World Doll Day Tag

I am truly sorry that I did not have this post ready sooner, since World Doll Day was celebrated on Saturday 13th June.  

I was tagged by D7ana (thanks for thinking of me) to participate and didn't realise it until late June.  I started this post and am only now completing it.  Bad me.  :(   D7ana even left a comment for me in my last post, to let me know I was tagged.   I didn't receive Blogger's email notification of D7ana's comment until earlier this month, when I was going through my Junk mail folder!  Thanks gmail!

I know it's lame, but here goes:


1. 2014 Favorite Dolls (and/or Action Figures)

•      Barbie Fashionistas Summer (such a pretty face).

• Princess Power Reporter Ken (the glasses, shirt and tie got me).

• Cradle of Waves - Surf Momoko (I wish I could get my hands on all the tan Momokos ever produced).

• Barbie and her Style Friends with their flat feet!

2. 2015 Wish List Dolls (and/or Action Figures)

•     Any Ruruko doll (cuteness galore - but oh so expensive)
•     IT Hanne Erikson After Hours (such a beauty)
•     IT Shades of Grey Hanne Erikson (she's so intriguing with black hair)

3. Tag 5 people to do as I have done. 
   Since I'm so late, I won't tag anyone.   :)

Barbie Style Girls

During Amazon's Lightening Deals earlier this month, I got the Barbie Style Floral Jacket doll.

 Things I like about her:
  - Her skirt with the front faux zipper.
  - Her bracelets.

  - Her boots, faux slouch socks (they're more like gathered leg warmers).
  - The appearance of her handbag (it's molded plastic).

 

Things I'm not so fond of:
  - Her handbag is closed at the top, even though it's hollow.
  - Her biggish head and puffy face.

                 

      Here she is next to a Barbie from the '90s.  I prefer the smaller head.

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A few weeks ago, I got the Barbie Style dolls with the ankle joints.

Things I like about them:
- The look of  the ankle joint and feet - so dainty.

 - Their cute shoes.

- The clutch that came with one of the blondes.

- The new face on the blondes (even though they look a little puffy to me).

Things I'm not so fond of:
- The loose weak-kneed feeling of their knee joints and lower legs.
- Teresa's distressed look.  I don't think the eyelashes help. 

          I decided that she would donate her body to Summer.  

          **As an aside, when I removed Summer's head from her original body, 

              I found glue and hair stuck to her neck post.

               Summer is enjoying her new articulated body.

Things I'm not so fond of (cont'd):
- Raquelle's hairstyle.

- Raquelle's black top's too-exposed armhole (otherwise it's a nice top).

- Teresa's high heeled boots, which are too tight and are really difficult
   to put on and take off.  This surely puts stress on her tiny feet and ankles.

- Their inability to sit with their knees together.  See an earlier Fashionistas body
   on the left and Summer on Teresa's body on the right below.

I wonder if we'll see more dolls, with ankle articulation, in the future.