Every little girl's magical fantasy world!

Advantages: Every Barbie fan's dream come true
Disadvantages: They will watch it every night!

...My little 5 year old girl is a very big fan of Barbie this year and everytime something about her comes on TV she has her nose almost pinned against the screen, We walk into Woolworths and she is mesmerised by all the Barbie dolls and toys! I saw this on special offer in Woolworths at the beginning of November for her birthday. I paid £14.99 for the DVD but the special offer was that if you paid the £14.99 for DVD you could purchase the Princess Annika Barbie doll for only £9.99 (usual price £19.99) Unfortunately this offer has ended so you will probably pay £19.99 for the doll again. Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus is the newest DVD release starring Barbie herself as Princess Annika. **The Story*** It's Princess Annika's 17th birthday, As usual she has sneaked out of her castle (against her mother and father, the king...

missy0303 26.11.2005 · Read review
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Review of Barbie - The Magic Of Pegasus (DVD)

A girl can get lost in a Barbie world

Advantages: A PRETTY DOLL
Disadvantages: REAL LIFE IS NOT LIKE THIS

...A girl can get lost in a Barbie world. As a child I never had Sindy or Barbie dolls in fact I did only have 2 dolls I did not really like dolls I preferred to climb trees damn ditches, make dens. I am sure you all know what a Barbie doll is, but for those of you that do not, here goes. In the 1950's Ruth Handler noticed her daughter Barbie playing with paper dolls she had cut out the dolls were Adult. So Ruth created the fashion doll Barbie. Mattel produce the plastic doll. In 1961 Barbie was introduced to Britain from the U.S The Barbie doll is slim has gorgeous hair big bosoms everything a girl wants to be.She is just under 12 inches/30 cm tall Barbie has everything a girl wants. She has a sports car and a beach buggy; she has a horse, which has a musical stable. Barbie even has 2 carriages one with a horse one a unicorn...

mumsymary 29.10.2003 (14.12.2006) · Read review
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Review of Barbie

Why you shouldn't cut Barbie's Hair

Advantages: Anyone can enjoy her, lots of choice
Disadvantages: Hard to find, Stupid Shoes always fall off and get lost

...When I was six Santa brought me the best Christmas present ever. A Barbie house that was bigger than me and had a working lift. It was awesome. My mum was quite angry with Santa as she was trying to introduce the joys of Sindy to her daughter. Santa knew better. Who wants Sindy and her boring boyfriend Paul, Ken was far more handsome! Nearly 17 years later, I no longer have my Barbie house, but I am still a Barbie Girl at heart. I don?t chew their shoes or plait their hair anymore either since many of them are in a glass display cabinet. See, Barbie is for girls of all ages, only as the girl gets older, the more expensive the Barbies become. I am talking about collectable Barbies of course, the ones that my young cousins stare wistfully at every time they visit. The ones that are made of porcelain and have underwear and real...

emmaewok 30.01.2005 (31.01.2005) · Read review
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Review of Barbie

Clean up Barbie

Advantages: Does what it says
Disadvantages: none really

...I do not often throw my kids birthday parties, as their birthdays fall just after Christmas, and I have to thrown a party for 2 with me having twins loll. This year I thought I would spoil then and have a party. As my daughter loves Barbie and my son loves Spiderman, I had to have 2 separate tables and 2 lots of Napkins, plates, cups etc, to cater for them both. If I did not get Barbie my daughter would have been upset, so off I went on a journey to try and find everything Barbie, and my was it hard work. I found these Barbie napkins it was the mermaidia ones. They came in a pack of 16, which was more than enough, I even have some left for the next time she has a party loll. I paid £3.99 for these pack of 16, expensive I know but it was a last minute thing, and I think I could have got them cheaper off Ebay, but I did not have time...

kineticspade 15.02.2008 · Read review
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come on Barbie, let's go party

Advantages: barbie rocks
Disadvantages: none - barbie rocks

...'I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world.' And for once Aqua had a valid point to make as Barbie's sphere of influence increases and world wide domination seems inevitable. Admittedly I haven't tried to hinder this expansion with my weekly purchases of infinite Barbie fantasy ball Chuppa Chupps lollies. But please don't blame my obsession with all things pink for the boundless merchandise emporium that accompanies this pink clad icon. Maybe I'm making up for the fact that when I was a child, I preferred to take responsibility for an anatomical disaster of a doll with a bladder problem worse than mine after a saturday night down the pub. Tiny Tears may have taught me how to change a nappy but it didn't supply the fashion advice and life experience that comes as standard with a Barbie doll. Designed in 1959, Mattel have over 40...

nicolemorgan 08.04.2003 · Read review
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Review of Barbie

Groom and Glam Pegasus

Advantages: Adorable, looks good,
Disadvantages: expensive, not worth the money, hair falls out etc

...*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Why I bought this? *~*~*~*~*~*~*~* This is one of the two things my daughter asked Santa for this past Christmas and was the only thing I found almost impossible to get for her! She had got the Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus DVD for her birthday on the 9th November and ever since she asked for the Shiver Teddy Bear and a Pegasus Pony! She saw this advertised on TV a million and one times and every single time she said "I want that" So being the brilliant mum I am, I set out at the end of November to start my Christmas shopping?.First stop Woolworth's?. Picked up a couple of things and saw the Princess Annika Barbie doll (which I had already bought on special offer along with the DVD) which reminded me that I had to get the pony too. Searching the many aisles though I could not see this anywhere in the store...

missy0303 09.02.2006 · Read review
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Review of Mattel Barbie Groom n Glam Styling Head

Drafted in to impress the ladies

Advantages: Encourages imaginative play
Disadvantages: Tad suave for me!

...Another one of the princes in the ever increasing selection in the Barbie box. This one was one of the "must haves" when Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus was all the rage; the film came complete with 3D glasses, so it's remained quite a popular one in our house. Prince Aidan has reasserted himself now with the advent of Barbie and the Twelve dancing Princesses, because Little Miss has realised that she should try to give the princesses a prince each! ~~What is he?~~ Basically, another Barbie boy in a Barbie world. As with the other Barbie boys, he stands slightly taller than Barbie at a very respectable 13" whereas Barbie usually measures in at about 12". (All measurements are approximate!! ) This one has brown hair which isn't so much coiffed as straightened with his ghds! Nice centre parting, and hair dragged towards...

danielalong 09.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Mattel Barbie Magic of Pegasus - Prince Aidan

CYNICAL OP - Hijacker Barbie, Anthrax Not Included

Advantages: give endless pleasure to children all over, including mine
Disadvantages: give endless chance for comic potential for all critics, including me

...Barbie – the role model of little girls for decades. Yes, your little girl can also aspire to be like Barbie. So who is Barbie? How can you be like her? Well, all you need is a perfectly sculptured face, big boobs, a minuscule waist that hardly doesn’t exist, long legs that would suit an Olympic champion high jumper and beautifully conditioned long blonde hair. Simple, eh? Thankfully, for those non-whites amongst us, Barbie comes in different skin tones too. So a black, Asian or oriental Barbie is completely different - a perfectly sculptured face, big boobs, a minuscule waist that hardly doesn’t exist, long legs that would suit an Olympic champion high jumper and beautifully conditioned long black hair. Unfortunately, non-white Barbie gets saddled with an embarrassing Disney-esque name like Mulan or Pocahontas...

KarenUK 04.11.2001 · Read review
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Barbie beats all

Advantages: Provides hours of virtual life fun
Disadvantages: Can be costly

...Having a 3 and a half-year-old daughter it goes without saying that the word Barbie is not an unknown term in our house. I would say that for about a year now my daughter has happily played with her miniature friend, who soon multiplied into 2, 3 and now I can say that she is the extremely proud owner of a bunch of them including 2 Shelly’s and various accessories ranging from clothes, hair bits’n’bobs to the simply must have for all women (even Barbie!) shoes. Unbeknown to my daughter at this stage, Father Christmas has a Ken and yet another Shelly (oh no please no more screaming babies!) lined up, and to keep up with the women, he too has a small selection of shoes to boot, which didn’t break the bank. Ken cost £3.99 and the shoes £1.99. Luckily for me I managed to purchase my daughter’s Barbie...

GraingerN 22.08.2001 · Read review
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Review of Barbie

Another great Barbie film :)

Advantages: Ease of letting young children watch on thier own
Disadvantages: None

...Another great Barbie film for the girls. Elina (barbie) a flower fairy, who discovers that her home of Magic Meadow has been overcome by a horrible malady that is killing the flowers and making the fairies unable to fly. With the help of Bibble, a puffball and a giant butterfly named Hue she attempts to find Azura, a Guardian Fairy. Evil Laverna wants to usurp the Enchantress, the ruler of Fairytopia. It is on Elina to help save Fairytopia. Elina has some unusual friends helping her on her way, especially her good friend Bibbles. I enjoy watching these Barbie films with my daughter and she loves watching them over and over again :) This is a well told story, that you feel safe letting your young children watch, they are definitely aimed at the younger child, with the added bonus it can pull mummy in to :) Its not very often you...

scooby32 18.11.2006 · Read review
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Review of Barbie - Fairytopia (DVD)