CREATABLE WORLD GGG53 Deluxe Character Kit Customisable Doll, Creative Play for All Kids 6 Years Old and Up, Copper Straight Hair

I first came across the idea of ‘gender neutral’ dolls on a doll forum when I was researching and this led me to the Creatable World range on Amazon. I wanted to buy something different to amuse my eight year old granddaughter when her mother, my daughter, went into labour with the new baby, so decided these would be ideal.I bought two kits – GGG53 with copper straight hair and GGG5 with black straight hair, as these were the two that appealed to me the most out of the range (I think there are five in the range at present). I also found the GGG56 character (dark blonde curly) online secondhand (nude) and bought that one too. I didn’t think that one doll (or character) was enough to make a good game.So when the time came I took the new boxes to my granddaughter to see what she made of them. You lift the lids and there are the dolls packed nicely with their clothes into the moulded clear plastic.. You just take the dolls and items out, and ready to play straight away – no cutting off awkward plastic ties. (Then when you have finished the doll and the items all go back into the same place – very neat).My granddaughter took the lids off – her eyes swept the boxes – and she said ‘Oh I get it – they are boys, but they are girls too!’. We got everything out and she immediately slammed on the dolls’ wigs making them (in her opinion) into ‘girls’. We dressed them up but she didn’t play with them as such, at first.I give these dolls the thumbs up for quality and durability. They are jointed at elbows, wrists, knees and ankles making them very poseable. The clothes are varied, fit well and very well made . Each kit comes with three pairs of shoes and other items like bags, glasses. At a later stage, I tried a few Barbie clothes on these dolls – some items iike skirts, shorts etc will be ok and even some dresses.After a while, my ten year old grandson drifted in. I asked him if he would like to ‘create a character’ (I deliberately didn’t say ‘play with these dolls’) but was still quite surprised when he did. He took over GGG56 and left him with short hair and dressed him up (he said) as a rock star. Then we all played a department store game with the characters buying clothes and interacting with each other. My granddaughter gave each character two names – a typical girls name and a typical boys name.I asked my granddaughter if she was rating the kits out of five stars what would she give them – she said four because she felt there could be more clothes. I thought for the money they were good value. Since I bought (before Xmas ’19) the price has dropped which makes me wonder if these dolls are not selling as well as Mattel thought they would. I see that some people are buying the kits, splitting them up and selling the pieces individually as buy it now or auction online. This would be an extremely expensive way to acquire these dolls and if you are thinking of buying, I would suggest it would be far better to buy a full kit, brand new. The wigs are not really interchangeable between the dolls as their fringe, or front bit of hair, is always showing (unless you like a two-tone colour look!). I also didn’t think the wigs fitted as well as they should (though not too bad). Another review I read said that they would’ve preferred the dolls to be bald, with different wigs – I think that would’ve been my best choice too.I liked these dolls, my granddaughter did too – but when all’s said and done, they are just nice little dress-up dolls with pre-teen body.

These dolls are beautiful!They offer a chance to style however you feel.Amazing selection of clothing and accessories, the quality of which are as good as you would expect.Great item, let the children explore and be seen!

I liked the fact that you could chose if the character became a Boy or a Girl but I would have preferred that the hairpiece fitted the head a lot better. Mine had to stay as a Boy as the hairpiece kept falling off. Nice set of clothes. I actually found another one on The Works for half the price of this one but I thought the price paid for both was a lot better than the original price for them from Mattel - that was a bit too steep to pay when you consider the age group they are really for

Brilliant idea although I have a 7 year old daughter that doesn’t spend much time with dolls. I was hoping to keep her young with dolls and think it’s brilliant. Her younger sister loves it age 5.

Wanted one of theses sets for a while and got this for a great price. Arrived well packed and in perfect condition and in less than 24 hours! What a service! Very happy

Arrived promptly, looks good, but will not know until christmas when great niece is given it from Santa

This was a huge hit at Christmas for my Nice. Really adored it and had great fun with the different clothes.

Just as pictured, my child lives this doll! She was over the moon with it!