How Dolls Are Made | I Didn't Know That

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Published 2013-03-14

Visit a factory in Yiwu, China, where workers use 500,000 tons of polyethylene plastic to make five million Lucy dolls each year.
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How Dolls Are Made | I Didn't Know That
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All Comments (21)

@cutebabibttm 4 years ago

Everybody's talking about how these dolls aren't as good as Barbie but no one noticed how sad those factory workers and their working conditions are.
@annesofiemerkistein8118 8 years ago

I first thought - when I saw the thumbnail - that the dolls were carrots, but then I read the title
@stainedhands 8 years ago

am i the only one who finds this really sad? Thoes people worl their asses off for what? What a depressing life
@spacebug30 8 years ago

01:44 that rooting machine though, the dream of every doll customizer. Rerooting dolls is a hell...
@gustavo_colombini 8 years ago

With so much work to make ONE doll, people make doll destroying videos... ._.
@allilahamirah 8 years ago

10,000 dolls per day and you can't get your employees a safety equipment?
@Milkberry333 8 years ago

I am so worried about their hands getting hurt! They work so hard and so fast that I'm worried about their hands!
@fx7105 9 years ago

I hated these fake barbies, when you take their clothes of the body is so damn scary, and they're always half bald, and they smell bad :(
@jiayou3706 8 years ago

and they get paid like 1 dollar a day
@3melys 5 years ago

It's kinda sad these people have to spend their lives working at a factory that create a knock off Barbie dolls. They probably don't get paid much.
@Psychlist1972 8 years ago

They talk about Barbie up front, and then show a cheap rip-off of Barbie.
@katdrianl5399 4 years ago

Ok those dolls aren't like Barbie but can we all just appreciate the time and effort that those workers put?
@minaaamewws6586 3 years ago

“A team of hairdressers makes sure Lucy looks her best” cuts the doll’s fringe too short
@Czesnek 8 years ago

They should get paid more doing the same shit for 10 hours every day including weekends. I would rather be homeless than working in a factory.
@rebeccareiger6351 8 years ago

that hair scene is strangely addicting
@bubbletea8576 7 years ago

Wait the first doll they showed were Barbie but after they show how they make Lucy dolls ????!!!
@gabygaby6032 8 years ago

These are the cheap wannabe Barbie dolls
@hampterdancer 8 years ago

"the heads are than stored in a bucket!" lol
@Wolfoe1238 5 years ago

Barbie dolls technically originated from the US, based off a German doll called Lilli. And I just, love that the voice over person is making everything seem so exciting when these people are probably working in poor conditions
@PrincessKarasu 11 years ago

This looks really cool except for the unhappy workers ._. I want a lucy doll