Birthday Presents To Me!

Hey Gang!

While I was away for the Phila. Flower Show, I had a birthday! WooHoo!
I am 29 again!😃

I purchased a few inexpensive doll stuff for myself for my birthday.  I bought
some expensive plants for my birthday too.  I will share with you my doll stuff!

First up is the My Life As-Reversible Background! 

I have seen them at Walmart for a while.  And many of you have purchased them.

I thought their scale was off but I think I can make this one work!  For

$2.00 I am going to give it a try. I still think the scale on the others is off.  I

may change my mind.

Front

 Back!

OK, let's give it a look!  Because the grass in the park scene is lighter than what I 

normally used as grass, I purchased a light green tablecloth to serve as grass!

 I have to work with it to eliminate the glare but not bad!

 Might need to do a low-temperature press on the tablecloth too!

I can see where it could be a great thing for quick dios for my dolls!

I have a brown bench that would work well here that I need to find.

A quick park scene! Hanna: It's a nice day to be outside!

 Joined by friends!The boys: Hanna! great to see you!

 Joined by another friend!

Hanna: the sun is really starting to come out now!
Jay and Vanessa agree!

I can see that many of my dolls will be hanging out in the Park!  I think the park
will be in the center of town and many dolls will have to cross it on their way to
places!

I will post the rest of my presents and do a dio of the other side next!

OK, Thanks For Looking!

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.