Play Sets: Moxie Girlz Magic Snow Cabin

  This is the first of our Play Sets posts. Today,since it's still winter and cold outside, we're looking at the Moxie Girls Magic Snow Cabin.

This is a stock photo of the box.

It's exactly like the Bratz Winter Dream Cabin, (except the Moxie's cabin is more blue than pink.). This makes sense because both lines were made by MGA.

Keep in mind that mine is second hand and I'm missing the smaller accessories to this play set.

 The set consists of two wall pieces, and two roof pieces. There's no floor piece. It originally came with a bar...

I agree with the review I read that said the bar parts don't join together very well.

 ...a stool...

 The stool is very tiny for dolls any bigger though. In fact, the seat is so tiny that even Moxie Girlz should have a hard time keeping their butts on it.
 

Amazingly,she stayed on really well.

The stool didn't turn over either.
 ...a chair...

The chair is very low,although I've seen Barbie furniture try to get by with things the same height.

It looks short,even with the dolls intended for it.

... and a snow shovel. I'm sure I had both roof pieces and the snow shovel,but of course,when I need to use them they have wandered off.
 I'm missing the icicles for the roof edges.

The roofing snaps on---not very well---and the icicles would fit into the channel on the edge.

I'm also missing the outside lantern,which attaches to the wall to the left of the left hand window, and the pink window sill for the left window.

Also missing is the radio,the fondue pot, skewers,a tray, a croissant and a muffin,two cups of cocoa,two glasses of hot chocolate,and a carton of milk.

This is the stock MGA picture.

  I'm also missing the fire for the fire place, which would have been nice to have. The fire and the fireplace are usable from the inside or the outside. Why you would want to have a fireplace that goes straight through to the outside,I don't know.

The inside.

The outside.

The fireplace is a pass-through. this is the outside.

 The idea of the Magic Snow Cabin was that it was a snowy lodge for the Magic Snow Moxie Girlz dolls. 

The dolls modeling the set are Magic Snow dolls Owen, Avery,and Kellan. (You can see my post on Kellan HERE,and on Avery and Owen HERE.) As  for the set,it is sized for Moxie Girlz,so don't get the idea you're going to use it for Barbie sized dolls. The walls are way too low for Barbie,Monster High,Ever After High, or other dolls of that scale. It's ok for anybody 10 inches tall, and a bit below.
  The dolls each came with a snowflake Christmas ornament looking thing filled with 'magic snow'. When water was added to the 'magic snow' it increased in volume. It was supposed to resemble real snow. I can see it being a sloshy mess,but then, I haven't tried it. The Magic Snow Cabin had a 'fun' feature of it's own. Well,you can call it fun. I wouldn't think it was fun if I had to clean up after it. In fact, I might not have thought it was very fun if I were a kid playing with it. The gimmick is that you can 'make it snow' by placing the fake snow, that came with the set, in the chimney and turning on the switch in back. Then the snow,which was made of tiny styrofoam balls,came shooting out of the chimney.
 

 Out of this tiny hole they have instead of a normal chimney opening. What does Moxie Santa do?

Ok. To me, that would look less like snow and more like the Moxie Girlz put too much popcorn on the fire. (Especially after I told you last week that when we had the Doll Fair I made the popcorn out of crumbled styrofoam.) For one thing, why is the snow shooting out of the chimney? If there was fake 'smoke' coming out of the chimney,that might make sense. I watched a Daily Motion video of the cabin spewing snow and the motor makes an annoyingly loud noise too. (You can watch that HERE.) They'll be no relaxing by the fire as the snow flies in this cabin. Also,I can tell you from experience that whoever used this set must have had styrofoam bits to deal with for the next six months. Maybe years. It collects static electricity and sticks to everything. It resists being cleaned up. How were kids ever supposed to 'make it snow more than once? There would be no way to collect all that snow back up and stuff it back into the chimney. The cabin is made of plastic. The styrofoam snow would stick to every inch of the cabin---inside and out---and the fingers of anybody who tried to cram it into the chimney. Maybe I'm just being a party pooper,but I would prefer my snow fall from the sky...and then not stick to the walls and my face. That being said,my kids might have enjoyed this set, and I would probably have enjoyed it with them.

   You can see all the Magic Snow dolls and the cabin playset on YouTube HERE,and you can watch the commercial for the Magic Snow Cabin HERE.
There's a full review of the cabin at Growing Up is for Quitters. You can see that HERE.

Doll-A-Day 226: Skipper Saturday: Titian Straight Leg

  Today's Skipper Saturday doll is this titian straight leg.

No, its not Christmas. I just wanted to use this great Byers fireplace and taking the greenery off proved to be more difficult than I expected. It's going to take some work, and then some more work covering up the spots where the stuff was! It doesn't show up in the picture, but the fireplace has andirons and a really good fake log. I'm going to put a tea candle in behind the logs: a flickery one so it looks like a fire.

Her hair is a beautiful shade of red.

And yes, she has The One Hair and then some. Truthfully, I just couldn't get motivated today. I was tired, didn't feel great, had a head ache, kept getting interrupted,you name it. Plus, I had trouble getting her hair to stay when I combed it, which believe it or not I did several times. And I can't see a thing up close without my glasses any more, so I put them on to comb her hair and it STILL looks like this! Of course, I didn't know that until I put the pictures on here and saw them large, and by then I had put everything away. I give up!

 
 Since September is (To an oldie, like me, anyway.), back to school month, she's wearing yet another Skipper fashion with 'school' in it's title. It's School Days, from 1964.

Nothing like a nice evening knitting by the fire...when you're 10 years old..

Why this outfit is named School Days is beyond me. It came with a wooden bowl of yarn, and coordinated with Barbie's Knitting Pretty fashion. It should have been Time to Knit or something.

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 School Days consists of the pink sweater,white short sleeved blouse, pink pleated skirt,usually pink, but sometimes white, nylon knee socks,squishy back flats, and the wooden bowl of yarn.

The sweater is being modeled by her barefoot friend. By the way, the chair is an Only Hearts Girls chair.

I've heard that the pink socks are the more rare colour, but personally, all I've ever run into is the pink ones.

The sweater is wool and is notorious for moth holes and shrinkage.(Not the Seinfeld kind...)

This one has definitely seen better days.

I have two different versions of the skirt, a wool and a wool felt. They are identical other than the fabric, and neither is tagged. (Not all pieces of Skipper outfits were tagged. In the case of this outfit, it seems nothing is  tagged.)

The first vinyl reproduction Skipper came in the Knitting Pretty Reproduction Gift Set, which also included a repro swirl Barbie. They were dressed in School Days and Kniting Pretty, and both were titian.

I don't care much for this Skipper reproduction.

Tomorrow we'll take a look at a new doll.