![]() :) I never was super big on Strawberry shortcake dolls (My dad probably didn't want me to have them because of their scent.), but I did have an Orange Blossom from McDonalds that was just the most darling doll I had ever seen. The packaging on the Bandai doll is the same as what's on a shoebox that I still have from a pair of shoes I bought when I was probably about four or five years old. What a fun review! I can't wait to see the next part. I highly recommend the Never Grow Up post and hope that this one will serve as a fun companion piece. I had no intention of copying (I actually thought I was being terribly clever and original.) but I seem to have fallen prey to the same exact desire to investigate this doll's history. For that reason, I will post in two parts-starting with the 1979 first edition doll made by Kenner and working my way forward through time until I get to The Bridge Direct doll that came out last year:īlueberry Muffin dolls by The Bridge Direct, 2015 (left) and Kenner, 1979 (right).Īs a sidebar, I discovered while I was fact-checking this review that Beastsbelle over at Never Grow Up has already done this post, but with Strawberry Shortcake herself. Because there have been six different incarnations of Blueberry Muffin since her debut, there's a lot to cover. So.for this review I bought all of the Blueberry Muffin dolls! Well, not actually all of them, but a representative sample from each of the big companies that has held the license. I wasn't allowed to have the Blueberry Muffin doll that day, and so there's been a small, obstinate, foot-stomping piece of me that's wanted it ever since. Sketch markers were the best things ever, so a fragrant doll was like perfection). I loved her blue hair and couldn't believe that she might actually smell like blueberries (at this time in my life, scratch-and-sniff stickers and those smelly Mr. On that day I saw a small display of Strawberry Shortcake dolls, and badly, badly wanted the Blueberry Muffin doll. I still vividly remember a day during my childhood when I was shopping at a department store with my family. How can I be a child of the 80s and not know anything about Strawberry Shortcake, you might ask? Well, that gets at my second motivation for writing this review-and certainly the most powerful. ![]() The thing is, I don't actually know much about Strawberry Shortcake, and so I kept postponing my review, thinking that I couldn't really do the subject any justice. I have been looking at the new Bridge Direct dolls in the stores for a few months now, trying to decide if I like them and wondering if a comparison to Hasbro would be fun. ![]() Hasbro, which had been manufacturing the dolls and toys since 2009, passed the torch to The Bridge Direct in 2014. What inspired me to write this retrospective review? Well, first of all, the Strawberry Shortcake license very recently changed hands for the fifth time. ![]() I am going to look at a series of Strawberry Shortcake dolls, focusing on how the dolls have changed over the years as the brand license moved from company to company. This week's review is a little different from what I normally write. I am so glad I ran the poll! Thank you very much to everyone who voted. The funny thing is, the doll I intended to review (ball gown Cinderella) came in last of all. First of all, the Cinderella movie doll poll closed the other day and (much to my surprise) the Frozen Fever dolls won! It was a close call with the Fairy Godmother for a while, but the Frozen princesses ended up winning 107 to 95.
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