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There are a LOT of new dolls this year!  I haven't seen much about L.U.V. dolls and I'm a bit surprised because they are pretty nice looking.  Perhaps this is because they're marketed as 8" dolls and this seems like a strange doll size? It's not.  Some very BIG doll lines have bodies with the same proportions, and it would probably be more obvious if LUVs had oversized heads   Now is she starting to look a bit more familiar? Aside: I get a lot of questions about Bratz now that the line has been refreshed.  They weren't running at...

New Doll Drop!  This time, we've got the new Dream Besties to review. The Dream Besties are a Barbie line, though they bear a strong resemblance in the head sculpt to Ever After High!  I heard the same designer is responsible for both lines' headsculpts, so that's pretty great as I miss EAH.  The hair is nice, the faceup is nice, the body seems sturdy and has the usual amount of articulation for a modern jointed fashion doll.  Lots of people review that stuff, let's get to my specialty: I ordered the dolls from aesthetically most to least similar, with...

Hi there Catty! How can we clothe you today?     Here's Catty with some other dollies with plus sized or pear shaped bodies.  I arranged them by most to least similar. The red horizontal reference lines are to make it easier to see what lines up vertically.   Vertically, Catty is MORE similar to the shorter Petite Fashion dolls, but she still has a little longer torso.  She's both wider and deeper than Abbey, though Abbey is probably the closest aesthetically.  We don't do aesthetics though, we do measurements!     The doll community has a long history of...

This is an article about how fashion dolls got to looking the way they did and why, and how the rise of ready-to-wear and fast fashion caused us all to forget something very important: There are no bad body shapes, only clothes that do/do not suit different body shapes.

If you read my review on Abbey you might have noticed that I have a problem with the new G3 Monster High hands.  Someone suggested I contact Mattel's customer service for replacement hands, so I'll pass on that advice to anyone who has already had hands snapping off like me! But, being a customizer and dolly doctor, I sat down with my dolls and did some experiments to see if I could find a preventative fix.  I did, and it's pretty easy, so let me show you how: Examining the wrist, it seems like the issue is the knob on...