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ramblings about Luciana and Gabby
Nov. 20th, 2017 03:07 amGUYS. We are a week away from Cyber Monday. Which is the only shopping day of the year I care about and I only care about it because it's my yearly tradition to tear my hair out with American Girl.
But I already started the hair tearing early so really, what can you do? Before we jump into the Luciana stuff (woo, I love this time of year), my sort of account update:
( If you can call it that. )
Let's see. In other AG news, the Wishbooks started landing last week. I actually got mine the same day a lot of people reported getting theirs so that's nice. Maybe 11/15 or 11/16? (including that for future!me) It didn't include a 20% coupon but there is free shipping for everyone if you spend 100+ and use whatever code they're hawking on the site. But since some people DO have a coupon, they do exist and you might keep an eye out if that's your thing. The wishbook itself is large and I took my time to go through it and I enjoyed it, but I will agree that I wish they'd gone more all out and done the usual winter awesome pictures they've done for quite a few of the past few years. There wasn't a lot of new photography this go round, though I did like the group holiday dress photos. I'll see if I can find them or take a pic and share it later.
Now. Onto Luciana. More promo pics leaked here.
( Luciana loves NASA. Pics below )
Overall, I think it's interesting how they kind of hide Luciana's purple hair. I assume it's to keep people from freaking out as much as they did with Izzy's, but Izzy's wasn't permanent and also when hooked in you had to work for the pink to show. AG's trying to be stealthy and I can kind of get why but at the same time I want more purple. MORE PURPLE.
I wonder what else Luci will get. I also wonder if anyone is going to actively call them out once AG themselves put out Luciana's promo stuff because with all this, it's very, very obvious that Gabby was an eleventh hour switch with Tenney and she got lost this year. I was willing to give them a healthy dose of side eye but accept that maybe they'd go big in the middle of the year but they didn't. Gabby had one big selling point at the start of the year: she was one of the only modern dolls who was never scheduled to get the permapanties. However this also worked against her because when people went nuts buying the PP dolls, they didn't have to bother with Gabby because they knew she'd be safe. Seriously, let's look at all the reasons besides Obvious Racist Asshat one could break out for not getting Gabby this year.
1) Gabby, especially at the start of the year, was literally just #46 dressed up in Gabby's clothes. Literally and so obviously that AG proactively sent people who'd recently (within two years, I think) bought #46 codes to redeem to get Gabby's outfit for free.
1.5) Related to this, maybe mid-year maybe a little before, #46asGabby switched over to actual!Gabby who has slightly darker hair (I think) and darker lips and so if you'd been on the fence before but definitely wanted nu!Gabby, you'd likely put things off til 46Gabby sold out.
2) Right off the bat, Gabby was listed as available in 2017 and beyond. So any real sense of urgency for the doll herself that might have managed to make it through the being a dressed up TM doll went poof on day 1.
3) Tenney.
4) Logan.
Tenney and Logan both came along and upstaged Gabby less than a month into her reign as GOTY. It was and is still very obvious that Tenney was meant to be the GOTY for 2017. She's got the extra book in her collection, her collection is huuuuuge compared to Gabby's, she's got the new hands and eyes that are traditionally the something New the GOTY gets to set her apart... Everything about her screams GOTY. Logan is the boy people have been begging for in the past however many years. He might not sell well in the long run, but right out the gate he sold very well and sold out of a lot of Kohl's for eons.
5) Permapanties. Just mentioned this above but with Gabby being the only modern doll specifically mentioned to not be in danger of getting them, that meant that anyone who was on the fence between Gabby and any of the later BF/any MyAG/Tenney/Logan dolls was going to choose the option they feared would later come with the dreaded PPs.
6) MyAG #67: aka what Gabby might've actually been supposed to look like (really long, dark curls).
7) The custom line.
8) Z's stuff. I gather Z the doll is still not doing well but her stuff IS and some people prefer to go with the doll whose stuff they like even if they like another doll better. (I prefer to mix and match and create the best of all possible worlds but that's just me.)
9) No big showstopping piece. Saige had that hot air balloon. Izzy had that sewing studio thing that I still lowkey want. Grace had the infamous bakery. Lea had her hut, even if did languish in the sale section for too long. Tenney has her stage. Gabby has a rehash of McKenna's bed. Wow?
10) No movie tie in.
11) I'm getting bored and I think the point's been more than made but hey, there was no huge midyear release which would be fine for any other GOTY but Gabby started out with less and kind of needed more than just a couple of extra things sprinkled in throughout the year. She needed some fire and AG never gave her any.
But I already started the hair tearing early so really, what can you do? Before we jump into the Luciana stuff (woo, I love this time of year), my sort of account update:
( If you can call it that. )
Let's see. In other AG news, the Wishbooks started landing last week. I actually got mine the same day a lot of people reported getting theirs so that's nice. Maybe 11/15 or 11/16? (including that for future!me) It didn't include a 20% coupon but there is free shipping for everyone if you spend 100+ and use whatever code they're hawking on the site. But since some people DO have a coupon, they do exist and you might keep an eye out if that's your thing. The wishbook itself is large and I took my time to go through it and I enjoyed it, but I will agree that I wish they'd gone more all out and done the usual winter awesome pictures they've done for quite a few of the past few years. There wasn't a lot of new photography this go round, though I did like the group holiday dress photos. I'll see if I can find them or take a pic and share it later.
Now. Onto Luciana. More promo pics leaked here.
( Luciana loves NASA. Pics below )
Overall, I think it's interesting how they kind of hide Luciana's purple hair. I assume it's to keep people from freaking out as much as they did with Izzy's, but Izzy's wasn't permanent and also when hooked in you had to work for the pink to show. AG's trying to be stealthy and I can kind of get why but at the same time I want more purple. MORE PURPLE.
I wonder what else Luci will get. I also wonder if anyone is going to actively call them out once AG themselves put out Luciana's promo stuff because with all this, it's very, very obvious that Gabby was an eleventh hour switch with Tenney and she got lost this year. I was willing to give them a healthy dose of side eye but accept that maybe they'd go big in the middle of the year but they didn't. Gabby had one big selling point at the start of the year: she was one of the only modern dolls who was never scheduled to get the permapanties. However this also worked against her because when people went nuts buying the PP dolls, they didn't have to bother with Gabby because they knew she'd be safe. Seriously, let's look at all the reasons besides Obvious Racist Asshat one could break out for not getting Gabby this year.
1) Gabby, especially at the start of the year, was literally just #46 dressed up in Gabby's clothes. Literally and so obviously that AG proactively sent people who'd recently (within two years, I think) bought #46 codes to redeem to get Gabby's outfit for free.
1.5) Related to this, maybe mid-year maybe a little before, #46asGabby switched over to actual!Gabby who has slightly darker hair (I think) and darker lips and so if you'd been on the fence before but definitely wanted nu!Gabby, you'd likely put things off til 46Gabby sold out.
2) Right off the bat, Gabby was listed as available in 2017 and beyond. So any real sense of urgency for the doll herself that might have managed to make it through the being a dressed up TM doll went poof on day 1.
3) Tenney.
4) Logan.
Tenney and Logan both came along and upstaged Gabby less than a month into her reign as GOTY. It was and is still very obvious that Tenney was meant to be the GOTY for 2017. She's got the extra book in her collection, her collection is huuuuuge compared to Gabby's, she's got the new hands and eyes that are traditionally the something New the GOTY gets to set her apart... Everything about her screams GOTY. Logan is the boy people have been begging for in the past however many years. He might not sell well in the long run, but right out the gate he sold very well and sold out of a lot of Kohl's for eons.
5) Permapanties. Just mentioned this above but with Gabby being the only modern doll specifically mentioned to not be in danger of getting them, that meant that anyone who was on the fence between Gabby and any of the later BF/any MyAG/Tenney/Logan dolls was going to choose the option they feared would later come with the dreaded PPs.
6) MyAG #67: aka what Gabby might've actually been supposed to look like (really long, dark curls).
7) The custom line.
8) Z's stuff. I gather Z the doll is still not doing well but her stuff IS and some people prefer to go with the doll whose stuff they like even if they like another doll better. (I prefer to mix and match and create the best of all possible worlds but that's just me.)
9) No big showstopping piece. Saige had that hot air balloon. Izzy had that sewing studio thing that I still lowkey want. Grace had the infamous bakery. Lea had her hut, even if did languish in the sale section for too long. Tenney has her stage. Gabby has a rehash of McKenna's bed. Wow?
10) No movie tie in.
11) I'm getting bored and I think the point's been more than made but hey, there was no huge midyear release which would be fine for any other GOTY but Gabby started out with less and kind of needed more than just a couple of extra things sprinkled in throughout the year. She needed some fire and AG never gave her any.