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Mattel Barbie the Diamond Castle Princess Alexa Doll | 
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| Brand: Mattel
Category: Toy
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $18.00
You Save: $11.99 (40%)
New (18) from $18.00
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 63
Batteries Included: No
Age: 3 - 8 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 3 x 9 x 13
MPN: M0789
Model: M0789
UPC: 027084556537
EAN: 0027084556537
ASIN: B0017KOE6S
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Teresa as Isabel is dressed in an enchanting glittery gown | | • | Teresa doll sings songs from the movie | | • | With a touch of a button her dress magically transforms | | • | Beautiful details | | • | Part of the diamond castle barbie collection |
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Product Description
Teresa doll is featured here as Princess Alexa from "Barbie and The Diamond Castle" who sings two songs from the movie and wears a mesmerizing glittery gown that magically transforms with the flip of a switch. Her necklace lights up when she sings. Pair her with the Princess Liana doll, sold separately, to hear beautiful duets. Requires 3 "button-cell" batteries, included. Doll measures 11.5" tall.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Alexa is a better doll than Liana in the Diamond Castle Series November 29, 2008
Gerald D. Fensterer
The Barbie & The Diamond Castle (B&DC) Princess Alexa doll is the same height and proportion as the 90's 00's era dolls. Not too many complaints about this one--see my review on Liana for the alternate review.
First, Alexa has a dress transforming pull on the back. It does not hide well, but it is part of the dress and not of the doll, so I feel it's not as bad as the Liana twist knob. The issue with this however, is that it does not hide the transformed diamond dress very well. If this is important, you may need to sew on a few more pieces of pink glittery velcro on the front side to keep the seam from showing.
Lianna has flesh toned legs underneath her dress. These bend at the knees and are quite pose-able.
Another neat thing with this Barbie is that her skin tone is darker complected than her Liana counterpart. She does appear to have more makeup on than the Liana doll, but my daughter enjoys it more than the Liana (that her sister has) because it matches her skin tone and hair color.
As with all Barbies, the shoes do not stay on. I have contemplated either super gluing them on the feet or removing them so my daughters don't lose them.
Another issue with the B&DC dolls is their accessories are few--this one has shoes, a crown, and a brush. Many less expensive Barbies come with more stuff. And all of these items are small, losable, and possibly a choking hazard.
Now for a critique on her "singing ability." It's nice to hear the first time, but the two songs very quickly lose their appeal, even if it's a former American Idol singing (McPhee). The Liana doll does do a nice duet with the Alexa doll, but again, it's a quickly fading novelty, and gets worse when you do not push the sing buttons at exactly the same time, or if the two songs are mismatched. !!IMPORTANT FIX!! If your Liana doll does not sing two complete songs when you take her out of the box and pull the tab out of her back, try this before you take it back--1) Find a thin piece of metal: paperclip, cake tester, needle, etc 2) Insert it into the hole in the back 3) pushing slightly in a downward motion skim the floor of the hole 4) About halfway in, the metal should catch the switch 5) pry this in an upward fashion (it will stay that way) 6) Remove metal tool from doll and press sing button 7) Assuming the batteries are not dead, the doll will sing again. I checked all over the internet for a fix, but none were to be found, including the mattel website. Cheers!
 Fun for your daughter November 28, 2008
Lamaster (Horn Lake, MS)
We first purchased the singing Liana Barbie doll for my daughter, which she loves. Then we found out that the Liana and the Alexa dolls sing together, so my 4 year old had to have Alexa too. She got Alexa for her birthday and has been so happy with her. Alexa's dress is much easier to switch back and forth than Liana's. When you press the two dolls hand simultaneously (which is hard for a 4 year old) they sing in sync with each other and it is really neat. Even if you don't have both dolls, they are equally as fun by themselves. I highly recommend these for your Barbie lovers!
barbie land November 13, 2008
Judy Isabel Melgar
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I gave this gift for my daughters birthday and she loved it..her head is strong and she is pretty enough to share her wonderful dress..she sleeps with this new barbie.
4 year old LOVES it!!! October 30, 2008
L. Sullivan (Maywood, NJ)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Actually my 4 year old and her 20 month old both sister have the matching dolls. It's a singing Barbie... Only thing I will say is from the parenting standpoint.. Don't take thme in the car for a long trip unless you want to poke your eyeballs out. Their singing gets downright awful after 80 times in a row : ) Otherwise they are both greatly enjoying their singing princesses.
Great Barbie product September 9, 2008
J. Bauer (Gilbert, AZ USA)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I got both Princess Liana and Alexa for my daughter's 3rd birthday. Both of my girls ages 3 & 5 1/2 fight over Alexa. Her dress is beutiful and easy to change looks. The songs she sings are beautiful as well. She sings together with the Liana doll, very neat. Her dress comes off, which Liana's does not and it was quite upsetting to my daughter. One thing I really like about it is that her necklace is permanately attached, not one more thing to lose. Note, she does not come with the prince pictured.
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