Mattel Reviews

not only is this toy stereotypical to males with blonde hair, but it is just a ken doll with freds oufit!!! you might as well just put it on a normal ken doll! the scooby looks cute though. i hope that barbie would never let ken wear this out of the house again!!
better options for gifts:::
-my scene---delancey,barbie,nolee
-bratz---cloe,yasmin,meygan,fianna,sasha,dylan

The Fred toy is the best toy for boys all over america. I have spent hours solving mysteries with Fred and Scooby. I have never had so much fun in my life!!and Iam trying to get the whole gange but Right now Fred and Shaggy will H=have to do for now...

Hurry to stores now and get the NEW Barbie® play line dolls starring as your favorite characters from the cartoon version of Scooby Doo™! Ken® plays two roles as Fred and Shaggy. Mattel partnered with Warner Brothers and the Cartoon Network to make these play line dolls which are incredible, and take their inspiration from the original cartoon characters, not the recent movie version. The costume detailing is terrific, and Mattel hasn't overlooked the vibrant coloring of the cartoon characters...even their unnatural hair coloring.
Scooby Doo™ Ken® as Fred features rooted blonde hair in three different colors! Look closely and you will discover platinum, medium and yellow (yes, primary yellow) shades of blonde. Some collectors were hoping for a molded hair version of Fred, but I liked the rooted hair. (I wish more of the primary yellow color was used, because Fred does have primary yellow hair color). But that's it...everything else is completely perfect. The attention to detail of Scooby Doo™ Ken® as Fred's costume is amazing! The coloring is perfect, and if you compare it to the drawn version, even tiny details like the aqua color shirt "collar" and gold buckle shoes are present.

My husband as a child collected heman figures, and now our son, 9, does as well. He loves them all, (...)

I'll be blunt. It's a repaint, but a cool repaint. Skeletor now dons a more evil black and copper color scheme. His Havoc staff is replaced with a rather lackluster spinning weapon. The blades have a bat wing design. A nice alternate color scheme, but what can I say...the original is best. Think long and hard before you buy this guy.

They finally listed Series 2, I like it a lot. This Skeletor is the same figure as the Skelelor in Series 1 except he is wearing black insted of purple and insted of the skull staff he has a spinning blade that hooks to his arm. I was sort of dissapointed when I saw it was the same figure, but it is pretty good. He is very hard to find so get it when you see it.

Wow, I'm really intrigued by My first Skip-Bo! Not only am I 39 and still living in Gramma's basement, but this is undoubtedly the coolest and most neat-o game consisting of cards and wicked paper cuts. Between this and working on my GED (which is way two hard too do anyways), this is much more funner and usually more time consuming. Since there's pretty pictures printed on each card, my wife Mavis and I have a hoot licking each one and sticking them to ourselves, making us look like a illustrious collage of road garbage and cartoon fish. Well it's time to take the T-tops off the T-bird and go to my local vendor where card games and such articles like this are sold to pick up a few beverages and another copy of this game because my mentally ill mule ate the last set in a catastrophic rage (due to the fact that I wouldn't let him drive the tractor trailer yesterday.) Kudos to Mattel for making such a fantabuously addictive and arduously tough game to put down!

With the bright colors. This card game can keep you children entertained for hours on a rainy day.

My daughter, who will be 4 in 2 weeks, loves this game! Only took a couple of times before she really got it. She loves the wild cards. I take the box in my purse when we go to doctor appts. or the airport to keep her from being bored. We love playing it as a family too.

My little sister loves this toy she plays with it more than she plays with her other toys she has. She loves it.

When I first saw this playset I knew I had to add this one to my 9 yr. olds collection. I have been buying her Barbies and Barbie Playsets since she was able to play with Barbies. We both have fun using the sand box and the jungle gym set. Litte Nikki invites all of her friends over also to play. I have purchased all of the Happy Family playsets for my daughter. After the children have played on the swings and in the sandbox, they go for a quick splash in Happy Family pool. Keep up the good work. We look forward to more playsets in the future.

This set is cute, but since there is so many little parts the set can be lost. The set can be broken very easily. I wouldn't give this to any kids under five, because any kid could choke. Also this set doesn't come with any dolls so it's sort of a ripoff. I wouldn't really recommend this product, but if you have the whole collection it might be worth it.

I bought this toy for my 9 year old. he threw in ice and spun the crank that shaved the ice. He added mixes and tasted the slush. It tasted like vanilla instead of pumpkin. He loved the product. Buy this toy.

My son & I had a great time making these slushies,
and they tasted great too. The only problem is
that you can't find the refills for it..ANYWHERE!
Had I known it would be such a difficult task, I never
would have purchased this. What do you do with it now?
The color changing/popping crystals is what makes it
"magical." Kool-Aid won't cut it.

This is a great toy! I own one myself. The only problem is you'll never find the refill packs. ...I guess you could use Kool-Aid or something, but it is not really the same.

It's good because he's posable but my two year old ripped his legs apart way to easily

extremley cool goes great with the lovable redhead kayla!
what a couple!

Ken as Shaggy from Scooby doo is one of the coolest dolls I have ever seen. I LOVE this group of dolls from the Mattel line! I have to say these will go great for boys and girls. I would et the entire set for boys. It is amazing of how alike they can be tote cartoon character. Especially the outfit for Shaggy. He looks PERFECT to me!

I think this Master of the Universe He-Man Power Sword is a great item, but I might be a little biased.

That's my son in the product photo.

(Click "see more pictures" for a better look.)

My wife and I are rabid fans of sci-fi and fantasy, so our boy Scion plays with a lot of toy swords, crossbows and "magical" staves. That experience obviously paid off--look how majestic he is, holding the big grippable handle offered by this fine product. Plus, I have an extensive collection of He-Man figures, so imagine our pride when the little guy was chosen to stand-in for the Most Powerful Man in the Universe (or at least, Prince Adam).

But don't be distracted by the captivating young man brandishing the Power Sword; the item itself is a marvelous example of modern toy-engineering. The Power Sword makes a "whooshing" sound when slicing through the air (or an imaginary enemy), and clangs when striking another object. And the hilt is appropriately ferocious-looking. When we moved into the neighborhood, the kids tended to make fun of our son's Peter Jackson/Sideshow Bob haircut, but after seeing the Power Sword in action, they all want to play with Scion every day for their chance to wield the wondrous make-believe blade.

We bought this sword for our 6 year old son, who loves He-Man and Lord of the Rings, as a christmas present. It made a awesome addition to the collection of toy swords we were building up. We have quite a few. It fit in nicely with the Middle Earth Sword and Sting from the Lord of the Rings toy collection and the blue light up Sting we got him for his Frodo Halloween costume. He has bent the Middle Earth Sword so that it's plastic blade has a crease in it now but the buttons still make it's sounds. The Silver sting has loads of pain chips on it now but is still in pretty great shape and still makes all it's noises(1 year old). The blue light up sting we got him for halloween has had it battery casing broken off and lost, thus rendering it useless as a light up sword. Though the condition of these swords is not that bad our son is infamous around our house for breaking toys or anything else for that matter. Well we thought that the sword would be a good buy since he hasn't really managed to seriously break any of the others. WRONG!!! Hehe! Now I will say this. This sword ROCKS! It has all the features of all the other 3 put together. It has the motion activated sounds like the silver Sting. It has the button sounds like the Middle Earth Sword. And it lights up like the cheapy light up Sting. We were so stoked to find all this out. All in all I'd say that this is a pretty kickin' sword. It lasted a whole month which for him with anything that is actually breakable is somekind of record. Things usually last only a few hours at the most a few days. It still makes for a neato flashlight as it broke at the hilt and lightup blade's connecting seam. I don't think that it's really repairable which is a shame cause we all loved it and untill it broke agreed that it was the best of our collection. The sword really is quite durable. We don't call him destructo boy for nothing... hehehe If you or you child aren't prone to wacking toy swords down onto the floor as hard as you can it should last.

We bought this sword for my 4 year old son. After about 5 minutes of sword play the sword broke from the handle. The blade is made of think plastic and did not withstand the strength of a 4 year old. We are trying to glue it back together but I don't think that will work very good. It has good effects, however it is only good for a kid who would not play with it as a sword.

this games gets you hooked because you feel that it's for kidsbut after a while you start to learn that it does get harder and imeanharder as in [WOW] maybe this isn't a lil kids game. if you likedhalf life think of this as a dreamcast version.. you can snipe, setland mines and there is food and ammo when you need it so if you justgo turbo you'll ok...

A friend has the early version of it, and it's really disappointing. I haven't seen the show, but I've seen a commercial. The CG animation in it is bad and so it is with this game. If feels like you don't do anything for a real reason, and it's allll marketing. However the grahpics are VERY good. Dreamcast handles the rates really well and the camera is *medicore* some things I didn't like, but he says they'll fix it in the final. The controls weren't all that bad but I never had problems with that (I.E. - Vitrual On: OT).

I hope they follow through on this.. it might change radically, don't blame me =)

This is a very good first person shooter game. You get a lot of weapons to choose from, plus both stealth and turbo powers for different situations. There are also a ton of different missions you can try. Great graphics and nice controls.