Barbie Popo Sensation

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00005Y1C8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #327,555 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

Barbie stays in the mainstream by being the mainstream. This blond beauty can be dressed in her turquoise tank dress, or turquoise boot-cut pants and matching halter-top. Both outfits can be accented with elbow-length sleeves that have fuzzy tufts of turquoise fur at the shoulders. Place Pop Sensation Barbie on the stage along with her plastic silver boom box, press the play button, and watch her dance and sing. Her dancing consists of her arms moving up and down like she is marching in place, and her feet rocking back and forth to give the illusion that she is swaying her hips. The singing consists of her repeating one verse. She will continue to repeat this verse until you press the play button, switching her over to a single verse from the second song that she knows until you hit the stop button. There are two volume settings, but even that doesn't help much as the song selection is so limited. A working headset for young kids is also included. Plug it into the side of the stage, place it on your head with the mic turned toward your mouth, and your voice can be projected alongside Barbie's voice. While a thoughtful feature that may extend the play value of this toy, beware that it can be loud and is prone to feedback. --Pam Lauer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

55 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Make sure your child has a door on their bedroom!!, November 11, 2002

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Amy E. Freeman (AZ) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Barbie Popo Sensation (Toy)

... I was fairly sure [my daughter] would be disappointed but I have to say she loves it. The dolls is darling- and actually does move well. ... It plays 2 differents lines, not songs. And really only one line is understandable and attractive to my daugher. It just keeps repeating and repeating and repeating until I can get her to turn it off. It is marketed to say that you can hook up your own music to it and sing along. This is true, with a VERY short adapter- but then the music is piped through from the radio to the stand and the resulting sound is very 'wrinkly' as my 6 year old says. It really doesn't sound very good although there is no way to have Barbie dance without the Barbie music playing unless you have it hooked up to your own radio/cd player. This is to say, she only dances when there is music (hers or yours) playing. She can't just dance to your singing. My daughter does like to hook up the kid headset to the Barbie stand and hear herself sing (without the Barbie dancing) while her own music plays on the radio in the background. Overall, it seems to be a good one. Hasn't broken- my only suggestion to the manufacturer would be to improve the 'speaker' so the kids can hook up their own music without it sounding so distorted (or be able to have Barbie dance without any music coming through the base). There also needs to be more variety (or longer) music selections in the stand so that the rest of the family doesn't go nuts from hearing the same line being sung over and over again!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Would recommend, December 28, 2002

By A Customer

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Barbie Popo Sensation (Toy)

My 4-year old loves this Barbie! She can sign along with her with her own microphone! She can even play her own songs through the speaker. Nice toy.

4.0 out of 5 stars singing Barbie, February 19, 2003

By A Customer

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Barbie Popo Sensation (Toy)

My 4 year old loves this Barbie and walks around the house with the mic. on her head and the music on and singing. We adults wished it played another different song or two, but it's been a hit anyway.