Out of the Box: Branksea Festival Lottie

Branksea Festival Lottie

I've had a few people (two in person, one on a doll forum) ask me if I had a Lottie doll.  Until last week, my answer was always "Nope", since they're not a size or style that I'm normally interested in.  But then I came across a sale which happened to coincide with a visit from a friend who was travelling with her 4-year-old daughter, and I decided that this doll would be a fun toy for her little girl to play with during the visit.

The Lottie dolls (which are from a UK-based company called Arklu) resemble non-fashion/sports type fashion dolls (like the Get Real girls) in that they generally have active themes (the dolls are dressed for activities like hiking, horseback riding, martial arts and festival-going).  That resemblance stops there as they're considerably shorter in that they're only 7"/18cm tall, and they're clearly designed to be children rather than teenagers.