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These are just starting to hit Target and Toys R Us.
First up Lemon Meringue and Huckleberry Pie.
This Lemon is from the Toys R Us exclusive three pack and did not come with her pet frog Frappe. Frappe is from the Strawberry Shortcake and Lemon Meringue two pack. I included Frappe in the picture to better compare with the vintage dolls. The pets are not named on the Bridge Direct boxes.
Kenner dolls on the left and Bridge Direct on the right.
As you can see they are not quite the same. The new Lemon has face paint in style of the earlier Kenner dolls and not the larger more expressive eyes of the later dolls, like the original Lemon had. Both new dolls are not wearing the correct shoes. They are wearing shoes using Strawberry Shortcake's shoe mold. The new dolls clothes have Velcro instead of snaps. The Bridge Direct dolls are close and very high quality but not exact reproductions. All the new dolls have really nice thickly rooted hair. They hair could be a little sparse on original Kenner dolls. Especially in the earlier series.
Both new dolls have the flat hands of the first series Kenner dolls. To the best of my knowledge, Lemon was never issued with flat hands in the Kenner line.
I do really like Huck's new cloth hat. That's actually a nice change over the original rubber one.
Unlike the dolls, the pets are VERY close. I don't know if they had access to the original molds. I would guess not. I can't imagine the original molds still exist. But they are again super close. They don't look cast from vintage pets because they don't have any obvious tells like a loss of detail or slightly smaller in size. Pupcake's smile is painted slightly different. You have to really look for it to tell difference. The copyright markings on the bottoms have changed.
Lastly, the prices are very, very reasonable on these. $10 for single box dolls, $20 for the two packs and $30 for the TRU three pack. In comparison, my Kenner Lime Chiffon from 1982 has a Kmart price sticker of $7.96 on her box.
First up Lemon Meringue and Huckleberry Pie.
This Lemon is from the Toys R Us exclusive three pack and did not come with her pet frog Frappe. Frappe is from the Strawberry Shortcake and Lemon Meringue two pack. I included Frappe in the picture to better compare with the vintage dolls. The pets are not named on the Bridge Direct boxes.
Kenner dolls on the left and Bridge Direct on the right.
As you can see they are not quite the same. The new Lemon has face paint in style of the earlier Kenner dolls and not the larger more expressive eyes of the later dolls, like the original Lemon had. Both new dolls are not wearing the correct shoes. They are wearing shoes using Strawberry Shortcake's shoe mold. The new dolls clothes have Velcro instead of snaps. The Bridge Direct dolls are close and very high quality but not exact reproductions. All the new dolls have really nice thickly rooted hair. They hair could be a little sparse on original Kenner dolls. Especially in the earlier series.
Both new dolls have the flat hands of the first series Kenner dolls. To the best of my knowledge, Lemon was never issued with flat hands in the Kenner line.
I do really like Huck's new cloth hat. That's actually a nice change over the original rubber one.
Unlike the dolls, the pets are VERY close. I don't know if they had access to the original molds. I would guess not. I can't imagine the original molds still exist. But they are again super close. They don't look cast from vintage pets because they don't have any obvious tells like a loss of detail or slightly smaller in size. Pupcake's smile is painted slightly different. You have to really look for it to tell difference. The copyright markings on the bottoms have changed.
Lastly, the prices are very, very reasonable on these. $10 for single box dolls, $20 for the two packs and $30 for the TRU three pack. In comparison, my Kenner Lime Chiffon from 1982 has a Kmart price sticker of $7.96 on her box.
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