Black History Month and Chinese New Year Featuring 2004 Street Fusion Jade!

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It is Black History Month!

Integrity Toys!

Founded in 1995 by Percy Newsum,

This photo and information are from https://www.integritytoys.com/company-information/

Integrity Toys is a family-owned business based in Chesapeake City, Maryland. With the absolute lack of diversity in the doll industry at the time, Percy’s dream was to build a company that would display a balance, showing respect and appreciation to all cultures. His innovation in the industry did not only help children develop self-love but also fostered respect and understanding for all ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds.

In 2000, with the exceptional collaboration of Integrity Toys very first Creative Director and Designer “Jason Wu” along with the design team, Integrity Toys welcomed its first “collectible” collection and its Fashion Royalty concept.

You can read about my first Integrity Toys doll here!

Chinese New Year!

2004 Street Fusion Jade isn't a grail but she is close to me!

Out of the box!

 The outfit is cute! It has a Mandarin collar satin top with red trim. 

The pants are an Asian print flower brocade with red cuffs and gold dot buttons on them. 

Taupe color shoes and taupe leather hat. The taupe apple hat is the "topper" of the whole outfit. This outfit is still as stylish today as it was in 2004!

From the back!

Her long pigtails add to the young edge of the look.

Close-up!

She has a great face screening and this face sculpt is better than the older sculpts.

Jade Candi face 1996-2001

In Style Jade Sculpt 1996

The box seemed kinda moldy. Not to the point of discoloring the accessories but there were spots on the cardboard.

Warning Nude Dolls

I was looking to give her some articulation.  She isn't the complexion of Barbie dolls.  If you are familiar with IT dolls you will know that they have a gray undertone. A body matching to Barbie body can be hard.

I had anwas Evil Queen doll that is close in complexion and had articulated arms and click knees. She also has a small wait like this IT Doll. I thought it might work.

My comparison.

I am happy with the rebody and am calling her Liu!

 

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Rehearsal! Chinese New Year-Part two!

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Simon and Lewis are out on patrol in Chinatown today.  

Lewis: Great there is the ATM!  

Lewis: I need to get some cash for my date wit Xia.

Simon:How much are you getting?  Where are you going?

Lewis: Dinner and maybe a movie.

Simon: Hey, it looks like they are preparing to the Dragon Dance over there.

WOW! They are bad!  

You might have to radio for help!

OK fellows! Let's try it again!

Hoa: One,two, three, four,one, two, three, four! And....

Blaine: Move right and move left!

Blaine: You are starting on the wrong foot Mark!

Mark: Oh!

Mark: The ground seems slippery!

Blaine: Maybe you need to try this in shoes or sneaker!  Sandals aren't working for you!

I am hope to feature as many of my Asian dolls during the Chinese New Year as possible.

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Connie and Jack! Chinese New Year!

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Connie and Jack are a power couple!

Jack Chan is an entrepreneur specializing in entertainment! He owns theater movie theater for play and stadiums for sports events.  He is part of Trio Entertainment.  I will go into Trio Entertainment later.

Connie runs a political campaign management company called Forward. 

The role of Jack Chan will be played by my Jackie Chan action figure by Playmate!  He was based on a cartoon that Warner Bros. did called Jackie Chan Adventures back in 2001. There were three action figures made. This one, one in black outfit and one in a white and red outfit.  I purchase him when the Toys R Us at the Cedarbrook Mall went out of business.  He has been sitter around here doing nothing.  He has known for a while that he would be Connie's husband and was all smiles about it!

 one in black outfit and 

one in a white and red outfit.  

I purchase him when the Toys R Us at the Cedarbrook Mall went out of business.  He has been sitter around here doing nothing.  He has known for a while that he would be Connie's husband and was all smiles about it. The only sad part about this figure is that is that his boots are made onto the feet.

Warning--

Nude smiling action figure! So this is what he looks like out of his clothes.  The boots don't come off. And if you ever had a man put his booted feet in your bed, you know what Connie must think about this!

I have also found action figures with this type of body tend to break in the middle. So I was in searching for a new body for him. For now he is on a Disney male doll body. Which was an easy find for now.

I will have to do a family photo shoot with Connie, Jack and their children altogether. You have meet two but...

Bracken

Fern

 not the oldest Reed.

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Count Down to the Chinese New Year!

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Count Down to the Chinese New Year!

I added live action Mulan to my collection after finding her for $8.00 at Ollies.

She is by Hasbro and it the one store in stores other than Disney.

She need a articulated body so she got one of the Liv doll bodies I have around.  I have heard that the Disney store doll has an articulated body.

The great thing about the Liv doll body is that it is pretty close to the size of original body

of the live action Mulan. So here she is in the Mulan costume.

She is here for the Chinese New Year!

She will be showing Asian swords and weapons!

Her name is Ara.

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