About the new "bad" eyes and the current eye swap offer>> Archived Message
Posted by Elizabeth on February 1, 2019, 8:22 am, in reply to "Anyone on here do American Girl Dolls? Thinking of sending in for eye replacement? Don't >>"
Mid-2017, AG released dolls with new eyes. To boil it down . . . the whites were birth white, the iris parts were poorly printed, the eyes themselves were not weighted enough to fully close, and the eye lashes were narrowed, to where they were not wider than the iris only. The big thing was that the clear outer layer over the iris no longer covers the whites as well - the whites are on top of the outer clear layer over the iris, making the whites in the forefront! Here is a link to a blog entry my Sister did that shows comparison pictures. https://littlekumquat.weebly.com/little-kumquat-blog/ag-dolls-comparing-the-new-eyes-vs-old-eyes So, this problem is only on dolls made with these new eyes since mid-2017. By this Summer, they will be swapped to using the old-style eyes. However, that means that Tenney, Logan, and Gabriela are only available with old-style eyes from their original runs. Luciana and the four Truly Me boy dolls, as well as TM 78, 79, and 80, are only available with the new eyes. Also, all the dolls that have been made since the beginning of '17 have bad eyes. So that means historical, TM, anything. AG offered at the beginning of the year that they would be offering a free eye swap on any dolls with the new bad eyes. You send them in and they would replace the eyes for free and send them back to you. This is not done by the AG Doll Hospital, it is being done by another group in the same complex. We actually sent four dolls into the Doll Hospital for actual eye defects (silver eye and bubble eye) and they were returned flawless! So, the Doll Hospital is amazing! However, to have six out of six returned ruined from an eye swap that they offered as a service . . . awful. Here is another blog entry that shows what happened to our six dolls that arrived back yesterday. https://islandshiregazette.blogspot.com/2019/01/six-dolls-return-from-eye-exchange-just.html
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Message Thread:
- Anyone on here do American Girl Dolls? Thinking of sending in for eye replacement? Don't >> - Elizabeth January 31, 2019, 1:07 pm
- About the new "bad" eyes and the current eye swap offer>> - Elizabeth February 1, 2019, 8:22 am
- Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry! We have 3 now but I didn’t know about eyes>> - Maureen in Alaska February 1, 2019, 4:26 am
- Re: Anyone on here do American Girl Dolls? Thinking of sending in for eye replacement? Don't >> - marym74 January 31, 2019, 11:01 pm
- Oh, my gosh! That sounds horrible!! - Kathleen in NKY January 31, 2019, 9:56 pm
- I have several that I've had for years. Never thought about - Denise in MI January 31, 2019, 5:12 pm
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