Doll-A-Day 2023 #56: My Scene Barbie and Friends

 Today's doll is a group of dolls. They're My Scene dolls.

My Scene dolls were Mattel's attempt to compete with Bratz dolls. You can read my whole rehash of the Barbie/Bratz clash HERE. 

  My Scene had a version of Barbie. That Barbie was always blonde. There was a blonde My Scene doll that wasn't Barbie too. I can't tell the difference. My kids were never into the My Scene dolls, except Ivy, like me, loves the Fab Faces dolls. (You can see one of ours HERE.) I believe there are three Barbie's in this crowd. The second doll is Madison, I think, and the redhead is Chelsea? Anybody?

   

 

You'll notice that some of them have big feet and some don't. That's because the big feet were merely big shoes. The feet were the standard little Barbie feet. At least, unlike Bratz dolls, if you lost the shoes, the dolls still had feet.

The third and fourth dolls have rooted eyelashes. Some of the My Scene dolls were very pretty, and some weren't as appealing.

  Not all these clothes are My Scene clothes. At least they fit.

A pair and a half of shoes. Typical.

  These ladies came from my house. They were apparently on the attic stairs when the fire occurred. That means they were in the vicinity of the heat and smoke. They were undamaged, but smelled a little smokey when they were brought here. They were in a plastic bag, so that helped, I guess. They and their clothes have been washed, and they have been airing out for a few weeks. They actually aren't bad now. I think a little more airing out and they will be back to normal. They need to go away though, because I don't want them, and Emma doesn't need them in her house. They are in the way. If anybody wants them, you can have them and the clothes and shoes for $40 and shipping costs. Make them go away.

  Those are the dolls for today. I would have posted something else, but everything else needed some kind of prepping, and I'm trying to work on a million things at once. Forgive me.

Doll-A-Day 2019 #99: Madison

  I'm still on the mend today,but much better. I should be up to (nearly) full strength tomorrow, so we'll check out an interesting doll. But today we're looking at a boxed doll because...ummm...I didn't feel like photographing anything! Sorry for the bad pictures!
  Today's doll is Madison.

 This Madison is from the very first wave of My Scene dolls from 2002.
 

My Scene was Mattel's attempt to compete with Bratz by making a series of Barbie and friends dolls with big heads and feet,and large eyes and mouths.

The Mattel dolls did have one up on the Bratz dolls, in my opinion. While the Bratz dolls had detachable shoes/feet,which left nothing but an empty peg when removed,(which also allowed the doll's feet to get lost,leaving them with peg legs),the My Scene dolls have regular Barbie sized feet,allowing them to not only wear regular Barbie shoes,but also maintain their feet when their giant shoes were removed. This allowed kids to have more shoe options for the dolls. There also aren't now a bunch of My Scene dolls with no feet! (Something that's a problem with Bratz dolls.) 

I also think the My Scene dolls were a lot prettier than the Bratz dolls, and not nearly as...how to say this and keep this post G Rated?

 I think you all know what I mean! (And I'm pretty sure Bratz dolls would, because they look like they know more about that kind of stuff than I do anyway!)

  In Europe Madison was called 'Westley', which I thought was a guy's name.
  Tomorrow we'll look fully at an interesting doll. I promise!