Fairytopia Blue Sparkle Fairy Barbie: Six Feet Under Barbie
Written: Jan 12 '05 (Updated Jan 12 '05)
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Pros: Beanie likes it
Cons: this doll looks like she was just on a cold, hard slab
The Bottom Line: The Bottom Line is creeped out by this doll and thinks it might marry Chucky.
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| pippadaisy's Full Review: Barbie Fairytopia Blue Sparkle Fairy Barbie |
Oh frabjous day! My daughter finally found a line of Barbies that she likes. For this Barbie-collecting mama, I should be thrilled to high heaven, right? Problem is that she's latched onto the Fairytopia line (the horrible mermaid to the contrary). However, even I can appreciate a tail that detaches faster than a toupee in a windstorm than the Fairytopia Blue Sparkle Fairy Barbie, which has taken on the nicknames "Six Feet Under Barbie," or, more simply, "Corpse Barbie."
::: The Toe Tag Details :::
Fairytopia Blue Sparkle Fairy Barbie's entire body is corpse blue with faint sparkles embedded right in the vinyl. Her hair is robin's egg blue with sparkle streaks, but doesn't come with a comb, so if you don't have a pantry of Barbie accessories to raid, expect her to have that "natural" look that all Barbies of little girls have within five minutes of being deboxed. Her face paint is alarming, with blue eyes, and dark, dark, blue lips. Her "top" is a scoop neck sleeveless belly shirt of light blue iridescent sparkles glued right onto her skin, so if you have a child who likes naked Barbies, this is NOT your girl. She is also wearing a removable sort of shredded skort of light blue iridescent material with "flowers" at the waist, and her shoes are goofy light blue slippers of some sort.
Fairytopia Blue Sparkle Fairy Barbie also come with blue floral-patterned sparkle mesh wings with blue plastic curlicue supports inside. The wings attach by pushing into holes in her back and "flit" when you move the doll up and down. She does come with a cheapy pop-up book about Fairytopia, but it's the same book that comes with all the dolls and doesn't even seem to serve a purpose as an advertising gimmick. It was lost in the first five minutes when even Beanie realized she could draw better.
::: The One With No Solo Career :::
Fairytopia Blue Sparkle Fairy Barbie is the Michelle Williams in the Sparkle Fairy trio: not quite as pretty, not quite as flashy outfits, and probably no hope of a solo career outside of the gospel thing. This girl is definitely not going to be doing any duets with Nelly or starring in an Austin Powers sequel with her scoop-neck top and blue skin.
For one, the floral pattern looks much gaudier on her wings than it does on the other fairies. I think my grandmother may have even had a couch in this pattern back in the day, covered with a thick layer of clear plastic. I also have to say that I know that there is ashy, but this girl needs more than a jar of Eucerin. The blue skin tone is absolutely lurid, and when you add in the purply-blue lips, you aren't surprised that she's made of so much hard plastic, because your mind was thinking rigor mortis anyway.
Scarily enough, Beanie seems to love this dead-like plaything, but I've been thinking that she is the living incarnation of Wednesday Addams all along, so that shouldn't be surprising. Of course, when she starts asking me where one gets an autopsy kit and coffin in Fairytopia, it might be time to call the white coats in, but for now, I'll let her pretend that this doll that looks like an Ecstasy trip gone wrong is a-okay in Mommy's book.
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Reviews of other Fairytopia denizens:
Fairytopia Magical Mermaid Barbie
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 9.99
Type of Toy: Other
Age Range of Child: Other
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