Barbie Mariposa Magic Wings Mariposa Doll

Think twice before buying this Barbie. I bought two for my girls on Valentine's Day. On one barbie, the plastic clip broke the second I tried to snap the wing on. On the other barbie, the wings haven't broken (yet), but they fall off all the time. With three children under the age of five, I don't have time to stop every seven seconds to refasten the wings. And it's not easy. It takes concerted effort and thought to snap those suckers in! I'd return the darn things, but I had to rip the box apart just to get the doll and her enormous wings out.

After a few days of snapping the wings back on every 5 minutes my husband decided to glue them on permanently. I was skeptical but my daughter agreed to it. It has worked out beautifully. My 6 year old daughter LOVES this doll and walks around with it everywhere. In spite of the wing problem I'm glad we bought it for her. Her enjoyment was worth the 20 bucks. He used some super duper glue but they have stayed on- heaven!

My 4 yr old daughter got this Barbie today as a gift. I, too, spent the afternoon snapping the wings back on until finally I had to tell her to play with just the Barbie doll so I could get dinner done! I will say that she loves the feature that makes them unfold with the button push on the back.

She left this Barbie on the floor and went back to her Barbie as the Island Princess playset, which she loves.

My five year old daughter has been playing with this doll for a few days now and the wings have fallen off a few times, but they're easy enough to snap back on. They're huge, so can't really expect them to stay on forever. Have not had problems with breakage, but design could be done a little better to keep them on longer.

Pretty neat feature with the wings, where they snap together to form a smaller "wing" and then when you press a button on the back, it snaps to the full larger size.

My daughter got this purely based on watching the video on cable... marketing at it's best.

I purchased this doll for my daughter's 5th birthday. She loves Barbie and wanted this "beautiful fairy doll" for her collection. One of her biggest attraction's to this doll were the wings... but they have become MY biggest headache. They are continuously falling off, regardless of what she is doing with the doll. I feel like I am putting them back on every other minute when she is playing with this doll. It frustrates me that Mattel has put out a doll that is not up to their usual par. I would have returned this doll, but my daughter loves it so much that I couldn't do that to her.

Yes, as all the other reviews say, the wings fall off constantly. I've designed plastic retention clips for automotive applications and can safely say that they designed the clips incorrectly. Mattel should be embarassed with how badly their designers blew this design and recall the doll - it is junk. Within the first 30 minutes of play, I put the wings back on 10 times and finally told my daughter not to try to play with the wings. What a disaster of a toy.

Again, the wings fall off all the time. It's really annoying. If my daughter puts it down on its back, at least one wing falls off every time she picks it up. She loves the darn thing, but can't put the wings on by herself, so more than once has ended up crying because it keeps falling apart. I know it's only a matter of time before a wing gets lost - why would we ever want the wings to come off? Why couldn't they just fuse the wings to the doll in the first place?

My daughter has never seen the Mariposa movie, but fell in love with this doll because it's a fairy and a Barbie--the best of both worlds as far as she's concerned. We've had the doll about a month now and haven't had any problems with the wings just "falling off." They do come off if the doll bumps hard enough against something or if they're twisted just so, but definitely no falling off the doll with the slightest movement. They seem to snap onto the back of the doll quite snugly, but perhaps they will wear over time?

I do have to say though, that if I had it to do over again I wouldn't have bought this doll--I would have bought the Barbie Fairytopia Mariposa Doll which has much, much smaller wings. Unfortunately I didn't realize a version with smaller wings was available until I already bought the Magic Wings one. The only reason I'd buy the one with smaller wings is that even my daughter finds the size of the large wings annoying sometimes. Often she'll leave the wings at home or in the car when we go out, because although she wants to take her pretty doll with her, she doesn't want to deal with those huge wings!

My daughter loved the Barbie, it is really a beautiful doll. However the wings don't stay in place, they keep falling, and it looks like it's a fabrication deffect. Did you have the same problem?

Well, she wanted (read "needed") the Barbie Mariposa. The reviews are fairly accurate, but a little unforgiving. The wings do come off easily, and are difficult for the little ones to replace. The are easily replaced by mom or dad. It is very "girlish", which is what attracted my 4-year-old to it in the first place. As usual, it was the #1 toy for at least a few hours or days, though after a month it has become just another Barbie in the Barbie box.