Fantasy Dolls - GabbaPhone's Most Time Spent By Daughter Award

I try to veer towards apps that will education my kids as well as entertain them but there are days where i just need an hour of silence.  Most apps can only keep Wormie, now 5 years old, entertained for a maximum of ten minutes.   I downloaded Fantasy Dolls thinking that her recent obsession with Barbie Dolls, which i might add were given to her by her proto-feminist grandmothers and aunts, might translate to an iPhone application. After searching for paper dolls in the App Store i discovered Fantasy Dolls. 

At first i felt a little deceived.  The icon looked pretty harmless but when i opened the app the doll characters looked a little too grown up and suggestive for my taste.  Granted, they were not much different from a Barbie, but i wanted to be part of the solution in my daughters burgeoning self image not part of the problem.  I tried moving around the clothes and found it a little tricky.  They clothes which you move from a right hand column and layer onto the figurine seemed hard to maneuver.  I handed it over to Wormie with some reservations. 

The surprise for me was that she then spent the next hour play with the application, and has continued to be a heavy user.  The only downside is that she saves every figure that she makes into my photo collection clogging it up with suggestive looking little faeries.  Apparently this app was made for finely tuned fingers of a five year old girl.  I'd classify this as a huge success in the time wasting/baby sitting category.

Age Range: 4-6
Difficulty: 4/5 (5 being easy)
Look & Feel : 5/5 (5 being cool)
Parent Helper: 4/5 (5 being helpful) 
Price $.99