Youdolls by Macmillan

I'm pretty busy those day, at the begining of April my sister and I bought a home in our city, like 15 minutes by walk from our current appartement, so now we have a lot to think of and spend for too, unfortunatelly. There's so many things that need to be done, so I doubt we will manage to move there in this year. But there will be doll room, work shop and storage room so it's sometthing worth waiting for.

While browsing the Internet I came across of a quite new and unpopular dolls called Youdolls by Macmillan Toys. We can find those dolls on Aliexpress under "Original Macmillan Germany" even though this brand is from USA, California. In the May of 2015 there was crowdfunding for this dolls, just like for Lammily. Somehow Youdolls came unnoticed while Lammily are quite known. Youdolls were planned to be very diverse, even if there's just one facesculpt used. There's 50 look options to choose from, 3 skin colors, 3 eye colors and some hairstyles and 6 hair colors to choose from as well. To each doll we can add 4 items and one outfit of our choice from options available on the site.
Dolls are bendable in similar way to old Fashionistas, but taller and a bit fatter. Face are quite pretty in my opinion but the heads are oversized unfortunatelly, bigger than already too big Barbie's heads.

The price is quite hight, 49usd, shipping price to Europe is not acceptable in my opinion, the cheapest is over 70usd. Luckily we can get this doll nude from Aliexpress for about 20usd, and this what I'm intending to do.
There will be a lot of photos, I wish I'd know how to make a post under cut on blogger, just in the same way we can do it on livejournal...

Official site: https://www.youdolls.com/

(yes, I really screenshoted all of those 50 dolls, I'm sick so have too much time apparently)

Seller from Aliexpress was kind enough to attach a comparison photo to listing, so we can see how Youdolls looks next to other fashion dolls and compare skin color with Barbie's.

(obviously Youdoll isn't "this doll", but the first from left.)

Seems like a great body donors! Must get at least one of each color :D

What I love and what I hate about 2015 dolls

Long time no see! I'm still here, collecting dolls, just have less time to write and read blogs. In 2015 I bought many Integrity Toys boys plus some female dolls of other brands, need to take some photos of them.

Back to topic of this post. Starting with the "love". None of the photos is mine.

My favourite doll of 2015:

(source of a photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/57684696@N08/15679740528/ )

(source of a photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/69643226@N03/20509773233/ )

- Techrat from IT's Jem and Holograms line.
Pale skin, black hair, 2 heads in pack, one of them with long hair and one half shaved - what's not to love here? Perfect guy for OOAK, one head can make perfect metal goth and the other a really great punk.I love this doll so much that I got 2 of them.Unfortunaltely had no time to sew him his own, personal clothes in chosen style, hopefully will do it sometime soon.


My favourite thing in general about 2015 dolls:

(source of a photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/french_disney_princess/23235496443/)




- Made to move! Love their bodies! Almost as articulated as Obitsu Body. I just dislike their flat butt, in my opinion it's only natural to have a bit bigger behind if your legs and waist are that muscular. But I love those bodies anyway and will try to rebody some part of my female dolls with them - not all because I want my dolls to have different height and body sizes. I also love that they are made in different colors, four as for now, and possibly there will be even more colors to choose from!

(source of a photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/french_disney_princess/24386035326 )/in/dateposted/

How great is that? But, where are guys? Mattel, stop with this misandry already!




The most dissapointing doll of 2015:

(source of a photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/meike_1995_/21949053961/ )
- aside great majority of Mattel dolls I'm most dissaponted with Toki Doki doll.
How I regret buying her! She looks like a cheap clone doll and not like a collector one! I bought her for her first retail price , which was 75usd, now she cost like 20 something usd and I think it's still too expensive. I got her for a certain OOAK project, but changed my mind when I saw her real photos. Awful quality pink hair, eyes almost above her ears - everything about her screams "Katy Perry" (and I hate her as well)



The most dissapointing thing in general about 2015 dolls


- diversity = no White dolls.

(source of a photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/juskidding09/14912536026/ )

First Prettie Girls proved it with their "oh, so diverse" line which included two Black dolls, one Latina and one Indian. There was some plans for a White doll too, but apparently are long forgotten. The company isn't answering on emails so there's no possibility to ask about Alexia (White doll).

(source of a photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbalikbayanbox/20707125813/)

And second - bunch of "diverse" dolls made and contributed to the 2015 Madrid Fashion Doll Show's charity auction by Carlyle Nuera. There was a Black doll with an afro, blond Asian girl, Indian guy with a man bun, Mulatto guy, Black guy (because two Black dolls just aren't enough apparently!), super dark doll (Dravidian? Black?)and the last one - surprise, it's a brown doll! From 7 dolls 6 are brown and one is Asian, so awesome! For convention taking a place in EUROPE, in Spain, we didn't get even one White doll! Imagine now that this convention had a place in Ghana and that you got dolls of all races/skin colors but no Black! Surely majority of White people don't care, because we are taught to never think about our race and would find my comment ridiculous, but I belong to minority in this subject. I do care. Don't get me wrong, I love dolls in all shades of color, the bigger diversity the better, I even really like those OOAK "diverse" dolls but I find it utterly offensive to not add even one White doll for a European convention.


Honorably mentioned :
Lammily. I had nothing against this doll untill Nicolay Lamm decided this is a feminist doll and made a t-shirts with a big FEMINIST on it, for little girls. Gee, I HATE feminist bs. Dear feminists of both genders, stop spewing hate and stay aways from kids!

(source of a photo http://lammily.com/product/feminist-t-shirt/ )

Remembering Peter Steele

A bit too late, should have do it on April 14th, but better later than never, right?

Sean, like every other year since 2010, on April 14th visited local park.

He chose the biggest tree around here, and sat under it.

He spent there a few hours, thinking , remebering and grieving over the loss of his idol.

Soon he will be strong again, but not yet, just for a little longer he will allow himself to be sad, vulnerable and weak.

As the evening come Sean decided to go home. He knew he will be back in the same place in exactly one year.

5 x Integrity Toys guys

Short post just to show that this blog is still alive :)
Last month I got 5 new guys. One was ordered in February, price of some was too good to pass them, one was rare so I simply HAD to buy 3rd same doll. Every excuse is good, haha. Sometimes I wonder why did I buy female dolls at all!

From left to right:
1)Dynamite Girls "Love Revolution" All American Auden
2)Fashion Royalty Dark Hunters Acheron (looking somehow very ugly, haha)
3)Dynamite Girls "Love Revolution" Take It Easy Cruz
4)Poppy Parker "Baby it's you" Chip Farnsworth III
5)Dynamite Girls "The Terrible Trio" Handsome Devil Damon

Cruz and Damon are partialy repainted, Cruz by Ebay seller, Damon by me.

Close up

Auden

Acheron & Cruz

Chip & Damon

Soon I should post an entry about all of my Integrity Toys guys, it's a shame they are never in the spotlight!

handmade cardboard furnitures

As I wrote some posts earlier, I'm planning to make all furnitures to my planned doll room in shabby chic style. Of course, being me I got distracted at the very beginning of work, and started to work on furnitures to my other planned doll house, in bold colors, Frida Kahlo inspired. I managed to make just a few things in both styles before I got distracted again, so now I stopped to work on doll rooms/house and started to work on grocery shop. I wonder how far I will be with it before something else will get my attention :P
All furnitures are made entirely of cardboard, that's why they are far from being perfect.

Anyway, here are those few pieces for shabby chic room and those in Frida's colors :)

Those things were made for mexican styled home of John's family. I'm working on it since a year, making this and that, random pieces that one day, hopefuly, will be gathered together in a finished home. I'm rarely writing anything or introducing any doll characters, but my sister and I are enjoying our private doll's pantheon and drama on a daily basis, just not taking any photos.

John will help me to show some decorations I made meanwhile I was making other things.Those were planned for shabby chic room, but got stolen by Johnny :) ( sweater and top are by me too)

Shabby chic furnitures. Looks more "shabby" than I originaly planned! Dresser was already shown in this post http://playscaledolls.blogspot.com/2014/03/challenge-2014-d-and-handmade-dresser.html , but since I changed handles I decided to show it again.

challenge 2014 - F

Today's theme is frills. I'm too tired to think about any story, so it will be very simple post. Next time will try to make some photos in advance.



I`m not like them
But I can pretend


The sun is gone
But I have a light


The day is done
But I`m having fun


Frills are on Belle's top.

challenge 2014 - E

I totaly forgot about challenge X.x Woke up this morning (my morning it it, 4 pm), checked blogger and BAM! - people were posting todays theme - enciclopedia! Better late than never they say.


So here it is - Sean, the walking enciclopedia!

Jaime, murmuring to himself : 11 down, the queen of Elves

Sean, completly drown is the game, interrupts, thinking Jaimes was asking him: Valkyrie

Jaime: What? Are you for real? It's Titania!

Sean, not really listening: Titania, Valkyrie, same thing

Jaime, murmuring: pff, moron. Tell me again, why am I with you?

Sean: Because you don't deserve better.Nah, I'm joking. Because I'm sexy, beautiful, smart and funny. Now shut up.


BONUS - one of Sean's pets, Pugsley.