May Is Disney Month! New Teen Disney Purchases!

 Hey Gang!

I want you to know that I made May Disney month! So don't look for it on any list of monthly celebrations!  Unless it catches on!

New teen Disney Purchases.

I purchased this doll and I didn't know who it was. I was told he was Kevin size,
I found out he is the Disney Store High School Musical(  HSM)#3 Troy doll!

Disney Promo Photos!

Sometimes the clothes are a clue to the doll. I purchase my doll nude so he didn't come with all these wonderful accessories...Boo!

I was glad to get him and add him to my crew!

Warning Nude Dolls

My nude doll and his stains on his body! 

The placement of the stains leads me to believe that the shirt isn't its' one piece but part of the jacket. 

It may be just a collar with tie in the front of shirt and cuffs attached to a jacket sleeve. It is the only way I can explain the dark marks under the arm.

In the past when I had a doll with stains from clothes, I would purchase the
Acme cream from the Dollar Tree and use it to bleach the stains out of the body.The Dollar Tree hasn't carried the cream lately. So I will be searching for another cheap source.

Comparing him to Mattel HSM

He is a little shorter than the Mattel doll and he has a stiff bend click knee. He is much lighter than the Mattel doll. He has painted on undies.  The body looks like it was made by Jakks. Which doll do you think looks more like Zac Efron?

Zac Efron

Mattel and Disney Store

The chest is different!

The feet are larger.  You can kinda make Ken shoes fit on HSM dolls loosely.

But the Disney store doll's feet are larger and fit better in Ken shoes.

Compared To BSI Kevin

He is a little smaller but he doesn't have that crazy bend arm.  He is a little thicker than Kevin. 

So,.... pants no, and tops yes!

Shoes are a no!

I finally put him on a Ron Weasley doll body. He is now Jimmy.

Hi everyone!

Disney Frozen 2 doll Ryder.

Most of the new male dolls in Frozen 2 (except for Lt. Mattias) come as part of a set. Boo! I would love to purchase the father( I love his face) but I am not willing to spend the money for the set just to get him.  

The set that comes with Ryder

I love his face too and would love to have the complete outfit but that is not what I was able to purchase for cheap. I can't spend all my stimulus money on dolls you know!

Equally, I am not willing to spend the money for this set just to get Ryder.  So I purchase him solo and as nude as you can get with painted on pants on ebay!

He was rebodied on to a Justin Beiber body!  

They are always a ton of them lying around here! Some have a flat neck which can be used for action figures and some have a rounded neck and can be used for dolls like this one!

He is happy with his new look and a little more movement!  The Troy body went to this guy!

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Doll For My Wish List For 2021!

 Hey Gang!

After years of searching and complaining! Mattel has finally come out with a AA/Hispanic

teen boy doll!  

Mattel Promo Photos

I saw an old photo of a prototype of an AA boy standing by a school locker in 

an old issue of Barbie Bazaar. He had a 1987 Skipper face done up like a boy. I 

couldn't see the body, so I don't know what kind of body they used for him.  I 

wondered if  they made him for an oversea market and had been searching.

I haven't been able to locate the doll or a copy of that picture since. So if you 

have the photo or a link to it, please send it to me!

Now, there was a Kevin and a Scott but not AA Skipper size male in the Barbie line. 

Poor AA Skipper never had an AA boyfriend.  

The closest Mattel came to an AA doll in that size came was High School Musical

Chad and Zeke!

Chad #2 headsculpt

Zeke!

So even with a bent arm, it will be nice to have this new headsculpt to my collection!

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Hello February! Sticking To My New Years Plan!

 

As promised for the New Year, I will do one post a month about dolls and related items I have on sale on the dollpage!  Please take the time to look at my listing when you get a chance.

My first items in honor of Valentines Day, I have a few men for sale if you need to

add some men to your doll collection.

I have this Max Steel.

This Disney Prince Beast doll.

Some Bratz men recently added but I have some older Bratz listed too! So don't miss them.

A few New Kids On The Block men also.

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 Another Disney male.  I not sure if he is a prince or not.

 I have some teen couples for sale.  The next two are newly added but I do have others.

 Have you been looking for the dancing Princesses?  Well here they are!

Some MH's

 I have some interesting single dolls too... like this Mel-B!

This lovely AA doll with the Hispanic head sculpt.  Her face is really cute and she has really pretty
hair color! 

Disney Pocahontas

Mariposa doll with really lovely rooted eyelashes.  This is one of my favorite fairy faces!

This MH doll with the cat like face!



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High School Musical Zeke

Zeke!

If you read my post on Mattel Black Male Dolls, you
would know that one doll missing for my collection of
Black male dolls and on my wish list was High School
Musical 3 Prom Date Zeke. As a fugal doll purchaser, the
Zeke doll never really went down in price in retail stores.
That may be because he only showed up as part of a set.



Sales version of the doll set

Still the set never went down in price. I don't think that
many were produced either. It was one of the first times
that I saw a young blond female Caucasian doll (Sharpay)
paired with a young black male doll (Zeke) in a toy series.
(I may be wrong, so let me know). It was the first and only
set that contained Zeke. I found him on EBay recently
for a great price. The clothing was in bad condition but
the doll was not.

A little about HSM AA male dolls
One of the great things about the High School Musical series
is that the series produced two AA characters and three AA dolls.


Chad #1Side Note--This shirt was too short even for a smaller doll.
I use it for the girl dolls. I am calling him Jay!

This is the first version of Chad Mattel uses the
Jamal/Steven head mold for this doll. The gave him rooted
two tone curly hair and the complexion was lighter many
of the Jamal/Steven dolls.

Chad #2The second version of the chad doll received it own face.
I am not sure it looked much like the actor either but very
few celebrity dolls do. The hair didn't have as much of the
two toned look but hair color does differ from doll to doll.

Now that chad had a new look Mattel was free to use the
Steven/Jamal head again for another doll in the the series.

Zeke-

For the Zeke character who appeared in all three movies they
gave the Jamal Steven doll a darker complexion than Chad
in keeping with the character of Zeke in the movies
and he was darker than the Zeke from the promotion shots.


This version of the doll looks lighter and more neutral than
the actual sales doll. the one thing that can be said is these
three dolls, Chad 1, Chad 2 and Zeke were the first time that
Mattel did a doll this size (Kevin size) in an African American
doll. Poor AA teen Skipper. Both AA Teen Skipper
(Prom teen and Pizza Party AA dolls) and AA teen Nikki
never had a male counterpart. There were some promo
pictures of an AA doll (on the box of school desks) but he
never made it to production. They are the only AA Todd
size dolls. The HSM dolls also gave us more Kevin size
fashions.