05-18-2020, 01:51 AM
I'm a crooked person, so the first thing that comes to mind when I'm looking at her is 'she's hiding some serious secrets behind that cheerful smile!'
(05-17-2020, 10:58 PM)werepuppy Wrote: [ -> ]But sociological discussion doesn't really fit on a doll board and I wouldn't know where to start with making a balanced informed argument on either side of this one.
That's a thing that merits a wider discussion - boys and their toy are accepted for a longer period of time than girls are socially 'allowed' to have an interest in similar things.
(05-17-2020, 11:17 PM)Lejays17 Wrote: [ -> ]She’s loveky, but it’s a pity about the cheap “papery” feel of the dress on an ex-pensive collector item. You ex-pect the papery dresses to be found on the knock-off dolls found at the pound / dollar shop.
(05-18-2020, 01:51 AM)neon_jellyfish Wrote: [ -> ]I'm a crooked person, so the first thing that comes to mind when I'm looking at her is 'she's hiding some serious secrets behind that cheerful smile!'
(05-18-2020, 03:58 AM)davidd Wrote: [ -> ]Sociological discussion absolutely fits on a doll board... as long as it's this doll board – one of the broadest ranging and most intellectually stimulating forums to which I've ever had the pleasure of belonging!
Might seem that way about "boys" to "girls." Speaking as a boy, to me it seems the opposite. For boys, even "action figures" still carry the "stigma" of being dolls and by the time you're nine you'd better be moving on to other things. For all kids, it seems the pressure to "grow up" has become so intense that the window of opportunity for enjoying and playing with toys has become extremely compressed. Another topic for sociological discussion!
The Barbie Wicked Signature Line should have included flying monkeys. A flying monkey Barbie would be wicked keen!
(05-18-2020, 05:38 AM)Alliecat Wrote: [ -> ]I suppose it depends on what the "toys" are. I mean, there are stereotypes & stigmas with some, but not others. Model railroading & model aircraft, as far as I know, are "cool" at any age, but dolls are not. Go figure. It's a pity that we lose so much of our capacity for imagination under that pressure to "grow up" and be "mature"(boring).
Glinda's very pretty. I like that combination of blue & blonde. Too bad about the dress, but I guess Groove aren't the only ones to use cheap materials on ex$pensive dolls.
(05-18-2020, 10:44 PM)Lejays17 Wrote: [ -> ]I love that Dr Who quote, it's one of my 3 favourites!
The others are: Sleep? Sleep is for tortoises! (4th Dr to Leela in Talons of Weng-Chiang)
And: Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority. (2nd Dr to Zoe in The Wheel in Space).
Hunter's release was great - his outfit is so cool, especially the hooded-vest-jacket-thingy. And his boots!
(05-18-2020, 11:13 PM)neon_jellyfish Wrote: [ -> ]EAH boy dolls never really caught my fancy (their smiles look a little too brainless to me), but I always liked the characters. It was the same with MH boys. Hunter is cool. I always liked how he's clumsy and adorkable, but also reliable and honest has something he's good at.
I really liked Sparrow's design in the webisodes, and wished they made a doll, but then they released Daring, The Prince of Plastic Everything and I wished for Sparrow no more...
(05-19-2020, 02:35 AM)davidd Wrote: [ -> ]That large, deep hood has a Jedi look about it. Now I want to see Hunter posed with a light sabre.
(05-19-2020, 08:10 AM)Elfy Wrote: [ -> ]Nice to see an EAH boy, they never get much love.
(05-19-2020, 04:41 PM)Alliecat Wrote: [ -> ]I wonder if a Magic Eraser would work on his stain?
My favourite quote along those lines is George Bernard Shaw, "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
(05-20-2020, 02:39 AM)neon_jellyfish Wrote: [ -> ]BTS is stealing Addams girls' hearts! Except for Wednesday. I can't imagine that happening.
Jung Kook's outfit is rather cool!
(05-20-2020, 11:13 AM)davidd Wrote: [ -> ]Apparently she has a thing for men in uniforms. Men in red uniforms.
(05-20-2020, 04:05 PM)Alliecat Wrote: [ -> ]Uh oh. He could be stirring up quite a bit of the dynamics of the Room.
I don't know who this is...?, but, he looks interesting.