Our Disney Princess Watch feature keeps you current with the newest, the most unusual, and the most inexplicable products featuring Disney Princesses and other Disney characters.

For your future Annie Leibovitz, Disney introduces the Disney Pix Jr. digital camera especially designed for the youngest photographers — your three-year-old.

WARNING: This product contains a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, or birth defects or other reproductive harm.

Don’t worry, little girls, there’s a Disney Princess version just for you!

Of course, no family memories are complete without proof that a Disney character was there: With the Disney Pix Jr., kids can place Disney characters into all of their photos. Imagine Mickey joining your family reunion! Or Minnie at your sister’s bat mitzvah!

Some “child advocates” question how a $60 camera contributes to a three-year-old’s learning and development; they obviously did not have the benefit of taking Rationalization 101 in marketing school:

“We saw kids wanting to take pictures with their parents’ $300 Sony cameras,” says Lisa Mancuso, vice president of marketing [at Fisher-Price]. “We filled a gaping need in the marketplace.”

Emphasis mine. The key word here is “gaping.”

Here’s an idea:

Make a camera using a small rectangular box or small animal cracker box. For the lens, glue a piece of felt, fabric, or cardboard on the front center of the box. You can even use a lid from a plastic milk container . . . .

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