Z Yang Doll & Meet Outfit
May 19, 2017 0:56:34 GMT -5
Post by Candace on May 19, 2017 0:56:34 GMT -5
I ended up caving - got me a Z from Amazon. I’ll post a photobucket album this weekend.
I’ll start with the outfit.
t-shirt: this is 100% unique to Z. It is cute and I love it, no complaints. It has the camera logo with Smile! written on it.
skirt: this is about 80% similar to McKenna’s set from a few years go. Instead of purple stitching it has black stitching. It does not have the McKenna logo; instead there is a brag tag. The color is also slightly more grey than McKenna’s set. The pockets are non-functioning.
leggings: I’ve seen these somewhere but can’t place where. They’re nice and basic, and since I don’t have the older version of them, I’m fine with the ones that come with this set.
shoes: These are 100% identical to the mix-and-match shoes from the TM line, the sparkly slip-ons. I love the first set, and don’t mind the duplicate set. They do shed glitter a little, both the TM set and Z’s set.
And now Z herself.
My Z has normal vinyl. It is not squishy at all. I’m the owner of a very squishy Maryellen, and Z is not at all like her in terms of squishiness. I’d say Z’s vinyl is like my Lea doll from last year.
Z’s face is cute, not garish looking. Mine has normal thickness for AG hair - not scary thin like some of the Tenney dolls out there, and some of the Kailey, Jess, and Julie dolls I’ve handled over the years. No complaints here either.
And now the torso. Z does have permapanties. Mine does not have the weird butt issues or muffin top. She actually has more of a normal looking AG doll posterior. In her middle, my Z is actually fatter than many of my other dolls. The new torso design is awful. I’m thinking at some point I will end up with a fixer upper Kit or Julie from eBay and get Z a new torso. The torso fabric and new design is actually worse than the permapanties. The fabric is so thin I can see all the seams and the serged ends of the top of the permapanties through the torso itself. It is thin and scratchy and after one outfit change the torso, particularly the upper part, the non-permapanty part - began to pill. It is very noticeable and obvious. It is awful. I’ve never seen a cloth doll with a pilling torso, and I’ve handled OG dolls. The new fabric seems to be the reason for the poopy butt problem, the muffin top problem, the weird bunching of the neck area where the zip tie goes, and all the other weird torso issues. My Z doesn’t have all the bunching around the neck from the cheap fabric + ziptie but she does have weird bunching where the polyfill has settled. While I can move the polyfill around a bit, sometimes it moves back and sometimes it will shift. The cheaper torso also seems to encourage the polyfill to settle - something I’ve only seen on old AG dolls before now. The back seem - the seam that goes up and down the back of the torso -is buckling horribly. The polyfill has settled around my Z’s shoulders giving her a linebacker look. There is a notable gap between the head and the cloth torso - the base of the head, where there is no polyfill within the torso, and you can feel the whole hard plastic base of the doll’s head. There are just so many issues beyond permapanties with the new torso fabric that it is annoying. I’m fairly certain that barring some exceptions, Z may be my last new from AG or it’s partners AG doll. The issues with the new torso are just awful. They don’t readily show up in photographs but handling one of these newer dolls with the issues shows just how far AG has dropped the quality on their new dolls.
What is really, really annoying most of all is that AG chose Z to be the first doll to get this awful new body type 100%. For this reason I can’t give Z more than a C grade. . Cute doll, great collection. Lousy quality on the doll.
I’ll start with the outfit.
t-shirt: this is 100% unique to Z. It is cute and I love it, no complaints. It has the camera logo with Smile! written on it.
skirt: this is about 80% similar to McKenna’s set from a few years go. Instead of purple stitching it has black stitching. It does not have the McKenna logo; instead there is a brag tag. The color is also slightly more grey than McKenna’s set. The pockets are non-functioning.
leggings: I’ve seen these somewhere but can’t place where. They’re nice and basic, and since I don’t have the older version of them, I’m fine with the ones that come with this set.
shoes: These are 100% identical to the mix-and-match shoes from the TM line, the sparkly slip-ons. I love the first set, and don’t mind the duplicate set. They do shed glitter a little, both the TM set and Z’s set.
And now Z herself.
My Z has normal vinyl. It is not squishy at all. I’m the owner of a very squishy Maryellen, and Z is not at all like her in terms of squishiness. I’d say Z’s vinyl is like my Lea doll from last year.
Z’s face is cute, not garish looking. Mine has normal thickness for AG hair - not scary thin like some of the Tenney dolls out there, and some of the Kailey, Jess, and Julie dolls I’ve handled over the years. No complaints here either.
And now the torso. Z does have permapanties. Mine does not have the weird butt issues or muffin top. She actually has more of a normal looking AG doll posterior. In her middle, my Z is actually fatter than many of my other dolls. The new torso design is awful. I’m thinking at some point I will end up with a fixer upper Kit or Julie from eBay and get Z a new torso. The torso fabric and new design is actually worse than the permapanties. The fabric is so thin I can see all the seams and the serged ends of the top of the permapanties through the torso itself. It is thin and scratchy and after one outfit change the torso, particularly the upper part, the non-permapanty part - began to pill. It is very noticeable and obvious. It is awful. I’ve never seen a cloth doll with a pilling torso, and I’ve handled OG dolls. The new fabric seems to be the reason for the poopy butt problem, the muffin top problem, the weird bunching of the neck area where the zip tie goes, and all the other weird torso issues. My Z doesn’t have all the bunching around the neck from the cheap fabric + ziptie but she does have weird bunching where the polyfill has settled. While I can move the polyfill around a bit, sometimes it moves back and sometimes it will shift. The cheaper torso also seems to encourage the polyfill to settle - something I’ve only seen on old AG dolls before now. The back seem - the seam that goes up and down the back of the torso -is buckling horribly. The polyfill has settled around my Z’s shoulders giving her a linebacker look. There is a notable gap between the head and the cloth torso - the base of the head, where there is no polyfill within the torso, and you can feel the whole hard plastic base of the doll’s head. There are just so many issues beyond permapanties with the new torso fabric that it is annoying. I’m fairly certain that barring some exceptions, Z may be my last new from AG or it’s partners AG doll. The issues with the new torso are just awful. They don’t readily show up in photographs but handling one of these newer dolls with the issues shows just how far AG has dropped the quality on their new dolls.
What is really, really annoying most of all is that AG chose Z to be the first doll to get this awful new body type 100%. For this reason I can’t give Z more than a C grade. . Cute doll, great collection. Lousy quality on the doll.