#doll ref

[andersonsdollpurpose]

A collection of Fashion Corner (Lucky Ind. Co.) doll catalog pics + photos of boxed dolls. Nowhere near complete afaict, but a great resource.

[andersonsallpurpose]

I’m just completely amazed that ironing doll hair actually works. It doesn’t get perfectly straight, but it’s a lot better. I tried it on a few rat’s nests I’d completely given up on, and managed to make them combable. I wish I’d figured that out sooner.

Now I just need to learn not to fry the hair instead... Nylon is the stiff, coarse type of hair that can withstand heat, right?

[andersonsdollpurpose]

I was looking for the instruction sheet for the Barbie So Much To Do! Bank #67401 on the Matte/Fisher-Price site (I’ve found the instructions for more recent playsets there so I thought it was worth a try). Using the page search engine didn’t yield any results, but google duckduckgo turned up a pdf, and then a list of ALL the pdf’s. Enjoy?

[andersonsdollpurpose]

This is a pretty good list of pregnant fashion dolls that I’m not sure I’ve posted before.

But also this:

(Photo by Magnus Kolsjö @ Flickr, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0), link in source)

[andersonsdollpurpose]

I’m not sure why I didn’t have this site bookmarked already. Maybe because it’s so image-heavy and slow to load (on my old computer/slow connection at least). There’s some awesome vintage furniture here (like the Milady series) and also apparently we’re getting a chemistry playset too this year?

[andersonsdollpurpose]

So I mentioned my problem of having to apply Loctite’s glue activator in marker form on the narrow cracks in a doll head (well, I didn’t say doll head) and not having any idea how to squeeze it in there (since you can’t squeeze it like regular glue) to a person, and they suggested using a sharp blade like a scalpel to cut the marker into a finer point. That sounds like a good idea actually, and since I have a spare activator marker left over from the last set I could experiment on that one.

[andersonsdollpurpose]

If you want to dress up the new body Barbies, you'll have to sew her clothes yourself

In the absence of Mattel-made outfits, crafters will hand-make patterns for curvy Barbie.

Short article about the new doll bodies that I stumbled upon while googling something completely different. They’re talking about the fact that the new body types don’t fit old/regular Barbie clothes, and interviewing a few etsy doll tailors.

It’s from last year so maybe everybody’s read it already, but I thought it was worth sharing anyway, if only for the novelty of seeing this issue even mentioned outside of collectors circles. Particularly since the difference between the fit of Barbie clothes on different Barbie bodies it’s something Mattel hardly seems to have acknowledged themselves until now. (Let's face it, some Barbie clothes don't even fit right on the doll they were made for, and let's not even talk about the shoes...)

[andersonsdollpurpose]

I don’t know why I’ve never come across this clone doll site before. Very handy.