More dolls for my imaginary collection

I love doing these "dolls that I like but don't need" posts!  They can be a mite dangerous to my pocketbook, but I still enjoy putting them together. 

MOMMY'S HAVING A BABY

COMPANY:  Tyco
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1992

The title pretty much says it all:  Mommy Doll is pregnant and "gives birth" to a baby doll.  She even has her own little ultrasound machine to "look" at the baby.  Baby Doll also comes with some accessories, and she drinks and wets like many good baby dolls do.  Mommy has jointed arms to hold Baby, and a dress to wear post-partum.  It's a cute concept, though I can see where some parents might've been freaked out some.  My own mother lifted an eyebrow when I told her about this one, LOL.

MAGIC POTTY BABY

COMPANY:  Tyco
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1992

Coexisting with Mommy's Having a Baby was this poppet, who had a gimmick similar to that of Potty Dotty.  Sit her on her toidy and she goes!  Unlike Potty Dotty, Magic Potty Baby's commode does all the dirty work, making tinkling and flushing noises.  The doll herself is partially stuffed and is cute enuff on her own without the pot.  She could be either white or black.

PEBBLES AND BAMM-BAMM

COMPANY:  Ideal
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:
Believe it or not, Uncle Man-Child reminded me of these one night.  We never will be super-close, but we're getting along better, and one night he...I forget exactly what it was he said, but I think he said it was a shame that Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm (the children from The Flintstones) weren't made into dolls.  Surprise, they were!  They appear to be nothing more than cute little baby dolls done up in the likenesses of Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble, but they sure are cute!  I went for a look on eBay shortly after that, and to my surprise Bamm-Bamm is the easier one to find.  Usually the girl doll is the easier one to find, but not this time!

CHIKA-CHAN

COMPANY:  Shiba
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1970, give or take a year.

The subreddit r/DollsOfAsia can be a dangerous place to go if you love dolls but are short on cash.  Since Chika-chan is foreign she's hard to come by here in the U.S., and as such she can go for a pretty penny.  Shame too, because she's cute.  "Chan" is a Japanese honorific, meaning that Chika-chan would have to be from there.  If the source I found is correct then Chika only had blonde hair...meaning that the doll pictured above is her friend Chiko-chan.  Chiko was either a redhead or a brunette.  Both dolls appear to have an internal armature, and thus they remind me a little of Tutti and Todd.  I'm fond of Asian dolls, so it should be no surprise that I like Chika-chan and Chico-chan.

ARGIGI AND BRIGIGI

COMPANY:  Hugo Limited
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:

These remind me a little of Poppy Parker in the face.  According to Cardigan Argigi is the lead character and Brigigi is her bestie.  If the chatter on Reddit is to be believed, these dolls are independently produced and have small production numbers, kinda like some of the smaller art dolls that I've seen on Etsy.  As of writing all the dolls are out of stock, so I have no idea what prices we're dealing with, but I bet y'all a bottom dollar these dolls are pricey.  They're cute, though.

PEACHY

COMPANY:  Mattel
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1973

C'mon, y'all know darn good and well that Mattel will have an entry somewhere!  Peachy reminds me of the story Treesa told me about herself and her Blooming Doll.  Violet is a puppet, and Treesa used her as a ventriloquist dummy of sorts.  Peachy is...well, she's kinda like that; she comes with four stick puppets and she manipulates them as such.  She also talks via a pull string, and apparently her speech changes with the puppets.  Pretty cool!  I wouldn't mind seeing this doll in action...<pauses to browse YouTube>...I think that's it, yeah.  Peachy could be either black or white, and both variants are cute.  I have to admit, I'm very interested in this one...no, bad Moon!  Stay off eBay!

PENNY PUPPY WALKER

COMPANY:  Bradgate/Palitoy

YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1972

Bradgate was (I think) a subdivision of Palitoy, meaning that Penny Puppy Walker here is likely a British/European thing.  Y'all know of old how I like foreign releases.  Penny is a walker like a great many dolls, but instead of relying on batteries she relies on...air.  Y'all see that yellow and red thing and the tube around Penny's foot?  The tube attaches to her somewhere and the child would press on those red buttons to get her moving.  The commercial shows that her dog will move to, utilizing the same mechanism.  Pretty cool!  I admit that I almost bought this one just because of that.  I love how dated the fashions in the commercial are, by the way.  Very early seventies.  As an aside, French company Clodrey made a very similar doll during the same timeframe.  Her name was Nini the Trotter and her face was different from Penny's, but otherwise they're the same doll.  Spoiler alert, Clodrey dolls will be making an appearance in the blog soon.  I've seen and found some cute ones.

BABY GROWS UP

COMPANY:  Mattel
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1978

Don't confuse this doll with the Baby Alive doll!  Dolls that "grow up" aren't as common as dolls who drink, wet, cry, walk, you get me, but they're definitely out there.  Unclad images of Baby Grows Up show that her torso gets longer as she "grows," and as far as I know her legs don't have to be manually straightened like the Baby Alive doll's legs do.  I can remember one doll from the nineties whose legs had to be straightened by hand to transform her from a crawler to a walker, and to me it looked like a good way to break your doll.  Not that Baby Grows Up can't break, but she seems a bit more robust than similar grow-up dolls.

COME TO ME BABY CRAWL 'N' WALK

COMPANY:  Toy Biz
YEARS OF PRODUCTION:  1998

This is the doll I was thinking of above.  I was ten by 1998 and finally beginning to pay attention to dolls, but I was also still diligently watching Nickelodeon and the toy commercials that accompany kids' programs, so I remember this one pretty well.  She can crawl, and if her legs are pulled straight she can walk.  She apparently is activated by noise, as she moves when you call to her.  Hmmm, does that mean that if I don't take her batteries out she'll start moving when I beller for my dogs, or when the thunder gets too close?  Jeez, I hope not!

That takes care of this bunch!

Love,
RagingMoon1987

Underrepresented...until now

In a post that never saw the light of day, I noted that Yasmin was criminally underrepresented in my Bratz collection.  Jade is my favorite Bratz character, period, and until recently I largely ignored the other characters.  Well, sort of, I did.  One Sasha, two of Meygan, two of Cloe, three of Jade, one each of several other characters.  No Yasmin at all...well, yeah, I sort of did.  I have a Bratz Kidz Yasmin and a Yasmina Clairvoya, but I didn't have any examples of Yasmin herself until this past June.  Smile purdy, ladies.

It's Yasmin's birthday today, so she's celebrating with doppelgangers!  The doll on the left is an early Yasmin, from the first Strut It! wave in 2003.  She is wearing her secondary blouse, and her primary skirt and shoes.  She's got a bit of a hippie vibe going on with that skirt.

I'd have worn a getup like this in a heartbeat back in high school, though my sister pointed out that some of my health woes now might trace back to my teenage penchant for wearing platform shoes.  Teenagers always think they're gonna live forever, and sixteen-year-old me thought "By golly, if Elton John could wear big goofy shoes, so can I!"  LOL, anyway, the five main Bratz characters had a basic look, but that look was not set in stone (I've seen some Cloe dolls with brown eyes, for example).  This particular Yasmin has blue-green eyes that seem to glow under the right light, plus big burgundy lips that I love.  Her eyeshadow is pretty tame, especially for a Bratz doll, but it has a nice shimmer when the light is right.

Interestingly, this Yasmin doesn't have earrings.  Big bangles were usually the norm for Bratz.

I love the simple ponytail, by the way.  Hairstyling has never been my strong point, be it on dolls or on myself, but I can handle this.

The doll in the middle is Head Gamez Yasmin, in a dress that she may or may not have borrowed from Ooh-La-La Kumi.  LOL again, and no, this was legit her stock dress.  It just happens to be the same as Kumi's extra dress.

Hey, they're The Girls With a Passion for Fashion, right?  This dress is a simple, versatile little number so it fits in well with just about any Bratz wave.  Since customization was kinda the point of Head Gamez all the dolls were simply dressed, but they still looked nice.  I remember the Head Gamez dolls very well and I loved the idea at the time, but it turns out that the heads can't be swapped easily, and doing so damages the doll.  So Yasmin will be keeping her noggin, and THAT'S ALRIGHT, THEN, because she's got a pretty face.  I think she knows it, too, as smug as she is!  This Yasmin has baby blue eyes with a brown rim, plus eyeshadow that goes with everything.  Her lips are a dusty rose shade.

I like Strut It's cranberry lips better, but they're both pretty dolls.  Interestingly, Strut It doesn't have earrings or holes for earrings, and Head Gamez does.  They're still not the bangles I associate with these dolls, but they ARE earrings.

This last one is none other than iCandy, one of my all-time favorite Bratz lines.

Pink looks amazing on Yasmin, and this particular doll paired it with blue.  Notice that she doesn't wear any earrings either, and that her eyes are completely different from those of the other two.

Green or hazel, I'd say.  Her eye makeup is also pretty tame, though not as subtle as Strut It! Yasmin's eyeshadow is.  This Yasmin has straight hair and thus didn't look as scruffy when removed from the box.  I appreciate the straight fibers, and also the jazzy pink streak that fits the iCandy theme.

Pink definitely has its place in the dolly world!  iCandy Yasmin is something of a foodie, by the way; here she's refusing to move unless I share my pizza.

Pizza was shared.  Malden's Pizza Hut closed down when the chain sold, but we have a Casey's that serves pizza so all is not lost.

Definitely a victory for Yasmin, and for me as well, since a hole in my Bratz collection has been filled.  I still admire Genie Magic Yasmin from afar, but...well, my rekindled obsession with Simon and Halbig dolls has been very hard on my doll budget (spoilers!), so that Yasmin will have to wait for now.  No worries, the ones I've got are fine.

And now, News From the Moon!  I have an appointment with my neurologist set up.  I see her on August 25th at Cape Girardeau, and hopefully I'll get some friggin' answers already!

Bratzy love,
RagingMoon1987

So random, May/June '26

Another two months gone, another two months of pain and annoyance and fibroids.  For those of y'all that might've missed my update on the 24th, I will not be having surgery anytime soon.  I had another ultrasound yesterday to examine my right kidney, and I've yet to get those results back.  I also have a neurologist appointment scheduled, and I'm waiting to hear what they say before starting physical therapy.  So I'm feeling a little more optimistic now, but I'm still feeling pretty down.  Please keep the prayers, thoughts, and good vibes coming.

Now to the post.  These first few pictures are from a post that I scrapped.  It involved the glow-ups of two new dolls and was pretty disjointed, so I scrapped it.  The first doll is a bedraggled Just Like You #119 that I adopted off of eBay (she arrived April 29th).  Pretty wild, this doll was released in 2022, retired in 2025, and now there she was on eBay, stripped and mussed.  Putting her back together was an easy fix, but still!  Anywho, here's how she looked fresh out of her shipper...

...after I got her dressed...

...and after I brushed the tangles out of her hair.

That was all it took to throw her into shape.  Her name is Electra, by the way, and I noted in the scrapped post that she's only my second doll to have the after-2022 eyebrows.  River Song was my first.

If placed too low the newer eyebrows run the risk of looking bitchy, and River Song comes dangerously close to crossing that line.  Kinda fitting, now that I think of it, since Riv's namesake is a bitch.  Electra's eyebrows are placed high, giving her an innocent, quizzical, kinda goofy expression, like McKenna Brooks.  Keep in mind that I'm not McKenna's biggest fan.  But Electra looks alright.  She's a Nanea head, and Nanea dolls always look innocent...a little too innocent...

...anyway!  Around the same time Mama fell in love with this Las Amigas doll, Mali.

Mali is Mar's size, and she had to sit around in her skivvies for awhile because the dress Mama bought came from Ukraine.  Stuff from abroad takes forever to get here now, thanks in part to a certain someone and his blankety-blank tariffs.  It was worth the wait, though.

Now we move to May 3rd.  Cinderella and Gus-Gus.  Baby Come Back and a Teen Trends doll photobomb in the background. 

I don't have too many dolls that can cross their ankles like this, much less play dolls.  As I said in April, Cinderella is a Zapf Creation Little Princess, by the way.  I was looking for Snow White, but these dolls are kinda hard to find so I took what I could get.  The Little Princesses are highly jointed and easy to carry, so I may do a lot with Cinderella in the coming weeks.

May 6th.  Electra kicks back with her cat, Water Lily.

By then Electra's accessories had come.  Mama said they added a lot to Electra's overall look.  Oh, and here's a better look at Water Lily, because she's got an adorable face.

Water Lily got her name from the series of paintings by Claude Monet.  I love those paintings.

May 8th.  Chou Chou, in her usual mood.

This time I think she's mad that I let her hair get dusty.

May 10th.  Kiara is just a hair out of season, LOL!

Mama and I were digging for the perfect patriotic outfit.  We'd already found some nice things for the Wellie Wishers and some of the American Girls.  Spoilers, we found something for Kiara too.  Keep reading.

May 12th.  One of my Failbook groups has a Tiny Treasures Tuesday, and Hong Kong Honey and Libra Baby are definitely tiny.

I need to dig out my tiny ball-jointed dolls, the ones Setsu-P sent.  They'll be perfect for the theme!  I also need to take Honey and Libra outside and pose them in the grass, to vary things up a bit.

May 17th.  Pictures from another aborted post.  HER NAME IS MARIANNINA!!!  I need to get her a name tag, because I never can remember.

Maybe I should change her name to Derpina.  One of Mariannina's eyes sticks open when I lay her down.

May 18th.  With the temperature and humidity rising, Yuka fancied a brief jaunt outside. 

Severe weather was in the cards again, and for some weird reason whenever that happens I want to play with Yuka.  Keep in mind that when the weather is threatening I pack her up and carry her with me to work.  It wasn't predicted to be THAT bad on May 19th, but with Yuka I take no chances. 

May 19th.  Kiara's Independence Day getup arrived...most of it.  The T-shirt is missing.

Look at Bitty Kitty's hat!

I thought that taping Kiara's hat to her head was bad, but this is a riot!

May 20th.  This doll arrived, and she is a big question mark.  She was made by Playmates and made in Hong Kong, but that's all I know about her.

I found some in-package examples of similar dolls that were called "Tara," and a Failbook friend thinks these dolls were offered by Kellogg's cereal.  Indeed, I found a doll just like this pet from Kellogg's, and her name was/is "Honey."  She looks like she's signing "I love you" with her left hand.

I thought Ginger was a blue-eyed brunette, but she is in fact a redhead.  Hence her name; Mama helped me pick that name.  Tam has/had a doll with these same hands, by the way, but her head is different.  She's a cute little doll.

May 21st.  Ginger and Mali made fast friends. 

Mama fell hard for the Paola Reina dolls during May.  First there was Mali as seen above, and this is Nora.  She arrived May 21st.

Nora is one of those jointed Las Amigas, which I knew existed but never had owned before.  She isn't as limber as Cinderella is, but she looks a lot more comfortable than Mali does.  Did y'all see the penguins on Nora's onesie???  I love penguins!

Paola Reina dolls tend to have pretty eyes, but Nora's are completely different from those of my other PR dolls.  When the light hits 'em just right they shine, kinda like Printemps eyes do.

Despite what that picture suggests, Nora does not have pupils.  As dark as her eyes are the lack of pupils isn't too jarring.

May 25th.  One of my Failbook groups asked for brown-eyed babies, and Colin was who I thought of first.

Since Colin can't sit I propped him up against Cassandra.  They make a cute pair.

May 26th is when Briana Joy arrived.  I went through a brief fixation on Only Hearts Club dolls during the end of May.

Briana Joy is the prerequisite athlete of the Only Hearts Club 

Here she is out of her box, with her little doggie Longfellow in tow.  Kinda looks like her hands are fading; Tam said that can be a problem with these dolls.

Lily Rose followed on May 27th.  She has a combo that I love, red hair and freckles.

Lily Rose is the outdoorsy type who loves to camp and...well, just do stuff outside!

Be sure to wear sunblock, chica.  Most of my red-haired friends burn like a shopping list in a bonfire when the sun is bright...but then again, so do I, and I am definitely NOT a redhead.  Lily Rose has taken precautions anyway with that hat, but she looks like she's already got some sun on her.

Olivia Hope is still with us, by the way.  She's in storage, but unlike some of my stored items I know exactly where she is, and once I'm up and walking again I'll retrieve her.

Unfortunately for Lily Rose and Briana Joy, my obsession with the Only Hearts Club went on vacation when Mika showed up (she arrived the same day as Lily Rose, May 27th).

Brrrr, we were running the A/C that day, and those bare legs look cold.  Our A/C is very efficient, thank God, but it does make summer evenings a mite chilly at Casa Pizarro.  Oh well, I do have a cute lap blanket.  Anyway, Mika is a Volks Mini Super Dollfie.  I've wanted a Volks doll for a long time, and now I've got her (Mama and I went halfsies)!  Here's a better picture of her.

The Den of Angels user sent a whole bunch of stuff with Mika, including several wigs.  I unsurprisingly like the red wig a lot, and Mama prefers the pink one.

Den of Angels has but a few months to live, but as of writing the marketplace is still alive and well.  I figured now was the best time to grab a Volks doll, and I ended up being right.

May 29th.  I dragged Ginger to work with me for no special reason other than that I could (she fits into my saddle bag.  I have no idea what she's pointing at.

Ginger likes birds, so maybe she was pointing at them.  My street has plenty of 'em, including a few woodpeckers.  I love woodpeckers.  Or it may have been the clouds.  The end of May was very unsettled in our neck of the woods.

But then again, so was early June, and that brings us June 1st.  This lovely little trio consists of Bryant, Bella (not to be confused with my dog Bella), and Ashlyn. 

I'd heard through the grapevine that the Wellie Wishers were being phased out in favor of the AG Sisters, which I'd both feared and expected.  Take that news with a pinch of salt though, because I've neither heard nor read anything official.  Anywho, I need the whole set like I need a hole in my head, but...well, I want it, LOL.  As for Bella, she's a little French doll, and I saw one of her ilk get an in-depth glow-up on YouTube.  I don't know if I should trust my Bella though, as she looks a lot like a bad seed.

"Who, moi?"

Yes, you.  You remind me of Rhoda Penmark.  LOL, that's actually why I chose this particular Bella doll!  To be fair, Bella also reminds me a little of Edith, from Dare Wright's The Lonely Doll (Edith was a Lenci doll).  I don't know a lot about Bella dolls, so I'll do some research and maybe put up a post if I find enuff material.  From what little I've already learned, Bella may have been the name of the company itself and not the name of the doll.  Either way Bella got a lot of attention in the week after she arrived, and she could easily be found on the arm of the couch, right by me.

A lot of the other Bella dolls that I've run into since have irritated expressions.  Not ugly, mind y'all, but put out.  I'm thankful that my doll is more chill than that.

June 6th.  I put Nora in her new summer dress.  It's more fitting for June in the Bootheel than her penguin onesie.  Yes, that's a box of corn Chex behind her.  My favorite flavor of Chex.

The dress is tagged with Paola Reina's logo, so I think it may have been lifted from another doll.  Oh well, it looks fine on Nora, especially with all those colors.

We return to French dolls on June 10th.

Her name is Praline, and she's from Corolle's Rainbow line.  I love her smirky little face!

On June xx another little foreigner arrived.  Her name is Carola, and unsurprisingly she's a Furga doll.  Y'all probably know of old how I like those.

I have plenty of Furga dolls, but only one other Furga baby doll.  Carola's face was what appealed to me, especially those gray eyes.

What can I say, I love European-made dolls.  They're not any better or worse than those produced in China or God-knows-where, but I like their faces.  Furga dolls in particular can be just about any emotion conceivable, with Carola being...oh, I'd say she's in awe of something, like my sister and I often were at a young age.  Mama told me that I used to look over her shoulder at nothing and just...smile.  And my sister, while in her mechanical swing, would stare over all our heads with her eyes wide and her mouth slightly agape, like she was saying "oooo" at something.  Being religious, I attribute it to babies seeing angels or something else of that stripe, but y'all can make of that what you want.

June 17th, Carola got friendly with my Cry Babies, Ayla and Lady.

June 18th.  This time I have Liesel, Alex, and Ethel.  All fresh out of their packages.

That's a mixed bag if I ever saw one!  I kinda get the idea that Liesel may have a temper, but Alex is a good baby so Liesel needn't worry.

June 19th.  Ethel appears to have a motherly side to her (see above), so I gave her a smaller baby to manage.  The little doll is a Potato Baby from Cloveray. 

Since the Potato Baby is from Cloveray I named her Clover.  She's not as squidgy-pinchy soft as Alex, but she feels nice in my hands.

I haven't seen Potato Babies of color, and that's a shame.  Clover would look adorable in a dark vinyl.

June 21st.  After a long absence one of my Cabbage Patch Kids pops in to say hello.  Joyita Emilia was fascinated by Alex.

Another green-eyed baby joined the group on June 22nd.

She's a Disney Darling, and I've chosen to name her Winnie, after good ol' Winnie-the-Pooh.  I don't know if all Disney Darlings light up and play music, but this one does, and...well, y'all know how I like things that light up.

Y'all, I think I rather overdid it with new dolls this time around!  I need to focus on the old instead of buying the new.  Anyway, June 24th, in the aftermath of an infuriating day, I noticed that Winnie and Alex have something significant in common:  BIG green eyes.

My, what BIG eyes you've got!  Their eyes close in tandem, too, meaning that when I hold one eye closed they both close.

The vast majority of my sleep-eyed dolls have individual eyes, like so.

LOL, I got to use that goofy picture twice!  Winking is sadly out of the picture for Alex and Winnie, but that's a small price to pay.

June 25th.  Liesel reminded me that I hadn't yet let her sit on the arm of the couch, a rite of passage for a lot of the dolls that come to Casa Pizarro.  I reminded her that our floors are thin carpet on a concrete floor, and thus she'd likely break if she fell.  But ultimately I gave in...for a little while, anyway. 

My cats were particularly hyper that evening, so Liesel didn't stay there long.  I'd have held her on my lap, but that too was occupied by a cat (remember that I have six cats, LOL).  But either way Liesel was appeased, and I promised her a safe place for her and Ethel to be displayed one day.

On June 26th I took Clover to work with me...again.  I'd already done that twice.  Clover prefers the narrower of the two pockets in my saddlebag.

I can't say that I blame Clover.  That pocket is the perfect width for her.

Towards the end of the month Treesa sent me a small box of stuff for World Doll Day (which I completely forgot).  I won't make a long post longer by showing it all, but here's the star of the box.

I think she's a #4.  She's kept her color better than Mama's #3, but she's not greasy like #5 can be.  She's got a beautiful face.

Some of the other items in the box were Barbie-sized pets, so I may have to do a pet-themed post in the future.  One of 'em is an old Kitty in My Pocket figure.  I used to love those growing up.  I also want to find matching dresses for my two ponytail girls, which won't be hard.  I just need another copy of "Fancy Free."  Thank you, Treesa!

I must say, this summer is off to a rough start.  I don't even have a post planned for Indy Day, I've been so out of it.  But I haven't torn my ankle up like I did last July, so that's a positive.  God willing, I won't. 

Stay cool,

RagingMoon1987