Morb's Dollzhouse

Moanica D’Kay does Hull Fair. Nothing clears a space in a crowd quite like taking a doll from your bag.

Frightfully Tall Elissabat is perfect in every way. Now, why can’t Mattel make more dolls like this instead of those dreadful, cheap-looking articles with half-arsed articulation? 

I’m rather fond of the Disney Descendants, & particularly of this splendid Maleficent with her green magic flame.

[gallery] Look who just dropped into my life! I never thought I’d score Valentine. Love his asymmetrical mouth.

“I’m not saying it wasn’t kind of you to buy it for me. I’m just saying it’s a house dress. A house dress! Practically a kimono. What, are you going to put me in fluffy slippers next? A pinny, maybe? Fine. Fine!   I’ll just sit here feeling hopelessly underdressed & frumpish.”

[gallery] Never say never… That’s the second Frankie Stein I’ve bought in a fortnight, and what’s more it’s the dreaded new face-up, which I was boycotting. But she was discounted, so how could I not? I have mixed feelings about her. She is kind of sweet, and a beautifully made doll, but there are clear attempts to tone down her monstrousness. Her skin is a lighter shade of green, she has fewer scars (five compared to Wave 1′s eight) and they are muted. Her collar nearly hides her neck bolt, & one of those discreet scars is nearly hidden by the ankle strap on her shoe. This girl is never going to have original Frankie’s problem of limbs falling off while swimming; those stitches are nearly healed. Other peeves: those ugly eyebrows, a general air of gormlessness and garishness, the fact that the lightning bolt on her left eye is so subdued, and the rouge.Oh, that rouge! Has any woman since the fifties ever just plonked some Bonjour Paris right in the centre of the cheek, like ...

I swore I wasn’t going to buy another Frankie, or any of the core characters. But offered black & white Skull Shores Frankie, it turns out I have the willpower of a jellyfish.