All My Favorite Dolls: August 2014

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Back to School Time!

When I was growing up, I remembered school starting the week before Labor Day and ending the first week of June. I've since graduated and moved to Arizona (to name a few things), but it still startles me when I see the kids going back to school in the beginning of August, especially since it's still so HOT! In honor of back to school, I'm making this post about one of my FAVORITE doll lines, Generation Girl!
I loved the Generation Girl Barbie line ever since I first laid eyes on them. I thought they were just fabulous! I was excited to see them in the Toy Fair issue of Barbie Bazaar (RIP) when they were called "Teen Scene" or "Global Girls". They seemed new and fresh. I found at Target (my preferred store) a playset called Trendy Bedroom, which was rereleased as Pajama Fun Skipper bedroom. The picture on the front depicted Barbie wearing a sparkly blue halter dress, just like the first Generation Girl Barbie, so I always wondered if this wasn't meant to be part of the Generation Girl line.

Trendy Bedroom

The first release of the Generation Girls caused a bit of controversy with Barbie sporting a heart-shaped ankle tattoo and Chelsie having a nose ring. These dolls were rereleased without the tattoo and nose ring. I was lucky enough to get the originals. It also seems when the dolls were rereleased, the Generation Girl logo had also changed.

Original Logo

Revamped Logo

There were three lines of dolls released, the original line, Dance Party and My Room, an International High School playset (with the second line of dolls) and a set of 12 books, though I can remember more books were going to be released which had to do with the Dance Party line of dolls. I found the titles of three of them, one of which was going to be the Spring Jam, but they were never released, much to my dismay.

The initial line consisted of Barbie Roberts, Ana Suarez, Nichelle Watson, Lara Morelli-Strauss, Tori Burns and Chelsie Peterson. Each girl had a distinctly different personality, which was reflected in the style of their outfits and their accessories. This was extremely appealing to me. I loved the differences between them and I loved all of the accessories which were included! The back of the boxes included biographies of the characters and had pictures of the dolls in various scenes, like hanging out after school, going to the beach, going out for a night on the town or doing school activities, which added to the fleshing out of the personalities. The dolls were pricey for the time, but were definitely worth it!

Generation Girl Barbie

Generation Girl Barbie - extra outfit

Generation Girl Barbie - accessories

Generation Girl Ana

Generation Girl Ana without jacket

Generation Girl Ana - extra outfit

Generation Girl Ana - accessories

Generation Girl Nichelle

Generation Girl Nichelle - extra outfit

Generation Girl Nichelle with chair and accessories

Generation Girl Nichelle - accessories

Generation Girl Tori

Generation Girl Tori - extra outfit

Generation Girl Tori - accessories

Generation Girl Chelsie

Generation Girl Chelsie - extra outfit

Generation Girl Chelsie - performing

Generation Girl Chelsie - accessories

Generation Girl Lara

Generation Girl Lara - second outfit

Generation Girl Lara - painting

Generation Girl Lara - accessories

This is the first line of Generation Girl dolls and my next post will continue to showcase this line. Until then, have a great first day of school!

Sunday, August 17, 2014

All of My Halloween Dolls...so far!

As I'd mentioned in my previous post, I love Barbie and Halloween. As such, I was super excited when Mattel released Halloween-themed Barbies! I had to collect them all and with the exception of the first Haunted Beauty doll (which I'm looking to get) and this year's "grocery store" version (which I'm on the lookout for), I've got them all, so I thought I'd show my pictures. Enjoy! If you know of one I've missed, please let me know!