Et Cetera Dolls

So I was at Target on Friday (1/10/2020) and stumbled across a display on the end of an aisle for Creatable World dolls. I had only skimmed a post about them coming to stores, and hadn’t really thought about it. But there they were!

The main display had three rotating displays of three dolls in different outfits. Pretty nifty if you ask me.

There are lots of new things, but the one familar item is the Deluxe character kit. The packaging is slightly different now from the first... wave (is it considered a new wave?).

(a blurry comparison picture of the old packaging)

This doll (dc-826) was not released with the first wave (we’re just going to go with waves). It looked like there were three other price tags for Deluxe Character Kits, but they were all empty, so It seem that they are selling multiple of these kits. These kits are $29.99 USD

As for new items, they have the dolls sold without any accessories, save for undergarments and a wig.

dc-826 was an option with these ‘Character Starter Packs’. I’m on the fence about whether I like that they don’t come with clothes or not. On the one hand, they’re naked and you HAVE to buy clothes for them (or find ones you have that fit them), but on the other, it keeps the price lower, and you don’t have to worry about duplicate clothing or ending up with clothing you don’t like/want just becasue it comes with a doll you want. These dolls are $12.99 USD

There are also two new types of clothing/fashion packs.

The first, and less expensive, option is the Style Packs. There were a few different types. they seem to come with an outer layer, a shirt, pants, a bag, and shoes. Some of the items are very similar (ie. pallete-swapped from previous kits), some are entirely new.

There was the Active-Wear Style Pack (aw348)

The Rainy Day Style Pack (rd-065)

And the Summer style pack. (ss-255)

All of these packs were $9.99 US.

The more expensive sets are $19.99 and are called Everyday Style Packs. Their names do NOT change based on the clothing (Although they do have ID codes), and these outfits appear to be mostly (if not entirely) recolors of existing clothes. They come with a hat, three pairs of shoes, two shirts, a jacket, glasses, and three pairs of pants or skirts.

ES-619

es-725

es-826

Overall, I’m ok with the re-colored clothing. I think it looks different enough that it feels like a new piece of clothing, although I can see how it would bother some people. 

The final new item were Wig Packs. Each pack comes with two different wigs and costs $9.99 US.

h-208

h-231 and h-294 form right to left.

These colors and wigs are very cute, and I’ve always wanted colored hair, so I can imagine kids and adults will like these. however, I fell like having a wig that doesn’t match the color of the hair underneath with only exaggerate the issues with the wigs being obviously... wigs. Especially with the dolls who have bangs, to begin with, it will be very obvious. 

I did a quick comparison fo the dolls these wigs will fit, in case you’re interested in just buying the wigs.

From left to right: You can force the wigs onto Liv doll heads but it deforms them a bit, they fit EAH dolls perfectly, and they’re far too large for Monster High dolls.

I’ll be sharing my thoughts on what I bought soon.