Dora the Explorer has a spin off ?!? Go Diego Go!

[MrsBigD]

I've just stared at the TV in disbelieve...I thought was Dora on and Diego was doing one of his appearances... but no...he's got his own series now!!!

Gotta love the merchandising potential eh? They've exhausted the girl/dora market now let's target boy/diego nieche

Don't get me wrong I like Dora and my kids love Dora but what's next? 'Boots goes a-hiking'?

This became a firm favourite of dd's when we were in America during Easter break. There are a frightening amount of similarities between the two shows, but suppose the creators felt they have a winning formula, and couldn't leave the boy's market untapped!

Boots goes a-hiking............. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I saw it in France last week (in french) and the other language was enlgish which was strange. The annoying thing is that all the 2-3 year olds boys I know love Dora (its not a very girly girly show) but so much merchandising is aimed at girls only.

I really like the rescue pack song

Dora in French with English?
Wonder if they do it in German with English ...

I've seen it in Irish with Spanish.... agree it is a shame the merchandising is so pink now - don't think it used to be when out first.

Ha! I found a German site for Dora!

\link{http://www.wunschliste.de/links.pl?s=0533&p=1\DORA}

My dds also love Dora but the Diego programme seems exactly the same to me.

yes it is isn't it... ds doesn't care he still watches it whether it's Dora or Diego... I'm sure though he's getting worried though where Dora has gone when Diego is on LOL

Confused me too.... We started watching and thought it all looked very Dora-like - took me a minute to remember they're cousins or something aren't they?

I like it though - means maybe DS will actually be able to get some boy-ish dora type stuff! (He looooooooves her and could say Dora long before he could say Mummy!!)

The nick jr website do nice red dora t-shirts. Not girly. I bought one for a boys birthday recently. Also I think you could actually furnish your whole house a la dora. I haven't checked the diego merchandise yet.

Theres no swiper type naughty figure in diego though. Just the bobo monkeys who are very easily got rid of. (I am watching far too much tv at the moment).