One of the interesting things about blogging for a decade is monitoring which dolls have endured that expanse of time and which have been discontinued. For example, it doesn't surprise me that American Girl is still alive, thriving, and pretty much unchanged from 2013. And it's great that some smaller 18-inch doll companies, like A Girl for All Time, Carpatina, Maru and Friends, and even My Salon Doll are still making their products. Other brands have not been as fortunate. My Twinn dolls, which are close to my heart, were discontinued in 2016--possibly because of widespread eye problems. The Extra Special Dolls met a similar fate. But another casualty of the last decade, and one that took me by surprise, was the Kidz n Cats line by Sonja Hartmann.
I've actually written two reviews of Kidz n Cats dolls in the past: a comprehensive review of Evita in 2013, and a shorter look at two Henriettes in 2018. And I guess we can count the brief review of the mini doll, Annie, too. In all of those cases, there were a lot of quality issues and design disappointments that prevented me from thoroughly enjoying the dolls. Frankly, I struggled to see why the brand was so popular.
But then my lovely new patron, Lillian, suggested that I take one more look at the Kidz. She even suggested a specific doll, Jennet, who happens to be a character that I remember admiring a great deal back when she first came out in 2016. So, because of some pangs of nostalgia over the loss of the Kidz n Cats brand, and because I cherish my patrons, today I'll be talking about Jennet:
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| Kidz 'n' Cats Jennet, by Sonja Hartmann (discontinued). |
