To think the LOL dolls are taking the piss????

[Dollygirl2008]

I mean, if £10 on a pathetic plastic ball with the ugliest doll in it isn't enough, DD now has her heart set on the dolls house that's been designed for them - basically it's a tacky looking dolls house that is £179!!!!!!!!!!! They reel the kids in and then leave us to be the villain when I say it's too much!!!!! AND I keep stepping on the little bastard accessories! I'm trying to let her down gently by saying that Father Christmas won't be able to carry it on his sleigh but I think I'm in for a disappointed DD on Christmas morning.........

Bastard dolls!

My ds has never mentioned them. We have no tablet or anything so he watches CBeebies or DVDs too. I think at age 4 they can be kept away from marketing. We never go into toy shops. They do look like plastic tat.

I had the big yellow teapot as my favourite toy as a child and I still think about it now. It was just plastic tat, looking back on it. Not to mention My Little Pony!

Nothing has changed much in children’s toys apart from marketing, the internet, and the increasingly volume of children’s toys.

Can you get away with another dolls house by pretending it's a 'rare' or 'super rare' or a 'limited edition' one.... it depends on how naive she is really?

I must say nothing pisses me off more when the shoes go missing or my four year old pulls there heads off and sticks them in the other ones body.....

To think there is a millionaire out there who came up with these dolls whilst we suffer the crisis when they open up the same one again.

at too old?? my dd is 7 and has asked for them

I wouldn’t say 7 is necessarily to old if your child is asking for it.

Yep they are awful. My niece is really into them so I got her the £30 pearl surprise thinking it had loads of stuff in it. It was one of the crappy dolls, a smaller crappy doll, plus about five items of clothing all in masses of plastic packaging. But she was ridiculously happy I guess. They seriously look like something you’d get out of the £1 machine! However, my DM reminded me that I used to beg for Polly Pocket as a kid, which she thought was overpriced plastic tat too.

You can buy fake lol dolls on AliExpress for a couple of quid. I’m wondering whether they’re good enough quality to fool her in future.

You are purchasing this plastic shite not your DC. You can say no to them, they won’t implode or hate you forever.

I think the dolls are ridiculously over priced and ugly, hideously dresses for what are supposed to be babies. Worse than the old Bratz craze. Awful over the top plastic packaging. I don't agree with you on the dolls house though. I think it is amazingly retro, doesn't look like the fictional brothel I expected, wooden, huge, completely kitted out, comes with a set of dolls. Excellent value in comparison to the big and bigger surprises which I refuse to buy. If you don't want your kids to ask for it, don't let them watch YouTube. It's that simple.

For a start there is no such person as Father Christmas! Don't tell your kids lies. Secondly, if a plastic toy is shite don't buy it unless it is to cheap you can afford to give it as an extra or 'tree' present.

What I despise about the dolls, and I've only bought DD one ball, is the amount of surplus plastic rubbish that comes with each doll like a nightmare pass the parcel.
My DD loved the doll accessories and has played with them a lot but the ball and cellophane and stickers and wrapping is too horrible
I bought it for her as a treat because she had been brave and I'm glad she like the doll but the waste wanted to make me weep..
I cant comment on the doll house as DD has a large wooden one and a fire station she's happy with

@RedDrink

You could bring them up on Blue Planet 2/plastic waste awareness type videos? And then buy collect mostly wooden toys which tend to be better quality and open ended. Tell them they can have tat toys but only if they buy them themselves? If they had to do a whole tonne of chores to earn the cash they'd be far more aware of what they were spending it on, and it'd mean you wouldn't end up overwhelmed with hundreds of the tacky things. Strictly monitor their use of Youtube/TV so they can't be pressured through advertising too.

They are plastic rubbish. Haven't bought them but have seen them everywhere.

Just got back from a landfill trip with DD class. Our kids are going to be cleaning up our mess because we can't say no to kids who don't know any better.

I really hope people start to re consider their toy purchases. Toy companies should be ashamed of themselves.