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Isabel, GOTY 2014, used condition, some paint and/or makeup spots that didn't come off with a soap but otherwise pretty good condition. $60 or best offer

Melody, used condition, scuff and scratches on face and limbs. $60 or best offer.

JLY #4, repainted face and rewigged but the wig is not attached with glue. Pretty clean, no visible scratches or scuffs. $160.

i am downsizing my collection and want to offer up these two dolls for sale here!

first we have sunny betancourt, a jly29!

she will come wearing a mix of the retired soft as snow outfit and the retired black velvet coat, with the boots from both outfits! she is in near mint condition, her hair is soft and shiny. view my sunny betancourt tagged (tagged in this post) to see more photos! if you’re interested in her story as an oc, i’ll be glad to share it, but you’re also free to create your own character with this doll as well.

price: $100 shipped

next we have a marisol luna, girl of the year 2005, lot!

marisol will come with her complete meet outfit, her complete ballet outfit, and her complete dance accessories, as well as her cat, rascal, and the retired singing star outfit, because it basically could’ve been made for her its so perfect with her. as well, as a free bonus, you will get a collection of some purple items that i only would have used for marisol anyway.

everything here varies from near mind to used condition, marisol has a lot f scuffs on her face and her legs aren’t the tightest strung, but her hair is soft and shiny. her eyes like to stick when she sits up from lying down, but they just need to be pushed back open and they’re fine. for more pictures of marisol + her items, check out the marisol luna tag on my blog.

price: $150 shipped

Back in October, we didn’t know anything about Kira Bailey other than that her name was probably going to be Kira Bailey, and she’d be this year’s Girl of the Year. So I put up a survey collecting this fandom’s thoughts about what she might be like. 

Now that we know the basic details about her, I’ll lay out all the responses and see what we were speculating and hoping for in this year’s GOTY. Some of you had some really creative answers! And I was pleasantly surprised with how optimistic many of us were that this year’s girl would be extra special and unique in some way.

Personally, I was hoping this would be the year we see the Jess face mold used for the first time in a decade, or with a dark skin tone for the first time ever. Or the Addy face mold used for the first time ever. I see that a lot of you had the same hopes. My GOTY of choice would be an Alaskan girl who competes in sled dog races; seriously, there are so many neat accessories that her collection could have! A little dogsled, dogs, showshoes, cross-country skis, lots of heavy coats and winter clothing…. so much potential! And the books still could have addressed similar topics that Kira’s books did. Maybe that will happen some day. 

The full analysis of the results will happen after the cut, but first I have to show you what was the most popular guess regarding what Kira would look like:

The Jess face mold was tied with the Addy face mold in popularity, but my own personal guess was that she’d have the Jess mold, and so with that as the tiebreaker…… look at this, folks…. 

We made Alexis!  

(minus the freckles but I didn’t include that as an option, and with dark brown eyes instead of light brown.)

I wish I could pass this info on to American Girl and tell them that I have scientific proof that they would have hit a home run with their teen and adult fans, and tons of young kids too, by making Alexis the Girl of the Year.

Now on to the results!