Doll-A-Day 2017 #141: Grow and Style Rapunzel and Her Friend Classic Rapunzel

  Today's doll from the (Goodwill) haul is Grow and Style Rapunzel.

She's from 2007.

She's smallish doll. She seems smaller than her 11".

She's smaller than her 'twin', the Disney Store Classic Rapunzel,which I got at the same time.

Disney Store girl was naked, so she's being a little shy. She could do a Lady Godiva with all that hair.

I like the faces on all the Rapunzel dolls. they're all pretty. But I prefer the  more cartoony big eyed and freckled version.
The Disney Store Classic Rapunzel has the graceful articulated Disney Store arms. 

Unfortunately she also has those lame,rubbery Disney Store legs.

Grow and Style Rapunzel has her original dress and shoes,which got a bit dirty when I posed her in the dry dirt and leaves.
 

 The dust even staticked to her legs.

The fact the she comes wearing shoes is different from the character in the movie,who was always barefoot.
 She gets her name from the piece of 'growing' hair in the top of her head.

It grows and retracts like the cord on my mother's old vacuum cleaner.When it's pulled out it grows,and to retract it you pull it out more and let go.

 It's such a miniscule amount compared to the total hair she has, there's kind of not much point.

Tomorrow we'll look at another couple of Haul dolls.

Disney Fairytale Designer Collection: Heroes vs Villains... Amazing Dolls!

  As you might have read here, we visited The Disney Store on our anniversary on the 16th. I saw the most amazing bunch of dolls while we were there. They're the new Fairytale Designer Heroes vs Villains sets. They follow the couples sets, the princesses, and the villains.They are totally unobtainable for me, and since they are so limited,(They are limited to 6000 sets of each type,worldwide.) to most other people too. But they are so amazing. If you get a chance, go to a Disney Store so you can see them in person. (They have examples at the store, but they aren't for sale in the regular way.A different set is available every Tuesday for the next few weeks. You have to go to the Disney Store and get a ticket which then allows you to have a chance to buy a set. Each store has 'no fewer than 8 sets' to sell.)They are available on the Disney Store site the following day.) The first set, which is actually called 'Snow White and Hag', was released to Disney Stores yesterday, and is still available on the Disney Store website now. You can check it out HERE. There are a bunch of other items with artwork to match the dolls.
 I thought the prices might go completely out of control on the secondary market, but I had a look at what the original series, the  Princess couples, were going for. Some of them have sold for semi reasonable prices recently. Looks like they're going up now that the villains have been released though. Beware: the new set is selling for crazy prices on Ebay, but is STILL AVAILABLE ON THE DISNEY STORE SITE FOR $129.
  These dolls are really wonderful. They seem to have the same articulated bodies as the classic dolls. (I hope they have something better than the rubbery bow legs those dolls have though.) The face paint is much more detailed and artistic, the females have rooted eyelashes,and the clothes are definitely more detailed and made with quality fabrics.
  My favourites were Peter Pan and Hook, (There's even a tiny Tinkerbell.), and Rapunzel and Mother Gothel.

The Snow White set is very nice too.

I didn't like the Little Mermaid set or the Frozen set. The dolls faces were painted with pearlized paint and looked weird.

I loved the Peter Pan though. I'd love to have him!

If you're at all into Disney, make sure you see these dolls in person.

Doll-A-Day 134: Rapunzel in Barbie's Raincoat

  Sometimes May Showers too! The rain that it's been looking like we were going to have for the last week has finally come all in one day. It's a good excuse to show you this cute Barbie raincoat and umbrella. Rapunzel, who joined us only Monday, kindly volunteered to model it for us. (Not least of all because she was naked without it...)

"Is it raining?"

"Better take an umbrella."

I'm not sure which edition of Rapunzel she is. She's more recent, because she doesn't have freckles, and doesn't have such a big head and big eyes.

 She's a little smaller than a Barbie, but the coat fits her pretty well.

I seem to be amassing Rapunzels. It has to stop. I'm getting too many. But they're all so cute...

"I think the rain is stopping."

 She borrowed the boots from vintage Skipper.

As you can see, the lilacs are dropping and nearly finished. They aren't around nearly long enough!

Rapunzel takes a nice stroll through the lilacs on the wet sidewalk.

"I think it's starting to rain again".

"I don't care..."

This edition of Rapunzel looks alot less like the movie version and a lot more like a standard 'pretty girl'. I actually prefer the freckles big eyed version, even though this one is so pretty.

"I love the rain!"

  That's the doll today. See you tomorrow.

Doll-A-Day 79: More Rapunzels,Updates and Comparisons.

  I'm glad to report that my dad is doing better and I feel alot better after seeing him yesterday.He's still in the hospital but is supposed to be going back to the nursing home tomorrow. (For the record, I feel guilty that my dad has to live in a nursing home, but he has dementia. We kept him at home with us until his dementia got so bad that he starting needing around the clock guarding,etc.. It didn't allow the rest of the family to be together or do anything else. Didn't stop me from feeling guilty though.) If you don't know what dementia is,it's in the same family as Alzheimers, but...crazier. He has aural and visual hallucinations and gets confused.
   That's enough for your medical lesson.  
  I was supposed to do a post on my last Disney Store purchase today, but I'm saving that for tomorrow, for reasons that will become apparent then. I thought today I would cover a few things I forgot to include this week.(I've been quite flustered, as you can imagine. I considered not posting at all, but it kept me from curling up in a ball and throwing up.) So here are a couple of other dolls, and a few afterthoughts, plus I have updated the Snow White post to include some thoughts I forgot to think at the time...
 Today's doll is going to be two dolls: these two Tangled Rapunzels I got at a nearby Goodwill one night a while back.Here they are with the Rapunzel I reviewed earlier this week.

  I was going to show them in comparison to the short haired Rapunzel I featured earlier this week, but I forgot, so here they are now.

Short haired girl seems to have a rounder face. They all have the freckles.

Does anybody know which Rapunzel's these are?

The one with the long hair has jointed everything. The one who has had a hair cut has jointed arms, but the same soft bendy knee legs as short haired Rapunzel and Snow White.She also has those metallic hairs amongst her regular blonde hair.

"Thanks girls, but can you do anything with this one hair?" Jointed leg girl on the left is weak at the knees and can't stay standing up straight very long. That's why she looks so short here.Hair cut girl is cheating by standing on her tip toes. She knows the other two can't do that!

And an after thought on Snow White: Snow White seems so tiny compared to Gothel and Rapunzel, until you get them together. For comparison, here they are together.She definitely has a less cartoonish appearance.

See you tomorrow for that other Disney Store doll.

Doll-A-Day 78: Review Week: Disney Store Snow White

  Today's Snow White doll finishes up my articulated doll purchases from The Disney Store.

I couldn't resist her cute little face.

 Same situation with the box as the last two. Luckily she had a lot less stuff pinning her down than Gothel or Rapunzel. A twisty wire on her feet, a few tiny plastic thingies in her cape, and a couple in her head.

 

 She was wearing tissue paper pants.(And painted on undies.)

She's jointed at the neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips,and has the same bendy knees as the Rapunzel I reviewed a couple of days ago.Maybe I should explain those legs. They aren't bendy, as in, just having wires in them like a Tutti or Gumby. They have a knee joint, similar to a Barbie knee, but are a much softer rubbery leg, and the bend is more....uh, bendy than a Barbie knee.

The outfit is a bit too shiny and sparkly for my tastes. I'd like it to be more like the movie dress, in cotton or something. I also always have a problem with the way they do those red bits on the sleeves. Those are supposed to be cut outs with the red bit underneath showing through. I realize that would put the price up and also isn't the best idea for a lasting costume for a kids play doll, so I'm going to let that one pass this time!

This is the first Snow White doll I have bought for myself.

I like that they did the stand up collar this time, and it's actually pretty good.

Emma has one she got as a kid. Ivy was into Snow White for a while when she was very small, but she never had a Snow White doll. When I bought this one Ivy's response was, "But you don't like Snow White." I said, I don't dislike Snow White. I don't not like Snow White. (I mean, I don't specifically NOT like her. That's different from DIS liking her, or just ignoring her altogether.)

She has cute little rubber slip on flat shoes.

Actually, I love the animation in the movie. I think it's beautiful. I could never figure out why Snow White did all that stuff her stepmother made her do though. She was the Princess. Tell Step Mother to get lost.

Such a pretty face, and she's another short haired doll. I love her big brown eyes, and they painted the shape of her little mouth so nicely.

So, Snow was a little wishy washy, but sweet people can be that way. (I don't have that problem.)
 Tomorrow we'll check out my last doll from this trip to the Disney Store.