Playing with dolls is a common childhood experience, especially for girls. From the latter half of the 20th century, dolls began to get more sophisticated and varied, offering children a wide variety of appearances, costumes, accessories and modes of interaction for their play. This Princess Genevieve Barbie doll represents the main character from the animated television dance film “Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses”, which was loosely based on a German fairy tale. This dancing Barbie comes with wrist and ankle bracelets for the user to dance with the doll, either following the doll’s instructions or making the doll follow the user’s moves. It is an example of the kinds of innovations increasingly seen in toys of the 2000s, with new technologies such as motion sensors being incorporated for greater two-way interactivity.
