Doll-A-Day 2023 #40: Film Collection Belle

  Sorry some of these pictures aren't focused properly. I swear my camera hasn't worked right since the fire. It was on the landing, and found on the floor afterward. When I cleaned the soot off and tried it out, the flash and the door for the memory card were stuck shut. Who knows what is going on inside it.   Today we're having a look at Belle, from the live action Beauty and the Beast movie.

  She's another of Emma's dolls. (This one is actually from her collection, and not one she's selling.) This particular Belle is from the 2017 Film Collection series, from the Disney Store. She's very much like the Enchanting Ball Gown Belle doll, but this one's dress is a little more detailed. 

  The doll's face is based on actress Emma Watson, who played Belle in the movie. You might know her better as Harry Potter's friend Hermione Granger.

They definitely made her too ugly.

  You might say the likeness is terrible. And in some ways it it. But it's not the sculpt, but the paint job that makes it that way. I have seen artists repaints of this doll that look very much like Emma Watson. As for this paint job, I don't remember Emma Watson ever having this many freckles.

  Just a note here. I bought the first Harry Potter book for the family the Christmas of 1999, and started reading it to the kids after Christmas. Emma was a huge Potter fan as a kid. When the announcement  was made that there was going to be a movie made, kids were invited to send audition tapes in. Emma actually filmed one and we sent it in. She was upset plus when she found out that another Emma got the part of Hermione, a character she felt was exactly like her. (And pretty much was, only with added know-it-allness.)

 This doll has a beautiful ball gown. (Not 'enchanting', I guess. That goes to the other doll. :) ) There's lots of sparkly gold decoration around the skirt.

  The difference between this dress and the 'Enchanting Ball Gown' is the two prominent strips of fabric down either side of the bodice, to the waist, that form a V shape. 

The back of the dress closes with Velcro.

There are long ribbons down the back of the skirt.

There is an underskirt and a layer of tulle to make the skirt puffy.

It's supposed to hang like this.

Belle has a necklace too. It's sewn to the bodice of her dress, which makes it hard to see.

  There's a pinky ring painted on her right hand.

  She has some very ornate gold shoes.

Her hair is long, with part of it pulled up into a braid around the top of her head.

The bun has a gold wreath of leaves around it.

She has a long piece of hair at her temples that hangs down either side of her face.

  Since she's a Disney Store doll she has that articulation, including jointed elbows and wrists that allow her graceful arms to be posed so expressively...

...and legs that are rubbery and totally ridiculous looking!

  The Disney Store dolls have the worst legs ever! They are jointed at the hips, knees, and ankles, but it's totally not worth it! The legs are always bowed, and the ankles are so loose that her feet are turning around backwards.

But even with her feet straightened up, her legs sill look like this anyway, and she can't stand up on them.

 She can sit, but it looks like this!

    I posted the regular, (non Disney Store), version of the Village Dress Belle from the live action movie way back when. You can see that doll, who has a different Emma Watson head sculpt, HERE.

  That's today's doll. See you tomorrow for another one.

Birthday Stuff: Disney Store Doll, World's Smallest, and Mini Brands Toys

   The weather is absolutely crazy. We had some warmish weather last week. (Not this past week.) I went around without a jacket. The snow had melted, except for where it had been snow plowed into piles the size of glaciers. That takes ages to finally melt. We had rain that melted a bit more snow. Then it got really cold again. We had snow Monday! I was freezing all day and I put my electric blanket on again.  Then we had weather in the 50's Fahrenheit again. Friday night it was 38! My daffodils must be so confused.

  Last week, as I said, it was pretty warm, and Ken and I took one of our 'fun day's, and went to a  nice state park to do some walking, since my doctor says I should do 150 minutes of exercise a week. It was really nice, and I had to take my sweater off. But the melting snow had made it so muddy that our shoes were caked with mud. We tried to walk in the woods, and to the sides of the path when we could, but there was still a lot of slipping and sliding going on, and our shoes and ankles were a mess. 

We walked about two miles. I thought I would be sore because I have done so little for quite a while, but I was fine.

  Since it was my 'birthday week' I celebrated a bit and ate a few things my LPR diet doesn't allow. We had the most delicious lasagna and eggplant parmesan, which we shared so we could both try each of them. I hadn't had tomato sauce in so long! It was WONDERFUL!

   As I said, it was my birthday that week. Ken and Emma got their wires crossed and they BOTH made me a cake! They were both good though, so no harm done. There's still some left. Ken, as usual, spoiled me. I got a new lens for my camera, so no more having to focus manually. Thank goodness! And no more blurred pictures, which you will all appreciate! He also got me a couple of DVD sets and a special edition magazine, which I picked out. He hates that. He thinks everything should be a surprise. I'm just glad I get the things I wanted! He had already given me the Katherine Johnson doll, but on my birthday he treated me to a couple of dolls from The Disney store. I collect Alice things, and had been wanting the doll from the Disney Store. Once I was there, and seeing the dolls in person, I wasn't sure I didn't like the Wendy, (From "Peter Pan".), more. They were on sale if you bought two, so he insisted I get both. That's one Alice down. Someday I hope to get the full sized Animator's Collection Alice. (You can see my mini Animator's Alice HERE.)

  Of the other gifts I got, the others that would interest you all would include the World's Smallest Slinky Dog that Emma got me...

... and with the money Fuzz gifted me with I bought a couple of the new-ish Mini Brands Toys balls. I was excited about these when I saw that they existed, at Hot Topic, on my birthday. (Don't buy them there though. They cost twice as much there as they do at Target or Walmart.) The things I wanted most out of the balls were the carded Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures and the Turtles mask. I got lucky and got the mask!

  But in retrospect I think I won't buy any more of the balls. Not that there aren't some really cute things in there. 

Here are the other things I got.

I would love to have a lot of the things. If a person had the money to spare and had the urge to make a 1/6 scale toy store, these would be great.

 But they're about $7 per ball, a ball which contains 5 things. Every ball uses one of the spaces to give you a shelf, which is too small for a lot of the toys, or a shopping cart, which is not in scale with the toys. (I guess you could use it as a toy too.) 

The shelf.

The cart.

A lot of the toys are actual plastic toys on card, or in little boxes. Those are nice. But far too often you get stuck with something like the JoJo Siwa hair bow,

... or some of the 'toys' that are just a reproduction box with nothing in it, like the 'Ready to Roll', above. While that was one thing with regular Mini Brands, where you might get a product that was basically an empty cardboard box, but usually it was an empty box you couldn't replicate easily with just a home printer because the package was unique,(like with the Breyer's ice cream), with these I just feel like it's not enough for the price.

  I have a bunch of the three items that are on the display boxes. If anybody wants to trade a carded Ninja Turtle figure or a Fingerling for a Rubik's cube, a Rainbocorns egg, or a box of Crayola crayons, let me know.

  One of my other presents was from my sister. She got me something I've been wanting: a DNA test kit. I am anxious to get it sent in! I'll let you know what the results say when I get them back.

Doll-A-Day 2019 #361: Disney Animator's Collection Anna

  Today's doll is one I got for Christmas the other day. She's this little girl.

Of course, she's Anna,from Frozen.

She's the current Disney Animator's Collection Anna. There have been a couple of others at least. You may have seen my other one,which is the very first Animator's Anna.

 

You can see her post HERE. There are slight differences between her face and the face on the new girl.

The new one has brown eye shadow and her lips look a little more natural.

And obviously the hair is different.

There were a couple of slightly different versions of the first dress,I think. The dress on this new girl is the same dress as an earlier gift set with Ann and Elsa,only a little shorter,and with a different collar.

Notice how the corners of her mouth paint aren't in the corners that are molded.

She has painted on undies.

Her shoes are pale green with a printed design.
 

Her little Olaf toy is different than the original too.
 

Like the other Animator's dolls little toys, her toy Olaf can hang on her wrist by the clear plastic band attached to him.
 

When the first version of the Anna doll came out,there were a lot of complaints that her ponytails were too high. Collector's redid her hair to make it more movie accurate. This new one has low ponytails.

And she still has a plastic tie in her head!

She's jointed at the neck,shoulders,and hips.

Her arms can move out to the sides a little bit.

Her head can not only turn side to side, but she can look up a bit.

But she can look downward much better.

I like her blushy cheeks and cute little freckles.

  I had a terrible time getting Anna out of her box! The insert wouldn't slide out of the box for one thing. I had to fight with that.Eventually I had to open the bottom of the box too and push the insert out the top. Then there were a million plastic ties holding her to the box. There were way too many,way more than were necessary. I would hate to have been a kid fighting with that on Christmas morning.

  That's today's doll. Tomorrow we'll see the other doll I got for Christmas, and some of my other gifts.