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Subtitled "Time Travel with Paper Dolls", Crayola Magic Wardrobe is a combination of 'colorforms', paper dolls, a paint program, and a historical reference manual. A magic wardrobe takes the user to any of twelve places in history. These places range from Egypt in 1490 B.C., to France in 1785, to the Hippies of California in 1967. Each place features a paper doll figure in a different 'historical room' setting. Opening the wardrobe drawers with a click of the mouse reveals authentic clothing with which to outfit the paper doll. Each piece of clothing can be decorated, colored and printed to use with one of the two cardboard paper dolls that are included in the CD set. Each of the time periods also includes a Women in the News section, which consists of a brief biography of a woman -- from Nefertiti to Joan Baez -- who impacted the history of her era. There is also a Diary section, which gives a fictional entry detailing a special day in the life of a young girl representative of that particular place and time. This section also gives the user the opportunity to imagine herself living in that period in history, and invent her own personal diary entry. Finally, the program includes a Write a Letter section which provides associated letterhead stationary to which text, color and borders can be added, and which can then be printed and used. |
