This face sculpt is the most beautiful ❤

❤❤❤ she is so femme fatale

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TRUTH.❤

Wow she is so GORGEOUS ❤❤❤❤❤

Tbh I want Jenna from maplelea bc I'm also a ginger lol

Just dream your not broke after this

if you're wanting to dye a doll, i have the same one as betty i believe (#82) and can sell her to you for under retail! 😁 also as a fellow d&d fan i have to ask, do you want critical role or dimension 20??

Oh wow sophia this is amazing that maplelea is recognizing how awesome your channel is! Congratulations on getting to review some of their products! I've had the Muskoka lumberjack outfit on my wishlist for awhile now and so getting to see it close up was so nice!

This is my first time hearing about this doll line. Do you or anyone else have an overview about the company and its brand history? I’m guessing this was Canada’s direct response to Pleasant Company/Mattel’s American Girl. As a huge fan of the aforementioned brand, I will say that I never owned any merchandise outside of books and catalogs, but hot take, as much as I always loved the dolls, I find their faces kind of goofy; this Leonie doll has by far a much cuter face mold.

Nice to see you get some items for review, and I like the way you did it. Your previous discussion of Maplelea has definitely raised my interest in the brand (I purchased some items last year), and I think their dolls and clothes look even better in person, so a video like this can help show them off.

Apparently the two Frozen dolls will not come in a play version as rumour jas ot.

Great video! I’m so happy they sent you products I know you single-handedly have let so many people in the AGIG/AGTube community in the States know about Maplelea. Your new Leonie looked so pretty in the outfits and you really have a knack for doll videography, when she dropped the bucket on the beach that was so cute! I hope yall enjoyed your time together and I really loved the formatting/editing/style of this video really high quality wow.

It's called a Canadian lumber jack shirt. The plaid one. It's an ionic Canadian classic.

They have great shoes ♥️💯

So cute , thanks for sharing . Quality looks really nice .

Hi Sophia, This was a really nice video showing off the beautiful Leonie. I loved seeing the scenes of PEI. I hope to visit one day. I live closer to Charlsea in BC next to SaltSpring Island. I hope to add her and a few other MapleLea dolls to my collection soon. You gave such a nice review! I have been watching your channel for a while and I really love seeing your MapleLea dolls. 🥰

Have they changed the doll mold. I love the Maplelea outfits and have purchased them. Thanks for the review.

I loved this style of video! I'm so happy that Maplelea recognizes your great KZbin channel! Leonie is definitely on my wishlist--she looks so cute in everything! Prince Edward Island is a place I've been dreaming about going to for years. Thanks for taking us out and about--hopefully someday I'll actually get to visit.

Mia is overrated and Lindsay is underrated. Mia's Meet outfit is very meh. Her skirt and top always come apart in the middle. Her fancy skating outfit is in "hospital green". The rest is ok. Lindsay has an adorable Meet outfit. She doesn't have much else, but as a stand-alone doll she is VERY cute. The rest of the dolls I am more or less in sync with you. Janani was overrated when she came out. The craze has calmed down, whereas Léa is incredibly photogenic.

I am so happy for you that Maplelea sent you this box. You have a great channel and I believe it is channels like yours that has brought Maplelea to a higher status of popularity. I loved seeing the first outfit because I have considered buying that one. All their clothes are so cute. Great quality. Honestly the end of this video made me cry in the best way. I grew up watching Avonlea and reading a lot of books, seeing shows and movies set in Canada. It was great to see a tour of your beautiful local haunts.

Great video! I have the "Muskoka Lumberjacket Outfit" and love it. All the others outfits are so nice as well! The sporty sandals are so cool! And, WOW! Leonie is so beautiful 😍 What a temptation! 😄

Pointing at her on my shelf rn

How lovely 🩷

I think many biy the custom dolls and even worse, those customized by third party. I have seen one or two dolls well done bit so many horrible examples. They are very costly. First they buy the dolls, then they get custmized for a lot of money, and of theu then want to sell the dolls, very few of them are worth anywhere near what the total costs were. JMHO

The doll and everything with her is so cute

Thanks for the review! I have added 12 Maplelea Girls to my doll family. I love the quality of the dolls and their clothing. I was lucky to take a cruise to Halifax and brought Jenna with me.

That pink outfit is just the cutest! 🎀

They have the BEST quality doll clothes! Love their clothes!

Love it! Morton should use the picture of her in front of the Anne of Green Gables musical poster in the catalog. Cannot forget the roots. Question from what I can see you got the new window box is the flap magnetized? One of the unboxing mentioned it was but it was a Maplelea & Me also the journal was different dark blue with a magnetic closure. Yours seems to be the same of the ones with the flower closure I don’t know if that I’d just a newer dark blue journal is new of just for Maplelea & Me.

Leonie is so pretty. I especially like the first outfit you opened with the red checked shirt. Very Canadian!

Aaawww! How wonderful!!! And how wild is this: I just got Léonie, too!!! Although mine is quite TLC, so she is going to be a fun restauration project!! But she is a WONDERFUL doll - congrats on your new beautiful girl and outfits!!! Such a generous gift from Maplelea - they are amazing!!! Loved seeing scenes from PEI - I love it there!! Thanks for sharing your home province with us!!!

Thank You ‪@Maplelea‬ for sending me these products for the purpose of review!

Great video and topic! Lots of great points ans bravo for saying so. You are NOT alone! I think the world has changed too, fomo gets the best of everyone sometimes. I also live outside the U.s. and while I wouldn't say I get 'jealous' I do get sad that there are not as many social opportunities where I live to meet other like minded people. I don't have access to the a.g stores and would love to. But I think as I've gotten older I've come to realise that it's all about loving what we DO have and using social media for inspiration to do our own thing. I try to watch less unboxing and collection videos and focus on channels that encourage community. Your channel is GREAT, you are GREAT....just do you! Thank you for sharing. Your KZbin followers love you! Keep going!!!!!❤

I give my dolls first and middle names that look like they "suit them" for the most part, but I also pull from celebs or artists I like, like "Rina" for Rina Sawayama, "Phoebe" for Phoebe Bridgers, "Britney" for Britney Spears, and "Arantxa" for Arantxa Castilla La Mancha. In my mind, the dolls aren't supposed to be those people, but they're namesakes, basically. 😊

I love you so much! I recently just found your kislux and i’m in love!! Your videos are so fun and you energy is just MWAH! keep living your life

The Nutcracker Ballet is a ballet adaptation of ETA Hoffman's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. It absolutely counts as a book. X'''D Granted, the name of the girl varies a little. In most book adaptations, she's Marie, and in the ballet, she's Clara, but there are some book versions that call her Clara, so really you can get away with anything. I'm more a writer and a doll customizer than I am an AG collector. I have one Truly Me doll from when I was a kid, and her name is Katie. She's meant to look like me, and I'm Kat, so she got a nickname I don't use but could go with my name. But she's, so far, the only doll I have like this. When I'm making customs or naming characters in my works, I like to go for names that have sounds and meanings that suit the character. One of my favorite dolls is named Belladonna Nightshade. She's a tricky little fairy that cons people out of their Halloween candy. The name Belladonna means beautiful lady, but it's also a deadly plant that can really hurt you, so it suits her really well. Auran Dulce, one of my main characters for a story I'm writing, his name is fun. I had misremembered the name of Sir Aaron from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew as Auran, and I wanted a very knightly and gentlemanly character when I was building him. Auran also sounds like aurora, which fits with his motif of the aurora borealis and winter. Dulce, his last name, is the Spanish word for sweets, and he is in fact very sweet. Henry Stein, one of my favorite characters in a videogame, has a last name that means stone, or rock, and this is very interesting when you look at his backstory, where he's the rock for the central antagonist of that series. Name meanings are one of my favorite ways to go about naming a character, as it can give your reader insight into what you're planning, but it can also be good for foreshadowing a twist. That said, some of my names are nonsensical. Dydem and Jumbalah are two characters that had their names come from mashing sounds together. Dydem in particular is funny because I was trying to google something, and the computer lagged so much that I was left with these letters that formed it together. It was so freaky, but it works great for a merchild with the power of nightmares. Loraine, one of my other central protagonists, her name is because I like the sound of it, not because of its meaning. Auran's middle name is Delacey, because I like Thomas O'Malley's song from the Aristocats. Go ahead and sound things out, see how you like different sounds, maybe something will fit.

Mother of an 80s 90s kid girl. The first dolI bought her was Kirsten. She didn’t even know I’d bought it. I responded to the little tiny 2 x 3 ad that was in the back of either Martha Stewart or Better Homes & Gardens about a better way for play for children who were seven years old or older. That was the original way it was presented, and when they talked about the accessories and things that you could add, it was always based on someone being at least seven years old, the stories the books were really important if we were gonna get a new outfit or piece that was part of the collection we read the story that went with it and then bought the piece. And 1989 $75 for a doll was pretty nutty. But we lived in a very wealthy community. My daughter getting the doll sent off a chain reaction in her playgroup. Where it almost became a competitive sport to see who would get what the first. Birthday parties girls asked for outfits or accessories. Dolls became the item for birthday gifts or the bed or the trunk. And this time it was Kirsten, Molly, and Samantha. Maybe felicity I am not sure I mean we had them all they came in Christmas. They came for birthdays. They came when we had to have some major surgery, but they were treated properly put away properly. I didn’t find the same problems that we did with the Barbies, that littered the playroom and during the years of ages 3 to 5. This word these were special dolls and they need to be treated in a special way and when the girl like me or whatever when you could make the doll look like yourself we had those And girls of other ethnicities. And they were well taken care of and when the time with them was over, they were properly packed and put away for the future. The only time that I almost had a heart attack was the first time I saw Kirsten without her braids, I said I thought we talked about that. Well, seven-year-old is a seven-year-old but I can only think of that as being the very worst thing that ever happened my granddaughters are certainly at this age where they are ready to have these dolls they have a few of my daughters. She was very picky about what she put out to be played with and for Christmas summer is going to one of them and the ballerina doll with the purple is going to the other one. I already know that they’re getting Elsa and Anna I am not in favor of that. They’re too expensive and quite frankly I don’t think they should be played with, but that’s just my opinion. I’d like to think that that is the collection that American girl/Mattel puts out for their adult collectors. They will never be as nice or as well-made as the ones that we had in the beginning, but that’s everything today after all Mattel is a public-held company and it has to answer stockholders. They want their stock to increase. They want their dividends and like most things in life today stockholders are the ones that pull the strings show. The age group is chipping away. This is a doll that I would give as I am doing to a five-year-old Mattel 11:54 is moving towards a younger audience. That’s life that’s what comes with today’s day and age. I just hope that they remember that there are parents who started those years back with the original dolls and they keep a collectors line available for those of us who wish to add to them, but they are simply that a collect line not that’s why there’s a play line and there’s a collector line. Mattel has to serve two masters the young kids who are going to keep the company going and their parents who pick up the tab and have an interest in adding higher level, higher quality dolls for their own collections..

A friend introduced me to the Maplelea company through their outfits. I love the creativity, the diverse colors, the quality with attention to details which is something bigger companies have started to discard as they turned their aim to "production and fast cash". I bought several outfits since then, thrilled by what Maplelea has to offer; though I don't own a Maplelea at the moment. My American Girl dolls (which makes the most of my doll collection) and "I'm a Girly doll" are the ones wearing these outfits. I love all my dolls and find them gorgeous, so I guess we are all first attracted to what we are exposed the most. This being said, at 1st I was not too sure if I'd like to add a Maplelea doll to my collection. Being used to the AG eyes, that was the feature that made me hesitate to get a Maplelea doll. But as I looked at the catalog and website for my next outfits/accessories order; I kept seeing the dolls as well. I also got exposed to pics taken by people and I got very attached to Briane and Saila. I can relate to Briane a lot and I'm really considering having her as her personality, what she does and love remind me of myself. Just wish she had light golden brown hair 😉 In the Maplelea & Me line, I really like: 68, 51, 47, 46, 43, 41. I don't really have space for more dolls but I will have to work out something as I don't think I'll be able to resist much longer 😄 Now, my dilemma will be to choose between Briane or a Maplelea & Me. I'm gonna wait to see the upcoming Maplelea & Me that will be available in November.

I hope nothing retires im taking myself and my girls to an AG store for the first time ever

I think kids will love this doll. It speaks to current younger kid fashion, not ours. I feel like a lot of agig/tube compain about a lot of things most buyers wouldn't care about. I love her but I'll wait to catch her on a sale.inca few years.

I search for names I like: baby names, characters from favorite books, shows, movies…and keep a master list. Then, when I get a new TM I just say each name as I look at the doll and find the one that suits her. Then repeat for a middle name. But sometimes they just come to me. I’ve named three TMs I don’t even have yet without even trying (and none of those 3 names were on my list). I also jot down names while watching all my dolls videos. Everyone on AGKZbin is so creative. I love it! Great video! PS. I’m seriously considering buying a Maplelea doll. I’m not into the classic mold (yet!). What doll, that isn’t a classic mold, would you recommend for a newbie? It just seems like a nice company that truly cares about quality. I’m planning to get a doll and a few outfits. Thanks. I love your channel!

Hi Sophia, I liked your tip about letting the universe decide. This has happened to me many times, especially when I am fixing up a doll, suddenly their name will pop into my head. Thanks for a fun video. 🤗

Yeah, I recently got a few TMs and they still don't have names and only a hint of a backstory. 😄 Actually The Nutcracker is (loosely) based on a story called, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, so it fits in with your literature theme. 🙂 Thanks for posting this, it has been helpful. 🙂

I name my truely me dolls or custom dolls after my book characters. I use the baby names list for middle names 😂😂

7:18 I agree that they are advertising to younger kids more than before now

I've been so confused what to pick for #53 and #101. But you reminded me how I have been naming my pets, since the Twilight movie came out I started the theme of naming them the character's names from the movie. I have: Jasper, Leah and Bella lol. So I'll pick another theme because I'm sure I'll be buying more unnamed AGs in the future 😁

When I was a kid every doll I got my hands on was instantly & effortlessly issued a name. As an adult I have so unnecessarily struggled to name some of my truly me girlies. Whenever I see an article on baby names, I'm taking screenshots. I think the problem is I like too many names. I asked my son what I should name my #60 when he was like 4 yrs old, & he said Mustache! 😅 He's 12 now & still insists that is her name, he's never forgotten it.

I do like that they used the Nanea mold for Summer but she is still a hard pass for me.

This is amazing. I am a bit of a name geek but I was looking at Truly Me dolls last night and stuck on what I might name them. Great idea for a video.