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Monday, October 05, 2009
Whine whine whine Dollfies and shipping/ Berry Hujoo/ Blythe/ Barbie Dress/ Hair Group
So, getting Dollfie bodies is tough for Canadians again. I seem to remember there being a way of shipping that cost $17US. It was the same for 1 body as it was for a bunch but that was the end of it. NOW they appear to have done away with it in favor of only working through UPS. UPS Standard to Canada is $21.84 and you run the risk of getting hit with extra charges if you go over $50, I.E buy more than one doll. So you are paying more than before for the pleasure of paying even more. Nice one, guys.
USPS (EMI) starts at $25.95US to Canada. I'm wondering if the folks who choose that one get around the extra fees. It sucks that it's more but if you can pay about $4 more instead of $50ish in fees, THAT would be worth it.
Ebay is totally not a good option. The cheapest body right now is $10US more than Volks USA. $42CDN after shipping for ONE body. Cripes. I supose maybe you could buy a bunch and ship them together but TEN DOLLARS AMERICAN MORE. *shiver* Looking at this makes me wonder if anyone's switched to Obitsu just because it's less hassle. Cheaper on Ebay, you can get them from places like Junky Spot too.
They came out with a new Hujoo that I DON'T hate. Berry is kind of cute but I HATE the other two and I figured out why: It's the nose area. It's so small then upturned too much. Before Berry, the only Hujoos I liked were heavily modded but this one's nose doesn't look so pinched.
There's also a new Blythe called Simply Peppermint. With a name like that, Lon must TOTALLY want it, right? No. The fact that I can't have her doesn't bother me at all. She looks washed out. The black is too harsh for her, they should have gone with darke hair. Or made the outfit in a darker green or pink. As it, it does nothing for me, NOOooooOTHING! >:D
One of the things I picked up at the thrift store recently was this Barbie sized black velveteen dress. Any no where it's from? The tag is cut so I can't see a brand name. I'd like to alter it but I want to make sure it's not RARE!! HTF!! before I do anything to it.
Hmmm...now this is odd. The last time I checked the doll hair group, we had 101 submissions. Now I check it, there are 3 new ones but it says 102 now. O_O Did we lose a couple?
Posted at 12:55 pm by Lonnikins
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Alpha Critters: HELL YEAH SEAPOON!
As a child, I had a plush toy and figurine of a sea monster character named "Seapoon". My brother had his initial in toy form as well It's driven me insane for years because I couldn't find any info on them. I'd google and people would mention them but never say WHERE they came from. Well, I found my figure in a drawer and flipped it over:
ALPHA Critters
© 1987 Lloyd Gilbert
Made in China
Not a hell of alot of info online about them but the merch pops up on Ebay. Thanks to a bed sheet, I was able to make a list of the names. I'll post it here incase anyone else is going nuts looking for info on their childhood toy:
Agwat
Bixil
Capook
Donk
Eep
Fuzzle
Geet
Herki
Igg
Jobo
Keagle (wait...what?)
Lopper
Moot
Neetah
Orger
Puphin
Queedle
Reebit
Seapoon
Tunk
Ump
Vark
Wipoo
Xif
Yotto
Zat
Posted at 12:48 pm by Lonnikins
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Friday, September 25, 2009
I WANT HAM! *PYOOT*/Nylatex
wAAAA! Ponyo doll O.O That is awsome. The best place for this doll is where ever it can startle the most people.
Restore Doll has Nylatex! YAAAAY! So what the heck is Nylatex? Uh...I dunno. She says it's kinda like Nylon only better and has a slippery coating that makes it easier to root. Personally, I don't know if I'll try it. I'm kind of a hard sell when it comes to trying new hair materials. I wouldn't have bought Nylon or Polypropalyne if it hadn't been for the colors and I will probably never use Acetate. Who knows, maybe Nylatex really IS awsome. I'll probably wait for reviews though.
Posted at 09:47 am by Lonnikins
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Monday, September 14, 2009
World Kids/Mammy's Parlor/Ra Ra Ra Mujinkun/Custom Doll/ Rich Dreams/Crazy CM
Was poking around YJ and found this doll. I was wondering what she was made from since the fingers splay out like an old Kelly body. Then I organized by price and, boom, found it. She is made from a World Doll/World Kids/Whatever doll. See? She's wearing Holland's dress. Those dolls are so cute, I just wish Canada wasn't so danm boring. Blue eyed blond in a faux Hockey jersey. Couldn't we have been a redhead or something? I'm getting Deja Vu...I bet I have whined about that before.
Phew! I thought Mammy's Parlor was gone. Turns out she just got her own domain name. It's an awsome site with lots of vintage dolls on it. As well as looking for the sake of looking, it can also be helpful in IDing dolls.
AHAHA! WOW. LITTLE GREEN MEN. They are kinda hot, too. Something about Asch's facial screening reminds me of Momoko. Attack of the Anime Toys has a set too. Oh gawd...now I want one. -_-
Something I'd do if I had fat stacks of cash is set up deals with custom doll clothing makers where I'd send them some supplies and, I don't know, $30 US or something and say "Make me a doll outfit for X doll body that's worth $30 of your labour." Anything they want. Then, when it's finished I'd pay shipping to get it back and they keep any useable leftovers.But isn't the value of labour in the eye of the beholder? Well, $30 isn't that much when you have fat stacks and I'd go with people that seemed good for it. Plus, I'd post photos with a list and photo of what was sent. If I send a 1/4 metre of fabric, matching threads and 1/4 metres of trim and recieve a badly sewn and baggy halter dress with trim on the bottom of the front of the dress only, well, that doesn't reflect well on the maker. $30 isn't enough for anything super fancy, no labor intensive minature embroidery or anything but I probably enough for a nicely made dress/shirt and pants combo or something. It would be neat to send the same supplies to 2 or more different people and see what each one does with it XD
I've had a similar idea before that would use actual doll bodies. Pick my favorite hair color, my favorite Volks or Obitsu body, buy enough for 4 or so dolls then send that and the customizing fees to different artists, again with no rules expect to make me awsome dolls. Then I'd post a group shot with the 4 dolls to show how different each one's idea was even though they started the same. Neither idea will be happening any time soon though! (Wish me luck with my tickets folks! XD)
Posted at 01:03 am by Lonnikins
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Monday, September 07, 2009
Anticlimatic Doll Dreams and Anne of Forest Fairy
A week or so ago I had a dream that the local grocery store started still Volks Dollfie bodies as well as finished dolls. I was pretty excited but I also noticed that an Eb-N I had been working on was there for $19.99! It had fallen out of my bag when I had been in the store and been put on the rack as merchandise. I didn't figure they'd believe me and since the doll was mine anyway, I put slipped him into my bag and left the store.
So, I'm at home working on the doll and there's a knock at the door. Mum comes running to my bedroom and tells me that the police are here and I have to go to my uncle's to hide out for a while. So I have to climb out my window and run through the woods to get there. I honestly don't remember what happened when I was there but danm the first part was weird.
Then, last night, I had a dream where my dad found a my little pony. He was complaining that the light up feature wasn't working so I opened it up and looked inside and saw that there were things crammed INSIDE the pony. I start pulling things out and it's like a clown car, there is a ridiculous amount of stuff in there. It starts with a doll head that has holes punched in it, then there's whole Polly Pocket sets (old size not new). I was pretty thrilled because I figured they would be perfect dolls for my dolls. I wish I could remember more about what kinds of sets there were. I know there was one with elves called "Silverglade" or something and an Anne of Green Gables one set up like her bedroom where the figure had teeny molded braids. *_* Then a huge crowd of tiny people start rioting outside my house because they think I have their comrades hostage. O_O And then, before I could see what happened, my father wakes me up to ask if I have his saw. >_<
Anne Shirley Licca doll. Aka Anne of Forest Fairy for copyright reasons. Ooooh. I remember seeing her in a toy shop photo taken in Japan and thinking "If I was there and could afford her, I could not leave without one." I can't even find a store online SELLING her though, so maybe she really is that rare.
Posted at 02:40 pm by Lonnikins
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Ponies/Barbie/Hair Group/Dream/Algae Man
So, I was wondering what was going on with the My Little Pony line. They were clearing out the older ones but not getting anything new in. Then, yesterday when I was at walmart....I saw them.
Granted, that's a styling pony but all the new ponies I saw were that style! They may be cute but they should't replace the old ones! O_o;
This blank MLP would make a near collectable but I can't imagine actually customizing it. If I want wanna customize a pony I'd use one that was made by the thosands.
I also saw the new Pink World Barbie dolls. I LOVE that they have brought back Skipper and Stacie but I don't like their facial screening.
Egads, people. I LOVE seeing new photos in the doll hair group. It makes me super excited! But people need to read the rules.
"About RD & DH Doll Hair Color Reference
Choosing a new hair color for a reroot online can be hard, particularly if you're trying to match a particular shade. Is the green dark enough? Is the auburn red enough? It helps to have multiple photos of a color in use so you can get a better idea of if it's right for you.
This group is meant to cover the hair sold by Dolly Hair and Restore Doll ("Katsilk"). UK-based My Little Customs will also be inculded as they carry most of the colors that DH and RD carry (combined) and use most of the same names.
1. If you add a photo, you MUST list the color name in the description, as well as which site you got it from. "Restore Doll's Caddy Red" "Violet Iris from Dolly Hair" etc. This will cut down on confusion.
2. Add no more than 3 photos of a project to this group. Just to keep the pages from getting too full of one color. If someone is interessted in seeing more they will totally follow the pictures back to your photostream to see more. :D
3. If possible, try to add the photos that show the colors closest to what they look like in person.
4. Unrooted hanks are fine too."
It's on the front page and it even says them when you sign up, I believe. BUT I'm still getting folks uploading stock dolls or dolls rooted with hair they can't identify. There are plenty of groups for those pictures, I started RD & DH Doll Hair Color Reference because there wasn't anything that was that specific. And we NEED to be specific. The group isn't even really about the dolls when you think about it, it's about the hair. It makes a great springboard to show off a doll, but in the end it's a reference group to help customizers choose hair.
I'm pretty loose with the rules since I want to put group growth above being a hardass. I'll go in and add a keyword or request use of a photo while wording it so extra info is there. But If the photo as absolutly no place in the group, I have to delete it.
I had a dream this doll collector wanted me to buy their MSD Ken for $250. He was complete but he had chipping around his wrists and ankles. I passed because I didn't want a MSD and she was awful disapointed. I wonder if I should have bought him. I probably could have fixed him with tinted Milliput....maybe it wouldn't have been a bad deal?
Also:
Posted at 11:30 am by Lonnikins
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Thursday, August 06, 2009
The net is going to lose so many awsome old sites. It's kind of sad. Basically, if you own a Geocities site or have sites hosted by them that you love, go back them up. At this very moment I am backing up everything from my poor, neglected site. I have no idea where the new location would be so if anyone has any suggestions for free, good hosting, do let me know. I have this blog, though, and Flickr so I've still got places to put my stuff apart from a formal site. ^__^
Posted at 07:12 pm by Lonnikins
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
For those of you who are up on your web memes...
IF I SEE THAT CAT ONE MORE TIME...
( Restore Doll's current logo. I swear he's pointing and laughting at me whenever I visit.)
Posted at 08:28 am by Lonnikins
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On April 15th, I was told that 2 new Licca outfits would be sent out to replace the 2 that came damaged. The first ones came quickly, but I have yet to recieve the replacements. The seller, ShoppingDiction on Ebay with his 233 rating, is no longer a member. The last e-mail sent said: "Hi I am so sorry to hear that. I am out of town now but I will resend them to you as compensation. Thank you
- shoppingdiction"
Am I just being negative that I don't believe any such items were sent? I mean, I guess they could have gotten lost in the mail but isn't it funny how I can no longer contact him to ask? But even if he HAD ripped me off, why would he walk away from such a great feedback rating? One transaction couldn't be worth THAT much, could it? Was there something big that happened? I can't find anything online about him. If he just decided not to sell on Ebay and delete his store, it would have been nice to get in contact with the customers that were waiting for items and let them know.
I've deleted the e-mails. I delete the e-mails when I consider a transaction finished and since there isn't anywhere else this could go, save if he saw this and contacted me to clarify, I have to consider it done.
Ooh ooh ooh. I have had some good luck with thrift stores. Not clothing-wise, since all I need is jeans and finding them is tough for a plus petite, but as far as vintage toys go, it's been good. Lately I have found:
* A redhead Twist Stacey doll from 1968. The hair is a bit thin and an inch or so shorter than it should be but she's still pretty. She came with a bit of clothing that I figure is mostly from that period.
* APPLEJACKS. Holy crap, I finally have an Applejacks MLP. She has apple-y goodness, freckles and washed up pretty nicely. YAY.
* MLP Baby Twiddlywinks. Apart from the tail-rust, someone has shoved a nail through each foot that had also gone rusty. I was like "WTF?" but Mum suggested maybe they did it to "shoe" her. Um...okay. I cleaned her up as best I could. There are still rust stains on the foot bottoms and on the tail-hole but she stands on the former and the latter could be covered with a ribbon.
* A 1991 Strawberry Shortcake Doll. I think the doll itself may be Berry Beach Park but the dress she came with is the secondary dress from Berry Beauty Shop. She still smells nice. *_*
* Mint Tullip. My first SSC foreign friend! Yay! She came wearing her tights and dress.
* Petal Blossom. My first G2 MLP :D
I need to find my childhood Maxie's head. I found the body and sculpted a ball on to the neck to replace the broken neck part. I had started to reroot her with some crappy wig hair a while back but I think that a doll that gave me such joy as a kid deserves some proper saran. I have started making up the plugs: She's going to be a green side-part. Hopefully I'll even get off my ass and make her some clothing.
Posted at 07:31 am by Lonnikins
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
Nylon @ RD/ Action Figure Body
Nylon hair has landed at Restore Doll. Good luck matching shades to shades though. The colors aren't named like at Dolly Hair/My Little Customs, just called things like "Ash 1" and "Red 15. You could easily make a typo and get the wrong shade. I am confused as to why they would do that, since the sarans and flockings all have names. Maybe it's just temperary though?
There is a cheap female figure body that you see on Ebay. Some people actually try to sell it as a Cy Girl body but what they really mean is that it's SIMILAR in size and whatnot. Apparently they are actually Ladies Mission bodies, or at least look like it to me. Anyway, there has been a recent change in the wrist joints. The one I bought has hands that twist at the wrist, then have a small peg that goes through the wrist peg, through a hole on either side of the hand to attach them and allow them to wave. The new ones have a ball instead of the little peg system.
Edit: I bought one of the ball wristed ones. When it came, the chest was a vinyl plate that doesn't really match and one of the hands snapped off the moment I moved it. The hands are hard plastic instead of hard vinyl that has a bit of give to it. Try to put a prop in there and the hand will probably break. It's looking to me like either this one with the ball wrists is a knock off or they are both knockoffs and the first company jsut did it better. I have no idea what I'm going to do with this piece of crap. I have e-mailed the seller and I'm waiting for a reply.
Posted at 05:01 pm by Lonnikins
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