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

Re: Arwen, and random question

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Because it tells you what kind of clothes they can wear, how they relate to other dolls in different lines. And maybe just because they're giving you all the possible relevant stats. The "Tyler" body is their signature "Tyler Wentworth" character--the doll the company started with--so most of the other dolls are based on that one. But then they have a new "athletic" sculpt that they used for the Lara Croft and now for a lot of the superhero dolls, and what that basically means is "huge chest." Which makes a difference, in terms of getting a smaller outfit onto an "althetic" doll (or putting a superhero outfit on a smaller doll). Whereas the "ballet" or "ballerina" bodies are slimmer and have smaller chests than the normal Tylers.

Also, the full-size Harry Potter dolls and the Narnia dolls are on a bigger scale--a Tyler is 16" (your usual height for an adult female doll, like my Serafina or Elizabeth), but Susan and the larger Harry Potter kids are 17" (the same height as Tonner Edward, who's "tall"), and Peter and the HP adults are 19". So the bodies aren't the same sizes as the Tyler-based lines. Lyra (12") couldn't wear Lucy or Hermione's clothes, in other words, even though the characters are similar ages. That's what they're trying to convey to you.

And when they change sculpts in the middle of a line, argh. They've kind of done us a disservice with the two Bella doll sculpts, because they now have different bodies--the original was 15" with "a new teen body," but the newest one is a ballerina-style Tyler, 16" with a much smaller chest. A lot of people like to resell the dolls and outfits separately on eBay--I got a Lyra school outfit secondhand without having to get a second, redundant doll. So if I were interested in getting the new Bella's birthday dress for the original doll, I'd be screwed, because it wouldn't fit the original one.

Re: Arwen, and random question

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is waay more complicated then I'd imagined. But it makes perfect sense - thanks so much! At least now I know if get sucked into some sort of weird Ellowyne world (I really like some of them, but can't quite commit), I'll know what she will and won't be able to wear. Not that she doesn't come with all the clothes to begin with.

Also, since when is 'athletic' mean big-boobed? Not that they're mutually exclusive or anything, but it's not the first thing that springs to mind. Though I suppose "chesty" is not what they'd really want on the website....