Well, the background stories are cute, and they're meant to be educational for kids. Plus it's a marketing strategy. "And Samantha opened the present to find... a beautiful doll! [which you too can buy in our catalog! Your Samantha WANTS it.]" But when I got mine, when I was 10 (way back when you were... never mind), they were still really new and hardly anybody had them, and there only existed 3 dolls. There was nowhere near the amount of marketing and obsession that there is now. It was all very classy and felt unique and special.
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Well, the background stories are cute, and they're meant to be educational for kids. Plus it's a marketing strategy. "And Samantha opened the present to find... a beautiful doll! [which you too can buy in our catalog! Your Samantha WANTS it.]" But when I got mine, when I was 10 (way back when you were... never mind), they were still really new and hardly anybody had them, and there only existed 3 dolls. There was nowhere near the amount of marketing and obsession that there is now. It was all very classy and felt unique and special.
Wow, my Samantha is older than you. o_o