Alisha by Helen Kish, an 8-inch doll with bent baby legs has red hair and brown painted eyes.
Usually I am forced to wait for dark-skinned dolls to enter Kish's doll lines. I find myself anticipating the next one and often am required to wait more than a year. This year Alisha was introduced. I preordered her immediately in April. She arrived last month, my last new doll, and was well worth the wait.
More pictures:
Full-length picture of Alisha. I added her pink ribbon headband.
Alisha on display; with arms gesturing, "Pick me up pweeze."
See more cute Kish kids here (courtesy of Phyllis Schlatter).
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I love Helen Kish and her dolls. I only have a couple and none of then are brown skinned. I have tried to get Jessamyn a couple of times, but those prices are sometimes prohibitive to my brain. The ones that I have, I bought on incredible sales. So is Alisha the same size as Riley? If she is, I am surprised she doesn't have bendable arms.
ReplyDeleteHi Vanessa,
ReplyDeleteAlisha is sculpted on a larger scale than Riley and her friends. They (R&F's) stand 7 inches tall. Alisha is 8 inches tall and is an overall "thicker" doll than R&F.
In the promo image, Alisha is held by one of Helen's 16-inch dolls.
Only a select few of Helen's dolls are articulated. It would be nice if they all were.
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All of the new Riley size dolls are articulated as of 3+ish yrs ago. Hopefully they still are. So when I thought she was Riley's size, I wondered why she hadn't gotten the articulation. Since she is bigger, I completely understand.
ReplyDeleteOkay... with the exception of Mowgli, all my other older dark-skinned Riley sized dolls are not articulated. So it probably has been 3+ years since Helen made another dark skinned Riley friend, which is why I wouldn't have known she is now using the articulated bodies for this size now.
ReplyDeleteIt's too bad they choose not to include dark-skinned dolls at least once a year or once every other year, but chosing not to do so saves me money.
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