lisaaquaris6932 I think I heard her name was Chelsea Kelly Roberts.
I always thought Kelly was her daughter… am I crazy 😭
I remember when I saw Kelly in the Christmas Carol movie as a kid. I always just asumed she was a neice, cousin, or stand-in sister for the movie since some of the movies would give Barbie completely new families for the stories (I ignored the names at the time so I'm about characters like Blair, Anneleise, Genevieve, Merliah, Rosella, Lumina, etc). My personal headcanon would be that Barbie is an actress so popular (in her world) that while her careers started with simple movie parodies of fairytales, they would start featuring her to introduce certain movies, add in bloopers, and even start making movies to mirror her real life and sell it off as such. With this hc, we can't really if ANYTHING we see on screen is her real life or not, especially when it comes to her family being in so many movies and other products. Who knows, though, maybe her family is just really famous.
Barbie being Chappell and Kelly being brat makes so much sense to me
I loooooved the Kelly Club dolls and CD-ROM game…may she rest in peace
You just became one of my favourite TH-camrs rn
In the dark side of Barbie maybe is that Barbie grow up and her sister takes her place or she likes to change her name
Kelly is now chelsea my theory is that Kelly was chelsea's nickname for what reason idk!
I'M SO GLAD YOU MENTIONED TED'S THEORY BC I LITERALLY WAS REWATCHING THAT VIDEO EARLIER
Oh wow you unlocked some precious memories with this video, I was starting to convince myself that I'd imagined this because Kelly is never mentioned anywhere! my family would always but two dolls; a barbie for me and a kelly for my little sister. She used to pour over the kelly club promotional material to pick out which doll she'd ask for for Christmas, and for some reason her all time favourite was chicken pox kelly lmao
12:42 you are so right….. oh my god 😭😭
we needed this. thank you for your serve-iss ✨
This video was amazing!!! Funny, full of heart, and well put together ❤ thanks for taking the time to do the research to make such a great video. Would definitely love to see more Barbie videos
I’ve always wondered where Kelly went too. Thanks for the vid!
After reading that person's reasoning for why they love Tommy I also love Tommy. He gave Ken a heart 😭
My head Cannon was that kelly was skipper's dead name
Yes! I still watch Barbie and the Nutcracker every Christmas! That movie is how I discovered Tommy! I loved Kelly as a kid! She was my favorite! I had a life sized baby doll of her that I adored for years. I was and am so sad that they got rid of her. Thank you for talking about it.
We had a lot of issues in the world right now...and then I saw this thumbnail converning where's Barbie's Kelly...something about that just made me laugh a little. Thanks
Can we talk about how Skipper was blonde for 40+ years, but is all the sudden, brunette?
Thank you so much Jordy, I really needed that
Love hearing the back story🥰. Cant wait for your next video!
I remember the Kelly Dolls when I was a kid--I'd never met anyone else who shared my name, so it was a big deal to me to have a doll that did. I had a few Kelly dolls, who I think were given to me by relatives for that very reason. Also throwback to MyScene Girls made me so nostalgic! I used to spend hours playing the games on that site! I had a few of the dolls, too!
omg I've been waiting for you to upload again!
FINALLY someone addressing the real issues.
I had a Kelly doll and I'm still confused why they randomly erased her from existence.
I had a ton of Kelly stuff as a little kid; seeing that pink/purple/blue treehouse absolutely kicked me in the nostalgia
Ok but gurl that thumbnail ate
Edit: off topic but didn’t you have more subs? I swear I remember you hitting 100k? 😭😭
I never seent that, but I'm here to make sure I do.
OMG THANK U!!!
hahaha maybe i’ve been manifesting it so much it’s in UR BRAINS NOW TOO
Jordy- the way you expand my mind’s intellectual capacity every time you post. Ty queen
This is really interesting. I grew up watching the old Barbie movies so when my niece started watching Life In The Dreamhouse, I was like "Wait a second. What happened to Kelly?" I didn't even know Barbie had any other siblings honestly. LITD was the first time I'd heard of Skipper and this video is my first time hearing of everyone else.
Chelsie and Kelly is like when Kennedy took out Myscene Barbie and stole her life.
1:41 I always thought it was Chelsea
Me too
Sam😂😂
omg youre right tho about barbie and the sims !! especially as i love the sims 3 and really dislike sims 4
i love both franchises but as time has gone on they both lose their storytelling and lore efforts to become palatable to everyone
I remember loving my little Shellie doll as a kid but then seeing her listed as Kellie in a magazine. In my head I decided that Kellie and Shellie were twins. This made me feel all girly and nostalgic 💓
It’s so weird… recently I’ve been digging into the Barbies my sisters had and I played with. When I walk down Target I’m like… where’s Kelly?
I thought Kelly was short for Chelsea 😭😭😭😭
FINALLY IVE BEEN ASKING ALL MY LIFE SINCE FOREVER!!!!!! I specifically remember pretending to be Kelly as I rode my little pink Barbie bike in kindergarten!!!! Thanks so much for this video!!!!
Thank you so much for addressing this 😕🫶🏾
just found your channel, i like your personality and how you dig into things that feel obscure but really are the kind of thing I love to watch! i'm from Europe so i can ay that yes Kelly was called Shelly here. when I saw Chelsea I was really confused but i get it now.
Can we talk about skipper changing her appearance?!
When I was growing up she was blonde like Barbie!! Now she’s brunette with purple streaks!!
What interesting theories. Thanks for explaining. It's so funny that you went through so much trouble to make this. What fun content to watch.😁 Thank you
I was obsessed with the kelly line..i want them back 😢😢
Kelly was murdered by Barbie’s boyfriend Ken, which is why they divorced back in 2004. They late got back together when in court, they made the realisation that realised Ken was framed, but he actually wasn’t. Then Ken got with another girl who looks exactly like Barbie, who was called Georgia. They had a kid together called Reesa, all behind Barbie’s back. Then Ken decided to replace Barbie’s sister Kelly, with Reesa. He got his other girlfriend (that he was cheating with) to get super drunk, then he hid Reesa in a secret basement and said to Georgia that Reesa was missing, Georgia then flipped out and divorced Ken for losing their kid. Ken got Reesa out of the basement and gave her really hard drugs, it made her lose her memory. Ken then said to Reesa to pretend to be Barbie’s new sister called Chelsea (he forgot that Barbie’s younger sister was called Kelly). Barbie and the rest of the family was so depressed and desperate to find Kelly, or a replacement to fill the Kelly-empty void in their hearts so when Ken gave them Chelsea, Barbie’s family was so happy that they found a girl that at least looked like Kelly and started to look after her. She became Barbie’s new sister and Ken is still Barbie’s boyfriend.
2 likes and 0 comments I can fix that!
Even in the live action movie that no one mentioned of Barbie that came out not to long ago. We didn't saw her sister there but it's funny when we saw Ken
Why did I enjoy this video so much? I watched the whole thing.😅
Wait what if the new barbie family replaced the old one out of jealousy? (except Barbie) like who wouldn’t want to be in the spotlight? Or maybe someone did replace barbie? Bc she’d probably suspicious that she wants her name to be Chelsea
I've just found your channel and now I'm obsessed with all your videos
Needing you and Ted to team up to make more BCU theories, there is more lore to uncover i can feel it
I love the shirt! totally made my day :)