davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2026

[davidd]

23 May - A Doll A Day 2026:

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South Pacific Secret Agent

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This was going to be a "one shot gag panel" in response to a post in the action figure forum Doll Chat Game. One of the members on the forum uses this same figure as one of his characters. His character in the interactive game is named Mireille La Poisse, aka Agent Zéro Zéro Cinquante Dix-Neuf, or, counters another installment in the chat, "Cinquante Dix-Neuf? Not Soixante-Neuf?"

Yeah, it's quite a game. Sort of like "Pullip Train" or "Groove Train," where the following installments pick up on something previous to respond to or to ridicule.

Anyway, South Pacific Secret Agent was intended to be a one panel "joke" based on the similarity of the action figures.

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24 May - A Doll A Day 2026:

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Abandoned Hidden Bunker

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As such things do, the idea escalated. A new setting was required. A "quick" diorama setting (yeah, right), glueing some stuff to a sheet of cardboard. But it's not just a random setting; rather, the new setting is a close-enough approximation of an old setting used in photo-stories by one of the other participants in the story game. Same map background. Same table. Similar radio on the table. Similar KFC buckets and beer bottles. The setting itself is a gag, a pastiche of another participant's diorama.

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25 May - A Doll A Day 2026:

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So a one-shot gag panel resulted in the construction of a custom background diorama and a tangential storyline.

The dress reference, too, is a joke. One of the participants in the story collects that specific style of doll dress, the Kenner Bionic Woman "Floral Delight" dress. He had collected ten of the dresses over a long period of time. Then a house fire struck and he lost them all a couple of years back. He has begun rebuild the collection, but they turn up for sale online only rarely -- probably because he already bought them all. I stumbled across this one on eBay recently and had to have it as a prop for the photo-story game.

P.S.: yes, I know today is the REAL Star Wars Day, the 49th anniversary of the release of the original film, so I should have posted something Star Wars related. Total fail on my part.