Pizza Hut BOOK IT! Set
Feb 24, 2023 9:37:48 GMT -5
Post by bingandnelsonfan on Feb 24, 2023 9:37:48 GMT -5
Released in February 2023.
Like many kids in the’90s, Isabel and Nicki participate in Pizza Hut’s® BOOK IT!™ Program by reading books to earn a free one-topping personal pan pizza.
Includes: A personal pan pizza, and a paper pizza box with authentic ’90s Pizza Hut® logo and graphics. A red transparent cup with a white Pizza Hut® logo, a pretend parmesan shaker and a pretend red pepper shaker. A doll-sized purple ’90s BOOK IT!™ pin replica from the ’90s that can clip onto clothing, and a doll-sized “free pizza” certificate for reading books in the BOOK IT!™ program. A doll-sized version of Super Slumber Parties, an American Girl® book for girls released in 1997.
Pizza Hut® BOOK IT!™ Set for 18-inch Dolls
Price: $32.00
SKU#: HNR80
Includes: Four Pizza Slices, Plastic Black Pizza Pan, Cardboard Pizza Box, Red Pizza Hut Drinking Glass, Spatula, Hot Pepper Shaker, Parmesan Cheese Shaker, Book-It "button", Book-It Coupon, mini Slumber Party Book.
Rating: A++++++++++
This is now one of our all-time favorite AG sets! Besides reminding Sis and me of some of the happiest times of our childhood (reading and pizza with friends), it’s the magic word around dolls in our house. FOOD!!! Our dolls are food crazy.
I’m going to use my own photos of these set pieces, instead of AG’s stock photos.
So, what's the best part of this set? It’s the RED PLASTIC GLASS! I’m not kidding! It’s almost (okay, maybe not, but almost) worth the price of the set. As members of a homeschool group, we all saved our coupons to eat together, often filling the large sit-down area at Pizza Hut. It was a lot of fun, and seeing this set really brings back good memories. (Funny story. When we opened the box, we were all grabbing like maniacs. The glass came out, and a momentary silence hit before the squealing started. Three women all talking at once. What was the first thing Sis said? “Oh, I can’t believe it! It looks exactly like the real thing. Feel the rough finish. Can’t you just taste that awful city water with the bad-tasting ice cubes in it?” We all had to stop for a good laugh, because Mom and I answered with “Oh, you’re right! It’s just PERFECT!” True story.)
Have you gotten the idea that we’d give this set more than five stars if we could? Everything in here is the PERFECT size for AG dolls, and that isn’t always the case with their items. Thumbs up to AG for making sure this happened! The cardboard box looks just like the ’90s Pizza Hut boxes.
The red glass has the old logo and pebble finish of the ’90s. (I won’t bother showing it again.) The parmesan and hot-pepper shakers are similar to the ones you got in Maryellen’s Seaside Diner, and the “innards” look more like the real thing than the glitter they usually use. (No kidding, it looks like parmesan and red-pepper flakes inside the shakers).
The pizza is a really nice plastic (nicer than previous pizza releases, in my opinion) that resembles a stuffed-crust pizza a bit. They even painted the bottom of it to look like a golden crust, which is a step up for them.
The spatula is plastic and looks just like the old ones.
The perfectly sized “pin” is a clipback, and the Certificate is a perfect reproduction of what we used to get.
And did I mention the red glass! Your dolls will insist on EACH having one! American Girl needs to put these on sale REALLY SOON!
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
There are two things worth mentioning about the set, I think. I don’t know how important it is to you, but the box is not a cardboard box like AG’s previous releases. It’s just a lightweight cardstock with a shiny finish. They really shouldn’t have chintzed here, but you now know that you’ll just have to be really careful with repeated use. The other issue is a bit more serious, but don’t let it keep you from buying the set. Ready? It isn’t a Personal Pan pizza. Nope. It’s the size of Pizza Hut’s classic medium pizza. The size of the pizza and pan are way too large for a PP pizza. The pan is not the PP tall-sided one. It’s the shallow medium pan.
While it was momentarily disappointing to see that it was not a PP pizza, the jubilation from the doll crowd here was enough to make it just as good . . . in a different sort of way. These boxes and pizza slices are a perfect medium-size for the dolls. It will look like they medium or large pizzas, and the dolls can pose with the boxes. These pizzas almost look edible (better than any other 18″ doll pizza we’ve seen), and now Harold will have a stack of to-go boxes that fit in his delivery wagon!
Thought you’d like to see this new Pizza Hut pizza side-by-side with the pizza and box from AG’s TM Pizza Party Set #2 (2018-21).
(Update: After several days of adult doll play, we've decided that AG went way too cheap on these new boxes. They're very thin and will not hold up to repeated opening and closing. They also bend quite easily, since they are not cardboard. Well, they aren't board of any kind. It's just some cheap coated paper printed to look like a Kraft box. So, what we're going to do is empty the pizza slices into a separate container for storage and leave the boxes carefully stored in a drawer. That way, when we want to use the boxes in a photo shoot, they'll still look nice.)
Like many kids in the’90s, Isabel and Nicki participate in Pizza Hut’s® BOOK IT!™ Program by reading books to earn a free one-topping personal pan pizza.
Includes: A personal pan pizza, and a paper pizza box with authentic ’90s Pizza Hut® logo and graphics. A red transparent cup with a white Pizza Hut® logo, a pretend parmesan shaker and a pretend red pepper shaker. A doll-sized purple ’90s BOOK IT!™ pin replica from the ’90s that can clip onto clothing, and a doll-sized “free pizza” certificate for reading books in the BOOK IT!™ program. A doll-sized version of Super Slumber Parties, an American Girl® book for girls released in 1997.
Pizza Hut® BOOK IT!™ Set for 18-inch Dolls
Price: $32.00
SKU#: HNR80
Includes: Four Pizza Slices, Plastic Black Pizza Pan, Cardboard Pizza Box, Red Pizza Hut Drinking Glass, Spatula, Hot Pepper Shaker, Parmesan Cheese Shaker, Book-It "button", Book-It Coupon, mini Slumber Party Book.
Rating: A++++++++++
This is now one of our all-time favorite AG sets! Besides reminding Sis and me of some of the happiest times of our childhood (reading and pizza with friends), it’s the magic word around dolls in our house. FOOD!!! Our dolls are food crazy.
I’m going to use my own photos of these set pieces, instead of AG’s stock photos.
So, what's the best part of this set? It’s the RED PLASTIC GLASS! I’m not kidding! It’s almost (okay, maybe not, but almost) worth the price of the set. As members of a homeschool group, we all saved our coupons to eat together, often filling the large sit-down area at Pizza Hut. It was a lot of fun, and seeing this set really brings back good memories. (Funny story. When we opened the box, we were all grabbing like maniacs. The glass came out, and a momentary silence hit before the squealing started. Three women all talking at once. What was the first thing Sis said? “Oh, I can’t believe it! It looks exactly like the real thing. Feel the rough finish. Can’t you just taste that awful city water with the bad-tasting ice cubes in it?” We all had to stop for a good laugh, because Mom and I answered with “Oh, you’re right! It’s just PERFECT!” True story.)
Have you gotten the idea that we’d give this set more than five stars if we could? Everything in here is the PERFECT size for AG dolls, and that isn’t always the case with their items. Thumbs up to AG for making sure this happened! The cardboard box looks just like the ’90s Pizza Hut boxes.
The red glass has the old logo and pebble finish of the ’90s. (I won’t bother showing it again.) The parmesan and hot-pepper shakers are similar to the ones you got in Maryellen’s Seaside Diner, and the “innards” look more like the real thing than the glitter they usually use. (No kidding, it looks like parmesan and red-pepper flakes inside the shakers).
The pizza is a really nice plastic (nicer than previous pizza releases, in my opinion) that resembles a stuffed-crust pizza a bit. They even painted the bottom of it to look like a golden crust, which is a step up for them.
The spatula is plastic and looks just like the old ones.
The perfectly sized “pin” is a clipback, and the Certificate is a perfect reproduction of what we used to get.
And did I mention the red glass! Your dolls will insist on EACH having one! American Girl needs to put these on sale REALLY SOON!
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
There are two things worth mentioning about the set, I think. I don’t know how important it is to you, but the box is not a cardboard box like AG’s previous releases. It’s just a lightweight cardstock with a shiny finish. They really shouldn’t have chintzed here, but you now know that you’ll just have to be really careful with repeated use. The other issue is a bit more serious, but don’t let it keep you from buying the set. Ready? It isn’t a Personal Pan pizza. Nope. It’s the size of Pizza Hut’s classic medium pizza. The size of the pizza and pan are way too large for a PP pizza. The pan is not the PP tall-sided one. It’s the shallow medium pan.
While it was momentarily disappointing to see that it was not a PP pizza, the jubilation from the doll crowd here was enough to make it just as good . . . in a different sort of way. These boxes and pizza slices are a perfect medium-size for the dolls. It will look like they medium or large pizzas, and the dolls can pose with the boxes. These pizzas almost look edible (better than any other 18″ doll pizza we’ve seen), and now Harold will have a stack of to-go boxes that fit in his delivery wagon!
Thought you’d like to see this new Pizza Hut pizza side-by-side with the pizza and box from AG’s TM Pizza Party Set #2 (2018-21).
(Update: After several days of adult doll play, we've decided that AG went way too cheap on these new boxes. They're very thin and will not hold up to repeated opening and closing. They also bend quite easily, since they are not cardboard. Well, they aren't board of any kind. It's just some cheap coated paper printed to look like a Kraft box. So, what we're going to do is empty the pizza slices into a separate container for storage and leave the boxes carefully stored in a drawer. That way, when we want to use the boxes in a photo shoot, they'll still look nice.)