The Weird History of Strawberry Shortcake 

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Not necessarily an idea for a hypothetical gen 6, but after all these years, I'm surprised they have haven't made a witchy character named Pumpkin Spice

I am always surprised the original dolls still smell, like wow were those chemicals strong

I think rainbow high esque dolls but with cottagecore fashions would be wildly successful. They could dip into different fashion styles but keep the fruit motifs and it could work too.

I always found it a little sad that they straightened out Orange Blossom and Strawberry Shortcake’s hair after the 2000s. Those were the only dolls I had as a kid with “naturally” curly hair that looked more like mine.

2003 Strawberry Shortcake was a HUGE part of my childhood. I got so excited seeing this in my feed.

Considering how popular cottage core/return-to-earth stuff is right now, I'd take the Gen6 series back to it's roots of whimsy and nature themed aesthetics. The only other toy line that really has that aesthetic is Calico Critters but they're not what I would call fashion dolls.

I’m surprised we haven’t had a straight up magical girl strawberry shortcake yet! She has all the pieces for it! Colour coordinated girls, a mascot animal for each one, an extra fruit theming, two eeeevil villains… all it needs is magic powers!

Her italian name is Fragolina Dolcecuore which means Little Strawberry Sweet Heart and it still makes me chuckle

I would love to see a video about dolls related to Strawberry Shortcake like your Monster High “rip-off” video. Like cherry merry muffin, peppermint rose, lil miss, and rose petal place. I just think it would make such a great video since I don’t see a lot of people talking about those dolls!!

I think something similar to the style of Sylvanian Families/Calico Critters but with dolls would work SO well for Strawberry Shortcake. I think the cozy, cottagecore vibes would be super cute to see with these characters

I'd love to see a video about Holly Hobbie, if that was something you were planning to do in the future. My grandmother loved that brand - she even made her own quilts for it by transferring coloring pages onto fabric and embroidering them.

Great video! If I was in charge of a Gen 6, I'd bring back the fantasy elements and lean HEAVY into the cottagecore aesthetic for the character designs. I'd would probably include more male characters, for added diversity. I hope you cover Lady LovelyLocks at some point, she's one I'd love to see a reboot for.

Honestly, doubling down on the Strawberry being more tomboyish in terms of her fashion sense and creating a direct contrast in Orange Blossom would be fun. While everyone is into gardening and cooking, i also think having everyone be more into a certsin aspect of it would also work, especial if you wanted a more relaxed cozy show

I liked your point about 2003 Strawberry Shortcake being more tomboy like and not being overly girly. I grew up with that generation and I really believe that left an imprint on me and how I dress myself. As a kid most fashion dolls weren't appealing for my personality, but I was really into Strawberry Shortcake for just how simple her outfits were. I even dressed up as her for Halloween when I was 5. I like your analysis on this series and this has been my favorite video I've seen covering Strawberry Shortcake. Keep up the great videos!

I always think your voice is perfect for saying doll names outloud :D Like, "butter cookie, cherry cuddler" sounds really right when you say it lmao, i can't explain it great video as always!! i think only the 2009 (gen 4) version was popular where i live, so i only learned of her original look once i got way older, 2003 version is actually incredibly charming and is my favourite

i've always adored the Strawberry Shortcake cartoons ever since I was little. And so, growing up with the 2003 and onward versions of it's whimsical world with it's fairies and mermaids, I'm actually surprised that there was never a "magical girl" generation like Ojomajo Doremi or Star Darlings. It would honestly make a lot of sense and bring some more fun to the table. Also, at some point I really wanna cosplay as like either her or Orange Blossom, not just because Orange Blossom is black, but also just because of the aesthetic. :3

if i made strawberry shortcake it would be rather 2003-esque with similar designs but maybe aged up a little? like middle school age, and it would definitely be very much the same cozy fantasy vibe, a little tomboy strawberry shortcake and her little pink cat. I think personally a tomboy character who wears pink/likes pink would be good for kids, especially as someone who is very masculine but collects dolls and likes "girly" media. anyways. orange blossom and strawberry shortcake would be gfs by the end of the series

I had a dream once where the strawberry shortcake characters all went on a season of The Great British Bake-Off, and honestly I think that would be a really cute idea for a movie or mini series. They could age the characters up while still really playing into the fruit theming. I think it would be super cozy 🍓

I'm gonna be honest I wish they would double down on the fantastical elements of Strawberry Shortcake and make them little witches and make their pets familiars. I feel like that's such an easy direction to go in and I'm shocked they've never tried it.

Back to Gen1, he isn't just the Purple Pieman, he's the Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak (ya-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta--ta-ta-ta-ta). It's one of the few things that's stuck in my head for the last 40ish years since that first cartoon. I was a little kid when it came out, and I remember having the dolls and watching the show, and wanting a Pieman doll, because I didn't have enough bad guys in my toy collection for my good guys to fight. Skeletor and his minions are the ones I remember most vividly, and I think that I had a Lurky, and I had a few evil Go-Bots, but Strawberry and Rainbow Brite and the Care Bears needed more villains to rescue He-Man from! I see Strawberry, and I have nostalgia for her, but she doesn't stick in my head as well as the Care Bears or MLP do.

You know I never was attached super strongly to the Strawberry Shortcake brand, but I have a STRONG memory of first seeing the Berry Bitty Adventures version at McDonald’s, and being absolutely furious about what they did. And I must’ve been only 10.

hear me out but making the next generation victorian and lolita inspired i feel would be such a nice direction for the line. bring back the desert inspired characters as well as the fruit themes, focusing more on the characters and world building. something that aided the gen 3 version was how colorful and candy themed the world was, chocolate rivers and lollipop trees. each character can have their own themed cottage that corresponds to their fruit or desert. maybe even taking the series in a “magical girl” direction similar to my little pony friendship is magic where it’s largely a slice of life but with magical elements. really focusing on the characters and their friendships with one another

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YES! I was briefly obsessed with Strawberry Shortcake as a child, and barely ever hear about her anymore!

here is brazil she was HUGE. but a nice detail is so much of her merch was stationary related. i uniquely remember how MASSIVE her coloring books were, my absolute favorites growing up and a lot of my friends too.

Oooo...now you need to do Rainbow Bright!!! That's my girl!!

i'm glad you had such glowing praise for g3...the more boyish strawberry had always been my favorite i remember when i was a kid and g4 i was announced i was like whys she look so different:(

My sister and I had two dolls from generation one- Lemon Meringue and Raspberry Tart. I never got Strawberry Shortcake though. Wish I had.

I would like to imagine some executives after deciding the direction is "alright! Strawberry in the urban big city where we minimize the whimsical elements!" were kicking themselves upon seeing how MASSIVE the cottagecore aesthetic took off in 2020 and how the first generation really fell into that aesthetic (and Gen 3 to some extent but that's me and my nostalgia). I think I'm with most folks here with a hypothetical Generation 6 being back to the roots of the cozy vibes of the first generation, but also keeping with the diversity from the newest incarnation. A best of both worlds situation.

I was born in 1980, so G1 will always be my favorite! I still have my childhood dolls and they still smell yummy! I recently gave them a spa day and they are all nice and refreshed (although we did sadly lose a limb or two... oops.)

My introduction to Strawberry Shortcake was the 2003 run, but I always held a really soft spot for the 80s designs and dolls. I loved the proportions, and I adored how plush and poofy their outfits and hair were! You did mention Holly Hobbie alongside Strawberry Shortcake's origins, but I feel like it's worth pointing out how Holly Hobby also had her own reboot circa 2007, in a style that felt like a mix of the end of G3 & G4 Strawberry. 2 80s girls franchises that started off with a lot of pioneer nostalgia elements who then got more modernized in the 2000s where their protags would wear jeans, and both something I could see making a big splash nowadays if they leaned back more into their pioneer roots to touch on the Cottagecore audience.

as someone who grew up w the 2000s tv show, the fact that theyre not doing revival lines of the g3 dolls is insane to me. like... the people who have nostalgia for that era also have incomes now!!!

I would do a fusion of Gen 1 and 2 PLUS a line of cuddly rag dolls for bed decor and night time cuddles. The idea of cuddling a soft yarn haired strawberry shortcake with a cute dress and soft body sounds like childhood dreams

I agree with you about all your critiques about generation 4 (esp orange blossom), and as a cusp millennial who grew up with the gen 3 strawberry shortcake I too have a great fondness for that series. Something you did not mention however is Gen 4 actually has a comic series, and I have a particular soft spot for it. The designs are too samey still and the stories themselves are not extraordinary, but I remember the art was very charming and surprisingly good quality. It had a similar cozy vibe that the original show had. That was the closest gen 4 got to me feeling like original gen 3 honestly : , )

For the next generation idea: I'd LOVE a magical girl reboot. Maybe there could be not only unique scents for the dolls, but some sort of transformation feature, to represent them using magic to change forms in a cartoon?? Like, color change hair that could go from dull red hair to vibrant strawberry pink hair, two outfits (one civilian, one magical girl) maybe separately sold transformation compacts that double as a Polly pocket-esque mini dollhouse? For the show, the pie man could be redesigned as an actually threatening villain for the Strawberry gang to go up against? Maybe he wants to "steal people's happiness by robbing them of the flavor in their lives," (buhdumbum) every episode the Strawberry team finds a citizen getting their happiness literally stolen from them, it could be turned into a monster for them to fight, purify and return back to the citizen (like f.e, the person "flavor of life", the thing that made them happy was fashion designing, or baking, or acting, and when their happiness is removed it becomes corrupted and turned into the monster of the week. The fashion designers monster looks like an evil seamstress, the baker has fire powers reminiscent of an oven, the actor has a spotlight they can shine in people's faces to blind them before they attack, etc) I'm thinking the girls would have Kira Kira Precure type weapons, like colorful whisks, candy cane wands, compacts shaped like cake? There's so much here, American Greetings pls make this reboot happen I NEED it-

I actually really like the original (like first card design) the best. I think she looks so cute with the mix daisies and strawberries and the orange looks so nice!

6:45 Barbi Sargent sounds like that practical joke where somebody took a voice chip from a talking Barbie doll and put it inside a GI joe.

Greeting card were slaying with 80s franchises. Care bears, Rainbow Brite, Strawberry shortcake, Holly Hobbie, truly iconic. I love strawberry shortcake and I mostly grew up with 2009 era but I was on the cusp of 2000s and 2010s eras of toys, so I vaguely remember watching the old series and I SWEAR I had the winterberry twist gingersnap lmao. Despite my eternal love for the 2009 era, I really wish they kept the curls. Being a mixed girl with tight curls seeing so many characters with tight curls was so cool to see. I was at first exited to see what moose toys would do with the license, but after remembering what they did with my poor girl betty spaghetti, I have zero hope.

New dolls are coming in 2024! i love SBSC!!! and the new dolls look like her first incarnation, but articulated: The New dolls are by Loyal Subject, i THINK.

20:14 the blend of the 80s and 2000s strawberry shortcake is uncanny here 😅😅😅

I was born in ‘82, so I grew up with Gen 1…and until today, didn’t even realize there WERE further iterations! The mid-2000s age-up seems a little…weird, though. I think it lumps them in with all the other teenage, non-Barbie fashion dolls, & loses all the cozy charm. And that line about how Gen 4 SB now spending her time chatting on her cell phone instead of brushing her cat, it just makes me a little sad. I liked SBSC, but my favorite 80s girl was definitely Rainbow Brite, so I don’t remember having a ton of SBSC merch. I did watch the tv specials though!

i was born in 2003 so my strawberry shortcake stuff was always in the 2003-2009 range, i definitely remember the 2009 era but there is just something special about the 2003 era it is SO special and to me, proof that the first isnt always the best because nostalgia be damned the 2003 era is peak strawberry shortcake

I had no idea that Strawberry Shortcake was such an influence in Mexico and South America, even coming out of the mid-1980s.

I know you probably won’t see this, but I just wanted to say that I’ve been having a rough go of it lately and your videos have been a godsend. Everything about them - the subject matter, your delivery, your sense of humor - is intensely comforting. A ray of light in what has been a very dark time for me. Much love ❤

I owned the playset shown at 31:20 and can I just say THANK YOU for unlocking this memory from me. Definitely not the best designed doll, but let me tell you, she smelled amazing. I remember sitting there smelling her hair more than playing with her as a kid lol

I'll be honest here: I want a spinoff about the peculiar pie man. He is just my favorite. Some silly Sponge Bob type thing where his plans are constantly floored to the ground by a group of fruit themed primary school kids. The peculiar pie man: A strawberry?... Strawberry ShortCake: *Puts on her hat.* Te peculiar pie man: STRAWBERRY SHORT CAKE?! Thats the show.

I think my Strawberry Shortcake obsession as a child is why I became obsessed with lolita fashion as a teen. It's about the frills and layers ✌🏻

I really appreciate this video as someone who drew up with 2003 Strawberry! I can't really say I was upset by her 2009 shift -- I always thought she grew up and was in Middle School so her fashion got more girly -- so I was really happy just to have anything of her around that time. Nice video!

FINALLY TALKING About MY GAL Strawberry fun fact one lucky kid had a live action version of Strawberry for a birthday party forever jelly of that kid omg

I found my strawberry shortcake vhs collection not too long ago, and the cases still smelled like strawberries 🤩

Gen 3 was the one I grew up with! I used to have very short hair when I was a kid due to medical reasons, and was also a bit tomboyish, so the short-haired, outdoorsy rendition of Strawberry has a special place in my heart and I identified with her a lot. I will say, I love the Gen 4 designs, especially Orange Blossom. They made her hair so pretty!

so cool that you released this video today!!! im getting a strawberry tattoo in a couple hours!!

I grew up with G1 (I still have a bed coverlet with her on it), my son with the bitty adventures, and my daughter with the latest. You make me want to check out your childhood version!

I'm 21 years old and EVERY Christmas I STILL watch the 2003 "Berry Merry Christmas" movie. 😂

I love a lot of the styles but gen 1 is my fav. She's just so cute and cottage core

Life was so different when these were 1st popular. I'm turning 50 this year, and the sheer amount of EVERYTHING that young people have access to is overwhelming. It makes me sad that kids now can't embody the feeling of getting a new toy, when there just weren't that many out. Just watching these videos of doll collectors is wild to me, it's more toys than our toy store had! 😂❤

Yes, thank you for bringing up the lack of Orange Blossom and Ginger Snap dolls made by Playmates! I noticed this myself a few months ago and am glad to not be alone in this knowledge. The DVD box art does not have this problem, so my suspicions lies on Playmates alone.

I am not a doll collector is any significant sense. Your videos have been so instrumental and informative to me. I'd shake your hand if ever we met. I really appreciate the care taken to your content. I love the lens you have in viewing what each doll line contributes. Very cool stuff!!! I have Integrity Jem, and now TLS RB and SS. Would love your thoughts on them. Amazing channel, boss!

31:20 this was literally iconic 😭

i were in charge of gen 6: - first of all i'm bringing back ginger snap in all her audhd glory. - i'd bring back plum pudding too! glasses and all! - next, i'm switching the animation style to, like, non-flash 2d animation - i'd make the overall aesthetic more whimsical and cottagecore-esque - also i would capitalize on the amount of people begging for a strawberry shortcake vhs/dvd-scented perfume and sell it through a trustworthy, high quality yet affordable perfume company - keep up with the diversity of gen5.. maybe make strawberry and orange blossom gfs

I think leaning into a cottagecore vibe with fairies and cozy little cottages would be the best way to reboot it. Little Bear vibes about a cozy little village with a surrounding forest they go forage in. Simple problems and a focus on friendship and baking.

Berry bitty adventures was my shit, noone else had heard of strawberry shortcake at school and I'd never seen previous generations so i hoarded the show to myself, felt like something I'd found and looked after

The 2003 theme song is so nostalgic omg 😭 😭

Boss Fight Studios is also making Gen 1 toys. The first wave of 4 are out while a second wave as well as the 2 villains are up for pre-order at most online stores.

I know one of your points was that G3 wasn’t groundbreaking and that it was just cute nothing more…but I have to say the mundane life lessons taught in that show were very very surface level but they honestly have stuck with me my entire life ever since I started watching that show as a toddler….the “mind your manners” episode is literally just about not being a slob at the dinner table and to have decorum at parties, but lessons like that are NEEDED in 2024 and I appreciate this show so much for putting effort into teaching kids these very important values like kindness, empathy, consideration, and thinking about how your actions effect others 😭😭😭 100/10 I WILL be showing these to my generation beta children instead of bluey or cocomelon or whatever 😊

The 2000s version was the best for me ! So magical and pure ! I have one of a doll when I was little. I'm pretty disenchanted with the new version now :/ cause I think they're not so good compared to the 2000s version. I will never forget the 2003s cartoon. It has forever a place in my heart.❤❤❤

I think I'm in the same generation as you, late 20s, but the Strawberry shortcake I waws most familiar with was the one from the 1980s, solely because I owned the book "Strawberry Shortcake and the winter that would not end". It is a very heavily fantasy story with all the kids, who apparently live alone with no adults, meeting talking animals while searching for a magical crystal that will cause spring to come. I really loved that book, but I didn't have/know about the dolls. Curse you for making me think of New Ideas to put on my New Ideas shelf, but I think I would go heavily fantasy with the reboot. I'm thinking like a cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs talking animals+food, maybe have a She-ra esque setup where Strawberry + friends havent explored their fantasy world due to some danger and now they have to go on adventures to help save it. I'd want the food theme to be like, relevant to the plot, so maybe you could do something like they can make magical sweets that give them superpowers. Maybe they go to a magical academy where they all learn to make magical sweets, like alchemy but with baking. Actually I think thats a great idea, they should just do a magical baking academy. You mention in the 2000s people were upset about the "sugar" theme but fuck that I'm doing reverse reverse on that idea: I think each character should have a signature recipe that comes in a little recipe book. Lean into the idea of teaching kids Life Skills like cooking simple meals. The dolls come with comically small whisks and bowls and fake desserts and the commercials all show kids having SS making a dish and then them making the dish and having the doll pretend to eat. (I think parents would hate this idea but i would have loved it as a kid, my parents baked bread and cakes with me

Here in argentina we got a new collection in 2023 by Planeta De Agostini under the name "Frutillitas: doll classic collection". They are magazines with a piece of doll that you have collect them all. They have the original american 80's design tho, not the argentine ones.

I love Berry in the Big City, it's such a fun show with great characters. I really don't mind the difference from the earlier gens, it does its own thing and does it well, and the writers seem to have a great degree of creative freedom which definitely helps in writing good episodes. A less-competent studio would probably try too hard to recreate the success of Gen 3, or just shove nostalgia at the audiance for easy likes. There is still nostalgia fanservice in the show, but it's subtle, the kinda thing where a fan would notice it and appreciate it, but someone new to the series wouldn't feel like they're missing something. Also props to Wildbrain for putting the entire G3 (and I think G4?) show on their RU-vid channel. I'd still really love for them to release full season boxsets but at least for now, the older shows are easily accessible for free. The two specials that came out recently were GREAT, I'm definitely gonna be re-watching the Christmas one on Christmas Day XD They handled the CGI really well, making it feel just like the rest of the show and not a jarring transition. EDIT: Also, off-topic, love those Powerpuff Girls Z dolls you've got in the background :O

The dolls were featured at the 2023 toy fair for what I saw on a couple RU-vid videos of that event.

I liked the 80's Strawberry Shortcake dolls because that was what i bought my daughters when they were little. This was very interesting 🥰Thank you for doing this ❤❤🍓🍓

The prototypes for the Gen 1 reboot dolls were shown at Toy Fair this year! I saw some clips floating around on tik tok they look cute!

As a 2006 baby, I spent my childhood reading Strawberry Shortcake comics in Sparkle Magazine and having a crush on the lemon girl. Yeah, it's not the favored era of the character, but that was my childhood!

Strawberry Shortcake 03/06 was such a huge part of my childhood. I know the theme song by heart. I had character headcanons and theories. The DVD cases smelled like strawberries and were pink.

Love this jacket on you! Dressing to match the topic is something you do so well.

as a tomboyish child turned transmasc, the way hasbro made the strawberry shortcake franchise so feminine was uncomfortable and upsetting to me. i didn't even know how to pinpoint how and why it bothered me, it made me so sad to see what they did to my girls!

i have the same shirt ur wearing, it’s really cute 🥰🍓 4:50 omg your polly pocket bag is adorable- 🥹🩷

Strawberry Shortcake is special to me too because of my great grandmother. She was a doll collector and had all of them! I love her scent!

I remember the 2010 strawberry shortcake! I grew up with the series but I never had the dolls. I didn't realize how much they changed the characters!

I grew up with 2009 Hasbro Strawberry Shortcake and I'm sorry- I LOVE THEIR OUTFITS 😭

I too bonded with my mum over strawberry shortcake! She grew up with gen 1 and I grew up with gen 3 ❤️

I hadn't seen that very first strawberry girl drawing and it's so cute!

My favorite version is actually the Marvel comic version from the 80s. They're interesting because up until issue 3 _("The Incredible Treasure Hunt")_ Strawberry Shortcake and her cute friends wore their original clothes, but at the end of that adventure Strawberry lost her bonnet (a dragon ended up wearing it and flew away) and they all ended up messy and dirty. This was used as an excuse to give them all a new look, so they would look less dorky and old-fashion. That's the --berry-- very first time an update on their fashion was attempted. And so, issue 4 is called _"The _*_NEW_*_ Strawberry Shortcake"_ and her new look was her official look until issue 6, which is the last issue. In the cover of issue 4, we see Strawberry Shortcake being "transformed" into her new look by the "Berry Princess of Fragrance". Yes, the interesting doll you mention at 15:13 had an active role in the story of these comics. So, I would recommend reading the comics, but even if you don't you should look up the cover of issue 4. Strawberry Shortcake's hair goes from yarn to flowing, and her apron disappears, and her dress becomes simpler and looks kinda like something more like an outfit Rainbow Brite would wear, and instead of a bonnet she wears a large strawberry-themed bow. They definitely didn't make dolls based on those designs. All of this are things I learned recently, when a group of cartoon-loving friends and I brainstormed ideas for a new Strawberry Shortcake generation. We came up with neat ideas and elaborate plans, but of course that was all for fun. We don't own the rights to it. My wife had some dolls based on the original designs when I met her, but I'm pretty sure they got lost when we moved. Too bad.

My favorite version of her was definitely the 2000s one. I grew up with that. One of the things I really liked about her, which I'm bummed is missing in the newer versions, is that she wasn't super feminine. And I mean that as in she wore pants and had really short hair. I liked that so much because that's how I dressed. I was more of a tomboy and I liked that she was like me, as opposed to most female characters that have to be really pretty and have long hair, wear dresses. Not to say girls shouldn't be depicted wearing any of those, but I liked that she dressed differently. I really wanted that representation in girl characters, like how my favorite Winx character was Tecna because she had short hair and wore pants in her main outfit, or this one barbie i had that had an undercut. I feel like a lot of franchises that are made for girls still have all their characters abide by traditional feminine beauty standards. They are all glamourous, fashionable, have long pretty hair. Where's the love for the butches, the tomboys?

Bandi made good dolls. I love those dolls, and for Hasbros, they are more focused on my little pony as their star child. Littlest petshop was also given the same treatment

As someone who had the originals in the early 80’s and loved them, thank you for this fantastic video!!!

I just wanted say that your channel and your videos are very chill. I tend to watch your content before bed and it helps me get some sleep. Thank you.

i have a very strong core memory of borrowing one of the 2003 specials from my local blockbuster and my mom putting it on during what was supposed to be my nap time, but i stayed up to watch the whole thing. it makes me happy to remember and it's insane that that was literally twenty years ago 😭

DIC Strawberry Shortcake was such a big part of my childhood, I had DVDs and I watched them almost obsessively (my favourite episode is still the Cinderella one) I remember when the Berry Bitty Adventures came out (because that was my first intro to gen 4), I was so mad. I hated the designs and the amount of bright colours hurt my eyes (also, CGI Huckleberry Pie STILL haunts my nightmares) I'm actually trying to redesign Strawberry Shortcake characters, and I definitely want to lean more into the fruity dessert theme with their clothes, and make it seem more chill because shows that seem... really high energy (like Rise of the TMNT) tend to greatly overwhelm me with how much is going on, to the point I usually can't watch a full episode in one sitting, much less a few at a time

I wish they went for cute anime route while keeping her 80s style. With a touch of magical girl vs purple pieman

I was a strawberry shortcake feind. I loved gen 3 AND gen 4. My only problem is I wish they’d kept orange blossom’s hair texture in gen 4. But I loved cozy strawberry AND the feminine strawberry of 4. They both made me super happy and it felt good to watch

With as cute as the little Pixlings are I wish moose toys WOULD make some new little fruit themed babes ☹️ Even if the new gen isn’t as aesthetic my daughter would adore them…. We do watch the 2000s version often! “Buh buh buh buh Berry” lol

Illustrator who drew her probably made $20 bucks while the company made $500 million in licensing. Companies are evil.

Gen 3 will always have my heart ❤️ honestly I think dolls in the style of the magic mixies pixlings dolls would be really cute for strawberry shortcake!! The small size and the focus on cute pastel color schemes would work really well

it's really sweet reading all of the family bonding stories based around this franchise down in the comments

I grew up with gen 3 and my favorite characters were blueberry muffin and cocoa calypso. I was also obsessed with the filly friends and idk why cuz I wasn’t even a horse girl

I have never been invested in Strawberry Shortcake, but if I was somehow put in charge of rebooting her, I’d make her a magical girl and lean into the fantasy element. Something like She Ra 2018

I adored Strawberry Shortcake as a kid. My grandmother even went through the trouble of getting a custom made crocheted Strawberry Shortcake doll for me, as well as a character that Im pretty sure isnt actually real. I still have them to this day, though I haven't checked on them for around a decade. Even now whenever I smell strawberry scent from other dolls like Lotso it brings me back to hugging my Strawberry Shortcake doll as a kid

Darling, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the sneak peek of the TLS dolls we got from toy fair. I'm a little ambivalent about the new faces and the quality of the clothes, but the ridiculous amount of articulation sounds very intriguing and it's great to see old friends like Plum Pudding get reintroduced after so long.