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Pete, the resident feline critic
The Pete Gazette
The Polly Pocket Desk Reviewed for kids & the grown-ups who shop for them Reviewed from the windowsill
Lead Review · From: Polly Pocket
Strap Saves Seashell From Total Irrelevance
Our critic dispatches both mermaid dolls to the void beneath the sofa but declares the purple dangling strap a worthy serpent substitute.

My human seems to have acquired a clamshell-shaped piece of plastic intended for a very small, very easily amused human. It's a "Polly Pocket" thing, which apparently opens up to reveal a microscopic, garish underwater kingdom filled with tiny dolls and even tinier furniture. Frankly, the sheer number of minuscule, un-pounceable parts is an insult to my pre…

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Fig. 1 — the subject
Pete's Verdict
★★☆☆☆
The strap redeems it. Barely.
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