Barbie in The 12 Dancing Princesses: Princess Isla and Princess Hadley

My 5 year old received this as a Christmas gift and was quite pleased. We have had no problems with the girls staying on their stands as others have reviewed. The trick is that the girls' straight leg clips onto the side of the stand in the holder and she has to straddle over the top of it also. It did take a minute for us to figure that out as it was not clearly addressed in the directions. The girls make lovely poses for dancing. Overall, my daugter really enjoys this toy and how the dancers twirl. We have not had a problem with the quality of this toy.

I bought these for my girls, since the 12 Dancing Princesses is their current favorite movie, and amazon had them for 70% off with the free shipping deal. My girls are just 2 and 3, and they've had no problems using the stands. I automaticly threw away the little plastic stand things, and the dolls seem to do just fine with standing with only one foot snapped into the base. And that's with my 3 year old doing it. We aren't picky though.

I was supprised at first, because their hair is very crunchy - it almost felt like they used super glue for styling, but now that the dolls have been played with for a couple weeks, they have softened out. It is actually nice, because their hair hasn't gotten horribly tangled like most the barbies we buy - they still have curly ringlets. I appreciated that the shoes did NOT come off - it's perfect for my younger girls, but might frusterate an older child, since they always need new dancing shoes in the movie.

Also, these are the twins, so they are smaller than a normal barbie. Their arms can be shaped into ballet possitions, and my daughter has been using them as dancing dolls to hold when she practices her ballet. Their outfits come off, but unlike most barbies, my girls havn't had much interest in undressing them ... they like the ballerina outfits too much.

I would reccomend them at the 70% off price Amazon had them for, but I don't know if I would have bought them at the full price. I'm glad we have them, and for the deal we got, we're happy.

The stands on which the dolls twirl are poorly engineered and far too fragile. The dolls will only stand and twirl in them with great care in balancing them, and one of them broke while trying to get the doll seated correctly in it.

That said, the dolls themselves are easy to pose, and in our experience stayed in the pose in which they were placed. They're also dressed quite nicely for dancing.

The dolls being nice saved this from having one star, but since the main selling points are the twirling bases (which were an overall bust) I can't in good conscience tell others that they should go our and grab these.

GirlyGirl31 again. My stands have not broke and my dolls limbs are fine. I guess you have very rough kids. SO DON'T BLAME THE TOY BECAUSE YOUR KID WAS ROUGH WITH IT. You can't abuse and throw the stands and dolls and when they DO crack or have lose limbs call them " Poorly Designed" or " Should be called 12 Falling Princesses ". That is not right. Now if you say " Fashion Fever stands crack easy" I'll agree with you. It's happened to me before. If you don't start looking at your kids treatment of toys and review correctly, I will review till the rating is 5 stars.

These are good, pretty, dolls! To me the stands ARE boring but I like the dolls. SO DON"T REVIEW 1 STAR FOR A STUPID STAND! GEEZ!
GirlyGirl31