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Barney’s coming back, but people are mostly talking about his nose job

February 15, 2023 at 9:17 a.m. EST
The first look at Mattel's new take on Barney the dinosaur. (Business Wire/AP)
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After more than a decade off-screen, Barney the purple dinosaur is making a comeback. But the singing and dancing T. rex, who rose to global fame in the 1990s as a symbol of love and inclusion, doesn’t look quite the same.

In fact, he looks dramatically different. And many fans of the dinosaur are unimpressed by what they say appears to be evidence of reptilian plastic surgery.