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.

Salvation Army Moxie Finds

  Once again I made a good haul at Salvation Army. I found a bag of 6 or 7 dolls for $4.99. It contained these three Moxie Girlz, and my first Moxie Boyz doll!

And they all have clothes, and best of all: shoes!

His name is Owen. He's from the Magic Snow series, like the Kellan I showed you a while back.

I wish they had actually done his hair like the picture on the box.

Hey! I think I have that hat!

I prefer the hair laying down, as opposed to his sticky up style.

   I tried to make it lay down and to the side, but because it wasn't rooted that way it left him a little thin on top.
  The blonde girl is Magic Snow Avery.

I actually found her hat at the same time, in a separate bag of shoes and accessories.

I didn't know I had her hat until I was going through the stuff at home.

Most of the shoes were Monster High, but only about half were pairs. I now have a bunch of single shoes, so I need to go through my Monster High dolls and see who might have the matching single shoe. I know I have some who are only wearing one shoe.
  The two dark haired Girlz might both be  Lexa.

"Who did you say you were?"

It's a little confusing because they have different skin tones and different colour eyes.

I like that their hair isn't just one colour. It's made of several different shades, so it's very realistic. The hair on the brunette Moxie Girlz dolls is also very smooth and nice to comb. I can see where kids who love to play with their dolls hair would love these  dolls. The blondes are a different story though. Their hair tends to get crispy on the ends. Avery's was kind of crispy and matted when I got her.She took extra conditioning.

 Here's the denim dress one in her box. Seems to be a different doll from either of the ones I got. She has the darker skin tone, but green eyes and black hair.

I have had that Teddy bear for ages, but I didn't know what it went to!

The one in the denim dress has sparkly eye shadow. It's not the first doll I've seen with this, including the new Avery, so is it original?Or was it something kids could add to their doll?

She has sleeve damage on one side, but I think I have another of these dresses.

My favourite of all of these is the Lexa in the Hoodie. I love her dark hair and that cute hoodie.

She's I Am Smart Lexa. 

In the bag of accessories that had Avery's hat I also got one of Lexa's cute knee socks with the anime character on it. (Anybody know who it is?) Unfortunately it was just the one sock, and I didn't get her skirt or anime shirt.
  Moxie Girlz are made by MGA, who also make Bratz,(As if you couldn't tell.) They look younger and sweeter than Bratz though, and a lot more innocent. I don't like Bratz, (Except for some of the Bratzillaz.),but occasionally there was a nice coat or cool pair of shoes that I would have liked to be able to use. Unfortunately, the Moxie Girlz, even though they share the same annoying removable foot trait as Bratz dolls and are made by the same company, can't share shoes/feet. The peg and hole in Bratz dolls legs/shoes is just slightly bigger than the Moxies.
  I like Moxie Girlz.,but I need to trim down the number of them I own. (I keep hoping to replace my favourite one. She had a mark near her eye, and in trying to remove it I removed part of her eye!) When I first started finding them at thrift stores and yard sales a couple of years ago, they seldom had feet. Now when I find one they not only have feet, but have never even been taken out of their original outfits.Maybe it's a sign that the generation that were buying these dolls have begun to tire or grow too old for them, and are now only going through the motions: They still buy them or are given them as gifts out of habit, but they no longer bother to play with them.
  See you again soon.

Doll-A-Day 106: Moxie Girlz Magic Snow Meet Kellan

  Today got quite warm again and most of the snow is gone. I was able to go out without a coat and only be a little chilly when the wind blew. Good grief!
  Today's doll is Moxie Girlz Kellan, from the Magic Snow series.

I took these pictures yesterday, and I thought she was dressed very appropriately for our weather!(Except maybe for her thin leggings. Brrr!!)

I found her at Goodwill just this way. She has her whole complete original outfit except for her hat and her bag that matches her scarf.The package pictures her with fingerless gloves, but I've seen her in the box, and I don't think she came with them.

I like the Moxie Girlz. They have big heads and big lips, but manage to look more innocent than Bratz, which are made by the same company.

Like Bratz they also have the feet/shoes that snap on and off. Because of this design both series of dolls are most often found with no feet.It's a very unpractical design, since you just know most kids are going to lose the feet/shoes. Also, what if you want the doll to be barefoot, and don't happen to have any of the bare feet? (And they only made a very few dolls with bare feet. I don't think you could buy the bare feet in  a 'shoe' pack either.It's also a bit ridiculous that they didn't make the feet interchangeable between the two series. Bratz feet don't fit Moxie Girlz, and vice versa.

I had been wanting a red haired Moxie Girl, so I was pretty excited when I found this one for a dollar.

See you again tomorrow for another doll.