Did You Miss Me?

 I went to a wedding in Kansas.  Visited family and did the tourist thing on the way to and from.

I'm 60 years old now.

Got a Superhero Girls bus from Goodwill but the biggest keeper was this:

(Picture from internet.)  

The bus's driver can detach from the bus and zoom off after bad guys!  

Not sure what or where this will be.  Expect a future post or series on this project.

 

This is the sticker on the back.  There's also a serial number, but Google keeps finding me not-quite-this dollhouses.  Y'all know how it bugs me when I can't track down the origins.

The cast for my sequel to FRIENDS.  Can you guess who they are?

My second ily doll.  This one's a Hocus Pocus fangirl.  Loves the Sanderson sisters, so I'm calling her Sandy.  Did I mention in my post about Sally that the side-of-the-box art makes for good bookmarks?  Sandy's got some wild hair, but no worse than Willa or Belltrix.   

Please see the post titled "ily Forever" for the detailed review of Sally.  

Horsies!

 I found another good example of how using things meant for 18 inch dolls sometimes works better than using the things meant for my dolls' actual size (12 inch/Barbie/1:6).  I've mentioned this before, most recently in my review of the Hogwarts Express playset. 

Image from Internet.

According to this and my clumsy math, a regular Barbie-scale horse is technically a pony. 

The average (using measurements on Angus and Khan) height of a Barbie horse, to scale, is only 12 hands.  I don't take issue with my dolls having ponies instead of horses.  It's just an interesting point.

Both Angus (hairy feet) and Khan (funny tail) are based on real horse breeds.  Angus should be 17 to 19 hands.  Gage should have of trouble looking over his spine! Khan is smaller, about 14 hands, but his spine still should be chest high on Gage.  Remember, I'm using my own math skills here, so estimates and bad calculation are both possible.

Bullet: thanks for giving up your spot for me.

Khan: Jeanie made me.

Like Khan before him, Bullet jumped into my hands at a local flea market.  He fit all my criteria for a doll horse: reasonably realistic eyes and a dynamic pose. He is a horse, not a pony, on my scale.  Roughly fifteen hands.

Bullet was heftier even before I noticed his long legs.  Turns out, he is a Our Generation horse.  Our Generation are 18 inch dolls similar to American Girl dolls. Thus this blog post.

Some of you may remember I had a few more horses.  All but Angus went in the post-soap-opera purge, for various reasons.  One of them wasn't walking or anything, just standing there, and originally had human looking eyes that I tried to fix.  Most of them were too small to be anything but babies.

When I found Khan a few weeks  ago, he had some kind of wiggly stirrup thing that was meant for the doll to (I assume) stand while riding.  It stuck out of his belly and was purple to match his saddle and bridle.  I sawed most of it off and used black nail polish to hide the rest.

Bullet needed a scrubbing and a brushing.  My friend suggested naming him Silver Bullet.  Once cleaned up, he isn't as silver as we thought, so he's just Bullet.  

Angus fits nicely in the horse trailer.

Khan also fits nicely in the horse trailer.  He is skinny enough to share the space, but neither of his buddies are!  

Bullet looks like he can step over with just a little effort.  While we're at it, let's try on the tack! 

 Khan's saddle and bridle almost fit Bullet.

Pink set does not even come close.

Pink saddle number two almost fits.

 

Angus's saddle has been repaired with elastic so I didn't even try to wiggle it over Bullet's big ole hips.  Ignore the water.  He forgot to stand on his head for proper drainage after his bath.

Not sure where this came from, but it will fit with a bit of effort.  Most of my barn stuff came from thrift store assortment bags and I think this was in one of them.  

Too small.

Khan can wear it.  Almost.

Angus is not amused. 

 

Angus can share this one with Bullet.  Khan prefers his purple halter with the gold reins. 

My other barn stuff, usually stored in either the horse trailer or the sleigh.  The lanterns and signs were Christmas tree ornaments.  The buckets were probably in the previously mentioned assortment bags.  I did get a rooster once but he had a speaker and the speaker holes looked like violence had occurred.

Everything together to be put away.  Eventually.  My excuse this time?  Gotta let Bullet stand on his head for a while and drain that bathwater.  That fashionista bag used to hold the tack... but now I have too much tack... 

 

Thank you Ms Leo

 Ms Leo, of the i-luv-dolls blog, asked me if I would be willing to adopt a GI Jane.  I'm always up for unusual "Barbies", so I said sure. 

WARNING WARNING NEKKID PLASTIC PEOPLE AHEAD

My dolls immediately put up lookouts for their new friend.

This is what I was expecting to receive.

This is what I found among all the bubble wrap.  Jane brought along her whole fam damily!

We have Hannah Montana's bestie (Lily?), one of the Encanto sisters (Isabel?), a headless really dark dude, a pale clone of Jackson from one of the Barbie movies, and Jane herself.  Also a bag of heads.

Heads.  I recognize all but one of them.

Bald guy, Justin, Aaron, Dude from Wicked (Fiero? No, that's a car), Anthony, Disney Prince (Beast)

Ms Leo sent along a donor body for Lily.  

She knows my aversion to poorly articulated knees and elbows.

Izzy is a substantial woman.  Also well articulated.

I'm going to call this kid Jason.  He is unable to bend the knee.  Or elbow.

Levar (named for Levar Burton, one of my celebrity crushes) is a Fashionista head.  He only matches females in my body bin.  He thanks Ms Leo for thinking of him!  It's not perfect, but it works.  Lily's already flirting with him on her new body.

He rejected her so hard her leg fell off.  Meanie.

So I brought out the bins.  Jason and the noggins wonder if they might have a match in there.  I'm already thinking of one for Lily.

The only kid body I have is too small and too tan.  The pale bodies are all too female.  

Levar says "Well, at least you still have a stiff body.  I didn't even have that."  

I managed to find a body for the Wicked dude, who is based on actor Jonathan Bailey, so he will be Jonathan. Lily has painted on hose but she prefers that to a missing leg!  Everyone put clothes on.  Except Jason, who was already dressed.

Meet Jonathan, Jason, Jane, Izzy, Levar, and Lily. 

Willa

 I remember Zombies from a few years ago.  It was on one of the Disney channels or services.  Nothing about it appealed to me, not even the dolls I saw in stores.  Therefore I know next to nothing about this franchise.  Less even than I knew about Nightmare Before Christmas on my last review.

MyFroggyStuff recently reviewed three new dolls from that line.  From Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires.  Two of the dolls are blondes with a bad case of Vapid Face.  But Willa... 

If Sally was little-goth-on-the-prairie, Willa is gothic mountaineer.

I guess she's a werewolf.  Her last name has "Lycan" in it and the box mentions she's the leader of the pack. There's a wolf on her belt buckle.

Girl's got some hair!  

Her bicep wrap and rope bracelet came off with the packaging.  Necklace and belt were not on her person.  I'm going to take a stab in the dark and assume the necklace is a moonstone amulet of great power. 

Several tattoos on her arms.  You can also get a gander at that beautiful shirt and the bracelets that stayed put.  The tattoos look like art from a certain Disney Princess who shares ethnicity with a certain other-franchise lycanthrope.  

She goes to the same hair stylist as Bellatrix.

MyFroggyStuff says that's makeup, but she's my doll and I say it's facial tattoos like Midna's.  

Pointy ears like Midna.  (Midna is a Fairytopia Sunburst, by the way, rebodied.) 

 

Willa with Tris, Four, and Midna.  Showing off their ink!  

Disney ily 4EVER

WARNING NEKKID DOLL BOOBIES

RUN FOR THE HILLS 

I haven't bought any of the Disney ily 4EVER dolls for a couple of reasons.  One, they are ridiculously expensive.  I don't even want to think about the price of the Disney Store versions.  The Jakks Pacific play line ones are more than a Barbie with more articulation.  Two, the only ily thing I've seen that really fired me up is this fashion pack.  Which I did buy.  Don't ask the price.

 They're based on the tradition of Disney Bounding, in which a guest at the amusement park dresses "inspired by" a favorite character as a way to circumvent rules against adults in actual costume.  None of them floated my boat until I spotted this gal. 

I didn't buy her but kept eyeballing her.  The high price was mitigated for me by the second outfit, but still more than I was willing to pay.  Today I found her in the Clearance aisle for less than 20!  You know she hopped right in my cart.

Some of the outfits don't strike me as practical for a day at the amusement park!

 I must confess I have never seen Nightmare Before Christmas.  What struck me about this doll was the whole Little-Goth-On-The-Prairie thing she has going on.  Unlike most of the dolls in this line, this gal bears a passing resemblance to her inspiration. I'm just going to go ahead and call her Sally.

Her earrings (which are removable) look like Jack Skellington.  Her hair tangles badly around that gray coming out of his noggin.  I might snip that - the gray, not the hair.

Here she is in her second outfit.

She has molded on panties and lots of articulation.  You know I gotta have them knees and elbows!

Her coffin shaped bag opens.  The necklace features the curvy hill I see in much of the Nightmare merchandising and the purse charm looks like Jack's ghost dog.  The clutch purse doesn't open and the handle has the ghost dog and a Jack head.  I could not manage a decent picture of it, but that's some cool detail.  The clutch makes me think of Yzma (Wrong movie, Kronk!).

Phoebe (a reissue Barbie and the Rockers doll) is similar in articulation.  Sally's head and feet are  larger, but that's okay.  A lot of my dolls have more realistically sized feet than Barbie.  And Sally's head ain't bigger than her torso like certain (freaky) doll lines I could name.  Jakks Pacific does dolls well.