BABY Born 515 904763 EA Born Surprise Mini Babies Bus Playset, Colourful

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This product for sale is the Baby Born Surprise Mini Babies Mystery Pack Series 1 with Cot and Swaddle. I'm not sure how to count the bottle and the diaper in terms of our surprise tally, but I guess since both of them were in the same bag, they count as one surprise: the presence of a bottle and diaper.

More than 24 million BABY born dolls have been sold all over the world since the market launch in 1991. 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. What I didn't mention in the review is that I also like surprise toys where I can't pick a strong favorite. The Baby Born Surprise Mini Babies probably do the best in this department in my opinion, because I find all of the themes adorable. 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.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? 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.

Its hard to find carriers for dolls that small and Gina comes with one that work would for a few sizes! The wings look very dramatic, but their velcro attachment isn't very strong, and they tend to look floppy. I wish that Marigold had neck articulation, and I wish her mouth and been painted more carefully, but otherwise she's great. 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.

I'm glad that I took a chance on a second character in this scale, because I think Chester is adorable. 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'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.

His costume is ridiculously cute, and his head mold is more versatile than Apollo's since it doesn't have the antennae and crown attachments.Granted I used acetone which may have been too strong ( Home Retail Group Card Services Limited is registered in England (04007072) at 33 Holborn, London, United Kingdom, EC1N 2HT.