http://www.rainbowbrite.net/

Check out the top left of the page beside the title banner, and the two Colour Kid dolls featured. I literally did a spit-take of my tea when I saw this bastardization. Why, in the name of all that is good and decent, did they make my childhood hero grownup and sexy?

Didn't they do that to Dora the Explorer too? lol

AnckSuNamun said:

They did, but I don't give a shit about Dora.

I liked her old big weird head

AnckSuNamun said:

she became so generic looking!

meow85 said:

she looks nice that way.

gross... & why does the new Dora have so much more jewelry? Even kids can't look like kids anymore, it's so fucking odd to me

Christopher said:

She looks like one of those dumbass 12 year olds you see hanging out at the mall with their thongs hanging out.

ZombieKitten said:

What that's Dora now???

CalhounSq said:

Hey, who needs cute, awesome kids' toys when you can have Bratz dolls?

MoniGram said:

They even changed her eyes & put on lipstick My friends 3 year old loves the shit outta Dora, so I guess she'll be even more in a hurry to wear makeup now?? You would think grown people would make better decisions for kids, I mean really

meow85 said:

It's all so foul, man...

CalhounSq said:

I knew the way other old-school toy brands had been revamping their images, but this is the first I'd heard of what's being done to Ms. Brite. What the fuck were they thinking?

WTF?!!! NO!

Jesus. It's all so generic now. I mean...I have so many toys from my childhood with those same huge creepy eyes and that perfect smile.

I liked the chubby Dora..

<< does not approve.

I don't see what's considered so "sexy" or "grown" about either.
In comparison to a lot of dolls out there they still seem pretty innocent to me.
[Edited 7/13/09 8:38am]

This thread is much more entertaining than the title seems to hint at.

ZombieKitten said:

I don't see a problem with the new Dora, she still looks like a kid to me.

ZombieKitten said:

My 6 year old daughter is so in love with Dora, the original version anyways.

johnart said:

Changing cute little toddlers to pre-teens in tight clothes with parted, wet lips isn't making them sexy? The new "Rainbow" designs look like something you'd see in so-called "teen" porn before the clothes come off.
[Edited 7/13/09 10:37am]

CalhounSq said:

cuz they're tryna make kids into Hos. then they can make money off of their teen pregnancies, diseases, mental instability, drug use, gang violence and all the other shit that comes with robbing kids of a childhood.

JustErin said:

I don't know too many kids that have highlights, arched eyebrows and wear lipstick.

CalhounSq said:

Sorry but, when was the last time you saw a latino baby that wasn't wearing some form of gold jewelry. Baby girls in my family sport the baby wrist chains w/ the black fist and beads, and get their ears pierced when the girl is four days old.

So that's actually an pretty accurate description.

PaisleyPark5083 said:

My daughter, now seven is absolutely in love with Dora. Its too bad, what's next?
Dora buys her first bra? Dora gets her period?

meow85 said:

That's not really a problem of that design. It's a cartoon and nothing is revealing. And why can't lips be parted? All cartoons cant have a line for a mouth.

Is there a big difference in design? Yes.
Does it seem extreme or overly sexualized for a cartoon portraying a teen or aimed at the tween market. Not IMHO.

The problem lies in the people who find that to be a sexy look and something that belongs in porn IMO.
[Edited 7/13/09 10:55am]

DesireeNevermind said:

Her hair doesn't look highlighted to me, it's just a different style of cartooning. Her eyebrows look normal and it doesn't look like she is wearing lipstick either.

You guys are seriously grasping at straws here.

johnart said:

Exactly. Says more of the person interpreting the image than it does about the image itself.

I don't see it as sexual in any way at all.

JustErin said:

I don't see it either. It's a different style, absolutely, but I don't see it as sexualizing the children in any way.

CalhounSq said:

I've taken extra care and time to insure that my daughters can't STAND Bratz-anything!! I'm so proud of them... they say, "eewwwww Bratz!"

glad that line went under!