Every character's outfit now consists of a leotard, pull on skirt, and a plastic headband Kendall's also comes with additional wings. In 2021, the meet outfits were changed significantly. The wellies are also lined inside with white mesh to prevent staining doll's legs. In May 2021, redesigned dolls were released with softer vinyl torsos more similar to the limbs rather than the harder original plastic and reinforced hip joints to better withstand the more physically demanding play of younger children The newer bodies (which include the body of the Gwynn doll) have a sunken in W logo rather than the raised one on the older plastic bodies and a more subtle line for the underpants on the body molds.įrom launch until 2021, each doll came in a unique meet outfit consisting of a short sleeved tee, gathered-waist skirt, pink knit panties, and rubber/plastic wellies that are slit up the back to facilitate removal. American Girl could be contacted for replacement dolls for the defective joints for a time.
For a time, Welliewishers had fragile hip joints that often resulted in the top part of the hip joint in the torso cracking and shattering and the legs (and sometimes arms) detaching from the doll easily if overmanipulated, due to the variance between the hard plastic and softer vinyl. They have a harder plastic torso with a molded navel, slight torso shaping with a waistline, and molded skin-tone underpants with a raised WellieWishers W logo over the right hip. Older dolls are a mix of vinyl and plastic, with vinyl limbs and head and harder plastic torsos. The fingers are curved slightly to hold items and have small unpainted fingernails the feet are flat soled and have unpainted toenails.
The arms and legs are set to the torso on rotating flange joints the arms and legs are slightly poseable but not to the strung-style degree of the 18" dolls. The heads turn on the neck and can be slightly tilted but do not tilt dramatically on rotating flange joints. The face molds vary slightly (Willa/Camille, Ashlyn/Kendall/Bryant, and Emerson), but are overall designed to resemble a young early elementary school aged child. The face molds, like most of the 18" dolls, have two visible front teeth which are painted along with the lips and slight blushing on cheeks. The light skin tone of WellieWishers is lighter than the Pale Light tone used on 18" dolls.ĭolls have fixed set plastic eyes with no attached lashes (though lashes and eyebrows are painted on) and wigged mod-acrylic hair. Their overall shape is smaller than 18" American Girl dolls.
The WellieWishers dolls are fourteen and a half inches tall (14.5").
Left to Right: Emerson, Ashlyn, Willa, Kendall, and Camille. The first five WellieWishers dolls (2016-2021).
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