barbie makeover game





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Product Description
BARBIE? FASHION FEVER? GUESS-THE-LOOK? GAME The Guess-The-Look? Game incorporates deductive reasoning with fun Barbie? fashion features. Includes two vanity mirrors, over 40 interchangeable electrostatic cling hair and facial feature pieces and16 cameo cards. Now you can guess your friend's new makeover look or create one of your own. For two to four players. Closed box with 5th panel and try-me feature. Ages 6 and over.

Product Details
Brand: Mattel
Model: G9135
Features
BARBIE? FASHION FEVER? GUESS-THE-LOOK? GAME The Guess-The-Look? Game incorporates deductive reasoning with fun Barbie? fashion features
Includes two vanity mirrors, over 40 interchangeable electrostatic cling hair and facial feature pieces and16 cameo cards
Now you can guess your friend's new makeover look or create one of your own
For two to four players
Recommended Age Range 6 and Up

Editorial Reviews
From the Manufacturer BARBIE? FASHION FEVER? GUESS-THE-LOOK? GAME The Guess-The-Look? Game incorporates deductive reasoning with fun Barbie? fashion features. Includes two vanity mirrors, over 40 interchangeable electrostatic cling hair and facial feature pieces and16 cameo cards. Now you can guess your friend's new makeover look or create one of your own. For two to four players. Closed box with 5th panel and try-me feature. Ages 6 and over.

Customer Reviews
SO not worth the money Barbie Fashion Fever Guess-The-Look Game seemed like the perfect choice for my six-year-old daughter. I got mine at K-Mart, and even though I did have a second's pause at the $14.99 price tag, (as opposed to the even more ridiculous price of $16.99 as listed by Amazon), I whisked it off the shelf anyway, since the day before my daughter had a horrible trip-and-fall accident (very badly split lip, 25 stitches, four middle-of-the-night hours in the ER) and I wasn't exactly in a mood to skimp; and she could play it while "quietly" recuperating. I also had high hopes for the game since it appeared to be a cool Barbie Fashion-version of the "Guess Who?" game, which we have owned and enjoyed for a few years. If you are not familiar with the "Guess Who?" game, (and its newest counterpart, the "Guess Where?" game - cute but not as fun as the original), the premise is to ask yes or no questions to the opposing player to try and figure out which person they have (out of a possible 25 or so), and they, in turn, try and guess which person the other player has, using the classic "Battleship" setup of "plastic briefcases" that open and shield the other player's view. (Questions such as "Is it a man?" "Are they wearing a hat?" "Do they have blonde hair" etc.) I think the most fun part may have been when we first opened up the game and had to pull the pieces off their initial backing (the material is the same thin, clingy, plastic as those window-cling decorations that are out for every holiday) and place them in their matching location in the fashion folder. There were hair selections in varying colors and styles, hats, eyes, mouths, earrings, necklaces. Once all the pieces are put into place, you pick a card and the opposing player picks a card, and you try to guess which Fashion Barbie each other has picked. After asking yes or no questions, you take the appropriate clingy piece and put it on a blank mannequin-type drawing of a head in a picture frame, eventually getting hair, eyes, mouth, earrings or necklaces if applicable, etc. Sounds fun, but there is such a limited selection of gals to choose from, and the entire repertoire is displayed within each folder, that within a few turns it becomes obvious who each other has. And the pieces tend to fall off the upright picture frame, or they end up too stuck on and when you try to remove them, you end up scratching the color off the piece. After one round with my six-year-old daughter and one round with my seven-year-old daughter, interest was beginning to wane, the color had been scratched off of one set of lips (making them look cut and scarred, ironically enough, considering what my daughter had just gone through), and the brown eyes were lost from one set (both folders contain exactly the same pieces). The girls then had some fun (as did I) just making up different girls on the picture frame, without even using the cards or playing the game, but that only lasted a few minutes more. The verdict? A $15.00 game that was fun and entertaining for less than a half-hour, and is now destined for the closet (or more likely, back to K-mart). And only one set of pieces for each folder (and remember, there are only two folders to begin with) with no back-up pieces included. Couldn't they have included some duplicate pieces? After all, you can buy an entire, huge sheet of those holiday window cling-ons for a buck!!! How cheap can you get? You probably have to send away to Mattell for another set of pieces, which probably cost $7.99 - not including $3.99 for shipping and handling!! My advice is: Don't waste your money. This game is listed at $16.99? In my opinion, it's worth maybe six or seven bucks, not a penny more. But even at that amount, the entertainment value may wear thin before you get your money's worth. Buy the original "Guess Who?" game instead.