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Gods how I hate Barbie. That pink plastic is the scourge of any toy store I enter. Lately, however the toy designers at Mattel have stooped to an all time low: "Will that be cash or credit?" the little girl with the deaths-head grin plastered to her face says to her playmate.

Yes there have been plenty of toy cash registers in the past, but this one is especially vile. Built in the loathsome pink, with Barbie money and Barbie credit cards. The kids don't even have to add or subtract to make purchases, they simply "swipe" a barcode or press a button with the item's picture beside it and the digital amount is immediately displayed.

"Yeah Mommie that's what I want to do when I grow up - I want to Shop till I Drop", which, coincidentally happens to be the actual name of the toy.

Fuck Barbie and Fuck Mattel. Want the toy to have some actual value? Then include an option where the toy store can come and repossess the toy after a month or so. "Sorry, that's what really happens when you Shop till you Drop, and you don't have a job." Job-skill toys? No Barbie doesn't have any of that... unless you count the "Let's Look like a Ho" makeup sets.

I guess that's a valid profession for a Barbie girl.