Posted on 03/17/2009 7:31:46 AM PDT by RatherBiased.com
Parents, no need to lock Dora the Explorer away from your daughters, say the guardians of the popular TV cartoon character and toy line.
U.S. cable TV network Nickelodeon and toymaker Mattel vowed on Monday that plans to make a 'tween Dora doll would not undermine the wholesomeness of the educational bilingual star who has a sidekick monkey, map, compass and backpack.
Parents had voiced fears and complaints that introducing a 'tween Dora with long hair, long legs and a trendy make-over was not in keeping with the character's outdoor, adventurous spirit and would prove a poor role model.
"We don't need another Bratz phenomenon for pre-schoolers. I don't want my 2/5-year-old daughter asking for mini skirts and lip gloss to continue her Dora obsession," wrote Elizabeth Sloman, 30, to the Pensacola News Journal.
As an online petition against the new 'tween Dora began to build up speed, Nickelodeon and Mattel, the world's largest toymaker, addressed these concerns and assured parents that Dora was not changing -- and not going off the rails.
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Just wait until she gets to college and starts “exploring”!!
Dora Gone Wild?
Dora gone radically PC will be more like it.
Is Dora’s mom drawn to look like Salma Hayek?
“Swiper, no swiping,” could have a whole new meaning...
A cartoon character is a role model? Come on.
Just don’t ask what she’s got in her backpack!
Boots is getting older and meaner. Expect him to rip someone's face off soon.
Parents had voiced fears and complaints that introducing a 'tween Dora with long hair, long legs and a trendy make-over was not in keeping with the character's outdoor, adventurous spirit and would prove a poor role model.
So they want her with short hair, flannel shirts and comfortable hiking boots? Look's like Dora's supposted to be doing some other exploring.
Why would you age a character that’s meant for young kids?
It’s not like you are going to run out of 7 year-olds.
Yep.
I’m sure lesbian Dora would be celebrated.
Just a guess but after you make about 500 episodes of a show for kids who are of an age where they will watch the same one over and over and over again and not mind it, why keep making them? Just show the reruns, collect the cash. On the other hand, you have a chance to take a group of girls who remember Dora fondly but have outgrown her, maybe if you jazz her up you can create a new show and capture that audience. New shows! New toys! New cash source!
As a father of a girl, I am at least pleased they arent turning her into a tramp. I hate how society has come to see 12 year olds walking around in short shorts with "Juicy" or some such drivel written across the butt as okay. I dread the day my daughter brings home some of that crap because I won't tolerate it. Glenn Beck refers to this as creating "prostitots" and he's right, we're sexing up kids for no good reason. The downside of 30 years of prosperity is that our culture becomes soft and values become blurry.
Well at least she has her belly button covered, unlike the other Dora.
Every time my kids see “Dora” (they don’t watch the show, but they know who she is—she’s ubiquitous), they say, “Ewww. She needs to cover up her belly-button.”
Dora the Explorer is just another indoctrination tool being used on our children.
"Do you know the atomic weight of Boron? GOOD!"
"Pump the balloon! Don't quuestion it, just do it!"
"If Mittens saved the baby penquin based on his belief system, and his belief system is beyond his control, then can he really be said to have free will?"
Classic laziness on the creators part they want to capture lightning in a bottle again with a different age group but will probably fail due to not really knowing how to connect with the new target demographic. The result will be a dilution of the original product as a whole. They attempted the same with her cousin Diego to appeal to boys, what they failed to see was that Dora appealed to both girls and boys in that age group. I dread the time when bratz and the like show up as an interest.
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