Video Of The Month! Something for Roscoe!

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This month Video of the month features something for Roscoe!  

He has a great face with a lot of character! So Roscoe will will  a character or cutup around here!

Roscoe: That's right! Bald is beautiful baby!

Roscoe is a GI Joe Roadblock Action figure Hybrid.

My figure is has been placed on a Joe body that doesn't have the painted on orange top.

He needed a business. He will own a gun range.  He has a contract with the military and the police force for them to come to practice at his range. Also anyone purchasing a gun licence must spend some time at the range and get certified.  Roscoe does that at his range. This will keep him in business for a long while.

I saw this video and knew it would be a good start for Roscoe's business! The video is from

Matt's Creative Projects!

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The Launch of Mattel PlayBack, A Toy Takeback Program!

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Somehow I missed this when it was launched in May!

So here is how it works!

To participate in the Mattel Playback program, consumers can visit Mattel.com/PlayBack, print a free shipping label, and pack and mail their outgrown Mattel toys back to Mattel. It looks like this is just Barbie, Matchbox and Mega toys for now.  

You can find out more here.

This might give you a place to send your old unloved Barbies to but I hoping it won't cut down on my thrift store finds.

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Becoming Queenie Jenkins!

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Granny Queenie and her great granddaughter LaToya are having lunch in the park!

Queenie looks up at the sunshine thinks to herself "look at the day the lord has made!"  

Just then a handsome young man walks by.  Malik: Good afternoon Queen! How are you this fine day?

Queenie: Just fine young man and you?

Malik: I am well Queen!  Enjoy the rest of the day and don't forget to hydrate!

Queen thinks to herself "If I were fifty years younger..."'

LaToya: Did you know him Granny?

Queenie: No honey, I don't know him.

LaToya: But he knows your name! He called you Queen!

Queenie: Oh honey, it just a term of endearment!

LaToya: A what?

Queenie: A nickname or a pet name!  He probably calls all women or all women my age Queen.

LaToya: Oh! Well I have our lunch!  That food cart is great!

The eat their meals.

Queenie: Well that hit the spot!

LaToya: I wonder if she has ice cream today!

LaToya: She makes the best ice cream! At least it is the best I have had!

Queenie: The best ice cream I have ever had was at this Church up the road for the town I grew up in! She smiles as she thinks about the ice cream.

LaToya: Really? Like... you have been around for a long time! It was the best in all your years?

Queenie: I'm 95 years young and it was the best I have had!  Those old church sisters could cook! They churned the ice cream by hand in the kitchen of the church! Oh, and fried chicken!

LaToya: They didn't get if from the store?

Queenie: Honey, ice cream in the store ...ice in general is a modern thing! We had and ice box and not a refrigerator when I was a child. And we were considered well off!  A man came and we bought a block of ice and put it in the ice box to keep things cold. Those church women used real cream from the top of the milk to make the ice cream.

LaToya: WOW!

Queenie: It tasted sooo much better than anything you can get from the store!

Queenie: You better catch her before she leaves!

Granny Queen!

I have had the idea for Granny Queen for a while. It is her job to keep the family together and grounded. She lives with her granddaughter and her great granddaughter!  She also spends time with other granddaughters too. She augments her retirement by tutoring and hand-knitting sweaters that her granddaughter sells them online for her.

How she started! This was a thrift store doll that didn't sell! She has been sitting around for a few years!

She said that she wanted to be Queenie. So...

Hair cut

Scalp paint

yarn

reroot

Warning, Nude Doll!

New body and face paint. Queenie: Hey! Why do have an old girl hanging out in her all together! 

And she is Granny Queenie!

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Welcome Barbie Inspiring Women Maya Angelou!

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When I featured my Ella Fitzgerald doll I told you that I also wanted Maya Angelou. Well have her too now! I purchased two because I think she will become collectible!

Barbie Inspiring Women Maya Angelou doll

She is simple but I think she is one of the better celebrity dolls that Mattel has done!

Close up of her face!

With one of her famous books!

From the back

Warning, Nude Dolls!

She has the same body as the Ella doll but she is a little darker.

Maya is more of a SIS Grace and Ella is brown.

I am planning of play with this doll and she will be part of a storyline in Johnston.                                So in Johnston She is Mrs. Lulu Roebuck, writer, poet and professor,

Mrs. Lulu and her husband Roscoe!

They went to high school together and dated though high school. After he graduated he 

went into the military. The next year she graduated and went to college far away. The 

wrote and saw each other on holidays. They married a year after she graduated from 

college and have been together ever since. When Lulu's sister died...

Her son Malik came to live with them!

Malik: I was the best thing that could happen to me! My aunt Lulu and uncle Roscoe

are the best! 

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Raya and The Last Dragon Young Raya and Chief Benja Exclusive Figures!

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I have been looking at the dolls from the Last Dragon movie. was wondering if I should purchase any. The ones I saw in Target and Wal-Mart The only thing that I really liked was the Asian style hat. I wanted to see the Raya and Chief dolls but they weren't at any of my local stores. I tried ordering the set from Wal-Mart with poor results. So I tried again from Amazon and the dolls are arriving late! To me, of the adult dolls the Disney version is better. 

Promo Photo!

Out of the box

The reason I am purchasing them is to add another Asian Disney Male to my collection.  

I have 3 versions of Captain Li Shang, and 2 versions of Naveen which qualifies as Asian 

too. Also the costumes look cool and I thinking can be used in interesting ways.

My research of the of Chief Benja leads me to believe that is is the same height as Jafar 

doll. The bodies look the same.  Which means he is short but his head might be able 

to be placed on a Ken doll and I  can still use his outfit and shoes.  

He stand at just reaching 11 inches!

Benja is smaller than Ken.

Benga's feet are smaller and a little wider than Ken.

The shoes for Benja are a little small.  Maybe if I put them in warm water?

Now I wasn't able to see it in the promo pictures but one you have Benja at home, one

side of the sleeve is bigger than the other.  It looks a little weird.

Benja compared to Jafar body,  They are the same but Benja is more of a red tone!

He works better with the Moana head than the Jafar body does. So GT gets this body! 

Rebodied the head and redressed!

A new couple is born!

I think you are precious!

Come!  It is time for dinner!

Raya I am hoping with fit in with my Stacie dolls. She wears a cute Jacket and pants! 

Jacket has a nice print on the top and bottom.

She stands 8 1/2 inches tall

Printed on the back too!

Print fabric with a contrast at the seams.

Velcro jack and elastic waist pants!

Cute flowers on the front of her shoes.  The flowers might look nice painted.

Even though the shoes don't have a heel, she has high heel shoes and feet!

Soft hair and cute ponytail style!

The back of her hair.

Raya and Janet! Besties!

Raya compared to 1991 Janet!  The thickness of the body is close but Raya's high-heeled 

feet makes her a lot taller! Also, the Raya's head isn't too much bigger that other kid dolls!

Raya compared to Stacie!

Raya redressed!

Using these knockoff doll shoes/sneakers made for high-heel feet, she can now stand.

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