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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.
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? There are little pink bows in the baby's hair, which suggests a girl, but there's no obvious gender reveal moment. The dolls have movable arms and legs and they come in a crib with a dinky soft blanket for snuggly snoozes! Even for kids who don't have Barbies, there are a lot of other dolls who can adopt 1:6 babies like Marigold.I've had quite a negative view on surprise toys lately, but the quality of some of the ones you've been reviewing have been a pleasant surprise (lol). 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. It used to be relatively hard to find a surprise-themed toy, other than the smaller (inexpensive) blind box assortments. I wish that Marigold had neck articulation, and I wish her mouth and been painted more carefully, but otherwise she's great. The shape of this baby's mouth coupled with the surprise under his diaper reveal that this is a drink and wet doll.
The Baby Born Surprise Mini Babies probably do the best in this department in my opinion, because I find all of the themes adorable. What I didn't mention in the review is that I also like surprise toys where I can't pick a strong favorite. I'm a little worried that surprise themes are overused these days, but I can totally see why people put value on the mystery element. I'm glad that I took a chance on a second character in this scale, because I think Chester is adorable.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. Each swaddle comes in a fun shape – an apple, a cupcake, an ice-cream cone… Which one will yours be? 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. The wings look very dramatic, but their velcro attachment isn't very strong, and they tend to look floppy.
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.
Brianna's clothing was accented with seafoam green, and all of the Creatable World kids have that color in their packaging.
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