Amber Disquietude

Well, I like to go back and forth between talking about Integrity Toys dolls and Robert Tonner dolls (among others), so today's Picture Candy is Amber Disquietude from Wilde Imagination, a Tonner company. 

She's from 2012 and sold out, so it'd be silly to do a whole review.  I have to say, though, she is the first Amber doll I've gotten, and I'm totally won over.   She's part of the Ellowyne Wilde line, which includes the peripheral characters Lizette, Prudence, Rufus and Amber.  Is it a crime I like Amber and Lizette more than the main character, Ellowyne?  LOL!  I'd love to get a Lizette one day, but for now, it's just mopey little Disquietude. 

 

There's something about this sculpt that looks sad.  At least a little bit.  Maybe she's depressed I don't have her friends here to keep her company.  Maybe I need to cheer her up by buying her tons and tons of clothes.  *Grin.*

I'm totally enamoured of her hair, which is photo-snap perfect from every direction.  Her eyes remind me of a Siamese cat ... they're that exact same shade of intense blue.  They look like they're made of glass, but more probably it's a glass-like acrylic.  Her eye style and size make her look a bit like a resin Asian ball-jointed doll, only the eyes aren't changeable and the body is not strung.

She shares a body with Ellowyne, which is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME for finding clothing for her.  I actually just ordered two outfits for her, so she may be doing a modeling shoot later.  I really dig the Ellowyne body.  It's aesthetically pleasing, the articulation and posing are superb, and I even appreciate the little things, like the fact the neck isn't too skinny.  With that flat chest and baby face, she looks to me like she's only about 14 or 15, though.  I have no idea how old these characters are supposed to be, but mine apparently just started high school.  She must be the best-dressed person in her class.

Later,

More MegaPoppys: Spring Morning and One Fine Day

One purchase and one trade later, I've now added to my 16" Poppy Parker Fashion Teen collection.  I've managed to get a hold of 2013's "One Fine Day" and 2012's "Spring Morning."  It was interesting to get to see one of the original 2012s next to the newer dolls.  For one thing, "Spring Morning" (the luscious redhead in these photos) seemed floppy compared to the newer 2013s.  Her joints were just a bit looser, which made it trickier to pose her.  She also had an issue where her removeable hands fit a little too loosely in the wrist sockets.  The hands weren't so loose that they were falling out, but they weren't *quite* as snug as they should be, either.  Apparently this issue was corrected for the 2013 collection, because none of mine from 2013 have the problem. 

Left to right:  Spring Morning, Winter Wowzers and One Fine Day.

Another thing I noticed was "Spring Morning's" face shape is slightly different. ... She's slightly more wider-faced than the 2013s.  Her hairline is lower, too.  A while ago, I'd contacted Integrity Toys to ask if the newer Poppy 16s have a different face sculpt, but was assured it's the same sculpt. 

Getting ready for Easter.

I have two theories as to why "Spring Morning" has a wider face.  #1:  Perhaps it has to do with how the soft vinyl heads were pulled out of the molds, or #2: perhaps the mold used for the 2013s may have been different.  From my limited understanding, companies have more than one mold of the same face.  (Therefore, if one mold breaks or gets worn out from use, they'll still have another.)  The 2013s may have been cast with a different mold, even though they are the same sculpt. 

Anyway, I think the 2012 dolls are every bit as beautiful as the 2013s.  I mean, look at that face!  I had to get "Spring Morning."  I wanted to get her before she was completely sold out everywhere.  Plus, she's the only 16" Poppy so far with left-glancing eyes. 

I washed the gel out her hair, though.

 

"One Fine Day" comes with a pair of really beautiful earrings; a bracelet, a wonderful hat, sunglasses and a bright red hard-shell bag.  The sunglasses are cute but seem a bit fragile.  Everything else is so amazing!  The bag really opens.  The shoes are basic red pumps with bows on the tops.  They would have been a lot more versatile for redressing if Integrity had left off the bows.

 

I seriously love these earrings.

 

I ended up plucking out the bangs on my "One Fine Day."  The bangs are set far back from the hairline, which I personally loved, because it meant I could use tweezers to pluck them out without disrupting the hairline or doing a partial re-root.  Yay!  I think she looks amazing without the bangs.  It only took about 15 minutes. Now she looks even more like Michelle Pfeiffer than she did before.  LOL.  She also makes me think of Samantha from the TV show "Bewitched."  Might just be the curled, retro hairstyle, though.

Needing a new hairdo.

No more bangs!  20% cooler in 10 seconds flat.

And now for a few random pictures, because I can't help myself.  Please click on them to see them bigger. 

Wearing a Gene Marshall dress.

The 16" Poppy Parker Fashion Teens

My MegaPoppy Quartet.

The Glad Game, right out of the box.

I thought I'd revisit these dolls, since I just got "The Glad Game" (the blonde) in a trade.  I wanted to show her off, and also show my others redressed.  Integrity Toys will be releasing another collection of the 16" Poppys later this year.  I asked them in an e-mail, and they confirmed it.  I can't wait to see what the new collection looks like!

Glad Game and Magic Moment have the same eye screening.

They need to do another brown-eyed one, for sure.  The only 16" Poppy so far to have brown eyes was "Love Letters" from 2012.  That's it.

In fact, there has been an over-abundance of blue eyes in the collections from 2012 and 2013.  Of a total of nine, SIX of them have blue eyes (Magic Moment's eyes are half grey and half aqua blue, but overall look blue).  I think the Poppy Fashion Teens must all be Swedish or something.  LOL!  Blonde hair is also slightly over-represented, with four blondes out of the nine.  So listen up, Integrity!  We need more brown and grey eyes in the next collection, eh?  Oh, and more black hair.  Winter Wowzers is the only one with that fabulous raven-black hair. 

After the gel was washed out of her ponytail.

Winter Wowzers, by the way, is definitely my favorite.  Her sassy, know-it-all expression is just priceless.  I now have one Poppy in each hair color!  Yay! 

I washed out Wowzer's ponytail in the sink.  I didn't boil it or anything ... just washed it out with liquid dish detergent to get out the gunky hair gel.  It washed out beautifully!  I think the ponytail looks much better, now.  Isn't it gorgeous?  Click here to see what the ponytail looked like originally.  Now it's soft, and much more natural-looking.


Here's a rundown of all the 16" Poppy Parkers released so far. 

2012
Love Letters:  brown eyes, blonde hair
Shop Around:  blue eyes, platinum blonde hair
Precious Love:  blue eyes, dark brown hair
Spring Morning:  green eyes, red hair

It's A Wrap (convention basic):  blue eyes, brown hair

2013
Winter Wowzers:  blue eyes, black hair
The Glad Game:  green eyes, blonde hair
One Fine Day:  blue eyes, blonde hair
Magic Moment:  grey-aqua blue eyes, red hair

So many blue eyes!  Maybe the 16" Poppys were descended from Vikings.

From left:  Glad Game, Winter Wowzers and It's a Wrap.

Rocking a Tyler Wentworth outfit.

Love the jewelry!

By the way, here are the fashion credits:

1. Winter Wowzers (black hair) is wearing the "Food For Thought" outfit, made by Tonner for the Cami and Jon dolls, and the earrings from "The Happening" Poppy Parker. 

2. Magic Moment (red hair) is wearing a "Tyler" outfit and hat, also by Tonner, and her own earrings.

3. It's A Wrap (brown hair) is wearing a purple lace dress that I made, myself.  I made it for the Tonner "Antoinette" dolls, but it fits the 16" Poppy Fashion Teens perfectly.  She's wearing Fashion Royalty earrings. 

4. The Glad Game is in her own original outfit.

Thanks for looking!  Click on the pictures to make them bigger.

Patience Weasley

This photo shoot was a MUST, considering I already had the Griffindor outfit sitting in a drawer (on a now-naked Tonner Hermione doll).  I already had the phoenix, too.  I'd bought it a couple of years ago, thinking I might do a Harry Potter photo shoot just like this one.  So I now present to you:  Patience Weasley, the cousin of Ron and Ginny!  

If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you aren't a Harry Potter fan.  LOL!  My whole family was CRAZY about those books when they came out.  Even my mom and dad.

The outfit is an exact fit, since Patience shares the same body as the 12-inch series of Tonner Harry Potter dolls.  This girlie is a rewigged "Ahoy" Patience by Wilde Imagination.  A size 8-9" wig fits perfectly.

I'm not sure I got a picture of it, but the cloak actually has a miniature Griffindor crest on the left breast.  It's really detailed and wonderful.

Patience doesn't quite trust the bird not to bite.

The phoenix was made by a company called Safari Ltd.  I bought it from Michael's Craft Store for around $5.  It's surprisingly fragile for a plastic figurine.  If you dropped it on a hard floor, the wings and tail would break.

This is the Hermione doll the outfit came off of.  If you wanted to get the outfit, remember that the Tonner Doll Company did both a 12-inch Hermione and a larger 17-inch version.  This outfit is from the 12-inch one. You can see how nice it looks here without the cloak. They never did sell these outfits separately, unfortunately.  You'd have to buy the doll to get the clothes.  The cloak was sold separately, at least.

Later.