Barbie Reviews

I ordered this toy for my niece's birthday. She lives 1500 miles away. I took Amazon's combo suggestion of the Barbie Pixter and the Barbie color fashion show cartridge. Lo and behold, when they arrive, they don't even WORK together. The cartridge is for a completely different system. Now my sister has to go through a return process because of this and my niece has no birthday present. THANKS AMAZON.

I bought this toy for me niece. Amazon asks if i want the Color Barbie Fashion Show with it, so i repied yes. When it arrived i was disappointed to see that the the Barbie Pixter and Barbie Color Fashion show were incompatible even though Amazon pushes them. Terrible job Amazon!

I bought 2 of these for my daughters (4 and 6 yrs old) a few months ago and they both absolutely LOVE it!! They like the fact that they can "send" pictures that they created to each other (the systems need to be almost directly in front of each other but they don't seem to be bothered by that fact). The disadvantages that I found as a parent are that the systems are black and white (although my kids never seemed to care about that) and it is getting harder to find games for this. I was fortunate in that when I bought these, I was able to find many black and white games still available at the Walmart and Toys R Us stores by us. So my suggestion is do an initial search for the games and see what is available (you may be able to get many of them on sale) before purchasing this unit or spend a little more money and purchase the newer color ones (I can't review those but I would assume they work simliar to this but in color).

From a kids prespective, my 4 year old actually prefers this Barbie black and white pixter over the color Leapster she has and my 6 year old, will play with both equally.

My daughter got this for her 5th birthday, and it really looks cute and fun in the box. Within 5 minutes of playing with it, the small clip that holds the starfish open broke. In addition, the mermaids and other pieces that come with this toy are microscopic. If your kids are like mine, they will lose the items and bug you all day to help them find it. This toy is really cute, but not worth it. Save yourself the hassle. Buy the big barbies and pretend there is a big seashell to play in.