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Barbie in a Mermaid Tale Swim 'N Dance Mermaid Doll: From the movie, Barbie in A Mermaid Tale. Swim 'n Dance Mermaids love to play in the water. Wind their tails and watch as these gorgeous mermaids swim, spin and dance through the water. To make the mermaids swim, flip the tail up, wind the tail, flip back down, place in water and watch them swim. Color change hair is activated by cold water. Doll comes with flower floaties for their arms and a seashell hair tie.
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What a splash-tastic stylista. Girls can make this gorgeous mermaid swim, spin, and dance through the water. Just flip up the tail, wind the tail, flip it back down, place the doll in the water, and watch her go. This shimmery beauty also has color-change hair, which is activated by ice-cold water. For more enchantment, check out Swim 'n Dance Blonde Mermaid sold separately. Comes with flower floaties for her arms. Plus, a seashell tie for her lustrous hair. Inspired by the movie Barbie in A Mermaids Tale. Act out favorite scenes and invent new underwater adventures.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
We have both of these. The doll comes with two 'flowers' that keep her upright when in water and a windy hair piece to play with her hair.
To use the doll, you wind up the tail fin and then let it go. The 'motor' (a rubber band?) turns the fins. The problem is that the elasticity of the drive means that when you let the fin go after winding it, it goes very fast and then stops. I think this would have been much better if the fin always turned at about the same even speed. As it is, you spin the tail forever for about half a second of frantic jerky motion of the fins in the water. Whether standing upright (won't work in a bathtub) or 'swimming' under the water, neither works smoothly or easily. It's just a quick jerk couple of spins and that's it. The motor just spins too fast and the water pressure isn't enough to slow it down.
The doll is quite large and doesn't fit into a bathtub - certainly not in the upright position for the 'dancing' motion with the flowers on her wrists. I think she is far better suited to a pool where she has room to move around. Even then, she doesn't really 'swim' and my 7 year old quickly lost interest in winding up the tail only to have it spin wildly for half a second and then peter out. The doll just jerked more than swam when you put her in the water. She doesn't really go forward and we had a serious issue with the tail spinning but the body not - kind of ruining the feel of swimming and appearing more like she's in her death throes.
The tail fins are made of thin vinyl type of material and if left into a bent position too long, keeps that position permanently. Then she no longer swims at all. And the tail bends 45 degrees - I believe to make it easier to spin but it just ends up getting stuck there - further taking away from any 'swimming action'.
In all, we've already lost the two flower pieces, the tails are all bent from bathtub play, and my 7 year old long ago stopped trying to wind her up. Which makes a big waste of money in having that motor in there in the first place. She definitely does not live up to the hype of the commercial.
We haven't been able to try this in a pool - I think that is really where she might be useful. Definitely too large and clunky for a bathtub.
To use the doll, you wind up the tail fin and then let it go. The 'motor' (a rubber band?) turns the fins. The problem is that the elasticity of the drive means that when you let the fin go after winding it, it goes very fast and then stops. I think this would have been much better if the fin always turned at about the same even speed. As it is, you spin the tail forever for about half a second of frantic jerky motion of the fins in the water. Whether standing upright (won't work in a bathtub) or 'swimming' under the water, neither works smoothly or easily. It's just a quick jerk couple of spins and that's it. The motor just spins too fast and the water pressure isn't enough to slow it down.
The doll is quite large and doesn't fit into a bathtub - certainly not in the upright position for the 'dancing' motion with the flowers on her wrists. I think she is far better suited to a pool where she has room to move around. Even then, she doesn't really 'swim' and my 7 year old quickly lost interest in winding up the tail only to have it spin wildly for half a second and then peter out. The doll just jerked more than swam when you put her in the water. She doesn't really go forward and we had a serious issue with the tail spinning but the body not - kind of ruining the feel of swimming and appearing more like she's in her death throes.
The tail fins are made of thin vinyl type of material and if left into a bent position too long, keeps that position permanently. Then she no longer swims at all. And the tail bends 45 degrees - I believe to make it easier to spin but it just ends up getting stuck there - further taking away from any 'swimming action'.
In all, we've already lost the two flower pieces, the tails are all bent from bathtub play, and my 7 year old long ago stopped trying to wind her up. Which makes a big waste of money in having that motor in there in the first place. She definitely does not live up to the hype of the commercial.
We haven't been able to try this in a pool - I think that is really where she might be useful. Definitely too large and clunky for a bathtub.
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As with every year... the least expensive gifts are the kids favorites. My daughters, 5 and 3 have been playing with their mermaids since Christmas morning.
We've had them in the bath and in the pool.
We've had them in the bath and in the pool.
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My daughter was so happy to have this item. She loves to swim and loves Barbie, get product much improved from the past.
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