Author's product rating: 
| Advantages: |
A beautiful doll for the collection |
| Disadvantages: |
Doesn't tell you what batteries it takes . |
| Recommend to potential buyers: |
yes |
Genevieve Barbie is another doll for the barbie collection.
this doll was made after the DVD was made called barbie and the 12 dancing princesses.
Bought from Toys'R'us for £16.99, it also came with a DVD learn how to
dance like a ballerina. The doll was pretty much the same price in all the shops, but I didn't see any with the DVD other than Toys'R'us.
I love the fact that you can buy a Barbie DVD and buy the doll, this just gives your child more imagination when playing with the doll.
The doll came in a big box, which I found hard to open, in fact it took more than 10 minutes to get the doll out, once I got the doll out, all the little wire pieces were knotted, so made even more difficult to undo and the hair was sewn down, which once taken off, makes the hair look a mess, which is annoying when you have a very excited child wanting to play with it.
The doll comes with the cat Jetty, Genevieve's best friend and is on a rope hanger so you can hang it on things, its not your usual small, thin plastic toy that you get as an added extra, it is quite tough and a fair size.
This Barbie takes batteries, which the compartment is on the inside of both legs and can be opened with a very small screwdriver and takes AAA batteries, I tell you this as it does not explain this on the box, so like most people at Christmas we didn't have the right batteries and had to take them out of another toy just to make sure it worked, then go out and buy some :( I found this a bit annoying as most toys now a days comes with batteries or at least tells you, so be warned, if you buy this make sure you get some batteries.
The reason this barbie takes batteries is the skirt lights up and spins round, the doll does not spin round with this doll, that is the more expensive doll. This is a fun feature to the doll as young children love silly things like this, it makes my daughter play with it more.
The doll is very tough as always and the hair is tightly attached. so there is no fear of your child maybe chewing on it and getting it in their mouth, the clothes I don't think is that good because it looks tatty once taken out of the box, its the crinkle material and the ballerina shoes are quite lose and could snap quite easily if pulled enough.
Instead of the arms and legs being full so you can only bend them slightly, this doll has pins on the joints, so they can be bent and moved around very easy.
The DVD is brilliant, well for me it was, just watching my 4 year old in front of the telly copying the children on the telly dancing was lovely.
It is an easy Dvd to follow, they have used children as young as I would say 5 doing slow movements, which makes it easier to follow and for the older children there are older children doing the dancing.
They teach the very basics, like how to point your toes in the right way to where to put your foot when doing a spin.
It really does teach them how to dance like a ballerina and keeps them amused, which in my box is a bonus.
Dvd time is 45 minutes.
The box says doll is suitable for 4+ and I would have to agree.
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