Unnaturally beautiful? Why does Barbie look like Elsa now?
It was a normal Sunday, when my two children suddenly had a Barbie doll in their hand and pulled it. Head off, doll dead. My wife cheered inwardly. My kids were screaming. The rejoicing ceased when my wife discovered that the Barbie was only a loan from our daughter's daycare friend.
So it had to be a replacement. From economic (save money) and ecological (rather used instead of new) Reasons, my wife tried to get hold of a superfluous old Barbie doll through her sports group. With success! She got a 15 year old copy as a present.
A head for all
A few days later, both dolls lay side by side on the kitchen table, revealing that the toy designers of Barbie's girl-loved Barbie in recent years seeehr many Disney films have looked. Otherwise I can not explain the facial proportions of current makes. One might think that Mattel now also mounted the Elsa heads on the Barbie hull to save costs.
Comparison between 15 year old Barbie and a current model
AEMM. Is that nice?
As the parents of a six-year-old girl, we belong to the group? Anti-Barbie ?. However, as you can see, it still finds its way into our household occasionally. What exactly bothers us about this particular doll is not so easy to say. It embodies a sick ideal of beauty, which probably alone does not make our daughter sick. She focuses a child on the appearance of a person, but at the same time she does not even represent it in a true-to-life way. When we also noticed these big eyes, she had finally lost. Small nose, huge oversized eyes, thin belly - obviously without organ contents - à la Daniela Katzenberger.
Whether the initiative of Mattel to offer even small and curvy Barbies, still brings them from the losses, I dare to doubt. Then prefer Playmobil.
