Oh Melissa that's awful! I hope you can figure out a way to fix her. Big Hug from me! [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I would believe they have a supply of the already wigged doll heads, a bunch of spare limbs and some of the stuffing, cord and fittings necessary to put them together. I agree with Melissa; it is extremely unlikely that they have separate eyes or wigs as these are included in the delivered heads.Originally posted by Melissa:
My guess is that they have everything manufactured in China and receive the final product as one unit.
I do wonder what they do with the heads they get when they do a head swap though...
Taffy
Oh Melissa that's awful! I hope you can figure out a way to fix her. Big Hug from me! [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
Melissa, I do sympathize. When Beth developed silver eye, I called AG and was told that it only happened with dolls with gray eyes who were made/sold around 1995. That was the year the first AGoTs came out, which is when I adopted my alterego, Gina, as well as Keiko, Morgan, Beth and several others. I did send Beth to the hospital and we had a big welcome home party for her, but she doesn't always remember things that happened before she went in. Not surprising, since she had her head replaced. Then when Gina started to show the same problem, I was determined not to send her for a head replacement and got her contact lenses, instead. When I unpacked Keiko -- the Asian AGoT I bought in 1995 -- to watch Michelle Kwan competing last winter, SHE had developed silver eye. And her eyes are black! But I've been thinking about it and maybe what I've decided will help you as well. Perhaps silver eye is a sign of wisdom, since it comes with age. Maybe dolls who develop it are now gifted with a special kind of insight. Like having their spiritual third eye opened? I'm treating Keiko as one who is specially gifted now, who might even be able to see into the future as easily as she sees into her past. As always, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you love your Molly as much as I love Gina and Keiko, perhaps you can find a way of accepting her new appearance as a sign of some positive change within her character? But if not, I wish you and Molly all the best in finding another solution.
Cherry (and everyone else!), hooray...I've finally accepted her eyes! [img]smile.gif[/img] Funnily enough, one of my pets developed severe cataracts and went blind this summer. I've noticed that being blind has made her more special. We also have had a handicapped cat since my childhood, and he is all the more special because of it. So I've decided to take it as something special instead of a flaw. No one in my family is perfect, and I still love them, so Molly can just be another one of us. [img]wink.gif[/img]
Cherry, I think it's unfortunately that they're telling people statistics about the eyes, because it's just not true. Susan had a brown-eyed Samantha with silver eye, my doll is a very old original Molly (white body), and Anne seemed to have a newer AGT with the condition. I'm thinking maybe a lot of these silver eye cases go unreported and so they have made some generalizations that aren't accurate. Seems like they need to find a new eye supplier. (Ew, sounds gross typed out. [img]graemlins/gulp.gif[/img] )
I wanted to give an update about this, six months later . . .
I decided not to get Molly's eye changed by AG. Believe it or not, in the almost seven months following this happening, it hasn't gotten a bit worse and Molly's eye is still the same it was last August. I'm really happy with this, since unless the light hits the eyes in a certain way, the silver eye is not even noticeable.
Anyway, I thought this might be of interest to those who feel silver eye will get worse as time goes on. So far, that hasn't happened with my doll.
Photos of silver-eye:
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/FAST/silvereye.html
Wow. That sure is odd looking. Atleast it doesn't cover her whole eye though. That is way creepier.
Thanks for reviving this thread. I'd wondered about the silver eye as my Samantha is an ebay adoptee (though she came mint in her original box with all her stuff - even the tags!) so I check her carefully, and Molly is under strict instruction to alert me if anything seems amiss. We have not told Samantha of this as we do not want to scare her and her Victorian mindset. We're positive Molly, being a 2004 doll, is fine, but she's so accepting it wouldn't bother her at all. (Her legs are already a bit loose so she would take it in stride!)
I think silver eye is a sign of wisdom and insight, like the poster who said her Asian AGT has it...I think on an Asian doll it might be considered a gift of the ancestors...
Though Samantha wasn't a childhood friend, she's my friend now, and I don't think I'd have her switched for the world. Bravo on your decision. After all, we all have our little imperfections.
So this can even happen with the more recent dolls? Do we know what exactly causes it?
It's a factory defect in the eye itself. AG will replace the head free of charge if you choose to do that. If that ever happened to my Molly, I don't think I would. She's a pre-Mattel '94.
Since Molly's eyes are already gray, the silver eye isn't that noticeable.
Oh man! I am so sorry! Luckily it is fixable...but it will be hard giving her up for a trip to the hospital! I hope she gets better!
I can't belive it happened so quickly!
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