TONSIL HOCKEY!!!

[modernwizard]

Iplehouse Doria's special edition fantasy head amuses me to no end [as does the phrase "tonsil hockey"].

 

I keep thinking she needs an ice cream cone. :d "Whoops...sorry...dribbling a little bit there... Creemees are so delicious, but so messy!"

Araminthe: "Keep your sloppy desserts away from my camera. >:( "

As may be surmised by the fact that she is already interacting with my other dolls, this doll will most likely join the 1:3 scale hordes. More specifically, I am trying to engineer a split in which one buyer gets the body, another the human head and me the fantasy head. Then I'll scrounge her a body that is cheaper and much more poseable than Iplehouse's shapely, but not very movable, offerings.

If the split goes through, her name will be Yamarrah, and she will be extremely! perky! She will enjoy ice cream and Jazzercise, and she will dress in an oversize sweatshirt, leggings, legwarmers and hightops. She may also have a sweatband and large triangular earrings. She will definitely have a fur wig! She and Janvier Jett can swap makeup tips.

Comments

[rainbowriot]

Well, "tonsil hockey" is certainly more accepted than "tonsil bowling." The latter activity has been known to cause headaches and blurred vision. The problem is all in the pin reset.

[modernwizard]

Don't even get me started on the ball return!

[seventhbard]

That really is a fun sculpt, I love how the tongue is not just out, but also to the side, as if catching a dribble. A very fun and quite silly expression I wouldn't have expected from what (if you will pardon my saying so) seems like a business that sometimes adds a bit of... shall we say pathos? to their spin. I look at most of the dolls you link to and it seems like a lot of the companies go the serious route in photographing and describing the dolls. Not something I would knock them for as I presume they know their audience and I presume to a collector this isn't something they feel tra la la carefree about, since they're about to drop some serious cash on it. But certainly I noticed it. So they earn cheeky points with this. XD

[modernwizard]

Iplehouse in particular likes to provide melodramatic backstories. The most memorable, in my mind, was the sheer bullshit they dredged up for the Elemental Guardian special edition of Bianca.

SPOILER: Rape culture ahoy!

Basically she was a poor teenager who took a job as a maid to a noble family in order to support her own family. The eldest son raped her. She ran away and lived on the streets.

After a short period of homelessness, she answered an ad for a maidservant. Her interviewer put Roofies in her drink. She woke up in a strange castle. Nevertheless, she began to work in this particular situation.

She began poking around her employer's castle. Mistaken for a spy, she distinguished herself by wit and cunning enough so that the armed forces actually hired her as an agent. They sent her off to enemy territory on a mission.

It is implied that people who were jealous of her had her injured to the point where she had all her limbs replaced with bionic parts. She became an unstoppable cyborg warrior in a metal bikini!

Bianca doesn't work at all for me. I guess she's supposed to be a Strong Female Character [TM] with a Tragic History [TM], but she just comes across as one of those tiresome Exceptional Women, with a little Rape a la Mode for spice! The indiscriminate narrative use of rape as Standard Feminine Horrific History really trivializes the messy horror of experiencing sexual violation. It also decontextualizes rape from a culture that actively promotes sexual abuse, especially of women, reducing rape to an Individual Nasty Event rather than a symptom of systemic oppression.