Rainbow Surprise Doll by Poopsie
Age: Unknown (Not suitable for children 3 and under)
Price(UK): £40 at a sales discount. (RRP: £50)
This is Pixie Rose, she is a Poopsie Rainbow Surprise Doll. She stands at roughly 14 inches in height and about 4 inches in width (right to left). She comes with 20+ surprises, including a slime kit and a packet of make up powder.
I like the different shades in her hair, going from a bright pink to a more subtle peach.
Most of the clothing is well made and looks nice.
When wearing her footwear, she is able to stand unassisted which is nice for play and displaying purposes.
The accessories are cute and nicely detailed.
The slime recipe worked and made a decent and stretchy slime.
I like that her accessories and clothing could be used to store the slime that you made.
I liked the detailing on her face, especially the eyes.
I like that the case is embossed with Poopsie characters and can be used to store the doll. And that the box is secure and can be carried like a suitcase for travel purposes.
The hair, though beautiful, is badly cut and styled. Whoever designed the hair was clearly going for a layered affect but it looks terrible.
There is a lot of waste packaging with this product, a vast majority of which was made up of individually packaged items.
Some of the packaging, I really struggled to open and can’t imagine a young child trying to get into.
The tags used to keep her head in the molded base leaves parts behind in the actual head of the doll and sticks out. I tried to cut them as best as I could and as close to the scalp of the doll as possible without cutting some of the doll’s hair and even now there are still pieces of thin, sharp plastic sticking out.
While making it, some of the slime dried and irritated my skin as well as lightly staining it.
I try to go into products completely blind as to give as much of an unbiased opinion as possible and this was my first interaction with a Poopsie product. So, I was really confused when I was given four Rainbow surprise powders to make the slime but only two packets of rainbow magic. Going by the instructions I would have expected a 4:4 ratio but for some reason there wasn’t. There was a bunch of other powders but I didn’t find anywhere in my set of instructions about what I was suppose to do with them with exception to the make up and something called “Unicorn Magic” which was not part of the selection. If you’re going to give me instructions with your product, I expect each items use to be explained at some point. These are after all, instructions made with children in mind.
The cost of this product at RRP is £50 and personally I didn’t see anything worth £50. £30 at the most but at £50 it feels more like your paying for the brand name more than you are the actual doll and slime kit.
This should not be a blind box. I don’t like the idea of blind boxes in children’s toys or anything aimed at children but especially for £50. That is ridiculous. It should be guaranteed that whatever toy a child wants is inside and should not be a coin flip.
The jacket for my doll was not very good at all. The left cuff wasn’t hemmed in properly. It was a struggle to get the arms down the arms of the jacket and the hands through the holes. And as you can see in the picture, the front of the jacket warped and no matter what I tried, it would not lay flat.
For me it was difficult to get the shoe compartments to open. I finally managed it but through a lot of force and a real worry that I may accidentally break the toy.
Things that personally bothered me:
I felt that the doll’s shirt was a bit too short and more of a boob-tube than a proper t-shirt.
Barbie feet. I just really don’t like when dolls are molded so that they are on their tip-toes. Also it kind of feels cheating when you say that your doll is a certain height and the doll in question is on their tip-toes.
For a £50 doll I would have liked a bit more articulation and joints in the doll.
I don’t like the roller skates. It’s a cute idea but I’d rather the doll have platform boots like the other dolls I have seen.
You have different dolls with different hair colours and styles and this doll called Pixie Rose and you don’t give her a pixie cut. Not really a nitpick just more of a missed opportunity.
My overall opinion is sadly, not good. I really wanted to like this toy but it irritated me more that delighted me. For the price and the reasons I’ve listed above I personally wouldn’t recommend this toy to anyone and especially not avid collectors who may end up spending £250+ trying to get the specific doll that they want.
I would instead advice buying a doll our toy that your child wants and can see in the packaging and, if they also want slime, buying the slime separate rather then spending money of this toy.
