Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Doll-A-Day 2019 # 140: Ron Stoppable and the Great Blogaversary Giveaway!

 First of all,the details about the Blogaversary contest: The contest is,unfortunately open only to those living in the continental United States. I would love to have it be world wide, but the postage would be phenomenal. Maybe when I find a really nice,but small,light weight prize I will have a competition open to just the non-U.S. readers to make things fair. In the meantime, continental U.S.residents only.
The prize: It's our Blogaversary, and this year is the 60th anniversary of Barbie. In celebration of both,the prize will be a 35th anniversary Barbie doll! In fact, the very one I posted on the blog HERE.


The RULES ARE THESE:
1. YOU MUST BE  A FOLLOWER THAT SHOWS UP IN THE SIDEBAR TO ENTER. To follow,simply click the blue 'follow' button below the list of followers in the right hand side bar. SO far nobody has followed this rule. Your entry is not valid if you don't.
2. You must answer the following question in the comments of this post: Name the original creator of the Lilli cartoon, on which the Bild Lilli doll,(and her successor, Barbie) was based.
  The answer can be found on the blog somewhere. In the event of more than one correct answer by a follower, the correct entries will be placed in a container and one will be drawn at random.
  Deadline for following and commenting your answer is May 31,2019. The winner will be announced June 5th in the daily post. (Due to Emma's birthday on June 3rd.)
  Just to let everybody know, I am feeling much better the last few days. I don't feel sick any more,and I'm down to just a shadow of a headache threatening sometimes. I'm still a bit tired and lethargic,but I feel so much better!
   Today's doll is this guy.


He's Rocket Ron Adventures Ron Stoppable.


Ron Stoppable was the best friend side kick to Kim Possible, star of the animated Disney Channel series of the same name.


Kim was a world saving hero. Ron was not.  He was clutzy and uncoordinated,but he helped Kim whenever he could. Eventually Kim and Ron became a couple.
 The series, The Disney Channel's second animated original series, ran from 2002 to 2007.



There were two TV movies too. The first one was The Disney Channel's first original animated movie. (There was a Disney Channel original live action movie shown in February of 2019.) My kids watched the series, with Emma being the biggest fan of the show. (She was 11 when the show started, so that makes sense.) In fact,this doll belongs to Ivy. Ron looked a little rough when he came out of Ivy's room,which I noticed even more when I took his pictures.
 
Before.

Before.
So I did a little rehab on him and did some retakes.

And after.




Ron talks,via the button on his backpack.




He supposedly says four of his phrases from the series, but I can only get this one to say three:"Wait up Kim!",This does not bode well for the Ronster.",,"Who rocks?! I do!"


His head and arms are posable.



 His arms have a hinged joint and can move up and out.


Ron is wearing his usual mission outfit of black turtle neck,tan belt with pouches, and gray cargo pants.

That gray paint I mixed looked like a much better match inside where I painted it.
  Ron came with a rocket pack that attached to his backpack, and a 'Kimunicator'. He also has his pet naked mole rat in his pants pocket. 



You can see my post on Kick and Cheer Kim Possible HERE.
  That's today's doll. Check out my separate post today on A Girl For All Time's new crowdfunding project.

15 comments:

  1. Congrats on your 6th Blogaversary!! You do such a great job on your blog. The creator of the Bild Lilli comic was Reinhard Beuthien. I would love to enter your giveaway.

    I was aware of the Kim Possible show when it was on, but never saw it. We didn’t have Disney Channel at the time. I’ve never seen any Ron Stoppable figures or dolls - but I do have a Kim Possible doll that I found a Goodwill a while ago. I didn’t know what she was for a long time. I bought her to dress as a Christmas Elf, but I eventually figured out what she was. Mine looks very different from your Kim Possible doll that you linked to. Mine doesn’t have a wide open mouth smile. Instead she had a closed mouth with a little bit of a smirk. She’s really cute!

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  2. What a handsome guy. I love his freckles. I have heard of Kim Possible, but just the name. I didn't know about Ron.

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  3. Reinhard Beuthien is the creator of the Bild Lilli comics!! I hope I've answered this in the right spot, I wasn't sure where else to answer.

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  4. CONTEST ENTRY: The original cartoonist of Bild Lilli was Reinhard Beuthien.

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  5. My daughter watched this,we used to have the pair and some weird monkey villian in kids meal toys.Plus Doug Funny and Patty Mayonaise? These were some of my kids first action heroes. Fun stuff!

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    1. My kids watched Doug too. I have a plush Doug and a Happy Meal Doug. I'm still looking for Patty Mayonnaise. Those toys make me think of when my kids were little.

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  6. What a very generous competition, I'm sure someone is going to be very happy!
    This guy reminds me of a character in the book I've just finished. Of course I've never heard of him or the Disney series but no surprises there!!!
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    1. You have me curious. What was the book?

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  7. Hi Tam,
    The original creator of the Lili cartoon was Reinhard Beuthien.
    (I hadn't actually planned on entering the giveaway, at first. With a prize that good, my odds of winning seemed non-existent. However, after reading your last post I figured why not. By the way, I understand your frustration. I tried holding a giveaway on my blog once and nobody entered. Of course, the prizes for my giveaway weren't anything spectacular, and my blog doesn't have anywhere near as many followers as yours does.)
    Signed, Treesa

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  8. I know my voice would not count, but I support you to continue blogging and keep visiting the flea markets and yard sales :)

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    1. Everybody's voice counts. I plan to keep doing that,but maybe not try a competition again.

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  9. I wonder if a possible reason for the problem with your contest entrants is that the 'following' profile might be different than the 'commenting' profile? I notice that since I'm logged in to my Blogger profile, it's the active one right now instead of the one I use to follow the blog via email.

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    1. That seems to be a possible problem. Unfortunately I can't help them with that. I feel this is just becoming a problem there's no solution to. Why don't other people have these problems?!

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    2. I wonder if emailed entries would have worked better? Then it would be a matter of checking email addresses against your follow list though, and that would be a lot of trouble. Requiring entries to include links to where they had shared a link to your blog on platforms of your choosing (like Facebook) as a condition of entry might be an idea. Of course, that kind of defeats the purpose of being for followers like this one was!

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  10. Okay, I tried logging out and back in again, and I'm still not sure that this will work, but I thought it would be interesting to see if it did show up with my gmail profile rather than my Blogger one. Call it an experiment. YAY SCIENCE!

    You know, for some reason I thought that the deadline for this had passed a few days ago. I guess I'll throw my hat in the ring as well, then. Fun idea to use some of Barbie's own history for your entry question! I remembered reading once that Barbie was based on an adult novelty toy, but I had no idea how closely it was until looking it up and seeing Reinhard Beuthien's drawings of her. Wow, they really didn't change much at all for that first iteration of her, did they?

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Thanks in advance for your comments.