Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Barbie Games and Presents


I love to give Barbie games as presents. The Barbie games are fun to grab and they are nice and shiny when you open up the box. I like a gift to look exciting when the paper is ripped away. After all, how much fun is it to rip open the paper and see a cardboard box? It’s totally boring – even if there is something exciting inside. So when I pick out Barbie games as a gift, I try to pick one that is exciting to look at in the package – one with lots of extra details, for example, of an accessory she might not have already like the horse or car.

Barbie gifts are easy to find in just about any store as well which makes it easy to grab the gift and go. They also make nicely packaged Barbie games in virtually every price range, so depending on your budget for a particular gift, you can grab something applicable that looks fun and is fun, but doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. Barbie games are truly timeless and I’d probably get excited if I got one as a gift today – even though I’m old enough to hand them over to my own children as gifts.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Barbie Games and Fashion Trends


If the makers of Barbie games had their way, Barbie games would be the start of all kinds of fashion trends. Barbie has always been marketed as a fashion doll and she is always stylist, but she’s not a trend setter. Love her to death, but Barbie is a trend follower. She doesn’t define the fashion trends of each generation or decade. Instead she sets the trends for fashion dolls by redoing the trends that are already out there.

In fact, Barbie has left much of the fashion world behind by focusing on her own versions of timeless outfits. The doctor Barbie is dressed in a pink gown with a doctor’s jacket and the Vet doctor is similar. There are actually very few fashion Barbie games out there. Most are either career minded, dressed in a swimsuit or designed as a mythical or movie creature. You can find Barbie games designed as characters from Camp Rock as easily as you can find Barbie games designed as mermaids. Fashion setter? Nope, but fun none the less.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Barbie Games: Entertaining Girls for Decades


I had a conversation with a friend today that brought back some serious memories for me. It’s funny how the generations overlap a bit when it comes to classic toys like Barbie games. She mentioned that her two little girls are at the perfect age for playing together. They play Barbie games for hours on end and my friend has realized just how much she can get done. I commented that we don’t have Barbie games at my house, but we do have trains and Transformers that get played with for hours straight. It’s a great age for play.

The comment made me think back however to the time that I was five or six years old and was more than content to play Barbie games for hours with my sisters. We played and played coming up with all kinds of stories and ideas. We made new outfits for our Barbie games and designed fashions and houses for her to play in. Our Barbie games were complex and entertaining. It’s nice to know that almost two decades later, those games are just as popular and are still played the same way.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Barbie Games are Everywhere


Barbie games have been here more than fifty years and presumably, they will be here much longer than that. Barbie games started with the plastic dolls sporting a black and white swimsuit, but Barbie games today have expanded exponentially. Not only are the dolls out there more exciting and varied, but Barbie games have moved online as well making it more interesting and possible and play Barbie games virtually anywhere.

Barbie games may have started as plastic dolls with long flowing blonde hair, and in truth, they still are to an extent. But Barbie games are also in your car on DVDs and in the hands of your child on her hand held player. You can find Barbie games on the laptop and family computer where the online Barbie games can keep her entertained for hours as she learns to use her creativity and imagination in a very real, very rewarding way. The Barbie games we all grew up with are still there, of course, for quiet play in her room or to take along on a car trip. No matter which sort of Barbie game you’re interested in, you’ll have ample opportunities with the wide range available today.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Barbie Games and Toy Story 3


I love Toy Story 3, and the character I loved the most is Barbie. Sure, there’s Woody and Buzz and the fun of all that, but Barbie is a surprise character that has just as much heart as the rest of them along with a sharpness we just don’t see on that blonde bombshell in most of the Barbie games. Barbie is often written off as being a bit less than a superstar brainiac. In fact, there was a scandal once upon a time when the Barbie games had Barbie saying “Math is hard!” when you pushed a certain button on her back. The Barbie games we traditionally played had Barbie much more concerned about fashion and her hairstyle than anything else, but this wasn’t the case in Toy Story 3.

In the show, Barbie is unexpectedly cast off and donated to a daycare center. She meets Ken and love ensues almost off the bat. It flourishes until Barbie discovers that Ken has a double life – loving her in one and torturing her friends in another. Fortunately Ken is easy to work with being a bit less than brilliant himself and clever Barbie winds up saving the day and getting her man – not an easy job to do for someone with long blonde hair and plastic legs.