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Georgia Ryder Syson

Disney's Frozen sing-a-long Elsa doll reviewed (by a four-year-old)

Georgia and best friend: ‘Daddy says it’s good practice for when I’m doing karaoke with my friends at the office Christmas party.’
Georgia and best friend: ‘Daddy says it’s good practice for when I’m doing karaoke with my friends at the office Christmas party.’ Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose for the Observer

My name is Georgia and I’m four-and-a- half. When I first saw my Sing-A-Long Elsa doll I jumped up and down for 10 minutes. Frozen is my favourite film ever. Daddy says I must have watched it 100 times.

I think he’s a big Frozen fan, too, except he has ants in his pants and never watches more than a few minutes before going off and doing something boring. Elsa is my favourite character because she has nice dresses and special powers. Last Christmas I asked Santa for special powers, but instead I got a Furby. I also like Anna but she doesn’t have special powers, and everyone keeps saying her name wrong – like “An-na” when it should be “Ahh-na”.

I worked out how to use Sing-A-Long Elsa very quickly. When she was still in the box I pressed the diamond on her front and she started to sing and the lights on her dress all lit up. Her dress is very pretty – it’s the dress she wears when she goes up to her ice castle.

Georgia’s only criticism of her Frozen doll: no karaoke version of ‘Do You Want to Build a Snowman?’.

A button on the back of her neck has different modes: On, Off and Try Me, which is where she sings Let It Go all through. In Duet Mode you sing with her. Press the diamond on her chest, the music starts, put the microphone next to your mouth and your voice comes out a little bit louder – but not much. When it gets to a bit in the song that you don’t know, you put the microphone next to Elsa’s mouth and she starts singing. Daddy says it’s good practice for when I’m older and doing karaoke with my friends at the office Christmas party.

What I like best is that even when you’re not singing with Elsa you can play with her like a normal doll. I take her everywhere with me. In fact I’ve already lost one of her shoes. But that’s OK because I can just pretend she’s Cinderella. I was a bit disappointed Elsa only sings one song. I’d have liked Do You Want to Build a Snowman as well. Mind you, I still don’t know all the words to Let It Go. There’s a piece of paper in the box that has them all on it, but I can’t read yet so it’s not much use. I asked Daddy what “My soul is spiralling in frozen fractals all around” means but he said he didn’t have a clue.

Big sister Ava thinks it’s embarrassing.
Big sister Ava thinks it’s embarrassing. Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose for the Observer

My big sister Ava is nine. She used to love Frozen but then all of a sudden she stopped liking it and now she says it’s rubbish and embarrassing. Daddy asked her what she thought of my new Elsa doll and she said: “Georgia’s driving me mad singing the same song all the time!”

Daddy nodded and sighed, then asked what I liked best about Sing-A-Long Elsa and I said: “Because now I can sing Let It Go all day, every day for ever.” His face went a funny colour. He said he needed a lie down. Parents are weird.

As told to Damon Syson

Disney Frozen Sing-A-Long with Elsa doll is available from Argos, £40

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