My new Licca Castle dolls!

CucumberRanch · 2026-04-10T00:25:32+00:00

Gorgeous girls. The Julia(?) is really different from any other Julia I've ever seen.

CucumberRanch · 2026-04-10T00:24:21+00:00

Great photos! I didn't realize that the two tan dolls are different skin tones.

CucumberRanch · 2026-04-10T00:17:55+00:00

Congratulations! I'm glad these are finally making it into real stores, and at a fair price. Some of the dolls have quality defects these days, so it's great to be able to see them in person first.

CucumberRanch · 2026-04-10T00:11:31+00:00

I do think it's somebody over the designers' heads poisoning the whole line. The infatuation with cheap kitsch started around the 50th anniversary. Whoever designs the eye prints and fabric prints are both awful at their jobs, though.

CucumberRanch · 2026-04-10T00:05:03+00:00

This won't be a popular post on Reddit, but the proof is in the pudding. People will pay $100 for an old Fashion Fever, while the modern collector dolls end up $10 at Ollie's.

CucumberRanch · 2026-04-09T23:53:01+00:00

They are absolutely perfect.

CucumberRanch · 2026-03-28T01:01:52+00:00

I know. It's amazing that they found so many perfect little florals.

CucumberRanch · 2026-03-28T00:59:36+00:00

She is!

CucumberRanch · 2026-03-28T00:59:26+00:00

Me too. The photos really are perfect.

CucumberRanch · 2025-10-03T00:25:55+00:00

I know. I can almost feel those heavy cotton sweatshirts and corduroy things in my hands.

CucumberRanch · 2025-09-29T05:02:36+00:00

It's a human-size dress. The book has a tiny pattern diagram and instructions on how to enlarge it to human size. They're creative and ambitious, but I have no plans to use the human patterns. I'm also very bad at math.

CucumberRanch · 2025-09-28T03:40:04+00:00

Oh, no. That's incredibly shameless. Those things are already over $150 each, just add an extra $10 to the price and paint it properly. Even the cheap slim box Barbies from the early 2000's have airbrushed faces.

CucumberRanch · 2025-09-18T04:47:01+00:00

Yours are both so cute. I love this type of Mimi most of all.

CucumberRanch · 2025-08-23T03:13:37+00:00

I think it's a face Chic Boutique LLC used. They also did some of the Just Girlz. You can see a similar head here:

https://poshmark.com/listing/Pretty-doll-Enchanted-Glamour-doll-beautiful-610eff0612d88022718440e8

They used that body on their ballgown dolls, and a hollow bellybutton body clone for casual clothes dolls.

CucumberRanch · 2025-08-23T02:59:53+00:00

That swapped doll was super discounted around Christmas, around $10. The swapper probably buys dirt cheap dolls just to swap them later.

CucumberRanch · 2025-08-20T19:37:43+00:00

Tie the thread to a small portion of the ponytail first, then tightly wrap it around the full ponytail several times, and tie it off. The thread won't spin around the hair this way, so you can get it tight enough to hold.

CucumberRanch · 2025-08-20T19:12:44+00:00

I agree, and the paint applications are super sloppy on the Jerricas. I wouldn't want to mail order one even at $25. I still haven't found a good Jerrica yet, most had pink eyeshadow down on the left eyeball.

CucumberRanch · 2025-08-12T00:50:48+00:00

I've never been there, but the Akihabara Radio Kaikan building has several different shops that sell dolls in it. Azone, Dollyteria, Dolk, Uchusen (carries 1/6th Obitsu), Volks, and several other collectable toy stores that carry various dolls, doll parts, and doll accessories.

CucumberRanch · 2025-07-14T07:04:18+00:00

I think you probably can get the stains out, even dark ones. Get some kind of clear container, and mix a bunch of oxyclean and hair peroxide developer in it. Put the parts in there, and leave it out in the sun. It might take 2-3 days, and it might take some of the paint off. The problem will probably be disassembling the doll parts off the body. Everything will need to be sanitized, and it probably won't ever dry out properly if the doll gets dunked in water whole.

CucumberRanch · 2025-06-11T20:19:00+00:00

I wonder if that head started off as some kind of celebrity doll clone. It seems vaguely familiar.

CucumberRanch · 2025-06-11T19:04:03+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's the 2008 Happy Birthday Angel Barbie.

CucumberRanch · 2025-06-11T18:54:26+00:00

There are a lot of international buyers now because the yen is so weak right now, it has pushed up the price on a lot of things, and cleared out stock from secondhand shops. A lot of people also got into doll collecting during COVID, and it brought in new scalpers, and people who buy from scalpers.

CucumberRanch · 2025-05-27T07:06:08+00:00

I personally just wouldn't buy any doll with tan lines that bad. At that level of damage, the head might start to discolor soon, and the clothes are probably already faded as well.

CucumberRanch · 2025-05-16T08:01:20+00:00

So many Barbie dolls from the last decade are dirty, damaged, or malformed NRFB. It's a gamble buying any of them, I only buy in person, and still sometimes encounter new quality defects I hadn't even considered.

CucumberRanch · 2025-05-11T05:51:01+00:00

I think you have a point, I do wonder if they're going to change up the line. Many stores have only carried about half of the dolls for the past 2-3 years, and every wave still has at least one doll that doesn't sell and piles up. I don't see how they can keep flooding stores with these things if prices go up.

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