davidd's A Doll A Day 2019

[davidd]

I do what neon does - put the item away for a while and if you don't miss it, it goes.

Or, you open up the storage box and it's like a mini-Christmas: "Oh! I forgot I had this! Oh! I love this one! Oh! I was wondering what happened to this!"

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4 November – Monster High: Little Dead Riding Wolf

When the Monster High Stories figures were released, I was very surprised that a major toy manufacturer like Mattel would prominently feature the word "dead" on the packaging of a mainstream playline doll. Monster High in its prime really pushed the boundaries of acceptability, which, contradictory though it may be, is both what made the line popular and what, I suspect, ultimately led to its demise.

This is another figure that will remain in the package, tempted though I have been to open it, simply because... dead!

I wonder if I could find a de-boxed one cheap on the ol' eBay?

In unrelated news: just how the heck old am I, anyway? How is it that with just a glance at today's Google Doodle I thought, "Oh, look at that! Will Rogers!" I mean, the guy has been dead since 1935!