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Also with the oversized head of the last one and the tiny body, this reminds me of a political satire comic about Angela Merkel and some other politician that I once saw online… 🥲
Moral of the story: don’t EVER try making a doll look “too realistic” or it will end up looking terrifying and haunting like Emma watsons belle doll.. _shudders_
Exactly, it's an "uncanny valley" problem. Those "reborn" dolls made to look like realistic babies have the same vibe. I prefer the werewolf pup dolls, they are realistic but creepy in an intentional & fun way.
Nah, there's doll customizers on here who do great realistic faces on dolls. Action figures look fine most of the time. These just feel like one of those alibaba 3d print your friends companies made them. Also, reborn dolle are supposed to be for grieving families mostly, they're not really supposed to be cute or appealing.
This is exactly why I was happy Disney made their limited edition Hocus Pocus dolls have cartoony faces. They look so cute and charming. Meanwhile, most dolls based on real people are just hideously uncanny
@@skyyblushThe Ariel and her sisters dolls are so beautifully made. Mattel did a really great job capturing their likeness without being too realistic looking
@@haleyhersh3850 I think they are slowly dissappearing from the shelves. So it might be possible that the sisters set would be so expensive especially on ebay where all the scalpers are there.
Eeeeek! My bread and butter. I’ve said this so many times: one of the reasons celebrity dolls don’t work is because they’re imprinting a real person’s face onto a doll. These are DOLLS. As in, stylised human beings (for the most part). I think to get the perfect celeb doll, you need to strike a balance between the celebrity’s likeness while also stylising the features. Emma Watson’s doll is SCARY. That little girl yammering about “witchcraft dolls” should take a look at her😭
The best celebrity dolls are the stylized ones! Like the myscene Lindsay Lohan or the 2023 little mermaid dolls from Mattel are great examples, they look similar enough to the celebrities but still stylized like a doll. After so many failures of celeb dolls looking haunting, I can’t understand why companies still try making them look “real” 😭
They could look really good, but the paintjob would be so expensive and complex it wouldn't be worth it. Theres a guy Noel Cruz who repaints celebrity dolls to their actors' likeliness and they look incredibly good. He'll show the before too, so you can see how terrible they looked before.
@@screamingbanshee1282 they should be studied, tbh. I wanna know the psychology behind such an idea, and what made them truly think that…that _thing_ was an acceptable doll to release
The childcare center I went to after school when I was a kid had a lot of these ugly celebrity dolls (basically all the ones from the late 90's early 00's). I am 100% certain they got donated (or strategically left there) by some parent who needed to get rid of a disappointing christmas/birthday present FAST. I think there were like 3 regular Barbies and 2 of the spice girls that kids WANTED to play with and it was warfare during playtime to get a good one.
I really cannot stand realistic faces on dolls. It’s like they’ve shrunk real people, tore off their faces and glued them onto dolls 😭 every time! Why don’t they ever make the bodies realistic??
It's not even that. It's like they caught real people off guard. Mid sneeze on laundry day mid heat wave. These are not average people on even a neutral time in their lives.
I’ll never understand why celebrities aren’t more involved in the creation process of their dolls - I’d be all up in their faces, making sure my doll is pretty 🤣
No matter if it's a doll, an action figure, or a 1/6th scale collectable figure from Hot Toys, face likeness is always hit or miss. Sometimes the face looks nothing like the person and sometimes it looks like the person but only from certain angles and lighting. Even the best and most expensive figures/dolls will have something about their face that is just not quite right. I'm not sure why this is the case but I haven't come across a figure based on a celebrity that got the face 100 percent accurate. So even if you were heavily involved with the production of a doll version of you, it's likely going to end up with likeness issues.
the other issue i notice is the body proportions don't match, if you're going for a realistic face you can't take unrealistic body proportions! fashion dolls are extremely stylized and that includes the bodies. and i realize they're not going to always invent new body shapes for a single doll, but then that means they gotta start designing the head for the body as well. also like. molded laugh lines are something that just isn't typical of dolls. we're used to the flat faced smiles, to add that much depth adds age! they need to remember to do a stylized version of the person they're modeling after, not to force realism onto a stylized canvas -- doll repainters might be able to accomplish it, but they do it with shading and detail that is not going to be feasible with screenprinting!
I was nodding along like "yeah that's not great, yeah that looks pretty rough" and then you got to the Ashley Tisdale dolls and I literally recoiled from my screen and went "augh" out loud. Oh that's SO bad and uncanny and I feel so bad for her as well as any child who was gifted one of those dolls.
Well I’m the case of Emma Eatson it’s an actual 3D scan of her head used to make the sculpt. It’s a technology that JAKKS a has used on dolls an action figures since their Charlie’s Angels dolls in the early 2000s
Just saw the Bindi Irwin doll for the first time the other day, and have to assume the only reason she is not on your list is because you haven't seen her. Not only it is the ugliest, most horrifying doll, the fact that it was of a child who then had to do promos with it is just heartbreaking. Every kid is self-conscious about their features, to the point I can't imagine Bindi even wanted to be made into a doll, but then to be told "this doll is a likeness of you, this is how we see you" when the doll is the maybe the worst caricature of her appearance, must be devastating. Mattel celebrity doll fails really annoy me since there are so many head sculpts already in their library that they just need to master the face paint, but then they go and create a new monstrosity instead.
I think a lot of these used face-scanning to match the face shape of the actresses (which is why when you see doll repaints where they put meticulous detail and effort into the paint it looks very accurate). A telltale sign of it is cheekbones and "apples of cheeks" you can see those looking really pronounced in the Emma Watson and Hillary Duff dolls. I know that the face scanning became popular when Buffy had a line of collectable dolls and Sarah Michelle Geller wasn't satisfied with the first wave of dolls that weren't using face scanning, making the later waves more accurate and authentic to the actors. With a lazy paintjob or low-effort quality control on making sure the face actually looks like the actress the overly detailed face shape with printing that doesn't match is why we get things like pretty actresses looking terrible in doll form. The Kylie Minogue one is so tragic, someone needs to give those dolls a worthy face paint job like Hextian or Poppen Atelier cause the face scan was good but the eye print and flat makeup look so terrible.
Theres actually a very veteran doll repainter who's done this before. Noel Cruz, though I dont know if he still does repaints. But he has a pretty large portfolio and his repaints are crazy good.
@@DH-gq7bm he was who I was thinking about when I thought about the way the Emma repaint utilized the fact they used a scan. He made it look just like the real Emma when he did the paint job.
SO THAT'S WHAT I FOUND.. A few years back my sibling and I were at a thrift store and I went to the toy area in hopes of finding some good dolls. In the pile of barbies there was THAT- the Baby Spice doll. I swear we were cry laughing for a good 20-30 minutes cuz we had never seen a doll that ugly before
in 2004, at probably the height of my Bratz obsession, one of the main popstars in my country got a doll made, and I loved that pop star, but even back then as a kid I could tell that doll was TERRIBLE and did her SUCH a disservice. The body was tiny, and the head was GIGANTIC. And her face.... oof. Anyway, it was a huge deal in my country because people here don't get dolls made of them. Now it's just kind of an iconic relic of the early 2000s in my house. The fashion was actually really good too. Just... that face.... *shudder*
Mattel has an impecable record on celebritie dolls when it comes to Cher; all of her dolls are gorgeous and, of course, dressed by Bob Makie. i think that celebrities should go with proper doll making companies like Paris Hilton working with MGA to make her doll.
@@KitschHanthekin she Is gorgeous!! I have to get another because i love her so much! But just the doll nude, tho!! Here, in México, she Is a Little expensive!
@@porfiriodiazcarrillo7551 I got really lucky, I found mine at a pop shelf for like $5!!! It was sooo crazy but I am really grateful to have it because she’s one of my favorite pop stars.
Most of the dolls made for celebrities are made as vanity projects and those are more likely made by smaller toy companies because larger companies like Mattel would hold no interest in making the dolls.
i'm french, in the 70's-arly 80's Mattel made a doll of a french singer for kids named Chantal Goya. her face was actually nicely resembling and soft as far as i can see on photos. decades later, Mattel also made another doll of a french iconic singer Johnny Halliday. despite the guy himself being ugly, the doll was also pretty resembling and not uncanny looking. i think the "toned down" reproduction of the traits is the key to a good celebrity doll. the Margot Robbie doll, on the other hand.... i prefer when doll artists repaint her. still the sculpt is not at fault, only the factory paint is.
I started watching the nanny around two years ago. I fell in love with the whole show. I love Fran so much. Her personality is so fun and she's just soo stunning and beautiful (and still is). It's my ultimate comfort show now. So when I heard there were fashion dolls I was so excited. Then I googled them. Oh the horror. It's the worst one for me cuz it felt like a personal attack. Still really want all of them just for her clothes in doll scale. She's my fashion icon.
I JUST unearthed my old singing Victoria Justice doll... she's so bad. She looks like a middle-aged PTA mom instead of a teenager -- I don't know why they had to do that to her lol. Awesome video as always!!
This is surprising but I saw the Addison Rae doll in store and she wasn’t nearly as ugly in person. Also I have a Britney doll and she is a little creepy.
I was shocked when you mentioned Huckleberry made the Ashley dolls because oh my god are they hideous! But what really shocked me is HuckleBerry also made the Gwen Stefani doll line (which i happen to own a few of) and they’re actually really good. So to find out they made Ashley’s dolls in comparison to Gwen, my jaw was on the floor.
The only celebrity dolls I own are the BTS Prestige dolls. I don't really listen to BTS much but the dolls were just so nice I couldn't resist them. The faces are actually fairly accurate without being weird or creepy and the clothes are really pretty and detailed (the basic line not so much). Its like they made them to fit in amongst other Barbie dolls, like they had a Barbiefication ray-gun and zapped BTS with it! I feel like that's the key to a good celebrity doll. Its not about getting a perfect likeness but about creating a caricature in a style that works with dolls.
Thanks for the very enjoyable and funny video on these ugly dolls. I still have PTSD from my childhood in the 1970’s when I think of the Mego Farrah Fawcett and Cher dolls that they made. So ugly. I think they also made a Linda Carter Wonder Woman doll that was also very ugly. I remember seeing these doll on the shelves and being legitimately scared of them. Anyway, look them up when you get a chance. Thanks again for your great videos!
@@CykeMonkey Those Mego WW action figures were awesome, though-- if you had a ton of Breyer horses and you wanted a scale figure who could spread her legs! lol!
I absolutely cried laughing at this video, I thought the worst was over but they we got to my queen also, Ashley Tisdale. Why’d they do her like that? Ps, her cover of Kiss The Girl is A*
One of the main reasons the marvel and live- action Beauty and the Beast dolls looked so bad is that they were using 3D scanned shrunken molds of the actors rather than having someone sculpt a simplified doll-proportioned face mold. Having all of the very specific bone structure and irregularities of a human face shrunken down with no painted shading or the correctly proportioned bodies slams you hard in the uncanny valley.
No, on the Emma Watson, the facial proportions are wrong. Their 3D scanner got her face too long and narrow, her jaw too heavy, her eyes too close together ... It's wrong.
I went to the local closeout sale when Toys R Us went under and they had a whole shelf of Emma Watson Belle. Completely empty unit except for her. no one wanted them even at knockdown clearance prices.
There was this very popular kids girl group in my country called K3 and they had in my opinion one of the worst doll lines to exist. Horrifying. If I was allowed to get something from the toy store when I was little, my mom would basically say ‘just please not those.’ I’m so glad she prevented them from entering the house lol.
Omg part-way through the video I was like "what would happen if you scanned a person's face and scaled it down to doll size?" And then my question was answered a almost immediately! Wonderful and unfortunate, thank you!
I thought FOR SURE the Gwen Stefani doll line was going to be on this list. 😂 As for my favorite celeb dolls…the Integrity Toys Trixie Mattel, the Cher dolls Mattel produced in the early 2000s, and Zomby Gaga from Monster High.
While your more educational videos are literally a service to the entire doll community, you don't always have to make informative videos. Sometimes it's more than enough to just point out a bunch of pictures of uggo lil dolls and let us laugh our heads off at them. This was a super fun vid
The wild thing about the Lizzie McGuire dolls is that i could easily see a company doing doll styled like Lizzie's little animated doodle self from the intro to the episodes because its so cartoony
Around 2004 the Icelandic singer birgitta haukdal came out with her own celebrity doll. It is the literal thing of nightmares. I used to own one because at that time I was friends with her niece and she gave one to everyone who came to her birthday celebration because they weren’t selling _:(´ཀ`」 ∠):
The live-action Cinderella movie doll was pretty bad too. Creeped me out. I will admit, I bought the Addison dolls on clearance cause I wanted the accessories. Her shoes fit my Maxie doll, which is what I had hoped.
I was a 90’s kid, so I’ve seen the Brittany Spears, Spice Girls and the Charlie’s Angels (the one with Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz and Drew Berrymore) celebrity dolls. But yeah, these dolls be; U-G-L-Y, you ain’t got no alibi! 😂
the closest i ever had to a celebrity doll was the hannah montana dolls and the sharpay evans doll as a kid. i tried to add mascara to sharpay with pen and then i tried to scratch it off, then cover it up with nude nail polish... rip to her
I had a Brandy doll. She was gorgeous and the first Black doll I ever had so she was special to me. I also had a Britney doll!! She was amazing too but I hated that I was given the short hair doll. I remember being so mad about it 😂 I wish I could find her though 😭
I honestly can’t tell you how many Mary Kate and Ashley dolls I have. I loved using them as the younger teen doll. They were my go to for a different body type thing growing up.
Totally off-topic: Your background/room would have been 5 year old me’s dream on what being rich and famous was all about: having all the cool dolls lol. I love it.
High School Musical. I had Troy, Sharpay and Gabriella. They were just generic looking Barbie dolls, but Sharpay’s was way better than whatever those demon were.
My understanding is that the vinyl shrinks during curing and sculptors need to keep that in mind to get the proportions right. So, as you said, you need experienced people making these molds. Unpopular opinion: I don't care for the Margot Robbie Barbie sculpt and wish they'd used the Superstar sculpt instead. To me, it only looks good after having been repainted. 🤷♀️
I have the Disney store Black Widow doll and I actually don't mind her hair. It was crazy crunchy with gel when I got it out of the box but once I washed it, it's actually really nice and super soft lol. But I feel like those dolls were made more to be like fancy action figures vs dolls (so hair play isn't a thing) so it's kind of weird they used the same hair method for the Belles.
I had those New York Minute Mary-Kate and Ashley ones, and the Lindsay Lohan MyScene one. I loved all three of them so much. So many memories when you showed them.
That is why I am more into action figures. There are also bad ones, but generally the "model human" comes out pretty good. The only celebrity doll as such that I own is a Disney Store Bo Katan. But as that is the animated version, it works and she looks really good. I considered the Black Widow in black or white several times, but something just did not sit quite right with me. I think it is the general mismatch between the too large heads and the dainty fashion doll bodies.
The WWE action figures for the women can be pretty hit and miss, especially back in the day. I get that she was sculpted to look like she was in motion, but Final Count Trish Stratus just looks super drunk 🤣
Part two, please! I would like to see some celebrity dolls of the 1970's and 1980's, too. Even if you don't have the dolls themselves, photos of them from those time periods could be used instead. I had a Wonder Woman doll that looked nothing like Lynda Carter, a set of the original Charlie's Angels, and a Cheryl Ladd doll made by Mattel. I did not find them ugly, but for some reason, did not look exactly like these celebrities (3D scanning technology was not invented yet)
I was JUST looking at some Addison Rae dolls that were in the clearance aisle at Walmart, that had been marked down about four times. I know nothing about her, but good lord. I'd be so insulted.
I think the Dorothy doll is adorable! The Wizard of Oz was my favourite movie as a kid. I’d have loved a doll like that but alas they stopped making them decades before.
IMO, if the celebrity doll isn’t made by Mattel, it’s usually not worth it. I remember as a kid thinking the Spice Girls Dolls were so cool and assumed Mattel made them, cause they were also sold in the Barbie aisle. Then when I saw them as an adult, I was put off by how harsh their faces looked and realized they were made by a different company. Same with the Britney Spears doll. They seem kind of cheap, with shorter arms and stubbier torsos with more angular high-heeled feet, as opposed to Barbie’s more graceful arches. But I’m assuming that’s because they can’t use Mattel’s patented bodies. Mattel’s face molds are very versatile. I remember the Heidi Klum doll looking very spot-on, and it only uses a Generation Girl head mold. The Brandy doll also looks very good (no surprise, it’s by Mattel).
THE ASHLEY TISDALE DOLLS SENT ME FLYING OH MY GODDDD i was watching this video thinking there was no WAY youd know about them!!!! i still have the not like that ashley doll somewhere in my basement and she scared me even as a kid, even if they vaguely looked like ashley there was always something uncanny about them!! my mom was always like “you can use her for sharpay” bc i liked high school musical but she was too scary to be sharpay so id always use a hannah montana doll to fill in 😭 i remember barely playing with her, i only played with her when one of my parents was like “dont you like this doll” or whatever. thank you for helping me remember this doll and THANK YOU for vindicating my feelings towards the ashley tisdale doll line
I have a strong contender for this list: the Dayanara Torres doll from 1994. For those unfamiliar, Dayanara Torres was Miss Universe 1993 and would later become an actress, singer, model and writer. The doll came with a music box that played some of her songs and also the dress that she wore when she won the Miss Universe crown. Again I want to reiterate that this woman was crowned the most beautiful on Earth and her doll was so ugly that my family constantly made fun of me for having her in my collection 💀
Can you do another video like this, but showcasing good Celebrity dolls? There's one that comes to mind. They market their characters as action figures, but theu have rooted hair and real clothes and could be classified as dolls, but there's a company that put out a line of dolls that I think was called Asylum Ultimate Series. They made dolls of rock/metal singers that look absolutely stunning. I own their Rob Zombie doll and he is absolutely gorgeous!
not on that scale, but one of the funniest things for me was walking into a popular toystore here in Poland and seeing dolls of polish youtubers. the line is called InfluHeroes and it's not the worst in quality (dolls have basic joints and the facemolds are simple in style, no creepy realism here), but it's very funny they exist because I've never heard of any of these people before
I wanna know your opinion on the Margo Robbie Barbie! She's my first doll ever, and while I dont think they got her likeness 100%, she's still very cute imo. I've seen some repaints and restyles on insta that are just incredible!
I remember becoming a Mixer (Little Mix fan), around 2016-2017. When I'd seen they had dolls, I was excited. Since Jade was my favorite (seeing as we have the same skin tone, and she was the one that made me start liking them in the first place), I wanted to get her doll. As soon as I saw it, I internally went "Oh my god, what is that?!" and clicked off. Like, why is her skin grey, she's Arab for heck's sake. Jesy's having a slimmer build when at that time she was a tad chubby (and at that time was consistently belittled and shamed for not being as slim as the other 3), was also a war crime in my honest opinion. Leigh-Anne looks... nothing like herself, and Perrie... idk man. I know my girls, but THOSE were imposters. I'm just glad the Margot Robbie Barbie's and Elvira MH doll were done beautifully (Cassandra Peterson, Elvira, was behind the creative process).
i had a cinderella doll when i was little (nothing crazy fancy it was just a plain baby blue dress with that blonde hair idk if it was disney branded, barbie, smth else idk) and it was honestly very pretty despite being pretty plain and having a standard barbie-esque face. i wish i still had it idk if i got rid of it or it’s laying around in a bin somewhere in my house😭
Nobody knows of the unspeakable horrors that were the B*Witched singing dolls from the late 90s or 2000. For those who don’t know, they were a short lived girl group from Ireland. They were even briefly featured in the DCOM Smart House. Anyway, my mom got me one of the dolls for Easter, I think. I forget her name, but she was the leader of the group, and good LORDT they did her so DIRTY. If you thought these dolls were horrendous, they pale in comparison to this line of dolls. Even as a child I thought the doll was terrifying. I felt bad for my mom, but I really don’t know what she thought when she bought this doll for me. My guess was that she knew I liked B*Witched, knew I liked the Britney Spears dolls, so she may have figured I would probably like this doll. Not to mention it was on sale, I’m sure 😅 take the Sporty Spice doll from the ugly Spice Girls doll line here, the Ashley Tisdale doll, and throw in the uncanny, manly Emma Watson doll, and you have this cursed relic from the past. Truly a crime against humanity and the girls from B*Witched
I personally would give the older dolls a pass since the face scanning technology for dolls at that time wasn't that good yet. but the dolls from the year 2000 and onwards have no excuse to be that bad
I think the Spice Girl Dolls were my favorite. I had some and I loved how different and unique they were when at the time I was only familiar with Barbie,
I never understood the face sculpt versions of celebrity dolls instead of going the route that Mattel took with the Halle 'The Little Mermaid' dolls, it's so much better when you take some artistic liberties and go for the slightly unrealistic look. It's amazing how they can do an entire face sculpt and it'll look LESS like the actual person. The only celeb dollI owned as a kid was the Brandy one, other than that though, I never was into them because while I'd be excited about the concept, once I got in the store and saw them face to face, their ugliness turned me off so badly.
The Kylie dolls look like they have potential in the hands of a skilled repainter. Fran Drescher deserves to have an amazing doll, with lots and lots of her iconic outfits (pleaseeee)
Speaking of Ashley Tisdale dolls, I got the HSM Sharpey doll as a kid. When it came time to pack up my Barbies cause I wasn’t playing with them anymore (I do still have them, they are waiting for me to have kids of my own!), I could not imagine totally giving up Sharpey. It was right around Christmas and my mom had knitted this clothes line of tiny Santa and Mrs. Claus outfits, so I convinced her to let me dress Sharpey in the Mrs. Claus outfit, and she remains a part of our Christmas decorations to this day
i have a mego farrah fawcett doll from the 70s i found at goodwill once. i have.. very mixed feelings about her?? her head sculpt is clearly trying to go for realism and again i want to give them credit for trying..? it reminds me of the mona lisa though, as i can’t quite tell what she’s thinking. like, she was notoriously beautiful and had a fantastic smile but the doll, it looks anywhere between a fake half smile and an all out grimace. the doll has rooted lashes as well which like,, i mean i’ll give them credit for the effort i guess bc that would’ve taken a lot of work. to me i think the worst of it is the hands, she has longer nails that feel a lot more like claws honestly?? i’ve grown attached to her though, if i’m being completely honest. the one i have came with a dress from the cher dolls mego made that’s honestly gorgeous, it has an embroidered bird of paradise on it!and i feel like at the very least mego did cher at least a little better but like, i feel like with some tlc (and maybe a tiny bit of sandpaper) i can really get this farrah doll back into a nice spot 😅
The Mego Farrah Fawcett doll is a good buy so long as you got her at a cheap price in used played with condition since the ones for sale on EBay that are still new in box or never removed from box usually have the melted joints at the shoulders sometimes and especially at the hip joints where there is a melting that occurs over time especially when they are stored in a hot and humid environment or room like an attic or a garage. They usually have melt mark stains on their outfits in the groin and back of hips area and their outfits are normally stuck and like glued to their bodies. Their joints can be stiff and locked from never being moved and posed despite their hair and heads being in clean new condition still. At least with buying one in used played with condition her joints have been moved and posed so you can still sometimes pose all or most of her joints. These doll's are almost 50 years old so their plastic and vinyl or rubber that they're made of is going to deteriorate over that length of time as expected. Did you buy her this year or had her a few years?
@@Ken-vk8pb i actually only found her a few months ago! she does appear to have some melting around the shoulders but they work just fine, luckily her dress hasn’t been affected too badly either!
@@celebrityguest.9530 You got a great deal on her then especially finding one at Goodwill. If you buy them online in used condition they are usually priced between $30 to $50 depending on condition but new in box is usually much higher priced at close to $100 or more.
I have never had any of the dolls mentioned in this video, but I have heard of Playmates Toys, since they are the company that made the Billie Eilish Dolls.
i LOVE that you mentioned shirley temple dolls, however briefly - i got an old copy of doll news at a thrift store once when i was younger, and it had an article about shirley dolls, and they have held a weird and wonderful place in my heart since. i have my late great aunt's beloved collector shirley temple doll and she's special to me
7:37 Before you mentioned the Dorothy doll's hair, I was thinking it's not that bad. When you said it has real human hair I thought "Hell no, that thing is haunted"
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Half of these face sculpts look like political cartoons but in 3D. So cursed.
STOP THAT'S TOO ACCURATE 😭😭
Also with the oversized head of the last one and the tiny body, this reminds me of a political satire comic about Angela Merkel and some other politician that I once saw online… 🥲
True!!!!!
omg they do, thats the perfect comparison
Like those Sid Croft puppets in the 80s
Moral of the story: don’t EVER try making a doll look “too realistic” or it will end up looking terrifying and haunting like Emma watsons belle doll.. _shudders_
Exactly, it's an "uncanny valley" problem. Those "reborn" dolls made to look like realistic babies have the same vibe. I prefer the werewolf pup dolls, they are realistic but creepy in an intentional & fun way.
If I were a doll repainter I would get Emma Watson's doll head to make Justin Bieber
Nah, there's doll customizers on here who do great realistic faces on dolls.
Action figures look fine most of the time.
These just feel like one of those alibaba 3d print your friends companies made them.
Also, reborn dolle are supposed to be for grieving families mostly, they're not really supposed to be cute or appealing.
Only action figures should look realistic from the face
Don't try to make them evil God statues
This is exactly why I was happy Disney made their limited edition Hocus Pocus dolls have cartoony faces. They look so cute and charming. Meanwhile, most dolls based on real people are just hideously uncanny
@@skyyblushThe Ariel and her sisters dolls are so beautifully made. Mattel did a really great job capturing their likeness without being too realistic looking
I really want those dolls but I'm afraid they're gonna be too expensive
@@haleyhersh3850 I think they are slowly dissappearing from the shelves. So it might be possible that the sisters set would be so expensive especially on ebay where all the scalpers are there.
The Spice Girl dolls having a speech bubble on their box saying "try me" feels like a threat with those face moulds
You're right. It appears as if they are provoking me. And I fear that the dolls' combined power is more than my own.
Eeeeek! My bread and butter. I’ve said this so many times: one of the reasons celebrity dolls don’t work is because they’re imprinting a real person’s face onto a doll. These are DOLLS. As in, stylised human beings (for the most part). I think to get the perfect celeb doll, you need to strike a balance between the celebrity’s likeness while also stylising the features. Emma Watson’s doll is SCARY. That little girl yammering about “witchcraft dolls” should take a look at her😭
The best celebrity dolls are the stylized ones! Like the myscene Lindsay Lohan or the 2023 little mermaid dolls from Mattel are great examples, they look similar enough to the celebrities but still stylized like a doll. After so many failures of celeb dolls looking haunting, I can’t understand why companies still try making them look “real” 😭
Zomby Gaga was awesome, too.
The people who let that Emma Watson doll into production need a intervention
They could look really good, but the paintjob would be so expensive and complex it wouldn't be worth it. Theres a guy Noel Cruz who repaints celebrity dolls to their actors' likeliness and they look incredibly good. He'll show the before too, so you can see how terrible they looked before.
@@screamingbanshee1282 they should be studied, tbh. I wanna know the psychology behind such an idea, and what made them truly think that…that _thing_ was an acceptable doll to release
The childcare center I went to after school when I was a kid had a lot of these ugly celebrity dolls (basically all the ones from the late 90's early 00's). I am 100% certain they got donated (or strategically left there) by some parent who needed to get rid of a disappointing christmas/birthday present FAST. I think there were like 3 regular Barbies and 2 of the spice girls that kids WANTED to play with and it was warfare during playtime to get a good one.
Oh man this unlocked my memory of loving only half of the Spice Girls dolls lmao nooo
I clearly remember going through the entire shelf and studying all the Spice dolls to find those that most resembled their real counterparts
I really cannot stand realistic faces on dolls. It’s like they’ve shrunk real people, tore off their faces and glued them onto dolls 😭 every time! Why don’t they ever make the bodies realistic??
It's not even that. It's like they caught real people off guard. Mid sneeze on laundry day mid heat wave. These are not average people on even a neutral time in their lives.
I’ll never understand why celebrities aren’t more involved in the creation process of their dolls - I’d be all up in their faces, making sure my doll is pretty 🤣
No matter if it's a doll, an action figure, or a 1/6th scale collectable figure from Hot Toys, face likeness is always hit or miss. Sometimes the face looks nothing like the person and sometimes it looks like the person but only from certain angles and lighting. Even the best and most expensive figures/dolls will have something about their face that is just not quite right. I'm not sure why this is the case but I haven't come across a figure based on a celebrity that got the face 100 percent accurate. So even if you were heavily involved with the production of a doll version of you, it's likely going to end up with likeness issues.
Ashley Tisdale is interesting in that she simultaneously had VERY pretty dolls via Sharpay's HSM ones so how did that happen?!
Well HSM was made by Mattel and the other ones were not.
the other issue i notice is the body proportions don't match, if you're going for a realistic face you can't take unrealistic body proportions! fashion dolls are extremely stylized and that includes the bodies. and i realize they're not going to always invent new body shapes for a single doll, but then that means they gotta start designing the head for the body as well.
also like. molded laugh lines are something that just isn't typical of dolls. we're used to the flat faced smiles, to add that much depth adds age!
they need to remember to do a stylized version of the person they're modeling after, not to force realism onto a stylized canvas -- doll repainters might be able to accomplish it, but they do it with shading and detail that is not going to be feasible with screenprinting!
I was nodding along like "yeah that's not great, yeah that looks pretty rough" and then you got to the Ashley Tisdale dolls and I literally recoiled from my screen and went "augh" out loud. Oh that's SO bad and uncanny and I feel so bad for her as well as any child who was gifted one of those dolls.
it’s so funny how these dolls somehow manage to still kinda look like them even though they’re actual jump scares
Well I’m the case of Emma Eatson it’s an actual 3D scan of her head used to make the sculpt. It’s a technology that JAKKS a has used on dolls an action figures since their Charlie’s Angels dolls in the early 2000s
Just saw the Bindi Irwin doll for the first time the other day, and have to assume the only reason she is not on your list is because you haven't seen her. Not only it is the ugliest, most horrifying doll, the fact that it was of a child who then had to do promos with it is just heartbreaking. Every kid is self-conscious about their features, to the point I can't imagine Bindi even wanted to be made into a doll, but then to be told "this doll is a likeness of you, this is how we see you" when the doll is the maybe the worst caricature of her appearance, must be devastating. Mattel celebrity doll fails really annoy me since there are so many head sculpts already in their library that they just need to master the face paint, but then they go and create a new monstrosity instead.
The Posh Spice doll looks like the evil British schoolmaster in a whimsical movie series about a boarding school
Okay I literally thought 'headteacher' when I saw her. There must be something in it
I think Mattel is the best in the business when it comes to making celeb dolls. Their Halle Bailey dolls were PHENOMENAL!!! Better than Disney's
I think a lot of these used face-scanning to match the face shape of the actresses (which is why when you see doll repaints where they put meticulous detail and effort into the paint it looks very accurate). A telltale sign of it is cheekbones and "apples of cheeks" you can see those looking really pronounced in the Emma Watson and Hillary Duff dolls. I know that the face scanning became popular when Buffy had a line of collectable dolls and Sarah Michelle Geller wasn't satisfied with the first wave of dolls that weren't using face scanning, making the later waves more accurate and authentic to the actors. With a lazy paintjob or low-effort quality control on making sure the face actually looks like the actress the overly detailed face shape with printing that doesn't match is why we get things like pretty actresses looking terrible in doll form. The Kylie Minogue one is so tragic, someone needs to give those dolls a worthy face paint job like Hextian or Poppen Atelier cause the face scan was good but the eye print and flat makeup look so terrible.
Theres actually a very veteran doll repainter who's done this before. Noel Cruz, though I dont know if he still does repaints. But he has a pretty large portfolio and his repaints are crazy good.
@@DH-gq7bm he was who I was thinking about when I thought about the way the Emma repaint utilized the fact they used a scan. He made it look just like the real Emma when he did the paint job.
SO THAT'S WHAT I FOUND.. A few years back my sibling and I were at a thrift store and I went to the toy area in hopes of finding some good dolls. In the pile of barbies there was THAT- the Baby Spice doll. I swear we were cry laughing for a good 20-30 minutes cuz we had never seen a doll that ugly before
in 2004, at probably the height of my Bratz obsession, one of the main popstars in my country got a doll made, and I loved that pop star, but even back then as a kid I could tell that doll was TERRIBLE and did her SUCH a disservice. The body was tiny, and the head was GIGANTIC. And her face.... oof. Anyway, it was a huge deal in my country because people here don't get dolls made of them. Now it's just kind of an iconic relic of the early 2000s in my house. The fashion was actually really good too. Just... that face.... *shudder*
i need to see a picture (not really but really)
What country?
Who?
Image search "Birgitta Haukdal dúkka" if you're curious
Hahaha no way!
Mattel has an impecable record on celebritie dolls when it comes to Cher; all of her dolls are gorgeous and, of course, dressed by Bob Makie. i think that celebrities should go with proper doll making companies like Paris Hilton working with MGA to make her doll.
Ooooh I LOVE the RH Paris!! It’s on my wishlist
@@KitschHanthekin she Is gorgeous!! I have to get another because i love her so much! But just the doll nude, tho!! Here, in México, she Is a Little expensive!
@@porfiriodiazcarrillo7551 I got really lucky, I found mine at a pop shelf for like $5!!! It was sooo crazy but I am really grateful to have it because she’s one of my favorite pop stars.
Most of the dolls made for celebrities are made as vanity projects and those are more likely made by smaller toy companies because larger companies like Mattel would hold no interest in making the dolls.
This could almost count as a Halloween special, with how scary some of these dolls are
i'm french, in the 70's-arly 80's Mattel made a doll of a french singer for kids named Chantal Goya. her face was actually nicely resembling and soft as far as i can see on photos. decades later, Mattel also made another doll of a french iconic singer Johnny Halliday. despite the guy himself being ugly, the doll was also pretty resembling and not uncanny looking. i think the "toned down" reproduction of the traits is the key to a good celebrity doll. the Margot Robbie doll, on the other hand.... i prefer when doll artists repaint her. still the sculpt is not at fault, only the factory paint is.
I laughed so hard with your concern for Ashley Tisdale's doll
I started watching the nanny around two years ago. I fell in love with the whole show. I love Fran so much. Her personality is so fun and she's just soo stunning and beautiful (and still is). It's my ultimate comfort show now. So when I heard there were fashion dolls I was so excited. Then I googled them. Oh the horror. It's the worst one for me cuz it felt like a personal attack. Still really want all of them just for her clothes in doll scale. She's my fashion icon.
I JUST unearthed my old singing Victoria Justice doll... she's so bad. She looks like a middle-aged PTA mom instead of a teenager -- I don't know why they had to do that to her lol. Awesome video as always!!
I'm still traumatized by the cancelled Lady Gaga MGA dolls, they were so wrong for keeping those from us
This is surprising but I saw the Addison Rae doll in store and she wasn’t nearly as ugly in person. Also I have a Britney doll and she is a little creepy.
I think the real crime of the Addison Rae doll is it’s just boring.
I was shocked when you mentioned Huckleberry made the Ashley dolls because oh my god are they hideous! But what really shocked me is HuckleBerry also made the Gwen Stefani doll line (which i happen to own a few of) and they’re actually really good. So to find out they made Ashley’s dolls in comparison to Gwen, my jaw was on the floor.
The fact that these girly pops are…crawling…screeching…on the ceilings of Barbie land really warms my heart ❤
The only celebrity dolls I own are the BTS Prestige dolls. I don't really listen to BTS much but the dolls were just so nice I couldn't resist them. The faces are actually fairly accurate without being weird or creepy and the clothes are really pretty and detailed (the basic line not so much). Its like they made them to fit in amongst other Barbie dolls, like they had a Barbiefication ray-gun and zapped BTS with it! I feel like that's the key to a good celebrity doll. Its not about getting a perfect likeness but about creating a caricature in a style that works with dolls.
I'M SO GLAD I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE FREAKED OUT BY THE EMMA WATSON ONE
I saw it in the stores and It spooked me 😭💀
Thanks for the very enjoyable and funny video on these ugly dolls. I still have PTSD from my childhood in the 1970’s when I think of the Mego Farrah Fawcett and Cher dolls that they made. So ugly. I think they also made a Linda Carter Wonder Woman doll that was also very ugly. I remember seeing these doll on the shelves and being legitimately scared of them. Anyway, look them up when you get a chance. Thanks again for your great videos!
GIRL, THE CHILDREN DON'T KNOW, THE TERROR WAS REAL.
As an action figure person and a die hard Wonder Woman fan, I felt the pain of an ugly Lynda Carter Wonder Woman doll.
@@CykeMonkey Those Mego WW action figures were awesome, though-- if you had a ton of Breyer horses and you wanted a scale figure who could spread her legs! lol!
I absolutely cried laughing at this video, I thought the worst was over but they we got to my queen also, Ashley Tisdale. Why’d they do her like that? Ps, her cover of Kiss The Girl is A*
You should check out Pamela Anderson's Baywatch doll... Whoever designed it must have been terribly jealous of her beauty
One of the main reasons the marvel and live- action Beauty and the Beast dolls looked so bad is that they were using 3D scanned shrunken molds of the actors rather than having someone sculpt a simplified doll-proportioned face mold. Having all of the very specific bone structure and irregularities of a human face shrunken down with no painted shading or the correctly proportioned bodies slams you hard in the uncanny valley.
No, on the Emma Watson, the facial proportions are wrong. Their 3D scanner got her face too long and narrow, her jaw too heavy, her eyes too close together ... It's wrong.
I went to the local closeout sale when Toys R Us went under and they had a whole shelf of Emma Watson Belle. Completely empty unit except for her. no one wanted them even at knockdown clearance prices.
There was this very popular kids girl group in my country called K3 and they had in my opinion one of the worst doll lines to exist. Horrifying. If I was allowed to get something from the toy store when I was little, my mom would basically say ‘just please not those.’ I’m so glad she prevented them from entering the house lol.
Omg part-way through the video I was like "what would happen if you scanned a person's face and scaled it down to doll size?" And then my question was answered a almost immediately! Wonderful and unfortunate, thank you!
You should check out the doll painter Noel Cruz. He repaints doll faces and makes awesome celebrity dolls.
I thought FOR SURE the Gwen Stefani doll line was going to be on this list. 😂
As for my favorite celeb dolls…the Integrity Toys Trixie Mattel, the Cher dolls Mattel produced in the early 2000s, and Zomby Gaga from Monster High.
While your more educational videos are literally a service to the entire doll community, you don't always have to make informative videos. Sometimes it's more than enough to just point out a bunch of pictures of uggo lil dolls and let us laugh our heads off at them. This was a super fun vid
The Paris Hilton and Halle Bailey as the little mermaid dolls are great.
The wild thing about the Lizzie McGuire dolls is that i could easily see a company doing doll styled like Lizzie's little animated doodle self from the intro to the episodes because its so cartoony
Around 2004 the Icelandic singer birgitta haukdal came out with her own celebrity doll.
It is the literal thing of nightmares.
I used to own one because at that time I was friends with her niece and she gave one to everyone who came to her birthday celebration because they weren’t selling _:(´ཀ`」 ∠):
I just looked this one up and gasped out loud in horror. I think she trumps all the ones in this video.
The live-action Cinderella movie doll was pretty bad too. Creeped me out. I will admit, I bought the Addison dolls on clearance cause I wanted the accessories. Her shoes fit my Maxie doll, which is what I had hoped.
I was a 90’s kid, so I’ve seen the Brittany Spears, Spice Girls and the Charlie’s Angels (the one with Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz and Drew Berrymore) celebrity dolls. But yeah, these dolls be; U-G-L-Y, you ain’t got no alibi! 😂
the closest i ever had to a celebrity doll was the hannah montana dolls and the sharpay evans doll as a kid. i tried to add mascara to sharpay with pen and then i tried to scratch it off, then cover it up with nude nail polish... rip to her
I had a Brandy doll. She was gorgeous and the first Black doll I ever had so she was special to me. I also had a Britney doll!! She was amazing too but I hated that I was given the short hair doll. I remember being so mad about it 😂 I wish I could find her though 😭
I honestly can’t tell you how many Mary Kate and Ashley dolls I have. I loved using them as the younger teen doll. They were my go to for a different body type thing growing up.
Totally off-topic: Your background/room would have been 5 year old me’s dream on what being rich and famous was all about: having all the cool dolls lol.
I love it.
High School Musical. I had Troy, Sharpay and Gabriella. They were just generic looking Barbie dolls, but Sharpay’s was way better than whatever those demon were.
My understanding is that the vinyl shrinks during curing and sculptors need to keep that in mind to get the proportions right. So, as you said, you need experienced people making these molds. Unpopular opinion: I don't care for the Margot Robbie Barbie sculpt and wish they'd used the Superstar sculpt instead. To me, it only looks good after having been repainted. 🤷♀️
That Beauty and The Beast Emma doll…oh no.
Knuckles: Oh no!
I have the Disney store Black Widow doll and I actually don't mind her hair. It was crazy crunchy with gel when I got it out of the box but once I washed it, it's actually really nice and super soft lol. But I feel like those dolls were made more to be like fancy action figures vs dolls (so hair play isn't a thing) so it's kind of weird they used the same hair method for the Belles.
I had those New York Minute Mary-Kate and Ashley ones, and the Lindsay Lohan MyScene one. I loved all three of them so much.
So many memories when you showed them.
That is why I am more into action figures. There are also bad ones, but generally the "model human" comes out pretty good. The only celebrity doll as such that I own is a Disney Store Bo Katan. But as that is the animated version, it works and she looks really good.
I considered the Black Widow in black or white several times, but something just did not sit quite right with me. I think it is the general mismatch between the too large heads and the dainty fashion doll bodies.
The WWE action figures for the women can be pretty hit and miss, especially back in the day. I get that she was sculpted to look like she was in motion, but Final Count Trish Stratus just looks super drunk 🤣
Part two, please! I would like to see some celebrity dolls of the 1970's and 1980's, too. Even if you don't have the dolls themselves, photos of them from those time periods could be used instead. I had a Wonder Woman doll that looked nothing like Lynda Carter, a set of the original Charlie's Angels, and a Cheryl Ladd doll made by Mattel. I did not find them ugly, but for some reason, did not look exactly like these celebrities (3D scanning technology was not invented yet)
why does the "i talk try me" sounds like a threat
I was JUST looking at some Addison Rae dolls that were in the clearance aisle at Walmart, that had been marked down about four times. I know nothing about her, but good lord. I'd be so insulted.
I think the Dorothy doll is adorable! The Wizard of Oz was my favourite movie as a kid. I’d have loved a doll like that but alas they stopped making them decades before.
Celebrity dolls should be 25% celebrity resemblance, 75% generic doll.
IMO, if the celebrity doll isn’t made by Mattel, it’s usually not worth it. I remember as a kid thinking the Spice Girls Dolls were so cool and assumed Mattel made them, cause they were also sold in the Barbie aisle. Then when I saw them as an adult, I was put off by how harsh their faces looked and realized they were made by a different company. Same with the Britney Spears doll. They seem kind of cheap, with shorter arms and stubbier torsos with more angular high-heeled feet, as opposed to Barbie’s more graceful arches. But I’m assuming that’s because they can’t use Mattel’s patented bodies. Mattel’s face molds are very versatile. I remember the Heidi Klum doll looking very spot-on, and it only uses a Generation Girl head mold. The Brandy doll also looks very good (no surprise, it’s by Mattel).
THE ASHLEY TISDALE DOLLS SENT ME FLYING OH MY GODDDD i was watching this video thinking there was no WAY youd know about them!!!! i still have the not like that ashley doll somewhere in my basement and she scared me even as a kid, even if they vaguely looked like ashley there was always something uncanny about them!! my mom was always like “you can use her for sharpay” bc i liked high school musical but she was too scary to be sharpay so id always use a hannah montana doll to fill in 😭 i remember barely playing with her, i only played with her when one of my parents was like “dont you like this doll” or whatever. thank you for helping me remember this doll and THANK YOU for vindicating my feelings towards the ashley tisdale doll line
I actually took my Emma Watson Belle doll and repainted her after shaving down her face bit. Emma is such a pretty lady. But the dolly scared me😅😅😅😅
I have a strong contender for this list: the Dayanara Torres doll from 1994. For those unfamiliar, Dayanara Torres was Miss Universe 1993 and would later become an actress, singer, model and writer. The doll came with a music box that played some of her songs and also the dress that she wore when she won the Miss Universe crown. Again I want to reiterate that this woman was crowned the most beautiful on Earth and her doll was so ugly that my family constantly made fun of me for having her in my collection 💀
Can you do another video like this, but showcasing good Celebrity dolls? There's one that comes to mind. They market their characters as action figures, but theu have rooted hair and real clothes and could be classified as dolls, but there's a company that put out a line of dolls that I think was called Asylum Ultimate Series. They made dolls of rock/metal singers that look absolutely stunning. I own their Rob Zombie doll and he is absolutely gorgeous!
I found a Brandy doll while thrifting last week. I can not believe how great her face is!
I want one!!!
Ooooh myyyy GAAAWD! 😂😂😂 You woke up and chose VIOLENCE! I am HERE for this exquisite savagery!
not on that scale, but one of the funniest things for me was walking into a popular toystore here in Poland and seeing dolls of polish youtubers. the line is called InfluHeroes and it's not the worst in quality (dolls have basic joints and the facemolds are simple in style, no creepy realism here), but it's very funny they exist because I've never heard of any of these people before
I wanna know your opinion on the Margo Robbie Barbie! She's my first doll ever, and while I dont think they got her likeness 100%, she's still very cute imo. I've seen some repaints and restyles on insta that are just incredible!
I remember becoming a Mixer (Little Mix fan), around 2016-2017. When I'd seen they had dolls, I was excited. Since Jade was my favorite (seeing as we have the same skin tone, and she was the one that made me start liking them in the first place), I wanted to get her doll. As soon as I saw it, I internally went "Oh my god, what is that?!" and clicked off. Like, why is her skin grey, she's Arab for heck's sake. Jesy's having a slimmer build when at that time she was a tad chubby (and at that time was consistently belittled and shamed for not being as slim as the other 3), was also a war crime in my honest opinion. Leigh-Anne looks... nothing like herself, and Perrie... idk man. I know my girls, but THOSE were imposters. I'm just glad the Margot Robbie Barbie's and Elvira MH doll were done beautifully (Cassandra Peterson, Elvira, was behind the creative process).
Aaaa I want the Elvira from MH SO BAD
Best Celebrity doll = Zombie Gaga
Worst Celebrity doll = Emma Watson from the live action movie 'Beast and the Beast'
Absolutely criminal leaving out the Hannah Montana dolls... especially the ones of Lily... YIKES!
Anyone remember the Disney Channel VIP dolls?? I remember them being advertised as sooo special and like the biggest deal ever 😂
i had a cinderella doll when i was little (nothing crazy fancy it was just a plain baby blue dress with that blonde hair idk if it was disney branded, barbie, smth else idk) and it was honestly very pretty despite being pretty plain and having a standard barbie-esque face. i wish i still had it idk if i got rid of it or it’s laying around in a bin somewhere in my house😭
I had a "that's so raven" fashion doll as a kid. Shes cute! Clothes are cute too. But she looks absolutely NOTHING like Raven 😭
90% of these dolls look about 20 years older than the actual celebrity at the time
Nobody knows of the unspeakable horrors that were the B*Witched singing dolls from the late 90s or 2000. For those who don’t know, they were a short lived girl group from Ireland. They were even briefly featured in the DCOM Smart House. Anyway, my mom got me one of the dolls for Easter, I think. I forget her name, but she was the leader of the group, and good LORDT they did her so DIRTY. If you thought these dolls were horrendous, they pale in comparison to this line of dolls. Even as a child I thought the doll was terrifying. I felt bad for my mom, but I really don’t know what she thought when she bought this doll for me. My guess was that she knew I liked B*Witched, knew I liked the Britney Spears dolls, so she may have figured I would probably like this doll. Not to mention it was on sale, I’m sure 😅 take the Sporty Spice doll from the ugly Spice Girls doll line here, the Ashley Tisdale doll, and throw in the uncanny, manly Emma Watson doll, and you have this cursed relic from the past. Truly a crime against humanity and the girls from B*Witched
I personally would give the older dolls a pass since the face scanning technology for dolls at that time wasn't that good yet. but the dolls from the year 2000 and onwards have no excuse to be that bad
I think the Spice Girl Dolls were my favorite. I had some and I loved how different and unique they were when at the time I was only familiar with Barbie,
I never understood the face sculpt versions of celebrity dolls instead of going the route that Mattel took with the Halle 'The Little Mermaid' dolls, it's so much better when you take some artistic liberties and go for the slightly unrealistic look. It's amazing how they can do an entire face sculpt and it'll look LESS like the actual person. The only celeb dollI owned as a kid was the Brandy one, other than that though, I never was into them because while I'd be excited about the concept, once I got in the store and saw them face to face, their ugliness turned me off so badly.
Mattel remains the best where celebrity dolls are concerned; same thing with Disney. They did a wonderful job with the Little Mermaid dolls.
The Kylie dolls look like they have potential in the hands of a skilled repainter. Fran Drescher deserves to have an amazing doll, with lots and lots of her iconic outfits (pleaseeee)
I had some of the Mary Kate and Ashley dolls and the Lindsey Lohan one, just your intro was such a throwback. Loved those dolls so much ❤
Speaking of Ashley Tisdale dolls, I got the HSM Sharpey doll as a kid. When it came time to pack up my Barbies cause I wasn’t playing with them anymore (I do still have them, they are waiting for me to have kids of my own!), I could not imagine totally giving up Sharpey. It was right around Christmas and my mom had knitted this clothes line of tiny Santa and Mrs. Claus outfits, so I convinced her to let me dress Sharpey in the Mrs. Claus outfit, and she remains a part of our Christmas decorations to this day
Lmaooo “inspired by body positivity” and it’s a big baggy tshirt that took me out.
I only ever saw those Addison doll's in the clearance section of my Walmart and they're still there living their best lives. 😂
SO GLAD you covered the Fran Fine doll!!!
i have a mego farrah fawcett doll from the 70s i found at goodwill once. i have.. very mixed feelings about her?? her head sculpt is clearly trying to go for realism and again i want to give them credit for trying..? it reminds me of the mona lisa though, as i can’t quite tell what she’s thinking. like, she was notoriously beautiful and had a fantastic smile but the doll, it looks anywhere between a fake half smile and an all out grimace. the doll has rooted lashes as well which like,, i mean i’ll give them credit for the effort i guess bc that would’ve taken a lot of work. to me i think the worst of it is the hands, she has longer nails that feel a lot more like claws honestly?? i’ve grown attached to her though, if i’m being completely honest. the one i have came with a dress from the cher dolls mego made that’s honestly gorgeous, it has an embroidered bird of paradise on it!and i feel like at the very least mego did cher at least a little better but like, i feel like with some tlc (and maybe a tiny bit of sandpaper) i can really get this farrah doll back into a nice spot 😅
The Mego Farrah Fawcett doll is a good buy so long as you got her at a cheap price in used played with condition since the ones for sale on EBay that are still new in box or never removed from box usually have the melted joints at the shoulders sometimes and especially at the hip joints where there is a melting that occurs over time especially when they are stored in a hot and humid environment or room like an attic or a garage. They usually have melt mark stains on their outfits in the groin and back of hips area and their outfits are normally stuck and like glued to their bodies. Their joints can be stiff and locked from never being moved and posed despite their hair and heads being in clean new condition still. At least with buying one in used played with condition her joints have been moved and posed so you can still sometimes pose all or most of her joints. These doll's are almost 50 years old so their plastic and vinyl or rubber that they're made of is going to deteriorate over that length of time as expected. Did you buy her this year or had her a few years?
@@Ken-vk8pb i actually only found her a few months ago! she does appear to have some melting around the shoulders but they work just fine, luckily her dress hasn’t been affected too badly either!
@@celebrityguest.9530 You got a great deal on her then especially finding one at Goodwill. If you buy them online in used condition they are usually priced between $30 to $50 depending on condition but new in box is usually much higher priced at close to $100 or more.
A video on McDonald’s happy meal dolls would be a fun topic!
I have never had any of the dolls mentioned in this video, but I have heard of Playmates Toys, since they are the company that made the Billie Eilish Dolls.
The Lindsay Wagner bionic woman doll was an accurate depiction however on an action man body.... It was strange.
I feel like the Brandy doll was so good because she already looks like a doll, all smooth and perfect.
i LOVE that you mentioned shirley temple dolls, however briefly - i got an old copy of doll news at a thrift store once when i was younger, and it had an article about shirley dolls, and they have held a weird and wonderful place in my heart since. i have my late great aunt's beloved collector shirley temple doll and she's special to me
Brilliant. The creepy smiles! Honestly your humour is so dry it cracks me up every time 🎉
7:37 Before you mentioned the Dorothy doll's hair, I was thinking it's not that bad. When you said it has real human hair I thought "Hell no, that thing is haunted"
Posh looks like she's one bad day away from demanding the manager lol
When I see the Little Mix dolls I immediately quote the “fake Jamaican accent” video. BALLEGDEH!
This is one of the funniest videos I've ever watched. I'm borderline deceased. The commentary was so spot on and just hilarious
I’m enjoying your video while recuperating from surgery and I’m feeling like going to The Disney Store, The Matel Store and Target! But then the feeling goes away because I can’t drive right now.😥😰