Doll-A-Day 2023 #172: Hogsmeade Harry

  How are you all doing? For the second day in a row Ohio is under an air quality alert, because we have finally received the residual smoke from the Canadian wildfires. According to the Air Quality Index, 0 to 50 is considered okay, and today the air quality is about 149 here. Ken and I didn't even go work at the house yesterday because I'd have to be outside sifting the bags of rubble he'd bring out. We did go do a few things, and on the way it looked like this.

That's somewhere around noon, and that's not fog, people.

  On to today's doll. Yesterday we saw Hogsmeade Hermione, and today, SURPRISE! It's Harry Potter himself, (in the form of Daniel Radcliff).

Hogsmeade Harry was made in 2003. He is about 10 or 11 inches tall, and uses the same body as the smaller High School Musical male dolls.

  This doll is a pretty good likeness of Daniel Radcliff.

 

Of course, he also has Harry's famous lightening bolt shaped scar, even if it does look like he drew it on with lipstick or something.

He has Daniel Radcliff's blue eyes, rather than the green eyes Harry was famous for having in the books. In the first movie Daniel Radcliff's eyes were tinted green using CGI, but in subsequent sequels the idea was dropped.

  Hermione has some features like a twist waist, tiltable head, swiveling shoulders, and bend knees, that make her more interesting to pose.  Harry is stuck with a very standard body, with a head that turns, arms that can move up and down, and legs that can move back and forth, but not bend.

 

So Hermione gets to take the lead and do all the interesting stuff, on top of being smarter than Harry.

"Look Harry! Over there!" "Where?" " There!" "I can't see. I don't have my glasses."

  He attempts to make up for his lack of posability by having nice details like a very detailed hair sculpt.

Not sure about that paint job. He has a weird line around his sculpted hair, and specks of paint all over his ears.

He did originally have glasses, but mine are missing, leaving big holes in Harry's head.

  He has his original red t-shirt, which closes in the back with Velcro.

And his jeans. They have a stitched fly and pockets.

 

He also has pockets in the back. His pants also close with Velcro.

Lastly he has black tennis shoes.

  Harry came in a box made to look like he was in Honeydukes sweet shop. He would have originally come with his school robes, a grey jacket, and a Marauder's Map. The back of his box had cutouts that could be used to make two sided, (if flat), sweets packages, like a chocolate frog, a box of Bertie Botts, and three others. Why they couldn't have made the pictures so that they could be folded into three dimensional packages, I don't know. I guess then you'd realize they could have done that all along, and you'd feel cheated when you get those cardboard accessories that you have to fold up yourself, when you buy a Barbie.

  That's today's doll. See you again tomorrow, alas, not for the Hogsmeade Ron doll because THEY DIDN'T MAKE ONE!! But we won't go into THAT again!