Doll-A-Day 85:J Doll Magnificent Mile by Jun Planning

Today's doll is another J Doll, Magnificent Mile, by Jun Planning.

I detailed all the box stuff the last couple of days, so I'll spare you that.The box situation and the stand are the same this time too.These boxes are so reflective it was hard to get a decent picture, and this time I could NOT get a good picture of the back. It was night, so I had to use a flash and there was way too much shine on the box.

Her outfit consists of underwear,jeans,a studded belt, a midriff top, socks, shoes, a coat, a toboggan hat,a choker necklace, and a purse. All the clothes seem well made except maybe the shirt, which seems to be barely hanging together, but maybe that's on purpose.

I like her crazy hairy coat. The knitted bits of her coat match her purse.

Don't care for her shirt though.Not modest enough for my tastes.

The plastic was a bit easier to get off on her legs than Diamante. 

At last, cool shoes!(Don't know about those socks though.)

She's also a type 3 Pullip body, like Marche, which I showed you yesterday.Like Marche, she has very stiff, squeaky joints.

That belt rides up.

 Her hair is a much more obvious red than Marche's. Marche's hair is a strawberry blonde that looked blonde in the box. This girl's hair is a darker red colour.Auburn I suppose. The J Dolls are wigged, not rooted, and I have heard that you can change their wigs if you remove them carefully.They are glued on, and someone suggested that it made it easier to remove them if you put the doll in the freezer first. Brrr!!

She has interesting eyes that are a mixture of blue and green.The eyes in the J Dolls are glass, not plastic.I think Magnificent Mile has the most realistic eyes of  my three.The heads of J Dolls don't open for changing the eyes. To change them you have to crack the head open, and take the risk of breaking it. The dolls come in such a range of hair and eye colour, and skin tone, that if you could do all the changing, you could possibly get your perfect doll.

As with Diamante, the stripes on her lips don't look that way in person.They look like a solid colour unless you enlarge the picture this way.(Or you have super magnifying eyesight, which I definitely don't these days!) 

The flatish front of the neck, signifying that she's a type 3 Pullip body is more obvious in this picture than the picture I showed of Marche yesterday.

I like her, but her complexion is a bit orange. She looks sort of tanning boothed.

I prefer the paler complexions on my other two J Dolls.I thought it would be interesting to compare all three.

Diamante, (in a Barbie Look dress), Marche, and Magnificent Mile.

Diamante can't keep her shoes on without some sort of hosiery, and all she has is her knee socks.

As I said the other day, I made a check list to vote on the things I liked about each doll, so I could decide on who to keep. My list came out with two votes for each. Diamante for skin tone and lips,Marche for clothes and eyes, and Mag. Mile for hair and... something else. I've forgotten now. It was a three way tie. I wanted the most poseable body, but wasn't positive which was which. Over all I think Diamante wins on the posing issue,(except for that leg crossing thing.), and although her one hand and one leg both pulled apart when I was trying to get her plastic off, they both popped back in and she's fine. Marche, on the other hand,(ironic choice of words really!) lost her hand just being posed, and it's going to take a bit more trouble to put it back on. (And no guarantees I can do it without breaking her arm.) Diamante also has tighter joints, (that don't squeak!), that hold a pose. The other two started out tight (and squeaky!), but seemed to get so loose after a minute of posing that they were not holding all poses.

  They're all nice though, and beautiful dolls which are worth having, especially if you can get them at the Tuesday Morning price.I had to run all over to find any of these dolls at Tuesday Mornings around here, and we supposedly have the biggest, best Tuesday Morning in Ohio, and one of the top 10 in the country. (At least, that's what they told me at the store.) One of the problems may be that they get so few of these dolls, or that they sell especially well in our area. I only found one of each of these and no others.I thought I must have caught the tail end of them when I found Diamante back in January or February, but then I found the other two only a couple of weeks ago.  So who knows?
  Tomorrow Emma and Ivy and I are going to the big Barbie auction, (Have to get up at 6AM. Bleh!), so we'll see if I get anything!

Doll-A-Day 82: Review of J Doll Diamante La Calle by Jun PLanning

  My birthday presents are the gifts that keep on giving! I am still reviewing the dolls I got for my birthday. It may seem like I got a lot of dolls for my birthday, (and I did.), but for the record, I did get other things too. (A Subway gift card, a Monty Python DVD,a box of my favourite chocolates, (Russell Stover), tickets to see Red Green live,a Paul McCartney Special Edition Life magazine. See? My family and friends varied it a bit.) I got today's doll, along with the 2 AI dolls I reviewed a while back, very early, because I was lucky enough to find them at Tuesday Morning. Ken indulged me a bit this year too. I don't know why.
  Today's doll is Diamante La Calle, by Jun Planning. You may have seen her on this blog before when I had Big Eye week. I was debating on keeping her because she was a bit too goth for me. I would have preferred a less dead looking doll. I was trying to find other J Dolls at other Tuesday Mornings, or even at the one where I bought her. I kept going back, but they never got any more, or at least they didn't have any when I was there. I tried another Tuesday Morning, which had no idea what I was talking about when I asked if they had gotten any J Dolls. I tried a Tuesday Morning that turned out to not be there anymore!I finally found two more J Dolls at another Tuesday Morning. One was one I had seen on another blog, and  thought I would really like. The other was nice too. I bought both, but when I compared them all to decide which I liked best, I couldn't make up my mind. They all had certain things I liked best. One had the hair I wanted, one had the eyes, one had the clothes,and Diamante actually had my favourite skin tone and lips! Also, I think the other two, which I will review in the next couple of days,both have the #3 Pullip body and Diamante has the #4. I'm still not positive about this, since I was waiting to review them before opening them, but I'm pretty sure.There are different good aspects of both of the body types, so I couldn't make up my mind there either! I actually made a check list of all the points I wanted to consider, and they all came out even! I didn't feel I could keep them all though, when I had said that if I found another one I would exchange Diamante for it. So I'm compromising and selling Diamante's dress, which I didn't like anyway.Shew!
Here is Diamante in her box.

And the back of the box.

I can't speak any language but English, so I'm in awe of anybody who can speak multiple languages. I'm not going to make fun of anybody for bad translations, but it is sometimes funny how things turn out in translation though. I found this bit amusing.

There are tape circles sealing the box, but I just pulled up the top one and opened the flap, and the insert pulled right out.

Then of course I was met with this:

Loads of tape covering wire twisty things,thread, and plastic tabs. I had to tear off all the tape circles before tackling the other stuff. The biggest pain was cutting the thread that was holding out the edges of the skirt.

 
 The J Dolls are all named after famous streets and the clothes are supposed to reflect fashionable clothing of that area. Where does this girl live? This dress is a bit extravagant for day wear.
  She had plastic on her arms, under her gloves, and from her toes to her waist under her socks and underwear. Her hair still had a couple of plastic 'tubes' on it.

 It's a good thing her limbs were covered in plastic, because the plastic was covered in black stains from her socks and gloves.

 When I tried to carefully pull the plastic off I found you can't be careful enough!

The same thing happened with one of her legs. Luckily they popped right back in.
 Her hair was pretty decent right out of the box, thanks, I guess, to those plastic tubes.

 

 The trim on her dress is sewn on a bit shoddily.Luckily it only shows on the inside.

 Her shoes just look like regular Barbie shoes, and guess what: without the socks they are waaaayyyy too big and won't stay on.
She's actually even prettier out of the box.I don't know how that works, but it's true.

You think I'm kidding about that one hair, don't you?

Her eyes actually look bluer in person, and the stripes on her lips don't really appear as stripes except in this extreme close up.It's like an impressionist painting. From a distance it just appears as a colour.
Out of the three J Dolls I bought, I like her skin tone, (It's pink! Not gray goth!) and her realistic pink lips best.I saw a picture of one of these dolls that someone had put real hair (as opposed to paint) eyelashes on, and it was beautiful.

Part of the way to recognize the different Pullip bodies seems to be the clavical, or collar bone. I'll compare the two when I show my other J Dolls, but this is one of the few differences you might be able to see when the dolls are fully dressed.

 

As I said, I don't really care for her dress, with all the oversize lace and everything on it. So let's get rid of that.

It's a blouse and skirt, but they are connected by all the stuff, so they are still sort of one piece.

  She's a little modest, so she kept the undies on, (Not that they are modest!It didn't help much.),but we wanted you to check out all her joints.

 Her head can tilt sideways and up and down.Her upper body has a joint, but she can't move on it very much. Her upper arms and shoulders can swivel on a joint.Her elbows, and wrists swivel and bend.Her legs swing out at the hips, her knees bend and swivel,as do her ankles.Without her dress she needs something else to wear. But what will fit?

A Cutie Pops shirt? A little short and the sleeves end up being mid length.

Who owns this shirt/vest combo? It fits.

I think this is a Barbie tank top, but it fits pretty well.

They don't match, but she got cold and put on this jacket. It fits perfectly on her, and Moxie Girls.

A Bratz shirt (the sleeves are too short.), a Mary Kate and Ashley skirt( for one of the smaller versions of them.), which fits, and Only Hearts shoes. They would probably fit with socks or tights.The same goes for shoes from the smaller High School Musical dolls.

High School Musical on the left, Only Hearts Club on the right.

 The High School Musical 10" dolls are pretty close body-wise.

Diamante with High School Musical Gabriella. Both are about 10" tall.

This Mary Kate and Ashley coat fits perfectly, but we couldn't find a blouse.

I think this is Mary Kate and Ashley too.

This Liv shirt is a little big, but no too bad. Don't know for sure who the vest belongs to.

 But her favourite was this Barbie Look Tea Party dress. It's a little big in the bust, but it actually works pretty well.

Oh yeah. She comes with a stand. It has a base with a stone design, and a metal stand that screws into the base and telescopes so you can use it at different heights on the body. They actually give you instructions on how to use it. Who do they think is buying this stuff?

This modelling stuff can be so boring.

 So tomorrow I'll show you another J Doll. No peeking until then.

I'm not looking!