Strawberry Shortcake Playdate Pals: Toy Review

My niece is a fan of anything girly. She loves Bratz, Barbie, baby dolls, and ugly creatures such as Dora the Explorer. Her newest hype besides Hannah Montanta; is Strawberry Shortcake!
Yep the pink haired strawberry scented ugly doll is back...in full bloom; and heaven help us all they remodeled her face...she is no longer that cute round freckle faced doll we all once knew her for back in the 80's.
These new dolls have odd kidney bean shaped faces, and clothing that Strawberry Shortcake never wore when I was a kid. Whatever happened to that adorable puffy hat of hers?
Ah...nevermind.
The latest addition to Ms. Jillian's Strawberry collection is the Strawberry Shortcake Playdate Pals: Strawberry Shortcake. This doll was given to her for her birthday recently, and I hated it ever since she un-wrapped it.
The Strawberry Shortcake Playdate Pals: Strawberry Shortcake doll comes in a beautiful packaging, with a nice clean plastic window for you to look in at the doll. That's what I did. Lovely packaging, ugly arse doll!
Strawberry Shortcake is 16 inches tall. She comes dressed in a denim skirt and a striped pink shirt. Her legs are pink, I guess it was supposed to look like tights or something, but her legs are pink!? She wears a metallic pink hat, and a pair of plastic Mary Jane shoes.
Her hair is long and bright red. Strawberry Shortcake comes with a pink cat called Custard and a pink feeding dish for the cat. Included is a red brush for Shortcake's hair.
According to her box, she is poseable, but without her even out of the box you could clearly tell that her poses are limited. Her legs can bend back and forth, but not left to right. Her arms also are stuck to one back and forth position.
Before my niece even got her out of the box, you could tell this doll would be a giant snooze fest in just a few minutes.
Out of the box:
The doll does have that original Strawberry Shortcake scent that many of us can recall...but besides that, out of the box the doll just looks like a waste of rubber.
My niece of course made that Mmmm ahhh, she smells good noise. She then played with the dolls hair for a few seconds, gave the Custard the cat a look at and placed her on the couch.
End of story.
The doll, as I had known it would; sucked. Strawberry Shortcake Playdate Pals: Strawberry Shortcake held her interest for about 5 minutes, and that was that. I have never seen her tote the doll along with her, I have never seen it out on her bedroom floor...or anything like that. I do see it though on her shelf untouched, every time I go over for a visit.
The whole concept of the doll reminded me of Baby Alive (a crawling doll I had when I was a kid. God what a pile of crap that thing was).
Recommendation:
Ignore this doll on shelves. If your kid really wants it, have someone else buy it for them...perhaps for Christmas or something like that. Honestly though, it's just a waste. It does nothing, but ...sit there. Hehe.
The doll is available at Walmart for about $20.00 if you're for some reason still interested.