I personally don't have Nellie (or her collection...just Lydia and Jip because when I was 8 that's all I wanted AG to come up w/) but I think she is a great idea. We have my little journal from 3rd and 4th grade and on several days it mentions "I wish that PC would make a Nellie doll so Samantha could have a friend". So from a little girls' mind (which is really what the dolls were created to enhance) Nellie is very special.