Protesters crash Barbie's 'Dreamhouse' party in Berlin
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Raw: Germans protest Barbie house
Several hundred protesters marched to the Barbie Dreamhouse in Berlin on Thursday to demand that the interactive installation be shut down. Protesters say they're worried about implications of Barbie's modern-day persona on the real world.
AP
- Feminists and left-wing protesters burned a doll and shouted %27pink stinks%27
- Security guards ejected protesters from the site
- The life-size version of Barbie%27s Malibu home will stay in Berlin until August
BERLIN (AP) — It probably wasn't the reception Barbie was hoping for at the start of her European tour.
Feminist protesters burned a doll on a cross and left-wing demonstrators shouted "pink stinks" at the Berlin opening of a life-sized Barbie house Thursday.
They far outnumbered Barbie fans who came to see the Mattel toy's fictional Malibu home.
Security guards swiftly ejected the protesters from the site, which is tucked away behind socialist high rises, railroad tracks and a shopping center near the city's gritty Alexanderplatz.
The "Barbie Dreamhouse" in Berlin is the second such theme house after a similar one opened recently in Florida.
It will remain in the German capital until August before going on tour around Europe.