The doll world is poised for an explosion of big summer releases. Mattel is rolling out their Moonspell Magic Monster High line and their KPop Demon Hunter dolls, MGA launched their Mirror Mi girls (who look like shrunken-headed Rainbow High dolls), and Zuru is tantalizing us with their pregnant My Mini Baby mommies and the 1:12 fashion doll line called Minnee. It's overwhelming to have so many great things coming out all at once, not to mention extremely dangerous for the budget. I'm eager for the future, when I can get my hands on all of these new dolls, but for today's review we're going to take a trip to the past: 2019, to be precise. That doesn't sound like very long ago, but it was a different world back then--at least for me. In my personal life, both kids were still in college and we lived in Maine. We only had four dogs and no cats, which feels completely insufficient...but also adorably rational. And of course the pandemic was just around the corner, although we had no idea it was coming.
In the doll part of my world, I'd recently stopped writing reviews and was focusing attention on My Twinn restorations. I wasn't missing a whole lot at that point, I don't think. The last few reviews that I wrote in 2018 included mostly vintage and discontinued dolls, which suggests that nothing new was grabbing my attention. I did write about the Boxy Girls and the blind box Hairdorables, which were relatively new in 2019, but I can't remember anything earth moving going on.
What was Mattel up to in 2019, you might ask? Well, Ever After High had been gone since 2017, and G2 Monster High was more recently deceased. But Barbie Fashionistas were getting increasingly inclusive, American Girl was in full swing, and the charming Creatable World sets had just come out. I reviewed Mattel's 1:6 scale WWE Superstars in 2018, so I assume they were still kicking around to some degree as well. But a 2019 release that I was completely unaware of at the time (and have heard very little about since) is the Wild Hearts Crew. And that's exactly who I'll be talking about today:
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| Wild Hearts Crew Kenna Roswell (2019). |
