Game Time! Candy Land: Disney Princess Edition Game Review

Candy Land: Disney Princess Edition

Year: 2012

Ages: 3+

Players: 2-4 Players (For the purpose of this review, 2 people played)

Set Up Time: < 1 Minute

Playing Time: Took us 5 minutes

Object: Be the first Disney Princess to dance at the ball

Review:
+ The last space on the board is multi-coloured meaning that whichever card you pick will land you here without having to wait for a certain coloured card to win.
+ Like the regular version of Candy Land, this one also has character spaces featuring a character from each movie so that when you draw a card with a character you then move to that space instead of a coloured one. I always love this feature of the game because it's constantly changing around who is in the lead. 


- As much as I enjoy having all the Disney princess pictures and scenes on the board, I really wish they would have placed them on the board in chronological order instead of just randomly. Starting off with Snow White and finished with Rapunzel would better show the evolution of the Disney princesses featured.
- Even though the board features 8 different Disney princesses there are only 4 pawns that you can choose to play as (Snow White, Belle, Cinderella and Aurora) which sadly excludes my favourite Ariel. All of the princess that they picked as pawns are older with Belle being the most recent release which really isn't that recent at all. Snow White was released in 1937, Cinderella in 1950, Sleeping Beauty in 1959 and Beauty and the Beast in 1991 which means that although this game is marketed for those 3+, anybody under the age of 24 was not alive when the last Princess pawn (Belle) made her debut. Since the board game includes Tiana from Princess and the Frog (which was released in 2009) and Rapunzel from Tangled (which was released in 2010), why wouldn't they have included at least ONE of the two newer princess for this generation of young girls?

Overall:
The Disney Princess version of Candy Land doesn't play much differently than the regular version. I enjoy having the last space multi-coloured and the character spaces that you land on by chance. I wish they would have put the princesses on the board chronologically as well as made a few more (and more recent) playable pawns. As always, Candy Land is simple for the young players because it requires only pictures and colours but it's still a classic game for any generation of player. 

B

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