More Lame Excuses, and Elastigirl

   I know you haven't heard much from me lately, but it really is a pain having to use someone else's computer. Apart from having to use it at it's owner's convenience, Ken's computer is so slow, and pretty grungy. Now I'm having problems with my camera too. I don't know if it's the camera, or the memory card, but I'll take pictures, and even see them on the camera, and when I try to take them off the card and put them on the computer to use, they just aren't there. It's been really frustrating. I lost a whole load of unboxing pictures for my upcoming review. You can't redo those. I've had to take the pictures for this post three times! The unboxing ones disappeared. I have also been using my time repairing things for Ken and the kids, like clothes, and shopping bags, and Emma's purse. I have been finishing some miniature Tiffany lamps I started ages ago. I've been working on something else I'll be showing you in an upcoming post. It's Ken's 'birthday month', so he's had me out eating somewhere several times lately. We've been to Emma's a couple of times, and whenever she's not working on school work, we've been hanging out with Ivy. She goes back to college on Sunday, and I am going to miss her terribly.

  Now, finally, here it is: the post none of you asked for!

  I did show you the "Incredibles 2" Elastigirl doll I got for Christmas from my sister. But today you're going to hear what I like and don't like about her.

  First, the 'likes'. She has a beautiful glowy, realistic 'skin'. 

The vinyl her face is made of really is nice. She is also a fairly accurate sculpt of the character as she appears in the movies.  Her hair  is a nice realistic blend of colours and shades. 

It's not very fluffy, because, like most dolls these days, it's full of gunk to make sure it doesn't move. I'm fairly sure that could be washed out and her hair would fluff up.

  Her outfit is pretty movie accurate, except for the shininess.

The red outfit wasn't shiny. The gray outfit she got later in the second movie, ("The Incredibles 2".), was shiny. There is also a doll like this one that came in the gray outfit.

  And my last 'like': she's posable. Oddly enough, that's also one of my dislikes. I love that they made her posable. According to the box, she is 'fully posable for incredible action'. 

('Incredible' action. Get it?)

The problem is, not so much. Oh, she's quite posable. Don't get me wrong. She's jointed at the neck, shoulders, elbows, wrist, hips, and knees. She can do lots of cool poses.

...And also this one.

When you get tired of all that superhero stuff.

  The disappointment comes when you realize she's not as posable as she could be.  The problem doesn't seem to fully be her jointing, (although I would have liked to have seen an ankle joint, and a waist joint.). The problem seems to be that her suit is too stiff. She can do some poses, and not hold them, because the suit forces things out. What's the point of making an amazingly jointed doll, and putting it in a suit that limits their posability?

  Another thing I have an issue with is her mask. It's a nice little mask, and they tried to make it movie accurate by not having a strap or anything to hold it on.  The problem is, they make it stay on her face by making the back sticky.

  The front is firm plastic, and the back is soft spongy stuff covered in sticky stuff. The whole mask is way too thick for realism, but the worst part is the sticky stuff. It doesn't stay stuck! The mask doesn't conform to the shape of her face very well, so you can't get a good stick. The mask drops off in a second.

Kids are definitely going to lose this mask.

  Other than those things, she has a removable outfit, with Velcro down the back. The thing is, you can't actually remove it because the sleeves won't fit over her hands. Her shoes come off and you might be able to get the feet through the clothes, but no way are those hands going through. I thought maybe the hands might be removable, like Monster High dolls. But no.

  Overall she's a nice doll. Kids probably won't have as much of an issue with the posability as I did.

  Next time we'll have a look at what I've been keeping my hands busy with while just watching TV with Ivy.

 

Doll-A-Day 2017 #296: Prince Trevor

  I spent part of the day yesterday helping the Neighbours from Hell trim a tree...of mine. They've been strangely friendly of late, but I'm trying to go with it,while still being wary. I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop, as the saying goes. As friendly as they have been,they still insist on controlling even the air space over their property,and they asked me the other day if it was ok if they trimmed back our mulberry tree,as it was, in their words about 3 feet, and in reality about 12 feet, from their house. I said yes,as we were going to trim it but had no method of cutting anything that tall. So yesterday they hauled out two different ladders and a tiny chainsaw on a telelscoping pole (Never seen anything like it.),and trimmed back the branches that were bothering them, and a couple that were bothering me, plus a bunch of dead branches. True to form though, give them an inch and they take a mile. They trimmed back way more than the foot my side of the fence I said they could,even with me saying, "Don't go any farther." and "That's ok.". In any case, it got done, and no matter how much they cut, it will grow back. I figured it wasn't worth the trouble since it will grow back, so I let it go.
   I nearly forgot what doll I had planned for today! I don't know how I could, when I have been doing the Only Hearts Club dolls for the past week. I'm going to claim 'getting old' again. I use that a lot these days. So anyway,it's this little fellow here.

He's Prince Trevor from the Li'l Kids Fairy and Unicorn series.

Trevor was the only male character ever produced for the Only Hearts line.

This is the back of Trevor's box.

There were other dolls in this line,all the Li'l sister dolls as fairy princesses with wings,also on unicorns.

Trevor has the same inset eyes as all the Only hearts dolls, and dimples.
 

I think he's trying to use his Jedi powers here.

 Ivy has the original Trevor,released as part of the Li'l Kids line of Only Hearts dolls. She can't find him,but that Trevor came in a blue denim outfit,made as part of his body and not removable, as with all the Li'l Kids dolls.

Apparently Prince Trevor has the blue denim clothes on under his removable prince costume.

You can see his blue clothes under his Prince costume.

 Those aren't even pants. They're just leggings.

Like all the Li'l Kids, Trevor's shoes don't come off either.

His orange unicorn has a sparkly mane.

I'm assuming the unicorn has the same wire armature as the other Only Hearts dolls and horses.

I think there was only one other Trevor produced, part of the Horse and Pony Club line, dressed as a cowboy.

I've had this guy sitting on my cupboard on the landing for quite a while now, but I've never opened him. That cupboard seems to be home to a lot of my unopened dolls.
  Ok. We're done with the Only Hearts Club dolls now. Tomorrow we'll see what else we've got. See you then.