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They're behind the music stand in the original too. The volume and power controls are on the side.

I think the sign is lame, but I was surprised at the quality of the chair and how sturdy it is, and I think the microphone is adorable. I do like the set a lot, and I don't even mind having paid full price for mine.

I have the Hanukkah set and I LOVE it! It's very well-made (real metal menorah), easy to play with (although there are lots of small pieces so it's definitely not for young kids) and SO ADORABLE.

Pix:

I like it except for the little balls at the end of the comb. Is it just me, or do they get stuck in dolls' hair all the freaking time? It's so hard to comb Samantha's hair because the little balls catch on her curls and frizz them. I really wish the ends were smooth, like the hairbrush is (I don't know if the current hairbrushes are like that, because mine is from about 1996, but yeah).

I got these glasses in 2007 when I got Margie. Blue wasn't my first choice of colors, but they were the right style to match my glasses, and since Margie is my mini-me, she needed to match. I have heard of some people painting the frames to be different colors, but I don't want to break them accidentally so blue they are. Plus, my glasses are always funky colors-- right now they're green, and the previous pair was red. Anyway. Pictures of Margie in her glasses:











I think I'm just biased, but I think these glasses only look good on blonde dolls. The blue is too pale on darker dolls, IMHO. I do wish they weren't so turquoise... I don't think I've seen any glasses IRL that are so bright!

I bought this outfit for Dawn, my #27:



First of all, I REALLY wish this outfit came with a camisole or something, because it just looks skanky without an undershirt.

Jacket: I don't know if this is common, but the right hand sleeve is very tight and extremely hard to get on around Dawn's wrist. The left sleeve was just fine. The sleeves also seem a little short. to me, this blazer is a very good example of AG cutting as much fabric as possible from everything in order to save on costs, and I hate it. The button is not super easy to button, and I'm afraid it may fall off, especially if I put it on a PM doll.

Pants: I LOVE the pants, except they are a little tight in the waist. I don't dare try them on a PM doll, since, as you can sort of see, they pull even on Dawn, and she's the skinniest and newest doll I have (from 2009). I love how the pants are really long, though, and the color is nice. I kind of wish the flowers weren't there so they would be a better mix and match piece.

Shoes: Very cute and sturdy! They stay on well and are easy to take on and off. I like the shoes a lot.

Beret: I don't know why it's such a horrible clashy color for the red jacket, but the style is cute, even though the beret is difficult to get on (much like Molly's meet beret and Mia's 2-in-1 hockey outfit hat). As you can see, I had a bit of trouble getting the hat to look good.

Overall: C+. Love the pants and shoes, overall cute, but definitely could stand to be improved (and cut bigger for god's sakes!!) and add a camisole. Currently, Margie is wearing this outfit with a white t-shirt underneath and it looks much better (I'll try and post a picture sometime soon).

I got my revised (not including earrings, that is) #27 at AGB Atlanta in July of 2009. I love her! Even though she no longer comes with earrings, I opted to get her ears pierced when I bought her because I thought that earrings suited her. I named her Dawn Katherine.

Here are some pictures of Dawn:


Right after purchasing her, at the mall in Alpharetta


Close-up


I am so in love with these dark blue eyes! Is Kit really the only other doll who has them? I like them so much more than the pale ones, they seem like they have a lot more depth.


I think she looks nice in the photographer outfit (which I purchased with her), except that I had trouble getting her hat on without messing up her hair, so please excuse the massive hat-fail here.


Here's Dawn at the B&B Dallas. She has one of the kindest faces I've ever seen on an AG.

I would give this doll an A. The only reason she doesn't get an A+ is because she has a short piece of layered hair on her right side that is too short to style in a lot of ways (it sticks out of braids, falls out of ponytails, etc)-- it's chin-length, like Kit's hair. I was worried her wig would be thin, but Dawn's wig is actually very lovely and a good thickness. Not as thick as some of my PM GOTs, but definitely better than I was expecting. Her hair is very nicely layered, and --I didn't know this until I bought her-- she has darker hair underneath the pale blonde, which is GORGEOUS. Under the top layer of blonde hair, her hair is kind of darker blonde. Very realistic-looking... next time I have my camera out, I will take pictures of it.

Overall, a very nice doll! I bought her to be a traveling doll, but I can't seem to give her up, haha.

I finally got Margie out for some sun in her Valentine's Day outfit. Here you can see her freckles and pierced ears pretty well:

I was really disappointed in these capris. I thought they would be a great mix-n-match set of pants for my girls, but they are too tight to even go on! I put them on Mara, who is a skinny PM, and she couldn't sit down at all. It was immensely difficult to get them on/off her calves, so I haven't bothered trying them on anyone else. I may try them on Samantha or Margie (my Mattel dolls) but yeesh. Wayyyy too tight. D+ because they're super cute, but they don't fit!

I have the PM version with snaps. Kind of annoying-- one of the shoes has a slightly fatter, shorter strap, and the other has a longer and thinner strap. I don't think I've ever used the red socks in the 12+ years I've had this set.

I like this set, though, because the other socks (the white ones) are quite versatile, and the mary janes are better than the cheap plastic ones Molly comes with.

Original Pleasant Company Bennett
I HATE this Bennett. Ugh. I got him for my birthday in 1995 or so, and he was creepy even then. Usually I like the PC/PM items, but the animals... not so much. (Ditto Kirsten's PM cats. Gross.)

I love the GS outfit, it matched the one I had in 1994, haha. My dolls don't wear it much anymore, but it got quite a lot of use in the 90s. I love the shoes that came with mine-- mine had the fuzzy loafers (like were in the catalog pictures of the time), not the smooth ones that are pictured above (and which my sister and our two friends also got... for some reason, I'm the only one who got the fuzzy ones). I'll try to post a picture at some point.

My only real problem with this outfit is the back. The front has cute (and I believe, period-appropriate?) pleats on it, but the back just looks cheap by comparison. I, too, wish she came with button boots instead of the boring mary janes, but they're decent all-purpose shoes, and they blend in with the tights so that's cool.

I have the Mattel version (I got my Sam in December of 2008), and the fabric is really thin and kind of wimpy-feeling.

Overall, I'd say B.

I kind of put it on like a beret, slouched over to the side:



I think it's actually one of the easier hats to deal with (god, Molly's beret is awful!). It's hard to get doll hats to look right in general. Good luck!