Other Toys > Mattel Other Toys > 5 Years +

Advantages: Encourages imagination.
Disadvantages: Bit fiddly. Expensive.

This is a review of a product I do not actually use, but I was responsible for its purchase and I do trip over it several times a day! This was the must-have toy that my four-year-old had to have for Christmas 2007; well it was the toy I had most difficulty acquiring for Christmas. I eventually sourced the toy and purchased for around the £35.00 mark. The product comes as a large truck, called Mack from the Cars Disney movie. Basically it is a ...
...Route 66, and Dirt Track. Included with Mack there are 3 other character toys from the movie including a miniature Lightning McQueen, the hero of the movie, Mater and Bessie. There is a car launcher to launch McQueen, also there are a few pieces of scenery which can be attached to the playsets. The truck itself is quite long, measures approx. 65cm. It can be used as a large vehicle to play with, it moves and has a horn that can be pressed. The main ... Read review

Advantages: kids have hours of fun
Disadvantages: hair falls out

My seven year old daughter had kept nagging me for over six months to get her the barbie my scene bling bling head and finally i gave in and got it for her last christmas and she spends hours giving her diferent hair styles and playing with the jewellery. The bling bling styling head is about 30 cm high and is small enough to fit ontop of a small unit as its bottom base is about 35 cm long and 10 cm wide so it is really easy to store away without ...
...really long curly blonde hair that can be styled in many different ways. It comes with lots of jewellery and accessories that can be worn by either the styling head or the child. The doll is wearing pink lipstick and eyeshadow and comes with hair makeup that can be either put on the doll or on yourself. WHAT COMES WITH HEAD? ******************************** You get hair makeup,comb neclace,two bracelets,3 pairs of clip on earrings and four fake ... Read review

Advantages: lots of fun for girls who like to create new hair trends
Disadvantages: a little overpriced

This is a electronic hair growing styling head. It will let girls create long and short hairstyles . You can grow the hair up to 8 inches by presing the little flower button. You can also add the colourful extensions and create hair twists and use the accesories to create new looks. Includes lots of wear and share accesories. For ages 5 years and up Priced at £22.99 Available- from toys are us Also available from tesco direct and priced at ...
...in two assortments,barbie and ethnic kayla. Kayla has the dark brown hair and comes in blue . Barbie has the blonde hair and comes in pink and purple. I brought this for my daughters 10th birthday as she is into the hair styling thing at the moment.,and she has spent a lot of time playing with this. I thought this a little over priced but is a good toy if your daughter/neice etc loves to play hair styling. There are 24 accessories which include ... Read review

Advantages: It is fun, keeps plenty of kids occupied, when it goes hard it can be kept as a model.
Disadvantages: A tad expensive, stinks and when the floam gets mixed with other colours the kids seem to not bother with it anymore.

In our house we have a strict rule that only on birthdays and at christmas (and sometimes when an excellent report card comes our way) do we buy new toys, our house resembles Santa's grotto as it is without adding new toys willy-nilly on top, so when a birthday approaches or christmas is 7 months away my daughter Olivia (Amber is still to young to select toys, she just wants everything) sits down and quite happily spends hours adding to her list. ...
...wonderful way to brainwash kids in begging their unfortunate parents into buying them any old piece of plastic rubbish for 3 times what it cost to make it, Olivia would probably crawl on all fours and bark like a dog for a packet of pegs with L.E.D. flashing lights if it retailed at £39.99 + £4.99 P+P..... and her mates had one! Last year it was Floam. As soon as you switched on the telly the garish American advert was blasting you in the face ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to make.
Disadvantages: Falsely advertised!

...one of her new "favourites" Hannah Montana. The product I will now review is "Hannah Montana - create your own lip gloss set". Anyone not familiar with Hannah Montana here's a little background information - Hannah Montana (played by Destiny Hope Cyrus) is by day a normal 14 year old school girl who has just started her local high school, but by night and in her disguise ( albeit a long blonde wig and some truly fabulous clothes), she becomes pop ...
...in the show and also Hannah Montana's manager and songwriter. I'm ashamed to admit that now his mullet has gone he is very tasty, hence the reason I don't mind watching this programme! This is in the same vein as HSM, which in fairness I quite like also, unfortunately there seems to be an incredible amount of merchandise that goes with these shows, hence this review and the next twenty! (lol). The packaging is simple yet effective on this product, ... Read review