TONNER HOLIDAY RELEASES

[cleolinda]

SHIT. I totally forgot they were announcing this today. Fall/Holiday 2010 at Tonner:

Lord of the Rings: Legolas. What in the sweet name of Eru.

I just... it's like the Galadriel likeness is spectacular, and the Arwen one is pretty good from certain angles (and Noel Cruz's repaint is fantastic), and then... there's the guy dolls. I don't even know. It looks like they're reusing their Orlando Bloom likeness from the POTC line, and I didn't like it there, either. It's like... the head (see the profile shot) is just not shaped right, and the features need to take up more space on the face. I just... I know exactly how it's wrong, I just can't articulate it.

As always, though, the costume itself looks fantastically made.

And there's the Galadriel, but we've already covered that one.

Harry Potter: Aw, smaller 12" dolls! They're scale compatible with Lyra now! I am intrigued. The Ron is actually really great, IMO. I've seen the Hermione (pictures from convention displays), and I liked the 12" sculpt a lot better than the full-size doll. If I can find those convention pictures, I'll link them. Also: MCGONAGALL. Given the limitations of doll sculpting (wrinkles don't turn out too well)... they didn't do a half-bad job on that one.

Firefly: Zoe figure announced, no picture yet.

Alice in Wonderland: The White Rabbit.

DC Stars: New sculpt for Wonder Woman (no picture yet) and Supergirl. (Huh. I had not seen the Power Girl before.)

Gone with the Wind: The blue portrait gown.

The Wizard of Oz: They've been doing wacky shit (Exhibit A) (I say this lovingly) with this property for a couple of years now. I kind of like the Scarecrow girl doll, actually.

Anne Harper: Another Old Hollywood original character line (like their DeeAnna Denton, as opposed to the licensed Joan Crawford and Bette Davis dolls). There is clearly a lot of love put into their Hollywood-inspired lines.

The Princess Diaries. What? Now? I mean, I know Robert Tonner loves Anne Hathaway, but ...wow, the Julie Andrews likeness is kind of startling.

I'm not seeing anything new on the Twilight line (which is, after all, theoretically Relevant to the Interests of the Shelfians) I heard they were working on a Jasper doll, but--my hand to God--"were having trouble with the hair." NO KIDDING.

Comments

[bumblebee-1983.livejournal.com]

What in the sweet hell did they do to poor Legolas? Is it the hair? The shape of the head?

WHAT IS IT? I cannot put my finger on it!

ETA: I figured it out! It's the lips. They're TOTALLY wrong! And the forehead is huge. The eyes are not EVEN close, either.

OY. And Galadriel is soooooo beautiful, I just may invest the $160 for her. She could brighten a room.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

If you mentally photoshop out the poofy part of the hair, and just look at the pulled-down part on top and the braids at the sides... you can kind of see Actual Legolas in there somewhere. Maybe.

Head's still too square, though. And HUGE.

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

...Legolas looks more like Tom Felton with long hair.

Weird.

[gncurrier.livejournal.com]

It's the hair

Glam Metal Legolas is FAB :D

[castleatmydoor.livejournal.com]

Legolas looks so damn glam with his bright, painted lips and long, flowing hair. I hope they don't make him look better since I can't get enough of him like this. Does this make me a bad person? :D

[aki.livejournal.com]

I'm not a doll person, but I think that girl lion is fabulous.

[aficat.livejournal.com]

That NCruz guy did a Legolas (http://ncruz.com/characters_pages/characters13.html) that actually looks like him. This one is just a bobblehead or something.

[elbales]

His repaints are phenomenal. Also they sell for obscene amounts of money. $3000 for a doll? Really?

[bell-witch.livejournal.com]

Thank heavens they have no Faramir. I've already got one of those from... I can't remember. Really nice, though. Galadriel is stunning.

[von-hammersnark.livejournal.com]

Legolas is a blockhead with a tony face. :(

[von-hammersnark.livejournal.com]

*tiny, argh.

[tifaria.livejournal.com]

I feel like his jaw is okay, but as you go up his face, it widens too much, so that it's bigger at the top than at the bottom. I'm not sure if that's actually how it's sculpted, or if that's just because his hair is way too poofy, and maybe it's just creating the illusion of his head being wider at the top than the bottom. His features seem a bit flat, too. I think his cheekbones should probably be more prominent. The costume is really lovely, though, and you're right, the hair isn't bad from the back and sides, it's just... off, overall.

[skybreak-seeker.livejournal.com]

That is not Legolas. That is Lucius Malfoy at cosplaying at a ren faire.

[the-13th-bullet.livejournal.com]

...ARGHH

Cannot...unsee...!

[skybreak-seeker.livejournal.com]

My work here...It is done. :P

[mumford519.livejournal.com]

I kind of love all the girl Oz dolls. Pretty.

[wednesday]

That's not Lucius Malfoy playing Legolas.

That's Fabio.

Fabio Legolas.

[the-13th-bullet.livejournal.com]

When I read The Princess Diaries, for some reason I thought they were making dolls of the princesses in The Royal Diaries and I got all excited. I LOVED those books when I was younger. It is not to be, though :(

[arvada.livejournal.com]

I am days late because I was on vacation, but I have lamented the lack of a Minerva McG doll in the comments of your journal in the past, so I just want to thank you for bringing her to my attention now! I am so excite!