Brett Cooper

They also then had the Barbie marketplace that they were talking so highly about.

I don't even have like a great analogy for that because it's so depressing and empty.

Like these people seriously got bamboozled.

The Financial Times wrote about it and how it was just an utter calamity, as Link Lauren would say, an utter disaster.

And they wrote, the larger than life interactive dream house was a one dimensional cutout with a stretch of artificial grass

a picnic blanket, two pink chairs, and a camper van.

The 80s disco roller rink, where the program promised fans could glide under neon lights, was 10 metal barricades arranged in a rectangle.

No neon lights, no decor, no disco.

Had Billie Eilish written a theme song for Barbie Dream Fest, as she did for the 2023

Barbie movie, she might have changed the title from what was I made for to what have I paid for?

And that, my friends, might be the best line that a journalist has ever written.

I mean, guys, it was so bad.

The people on Reddit were saying that they left early despite having flown to Florida for this event and paying for a three day pass.

This person said, I'm there too.

I was going to stay through Sunday.

I changed my flight to leave tomorrow morning.

It is so sad how terrible it is there.

I don't want to come back tomorrow, actually.

I was upstairs and I heard staff members voicing concerns about all of the canceled guests and programming.

Yeah, your concern, I guess, should be the canceled guests, but you should have been concerned about the programming before people got there.