pretty doll
My mother buys a holiday barbie every year for my daughter. The 2009 one was my daughters 17th one. They are all pretty and she keeps them all still in the boxes!

Holiday 2009 Barbie
The Barbie arrived pretty much as expected, but the box was crushed and this ruined the collector value. amazon was able to refund my money, but did not have a replacement doll available.

Mint Condition
The doll arrived on time for Xmas. It was in mint condition. The doll was purchased for collecting purpose and not to be played with. This is the reason for the low rate for educational value.

Beautiful
What a beautiful doll. A perfect addition to any collection. My niece loves it.

Another for the collection
I buy these for my daughter every year for Christmas, even though she is past the doll stage. This year's doll is very pretty, and is well packaged in the box. As they never come out of the box, that is important to me. :) This is a fun holiday tradition for us.

4 Year old LOVES!
My 4 year old loves this product... there are little pieces, but it is teaches her to pick her stuff up after she is done playing with it. Great Product Barbie :)

The best Barbie van
My kid gave me the title for this note. I like it because it closes up easily at pick up time and one can drop in all one's Barbie stuff inside.

Girls loved it
The kids really enjoyed the camper. Arrived wrapped in toilet-paper thin paper that was ripped, so not much of a surprise.

Very disappointed
All my 8 twin girls wanted for Christmas was this camper. I searched and searched for it and eventually paid an outrageous price for it. It was all worth it though to see their faces on Christmas morning when they saw it under the tree. However, the joy was short lived as the camper was a huge disappointment. It is SO cheaply made, the wheels don't roll so it has to be dragged across the floor. It doesn't close properly so it opens when you move it and all the teeny tiny pieces fall all over the floor. My girls played with it for half an hour but got so frustrated with it they put it aside and it remains in the place they left it on Christmas morning. I know they are so disappointed with this cheap product but it's nothing compared to the disappointment I feel. Mattel should be ashamed of itself. It's the same with the barbies - the legs, arms, heads fall off in no time. They also got one of the 3 musketeers barbies and the wand broke taking it out of the package!! Step up Mattel - think of the children!!

A nice idea but the original was better
My 6 year old wanted the Barbie camper because she plays with my old one when she visits her grandma. I thought it would be a nice addition and although she is happy to have it and likes the fact it has sounds, she was complaining in the first 5 minutes that the wheels don't work. Who designed a Barbie camper where the wheels aren't low enough to really roll across the floor (carpet or hard flooring)? And I agree with the other comments that the sides don't stay shut when you try to move it and the only storage space for the utensils/plates flies open all the time. It really is cheaply made. I think Mattel needs to do some serious design and quality control with its manufacturing plants. We also have the Barbie with the hair coloring and it is horrible quality. My girls still love to play with them and some of them are good like the John Deere Barbie...and I will say the Diamond Castle was well done when we bought that but the products are not consistently good like they were years ago.

barbie dreamhouse isnt made the best but my daughter loves it.
my daughter wanted this barbie dreamhouse so badly for christmas this year. of course santa brought it for her and she absolutely loves it. however there are a couple problems with the house in general that was brought to our attention on christmas eve as we began putting it together. first off the house itself is quite flimsy and things fall quite easily just by walking the barbies around the home. the second problem we faced was getting the shower to fit in the slot that it should fit into. we tried everything to get that shower to fit into the house but it just would not fit. we were still able to put it in there but it doesnt look right and the sounds from the shower are not made because the shower doesnt properly line up where it should. the elevator also came with the two side pieces extremely bent which makes it more difficult to go up and down. fortunately the elevator does still work despite the fact that its bent. the other problem we faced seems to be a big one with this house, which is the fireplace and tv. luckily we fixed that problem and now my daughter is able to press the button and light the fireplace all by herself.the sounds that the barbie house is "supposed" to make was what drew my daughter to it in the first place. therefore i feel that mattel should have made this product a lot sturdier and made it a priority that everything worked properly in the house. the worst part is that you dont realize all these problems until you have already put the house together and by then you dont want to take the whole thing apart and ship it back (certainly not on christmas eve). the good things i can say about this product and the reason i gave it as many stars as i have is because my daughter does enjoy playing with it. we just wish it would have arrived and worked the way it was advertised.

Way to flimsy...
We bought this doll house for our 4 year old daughter and on the very first use the string for the elevator was stretched out. So now, the elevator is not level with the floor. Of course, this does not bother our daughter, but I know how much the doll house cost and I expected it to hold up a little better than this! Also, the scenery in the background comes out of the box already stuck on, and not very well. The corners have started to fold over, and that is very tempting for a little girl. Needless to say, our Barbie Dream House no longer has a library! I guess I am a little bummed that we paid so much for a toy that hasn't held up very well and doesn't get played with as much as we thought. Maybe, if your little girl isn't as little as ours it will be better taken care of and get more use.

Decent Toy
The dollhouse was a bit difficult to put together. Once it was assembled, you had to rig certain things to make the electronic parts work. For example, my daughter has to push super hard on the fireplace/TV to get it to light up and make sounds. For the cost I would think it would be higher quality. My daughter does like the toy and it comes with quite a bit of furniture and accessories. Overall, not bad, but definitely room for improvement.

Difficult assembly instructions and warped elevator
We ordered this for our daughter for Christmas and had it overnight delivered so she could have it for Christmas. When we assembled it on Christmas eve, I am very glad I has some adult beverages on hand! The instructions were terrible. The descriptions of the assembly were pictures that looked like poor quality scans that you could barely see. No description to follow the pictures at all. What descriptions were there were originally written in Japanese or something and poorly translated to English. It took forever to assemble this thing! I actually gave up on the chandelier lighting up but thankfully it miraculously worked Christmas morning! I found it pretty ridiculous that we had to put a lot of the stickers on, I mean really, this could have been done at the factory! As an example, some stickers were put on, why not just put the flowers on the window instead of providing poor instructions on where they go?
The elevator is a story of it's own. The elevator itself was warped. This would not be that bad of an issue because it's just cosmetics but the track that the elevator slides on is not smooth at all. It requires two hands and maneuvering of the elevator to get it to slide through the levels. Luckily my daughter figured it out and really loves the toy. She has had a lot of fun with it luckily but I was disappointed in the assembly process and the functionality of the elevator. The price was the lowest I found anywhere and Amazon did a great job of getting it here on time, so I'm really happy with Amazon! This is my first purchase from them and will buy and recommend buying from Amazon again. But bottom line the toy is an overpriced piece that requires patience and wild turkey to assemble. Unfortunately for the elevator portion, You can't return products to Santa!

Just what you would expect
This didn't take long to put together. My daughter is 5 and loves it! I've even caught my 7 year old son playing with the elevator. There is one part we could not get to work - the fire place. We don't see the fire flicker or move. But the TV does come up, the lights and other sounds work fine. Expensive and big, but lots of fun.