Tween Dora The Explorer Video - New Tweenager Joins Boots
| The new Tween Dora The Explorer will go to middle school in the big city and have a “new fashionable look.” The keystone of the new doll will be online play, in which kids can change Dora’s clothes and accessories—and also solve a mystery if they feel like it. |  |
There is no surprise why Nickelodeon would team up with Mattel to expand Dora the Explorer (cha-ching!), but did they really have to shamelessly transform Dora from a fearless outdoors woman whose best friends are talking animals into a materialistic fashionista? Tween girls are bombarded with enough worries about clothes and appearance as it is.
With most children having a obsession with “big kids,” I’m worried that even three- and four-year-old admirers of Dora will be turned on to this stereotypical fashion doll, rather than following Dora and Boots on bilingual humanitarian missions in the great outdoors.