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What have they done to Dora?! They've ruined it!


Below I will list all the things Nick did to the show to ruin it.

1. Character appearances. Dora used to wear white shoes; now she has pink ones. And is that EYELINER around her EYES?! It certainly looks like it.
Her nose looks different, and even her hair looks a tiny bit different. Backpack doesn't have her Star Pocket anymore? The stars were the best part! Even Boots looks different.

2. Music. They changed the theme song THREE TIMES! Three renditions of the theme was enough, and now the opening theme looks and sounds horrible. And, when Dora and Boots sing while on their way to their destinations, you can clearly tell they're using auto-tune. That's just wrong. Dora used to sing with her real voice. They even changed the "We did it" song.

3. Backpack and Map segments. The Map and Backpack were always hand-drawn. Now, it's on a 3D CGI background, and Map is animated with what looks like FLASH now, and it looks horrid. And now, instead of jumping towards the screen while we zoom into his pink mouth and we fade to Dora, now he hops onto the left side of the screen and slides right, WIPING to Dora. They basically did the same thing to Backpack, and the way they're animated looks awful.

4. Miscellaneous. Dora usually watches as pictures of the obstacles in simple black squares appear one-by-one, accompanied with a "whoop, whoop, whoop." Now it looks like she reaches off-screen and slides purplish-pink bubbles with pictures of today's obstacles inside them onto the screen, spreading them out as she does. And have they forgotten that this is all supposed to take place inside a CD-ROM game? Before, when Dora asked us a question, a blue cursor clicked on the correct answer. Now the right answer just flashes. And did GIANT red checks appear on the obstacles they've passed when Dora asks us where we go next before? NO!!

I'm going to bed now. It's 1 AM. Please reply soon, ta-ta! Good night.

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I kind of agree with you even though your post seems extremely nit-picky and I hate Dora to begin with.
I watch it when I babysit and with this new Dora Rocks thing, it's like they took what I thought was a terrible show anyway and made it worse.
The new map is really crappy looking and the songs (which I admit were originally pretty good) are now completely butchered, autotuned crap.

But I hate Dora in general. The show is idiotic and what they do never makes any logical sense. Every five minutes I'm slapping my forehead at how stupid it is.

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They are trying to make the Dora character more girly. In the beginning Dora was a show for boys and girls, now they are aiming it towards girls only.

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They made her a few years older in that version. She can't be a 3-5 year old toddler for so many years. Guess she would more be 7 or 8 in that version. She's taller too.

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