Big Beautiful Dolls returns!

This may be old news, but I just saw this and thought I'd help spread the word. Apparently Georgette Taylor, creator of Big Beautiful Dolls, is taking preorders for a new run of nude dolls! There's also a new limited edition doll with painted-on lingerie - not my thing normally, but the preview photo looks really good. I'm too broke for customs fees right now, but for those interested she does offer international shipping. Take a look here.

tumblr!

Blogging has felt like a daunting task lately, so I decided to scale it down a bit and try tumblr for a while. You can find me at andersonsallpurpose.tumblr.com, although don't expect much - I don't even have an avatar yet!

Link: Made to Move Barbie spotted on Amazon

This Is Not A Post, I'm just relaying some more news from Papusilemele: Made to Move Barbie is now on Amazon (it says they're "temporarily unavailable", and I couldn't find them by searching, so I'm guessing it's still a bit backstage)! No turning back and cancelling on us now, Mattel - this is really happening! I am very very excited about this, while also preparing myself to be disappointed in the articulation somehow - it probably won't be as good as an action figure, the knees might be flimsy, etc etc. But it's still a brand new line of articulated dolls, hopefully one that will be cheaper and more widely available than most of the alternatives, and I'm just dying to get my hands on one and start playing Musical Heads!

Happy halloween!

Remenber when I turned a MyScene Fab Faces into a faceless Terminatrix? Did you ever wonder what happend to her face? Well, good news, everyone: it hasn't gone to waste...

"aT lAsT, a FaCe!"

It's been a while since I posted here, but I thought we'd just pop in to wish you happy halloween, me and CAM skeleton girl.

Barbie gets 18 points of articulation?! (links)

ETA: New pics! Looks like it's actually going to happen.

This almost sounds too good to be true, but apparently 2016 Barbie will have 18 points of articulation!

http://papusilemele.com/en/2015/09/17/2016-barbie-playline-dolls-and-sets-plus-new-body/#comments

Here's a proper photo:
https://www.facebook.com/TheDollGenie/posts/1005200856210614

I just saw this and haven't been able to find any other sources, so I have no idea how close to actually-going-to-happen this is. Not sure I'm a fan of those particular joint designs, but this might just be the prototype. Still, any articulation is good articulation in my book.

Oh, and apparently classic Sindy is being revived too!

The mysteries of goodwill stores

To be honest, complaining about goodwill stores feels a bit wrong. I'm sure they're doing a great thing, and I've made some amazing finds there - but still: I really really wish they woudn't split up sets! Sometimes I wonder if they do it on purpose. You know: put the jacket on one Ken doll and the pants/shirt combo on another and hope that people buy both? (Spoiler: I won't, because I'm kind of poor.) Or when they package random doll furniture into bags, maybe the're just trying to portion similar amounts of good stuff/meh stuff into each one, regardless of whether it fits together or not? That would explain how Sindy's bathroom sink ended up with the patio furniture and the bath tub with the Sears Beauty Salon (which is missing the floor section that has the power sockets for the battery-operated hairdryer. That piece doesn't look much on its own, and I'll be forever wondering whether it got lost somewhere in the sorting process).

The weirdest thing is when stuff gets split up over larger distances in time and space: weeks apart, in different stores. There's a certain goodwill organization that has at least 5 stores in different parts of town, and whenever I'm near one I try to take the chance to pop in.

Today I when I visited one of them, I found:

• 1 brown Bratz Kidz boot (found the other one at another of their stores last week, but left it after having spent 10 minutes digging through the crate in vain for the other one), 
• the top from 1990 Babysitter Skipper's outfit  (found the skirt two weeks ago in yet another of their stores)
• a 5cm (2'') strip of white fabric. Doesn't sound like much, I know - ecxept I'd bet my head it belongs to the slightly mutilated Hollywood Hair Barbie outfit worn by one of the dolls I bought three weeks ago from yet another store.

So then you're standing there in line with one tiny boot or one single piece of doll clothing, wondering whether they'll insist they're only allowed to sell a complete set, and if they do what will become of those odd bits and bobs (thrown out at the end of the month?). Also, I have a sneaking suspicion lately they sometimes simply cut up doll's clothes when they're too small to fit (like putting a Barbie shirt on a babydoll), or cut a dress in two and split it between dolls just so you can sell it as a dressed doll. (And then there's the parents who let their kids play with all they toys until they break and then leave them strewn all over the shop for others to step on/trip over, but the staff are probably more annoyed at that than I am.)

Yeah, I know: I can't really complain. Honestly, if it weren't for goodwill stores, my doll collection would be a rather meagre affair indeed. But all my doll photos lately have come out looking like grainy garbage, so I'm frustrated and have no content of substance to post! So instead, you get moaning. And I guess in a way these little annoyances are a part of what makes thrift store shopping interesting. It's like a carefully designed quest in a video game: that little neon pink polka dot skirt will be worth much more to you after you've had to spend weeks searching for it all over town.