May is Disney Month!

Hey Gang!

May is Disney Month!  

I will try to get in as many Disney posts as I can.

My first for this month is my High School Musical dolls. 

About the movies:

High School Musical is a 2006 American musical television film and the 

first installment in the High School Musical trilogy directed by Kenny Ortega 

It was filmed in 2005 in Salt Lake City. Upon its release on January 20, 2006, 

it became the most successful film that the  Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) 

ever produced, with a television sequel High School Musical 2, released in 2007 

and the feature film, High School Musical 3: Senior Year released theatrically in 

October 2008. It is the first and only DCOM to have a theatrical sequel. The film's 

soundtrack was the best-selling album in the United States, reaching number 1 

on the American charts for 2006.

High School Musical was Disney Channel's most watched film that year 

with 7.7 million viewers in its premiere broadcast in the US, until the 

premiere ofThe Cheetah Girls 2, which achieved 8.1 million viewers. 

 In the United Kingdom, it received 789,000 viewers for its premiere 

(and 1.2 million viewers overall during the first week), making it the 

second most watched program for the Disney Channel (UK) of 2006. 

On December 29, 2006, it became the first DCOM to be broadcast on the
BBC. Globally, High School Musical has been seen by over 225 million
viewers.

With a plot described by the author and numerous critics as a modern
adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. High School Musical is a story about
two high school juniors from rival cliques– Troy Bolton (Zac Efron), captain
of the basketball team, and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens), a shy transfer
student who excels in mathematics and science. Together, they try out for the
lead parts in their high school musical and this causes division among all the
school's students. Despite other students' attempts to thwart their dreams, Troy
and Gabriella resist peer pressure and rivalry, inspiring others along the way
not to "stick to the status quo". High school diva Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale)
and her twin brother Ryan (Lucas Grabeel), will do anything not only to sabotage
the friendship and romance between Troy and Gabriella, but also to get the leads
in the school musical.

Information above provided by Wikipedia.

The success of the movies means merchandising and merchandising
means there were doll!

Sooo..I never watch the movies and I don’t know much about the charters
other than what I have above. For me, it is all about the dolls.
These dolls were a chance to add more teens into my collection and even
more important more teen clothes!

Remember,  we haven't had a teen boy since Kevin in 1991 and we didn't have any
new outfits for the size doll since they went out of production in 1995.

About the dolls!

There were at least three releases of the movie and I think five releases of the dolls
that were done by Mattel and  two releases of dolls done for the Disney Store that
I know of!  Companies other than Mattel did the dolls for the Disney store but
I don't know who it was!.

Mattel did a release of mini dolls.  I don't have any to show your but
Crafty Doll Gal did a nice post on them!

I have several versions of these dolls!  But today we will look at my taller doll!

The First dolls were 12 inch and 11 1/2 inch dolls.

Mattel Promo Photo

Troy and Gabriella 1st release Promo photo2006/2007!

Troy!

I got my doll from the thrift store. He was part of the set above done for the 
Disney Store!  He didn't have the original outfit but here he is!

He came with the shirt.  I got the short from the smaller doll but I would love to
have the complete outfit! In the promo photo and the smaller doll out fit, the
pants have three strips ...

but if you purchase the 12" doll the pants only have two
stripes!

This was a new headsculpt and it didn't have year it just said Disney and because
it was Disney, it wasn't used for Ken dolls! They thought the guys needed articulation!
All the male doll have it but not the girls!

Gabriella! "When there was me and you"

Gabriella  promo photo!  

This is doll was done by Mattel use the same Carival/BeBe headsculpt which is 

surprising. Mattel and Disney normally don't share headsculpts!

Again my doll I got from the thrift store!  She came with this outfit but I did find

her sweater on another doll while there! I though I love the sweater and use it for 

other dolls, I don't feel the need to chase down the rest of her outfit! 

I know she is the "when there was me and you doll because of her size and her lip
color!  She 11 1/2 inches and are lips are a peachy color.  The doll that came as
part of the pair above has a red dress and red lips.

She has a great face and lovely brown eyes.  She kinda reminds me of ...

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I will be working on her hair in the near future! She is now on a fashionista body!
I'm calling her Zeta!

OK, Thanks For Looking!

Thrift Store Purchases From September!

Hey Gang,

I am a little reluctant to post now.  It seems that blogger took down a few of the

posts of mine that were cloned but the majority of them are still up on the clone 

blog! The clone blog has about 2-3 years of my post up on their blog.  The only 

way that they take them down if for me to list every URL they listed along with 

every URL of mine for comparison!  You can't just list the whole blog as a 

copied.Since a pops up add appears every time  you click on one of their clone 

links taking you to who knows where and with the possibility of infecting my 

computer, I not sure what I can do.

I can't tell you how upset I got when I noticed post after post was copied.  They 

don't even list their posts.  So I'm not sure how far back it goes.  I had notice 

usually high spikes in the amount of viewers I had from time to time.  I am 

wondering if that was them.  One year a did about 100 posts, one every 

three days, as a challenge for myself.  Let me tell you, that was a lot for me!  

It seem to me that blogger doesn't  make posting all that incredibly easy to 

do, so it  must be a computer doing it. If you read this post on any other 

blog than I-Luv-Dolls@blogspot.com...

IT IS A FAKE!!! Run!!

I think I will add that from here on out!

OK, Here WE Go!

I did some real damage at the thrift store lately.  I will have to take October
off...maybe! In one of my last posts I told you I have been re-boding the guys
around her too.  I found some thrift store doll on articulated bodies and I got
some extra bodies for re-boding!

First up is Happy Family Dad-Alan!
I already have the AA Happy Family Dad so it was good to add him to
my collection.

 His face seems a little lighter than the body.  I wasn't sure at first that it was his
original body...

 but he is wearing the painted on ring.

Next I found HSM Troy!
This is the first (2007?) doll, the 12" doll, not the 10 inch one that they did later. I will
need to take out the battery on the doll because the singing annoys me! Have
you ever had one of those doll go off unexpectedly?

I like his hair much better than the other version of the doll.  The blonde is kinda
chunky! He also has a better face paint than the smaller dolls. I had started to
purchase the last one at the now closed Toys R US near me but someone
beat me to it!

Next is Phoebus from the Hunchback of Notre Dame.  I found three of these
at one time! Yes, I could have left the other two for someone else but I 
am someone else! So I took all three!

Phoebus: I don't think I want to be a blonde!

Ms. Leo:  You don't look like a Phoebus either!

 This guy got one of the other bodies. He is a
Hawaiian Ken.

 Ken: Thanks man!  Phoebus: No problem!

 The other went to this guy! He is a Pocahontas Kocoum 

He is now called Bison

Bison: I want to thank him too!  I was feeling as stiffer than Johnny Depp in 

the Lone Ranger!

Speaking of Native American dolls, I found these two also!  I dressed them in
swimsuits for the post.  I believe they are the 1995 Barbie American Indian 
American Stories and 1993 Native American Barbie 2nd edition!

 Native American Barbie 2nd edition.

I am seeing more of this one up for sale and I already have 
several of the  Teresa head sculpts.  So she will be up for sale
alone with re-bodied Phoebus!

 Barbie American Indian American Stories.

This one I am keeping and have re-bodied onto an Esmeralda articulated body. She
is now Daisy! She is wearing a Pocahontas dress.  She will need some shoes!

 Daisy: Hi! Lovely to meet you!

I was going to put flowers in her hair but that would be overkill!

 Finally we have
Jesse "The Body"Ventura 
This is the 1999 JESSE VENTURA Man of Action-Governor of Minnesota Doll
He was $5.00 and worth it if just for the clothing! Yeah, you remember him for
Wrestling and the Predator movie!

The box

 Now it is my picture taking and not that his eyes are quite that strange.

 He is kinda handsome in a rugged kinda way!

 Nice shirt and tie!

 Clothing

 Jessie: I can still wrestle with the best of them!

 A new baldy. 

 Wrestling a bear pose!

 Shoes and socks!

 Bare wrestling a bear!

 Markings!

 I also got this one...

 (This one be a good body donor for him too!)

 and this one!

 This will be a hard neck to find a body for!

 Lastly is her!

 She may go on the tree this year!

So this is just a small part of what I got! I was dolly high for a few weeks!

OK! Thanks For Looking!

What I 've Been Up To!

Hey Gang!

I am almost caught up at work.  I should be there by Monday.  I hope to get some really good play time in then.

I did want to tell you what I have been up to on the dolly front.  OK, once I decided that I wanted to have articulated bodies for my doll, I could see the cost would be a factor.  I have been slowly purchasing bodies when I can get a good price.  I know that replacing the bodies on my AA dolls will cost the most because of the variety of complexions needed and the amount of AA articulated dolls out there to be donors.  My other dolls will be all changed out way before my AA dolls will be completed.

I purchase the last of the Power Team guys from Big Lot.  I had some of the power team guys with the large hands that I needed to swap out.  

To some, the big hands may not be an issue but for me they are.  Most of my male clothing is Ken size clothing and the big hands won’t fit many of them.  My guys need to be able to share clothing around here.  I know I will be able to find skin tone hands for them later.  For now they can share the smaller hands I already own.

So who got changed out?

You remember Troy from my earlier post.  He was the first candidate.

Then...

Now!

I now you can't see the hands but there is a difference in the hands and the size of the chest for the larger hand action figures.

One of the things you not when your car is down and you are riding the bus is fashion trends.  The box hair cut is making a comeback.  Who would think it!

Next was Chaka Fattii.  I call him Chaka because I think he look like the actor (Henry Cele) in the Movie Shaka Zulu.   His last name is a play on the name of the local Congressman.

“There is no future without Shaka!”

You might remember seeing this guy in the Airport.  

He got changed out too.  

 He will be the father of a character you have seen.

Oh yeah and this guy!  

He will be one of the college campus hunks!

OK, this is the end of part one.

Thanks For Looking!