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OK, I could go on about this for a while, but here's the condensed version of my thoughts.
The style in each "before" example was unmistakable; they were unique, not idealized. The face alone identified them. They actually seemed a bit like real children - unabashedly unfashionable, pudgy and short. The 'after' versions can be summed up in 5 words...pretty, skinny, fashionable, sparkly, zzzzzzzzzzzz.
Seriously, what is happening to this industry? Do those guys even care about design anymore, or is it just a race to create the blandest product imaginable? I'm not even against updating things for a new look, but they're so monkey-flipping bad at it! If they could manage an "update" which didn't turn the original into a manga-eyed Limited Too clone, I'd be happy, but these designs are just egregiously boring.
Also.. notice how eerily similar the members of Rainbow Brite's nouveau-posse look? They all have the same exact face! D:
I think it's worth noting that the new versions are supposed to be "older" versions of each character. I have to wonder...what does this say to girls? It's OK to be unique and silly when you're a kid, but the second you turn 10 you'd better become interested in fashion and get plastic surgery, darn you! (Seriously, those faces don't even begin to look like the originals. Where did RB's snub nose go? And Strawberry didn't even get a nose!)
This isn't really a feminist opinion, it's an artist opinion. Although I give original Dora props for not being a gigantic girly stereotype.
edit: Got some more examples for you. If you know of any others, let me know.
Holly Hobby:
Trolls:
Sadness 
FAIL.
They're vampires, turning everything you loved in childhood into sinister, soulless funhouse-mirror versions of their former selves.
I readily believe any of these would grow fangs and happily feast on your children's blood, given the opportunity.
I hadn't even realized that that new version of SS was her, Rainbow Brite looks downright retarded and Dora isn't all that bad.
Dora actually looks like a young Mexican girl growing out of the "chubby" phase into the "my mom makes me look pretty/I want to be girlier" phase. It's actually typical for lots of girls to go through that phase and she really didn't change too much, she just got taller and thinner.
Although, I think they all look idealized to certain extents.
I can understand remaking RB and SS, but they didn't need to do that to SS AGAIN and make it look worse and they didn't need to slaughter the "I'm a child" look with RB.
Thing is, lots of little girls are going to see them and think that's what they need to do. A lot of them will put being pretty and popular before being intelligent or anything that doesn't involve any work. I swear, if things like this are around when I have kids(most likely will), I won't let my girls go near them. I'd just give them the older merchandise.
Oh, and I have younger nieces and a few younger cousins, I'm so not going to let them get like that. Nothing's wrong with wanting to look pretty or be liked by people, just don't make that your life/main goal. That's all these shows ever promote anymore; fashion, being "sassy," being popular and getting a boyfriend.
I'm glad things weren't as bad in the 90s and that I wasn't stupid enough to get pulled in anyway -.-
long comment is long D:
The rest are so fugly, though...What'd they do to Rainbow Brite's face??
They use the same technique to sell adults food, cars and fashion. Adult television is mostly "reality competition" shows where "top fashion designers" and "top chefs" go head to head and basically make people care about clothes and food that normally wouldn't really register for them because now there is a personality, a life, a struggle. There is attachment. "Oh, now that I've watched these designers try to design something for Macys I realize what Macys goes through to bring these clothes to me so I've got to check it out!"
it works.
They did it to us as kids and they want to do it to us as adults. Don't be fooled by it.
why? because corporate dealers stole it from him and comercialized it into a tool of entertainment. the real inventor just wanted it for educational and government use. hahaha!
somehow i think the effects of drawing media affects the style as well. for some reason, the traditional media version had more personality compared to the ones created with digital media. if ever, it'd take years before we could really put some personality into digitally made cartoons.