Play Sets: Moxie Girlz Magic Snow Cabin

  This is the first of our Play Sets posts. Today,since it's still winter and cold outside, we're looking at the Moxie Girls Magic Snow Cabin.

This is a stock photo of the box.

It's exactly like the Bratz Winter Dream Cabin, (except the Moxie's cabin is more blue than pink.). This makes sense because both lines were made by MGA.

Keep in mind that mine is second hand and I'm missing the smaller accessories to this play set.

 The set consists of two wall pieces, and two roof pieces. There's no floor piece. It originally came with a bar...

I agree with the review I read that said the bar parts don't join together very well.

 ...a stool...

 The stool is very tiny for dolls any bigger though. In fact, the seat is so tiny that even Moxie Girlz should have a hard time keeping their butts on it.
 

Amazingly,she stayed on really well.

The stool didn't turn over either.
 ...a chair...

The chair is very low,although I've seen Barbie furniture try to get by with things the same height.

It looks short,even with the dolls intended for it.

... and a snow shovel. I'm sure I had both roof pieces and the snow shovel,but of course,when I need to use them they have wandered off.
 I'm missing the icicles for the roof edges.

The roofing snaps on---not very well---and the icicles would fit into the channel on the edge.

I'm also missing the outside lantern,which attaches to the wall to the left of the left hand window, and the pink window sill for the left window.

Also missing is the radio,the fondue pot, skewers,a tray, a croissant and a muffin,two cups of cocoa,two glasses of hot chocolate,and a carton of milk.

This is the stock MGA picture.

  I'm also missing the fire for the fire place, which would have been nice to have. The fire and the fireplace are usable from the inside or the outside. Why you would want to have a fireplace that goes straight through to the outside,I don't know.

The inside.

The outside.

The fireplace is a pass-through. this is the outside.

 The idea of the Magic Snow Cabin was that it was a snowy lodge for the Magic Snow Moxie Girlz dolls. 

The dolls modeling the set are Magic Snow dolls Owen, Avery,and Kellan. (You can see my post on Kellan HERE,and on Avery and Owen HERE.) As  for the set,it is sized for Moxie Girlz,so don't get the idea you're going to use it for Barbie sized dolls. The walls are way too low for Barbie,Monster High,Ever After High, or other dolls of that scale. It's ok for anybody 10 inches tall, and a bit below.
  The dolls each came with a snowflake Christmas ornament looking thing filled with 'magic snow'. When water was added to the 'magic snow' it increased in volume. It was supposed to resemble real snow. I can see it being a sloshy mess,but then, I haven't tried it. The Magic Snow Cabin had a 'fun' feature of it's own. Well,you can call it fun. I wouldn't think it was fun if I had to clean up after it. In fact, I might not have thought it was very fun if I were a kid playing with it. The gimmick is that you can 'make it snow' by placing the fake snow, that came with the set, in the chimney and turning on the switch in back. Then the snow,which was made of tiny styrofoam balls,came shooting out of the chimney.
 

 Out of this tiny hole they have instead of a normal chimney opening. What does Moxie Santa do?

Ok. To me, that would look less like snow and more like the Moxie Girlz put too much popcorn on the fire. (Especially after I told you last week that when we had the Doll Fair I made the popcorn out of crumbled styrofoam.) For one thing, why is the snow shooting out of the chimney? If there was fake 'smoke' coming out of the chimney,that might make sense. I watched a Daily Motion video of the cabin spewing snow and the motor makes an annoyingly loud noise too. (You can watch that HERE.) They'll be no relaxing by the fire as the snow flies in this cabin. Also,I can tell you from experience that whoever used this set must have had styrofoam bits to deal with for the next six months. Maybe years. It collects static electricity and sticks to everything. It resists being cleaned up. How were kids ever supposed to 'make it snow more than once? There would be no way to collect all that snow back up and stuff it back into the chimney. The cabin is made of plastic. The styrofoam snow would stick to every inch of the cabin---inside and out---and the fingers of anybody who tried to cram it into the chimney. Maybe I'm just being a party pooper,but I would prefer my snow fall from the sky...and then not stick to the walls and my face. That being said,my kids might have enjoyed this set, and I would probably have enjoyed it with them.

   You can see all the Magic Snow dolls and the cabin playset on YouTube HERE,and you can watch the commercial for the Magic Snow Cabin HERE.
There's a full review of the cabin at Growing Up is for Quitters. You can see that HERE.

Doll-A-Day 2017 #42, Shrunken Saturday: Priscilla Vanilla Creme Yummi Land Doll

  Today's Shrunken Saturday doll is this girl.

She's 5" tall.

She's Priscilla Vanilla Creme, from the Creme Soda Pop series of  Yummi Land dolls.

I think her sparkly lips look a little crusty.

I've shown you a Yummi Land doll before. You can see her HERE.

Yummi Land dolls came in a plastic bottle.

Her little cape is not attached to her dress.

Priscilla originally had a little top hat perched on her head.She also came with a pet,a brush, and a purse that looks like an ice cream sundae.Her pet came in it's own bottle.

These small ones are 5" tall, but there was also a series of 11" dolls,a series of Littlest Pet Shop sized pets,and a series of small pets.

Her shoes are molded.

The pets are super cute. In fact, I like them better than the dolls.One of these days I'll do a post on the pets.

These dolls were made by MGA,who also make Bratz and Moxie Girlz. Can you tell?

Her hair is super long,and fairly smooth and easy to comb.

 My other Yummi Land doll has silky hair too, so fortunately this seems to be a trait,not a fluke.

See you for another doll tomorrow. 

Doll-A-Day 263: Yummi Land Doll Chelsea Cherry Lynn

  Today's doll is a Yummi Land doll.

Sorry about the focus. It was too wet to get down to her level!

Her name is Cherry Chelsea Lynn. These dolls came in bottles, like pop bottles.

She has sparkly eye shadow, and lips too.

They were scented.

She should be cherry scented, but I don't smell anything.

There were different series, like Soda Pop Girls, Ice Cream Pop Girls, Flower Pop Girls, Sundae Pop Girls,and Candy Pop Girls.Chelsea Cherry Lynn is a Soda Pop doll.

The holes in her feet must be for a stand. She can't stand on her own due to her big head and tiny feet.

This doll is about 5" tall, but there were also 11" tall dolls, and tiny pets.

These dolls were made by MGA, who also make Bratz and Moxie Girlz. That explains the big head.

She needs a little clean up. She has a yellow mark  on her face. A bit of nail polish remover should take care of that.

She kind of reminds me of the Lemon Head Kelly dolls.

She has a cute little dress with built in red tulle underskirt.

Her shoes are molded on.

Her hair is thick and silky, with lots of curl.

Here's a closer look at her 'do.

These dolls were made several years ago, but I don't remember them being in the stores. Ivy was very into Kelly dolls, so I'm surprised we didn't see them. Even now, I rarely come across them at yard sales or thrift stores. I found this girl a few weeks ago at a garage sale here in town. I liked her bright red lips and her overall colouring and silky, curly hair. Her price was pretty good too. She was a quarter.

  See you tomorrow.

Doll-A-Day 119: 4 Ever Best Friends Noelle

  Today's doll just got her brief photo shoot in before a whopper of a thunderstorm, with warning sirens and all. Here she is.She's Noelle, a 4 Ever Best Friends doll by MGA.

Please ignore my extra clothesline tied up in the tree...As you can see, her arms can spread straight out, as well as move back and forth. Some of the 4 Ever Best Friends have swively wrists too.

 I'm not sure if she has had a haircut or not, but I think she's cute this way.

They have sweet faces.

MGA are the same people who make Lalaoopsy dolls,Bratz and Moxie Girlz.(Boy, MGA likes to end names with 'z', don't they?)

"These pear blossoms are so pretty. I wonder if they smell good too?"

"Mmm---Pew! These things stink!" This is totally a joke. If you were that close to a pear blossom you'd already KNOW they stink, no sniffing neccessary. As soon as you walk into the yard you can smell them. They smell absolutely rotten.

Noelle is 9 and a half inches tall, about the same as a Bratz or Moxie Girlz doll. The 4 Ever Best friends dolls have attached feet though, which is a plus, if you ask me.

So she can just change her shoes, or go barefoot if she wants.

She's also about the same scale as those dolls, only with chunkier, more little girl legs. I think these doll are supposed to be younger than Moxie Girlz, but why do they have sparkly eye shadow then?

 The 4 Ever Best Friends share accessories with Bratz dolls. Alot of the things they came with were exactly the same as Bratz things. They can not, however, share clothes.

I still need to show the last of my doll show goodies, so hang in there. See you tomorrow for another doll.