I don't understand why they retired Felicity. She has her own movie, for goodness sake - it's not very good, but still! - why retire her when she's still going strong? Sure, it will make her more collectible, but the company won't make any money off that, will they?
Re: spin-off dolls: the first spin-off doll was Samantha's friend Nellie, who was introduced after Kaya in the early 2000s. This seems to have been so successful that they started incorporating the best friend-who-will-be-a-doll into the conception of the series with Julie & Ivy in 2002, and then last year put out a series with two protagonists rather than protag-and-best-friend.
I haven't read Cecile & Marie-Grace's books yet; I'm curious how this two protags thing works out. I'm inclined to be a bit sniffy because there's a perceptible drop in illustration quality.
There are also spin-off mystery books about the American Girls, which don't seem to be canonical the way that the spin-offs about their friends are...but fretting about what's canon and what's not is probably getting rather silly with American Girl books.
The modern-day girls are clearly out of the realm of this paper, as is the magazine, but they're interesting too - really, the whole thing is interesting. It's so unusual for me to be so on board with the values promoted by...almost anything, really.
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Date: 2012-11-14 03:43 am (UTC)Re: spin-off dolls: the first spin-off doll was Samantha's friend Nellie, who was introduced after Kaya in the early 2000s. This seems to have been so successful that they started incorporating the best friend-who-will-be-a-doll into the conception of the series with Julie & Ivy in 2002, and then last year put out a series with two protagonists rather than protag-and-best-friend.
I haven't read Cecile & Marie-Grace's books yet; I'm curious how this two protags thing works out. I'm inclined to be a bit sniffy because there's a perceptible drop in illustration quality.
There are also spin-off mystery books about the American Girls, which don't seem to be canonical the way that the spin-offs about their friends are...but fretting about what's canon and what's not is probably getting rather silly with American Girl books.
The modern-day girls are clearly out of the realm of this paper, as is the magazine, but they're interesting too - really, the whole thing is interesting. It's so unusual for me to be so on board with the values promoted by...almost anything, really.