Corolle Mon Premier Calin Naima Baby Doll

Finally, a doll that represents a baby of african decent by more than just color! Naima is beautiful, with her rich dark skin and her sweet tongue-y grin, she has larger lips than the other Calin dolls, and a flat, wide nose. It doesn't just stop there, take off her headband and look closely at her hair line and she has tiny little curls molded into the plastic.

Unfortunately like another reviewer mentioned, she does seem to be a little light on the stuffing. She is our fifth calin doll and she is by far the most floppy. When I get a chance I will be slipping the stitches on her back and stuffing some more fiberfill into her. I purchased this one because it was on sale, I wanted the one in the red outfit, though. This outfit did turn out to be cuter in real life.

I bought this doll for my daughters first birthday. She has another Corolle doll that she loves but I wanted to get her a dark skinned baby to love as well. Every time I would bring the picture up on the comuter she got so excited! Once we got it she was so happy to see the baby in person! It is a beautiful doll. I sort of wish it did not look like she was sticking her tongue out but that is not too big of a deal. I am sure this baby will be well loved by my daughter!

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I bought this doll to replace the one my daughter lost. She loved it so much so we got the exact same doll she had before, but it seems lighter than her old one like it has less stuffing in it and her head is very loose and turns just with gravity. Her old one didn't do that. These things give me the feeling it is not as well made as the older version we had. I could be wrong though. If we hadn't had the older version, we would think this one was great.

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we already own a Caucasian 'premier calin' corolle, and I thought it would be fun for my tot to have one of another race. I can't understand the decline in quality. Doll can't sit up unless head is in its lap. Clothes are of thinner material than other doll's.

Sending it back! I should have listened to other reviews. I am going to try buying the 'earlier model' of Naima thru ebay and see if it's better quality.

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OK, so I should have updated. I did try to send the doll back, but the company, I think called Kaplan, refused to have it back and insisted on giving a refund, tho I told them it wasn't of unacceptable, merely disappointing quality. no, they said, have the money back and don't return the doll. So we kept it. Well, it's true that it's floppy with thin clothes. But i have to tell you that my daughter LOVES the doll, and I feel a bit weird about that, given that we ended up with it as a freebie! she invents stories about this doll all the time, took it to Europe (and she was only allowed to take one doll with her) etc etc. In general, she spends more time with her, and thinking about her, than with the Caucasian one. As for her flopping over, she just accepts that. And as for her clothes, my daughter prefers to strip the clothes off her dolls anyway, so she never has her clothed, and she doesn't even notice that. So there we have it! I can't say whether I'd buy another , say, as a gift, but clearly the doll has brought a lot of pleasure to my kid.

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I bought this for my 2 year old daughter. Here are some pros and cons...

PROS:

Price We have more expensive Corolle dolls, but we caught this one on sale.

Black doll It's hard to find a quality doll that is not white. There just aren't as many options out there.

Portable Unlike the 14 inch Bebe Charmeur, my daughter can carry this one around comfortably in her arms.

Pretty She is prettier in person than she looks on the web. We are pleased.

CONS:

Stuffing It IS light on stuffing, so she is floppier than the Charmeur doll. My daughter doesn't notice or care, of course.

Neck You can feel a neck bar through the stuffing. The Charmeur doll doesn't have this. I think it's weird.

Hair The hair color is airbrushed on. I would have preferred some painted hair, but maybe I am expecting too much.

For what we paid of her, I am totally satisfied. This is a good doll for a young child.

UPDATE: I did actually open her up and add some stuffing, which gives her a much better weight and feel. She was just too floppy. It only took 5 minutes to do this, but really, you don't expect to have to do this with a Corolle doll.

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