Musical interlude from our Nukes.
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Another moan about the newer dolls with their garish, bug-eyed face-up. The old-style Draculaura was pouting and sensuous. The new one - well, as dolls go, she’s not bad. Her fangs are that bit more obvious and, if the earlier doll had never existed, she would be a perfectly delightful doll. But put the two together… Oh dear. New-style Draculaura’s expression implies that Van Helsing just staked her somewhere very painful.
[gallery] I finally did it & yanked Dracula’s head off. No pictures of the operation, it was traumatic & performed in a thunderstorm. That head would not yield. In the end I held poor Drac under the hottest water I could stand & pulled as hard as I could & POP! (Think of the moment the tooth comes out in Alice Cooper’s Unfinished Sweet for the effect. There really should have been triumphal chords). Turns out Dracula’s a talented musician now he has full use of his limbs. Though he’s lost that buff body he started out with. If you have a CAM vampire body going spare, this is well worth doing & not terribly difficult. Remember - if this klutz can do it, anybody can.
[gallery] First pic - my broken Draculaura, who I used for a spare parts donor & then put in a bath with bubble-wrap bubbles to hide the horror. Second pic - as she is now, with CAM body. To get the head off, I just held the neck under the hot tap & pulled gently. I did not break the peg, as you see. Those how-tos on YouTube did not lie. Even a klutz like me can get the head off a Monster High doll! And a standard head will fit a Create A Monster body. This is just the dummy run, of course. Plucking up my courage to attempt the rebodying of Dracula.
[gallery] Obviously I had to have the Dracula doll, but the play set was originally £45. Which I would have paid! Until I clocked that the dolls were the dreaded fixed-arm ones that Mattel is so convinced are the way forward. So I waited for a substantial, less than half price deal. Which was always going to happen quite soon because nobody likes these dolls . Dracula rocked up yesterday & I had him unboxed & posing for the camera straight away. It’s not good. He’s jointed at neck, shoulder & hip, basic as it gets, plus a token knee joint. The neck joint is nice, he can tilt his head expressively. But that’s it. The other joints are so limited that all the poor soul can do is stand rigid, feet together, arms by sides. No poseability at all. He can sit, just, but his trousers pop open at the back - Mattel has never understood that you have to have some leeway in the clothes if the doll is to move properly. I’ve posted two pictures, one where I’ve tried to shoot round his l...
“So anyway, we had that Gandalf over for a party, and he crashed on the sofa. And now he just won’t leave! Has nobody told him that guests and fish stink after three days? He’s not even much fun at a party, to be honest. No social skills whatsoever. No small talk. I wish he’d just go back to Narnia or wherever it is he comes from. He’s behind me, isn’t he?”
