Shaped into the form of a winged horse, it’s a nod to the 2005 animated film Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus. 15) The Pegasus Statueĭuring one of the Barbie Land beach scenes, audiences can catch a glimpse of a statue along the coast.
A giant sign outside reads “BAX”-a clear nod to Los Angeles’ famous LAX.
Ahead, we rank a handful of the funniest, most creative, and most important Easter eggs we could find in our (many) viewings of the summer’s biggest movie.Īs Barbie drives through Barbie Land, we get a glimpse of the world’s airport (though no clues as to where, precisely, these Barbies might be flying). As such, one of Barbie’s greatest delights is not only Margot Robbie’s pitch-perfect Stereotypical Barbie, or Ryan Gosling’s crooning as “ Just Ken,” but the numerous Easter eggs and meta-references scattered throughout the film-each lining a trail of breadcrumbs that leads not only back to Barbie itself, but to the point of Barbie as an icon of gender politics. Director Greta Gerwig’s box-office triumph is so self-aware that it crawls into the in-joke and makes a home there. As a film, Barbie succeeds not by shedding the influence of its mega-brand but by interrogating it.
