I'm not joking at all, sometimes I come up with ideas for posts by typing in "barbie [word]" just to see what comes up. Sometimes I expect to find a bunch and I find hardly any; sometimes I find one or two; and sometimes I expect to find hardly anything and find more than I could have dreamed of. This was the case when I googled "Barbie laundry".
I was aware of the Barbie laundry from the So Much to Do release, but I was unprepared for the sheer volume of other Barbie laundry releases.
For example, Barbie Wash n Wear, featuring not just a washing machine but also a laundry basket, a little box of Tide, and clothing that changes patterns and colours when washed. Anything that colour-changes with water or temperature is a real winner in my book, and any tiny accessories especially if they are branded is fun, so this is a 10/10 by my standards.
Barbie Glam Laundry, on the other hand, loses points for having a solid plastic spray bottle that doesn't even have a printed Barbie brand label. This is not a sufficient facsimile of a real world item. I am not charmed by this.
Spin to Clean Barbie falls apart on similar grounds, though I rank it slightly more highly because it has three little accessories including an iron and also has a doll. Not much higher, though, because they are also bland and plain plastic, but slightly above.
The Ken Laundry Set also does not feature branded products but it does have a little washing detergent bottle that at least has some kind of labelling, and I support that Ken is participating in the household. Let's give it up for Ken and his division of household labour!
The one that confused me to the point where I was ready to say hey guys look at this clearly mislabelled knock-off product I found was this one.
It is labelled Kitchen Set, but it's a washing machine. But it was pointed out to me before I made this post that in some parts of the world it is typical to put your washing machine in your kitchen, even though that is not the case in the US or Australia. So perhaps this isn't a comical misunderstanding or mislabeling after all; I jumped to conclusions.
