FLICKR FLASHBACK: Prettie Girls

I'm slowly removing photos from my Flickr account, so there will be a few posts like this where I show off some less-known doll lines from over the years. 

The Prettie Girls, the inaugural line by One World Doll Project, first started as these Barbie-sized dolls. 

Valencia on the left. Lena on the right. 

There were five characters planned, but it wouldn't be until November that we got the next two. 

This is Kimani.

And my favorite, Dahlia. I'm rather annoyed right now because I don't know where my Dahlia is. I'll have to look around for her. 

Alexie, the fifth doll, was never made that I can remember. 

The next version of the Prettie Girls we got was called Tween Scene. The company partnered with Tonner and used their Little Miss Matched doll bodies for the line, so they're a taller doll. They came out in October 2015. 

I loved the Tween girls so much more than the Barbie-type ones. They're super cute and they still have a nice display space in my room. 

Most of the names are reused, so here is Valencia. 

And here's Lena. 

Sweet Kimani. 

And my fave, Dhara. (No longer Dahlia.)

They went on vacation with me in 2015. 

Alexie actually got included this time. 

And they introduced Hana to the crew. 

These two came out in later October 2015. There were also fashion packs I never bought.

One World Doll Project had plans for another line using the Tonner "City Girls" line, but sadly, they were never made. 

PHOTO CREDITS: Mine.

Artsy Arrives!

In 2011, Tonner introduced the Little Miss Matched line. I had the blonde, redhead and brunette, but never got Artsy here, because the very few I saw at my Toys R Us were always flawed.

When it came time to move in 2013, I donated a lot of toys I ended up regretting and LMM was one of those lines.

Jump ahead to 2015 and after teaming with Tonner, the One World Doll Project added the Tween Scene dolls to their Prettie Girls line. I loved this line and bought all the dolls, which use the same body as LMM. That got me looking for LMM again and the Little Miss Matched website actually had the 3 white characters available to order. So I ended up with all of them back!

But they didn't have Artsy! I've been searching ebay for her for a while now and finally, a boxed one popped up and she arrived today.

So finally my collection of LMM and Prettie Girls is complete! Except for outfits, of course. I may pick up some of those.

I didn't do a proper review for her, since she's an older doll, but I did photograph her with each of the little cliques in my collection.

Here's Jayna with Hana and Aster.

And here she is with Kimani, Alexie and Darby.

With Valencia and Hadley.

With Lena.

And finally, with Dhara, who's going to be her best friend.

If you're interested in these dolls, littlemissmatched.com still has Uptown Girl (Darby, the LMM redhead) in stock for $20. ebay has a lot of Uptown, Sporty and Rock 'n' Roll. It's Artsy that's hard to find. As for Prettie Girls Tween Scene, Lena, Valencia and Kimani are easy to find. Dhara, Alexie and Hana show up far less, although right now there are some on ebay for low prices, so if you like them, go get them!

PHOTO CREDITS: Mine.