*sigh* I had a Barbie townhouse just like the one pictured. It makes me long for day of old.

I had that townhouse! I also had a pink metallic corvette for her. It was hot!

I had a Big Jim and his Sport Camper...
...He was hot - his biceps even bulged!

i had the one with the three different parts, big yellow front doors, flower boxes and i think the roof was sort of a terracotta color. a bratty kid from our church group broke the yellow doors off, so barbie had kind of a non-stop open house event going on. she had a groovy green & pink Panton-ish inspired sofa and chair set and a yellow fridge with food in it! it is still in my parents crawl space and it (along with barbie and all her friends) will be coming over to my house if my parents ever try to give it away. it was the best toy i ever got as a kid and i still have fond memories of it. im pretty sure i would still play with it even at the rip old age of 31.

mine was a later version, much pinker. I totally pimped out with accessories from Jem and the Holograms. The waterbed that turned into a keyboard was the best piece. My cat later co-oped it for her own waterbed.

Jem was a pretender to Barbie's thrown! "Truly outrageous" indeed.

modkitten - we had the same one "1979" was a great year for the dream house. :-)

Wow, I've never even seen that Barbie house! I had one of those small houses (actually, it might have just been a room) that folds up, but I don't think it was the dreamhouse; it was the Barbie on a budget house. I had to make my own dreamhouse- my bed was the second story. :)

And I've been in a house with an elevator, and I'd rather take the stairs- sooo slow!

my neighbor had that one. I remember Barbie tipping out of the elevator and getting her head stuck between levels. I had the pool, with the slide. I can't wait until my daughter is old enough, I will probably ask her to play with ME!

Wow is that what it really looks like? I too had the elevator model - but I recall it being much more elaborate.
Guess my imagination made it a palace!

Oh my god.. I inherited that exact house from my sisters!!
I recognize that orange elevator....

Lol, the elevator is because Barbie has problems with her knees... she can't move them. Ha ha ha.

I had a home made white mansion, tiled floors (faux of course lol), high ceilings, three floors with plenty of windows and a basement with no windows. it had everything including one of barbies "friends" dressed as a maid. Barbie had everything lol. Mostly though I didn't play with Barbie... I rearranged the dream house while Barbie sat by the piece of blue material that was the pool! :P

thank you for this post. it really brought me back and made me smile.

I heard that it had to be redesigned once it was realized that wheelchair Barbie couldn't fit in the elevator.

I always envied my neighbors Barbie dream house....I had the Playmobile mansion. Now that I'm grown up (sorta) I realize my parents just had taste. :)

my best friend had a giant, hot pink barbie mansion (along with all of the other 'cool' toys). I always wanted to play with it when I was at her house, but she was tired of it. it was actually kind of hard to play with the dolls in there.

but I'm totally jealous of your playmobile mansion, sendelke1! I begged and begged my parents for it, but was told to just use my imagination...

As a child of the late 80s/early 90s I had the 1992 Barbie Fold N' Fun House, though it was so difficult to actually play with Barbie in there I just transformed my bedroom floor into a house with 'invisible' walls.

I had a vast array of furniture: full kitchen set, bath and shower, living room set, bedroom set, dining table, but no dream house. I made do with two shelves of the built-in bookcase in the family room. Oh, and I had two Barbie corvettes. Damn, I miss those toys.

modkitten...thats the one I had! (similar to these, though I didn't have the pool) I loved all the teeny tiny food, pots, and bath items...none of which Barbie could actually hold...
http://chloeconspiracy.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-birthday-barbie.html
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That frilly elevator is just so (wonderfully) early 70s like the decor (which reminds me of the New Zoo Revue where they had one of those elevators) - the later dream house was very Euro-American late 70s and lasted in style into the early 80s (very Cali or continental with those different siding directions). Ah, the golden era of toys.