Captain Sofia joins the PrettyTiny pirate crew! (new Jan. 5)

[Alliecat]

Probably the second-most-frequent thing I say about the doll community, after "It's such a nice friendly community" is, "Dolly people are nothing if not enablers."  So today the PrettyTiny Film Company & Modelling Studio would like to give its Enabler First Class Award to davidd, as well as announcing our Badassery Quotient has levelled up, as we introduce our newest member. 
It has taken me ForAbsolutelyEVER to get this photoshoot finished because Adult Life Stuff kept interfering.  Then it took even longer to sort the fazillion pictures I took.  I'm squeezing these in before another major project devours the rest of my week.  Anyway, here she is!

Introducing Captain Sofia (her stock name) ... she came from Giantoy, who were very good to order from. 






They seem very close to copyright infringement with the title, but oh well...?




The box is very nice, and came with a "Mint Condition!" label on the outer brown box.




"THIS IS NOT A TOY!!!"
...this becomes apparent when you see how many little pieces she comes with... and also when you try to dress her or change her hands.  WHYYYY do these figures come with such impossible hands?  It shouldn't take 5 minutes with a hair dryer every time you want to change a hand.  The peg seems fragile, I'm not sure if it's supposed to come out of the arm, and this is why I don't think I've ever changed Jake's hands.  Maybe once.  Same deal.







She comes with lots of little pieces -- teeny compass, 2 guns, sword, dagger, spyglass and 8 hands in all.



"Whoaaa..."



"Um.... hi...?"



"YAY!  We have a real pirate!"
Our president and CCO* is impressed.
(*Chief Cuteness Officer)



She found some treasure waiting for her.
















The articulation is nice.  Her elbows bend well past 90 degrees; her head tilts; her feet swivel, and her knees bend pretty well too.  Aside from the hand pegs, she seems pretty sturdy.



Having seen a movie character portrait with this kind of lighting just after she arrived, I kinda got obsessed with doing it with her.  The disadvantage of shooting with a black background is all the dead pixels.  This is about 1/3 of the pictures I took, and man am I sick of painting out dead pixels!!!!



It took about 20 minutes to get her coat on.    "This is not a toy!"



It has nice details.  There's a wire all around the bottom so you can bend it out to make it look like it's windblown.
The sash was all wrinkly from the box, and I ironed out the kinks, but then it looked much too neat for a pirate outfit so I had to wet it and scrunch it around a little 
I couldn't figure out what the little tab-thing sewn on the bandanna was for, but they actually thought to make a little loop to pull the other end through, to make it easier to tie.  That kind of detail makes me wonder why they went with man-hands and the weird sword holster, and that hat.



Detail of some of the... um, details.  The scabbard looks like it should fit in a couple of little rivet holes in the holster thingy, with a couple of little points that should hold it, but it does not.  I suppose I'll have to glue the edges of the holster together, because it just kind of wraps around the scabbard.  The compass doesn't fit in the teeny pouch, but the pouch has a teeny magnet to hold the flap closed, which is neat.  (Could've put one on the holster thingy?)
I am not sure how agile one would be with all this stuff stuck in the belts and sash, but, there's the classic pirate look, and considering you'd get one shot from each of the guns, I guess it's worth carrying it all? 



Her spyglass is very heavy and solid -- not cheap plastic -- and has little blue "lenses" in it.



Look me in the eye and say that again.



The only real fail is the hat, which will NOT stay on, no matter what you do.  With the bandanna, without the bandanna, just nope.  You push it down and it goes *pop* right off.  Maybe gluing some fabric inside would help, but I don't want to mess up her hair anyway.  (It's very nice too.)  For now, the only thing I can do with the hat is have her hold it or make it look like she's just taking it off.



The faceup is gorgeously detailed.  How did they DO that...???






"Tell me a story!"


She came at the wrong time of year for outdoor photoshoots.  It's been too cold to take her out... maybe just as well as I'd have to leave most of the little pieces at home.  They'd be far too easy to lose on the beach.  I hope to get a few outdoor shots if it gets warm enough. 
I usually try not to photodump with a ton of similar photos, but... oops 
Thanks for looking!