Articulated Disney Mulan Part 2!

Hi Gang!

In my first post on the New Disney’s Mulan doll with the new articulated knees, you will remember that I was unsure of how I felt about the new knee.

New Knee!

In my post on Tiana I showed you the Tiana with the new knees as well as the older Barbie type knee. The older knee doll is reminiscent of the articulated SIS dolls and the Barbie 3 click knee that is more familiar. I purchase a few Mulans with this older knee and I planned to show you how that worked out.

So The Knee!

Here is what the knee looks like under the gown.


My Asian Barbie for President Doll, who I am now calling Connie, decided to help me out with the suggestion of doll that could use this body. One of her suggestion is Top Model Summer. Summer is on an old My Scene doll body with her old body up on the Dollpage.

Connie: Mulan , this is Summer.

Summer, who will now be called Shelly Green, thinks this body would be a good match for her.

Look out world her I come!

I feel like a new woman!

Kieu, who happens to be Connie’s best friend, was near by trying on the Mulan gown and nice Mulan’s nice body.  Kieu the dress and the body would work really well for me too!

Yeah, that gown get more wrinkled with each shot!

I like this purple dress too!  It is very ethereal.  I love the silver details too!

I can really pose now!

I can take my rightful place on this blog!

Are there shoes for this dress?

Kieu joins Summer and Akira in the group photo! 

New bodies, New lives!

I got some questions in my last Mulan post about this doll's complexion and my other dolls, so I thought I would answer those too! Does Mulan work well for Bling and Xia?

Why yes she does!

Xia' is still herself but is a little more mature on this body!  Like the difference between 18 and 20.  She is 20. 

Even Bling looks different on this body!

The test will be if Bling can still fit in her car!

Xia is so happy she can dance!

This body works well with her face.  I had thought about a Frank Sinatra body but they cost too much!  This will do just fine!

The girls are dancing! Shelly: is this how you do the new dance?  Xia:  Yeah , kinda! Shelly:I can't wait to show my daughter!

Xia: Do I know your daughter?  Shelly: You might!  She is very popular like her mom!

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New Articulated Disney Mulan

I purchased the new Disney Mulan and two older Mulans along with the three Tiana dolls from the Disney. (I did a post on Tiana previously.) This is the one with the new articulated body.  

Here is the close-up on her face.

I have three other Mulan dolls. Two of them are Mattel and one is Disney. One of my Mattels is a Secret Hero Mulan and the other is a Princess Mulan (Hae).  The  Disney Mulan doll that I have on a Liv body which I call Risa. I really like the faces on the Mulans dolls I have. I planned to purchase new dolls as body donors for the dolls I have with paler complexions that need a new articulated body.

I find the gowns of the Mulan dolls are more worth keeping than most of the Princess dolls to me. They don’t look like the old-fashioned prom gowns like most of the princess gowns.  Sorry this doll had been sitting around a little while so her dress is a little wrinkeled.

The flat shoes of both the Tiana and Mulan will work well in my doll shoe collection. Green Tiana shoes are flats and red Mulan shoes are more like ballet slippers.  These shoes will be OK on Barbie but they are really great for dolls like Francie, Skipper or Happy Family Grandmother.  Francie's little bow shoes might look good on these feet too!

New Mulan feet

I am glad that I went to the Disney store for this purchase and not order it on line because it allowed me to see the complexions of the Disney dolls. The complexions of the Disney dolls differ from the complexions of the dolls Mattel sold. If I had order on line, I might have gotten a Cinderella or a Sleeping Beauty doll and they are not as light as their Mattel counterparts. They looked closer to Fashionista Summer in complexion. Mulan was paler than both those dolls. I didn’t check the Snow White and will check her the next time I go.
Mulan comes wearing a pair of flesh colored panties.

She also has flower hair tie.

You can tell from her photo that she is pale.  Here photos of her with the new Asian Rachelle. She is less pink and a bit paler that  Raquelle.

and Princess Mulan from Mattel. She is less pink that Mattel doll but could work.

 Like I state in my post on Tiana, The knee on this doll are similar to the legs on the first wave Mattel Fashionista doll.  They can't move sideways only up and down.

I’m not sure how I feel about the knees of the new Disney doll. Like Liv dolls, these aren’t the sexiest of knees and it doesn’t show well in a short skirt. So I will use the body on a doll that I don’t plan to put in short dresses. I looked through by possible candidate dolls that fit that description that needed a body and came up with....

Akira Takada
I had been thinking about putting her on a Liv body.  Many of my Asian dolls are on Liv bodies so it is time to mix it up!

 Her body is a good match!

 I think she is happier too on this body.  She can now get more blog time.

 I have a few more dolls that Mulan donated her body to that I will show you shortly!

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Another Road Trip!

Like Vanessa wrote in here post entitled “Disney Articulated Body Pt. 1” I too caught the Disney sale on princesses, but I got the sale price at the store! There is a Disney store in King of Prussia PA so I just drove over. I haven’t been to King of Prussia in a long time, not since I worked there part-time. I use to work at Penney’s in watch repair. (Another of those crazy jobs I had to pay off the house.) I don’t miss working in K of P. The traffic can be a hassle but a non-rush hour trip every now and then is OK!
When I worked at K of P there was an FAO Schwartz there! I loved that store! PRETTY!!! I purchased a few things from there but not too because of the prices. It was a great place to spend lunch! There was a TRU right across the complex. OMG, why didn’t I stop at the TRU while I was there? Bone head! I guess I might be making another trip. I got some really great stuff at that TRU. Yeah I’ll have to go back.

Any way I purchased two types of Tiana (3 dolls all together) and one type of Mulan. It is harder now to find the SIS Cara doll at a good price and I still have several medium dark brown dolls that need bodies. I also have a few paler dolls that need bodies too. The Sinatra is a little too costly for me right now!

The 2012 and 2011 Tiana

2012 Mulan She looks a little… constipated .

Vanessa promised us a really good comparison of this to doll with other body types! I'm going to be lazy and wait for that!  I would like to show a little of the two types I have. Like Vanessa I will be show the Tianas first. I will put both the Tiana head and the dress up for sale or trades on my blog so if you are interested, please contact me.

2011 Tiana-the one on sale for 7.99

Now lets see the goods!  The gown of this doll is covered with sparkles that get everywhere! I had to washer to get them off the body.

The 2011 doll has purple eyes!

I haven’t seen purple eyes on a person that dark since the last time I went to the contact lens store! I know the Mattel’s Tiana are brown and so is the 2012. We aren’t buying this doll for the head. We want her body! Insert cackle here!

Her body type is similar to that of the articulated SIS bodies. I would agree with Vanessa that the body does seem sturdier that that of the Mattel dolls. So that speaks to what Mattel could do. Her arms and hands are that of a better made Fashionista Barbie.

Tiana hand

Cara hand and Tiana hand and arms.  Kara is the darker one.

Warning-- Nude dolls!

Her torso is a cross between the Mattel Belly Button body and the Disney body that you might find on the newer Hannah Montana and friends.

It has the little smaller waist of the Hannah dolls and

she has high heel feet with toes (and not the club foot of Mattel dolls)!

club foot!

It all makes me wonder about patents! I hope we are not up for another patent fight!

Winning an articulated body of a medium dark brown……and the body goes too…

Stephanie Laurent!

She was the last of the sisters without an articulated body! The body seems smaller and that seems fitting for her!

2012 Tiana 14.99 or 2 for 22.00

Gloves!  I love have more gloves!

Brown eyes!

I like this face the best of all the Tiana that I have seen. Yes, even with the side looking eyes!  This is a head worth trying to shrinkThe gown isn't my cup of tea but it doesn't have all those sprarkles. This is the new doll you have seen used on the net in places like Van’s Doll Treasures and Flickr!

Knees

and feet!

The knees are like the first wave of Fashionista Barbies. Because of that, she also has the same issue of not being able to set like a lady that Vanessa mentioned.
 

 
I do think that she will make a great doll for dancing!
 

Maybe some costumes next time!

When I purchased these dolls, I had a “take that Mattel” feeling as I did it. We all need more of that. We need someone to give us body options if Mattel won’t. There wasn’t a name on the manufacturer of the Disney dolls on the box… won’t it be funny if it were Mattel???

Who will get the newest Tiana body?

I haven’t decided. You’ll have to wait and see.
With the second 2011 body went to one of my favorites and a dolls who was in great need a new body!

Imani!

So that mean more play time for Imani and some blog time too!

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