I decided awhile ago, let's see
February 11 to be exact, to buy a Barbie. Somehow I managed to save opening it until today. I definitely am not a keepem in the boxem type person, I just hadn't is all. So well, yes I was curious
About the new "ultimate pose able" version of a doll I'd had in my life since the 80s in some form or another.
The last time I remember this sort of thing happening that I got hooked on anyway was in the 90s when they started introducing flat-footed gymnasts, super heroes, there was a series with corduroy overalls, Wheelchair bound Becky. I guess it did limit the footwear. There were a lot of sneakers, but flat shoes and Mary Janes and one strap things could be bought in a packet.
A gypsy named Esmerelda.
Esmerelda has good range at the neck shoulders elbows waist hips and knees.
The head of flying super hero Teresa. She has since retired from all that flying and supering and been transplanted to a belly button body with high arched feet. Ah yes, those dolls still had the large bust and teeny waist.
At one point Mattel improved the look of the flat foot on the Cali girl series, but I think the pose ability had reverted back. Not sure what feet they have on the swimsuit editions these days. I think they had the shapely flat feet at one point. Cali girls even had some nicer shoes.
Esmerelda is my last Barbie style doll of this type.
Anyway so who'd I get?
Rip tear shred. Ooh rubber bands needed some more of those.
Hello. I'm Made to Move.
I can do that
There is no question the new doll can move in more ways than any previous doll so I'm not going to do a comparison.
Oh I just got down here
Do you old doll need a hand getting up again?
No I'm just resting, ooh look at that. Your feet are so small how do you keep balance?
What, oh dear, is she questioning my perfectness?
There I can stand unsupported
Whoops. Catherine stop breathing (I just blew at her, no big bad wolf puff either)
(The blow test new girl 0 Esmerelda 5)
I'm a little less than impressed with her feet and ankles. Yes I know Barbies are disproportionate but it just seems if they were being sold shoeless were they intended to be shod at all and if not why not make the feet a little more realistic? Esmerelda's aren't right either but they are more ish in the right direction.
What?
Her feet aren't big enough. Or her arms are too long. Everyone knows that your foot should be the length from elbow to wrist. Google it it's true, Pretty Woman was educational after all.
My what big feet you have.
The BFC ink 100+ poses dolls are pretty spot on.
My Scene shoe feet would be the closest to correct. The new doll feet don't have any give like the older Barbie rubber ones so I was not keen to push the foot all the way in -that and for fear of snapping the ankle.
So there you go.
I had wanted to keep this new face mold doll, and she'll keep her body, for now. I had been thinking to transplant heads if I could get a skintone match, the only one would be the white skinned blonde I have for the white skinned Made to Move (her eyes just don't look right -like they're painted on or decals, which they are but they look like it, so the brown haired doll was the test case and only one that'd come home with me) but am not so certain now that that's the body I want to use. The white skinned blonde is one of those stuck in a pose F word dolls (rhymes with fat on blister) so she needs something.
MTM FA MTM FA
Mmm
Then there's the look of the joints, so that's a whole other rant, and argument (you've been transplanting BFCs, yeah I know).
So for now, dollies back on the shelf, time to go clean up after things that have their joints under something called skin and are only disproportionate when humans start mucking with their gene pool.
