How fascinating is it that SEGA’s creation Ulala was created and inspired from a barrage of women. Her name was created from Kier’s quote “Ooh La La” from the “Groove Is In The Heart” video. However in Japan they claimed it was U-RARA which basically means Ulala. Due to a lawsuit SEGA were not going to be truthful because they wanted to win at the time. Though Ulala was inspired by many things, the main inspiration was Lady Miss Kier from Deee-Lite. Mineko Okamura is the Japanese VO for Ulala and originally Apollo Smile for the English. Apollo was hired because she was like a live-action Anime girl for the West and when the creators of Ulala saw her, they thought she would be perfect to bring Ulala to life. Cherami Leigh recently took over Apollo’s role when Smile refused to reprise her role due to retirement. Nahoko Wright who was once Janet Jackson’s choreographer is the model and created most of Ulala’s dance moves and Micheal Jackson known as Space Micheal makes a cameo appearance in the game, weirdly Lady Miss Kier did dance moves similar to Ulala decades earlier, including Kier’s unique space style and vintage era fashion sense especially the platform boots and also SEGA had asked Kier for permission to use her image and song to promote the character to which she denied, however they did it anyway. Reason? Under U.S. Copyright Law, a parody can be considered a derivative work protected from copyright infringement claims by the fair use doctrine. Did you know that Lady Miss Kier is Ulala’s singing voice in Samba de Amigo? When you see Ulala take into consideration of the women especially Lady Kier, who inspired her creation. Ulala was reboot in 2020. The VR reboot flopped, due to the gameplay controls. The old game is known for controller support. New character Kell seems to look reminiscent to Lady Miss Kier’s “Groove Is In The Heart” style, especially the hair. J Andriessen of Destructoid and anyone with a brain regards Ulala as a blatant Lady Kier rip-off.
if men r going 2 be horny and misogynistic when designing female characters can they at the very least make the outfit cunty......nothing pisses me off more than seeing a bitch with negative 2 articles of clothing on and it’s still ugly......flop ass bitches......
I've been really into soft grunge/Tumblr fashion of the 2010s lately! Back when it was popular I was around 8 but I remember how badly I wanted to be these girls. Now that I'm an adult I can do whatever I want and I will definitely be buying some pieces that fit soon.
*These may not be full Tumblr/Soft grunge just some outfits I personally like and think will mesh well with what I own currently.
I am so very inspired by the Olsen twins and Taylor Momsen. I think they perfectly encapsulated what I think of when I hear Tumblr fashion well.. Besides twee. Anyways I want to do more research on behind it's popularity and it's reach to everyone beyond Tumblr.
Posting this here because I keep getting questions about how I've been fixing my MH Creeproduction bodies to look a little less janky!
Most people already have these techniques in their arsenal (and can definitely do a better job than me) but I keep getting questions on Twitter about how I manage to fix mine so I figure I'd just post a tut on Tumblr that I can link to lol
This is an add-on to my previous post about the neck issue with both waves of Monster High Creeproductions in addition to another issue where the Creepro arms cannot lay flat against the sides of the body.
Tutorial below!
Supplies Needed:
-Shitty creepro body
-Some sandpaper, I've been using 320 grit
-Boiling water
We're going to start with the neck since that one is pretty quick.
This is the neck peg to start with, compared to an original G1 neck peg- the section we're concerned with is the circular peg right above the neck hole:
(Creepro on the left, original on the right)
the Creeproduction peg is significantly thicker, which is causing the head to sit lower on the neck and cause the vinyl to deform. We're going to fix that by sanding the underside of the neck peg until it's much thinner, but not quite as thin as the originals (since original g1 dolls frequently have loose necks lol)
First you'll want to cut out a rectangle of sandpaper and fold it in half; this is both to make the sandpaper less flimsy and also because the folded edge is good for sanding nooks and crannies.
Now you're going to sand all around underside of the circular neck peg shown here, until that whole circular peg is thinner:
Make sure not to use the folded edge of the sandpaper for this part of the tutorial, we don't want to accidentally carve into the "stem" of the neck peg and cause it to snap.
I like to sand off a bit, try the head on and then sand off a bit more if it's still not sitting as high as an original MH neck would. Make sure you're heating the heads prior to removal or you might break the neck peg.
And also chop off that stupid hook on the top of the circular peg, it does nothing but cause misery lol
This is typically what it looks like when I've sanded it as much as I need to for most dolls:
(after on the left, before on the right)
Some characters have heads that sit much higher on the neck originally (like Spectra) so I'll sand off a lot more for them, but ymmv.
Now onto the body!
So, this is the Creeproduction body as-is:
This is the flattest I can get her arms to her sides. Some creepros can get them flatter, but not by much.
Original G1 body arms already tend not to lay flat enough in my experience, but Creeproduction bodies are even worse lol
We're going to fix that with sandpaper and boiling water!
Provided below is an illustration of the general places that we are going to sand:
The notch under the ball joint of the arm, the area directly below the armpit and a tiny bit of the round area on the underside of the upper arm. We're going to sand a little off of each section.
For the notch in the arm, you're going to use the folded edge of the sandpaper to carve out the notch until it's a bit deeper than previously.
No, it's not pretty! Thank you for noticing lol
Next we're going to sand the armpit area, using the other edges of the sandpaper because we don't want to dig into the arm at all accidentally:
As well as this rounded area of the arm , not too much but enough to make it just a little flatter:
I left it raw to better show exactly where I'm sanding; most of the visible sand marks will disappear after washing but you can clean it up more with a finer sandpaper when you're done if you want. I'm just too lazy to do that lol
After all of that, your arm should sit more or less like the arm on the right (left unsanded for comparison)
Much better, but not quite there yet!
Modern G1 bodies have vinyl upper arms that are easy to manipulate with heat, so in order to get them as flat as possible we're doing to boil and reshape them.
I like to boil my water in the microwave, and then dip the entire upper torso into the water until the arms are super pliable. At this point I will pull them out, pinch the arms right up against the body with my thumb and forefinger and then run them under the tap until they set.
Your final result should look something like this:
listening to this for the first time in probably 2 years. i can remember the vision i had for it like i had it yesterday. the final chorus was my proudest moment when i made it. i still wanna recreate it someday
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