Barbie is still on top. The range of children's toys is very large, but the most popular dolls for girls are, of course, Barbie.
Barbie continues to occupy one of the leading places in the hit parade of toys, which can be purchased in Russian stores. However, over the past year, other children's favorites are stepping on her heels, a correspondent of a Moscow newspaper, who studied the assortment of supermarkets for children's toys, tells.
In modern toy stores a very large assortment. And although the Barbie doll remains the favorite of the girls, the place in the windows is given to her still less than before. It is interesting to know why? because there are so many varieties of Barbie - every girl can buy that doll, which she will like most of all.
There are Barbie ballerinas, doctors, singers, heroines of fairy tales, even presidential candidates. An ordinary Barbie doll can be bought for 400-700 rubles. New items are more expensive, says the seller Dmitry. "For example, Barbie-inch is worth about 1000 rubles. But still they buy it. "Yes, in our time, parents use many of the whims of their children.
but sometimes Barbie is bought for themselves and adults, respectable aunts and uncles. Barbie is so pretty that often people make up whole collections of these beautiful and harmonious dolls.
There are collectible Barbie - made of porcelain or dressed in the clothes of famous designers who cost more than 8000 rubles. "Barbie has been in the market for a long time and they are the best. Children see the advertisement on TV and they require such toys. "
Olga, the mother of a five-year-old girl, came for a gift to her daughter, and herself looked at the graceful dolls. Olga liked the Princess from the crystal castle, who also sings. "Girls are very fond of this toy. Barbie helps the child develop imagination and taste. " Olga's daughter will surely be very happy with this gift.
Competitors at Barbie appear constantly, sellers say. However, this doll confidently holds its positions and is not going to stop at the 50th anniversary.
Under the surgical knife - to become like Barbie? Barbie is an incomparable beauty, what's so surprising is that a girl growing up wants to be like her favorite doll. But is it so good?
Round, like the balls of the chest, silicone lips, overturned buttocks with implants, long blond hair - this is what the American Cindy Jackson looks like, who lies 31 times under the surgical knife to get closer to her ideal of beauty - the Barbie doll. Of course, she does not have the same effect as her plastic friend.
48-year-old Cindy Jackson grew up on a farm in the US state of Ohio. I saw the report on it on television. Cindy told me that she spent 42 years to fulfill her goal, since she was the first to hold her favorite doll Barbie in her hands for six years. 31 plastic surgery cost just a million. And she got into the Guinness World Records book for her passion for plastic surgery!
Cindy has two daughters and she says she will not interfere when they also want to change their appearance under the surgeon's knife, because it's so interesting, she says, when your dream is fulfilled!
Despite this report, I thanked mentally the director for humanity towards me as a spectator: they did not show a woman near, and I do not know how she looks without make-up. And I also thought that going to a five-year-old girl for her birthday, I know that I will not buy it. You probably figured it out?
The doll influences the child's psyche - this is the main drawback of Barbie and, I must say, very significant.
Any doll (no matter how beautiful and fashionable it was) can negatively affect the child's psyche, says psychologist Elena Vinogradova. And some girls in this case can develop complexes - they say, "my figure or hair is not the same as a doll's." Therefore, parents should be more careful after they gave their child a new toy. "They must first watch how the child reacts to this toy. If they see a negative impact, then this toy should be kept away from the child. "
Motanka as opposed to Barbie - great!
The first people learned to make dolls 4-5 thousand years ago. They were made of clay, wool, wood, grass, and these dolls were given a magical meaning and they were used in rituals, says the artist of folk toys, artist Lyudmila Ponomarenko. Subsequently, the doll turned into an applied art and even at the beginning of the last century Russian children in the villages played in a doll-motanki, which were made from hay and woolen threads. "It can be done by an adult, and also during a game - and a child. In the doll at the same time laid the method of education and a toy. Relatively it can be considered her competitor Barbie. This doll is interesting in that it can be made from improvised materials at home. It does not have industrial production and it's not in this sense that Barbie should compare it. "
Meanwhile, the American legislator from the Democratic Party Jeff Eldridge proposes to ban the sale of Barbie dolls, as well as all dolls, similar to her. In his opinion, such toys affect girls, and they care too much about their appearance, less caring about intellectual development. The legislator asserts that such toys are shown to children - if a person is handsome, he does not have to be clever. Representatives of the company, which produces Barbie, have not yet commented on the initiative of the legislator.