USER POST: Doll Findings at a Local Toy Store

Hi! Today I went on a trip to Mosul, here in Iraq, and I decided to go to this toy store that I discovered maybe a month ago, I was shocked on my first visit to find some original toys sold there for not so high of a price, though most of them were old toys. I am always apprehensive about going to toy stores here in Iraq; the workers are always puzzled if someone like me, a guy, is interested in toys and specifically wanders in the doll aisle, and they always ask who I am buying the toys for. The worker at this store asked for that too, I told him that I am looking for dolls to buy for a girl relative of mine, I remember once going to a Spacetoon toy store in Duhok (I have to note that this store is not an official Spacetoon toy store, and is not affiliated with the SpacetoonTV channel, they disclaimed from them several years ago in a video), I took a kid with me to not feel weird, after asking for some dolls price she eventually asked for who it is, supposedly to suggest some toys that may suit the one I am planning to buy the toys for, I told the truth, she was puzzled and surprised (not in a good way, in a hold-the-chuckle way), and I felt so cringe, and I did not want for that to happen again. This toy store’s worker was a grumpy guy and had this angry expression, like every shop worker in Mosul and Iraq in general for a reason unknown (they just hate customers visiting their stores, or them looking/staying too much or thinking too much before buying, I mean they are really rude and they are pleased to show that. I am not living in Mosul, and I have not visited all of it, but a friend told me once that store workers in the area where the toy store is located, on the left coast of Mosul, are typically rude, unlike those on the right coast, which I hope is the case). What made me go back is a Strawberry Shortcake doll that had the New Boy logo on it, which I thought would be considered a box variant (it was for 25,000 IQD, and I have strong thoughts of buying it once), and the store had some interesting knockoffs and copycats. I even Found what I think to be a My Scene copycat, which was of good quality, and I really liked her. I even found a FailFix Knockoff, the doll was like the original doll quality but the box was what made me know it is not. Both it and the Barbie Color Reveal Knockoff had similar stamps at the bottom of their boxes written in Persian, and a paragraph in Arabic saying that the product is compliant with the standards of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Anyways, I hope these photos are useful, not all of them are of good quality though.