A few months ago we told you that Disney was planning to change the image of Merida to make it a princess, touching it up to make it more feminine, and these days I have discovered that, a few years ago (it happened in 2009) Nickelodeon decided make Dora the Explorer grow by turning her into a "fashion" girl.
The change was the idea of the chain and Mattel, who would make a doll with the new image of Dora for preteen girls, with shiny earrings, a large necklace, pink lips and look chiquisexy managing to eliminate from root everything that made Dora an example girl for the little ones.
Critics soon arrived and Mattel and Nickelodeon quickly came out to explain that Dora the Explorer would continue to exist, but that she would be added this new Dora as an interactive doll aimed at girls from 5 to 8 years old, who could see how their favorite character had grown like them.
In fact, they explained, they did it because many mothers with girls who had grown up asked Dora to grow up too. Now, apparently, they did not know how to make it grow with dignity and instead of being an adventurous girl, little concerned about her appearance and much for helping others, for finding solutions to problems, for loving animals and the environment and for teaching children values, they made Dora became a pija girl with short dress and bag (In the picture he doesn't wear it, but in some videos he did go out with him).
While looking at the images and photos Jon, my seven-year-old son, wanted to see what he had become and was surprised to realize that they had eliminated Boots, Dora's Backpack, Map and Swiper (that is, everything but Dora, which was reduced to what you see). The poor man, still full of innocence, told me: "they have made a series just for Boots".
Searching for Youtube I came across this video of the new Dora (who, despite being a doll, had a video as a promotion, I imagine) and my jaw dropped to the floor when I saw that Dora was going with a few friends fashion to a Shakira concert to dance like real fans with the luck of being invited to the stage by the singer. And it was intended for 5 and 8 year old girls, I remember you.
No need for Dora to grow. Girls grow up and look for new models to look at, new characters. Now, since sometimes the new characters are sexy girls with huge eyes, full lips, bees waist and young girl clothes (or prostitute, like the Monster High), I can understand that some mothers shouted for Dora to grow a little, so that the girls did not pass to the other female referents. So, instead of making an adventurous Dora, committed and with her backpack and her friend Boots, they go and turn it into what the mothers didn't want. Anyway.
