Maplelea Girls, Part Two

Generation Differences

 Dolls vary from generation to generation. The original 1st generation Taryn was supposed to have brown eyes, but something went wrong and so she had RED eyes. These 1st generation dolls are rare and highly sought-after and so they go for a lot on second hand sites.

Every few years the dolls outfits are changed. Sometimes, the doll herself is changed.

 In 2018, Jenna was changed. She had bright green eyes, similar to American Girl’s historical Felicity.  Now, she has dark green eyes, like BeForever Felicity. She also has a new outfit. Luckily, if you don't like the new doll, but you like her outfit, you can buy a set that includes the old Jenna, her old outfit, and her new outfit for $120 CAD.

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    Maplelea Spa

Like the American Girl Doll Hospital, the Maplelea Girls have something similar, the Maplelea Spa.

 Unlike the Doll Hospital, the Spa replaces the entire doll.

 Maplelea warns you that if you have an earlier gen doll, they will be replaced with the current generation doll, but the doll will be the same if you send in a doll of the current generation, they'll be fine.

 You can also have just the head or just the body replaced, but the Spa has a fixed price of $54 CAD. The new doll will come with: a bathrobe with a maple leaf embroidering, slippers, and journal pages that explains the character’s stay, which you can put in their diary. I am not sure if it is based on the character, as the Maplelea Friends are supposed to have their personalities made by the owner, therefore, the Friends’ diaries are blank.

 To send a doll in, you must print a “Spa Admission Form.” once you've filled out the form, you place the form and undressed doll in a box. Do not use newspaper, as it could bleed through the form, and they would not be able to replace your doll. You then use the adress on the form and mail the doll to Maplelea.

The process is exactly like sending a doll to the AG Doll Hospital.

Maplelea Girls, Part One.

About Maplelea Girls

 In 2003, Avonlea (pronounced Avon-lee, like Maple-lee) created the Maplelea Girls, a doll line to get Canadian girls to learn more about their country. Each character lives in a different part of Canada.

 The dolls come with a full outfit and a notebook.

They cost $99.99 CAD, but $77.14 USD

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What are “Generation Stamps?”

All Maplelea Dolls have a stamp on the backs of their necks which read something like:

    CG   or: CG

 2008-1          2003-1

 2016-6

CG stands for Canadian Girl. Leónie came out in 2008, so that was her first generation, so 2008, 1st gen. I'm not exactly sure how long a certain generation is around, I think it's about 1-2 years.

If you have, say, a Taryn with the second stamp, it means you have a first Taryn!

Also, the first date/gen is indented into the dolls neck, while the second one is printed on. 

To learn more, I direct you here. 

To be continued...

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Celebrities as dolls!

So, whenever there's a popular movie, Mattel sometimes makes a Barbie or Ken doll based off of the Actors/Actresses. Usually they make a doll for each movie, for example, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part Two.
It's kinda strange how they made dolls for Mockingjay Part Two instead of just Mockingjay.
There have been dolls for The Hunger Games, Divergent, Twilight, Wonder Woman and Tomb Raider. There have been more, but I can't remember them. There have also been dolls for popular things like I Love Lucy, The Wizard of Oz, and stuff.

For The Hunger Games, there was a Katniss doll with the Goddess face mold.
Catching Fire, there was Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence), Peeta, Finnick (Sam Claflin) and Effie Trinket. (Elizabeth Banks)
Mockingjay Part Two, there was Katniss, Peeta, Gale.

For Divergent, there was Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four, who, by the way, looks nothing like Theo James. I mean, the mold does, but the paint... No.
For Insurgent, I believe there was only Tris.

For Twilight... I'm not really sure.
I only know Bella. I need to read the book.


For Wonder Woman... um, too many.


In my opinion, the I Love Lucy doll looks freaky and demented. Lucille Ball looked a lot better in the 1950's show.

The 90's Dorothy doll looks okay, but kinda Barbie-esque (But don't they all?) To make her shoes glow, she had little red light bulbs in her feet, which look weird. She also sang.

I'd personally love to have all of the dolls for The Hunger Games and Divergent. How about you?

                                                             Well, 'til Next Time!!  - JCole