tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85316176727993948882024-02-20T17:48:35.228-08:00Nuu's CuspsAthena Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747354963728886540noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531617672799394888.post-63173491387067568242014-02-02T15:27:00.001-08:002014-02-02T15:32:15.671-08:00Doll Review: Monster High - I Heart Fashion Clawdeen Wolf - Bonus: Moxie Teen and Bratzillaz Fashion Packs! (Part 2/2)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the second half of my Monster High Doll review, from the I <3 Fashion line with Clawdeen Wolf and Scarah Screams. Check out part one <a href="http://nuuscusps.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/doll-review-monster-high-i-heart.html" target="_blank">here</a>! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The box layout is the same as the previous I <3 Fashion line with Abbey and Frankie, but with Clawdeen and Scarah themed patterns and colours on their respective boxes instead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has the same half coffin plastic window on the front which wraps around to the side, and a small portion of the back of the box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The back of the box shows some updated art work with their outfits. There's the usual Monster High School coat of arms, the name tag and a logo for the individual line. There's a short blub 'written' on lined notebook paper stating how much Clawdeen loves fashion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each doll has 2 pairs of shoes displayed upon a card 'table' display. A separate outfit hangs on a mirror above the shoes, and another outfit on a card mannequin</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> stand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clawdeen's background features a purple and black zebra print wall, with a lilac cheetah print on top. A paw and cross-bone picture hangs from the wall. The mirror has several claw marks and scratches. A perfect room for many of the Wolf siblings!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clawdeen's facial screening is neat with crisp edges and bold colours. Her eyes are the usual orange and yellow with big black pupils. Her eye makeup has a dark purple strip above her eye, with a light metallic purple up her eyebrow. Here eyelashes and long and bold, with heavy black eyeliner. Under her eye is a pale lilac. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her lips are a dark purple to match the eyes with her usual white fangs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her vest is lime green soft cotton, with a peach thread overlocked at the collar and hem. It features black claw-slash print across the front. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cropped and sleeveless jacket is made of a shiny faux leather, with gold trim for a 'zip' and a purple cotton trim on the collar and hem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her hand sculpts are cool; one 'clawing' hand and another splayed out hand with a moulded fingerless glove. This is painted purple and features tiny moulded studs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has 2 gold and 2 opaque lime green bangles, and 4 black bangles with small rounded studs. She has a larger ring clawed and studded which fits on multiple fingers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her cuff is 4 moulded plastic belts with lots of tiny details like stitching, studs and belt buckles. They are all joined by a strip of plastic on the back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has a lime green arm cuff with a zip and zipper sculpting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clawdeen's cuffed capri pants are made of a stiff but light fabric, with a plum to eggplant gradient </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(hohoho, yes, I'm still being a colour snob). </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's nice stitching detail for faux pockets and a zipper front. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her belt is black plastic with a rounded edge and 6 moulded rings on which are painted gold. The belt closes with a peg at the back. This is a reused mould from Clawdeen's Dawn of The Dance belt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In one ear she has two transparent green hooped earrings, with the lower being longer and ovoid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her purple shirt has loose 3/4 sleeves and green cuffs with black stripes on, the same fabric as her other vest. The neck is large and loose, almost fitted on the shoulders. The shirt features a large wolf face with bright green eyes. This piece could easily look gaudy or drab but the subtle purple, white and magenta colour scheme works really well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The green arm cuff also fits as a choker. Clawdeen also comes with a white plastic necklace sculpted as 2 small chains. This is a reused mould of Spectra Vondergheist's first wave necklace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her lime green solid plastic bag is shaped like a boombox, with black painted details.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She comes with 3 pairs of shoes. These high heeled sneakers are a lovely orchid purple. The feature lots of detailed stitches, seams, laces and a small skull painted white.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The necklace is a solid piece of plastic sculpted to look like multiple chains and charms. It is slightly flexible so the clasp can be opened around the neck and closed again. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's bent at an angle so it fits on the doll's chest which means it doesn't sit flat on the different sculpt of the MH bust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This line is really great in all aspects; quality, quantity, price, play value, collector value, durability, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">aesthetically</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the versatile theme</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The characters are fun, they come with lots of options due to their clothes and accessories, the designs are fabulous and there's something for everybody throughout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I highly recommend these dolls and if you liked these then you should go check out other Monster High releases and similar doll lines!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh the wonders of shopping and hunting for dolls! During a shopping trip out of town I <strike>made</strike> persuaded my partner to take the <strike>long</strike> lovely walk out of the town centre to Toys R Us with the intention of searching for the latest Monster High releases: I <3 Fashion Clawdeen Wolf and Scarah Screams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After stalking the <a href="http://www.monsterhighdolls.com/forum/topics/post-monster-high-sightings-here-uk-only-2">UK Sightings</a> post on <a href="http://www%2Cmonsterhighdolls.com/">MonsterHighDolls.com</a> (where I am one of the site administrators<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> shameless-self-plug-lol</span>) sightings of the I <3 Fashion dolls were found in the area, so I was very excited. And after being disappointed by not finding any on shelves, I asked a member of staff to check the back stock and BINGO! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also found a Moxie Teen fashion pack for £2 (which scanned through at £1, yess~) and a small Bratzillaz fashion pack for around £4 which I'll also be looking at in the second half of this review.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And to the main event dolls, Scarah Screams and Clawdeen Wolf!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The box layout is the same as the previous I <3 Fashion line with Abbey and Frankie, but with Clawdeen and Scarah themed patterns and colours on their respective boxes instead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The back of the box shows some updated art work with their outfits. There's the usual Monster High School coat of arms, the name tag and a logo for the individual line. There's a short blub 'written' on lined notebook paper stating how much they love fashion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scarah's background is mainly forest green and black, with very harsh and point zigzags on the walls. The mirror is shattered and the table also features and green cracked pattern. This is probably a reference to Scarah's banshee heritage and their screams and glass shattering wailing. It's a nice touch and makes the whole doll feel complete; everything has been thought of and designed for perfectly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The overall black, white and pink colour scheme works very well with her pale mint green skin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her hair is thick, soft and rooted very nicely. The ends feel a little rough but overall I'm pleased with the quality and deep black colour of the hair. The style is loose to the middle of her back with a simple thatched side part. I used one of the clear elastic bands from the packaging to tie her hair into a side ponytail! The hair has a very subtle wave which lends itself nicely to a ponytail style, giving it a cute curl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scarah's face sculpt is pleasant, with wide lips, a cute button nose and wide pupil-less eyes. Her face paint is simple but looks neat and bold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her eyebrows are thick and solid black pointy arches. She has very defined winged eye liner and eyelashes, with a solid block of metallic silver eyeshadow on her eye lid and below her eye. Scarah's lips are carnation pink with no detailing. The facial screening is of good quality with very neat and crisp edges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The outfit she's wearing consists of a t-shirt, shorts, boots and a jacket. The white pleather jacket has full length sleeves, stops at mid-thigh and has a small collar. Tied around the waist, through loop holes on the jacket, is green belt made of soft pleather. It's stitched to itself so it stays around her waist in the box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The jacket has a little lining on the front, where the material has been folded over. This tends to snag on the tshirt and wrinkle when the jacket is open at the chest. It's not such a big deal and makes the jacket look tidier once the wrinkles are flattened out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her accessories include 2 white and 2 green chunky square bracelets. The other bracelet is a simple pink band with a black stripe in the middle, where the sculpt gives the impression there are 3 bangles instead of a connected cuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her hard plastic bag is sculpted to give the effect of quilted fabric. It is painted in a matte myrtle green with a white accented middle panel, studs and buckles. It also features a pink bow on the skullette. This is a reused mold from Frankie Stein's first wave bag.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These black lenses are painted onto the plastic and the paint job seems a little rushed or untidy because the black gets onto the white frames in places and generally has a fuzzy and hazy outlines. This is disappointing, given they're a key piece of her outfit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That concludes part 1 of this review, and part 2 with Clawdeen can be found <a href="http://nuuscusps.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/doll-review-monster-high-i-heart_2.html" target="_blank">here</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Pinkie Cooper and The Jet Set Pets', manufactured by The Bridge Direct, is a brand new fashion doll line from the creator of the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">original</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bratz doll, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carter Bryant. The adorable stylised canine dolls are modelled after the </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">English toy spaniel breed and s</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">aid to be based upon the Bryant's sister's real Cocker Spaniel pet, Pinkie-Cooper, which the doll line is also named after.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The logo's font is a cute curled scroll and small hearts dotting the 'i's. I feel the 'And The Jet Set Pets' is an unnecessary tag line; whilst it does get across the point of them being world-travelling fashionistas, it makes the line sound more like an episode of Scooby-Doo than a doll.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't know why the outfit was changed but I guess these things happen as designs develop and progress. (What annoys me is that surely, in the time that it takes the company to realise changes need to be made and put these changes into order, the art going on the box and in catalogues to advertise the dolls can be changed too?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As it turns out all box art features this collared, layered shift dress, but in the end Pinkie is the only doll wearing a final outfit that resembles it! The others were changed quite a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here's the inside packaging. A simple cardboard box with some plastic ties, bands and tabs holding the doll and accessories in place. It's relatively easy to get the doll free, but I feel a lot of it was unnecessary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here's everything out of the box. It doesn't seem like that much, but it's justified with the price tag of £13 (which is on par with Monster High budget dolls) and the doll is so unique that it's totally worth it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I was holding the doll to put the shoes on, this happened! These dirty smudges were from my grubby fingers. However, I have a routine before handling dolls/doing reviews of washing my hands thoroughly to avoid incidences like this, so I'm 99.9% sure the black smudges were residue from the box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Small smudges from the stain remained, even after scrubbing. I was hesitant to use nail polish remover/acetone on the stain for fear of removing her body blushing, and after a bit of scrubbing with soap the stain had been removed to a (sort of) satisfactory level. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here she is out of the box. The overall colour scheme of brown, purple and white tones balances out nicely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her headband is a simply strip of hemmed fabric with a ruffle bow on one ear. It features the same silver cameo style decoration as her belt and dress. It feels nice, silky and smooth and has a nice shine. It's well made and looks neat, however, the blue-purple of the indigo fabric doesn't fit the pinky-purple magenta and violet theme of the doll. It is the same fabric as the underskirt of the tutu, but that's not particularly visible. Maybe if the bag or shoes were the same indigo colour it would fit in better?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her dress is a simple vest top of pink stretch knit with a random purple splodge print pattern. Attached to the top is a pink and purple tulle tutu. The skirt is made up of a fuchsia tulle layer on top, a purple layer and then a pale lilac layer on the bottom. The whole outfit is finished off with a belt of moulded silver plastic, and a lilac ribbon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The moulded belt features a cameo style border and space in the middle to give a faux-gem look. This look is simple to achieve but effective in giving off a high glam look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wasn't pleased that the plastic tie under her bust has left a crease line in the fabric, but this crease became less noticeable after time and a bit of manoeuvring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ginger's face is very cute, however it has a tendency to look wall-eyed from certain perspectives. I am not a photographer and don't really do her very unique sculpt justice!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her inset eyes are plastic with attached and high quality eye lashes. Ginger has painted royal blue eyes with lots of detail, a black pupil and white 'shine' highlights. She features brown hearts and dots down her muzzle. Her nose is small and brown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The detailed lip paint is very nice, however those brown lines are a little bold for me. A colour just a little darker than the pinkish lip base or tongue paint would suffice, but the brown used helps to tie it into the scheme of the rest of the face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ginger's ears.. hair..? Hairy ears (..?) are two pieces of silicone wig cap, rooted with hair. These blonde and brown ear caps have lovely smooth and shiny hair rooted in, which does not tangle easy and feel soft to the touch. However, it seems brown thread to match the hair from the machine rooting process has been left behind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unless this was intentional, giving the consumer something to pull on to remove the ear hair plugs, it's a small and easily over looked error.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ginger is very cute from this angle, with a long sloped profile, a small nose and a small rounded chin. You can also see how long her eye lashes are!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this is with her wig spun around with the blonde on top! She looks very cute like this, I do like the colour of the hair. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each ear wig has a small white plastic square peg to help you pull it out of the plug and push it back in without risk of damaging the hair or the wig cap. This is a great idea, and is very discrete once it's covered up again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here's her body. Her head, torso and arms are made from a hard plastic and her legs are rubbery. She's a lovely off white colour with peachy body blushing on the elbows and knees. This is the first time I've seen blushing on a mass market doll! It's a great bonus on an already cute doll, which adds realism and depth. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She features 7 points of articulation and a click system in each knee (which I don't really count as articulation because they only bend bend and hold very slightly)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has purple painted claws and a small pink heart shaped paw pad. Her hand sculpt is slightly cupped; very versatile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has moulded underpants on with a little bow AND an outie belly button! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the extent to which the internal click joints allow the knees to bend. Each knee has two clicks and they seem to hold pretty well, but I always worry about their durability and shelf life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her legs seem to go on forever! They're very long and nicely shaped, with a pinched thigh/hip joint. This small point makes the joint cup look large, especially around her bum. I suppose you'll never notice when she's dressed and it's a functional design choice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ginger has minimal sculpting on her back, and more blushing on her elbows and the backs of her knees. The slim upper thigh joints give way to a very odd thigh gap. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tapered thigh joints give her good articulation, allowing her to do the splits both ways. She's very well balanced in these positions too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She holds poses well and makes them look very natural! Here are some more fun shots!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And some shots with a Scary Tales Monster High Clawdeen doll to offer as a comparison. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ginger is quite a bit smaller than Monster High dolls, but much more shapely. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ginger's foot arch is about the same angle and the toes are about the same length, but she has a shorter foot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This means Ginger can wear Monster High shoes but Clawdeen can't quite fit her heel into that strap. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They can also share clothes! PC dresses on MH dolls are a little short, but fit well around the bust and waist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the fashion doll market saturated with Barbie-esque or Monster High clones so this line is refreshing in a lot of ways. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, the whole theme of world-travelling-fashion-designers is tolerable.. It's a great idea when it's done right, but it's also been done to death. There's no character development as of yet which means I cannot get invested in the individuals dolls. (I know there are 'Pinkie Cooper Webisodes' but I don't think they're particularly substantial.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And I suppose the whole doll line has plenty of time to develop and grow as it's still very new and fresh.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I highly recommend this thoroughly enjoyable doll line due to it's versatility, it's great price point and it's highly unique features.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been fascinated by custom dolls far longer than I've been <strike>in love</strike> involved with the Monster High franchise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I began collecting BJDs (Ball Jointed Dolls) back in 2009 and love how some come as a blank canvas for you to create your own characters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have given multiple dolls face-ups, sewn clothes for them, bought shoes, eyes and wigs and despite my affection for these wonderful resin dolls, they're so expensive!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I currently only own 1 BJD after shrinking my collection. She's a Bobobie Isabella, 27cm/MSD sculpt and the first BJD I ever bought! Bobobie is a great company, with prices much much lower than others but the quality is still superb. I would attempt more complicated modifications but given their £100 minimum price tag, I don't have the confidence to attempt it! (Bobobie's dolls range from a tiny 10cm at $80, to a huge 70cm at $220)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>[ETA: 30/01/2014: Since writing up this post I have added 2 more BJDs to my collection, a Doll Planet Riz and a Doll Chateau Ada!]</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, Monster High dolls caught my eye and their personality won me over. Their much cheaper price tag (of £13 - £25) was enticing from a customisation and collectors point-of-view so I took the plunge and bought my first MH doll (then I carried on collecting and can't stop!) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've customised a few dolls and this is the process I follow to prep them.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cotton-buds (q-tips) </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Substance to remove factory paint (acetone, nail varnish remover, etc)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reroot tool (or needles/hot glue dependant on the method you're using)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hanks of hair</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paint for the scalp to match the hair</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paint brushes in various sizes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tweezers or thin and long needle nose pliers</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Superglue/nail glue (just in case)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nude doll (Here is a Ghouls Rule Draculaura!)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This part is not 100% necessary if you're just repainting the face as it's all down to personal preference. If you find it easier to handle the whole doll, or just the head, the choice to remove it is up to you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You'll need to remove the head if you're planning on rerooting using the punch method, knot method etc where you'll need access to the inside of the head. If you're simply glueing new hair over the top of the old stubble, then the head can be left on. However, you'll get much neater results removing the head to remove all the old plugs through the neck, then glueing the new hair on.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1) Removing the dolls head.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This looks tricky, but is relatively easy. The plastic lip inside the head which holds onto the neck's post needs to be heated in order to loosen it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Simply heat up the neck/head area by using a hair dryer (on a medium setting but hold it far away so the plastic doesn't warp) or hold the area under a hot tap until the plastic feels more pliable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carefully pull and wriggle the head from the neck post. There's a 'T' shape in the post that makes it tough but if you're struggling too much and don't want to risk snapping the post or tearing the neck hole plastic, try heating it more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I purposely chose a doll from the store with a factory error, so I wouldn't be 'ruining' a doll with a perfect facial screening that someone else could enjoy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other customisers use pure acetone, and whilst it it is much more effective at removing the paint </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there are risks of the chemicals reacting. Acetone has to be washed off quickly and thoroughly to avoid the plastic 'melting' and warping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I dip the cotton-buds into a small pot of varnish remover and scrub away at the paint. At first it seems the colours are just smudging it around, but perseverance will get rid of it all. Using varnish remover isn't the most effective way (substances like rubbing alcohol and acetone are much more potent therefore remove paint easier) but I feel that a little elbow-grease is worth cutting out the risk of damaging the plastic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cut one end of the cotton-bud off at an angle, to leave a quill like tip. This is great for getting into the tiny lip creases. The hollow stem soaks up a reservoir of varnish remover and the point can scrape out stubborn paint. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To avoid a mess of stray hairs, I tie what I can into a ponytail using the clear elastic bands that attach dolls/accessories to the packaging (those things are so useful, I try and save as many as I can when I open dolls!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I usually put the dolls head in a plastic shopping bag whilst cutting the hair to make sure all the hair is contained and easy to clean up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I trim off excess fringes, bangs, partings etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recommend the ones cheap from the super-market that cost less than £1/$1. Don't use your mother's/father's/sibling's fancy pair because they'll end up covered in glue and hair and they'll be bent out of shape and.. ugh, bad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mattel have a problem with too much glue in the MH heads, which is bad for a play doll, let alone a collectors line. The glue seeps out and makes the scalp shiny and greasy. Not all dolls lines suffer from this, but it's becoming more common.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It leaches out of the plugs and into the hair, which becomes matted and gluey and gross. Sometimes the glue molds into a big blog that gets in the way of the neck peg, which means the head has limited/no movement!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It can be washed out, or covered with talc but it often seeps through regardless.. Many complaints have been made and we're yet to see improvement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Put the tweezers into the neck hole and run it along the inside of the head to pull the hair out of the plugs. You can see the hairline plugs above the ear are now empty!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep going, scraping and pulling the clumps of hair out of the plugs and out of the head. Don't prod or pull too hard as the plastic may tear if it's thin in places, or plugs can split open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this is everything from the inside of the head. After scraping all the hair out of the plugs, it took me a good 20 minutes just wrestling the contents out the neck hole because the glue was a solid clump!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These nasty grease/oily spots on the paper are leftovers from the glue. Eww..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Painting the scalp a similar colour to the hair is a method used by toy companies to make the rooting look denser and fuller. Unpainted, the scalp would look bare in contrast to the colour of the hair, so it's looks more appealing to the eye if there are no obvious colour gaps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I chose a red acrylic. If I was painting the face, I would totally avoid oil based paints as they can leach into the plastic and stain it, which is a pain if you end up wiping the face paint to try something different/another colour. However, I won't be repainting the scalp or changing the colour so it's not a problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The plastic between plugs that are close together sometimes splits, and these cannot be rooted because it leaves a gaping hole. This can be easily fixed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Use super-glue with a thin nozzle or brush on nail glue to secure and fill all the split plugs. Once this has dried, use a pin to recreate holes for you to push hair into.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>8) Rooting the hair.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I use the punch method to reroot dolls. This means I use a specialised tool to pick up a small number of hair strands and punch them into the existing plugs. The tension of the vinyl keeps the hairs in place until it's glued from the inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To make sure the rooted hair's length is</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> as long as you want it to be, the hank needs to be twice the length as desired (because you fold the length in half in order to push them into the plugs.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Example: I want a long bob to the shoulders. This means (including a couple of cm extra for what's pushed into the head, trimming and styling allowances) I want the hair's length to be 3 inches from the head once rooted. Therefore </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I want this hank to be about 6 inches long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This hank has been cut to the desired length and the black plastic tie is in the middle of the hank where I'll 'scoop' the hair up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Separate this section of hair into an even smaller part, containing approximately 9-12 hairs. (Obviously you don't need to count out individual hairs, this is just an estimate)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are several types of natural and synthetic hairs (wool, human, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mohair, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nylon, saran, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">k<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">anekalon, acetate, etc) </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with their individual properties such as thickness, strength, oiliness, resistance to heat and so on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rooting tool is basically a needle with it's eye (the hole which you thread cotton through) cut at an angle, so you're left with one prong slightly small than the other.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This acts as a scoop to pick up the hairs, and a point so the tool can slide into the plug easier. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be careful of the pointy ends! I accidentally pricked my thumb and it wouldn't stop bleeding! WARNING: Gross bloody thumb picture!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hold the hair taut and scoop it up using the tool. I couldn't seem to get a better picture of the needle, sorry!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ever After High (EAH) is a franchise which branches from Mattel's hugely popular Monster High line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before any official reveals were made Mattel registered several interesting sounding trademarks alongside Ever After High such as High Seas High, Robo High and Cosmic High, all keeping in line with the 'high school' theme they've become famous for. These potential lines were to stop competition (such as MGA and smaller companies) jumping on the fairy tale theme and distract them long enough for them to make their big reveal. I think the rest of the distraction-trademarks have been dropped now, but it would have been very interesting to see Mattel's take on pirates and mermaids and aliens and robots!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">EAH follows the sons and daughters of famous fairy tale characters as they go through high school, learning how to follow in their parents footsteps to become the next 'insert-character-here' to keep their story lines going. The characters are grouped into 'Royals', who wish to follow their destiny, and 'Rebels' who dislike their given path and don't want their fate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is said that if you don't pledge to follow your story on 'Legacy Day' then not only the character, but everyone else involved in their story will cease to exist! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mattel introduced Ever After High through one of Monster High's existing characters, C.A. Cupid, who is said to be a bone elemental who was adopted by Eros. She is sent to Ever After High with a new project; to help the students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first wave of the doll line consists of Apple White, Raven Queen, Brair Beauty, Madeline Hatter and a multi-pack containing Ashlynn Ella and Hunter Huntsman. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A 'Legacy Day' line is in the works, as well other lines containing more Royals and Rebels. Here are several other characters in the EAH Universe:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I picked up my favourite two dolls, Apple and Maddie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The box is designed to look like an ornate book. It's effective and the overall result is cute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The side of the box is the book's spine. Under a royal wax seal (which is 'embossed' on the outer plastic) is a cameo portrait of Apple's box art, her name and heritage as the book's title. The book's 'publishing symbol' is the EAH logo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The top of the card insert is printed to look like slightly curved pages. On the other side of the plastic window are more faux pages, with scrolling vines and 'Ever After High' printed to look like pencil scribbles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The back of the box is a larger version of Apple's box art and an extended bio.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Small polaroid pictures of her friends</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the address for their website, where you can create avatars, play games, decorate your room and other features such as 'spell binding webisodes' and blogs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The key is topped with the EAH logo (a black and white stylised girl's portrait) and the key's teeth spelling 'e' and 'a'. The rest of the logo looks like a heart shaped lock, which also looks like a book that is locked with a decorative key-hole. It seems a tad complex.. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The outer plastic was very easy to remove without the use of scissors. I simply pushed one side of the tab in, and the whole tab popped right out. It took less than a minute and the whole plastic case pulled right off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was curious as to how Mattel would package EAH dolls, and they've gone down the same simplistic route as MH. Simple plastic ties, clear elastic bands and rings hold down parts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are plastic ties around her ankles, waist and accessories, but that's it. No chunky twine, no string, no thread, no metal wraps, no extreme plastic molded parts. I like it; doesn't get in the way of the displayed doll, easy to remove and easy to recycle!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I snipped all the excess plastic from the card insert and was surprised at how little there was!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The backgound looks like an old and faded book page with water coloured sketches. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Strings of pearls and giant love hearts hang from the fairytale castle's turrets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A giant red apple sits beneath Apple's slogan 'The most fabulous one of all!', underneath a cluster of bare looking, but colourful trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A large red book mark hangs from the top right corner, which hides the rest of a small folded booklet. I found that the 'cut here' symbol and dotted line across the top and bottom of the booklet's cover were too close to the actual pages, so you risk cutting into them whilst trying to free the piece. I suggest unhooking the card tabs and freeing the whole piece to avoid accidental damage!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The booklet folds out to reveal a deeper look into Apple's character and life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are some cute doodles and prints along the pages to make it seem more personalised than simply printed paragraphs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's everything out of the box. It took me a short while to realise that a stand was in fact included, but it was hidden inside the cardboard insert! If I hadn't opened the fold on the side of the box to flatten it out, I might have accidentally thrown it away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She comes with her clothes, accessories and shoes, a booklet, a stand, a brush and a bag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The brush is cast in the shape of an ornate golden key, featuring the logo in the centre of the handle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has large, sparse bristles which seem strong but not particularly effective. A static charge is created between the plastic hair and the plastic bristles which causes fly-aways and frizzy hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The base is the same design as the box art. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The base it a little taller than regular MH stands, but they end up at the same height.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has a cute head though the facial sculpt is somewhat lacking compared to MH dolls. There is little to no eye sculpting, a small button nose and small slightly pouty lips. Her expression is neutral, with a small hint of a smirk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The screening is nice and neat. Her eyes are large with minimalistic make up. Her irises are baby blue with lighter definition lines to give depth. The 'shading' in her eyes is an odd mauve. She has light brown eye shadow to match her eyebrows, and a small strip of silver to accent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her lips are one matte shade of carnation pink, with three small 'gloss lights' on her lower lip, with the first slightly larger than the others. I've not seen this method before but it works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her hair is quite the opposite of what you'd expect from the daughter of Snow White. It's a shiny golden blonde with a light wave above some tight ringlets. She has a side part which usually falls into her face (I went on to adjust the headband and tucked the hair under to keep it in place) and the other side is pulled back and twirled to keep it tight. The piece is tied with an elastic band under a layer of hair to keep the style.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her accessories include a decorative ruby red headband which features a large molded bow and a reddish-gold crown adornment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whilst trying to get a good picture of the subtle molded design on the band and crown, I noticed her hair was rooted particularly thin on the top of her head.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apple wears a golden bolero with a white diamond-esque print. The bolero has a high collar and poofy cap sleeves which are finished with gold trim. All the edges are hemmed nicely and the stitching is solid. I would have liked for the collar to be lined so the 'wrong side' of the fabric isn't on display.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dress is a sturdy one-piece. The red satin bodice has darts along the front and is trimmed with the same delicate black net which finishes the ornate peplum over skirt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The over skirt is made from a strong and stiff fabric which has a white to blush gradient, with scrolls, vines and flowers decorating the centre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I really like these shoes; the colour is perfect, the design is cute and the apple leaf and stalk on the heel is a brilliant touch. However, I don't like the slighty-too-large toe bulge. It looks a touch clowny to me, but in the grand scheme of the doll's design it's only a small personal preference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The heel is a swirl of.. something, I'm not too sure. A vine, a scroll, a unicorn's horn? Some colour would be helpful to differentiate but it doesn't seem particularly out of place in the design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a row of studs, the 3 straps across the front of the shoe are neat little bows in the same red-gold as her crown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The heels have small slits in the back so the shoes can be removed and put back on easily. I noticed when putting the shoes back on that the toes have a tendency to get caught along the straps, however, the slightly flexible plastic allows for movement so the foot can eventually be wriggled back in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her purse is an oversized beaded apple, with a large golden leaf trailing from a golden stem. The handle is formed by a solid loop of golden beads. The handle can rotate all the way around the apple.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apple wears bow mold earrings with single hanging pearls, a matching bow ring to fit over two fingers, a bangle with detailed patterns and a collar style tier necklace which is a mass of pearls with small bow tied on the side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everything fits fine, but the ring is a little loose. However, this is easily resolved by using one of the small clear elastic bands which is used in the packaging and tying it around the ring and securing it around the wrist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her hands are sculpted much more realistically than the 'elegant' Monster High hands</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her left hand is a very similar sculpt to her right hand, though the fingers are a little more curved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was much speculation before EAH's release about their body sculpts. Some people thought they would have the regular Monster High body, others thought they would have the taller Nefera/Headmistress Bloodgood body, but as it turns out, it's an entirely new one altogether!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The new bodies are a little bit smaller, but their much larger heads make them taller. They </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">have thicker proportions which look healthier compared to the regular MH body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The torsos don't have such an exaggerated sway back, but still have a stylised arch. Her behind is a little larger and her stomach doesn't sway back like MH dolls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did an overlay of the two torsos to give an idea of how the torsos differ (I'm not a technical wiz though..)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, some clothes don't quite close properly due to the larger bust and hips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Overall, Apple White is a beautiful doll. There are little set backs which are entirely personal preferences as opposed to lack of quality or poor design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel Ever After High was created in response to consumers who had deemed Monster High 'too scary' or parents who viewed the body sculpts and costumes not suitable for </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">children. Mattel have listened to their customers and filled in the gap in the market by creating a 'safer' idea and a healthier body sculpt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Personally, the complaints about the clothes being too revealing or 'inappropriate' and such have never bothered me because 1) They're not revealing at all, 2) Who cares, I'm sick of slut-shaming which appears to be rampant amongst doll lines, and 3) This is a DOLL line so it's going to stylistic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These people find something to complain about, which really ruins a great franchise that is all about embracing your flaws and loving who you are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Regardless, I would certainly recommend EAH to people who are put off MH for whatever reasons. They're cute, have fabulous articulation for a play line doll but with the high quality of a collectors line, great personality, very reasonably priced and have all the charm and nostalgia of the beloved fairy-tales the line encompasses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Monster High dolls were originally produced with a small loop of elastic which attached the legs together at the hips. This elastic often snapped due to rough play, simple wear and tear or the old plastic pegs that the elastic was looped around broke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This problem was resolved after, and including, Toralei's first release, when a new plastic peg system was introduced. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, older dolls' legs are still falling off! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you receive a faulty product there are often helpline numbers where you can ring the company and a representative will offer a solution. M</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">y personal experience of Mattel UK customer services is that it is somewhat lacking, and they generally say 'sorry, there's nothing we can do' unless the doll is in production right then and they may send out replacement shoes/accessories, so broken legs is a different story. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Instead of trying to sell the doll on, or even throw it away, try fixing it up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To fix broken pegs and snapped elastic this is what you'll need:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-1mm/2mm drill bit (or smaller/larger depending on the size of the metal dowel, but I wouldn't suggest going larger than 3mm as it may compromise the structural integrity of the plastic)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Metal dowel/thick jewellery wire/thick plastic dowel (this is the part which will replace the broken white plastic peg.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-lengths of elastic (minimum: 20cm long, maximum: 1cm wide.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Strong glue (super glue/resin glue/epoxy/etc)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was silly and forgot to take pictures of the actual beginning part.. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whoops!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, I'll try and describe the process as much as I can and add some sketches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take out whatever you'll be using to replace the peg. I used some mild steel 1.5mm dowel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Line it up where the old peg was and cut the ends so once inside the leg, will fit flush with the plastic. (Red = new peg. Black = cut here)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take your leg with the broken peg, and mark on the outside of each side of the thigh where the old peg sat. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used a pointed file to dig a small hole in the plastic where the drill could sit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You want to drill through each side, and through the existing peg holes so it lines up perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These marks often sit near or on the seam lines of the plastic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make sure the drill-bit is lined up straight in the drill and use a slow speed so you don't shred the plastic up. Line the drill up with the marked area, and the desired exit I.E The existing hole where the old peg sat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take both ends of the elastic, and push them through the small ready made slit in the clear rubber spacer. (Green = this way. Red = gap between the spacer halves)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Disclaimer: This is not an official guide, simply a way that helped me to fix up my broken dolls. I cannot be held responsible for damaged caused by you following this blog post to fix your own or other people's dolls. Younger readers must have the permission, supervision and help from an adult whilst using power-tools and sharp pins/needles/scissors.</span></div>
Athena Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747354963728886540noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531617672799394888.post-83079557157661080322013-06-08T05:48:00.000-07:002013-08-04T11:12:38.316-07:00Doll Review: Monster High - 13 Wishes - Lagoona Blue<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My previous post <a href="http://nuuscusps.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/doll-review-general-overview-of-monster.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #666666;">General Overview of Mattel and Monster High Dolls</span></a> was originally intended to just be a doll review of Lagoona, but once I'd finished with the beginning section about the production company, Mattel, it was obvious I'd written way too much! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The franchise is ever-growing, and one of the latest lines to hit the UK is 13 Wishes: Haunt The Casbah, with an upcoming CGI special which will be release on DVD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The newest story revolves around Howleen Wolf, Clawdeen's younger sister, who is tired of living in her sibling's shadows. She dreams to become popular but ends up in trouble. As punishment she is sent to clear out the attic of Monster High and chances upon a genie's lamp! Enter Gigi Grant, who bursts forth from the lamp and grants <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(eh.. Geddit? *elbow nudge*) </span>Howleen not 3 but 13 Wishes! W</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">e don't know at this point exactly who wishes for what but we know things</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> don't go as planned: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Howleen begins to hate the popularity she magically gained and Lagoona looses herself after changing into a Freshwater monster from a Saltwater one. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We don't have any more details but I imagine hilarity ensues, lessons are learned, everyone wins and we all have a fashion show at the end. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I eagerly reserved Twyla and Lagoona at my local Argos store as soon as they were 'in stock' on the website. I'm still not quite sold on Howleen, but I may get her at some point. Gigi isn't being stocked in the UK yet, but will follow the same distribution pattern as Jinafire and will be sent out in cases later on. Clawdeen, Frankie and Draculaura (as pictured on the DVD cover) and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a DJ booth/dance hall playset with Spectra </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">haven't hit the UK yet, but a tie-in beachside playset including a Cleo doll has been spotted in Europe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I dislike messy or cluttered packaging, but this is neat and straight to the point. It shows the box-art for Twyla, Lagoona, Howleen and Gigi in all their get-up and a short blurb giving details of '13 Wishes', all on top of a black background and a cute glossy printed pattern (which is easily visible on the left of the box due to my phone's <i>amazing </i>camera.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her hands and accessories like her pet are held with elastic ties, whilst the stand, base and diary are secure with simple cardboard tucks, folds and a plastic tie!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With this doll I managed to get the doll out with only cutting the ties which held her head into place. These guys are a pain and one of the only complaints that I have about Mattel's packaging.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I like Lagoona. She's been given a great back-story and has a multi-faceted character. However, her last few releases just aren't for me. I feel as though they're designing and dressing her for the target audience a lot more than the rest of the cast, despite being one of the most mature. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know the target demographic is young girls and pre-teens, t</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here's too much pink and 'safe' going on for her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She literally has a WHOLE ocean of potential but they've gone for 'meh' hair styles and 'this-will-do' dresses. Where are the sea volcanoes and surfing themes, not just pretty bubbles and the occasional star-fish! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This version of Lagoona has totally won me over because she's so strikingly different from the last few lines, and not in a bad way!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the wishes was something which resulted in Lagoona being changed from a Salt-water Monster to a Fresh-water Monster like Gilligton 'Gil' Webber, her boyfriend. His parents are narrow minded and disapprove of him dating Lagoona as she's a different species, but and that plays a major part of her change into Fresh-water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The doll </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">features a simple flower hair clip in fuchsia</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> with a yellow centre, and opaque pink dragon-fly earrings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her hair is vivid yellow, styled into a high pony tail. This is twisted and gelled on the ends to resemble a fish-tail! Her box art shows that the style is longer, and the 'tails' and flicked outward, as opposed to inwards on the actual product. This is easy to fix by simply brushing or washing the ends and restyling them. She has a full fringe with the centre third in a contrasting teal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her make-up is toned down but she still has a striking facial screening. Her eyes are slightly lighter green, with pale lilac eye-shadow. Her lips are a very similar colour to her skin with a slight gloss. Due to the subdued paint, her freckles pop even more against the pale blue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her dress is a short cocktail dress with a glittery blue netted single half sleeve, with black net collar. The sleeve is capped with black trim to finish the material and it ties the look together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Under the simple cut of the cotton bust is a layer made from the same slightly stiff material as the sleeve. This is left open at the front and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wraps around with a scalloped cut to finish the ends. The lower part of the dress is the same as the bust, with a contemporary 'scaled' design, with a zig-zag finish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her leg fins are the same sculpt and opacity as her old ones, but cast in a deeper cobalt blue instead of light teal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her shoes are wedge slingbacks with open toes, cast in pale turquoise with subtle sculpted 'waves'. Sculpted and painted reeds sit on the sides of the shoes and form a strap across the toes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Included with Lagoona is her fabulous pet piranha, Neptuna, who was also changed in the transformation. She is the same in terms of mold, but has transformed from pink with bulging blue eyes in her original release to purple and lilac with turquoise eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She comes with a fish-bowl purse</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> which is a recast of her original, but a clear body instead of transparent blue and a turquoise reed handle instead of gold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's.. Unsettling to read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She sees things all new and different, and how looking back, she 'realises how the old Lagoona was wrong'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interactions with her boyfriend change quickly, as she was once fun and challenging but now panders to him. He seems desperate and frustrated, and it's obvious he wants the old Lagoona back! She views a situation in the pool as him 'pestering her to race', when he's just trying to encourage her old competitive side. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When pictures of this line were first released, I wasn't so happy. The rest looked great but Lagoona shocked me. The neon hair and dorky outfit was another Lagoona to add the to pile of 'kinda okay' releases, but upon closer inspection I changed my mind! She has all sorts of cute details that come together and really finish the doll off as a whole. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My problem are the unfinished edges which are</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> due</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> the complex cut edges as opposed to laziness. G</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">iven the choice of material and the fact that this very rarely happens with Monster High clothes, I can sweep it under the rug this time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Monster High</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> was released in June 2010 by the company that </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">brought us Barbie, Cabbage Patch Kids, Hot Wheels, My Scene and What's Her Face; Mattel. The line</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> was c</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">reated by Garret Sander in order</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to fill the gap of 8 - 12 year old pre-teens </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as they 'grew out' of the Barbie target audience, and fill the gap it did!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The characters are teenage sons and daughters of famous monsters, whom are making their way through the rocky journey that is high-school. Their parents are generally from Universal horror films, but as the cast of the franchise has grown, more and more ties are being pulled in from all corners of the world's myths and legends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Monster High is primarily a doll line but also features a tie-in book series, an animated online series, plush figures, TV CGI specials, video games, dress up costumes, a monthly magazine, stationary and more! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As of June 2013 there are over 40 different 'waves' of themed dolls; basics with pets and diaries, formal lines, furniture and play sets, basic and deluxe fashion packs, classroom collections, create-a-monster packs to mix and match your own doll, sleep-over dolls, beds play sets, cars, scooters, vanity sets, gimmick dolls that light up or make noises, beach and swimwear lines, the highly sought after SDCC exclusives and more. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's a great checklist where you can see which dolls are in certain lines:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">So much stuff.. Goodbye money..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The series has become so popular that a spin-off line titled 'Ever After High' has been released, with a doll line of their respective characters expected to be on shelves July 2013!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mattel is successfully moving its way into all the nooks and crannies of the fashion doll world, hitting as many target audiences as possible. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I personally feel</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">EAH is aimed at a slightly younger audience, and is also a response to customers who felt MH was too creepy/scary/inappropriate for children. W</span><strike style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hite girls</strike><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Princesses are a much 'safer' option so gets more people buying more Mattel products. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">EAH is a whole blog post in itself so I'll keep it short! I like the initial designs and the short episodes, but we don't know anything about the actual products yet. Besides the stand-alone websites, videos, and trademark stalking it's an open book! <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Heh, puns.. Sorry..</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do hope the dolls share the same bodies as Monster High dolls. Pictures of 'Apple' and 'Raven' dolls have been floating around online for a few weeks and the sculpts look very similar, but still no official reveals. Hopefully Mattel will have an EAH stand at SDCC 2013!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There have been a couple of animated webisodes in the same Flash style, which follow a similar premise to MH: it t</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ells the story of high school student princesses and princes who are destined to follow in their parent's footsteps. There's a twist in that not everyone wants the same fate, so they rebel against their destiny, whatever the consequences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's amazing and totally unexpected how MH boomed, storming its way into Mattel's 3 top selling fashion dolls alongside Barbie and Disney Princess dolls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The frequently uploaded Monster High webisodes, and the doll line to a certain extent, revolve around the main protagonist Frankie Stein; daughter of Dr. Frankenstein's monster and his bride, as she starts her 'unlife' as the 'new ghoul at school' (the puns get worse, trust me..)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Draculaura: Cute and quirky vegan vampire, the adopted daughter of Dracula.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clawdeen Wolf: Fierce fashionista. Daughter of the Wolf-Man. She's part of a large family, with other sibling characters featuring in the series and in doll form.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lagoona Blue: Athletic and caring, daughter of the creature from the Black Lagoon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cleo De Nile: Royal and sometimes comes across as mean, but is a very loyal friend. Daughter of the Mummy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cleo is dating Deuce Gorgon: interested in cooking and skateboarding. Son of Medusa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ghoulia Yelps: Smartest ghoul in school, shy but always helpful. Daughter of the Zombies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abbey Bominable: Exchange student and strong minded. Daughter of the Yeti.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A great list of main cast, teachers and other characters in the MH universe can be found here:</span><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_Monster_High"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_Monster_High</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this place gives a great look into the backgrounders too:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Basic/First Wave versions of each character come with a themed pet, diary, stand and brush. Dolls have different retail prices dependant on the type of line and the store's mark-up E.G a</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pprox £11-13 for a budget doll with a smaller box and fewer accessories (swim line, beach line, sleep wear line), </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">£16-18 for a basic doll in a larger box (first waves of each doll, picture day, Scaris basic) a</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nd £22-25 for a deluxe doll (generally collector lines, Formal lines, Sweet 1600, Scary Tales).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dolls are highly detailed, with each doll having a different skin colours, eye styles, shapes and colours, fangs, ears, tails and wings depending on their monster type. The dolls even have unique face molds for each character (save for 2 or 3 dolls who share one but in different colour, such as grey Ghoulia and white Cupid, and some werecats), great paint screenings, generally with each line having different coloured and complex make-up, highly detailed and well-constructed clothes, excellent accessories which are usually new. Up until recently we've been spoiled with the fantastic molds, with each doll containing new jewellery/shoes/bag. These molds are being recycled now with new colours and paint but this isn't a bad thing at all (molds are expensive!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dolls feature 11 points of articulation; neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips and knees. The female dolls feature skinny limbs, a small bust, stylised 'sway' of an arched back, high heeled feet, long neck and heads a little larger in proportion to the body. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The joints offer a lot of movement, which is great as a child's play toy or a collector's display item. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The elbows and wrists use ball and peg joints, which allow for great rotation and movement. The joints are simple, sleek and allow for lots of character and expression. The wrist and elbow pegs can pop in and out of the joints to allow of changing of clothes. The peg sizes are the same, which means they can be swapped with other MH dolls!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nefera and Headmistress Bloodgood have splayed hands in proportion to their body sculpts. T</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">he male dolls also have splayed hands, as well as relaxed, gripping and 'elegant' sculpts. Newer male releases also have wrist articulation which was not present at the start of the franchise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even without a head, the hands give a great sense of personality and character! (I'm in the middle of re-rooting Frankie for a custom of my MH OC!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first few waves of dolls had sewn elastic attaching the thighs together through hips, but the elastic often became worn with use and snapped, leaving an upset child/collector and a legless doll! It's an easy fix and I'll be making a blog post soon about how to do it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, dolls after (and including) Toralei's first release had an updated plastic peg system. Despite being plastic, it still offers a lot of posing options and movement!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some parents and buyers didn't agree with what was mentioned in some of the diaries, such as Clawdeen writing about how she shaves and plucks hair, or how inappropriate their clothes are for young adults to be wearing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(I'm not even going to get started on how silly I think some of the arguments are against MH. I'll be ranting for days against those who are slut-shaming or insisting this franchise will make young children idolise the skinny STYLISED plastic figures and pouty vinyl lips, and become unsatisfied with their own human bodies. Heck, next they will want stitched limbs and flaming hair because they're just </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'stupid impressionable young kids'. Is there a sarcastic font on here? <i>Oh, this will do.. Great.. </i></rant><i>)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HOWEVER, none of this resistance has made the dolls drop in popularity. Yes, I agree that some the first wave of dolls had skirts that are too short. But Mattel reacted to justified complaints and adjusted the dolls. The following waves saw female characters wearing -gasp- trousers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love the Monster High universe, especially the dolls, but I dislike that only one body type is shown and that's 'slender'. We have 4 different doll body sculpts: Nefera is Cleo's older sister so she has a larger, taller and more developed body type, the rest of the cast have a 'teenaged' body type with a relatively small bust, Twyla and Howleen have an even smaller body sculpt, in terms of size and height, and the rather lanky male body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is worth noting that Operetta seems to have a larger hip and bust sculpt, suggesting she is more developed than the others, but there's still no variation in the bodies like more athletic or flat chested or voluptuous or chubbier or pear shaped.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm one of the site administrators over at </span><a href="http://monsterhighdolls.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">monsterhighdolls.com</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and the forum is kept up to date with brand new and up-coming releases, fresh news straight from conventions, Mattel themselves and general internet snoopings. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mattel have yet to bring out a line I'm disappointed with, even those that haven't been released yet get me excited! There are always 'wow' elements in</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> MH dolls even if I'm so interested in, such as a new shoe mold or accessory piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the franchise develops, we see more and more potentials being fulfilled in the form of new releases. Entirely new molds are being used to create wonderful new designs and monsters, and I cannot wait to see how the years unfold for this fang-tastic franchise!</span><br />
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Athena Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747354963728886540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531617672799394888.post-47906468324904234602013-05-13T08:11:00.001-07:002013-08-04T11:13:11.811-07:00Doll Review: Bratzillaz - Basic Yasmina Clairvoya<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I usually take my dolls out of the box to display, but I've been saving some for the purposes of reviewing fully, from opening to display, and a</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">s a test-run I decided to go for something easy so picked a first wave doll from MGA's Bratzillaz line: Yasmina Clairvoya.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But before we jump in, let's look closer at the franchise as a whole!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bratzillaz was released in Autumn 2012 with its first line of 'witch cousins of the Bratz' named </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yasmina Clairvoya, </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">Cloetta Spelletta, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">Meygana Broomstix, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">Jade J'Adore, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">Sashabella Paws and two newer doll characters </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">Fianna Fins</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"> released in the early 2013 'Midnight Beach' line and </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;">Vampelina from the 'Magic Night Out' line. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">Each character is a sorceress with a unique 'witchmark', a specialisation such as love, flight or animal magic, spells and pets w</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.1875px;">hich follows their respective themes. For stock in international countries</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.1875px;"> (UK and Europe) the pets are included in with the dolls, elsewhere they are sold separately</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.1875px;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dolls feature 12 points of articulation and inserted glass eyes. Newer lines have a special difference such as the 'Midnight Beach' dolls having glow in the dark plastic and 'Magic Night Out' dolls have a twisting dance mechanism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are other sets included in the series; a cheaper alternative budget line with much less articulation but featuring the same core characters, a 'Switch-A-Witch' line (which many have compared to the Monster High 'Create-A-Monster' set) which contains interchangeable body parts, wigs, clothes and heads to create 2 unique-combination full witch dolls, multiple fashion and accessory packs and a 'Cafe Zap' play set.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The franchise also includes interactive game apps for smartphones, an official live-action theme song, an official website and regularly uploaded online episodes of an animated Bratzillaz series.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, onto the doll! (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't ever set up a real photography shoot but t</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">his will probably change for the sake of making my images more clear. In the mean time p</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">repare yourself for a fabulous orange [very well loved] blanket!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here she is!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First impressions: Plastic and Purple.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Too much plastic and purple..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each doll is p</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ackaged in a box with a style and colour scheme according to their own theme, but I feel the deep purple here was a bad choice as all the other purples are lost in it and doesn't show off the doll and her elements. A contrasting colour, or even a softer lilac would have made the doll 'pop' more as opposed to sink into the back ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The back is thick printed card but I'll get onto that in more detail after opening. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The outer packing is a thick plastic window with a detailed card trim border, and no parts seem to be wobbling about inside so </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">dolls are pretty secure in their boxes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Too secure..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've got experience in opening and getting dolls out of packaging from various MGA lines (Lalaloopsy, other Bratzillaz and Novi Stars) and let's just say you'll have to prepare yourself for the onslaught.. So here's what you'll need:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thick protective gloves so you don't get cut on the sharp plastic</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over-alls</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chainmail armour</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A laser gun just in case</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seriously, you'll need some heavy duty scissors, and snacks to make sure you can endure through the process! (Here I have sweeties, a cheese pastry and some good ol' reliable scissors)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My best advice to get Bratzillaz boxes open is to forget about trying to peel the back off and remove all sorts of ties and tape, and just cut all the way around the sides and pop off the 'lid'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be careful when you get to parts like hair, clothes and accessories that bump up to the edge of the plastic</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Theeere we go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now we've popped off the lid let's look in more detail:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here's the back:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's a lot going on here, with all the multiple languages and different coloured sections. It's busy, and I feel they're trying to do too much all at once: the other dolls in the line, descriptions, doll and pet biographies, warranties, online gimmicks, 'augmented reality' features.. The whole blocks of text are off putting and the images are small and pixelated. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know the cluttered sections with different languages can't be helped (it's hardly economical to print a different back for each language!) but all the text on the back is repeated in the instructions leaflet, which is in a bag taped to the inside of the box! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's worse for me is the doll's box art compared to the end result.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The completely different skin colour, different hair styles and colours, different clothing styles, missing accessories and jewellery.. The art looks rather different from the actual product. It's not even a stylistic difference; simply the dolls are missing key elements from the designs. It's confusing and I don't think 'artistic licensing' can be held to account for something that's supposed to be a representation of what's in the box.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Moving on!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First impression: She's pretty cute! Still a little lost within the other purples, but her witchy theme shines through. There is one problem before we can get a proper look at her..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time to get the doll off the backing card!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DON'T cut these ties! (Using the black stand base to show the contrast) I got too carried away and nearly cut these, until I remembered they were elastic loops to put the dolls hands through so they can pose the capes.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doll</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cape, bolero, vest, pants</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Boots</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Earrings, hat, magnifying glass</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stand and base </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Character 'spell' card</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pet card</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Broom-stick hair brush</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Instructions</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also cut out the crystal ball pop-up from the inside of the box and the decorative ribbon from the top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The stand is pretty unremarkable. It has a large sturdy base with the logo, but the plastic is a little thin, and the post is rigid which opens the waist clip up to the possibility of snapping if it's pushed too hard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love her hair because it's reminiscent of the main character's hair from the 90's manga and anime 'Sailor Moon'!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The two buns are made from coiled braids which are tied with the loose ends round the back. Two thin and short bangs hang to her bust. Two more long braids hang under the buns, tied at her waist but the loose ends finishing just above her knees. She has a slightly side swept fringe but I think this was due to her hat holding it in place. It fluffed out with a bit of brushing and held it's shape after styling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The quality of the hair is rather poor. It's thick, coarse and frizzy. The bulk of the hair, such as the braids and fringe are smooth but still don't feel very 'hair-like'. The ends of the fibres are frizzed and fly away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Despite the (somewhat) elaborate hair style the rooting pattern is thin and the scalp in even visible from the back, only covered by a layer of thicker, more densely rooted plugs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The hat is basic dark purple with a criss-cross pattern. Lighter purple paint has been (rather sloppily) brushed on to show off the inset more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The hat is held on by a clear elastic band, which is held in place by a glued in plug. Be careful when snipping threads and ties as you may accidentally cut this, and I don't know how easy it is to replace!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before I buy a doll I check the facial screening to make sure I don't pick one up with a very obvious defect, as it's disappointing to open and then realise the mistake, then go through the hassle of returning it to the store. I checked the other couple of Bratzilla dolls on the shelf and this was the better of the bunch. The others, honestly, were pretty awful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've dealt with MGAE's poor Quality Control and gross eyes smudged across the side of the face and lips missing half the paint. This defect isn't that obvious until you look up close: the right side of her face (eyebrow, eye makeup, lips) is faint and somewhat blurred. It's most obvious on the darker purple 'crease line' of her eye paint. On the left it is solid and bold, on the right it is much softer, and the eyebrow isn't as neat and blurred across her face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Besides the lack of consistency her face-up is ok. It's simple and purple but contrasts nicely with her bright eye colour. I get that purple is the theme here, but there are so many different shades and hues going on that it doesn't quite work for me: deep plum, lilac, metallic, mauve.. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her eyes, on the other hand, work very well in terms of purple. They're glass inset at a side glance, with a bright lemon yellow iris surrounded by a ring of lilac. This is bold and gives her a lot of character.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I find inset eyes (glass, acrylic, silicone, etc) can seem wide and staring in other dolls if they haven't chosen the right size or style for the doll and it often detracts from the character, but this side glance softens the look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've never been a fan of the Bratz faces with their lack of nasal definition and huge painted lips, and this is a slight problem for me with this line, but these proportions are much better. The custom/repainted Bratzillaz out there with much less lip paint look more natural, but that's just personal opinion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She's got a very strange profile with her almost bean shaped head! When I took the earrings out to get a better picture I noticed the gold residue on her cheek and around the hole where paint has rubbed off the plastic. It's not noticeable when the earrings are back in but it's still a quality issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The earrings are long keys (which aren't particularly ornate and made from silver plastic painted metallic shiny gold) but instead of a second matching earring from an inverted mold, it's just the same shape so you don't get a real 'pair'. I feel this is quite lazy on the companies part and it's these sorts of details which don't help the dolls live up to the potential. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yasmina comes with a cape, jacket, a tube top and capri pants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The clasp of the cape is the Bratzillaz 'School Arms' badge which shows a bikini, a diamond ring, a high healed shoe and.. I actually don't know.. Cuff-links? Earrings? And their motto 'Fashion Magic Academy'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The material is nice quality, with a black stretch cotton lining with a softer material over-lay, random patterned with holes that aren't stitched down. The horizontal purple stitching holds the two layers together, however none of the edges are hemmed which (even though it's 'just a play doll') looks sloppy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The front of the cape under the badge, the back of the tube up and the back of the pants all close with squares of velcro, the stitching is sloppy so neither close fully and the result looks messy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bolero</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> has a small collar and simple sleeves. The material </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is deep purple covered in a gold diamond pattern with a black underside, to give the appearance</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> of a lining. There are two accented black shiny pleather straps across the shoulders. All the edges are hemmed with black thread which looks tidy and secure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unlike the other edges (which have been sewn over, but not folded and hemmed), the gaps in between the gold ribbons have simply been left. I don't know why these gaps are unhemmed, but the extra centimetre or two of thread it would have taken </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">would have added greatly to this messy looking piece. (This wouldn't make much of a difference in the long run, given the other problems..)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The panels are coming apart because the velcro (which is sloppily sewn on) is too far on each side, so you have to stretch the fabric to close the back, which isn't helped by the fact the stitching of the seams is loose and uneven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Extra thread and closer attention to those details would have made this a simple, yet effective part of the outfit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The potentially sleek and form-fitting design is held back by the frayed and unkempt edges.The cut is a little off so doesn't sit flush to her sides.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The capri pants are a simple straight cut, made from shiny yellow fabric with stitched 'zipper cover' on the front and 'double seam' detail running down the outer side of the leg. The ends are finished nicely with matching colour thread at the waist and calves. They stop just below the knee and the fabric bends with the joints pretty easily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See, this is where I get confused. Upon closer inspection of the ribbon/handle that was looped through the top of the box, it seems that they've gone through the trouble of cleaning up and melting the edges so the fabric doesn't fray. Why?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The boots are molded brown plastic with black painted detail, stopping mid-calf. Two thick black molded buckles wrap around the top of each boot with black laces and studs running down the front. The black paint has a poor quality screening, with patchy sections and random blobs in the wrong places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The mold of each boot is the same; one 'half' copied and flipped over so</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> the sides are symmetrical</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the laces criss cross. Apart from the belt buckles (which are indistinct from the rest of the black paint) the two halves are the same, and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there's no distinct left and right foot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The black soles of the shoes are ridged, and feature multiple molded stitches around the heel. The opening stops in the middle of stitched pattern and doesn't close very well, which leaves a roomy gap at the top of the boot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the Bratzillaz dolls have high arched feet to fit giant heels and non have flat shoes, which isn't really representative of the age the characters are supposed to be, but that's fashion dolls in a nut-shell..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They have 12 points of articulation, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">including a swivel waist. The hands and lower legs are made from a rubbery, more flexible plastic, whereas the rest of the body is a shinier, more brittle plastic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has two different hand molds, with the right hand slightly more cupped</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The waist has a large peg joint which allows the torso to rotate slightly (less than 45</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">°) but it looks very unnatural. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In conclusion, I like this line. The theme is great as an 'in-between' for those who find Monster High too creepy/scary and don't like Barbie and her pink-parade. There's great potential but </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the overall quality of the dolls drags it down; the seam lines, chunky joints, poor choices of materials for hair and clothes, etc. New features like the glass inset eyes and tiny magnifying glass are cute, but not enough to outweigh the cons.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">'Why yes, I do have wild crazy eyes, thanks for noticing!'</span></td></tr>
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Athena Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747354963728886540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531617672799394888.post-58828858476538216572013-04-07T09:23:00.004-07:002013-04-07T09:23:55.063-07:00What's New With Nuu?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, my digital drawings went on the back burner due to my tablet breaking (Memo: electronics tablet + magnets = sad Nuu and broken stuff) and life got in the way of my silly blog. However, on my birthday I received another brand new tablet and got doodling straight away! But again, I managed to get busy doing nothing and forgot all about this place. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whilst I've been away a lot has happened. I've grown to learn that you should only do what really makes you happy. I've been pushed into wasting my time on things that won't help me or my passions develop and I regret not standing up for myself more. Now it's time for me to be selfish and do what I want, so I can be happy!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In that time I've rediscovered my inner child and my love for old cartoons, anime, toys, dolls and games. I decided that as a small (but obviously going to turn into a huge) project I'd review in detail all the things I've rediscovered so I can see all the small details that often get overlooked and appreciate them more. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to random ramblings and doodles I'll be looking </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">more specifically at: Sailor Moon anime, manga, toys, dolls and props, Monster High Dolls, Lalaloopsy, Cutie Pops, La Dee Da, Bratzillaz, Winx dolls and cartoons, Rainbow Brite, My Little Pony, nostalgic movies, films and more!</span><br />
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Athena Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747354963728886540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531617672799394888.post-42819369031109127082011-06-22T02:02:00.000-07:002013-05-13T07:42:17.312-07:00Nuu Has Arrived!<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Uh.. Hello.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I'm not too sure what I'm doing here to be honest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My plan at first was to simply show off the genius drawings that have been cascading from my very fingertips (Well, pen. But ya’no..) and of course I will become the most amusing and popular person on the internet over night!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This will turn into an inevitable saga of hilarity and piles of money for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My first thought when toiling over the idea of a picture blog was that I could have posted them on an art website, but that’s what a lot of people do. And then again, I didn’t want have a blog with walls and walls of text because that’s boring and has been done a million times over. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So a combination of both will do spendidly! (Not walls and walls of text, because I don't have that many storyies to tell)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Guess I can just try my best, and see how it goes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So, here I am.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I AM NUU. Or Athena. Or Pickle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I have purple hair and piercings and I like the colour blue, and I find myself far more amusing then I probably am. In fact I find myself so funny I made this blog :3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">P.S. A cusp is a point made by two touching circles. </span>Athena Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747354963728886540noreply@blogger.com0