Happy St. Patrick's Day to all who celebrate!

When I was a kid in the 80s, Rainbow Brite dolls were a big deal. They had colourful outfits, yarn hair, and fuzzy plush sprite companions. I had Patty O'Green, so when The Loyal Subjects announced a 5.5" fashion doll version of her, I had to get her.

...and immediately had to pack her up for our move. Almost a month later, I'm still unpacking and organizing 🫠 but I had to let her have some time in the spotlight for St. Paddy's Day!

(Good Luck Bear and Monster High G3 Deuce Gorgon are there for moral support, and because they were green and also unpacked.)

#dolls #MonsterHighG3 #PattyOGreen #RainbowBrite #CareBears

My heart will always belong to the superhero-themed Soaring Sky PreCure series (the first with a regular male and a Legal Adult PreCure) but so far I. Am. LOVING Star Detective PreCure, which features:
-Detectives complete with deerstalker caps

-Mysteries complete with gathering all the suspects in one room

-Disguises

-Phantom Thieves in top hats

-Pocket watches

-Magical Girls that resort to physical violence and then declare the case to be closed

-90s/00s nostalgia

I am laughing-crying

The only thing that I dislike is the fact that the protagonist time-travels from 2027 to 1999, which is ... 28 years?! How dare this show make me face the passage of time?!

(I assume one of the people she meets in the past will be her mom)

(Also I really like the thought that this show might teach kids about deductive reasoning, and maybe even classic detective literature? They've already name-dropped Sherlock Holmes and the main character is surnamed Akechi!)

Once upon a time, enterprising doll collectors took the heads from Nendoroid figures and put them on poseable Obitsu11 bodies to create hybrid dolls nicknamed "Obitsuroids". Soon thereafter, Good Smile Company came out with Nendoroid Dolls, which were compatible with traditional Nendoroids but had poseable bodies and fabric clothing. Other companies like Azone International followed suit with licensed anime character dolls with similar big-head/poseable body combinations.

I was reminded of this yesterday when I found out that Hasbro's current revamp of Furby is introducing DJ Furby, an animatronic plush with an elongated torso that looks suspiciously like a Long Furby (a style of customized Furby originated by Tumblr user furbyfuzz, according to LongFurby.com). Admittedly, DJ Furby has more bells and whistles, including lights in its long belly... But there's an element of "the corporations are watching" that reminded me of Nendoroid Dolls.

I'm pretty excited that Ncuti Gatwa is getting a Barbie doll (as the Fifteenth Doctor from Doctor Who) but I wish he had the Made to Move body rather than the Harley Davidson Ken body, just for the extra articulation.

https://creations.mattel.com/products/barbie-the-fifteenth-doctor-barbie-doll-hrm36

(Also mildly disappointed that he doesn't get a custom face sculpt but I guess it took Barbie Movie Ken over a year to get a unique Ryan Gosling face...)