So I got a new job and I got some new dolls that I'd been curious about for a while.
Yeah, I don't even know like.. I don't know why these exist.
I legitimately picked these two because I like the left doll most and wanted her hat, and like the shirt on the right doll best from the whole lot of them.
It's not terribly logical.
These doll don't have names or a story or anything, just some pictures and a hell of a lot of plastic for a company that claims to champion conservation. There's an inner plastic shell and a plastic lid inside the boxes.
I'll just get this part out of the way: These dolls are expensive and the quality just is not there.
The fabric in the clothing isn't bad.
This doll, which I've been calling Dog for lack of any sort of name on the package, comes with two full outfits including shoes, and a jacket.
Surprisingly, these pants are not stretchy. The fabrics feel nice enough and everything is hemmed.
None of the edges are serged and everything either is elastic or closes with hook and loop tape. The doll is pretty easy to dress despite her feet being stuck flat.
She comes with a pair of tennis shoes and a pair of hiking boots. The calves on the boots are HUGE, and I can only assume that's so they'll fit over the doll's pant legs.
The shoes are low quality, thin, tak-tak plastic, though, and feel like dollar store doll shoes.
She comes with a handful of accessories that I honestly just do not care about like a compound bow that's purple for some reason.
One of the more interesting accessories is a gun. I don't know that I've ever seen a female playline doll with her own hunting rifle before.
Unlike the bow, it's not unnecessarily pink or purple, but the walkie-talkies ARE bright pink and binoculars baby blue. She also comes with black sunglasses that can't stay on her face.
Dog has seen some things...
Dog is solid, heavy vinyl. This dog is the highest quality item in the whole set.
My favorite accessory is the hat, though. I have no idea why I'm so amused by it, but I am.
All of the dolls share the same face sculpt and screening arrangement with different colors. Some have freckles and some don't.
I think she looks kind of weird and wish I had my faceup supplies so I could repaint one. I think she's sculpted to resemble I think it was the owner's granddaughter? She may be his daughter. I don't remember, exactly. The owner is elderly and I have no idea how long ago that video of her was recorded.
Here she is compared to an Original MtM Barbie body. Clearly they got her as close to Barbie size as they could.
Of course that means BP dolls and Barbie can share clothes and flat-footed shoes. The elastic waisted pants like to ride up on Barbie, and shirts are a little bit too big.
Her body isssss okaaaayyyy..... The torso and legs are hollow, hard plastic with the arms, hands, and head being softer.
The other doll costs more and comes with a horse, so I've been calling that one Horse.
Horse's horse is nicely painted with normal horse eyes and has a nice bridle and saddle on. Those are soft and haven't started melting Horse's Horse's hard plastic body, yet.
My horse has some weird scratches and marks on her left shoulder and some melted hair...
Horse also comes with some fun accessories like tiny bucket!
In addition to bucket, there's a cowboy hat, boots with the same enormously flared calves, horse brush, apple, carrot, and a bale of hay that is hollow and does double duty as an accessory holder because I said so.
Horse only comes with one outfit, and a large amount of plastic waste.
Horse has the exact, same body and face sculpt, and here's how she looks compared to Barbie's standard orange. She's very pale.
But then we get into the quality issues.
These dolls might as well have fixed position wrists with as poorly as they are able to move. They do rotate, and that's great, but the joint is poorly engineered. The wrist post also causes the forearm to bulge where the anchor sits which also indicates shoddy engineering.
And those aren't sculpted fingernails, it's a misaligned injection mold.
The hands do not come off and it looks like her left hand is trying to tear off at the wrist instead of turning freely.
Now that I think about it, these dolls are left-handed.
They cannot bend their elbows or knees past 90 degrees.
The QC on the clothes just is not there.
And, most grievously: Polypropylene hair.
It is HIGH QUALITY poly hair, but it's still poly. It feels less bad than some other poly haired dolls but still tangles more the more you try to brush it, feels very dry and stiff, rougher at the ends, and gets messy extremely easily.
Dog's hair is the worst of the three I have, with Horse's hair feeling a bit nicer, and Horse's Horse's hair being about on par with Horse's hair.
I had to do some trimming up on all three of them because their hair is cut sloppily.
In spite of being very basic as far as articulation goes, they CAN sit on the horse neatly.
Dog is solidly in that saddle with Incorrect Stirrups (why are they so LONG....) and doesn't slip or fall off easily even when I laid the whole horse on it's side for a moment to clear off a place for it to stand.
Honeslty, if I were a little kid I think I'd only be disappointed with the way the hair feels and behaves and the face. It's an odd face for a fashion doll, but these aren't exactly fashion dolls. They're "adventure" dolls.
I'd have stolen all of their stuff for my Barbies and tossed the dolls themselves into the toy box never to be seen again.
Anyway, I'm not keeping all these parts. I haven't decided how I'll get rid of them, though. Yard sale? eBay? 🤷♀️
My curiosity about these dolls is satisfied, though, and it is nice to see atypical clothing and accessories for dolls of this style.
