Thursday, August 26, 2010

Barbie Games in the Car


There are some great car games out there, but one of the best are Barbie games. There are Barbie games online, but the best Barbie games for the car are the ones that don’t require the internet. Fortunately, there are plenty of these out there. To play them, you need a laptop and a pad or pillow to put in her lap to be sure that the laptop doesn’t fall while driving. Load up the Barbie games on the computer and she can get right to work dressing up the dolls to suit her inspiration at the moment and creating stories.

The trouble with playing traditional games in the car is the movement. You can’t position a mouse perfectly in the moving car, but with Barbie games you don’t need to. The Barbie games are more drag and drop than anything else – moving clothing onto a doll base in order to dress the doll to your liking. It’s easy to drag something around on the screen, even if you’re on a bumpy road. So long as she’s not likely to get car sick, having something to work on that’s not television or movies is a nice way to engage her mind during the drive.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Barbie Games Tempt Me Again


I have two boys who simply aren’t interested in Barbies. With those boys, I’ll never have a chance to accumulate Barbie games. I won’t get to dress the little Barbies in the way I did when I was a little girl. I have grown to accept this loss of Barbie games from my household, but the clever people at Mattel managed to tempt me recently. I almost bought myself a Barbie doll.

Actually, it was a Jacob doll, but they are made by Barbie and part of the Barbie games collection. I am impressed with how well the Twilight series have done and thought about buying the doll just for fun. I could display it at work for laughs, but at the same time I’d get my Barbie games fix that I just can’t get when I’m playing with all the boys in my household. I will say that I didn’t buy Jacob or Edward for that matter. But I did think about it for more than a few seconds. Barbie games are definitely still tempting.  

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Barbie Games Are Getting Classy


A quick stroll down the pink aisle recently made me realize how classy many of the Barbie games have become. There have always been the basic Barbies in their cheerful swimsuits ready for clothing and designs. But with the new black packaging, the elegant line of classy Barbie games impressed me. They were more adult looking than the pink packaged Barbie games.

If I could hazard a guess, I believe Mattel is targeting little girls with their pink boxed Barbies. The princesses and original Barbies in swimsuits and the like are very popular with the little ones. But to reclaim some of the older girl crowd, the company needed something different. The black boxed Barbies are that different. The dolls are sleeker and more sophisticated – just the sort of thing that older girls would be looking for in a fashion doll.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Barbie Games Are Immortal


Stop for a moment to think about all of the different toys that have survived over the years or seen a resurgence. Transformers, GI Joes, Strawberry Shortcakes and even the Smurfs have all popped up on toy shelves and they are all great fun. But among these only two types of toys are truly immortal – they will always be popular and always be around. These two are the toy cars and Barbie games. Why are these so timeless? Because they aren’t timeless at all.

Transformers and Strawberry Shortcake are essentially the same toys they were a generation ago when we played with them as children. The Barbie games a decade ago, however, are different from the games of today. And the Barbie games from two generations ago are night and day. The dolls in Barbie games change over time and her fashions change even more. The only other product in the toy aisles that has the same effect are the toy cars that take on the shape and design of popular cars of the decades.