-Doll-A-Day 2023 #294: Chelsea Can Be...Rock Star

   Today we're looking at another doll I found for $1 at the bin store. There were loads of these, and nobody seemed to want them. At one point I had loads of them in my bag, but I gave all but one to another lady. She's going to be donated to a toy drive too. She's Chelsea  Can Be....

  There was a whole line of the Chelsea Can Be... dolls, which included a scientist, a teach, and Olympic ice skater, a pizza chef, a business woman/boss, a builder, and a pilot. Nice to see that since her big sister was relegated to 'airline hostess', that Chelsea has advanced to pilot.

  But this Chelsea is a Rock Star. And she has the blue hair to prove it.

She comes with some rock star sunglasses, shaped like stars, a microphone and stand, a pair of headphones,(with cat ears!), and a couple of VIP tickets to give out to those who grovel enough.

Those headphones have some nice detail.

And, of course, she ha a guitar.

  The task is now finding somewhere to donate these toys I've been picking up. 

  See you again tomorrow. 

Doll-A-DAy 2017 #352:Barbie and the Rockers Concert Fun

  Today we're looking at a whole set. This is the Barbie and the Rockers Concert Fun set.

The set,which I think is a Target stores exclusive, comes with a cool purple plastic translucent piano and bench,and two dolls: a female friend or Chelsea,and a male Chelsea friend.
 

The box seems to be referring to both of them as 'Chelsea dolls'.

He's Mr. No Name. The poor guy seems to be the same doll released as a solo guy recently in the Camping Fun line,but they still haven't given the poor kid a name.

 This version is cuter than the solo kid. He doesn't look nearly as smarmy. You can see his previous incarnation HERE. This version has pale blonde hair,instead of light brown with blonde highlights.

He still has cute freckles though.

The Chelsea,or Chelsea friend,(Who knows? Don't they give these kids names any more?!),has brown hair with a blue streak.

The set also includes a purple microphone.

Tomorrow we'll see if we can get back on our Christmas theme, talk about the new Star Wars movie,(But no spoilers!),and check how my shopping is doing so far. See you then.

Doll-A-Day 2017 #310: Camping Fun Chelsea Boy

  Today is Ivy's birthday. My baby is 18 today! Where does the time go?! To mark Ivy's birthday I'm posting a doll from what was her favourite line when she was little. Well, her favourite was Kelly,but now Kelly is Chelsea, so...Anyway, it's this guy.

He's the latest boy in the Chelsea line,Camping Fun.

These days they don't seem to give the guys names.

This boy has the same face as the last boy, who was a brunette. I did a post on him, and you can see it HERE. That kid was cute. he even had freckles.

I nabbed this guy as soon as I saw him, but I'm not sure I like him. That's why he's not out of his box yet. He may not be staying.

I loved the last guy, the little brunette Chelsea friend. But this guy in blonde,even with the same face as the other one, just kind of has the same smarmy look as, say, a 1970's Ken. Bleh. Plus he's fishing, and I don't do hunting or fishing. All the dolls around here are vegetarian.
  See you tomorrow for another doll.

Doll-A-Day 2017 #86:Halloween Chelsea Bumble Bee

    I know I promised a post on another of my birthday presents today, but we spent the day in the big city with Emma and Ivy, so I didn't have a chance to get that post done. Instead,"here's one we prepared earlier", as they say on cooking shows.
 You got a glimpse of this girl in that babies size comparison. Today she's getting her own day. She's Bumble Bee Chelsea.

  She was apparently a Target exclusive,but I'm not sure what year she's from.

She is only marked 'Chelsea' on her box, but she's a red head. I would think she is a Chelsea friend.

Speaking of hair, in spite how hers looks,I did really just comb her hair. Mind you, while I was trying to comb it, I was being chased around the living room by our rabbit, Jerome. Ok, maybe he just thought he was following me,or trying to catch up with me. However, Jerome isn't crazy about me for some reason, in spite of the fact that I rescued him from uncertain death,(You can read about that HERE.), so I'm always a little paranoid he might bite me. Imagine me running around the living room while combing a doll's hair,with a rabbit in hot pursuit. 

Her one piece bumblebee outfit Velcros in back and has a fuzzy bottom half.

She has the body of the current Barbie sister Chelsea.

Nope. Those aren't tights.She has yellow coloured legs. I hate it when they do that!

The shoes are removable though. They have little molded pom poms that are part the shoes,instead of real ones.At least they'll stay on better that way.

The Chelsea face is cute, but I do miss the old Kelly dolls.

Does anybody remember when Kelly was introduced as Barbie's baby sister, and she had a diaper,a crib, and a bottle? Why does Mattel keep making dolls grow up, and then have to come up with another sibling to be the baby? They made Kelly school age. Then they had to get Krissy to be the baby.  (And they made Skipper grow up so much at one point you could hardly tell a Teen Skipper from a Barbie. They realized that didn't work and made her younger again,but never as young as she started out. They gave that spot to Stacie.)

Chelsea seems to be somewhere between 6 and 8 in the Life in the Dreamhouse series.The doll is a bit short, compared to Barbie,to carry that off.

I liked it alot better when Barbie's relatives were consistent. If you add up all the sisters and brothers Barbie has had over the years, it adds up to a fairly large family...without a parent in sight. Let's count: Skipper,Tutti,Todd,Stacie,Kelly,Krissy,Chelsea.
  And what happened to ll the relatives that we don't hear about anymore? Tutti and Todd are middle aged now, Stacie is getting her Doctorate, Kelly graduated from high school a couple of years ago,and Krissy is about to graduate high school next year. (Oddly,Stacie doll,Emma's big obsession was first sold in 1990,the year before Emma was born,Kelly was 'born' in 1995,the same year as Tommy collector Fuzzy, and Krissy debuted in 1999,the same year as Ivy,who had a major Kelly obsession.)

  Tomorrow we'll get back to my birthday presents!

Doll-A-Day 2017 #81:Club Chelsea Boy

  Yesterday I showed you a doll I got on a post birthday trip. Today I'm showing you the other doll I got at Target that day. The poor guy doesn't even have a name. He's this boy from the Club Chelsea series of dolls.

He comes with a cardboard ice cream cone.Yum.

He's not easy to find, because as usual, there are fewer boy dolls made than girls. The last time there was a boy in the Chelsea line it was Darrin.

(You can see my review of Darrin HERE.)
I am glad to see that the Chelsea boxes are alot more 'green' than they were in Darrin's time. Darrin's box was a tray type insert inside a box. This guy's box was just a plastic bubble on a card. All I had to do was tear the back off,revealing the plastic ties. They were kind of tight and hard to cut,but once they were cut,he came right out off the backing. 

This little guy is so cute. It's nice to see that he's completely different from Darrin:different face...

And he has freckles!

 

...and one of the nicest things: he's not blonde!

The kid is a big slob.He somehow got dirt all over his shirt while he was sliding. It was muddy out there...and 34 degrees! If he had been a real kid he would have been cold in that outfit.

 There hasn't been a non-blonde boy in the Kelly or Chelsea one since Happy Family Ryan.

I only wish he had rooted hair instead of molded, painted hair.

But even with painted hair he's cute. He ended up with two prongs out the back of his head where he was attached to his box with plastic ties.

I love his camera shirt too.

But I have my doubts about his shiny nylon shorts.And, unfortunately, they are all one piece with his shirt. Yuck.

The whole thing Velcros in the back.

He has white tennis shoes.

His legs static-ed a bunch of leaf bits and stuff up from the grass while he was sliding. And my camera had a hard time picking up the detail in his shoes.

His articulation is limited,as with all Chelsea dolls.

But at least he doesn't have that stupid, and very limiting bent arm!

What happened to all the articulation Mattel was using on the Kelly dolls? They variously had jointed knees,arms that could move out to the side instead of just up and down,and legs that could move out to the side too. Our guy today can only move his arms and legs back and fourth and turn his head.

He's the same size as Chelsea, since they share a body sculpt.

I still have a couple of birthday dolls to show you, and some goodies from a trade I did recently. I'm not sure which it will be, but tomorrow we'll look at another doll.