Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Bratz Gone Wild


The Bratz games might be toys, but not many people consider them tame. In fact, that’s what I love best about the games. Bratz games are pretty tame by most standards, but compared to the simplistic fashion dolls out there, the Bratz games are wild and crazy. Short skirts? Dyed hair? Heavy boots? Could such a thing even exist in our modern day society of careful, appropriate educational toys? Most certainly.

And best of all, the Bratz are educational in a sense. Bratz games don’t tell you how to play with the characters. There are no predisposed roles for the girls to play and the Bratz games are completed inventions of your own mind and creativity. To play Bratz games you must be creative and you must be an independent thinker. This is by far one of the best benefits of the game.

Rather than following the plot of a movie with preordained characters, you get to make your own characters and give them lives of their own. Very rewarding and surprising educational.

Friday, November 20, 2009

Bratz Games Will Never Fail


There are some games you enjoy that you realize have faded over time. Mattel has even gone after Bratz for some infringement issues and won, but even with that sort of thing, Bratz will never fail. Why? Because they are too indicative of true society today.

As much as I love Barbie games, it’s safe to assume that most us realize Barbie lives in a fantasy world. Bratz, on the other hand are still fashion dolls that are make-believe, but they seem as though they could be much more real if circumstances allowed that sort of thing.

The Bratz dolls dress in an urban way. They have real names that girls today might have. They drive real cars and date boys that look more like the sort of thing you’d find in a high school today. Best of all the Bratz are a variety of races. I only wish they were a variety of sizes as well to truly represent where we are as a county and society today. But even in a tiny size, I’d be more comfortable in a room full of Bratz than I would be in a room full of Barbies – at least the Bratz would have something more to talk about.