Saturday, May 15, 2021

Disney Month-Cheetah Girls Disney Dolls

Hey Gang!

Disney is the king of marketing! So they will do a TV series, then do a move to follow up a TV series, then do more movies and TV series, then clothing and posters for the movies and TV series...and of course dolls! So now lets look at the Cheetah Girls

The Cheetah Girls was an American girl group consisting of Adrienne Bailon, Kiely Williams, Sabrina Bryan, and Raven-Symoné as the starring leads. The group was created by Disney, and was made famous by the eponymous Disney Channel original film and its sequels, The Cheetah Girls 2 and The Cheetah Girls: One World. The group has released three studio albums, Cheetah-licious Christmas, In Concert: The Party's Just Begun Tour, and TCG plus several RIAA certified Platinum albums including, The Cheetah Girls, The Cheetah Girls 2, and The Cheetah Girls: One World. All of their albums and soundtracks have debuted in the Billboard 200. The soundtrack to their first film sold over 2 million copies.

The Cast of the Cheetah Girls: Raven-Symoné – Galleria Garibaldi, also known as Bubbles, Adrienne Bailon – Chanel Simmon, also known as Chuchie, Kiely Williams – Aquanette Walker, also known as Aqua, Sabrina Bryan – Dorinda Thomas, also known as Do.

Note that Raven Symone has done a few Disney series along with Selena Gomez. Disney likes musicals and many of the highest rated shows are musicals!

Now To The Dolls!

The following five photos are promo photos

The Cheetah Girls were produced by Jakks Pacific

Galleria Garibaldi

I choose this photo because this is the doll I own.

Aquanette Walker

This photo is the same reason as above

Chanel Simmon

I have this doll too but she was sold nude.

Dorinda Thomas

I don't have this doll at all. I don't recall seeing her in the thrift stores.

The lineup!

I never purchase any of these dolls new. I only saw them new in Toys R Us and K-Mart and a few discount stores. I found them often in thrift stores. I liked their outfits but wasn't a fan of their bodies. The all have the kinda gift giving arms you see on some older Mattel dolls.

Warning-Nude Dolls!

The body is a little bigger than the Brittany Spears doll body and there aren't as many variations as with the Brittany Spears doll body. She can't wear much of the Mattel doll clothes and the original black pants and boots stained the dolls body. I had to bleach the body to remove the stain. BTW, staining is a big problem with the Jakks doll girls.

Galleria Garibaldi

Closeup of the torso-this is the singing doll.

Brittany has smaller chest and hips!

As of now the only Cheetah Girl doll in my dolliverse is Loraine! She is on a articulated Fashionista body. She has more clothing options now.

OK, Thanks For Looking!

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Disney Month Aladdin doll and on the craft table !

Hey Gang!

I found a Disney Aladdin doll in the thrift store a long time ago but have not played with him. He was the Mattel doll that was release in 1992 like the doll below.

This doll came with two outfits one as the street urchin and the other as the prince.

The doll I have was wearing the street urchin pants with the patch on it but the vest

was missing.

he has a cute face with large brown eyes and a slight smirk.

His body is that of the Ken dolls of that time period with the click knees and the backward facing hands. He looks like a Vivek so that will be his name.

I had seen him in the stores and thrift store for a long time but the molded on hat

was a sticking point.

The hat is molded on to the hair of the doll. The hat comes in several colors depending on the doll and even the doll in the swim suit had the hat! Now who would go swimming with a hat on?

He is now on the craft table!

On a bold moment I decided that the hat had to go! I use a heated box cutter to remove it!

I had to put this in. It is one of my favorite plays and I was humming this while working!

I have a ton of those big head Liv Doll laying around and I used the hat as a guide and I cut out a hole the size of the hat from the Liv doll head.

I use crazy glue to seal it and did some light smoothing with rubber cement. I will work on it more a little later but I am happy to be done with that hat.

Next up is the Disney store Aladdin Doll which I purchase new because he didn't have the hat molded to the hair

He has the normally Disney pre-Hasbro body with click knees and bendable elbows.

He is now Khan in the dolliverse

I also found this version of Aladdin in the thrift store too!

I purchased him because of his body and not because of his face.

His face looks pinched and the face is strange with a weird look to it. It too had the hat

made onto the head.

The body is articulated and I hope to be able to use it on a doll in the future.

OK, Thanks For Looking!

Sunday, May 9, 2021

Fairy Godmother!

Hey Gang!

This is Disney month and today we are going to look at Cinderella Fairy Godmother dolls

First up is:

Disney Princess Exclusive Deluxe
Cinderella Doll Gift Set Fairy Godmother Doll Plush 10" released in 2012

This is the doll I got on ebay on sale for $3.00! She didn't have the cape or the wand but I think I have enough Harry Potter wards around her that she can borrow.

One of the ways you can tell she is the one from the Disney Princess Exclusive Deluxe

gift set is that she has the longer bangs! Another way is the Regimentation numbers

are different.

There are a few release of the doll. The one that was sold separately has shorter bangs. I believe there were two release of her.

Besides the plus dolls Fairy Godmother dolls (that is what they are referred to as) there were some stuffed models that are similar to teddy bears.

Close up of the face and you can see the bangs are shorter.

The first time there was any mention of the Fair Godmother it was produced by Mattel an it was a costume that could be worn may another 11 1/2 doll. This was a rare find it came with the mask, cape, dress and Shoes (4 piece set and had a Cinderella paper doll with cardboard mince that were included in the box release in1991.

Close up of the set and mask