Customer Reviews

Magical Mermaid Barbie & Krissy Doll

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

Magical Mermaid Barbie and Krissy is a nice toy for any girl to add to her Barbie collection. The idea of the lights looked cool on the TV, but doesnt look all that magical in person. Not to mention after a few baths, the lights on my daughters Krissy shell bed stopped working. I guess the batteries need to be changed every week or the bed is not meant to go in the water. (Try telling that to your 3 1/2 yr old girl..lol) Barbies waist is not meant to be turned. Twist her a bit too hard and she could break. Last but not least, the only thing that can really move on Barbie is her head and arms. Her lower torso cannot bend or move. But over all, "Its ok".

The only thing good about this is the sea shell bed case for baby Krissy. The Barbie's tail does not move or bend. She can not sit down. The other factor for my bad review is my child has trouble holding her fingers on the contacts to light up the tail in the water. I am glad this was a gift and I did not purchase it myself.

Wait for this one to go on sale. It's certainly not worth the asking price. My daughter is a big mermaid and Barbie fan and I thought this would be the perfect birthday gift. After spending 20 minutes getting Barbie and Krissy out of the box (Mattel really needs to work on this aspect of its packaging) we loaded everyone and everything up with batteries. The shell works intermittently. Barbie worked once. We changed batteries. Barbie doesn't work at all now. My daughter still plays with this toy--it feeds her imagination and that at least compensates for the money wasted. But I really have to question Mattel's ability to create toys (at least Barbie items) that work and last--I for one will think twice before making another Barbie product purchase.

My daughter (6)was allowed to pick one new Barbie for her birthday. She pick Mermaid Barbie. Getting it out of the package took 20 minutes. Still all in all she loves the thing. No it can't do much, you can't dress her or she can't walk or stand or sit well, but my daughters imagination overcame all that. Will it be the most played with? I doubt it. But it does make her happy and isn't that what it is all about? I am not sorry for this purchase it may not educate in the usual sense, but it does stimulate imagination. A nice addition to our Barbie collection....

My daughter only took this in the bath twice with her and the beautiful blue sticker along the front of her tail is already starting to peel off. you would think that at least they would have made the plastic under the sticker blue, knowing that this would happen when it got wet, but no. It is very plain and it looks really bad. She was crushed taht I could not make it stay stuck. As for fun, she likes it,....

Barbie Mermaid & Krissy are very pretty, but my daughter took in the tub only a total of three times and Barbie would nolonger work. The whole purpose of Barbie Mermaid is the go in the water and light up...WRONG. Mattel really needs to take a better look at the quality of their products and also package them differently. It took me about 30 minutes to just be able to untie and untangle Barbie & Krissy to get them out of the box. There is absolutely no reason for them to package so severly. I recommend DO NOT BUY if you have a child that will be playing with---this Barbie will not last!

I started to buy this doll for my daughter for Christmas, but then took a good look at it and noticed that she wouldn't even be able to dress it. Mattel sells a Barbie mermaid outfit .... My advice? Do what I did- Buy a regular Barbie doll with LEGS so that the child can have more play options, and then just buy a mermaid outfit for the doll separately.

It took me ten minutes to get this doll out of the package, no child could do it without damaging the doll. The doll is overpriced. The reason the doll's battery chamber is not waterproof is obvious. Mattel used cheap plastic liners instead of rubber. How lame. And after paying ..., the least they could have done was insured that a mermaid with batteries was waterproof. ...

Frank

We have bought two of these because the batteries either wear out very quickly or stop working altogether. The shell worked for a total of a five minutes the last time. Also, if you have read the fine print because you cannot use them in soapy water! If you do they won't work anymore. We are talking about using them in a bathtub right? Isn't that were you use soap. My daughter is four and was devastated when it didn't work. I would not recommend this to anyone. Good concept, bad design.

after several minutes of trying to get her out of the packaging my daughter played with her in the tub right away she got her wet she did glow then she asked what else does she do? Nothing you can't even dress her. So not worth it if the makers took half the time to play with her as they took to pakage her they would have known .