Across the other pond: this isn't Jenny

Oh, she LOOKS like Takara Jenny, but trust me, she's not!  She's a Bandai doll named Patty.

I do have to wonder why these Japanese dolls so often get saddled with western names.  This doll is Patty, I've got Jenny, and for a spell Jenny had a friend named Jessica.  But then again, the line that had Jenny and Jessica also had dolls named Ayano, Mirai, and Shion (Ayano was my favorite).  Maybe Takara and Bandai knew that one way or another we western folk would get our hands on their dolls and would want a few names that we recognized.  I dunno.  Either way, my doll's name is Patty, and I'm just showing her off because I was unaware of her existence until about a month ago.  

On the back of her box Patty has a profile, and I can read...well, I can read her age, birthday, and blood type.  She's sixteen years old, her birthday is September first like several of my Cabbage Patch Kids, and her blood type is A.  I can't read a word of the rest of it.

Patty is constructed similarly to Licca-chan and Jenny, so I won't be reviewing her fully.  However, I will show her out of the box.  My particular doll has a full blue ballgown with copious lace.

I unboxed Patty on the same evening that I was dressing Isolde in her lolita dress, so here's how they look together.  Spectra and the Shimmerons have nothing on this lacy duo.

I hopped on Google to look for images of other Patty dolls, but the only image I found was an image of the eBay listing for my own doll.  This Reddit post, where I learned of Patty's existence, implies that Patty's run was brief and that she's hard to find.  They provided a link to a blog post, which explains that Patty picked up the slack after Mattel's partnership with Bandai ended (they partnered to make a Japanese Barbie for awhile).  Even the blog post says very little, other than that Patty is obscure and that not many folks know about her.  That's a shame, because from what I can tell Patty is just as good as Licca-chan and Jenny, but...well, y'know.  Not every doll is a hit, and since Bandai apparently had a hit with the Charmy Twins, I guess there wasn't room for poor Patty.  But that's just my theory.

Have any of y'all seen or heard of Patty?  I hadn't, so I figure none of y'all have either, but I've been wrong before!

Love,
RagingMoon1987