Showing posts with label Kayla/lea head mold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kayla/lea head mold. Show all posts

Thursday, May 4, 2017

Doll-A_Day 2017 #124 :Mystery Squad Kenzie

   Today's doll is Kenzie, from the Mystery Squad series by Mattel.


You may have recently seen my post on Mystery Squad Drew.


 Kenzie is from the same series,the one and only series of Mystery Squad dolls.





Kenzie has one of the best heads of hair I've seen on a Barbie line doll.





 
I love it when they manage to successfully produce a doll with super curly hair. My current favourite is this girl:

She's one of the tall girls in the present line of Barbie and friends.

Seriously,people either love or hate Kenzie's hair. There is no middle ground.


 
I'm getting some Bride of Frankenstein from the hair in this one where I have it pulled back.
 
People who want a Kenzie are either anxious to play with the hair, or in a big hurry to reroot her! 


Sorry, this one refuses to be deleted without deleting the whole rest of the post,so it's here twice.


Kenzie has one of the prettiest face sculpts in all Barbiedom. The Lea face. (Also sometimes called the Kayla sculpt,since it was used on Secret Spells Kayla, one of the most sought after dolls that has used the sculpt.)




This has been one of my favourite head sculpts since I first saw it, and I have several very different dolls with this sculpt.



Originally Lea was Barbie's Asian friend,but the head sculpt has been just about everything since then.



The Mystery Squad dolls had jointed elbows,and click bendable knees. 








 



The knees don't bend very much though.
The other thing the Mystery Squad girls have, is painted nails.



These are her original shoes and socks.


The choker necklace is original too.

 
She originally had a red nylon jacket, a denim skirt, and a striped top. 


Kenzie is the surveillance specialist.

The Mystery Squad dolls came with a lot of cool spy gadgets. There was a back pack, (that you couldn't actually put stuff in, but it had a spring loaded grappling hook!),a secret code reader,a dog with a collar with a secret camera, and kid sized 'spy glasses' that allow you to read hidden messages.




See you tomorrow for another doll.

Monday, April 10, 2017

Doll-A-Day 2017 #100: Fashion Fever Kayla

  Can you believe I'm at day 100 already? I can't! This year is going by so quickly! If I had thought about this being a special day, I would have done a special doll. As it is, I'm showing you a doll I got at the flea market on Saturday. As far as I have been able to find from research, this is the 2005 Fashion Fever Kayla.


She's identifiable by the silver triangles below her eyes.



 They don't show up from the side.



They don't show up from above either.


She uses the Lea head sculpt.



I used to love the Teresa sculpt. I still do, but I think these days the Lea sculpt is my favourite.


It lends itself so well to so many different looks.


Mattel has used this sculpt for just about every ethnicity.


No matter if she's Asian. African American, blonde or brunette,or,she's even been a red head, she's always beautiful.


This particular doll isn't articulated beyond the usual neck, shoulders, and hips.


She needs her hair 'tamed',but otherwise she's in very nice condition.


Tomorrow we'll see, guess what: another doll.