I really enjoyed both halves of this review! I have never been personally interested in this style of toy, but your writing and humour always makes me excited to read and maybe learn some more about lines I'm not so familiar with (and even learn some educational tidbits along the way!). I think the upcoming playset comparison will be tougher because plain plastic with no joints is hard to get wrong. However, if copycat dolls mean copycat playsets, I welcome all competition. Making every species of animal indiscriminately obese has no educational value and in fact could skew the perceptions of little pet owners. I'm all for representation and I think overweight dolls can teach important lessons. The one thing about them that rubs me the wrong way is their body shape. They seem like a decent cheaper alternative to the Critters. I'm glad Lil Woodzeez were able to pass the scratch test ten years later. You'd get along gloriously with my niece - I hear she likes toys she can spin stories about, and prefers Sylvanian families over human dolls for now. Your captions, stories and tangents crack me up. I didn't mention on the previous post, but I love long detailed reviews too. The quality is noticeably lower than it is with the Woodzeez, and yet the prices are equivalent. Where, then, do the Honey Bee Acres families fit in? Personally, I don't think there's much need for them on the current market. Over the years, the Woodzeez have established themselves as an economical and satisfactory alternative to the pricey Calico Critters world. But the Woodzeez have grown on me considerably, and the line has expanded to include some truly adorable sets that continue to be about half the price of the equivalent Calico Critters items. It didn't seem like the world needed another line of flocked animals the Calico Critters had that territory covered. I was skeptical about the Li'l Woodzeez when they first came out. The clothing is highly-detailed and easy to use, and the flocked fur feels soft and dense. The characters are all ridiculously cute, and manage to represent their designated species with an effortless simplicity. Everything about them is well-made and well designed. The Calico Critters remain the undisputed rulers of the fuzzy toy animal domain. The Barksters came packaged in a hexagonal (honeycomb-shaped) cardboard box with no plastic window on the front: These are the three sets that I'll be comparing today, and I've already reviewed the Honey Bee Acres set separately:įrom left: Li'l Woodzeez, Honey Bee Acres, and Calico Critters. I'll start off with a really quick summary of what I talked about last time. Honey Bee Acres, Calico Critters, and Li'l Woodzeez dog families. Today's job will be to see how the Barksters measure up to dog families from both the Calico Critters and the Li'l Woodzeez brands. I concluded that post by summarizing the flaws that I noticed in the Honey Bee Acres line. The first review took a cursory look at the Playground Pals (a set that includes nine different animals) and a more in-depth look at the four members of the Barkster dog family. Today's post will make a lot more sense if you've read the first half, though, so I highly recommend starting there and coming back here if you want to know more. Maybe I'll plow ahead with longer reviews in the future, but for this time around, at least, I've split the review in half and this is the conclusion. I really appreciate those of you who stopped in to say that you don't mind the longer reviews. I was boring myself every time I tried to edit that monstrosity. Today's review was originally the second half of my Honey Bee Acres post, but the whole thing was crushingly long.
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