davidd's A Doll A Day 2019

[davidd]

5 June – Off the Hook Dolls at Walmart

Early in this A Doll A Day 2019 Project I vowed "no more Walmart posts." But today's Walmart "shelfie" is not... or at least not entirely... a lazy and desperate sloppy snapshot; rather, it is a documentation of what appears to be the beginning of the end for the cute and interesting Off the Hook dolls. Here we see that the original price of $7.97 has already been reduced to $5.97 (USD – €5.25 or £4.70). What is not as evident is that the dolls are relegated to only one-half of the very bottom shelf in one shelf section, and that the shelf is completely full, front to back, with overstock squeezed in on top. In other words, there does not seem to be much interest in the poor little things.

Aren't they adorable in their little hats, though? I wanted to buy them all!

But... I didn't want to buy them all enough to actually buy them all... or to buy any of them. I don't need to collect another line, particularly one that does not match the scale of any of my current collections.

It was interesting to see the "international style" packaging of these figures. We do not usually see international, multi-lingual packages in the U.S.

I've seen some cute photos of Off the Hook figures online, and I have been tempted by them, but so far I have resisted their charms.

As was discussed about another line in another topic recently, the Off the Hook dolls appear to be substantially over-packaged relative to the volume of the actual contents of the box.