Okay! Let's see if I can dredge up some recollections. We stopped at TRU first, so I didn't want to make any big purchases, but they did have an entire endcap dedicated to the Wellies and then more on the aisle beside it. It made me decide I actually like Camille best, and Willa dropped a lot due to dead eyes. Emerson was the second cutest, but had this crazy bang-shock thing going on that seemed 50/50 on if it would be fixable. Kendall was darling too and her clothes less alarming and Ashlyn was much cuter in person, as well.
The clothes seemed extra over-priced seeing how small and flimsy the fabric was. So, ended up passing them up and just wait for a sale on the AG site.
Went to Kohl's which was my first time ever in one. Had to figure out kids stuff was on the second floor and found the toys and came across Lea's picnic set just thrown around with some of the megablocks I think. Ended up asking this lady nearby if they had any AG stuff since I was interested in the Lea items I don't have and she led me over to the same spot and then ran off to eh back. Waited forever and she eventually came back with two Leas. Don't need the doll, but the lady went into this whole giant spiel of I could get the rewards, get the credit card for a discount, do this, do that, was she helpful? how was the store? wasitnicedidwefindwhatwewanted?? and I was just like "gah! run away!" so we went a few aisles over and waited for her to wander off and stashed it back on the shelf and ran. :p Even if I need the doll, both eyes were wonked like the one I first got...and, er, still have. >_> No discounts anyways, so wasted of time. But yeah, those spider trap sensors are pretty unpleasant on the dolls.
So, at some point we went to Barnes and Noble. Mom was looking at stuff so I was just doing my normal wandering looking for Sailor Moon and nanoblocks and went to look in the section of their weird Journey Girls-called-something-fancier line and lo and behold, there's some more freaking Wellies! I was like Say whaaaat? :o Much lower inventory of course since it's just those bookshelves. I don't recall if all were available, but I do remember their Emerson was MUCH cuter and the hair was perfect and I almooooost ended up caving, but alas, this was near the end of the trip, so money already spent. I think we were in a hurry to get to the author talk thing, too. And no clothes or accessories there that I recall. Still it was fun to see them in person! Are people really complaining about lack of exclusivity? Who does that?? I never saw anyone on the MH front going "oh, I'm so glad these were only available at Walmart!" and that's everywhere and STILL not everyone gets to have stuff. Plus, you have more control over wonk values! Argh, people!!
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Date: 2016-10-31 10:48 pm (UTC)Let's see if I can dredge up some recollections. We stopped at TRU first, so I didn't want to make any big purchases, but they did have an entire endcap dedicated to the Wellies and then more on the aisle beside it. It made me decide I actually like Camille best, and Willa dropped a lot due to dead eyes. Emerson was the second cutest, but had this crazy bang-shock thing going on that seemed 50/50 on if it would be fixable. Kendall was darling too and her clothes less alarming and Ashlyn was much cuter in person, as well.
The clothes seemed extra over-priced seeing how small and flimsy the fabric was. So, ended up passing them up and just wait for a sale on the AG site.
Went to Kohl's which was my first time ever in one. Had to figure out kids stuff was on the second floor and found the toys and came across Lea's picnic set just thrown around with some of the megablocks I think. Ended up asking this lady nearby if they had any AG stuff since I was interested in the Lea items I don't have and she led me over to the same spot and then ran off to eh back. Waited forever and she eventually came back with two Leas. Don't need the doll, but the lady went into this whole giant spiel of I could get the rewards, get the credit card for a discount, do this, do that, was she helpful? how was the store? wasitnicedidwefindwhatwewanted?? and I was just like "gah! run away!" so we went a few aisles over and waited for her to wander off and stashed it back on the shelf and ran. :p Even if I need the doll, both eyes were wonked like the one I first got...and, er, still have. >_> No discounts anyways, so wasted of time. But yeah, those spider trap sensors are pretty unpleasant on the dolls.
So, at some point we went to Barnes and Noble. Mom was looking at stuff so I was just doing my normal wandering looking for Sailor Moon and nanoblocks and went to look in the section of their weird Journey Girls-called-something-fancier line and lo and behold, there's some more freaking Wellies! I was like Say whaaaat? :o Much lower inventory of course since it's just those bookshelves. I don't recall if all were available, but I do remember their Emerson was MUCH cuter and the hair was perfect and I almooooost ended up caving, but alas, this was near the end of the trip, so money already spent. I think we were in a hurry to get to the author talk thing, too. And no clothes or accessories there that I recall. Still it was fun to see them in person! Are people really complaining about lack of exclusivity? Who does that?? I never saw anyone on the MH front going "oh, I'm so glad these were only available at Walmart!" and that's everywhere and STILL not everyone gets to have stuff. Plus, you have more control over wonk values! Argh, people!!