User blog comment:Anon3610/Fairy Forms - Their True Purpose/@comment-25405775-20170810164702/@comment-25405775-20170812103132

I get that, and I also don't want to compare the current toy companies to Mattel (who pulled off Enchantix down to the smallest details, which was no easy feat in itself) because Mattel as a toy company is on a whole other level, quality wise. But there are details that arguably can be pulled off without significantly jacking up production costs (and even then it should be considered a worthwhile investment considering they're banking everything on merchandise now), like the arm ribbons in Sirenix. All they had to do was wrap some plastic around the dolls' arms in the same material that the Harmonix shoes are made from. I'm not too bothered by the Mythix wands, but I am by the lazy shoes. I don't know, there are so many details they could have added to make the dolls even remotely resemble their cartoon counterparts but they choose not to.

It's funny because I remember the older Witty/Smoby dolls being much more show accurate. The old Believix line replicated everything, down to the fingerless gloves. The dolls going down in quality seems to be a rather recent phenomenon, I think. I also miss Jakks. Their earlier lines weren't that great (Believix was honestly awful), and their Bloomix line was wildly inaccurate, but they managed to make them look aesthetically pleasing, even with all the inaccuracies, so I gotta hand it to them for achieving the seemingly impossible.