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My favorites were the Baby Born and Skipper's Babysitter baby in great part because they're playscale and I'm not sure a baby doll that small can be a standalone collection or toy for very long unless it's the baby of other dolls in the toybox. And Marigold wins it all by being the cheapest and the most versatile of the entire group, even though there are no surprise elements in her packaging or appearance. I don't collect baby dolls in general anymore, so I'm not sure why babies are so appealing to me in a small scale--and especially with a surprise theme. But here I am sitting on my couch typing up a surprise review, which, if you'd asked me a year ago, is not something I ever thought would happen again. lol The oversize diapers on the Baby Born are pretty silly when the one on Marigold is tinier and actually fits correctly.
Careful if you do decide to repaint the skipper babies mouth, when I tried it, it made the plastic around the mouth dull, almost like a matte finish? But I wanted to see what kinds of mini babies are available on the market today, so I focused on this theme during one of my Target missions. I didn't really care if they matched each other--or even if they were a perfect match for their parents, but it was such a fun addition to any doll game. Little ones will be giddy to find out whether they’ve got twins or even triplets tucked inside the cuddly swaddle!My complaint about Gina is they molded her in a way that it looks like she needs a diaper change but you can't do anything because its painted on. It’s too much for Mini doll Amy to resist, and she simply has to dive right in with her rubber duck. If Mattel had packaged the Skipper Babysitters babies in a blind box so that you didn't know which of the three characters you'd get, and then included five individually-wrapped little plastic accessories, they could have put the dolls into bigger, flashier boxes and advertised them as surprise dolls. I must say though that the Baby Born Animal babies are very cute, you were so lucky getting two redheads. This product for sale is the Baby Born Surprise Mini Babies Mystery Pack Series 1 with Cot and Swaddle.
It's nice to know that some of these surprise toys have thought and care put into them to make them good toys instead of just relying on the surprise factor to sell them.In any case, I've reviewed a few different surprise babies over the years, including Zapf Jolly Dollies and the unrivaled Cabbage Patch Babyland Mini Kids--which are still probably my favorite surprise mini of all. I think Chester and Apollo would make great bath toys, with their ability to drink and pee, but little Chester was still leaking water out of his mouth when I took that picture, above, which was days after I'd fed him. Each swaddle comes in a fun shape – an apple, a cupcake, an ice-cream cone… Which one will yours be? Granted I used acetone which may have been too strong (
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