The City Girls™ are on the scene! These fresh, talented and energetic young ladies are ready to take on the world and follow their dreams. Whether at work, volunteering or just out for the night, City Girls™are always ready to dazzle and shine! City Girls™ are 15.75 inch tall fashion dolls for the beginner collector!

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You can get your own City Girls on tonnerdoll.com, where they have their own City Girls Page.

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Look for City Girls this coming Fall and keep checking in to see what’s happening!

A shot of the Cape Town Fashion Pack at New York Toy Fair, 2012.An overview of the City Girls™ at New York Toy Fair 2012

An overview of the City Girls™ at New York Toy Fair 2012

A shot of Maudlynne from Toy Fair 2012

Name:Maudlynne McCobb
Age: 10
Favorite colors: Black, Blue & Purple.
Likes: Dark Chocolate, walks along moonlit beaches, black cats, all nocturnal creatures and musty attics.
Lives in: A Victorian Mansion in a sleepy little Upstate New York town.
Style: Modern Victorian Chic.
Ambition: TV or internet clairvoyant.
Best Friends: Victoria, the Ghost in the attic & Poe the talking Raven.
About: She’s very sensitive, shy and able to see ghosts.
Maudlynne was home-schooled for most of her life until her parents noticed her peculiar nature and decided it was time for her to socialize a bit more with regular kids.

Excerpt

A few months ago I discovered the Little MissMatched line of dolls by Tonner Toys. I immediately fell in love with their sunny little faces and unique sense of style. I purchased Uptown Girl, named her Emma and let her hang out above my desk. I was so impressed that the doll’s lead designer, Jason Reilley, took time to come here to our site, read your comments and add his insight that I thought it would be fun to find out a little more about what goes into designing dolls, how you can get into the industry and the inspiration behind the LMM line.

The following is an interview with Jason Reilley and Robert Tonner of the Tonner Doll company:

Doll Diaries: How long have you been designing dolls and how did you get started in the industry?

Jason: I have been designing toys for about 15 years. Dolls specifically for about two (I have played with dolls since early childhood and never stopped loving them). I lucked into the industry basically. I was working at a small toy company in 1995 called Just Toys, designing packaging which I loved. It was my first job in the Toy Industry and my boss at the time (Bill Goodwin) took a chance on me and hired me because of my passion for toys…

Read the rest of the wonderful interview here: Interview with Designers of the LittleMissMatched Dolls from TonnerToys — Doll Diaries.

They can be shopped on the LittleMissMatched website Here, as well as in Toys ‘R’ Us stores and their website too.

The bendable knees allow the Little MissMatched dolls to sit nicely in a chair, and the rotating elbow joints let the doll pose nicely while at the same time making her easy to redress. Have you ever tried to dress a doll with straight, unbending arms? Ugh. Not so easy. The MissMatched dolls can touch their own foreheads! That’s some nice flexibility.

I was super pleased with the shoes. They are a nice quality for the price and look SO CUTE! The QVC set comes with two pairs of shoes: houndstooth rain boots and black mary janes. The doll comes with NINE socks, all mis-matching but in coordinating colors, which is terribly fun. This QVC set also comes with a pair … I mean, a trio … of striped, child-sized socks that are absolutely fun and adorable. They’re also mis-matched but coordinating. I love that there’s an extra sock thrown in there just for the fun of it.

There are several clothing pieces for the Little MissMatched doll. A few of the pieces are reversible, which is nice. For example, one of the skirts can be either gray or pink depending on which way the doll wears it. The quality of the clothing is all right for a playline doll. Closures are with velcro. Some of the inside seams are finished and some are not. The only problem I had with the clothing was that one of the three shirts that came with the doll was too tight at the cuff for the hand to go through. This seems to be a factory issue which can be addressed by more careful fitting when the clothing is made. Otherwise, the clothing was easy to handle and easy to get on the doll.

While changing the clothes, I noticed the doll has painted-on white panties! Hee hee. Although I wouldn’t want this on a pricey collector’s doll, I thought it was appropriate for a kids’ toy. The way the panties are done is much nicer than the molded “panties” that playline Barbies sometimes have.

There was a small bit of red staining on one of the doll’s shoulders from the dress she wears under the coat. I think I can just hand-wash the red dress in detergent so it won’t stain again, and it should be fine. I haven’t tried to get the staining off the shoulder yet, but I should be able to get it off with Remove-Zit or some other compound.

Oh, by the way … my 3-year-old LOVES the doll. I can’t get it away from her, now. The first thing she wanted to do was to rearrange the doll’s positioning. She played with posing the arms and legs for a few minutes, then wanted to take the boots off to exchange them for the mary janes. Then she wanted to strip the doll completely and put on new clothes, for which she needed my help. Being not-quite-4, she’s not very good yet at redressing dolls. An older child wouldn’t have any problem.

She named her new doll “George.”

When the QVC gift set date and time was finally announced, I was so happy I set several reminders so I wouldn’t miss the launch. I did something I almost never do—I actually watched QVC, with enthusiasm!, when the LMM hour with the Tonner doll was broadcast.  The Uptown Girl set was presented very well, with a good shout-out to Tonner collectors. I must confess, I did go onto the QVC website that morning, before the broadcast, from curiosity—and there she was, the Tonner Toy Uptown Girl Little Miss Matched gift set, at a surprisingly low price. I must have been among the very first buyers, because I also was one of the first to receive the set a few days later.

I was very pleased at the presentation of Uptown Girl in her box. There’s a nicely-done transparent window, and the doll herself was in an appealing pose. I opened the box, and there also were two very full small bags with clothes, socks, another pair of shoes, and a child-size set of anklet socks. I can’t wear them, alas!, but a very large doll in my collection can, so that was added value for me.

The fastenings of the doll in the box weren’t excessive, but I was flummoxed for a moment by the plastic band stitched to her lovely thick hair. I realized quickly that this is a real improvement over the usual mass marketed doll’s hair fastening, as it left no permanent crinkles or rubber band grooves in the hair. I got out my embroidery scissors, snipped a couple of stitches, and tugged; the band came right off and her hair wasn’t creased or bent at all.

She comes dressed in a black and white houndstooth print coat, with a cute red knit dress, LMM socks, and really adorable rainboots that I wish came in my size!  The boots also have a nicely finished opening up the back, so no struggling to get them on or off. The clothing fastenings are all Velcro, but it’s quality Velcro that is flexible and low pile, so it doesn’t end up tearing out the doll’s hair and picking up fibers of all sorts.

The clothing included with the set is adorable, and the separates are largely reversible, to quickly and easily change a look and add quite a bit to the play value. I’m personally very pleased at all the purples in the mix, and there’s even a colorblocked polo shirt in her wardrobe. All these pieces are versatile and adorable, the doll has an extensive wardrobe right out of the box, and she’s well dressed for any occasion that a doting owner might carry her to.

The doll herself is nicely jointed, and the joints are good and tight. The joints will loosen with more posing, but they’re perfect for the active play a child will put a doll through. I was very pleased that she doesn’t have wrist and ankle joints; as a collector I prefer them, but those joints are much too fragile for a child’s handling and would break quickly, resulting in tears. The doll’s body itself is nicely finished—no scratchy flashing, and the vinyl and plastic are even-toned and healthy-looking (no spray-tan zombie effect, thank goodness).

And that FACE!  It’s obvious that this is a Tonner doll, as the head is nicely sculpted, and the features are symmetrical, well screened, and nicely placed, with a lovely warm smile that makes me smile in response. What I particularly love about Uptown Girl is that she looks like a young girl. No heavy makeup, no simpering pout, just a friendly, happy smile and big expressive eyes. She’s so cute I can’t imagine anyone not finding that face appealing. Even my teenage son finds her cute, and changed her shoes and socks when I wasn’t in the room to see him playing with a doll!

I can’t wait for the rest of the line of dolls and outfits to come out, and will be haunting my local Toys-R-Us in anticipation of so many more good things to come from Tonner Toys and LittleMissMatched.

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