Toy Tueday- Tangled

Yep the MOST appropriate titled toy of all time.

This is what the toy looks like in the box-- how flipping cute, right?  She's so pretty, her hair is so long, there's three skirts to change her into.  Oh SO CUTE.

This is what it looked like after I took it out of the box,

Yep she's not nearly as cute or glamorous.

In fact she looks like she had a couple of rough nights back in college and hasn't quite given up the lifestyle.

I know what you were thinking Disney. You thought little girls LOVE to play with dolls with LONG hair.  Girls can brush the hair, braid it, and well that's about it.   But it's zero fun when it's a tangled mess.

Oh wait, now I know why you renamed the movie from Rapunzel  to Tangled--- it was truth in advertising.  Well played Mickey Mouse, well played.

STUPID Toy Tueday- Moon Sand

Moon Sand--- oh it sounds so cool doesn't it.  Sand from the moon, how could this NOT be fun to play with?

My daughter got it for Christmas this year-- she was two turning three.  She saw the cupcakes on the box and said, "I want that one." I had to tell her, you don't eat it, you make it.  She was brokenhearted and went to play with one of her other toys.

The moon sand was put away and forgotten until I unearthed it.
Because I looked at the pretty pink box and thought, this might be fun.

I cracked open the box and saw two bags of pink and yellow sand, a small bowl (for mixing the sand to get new colors-- the only color you can get is orange) cupcake molds and two tiny spoons.

Instantly I knew this wasn't going to be as fun as the box made it out to be.

I opened up the pink bag-- not resealable by the way, poured it into the bowl-- a useless step, and my daughter and I started to stick the sand into the cupcake molds.

About 24 seconds later we were done.

About 36 seconds later, the cupcake fell apart.

Do you know why?  It's SAND.

My daughter looked up at me and said, "that's it?"

"Yep. We're done." I told her.

We spend a half an hour painting instead. 

Clean up sucked... do you know why? Because it's SAND.  It's like going to the beach, but it's on your kitchen table.  three weeks later I"m still finding pink sand everywhere.

Moon Sand you fail.