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So umm, I may have been mixing up/thinking Bruce Davison and Bruce Greenwood were the same person/interchangeable/the other one and umm, that was pretty mind blowing.

They've been my Pullman/Paxton all along!

I spoke too soon about MGA giving us nothing - it appears that the other Shadow High S3 dolls will have more than 3 accessories. Why it's just Rosie and Lavender, I'll never know!

Scarlet Rose - She's cute! I think I'm safe, but I will probably be keeping my eye out for her pants secondhand and maybe her sunglasses. I'm most excited to see how people restyle her!

Pinkie James - I want her gaming headset. Otherwise, she reminds me of Mara Pinkett. Which is pretty funny, because Rosie Redwood also reminds me of Mara.

Blu Brooks - ok, I may not actually be safe. I already knew I wanted her headphones and skateboard for my Jr High Jade, but I actually love her hair and makeup & think she'd be awesome restyled. It also helps that she's on the shorter body & I think her clothes are cute/will work for restyling my JRs. I wonder if she'll fit into the OMG doll clothes like the JRs? I'm also contemplating only getting her outfit and accessories second hand on the chance she doesn't make it up here. Then again, I've still only seen Demi Batista's clothes up for sale once, so that may not even be an option.

Lilac Lane - I like how she has test tubes and a little beaker. I'm assuming she's working on perfumes in the Rainbow High lab? She's actually pretty cute overall, and again, one that will probably be great when restyled.

Pinkly Paige - this is literally a My Little Pony name, it's also way too similar to Pinkie James. I can absolutely see kids asking for one and then getting the other instead due to parent/grandparent confusion. She does nothing for me, which is kinda sad because she's on the "curvier" body but she's got that one head shape (Margot/Heather thinner jaw) that I just don't like and will never own.

In other, non Rainbow High news: Luts has a new tiny doll line - the Honey 21 Delf, which is basically a smaller yosd plus their heads should also fit on the other Honey Delf heads. I really like the Bon Bon head but am trying my best to not succumb to temptation for several reasons

1) budget/back to school. My bank account is taking a wallop this month between the tuition, the laptop I needed and my yet to be known semester 1 book costs. Now is not the time to not fall prey to expensive dolls.

2) they're calling the body "Type1 Cutie Honey" so I'm assuming that means there will be another body coming within the next year or so that I might like more. I'm also hoping they release some additional hands and thus it would be smarter to wait on ordering until there were hand options..

3) new clothing size - while the 21cm/23 cm tiny yosds are getting more popular a lot of the clothing options for them are just too modern/casual. I haven't really seen any fancier/frillier outfits. It also probably would be easiest for me to get the head on the regular HDF body since I know clothing I like exists for that size.

4) There is a discount on the new dolls but it's only for white/normal and on the 21cm body. Refer once again to no.3 and then add on the fact that I'm contemplating resin tones that aren't white or normal - meaning there's no real reason to buy the doll now since I wouldn't be eligible for the discount anyways.

5) Soom is re-releasing Shonki/Appini later this month which is probably the sculpt closest to being my grail - or at the very least the doll that got away and who's re-re-release I've been waiting for forever (great timing Soom /s - although I will admit, it's a great time to rethink whether or not Appini is a doll I really want or if it's just built up regret from missing the free choice re-release in 2014 by one week. Because Appini and Bon Bon are similar, and is there one I like more? There's actually a few Appini-like dolls that have been off and on my wishlist over the years, and the Bon Bon sculpt is the latest)

Yaaas MGA, give us nothing! (Rosie Redwood and Lavender Lynn stock images)

When you didn't think MGA could cut more corners - they do! Shadow High S3 has new accessories but considerably less than S2. I mean, I had no use for the laptops or sewing machines, but ooof, you're getting a whole lot less for the same price.

And you know these are going to be $40+ up here (that is, if stores actually get them)

I'm not going to go into details about the names - but, again oof, much like the accessories, did they even try? Someone saw the placeholder names and decided "good enough!" and left it at that.

They're both cute dolls, but I think it will be more fun to see what people do with them, rather than them sparking any ideas for me. This also means that at the very least my wallet will be safe and it makes my self imposed no more large doll purchases until next summer plan seem more feasible! Huzzah!

My local doll club has a meeting this weekend and it's a potluck. I signed up to bring a veggie tray because that's fairly easy and if it winds up being 30+ degrees on Sunday it will travel safer than other items (cold cuts, anything with mayo, etc) and room temperature veggies still taste ok. Especially since I can't be sure if my busses will have air conditioning or not. The other evening when it was so bad (36° feels like 43°) my bus home did not have AC, just open windows. It was horrid. In comparison, the day after my bus home had air conditioning but it was only 31°. So, again, I'd rather something that won't spoil if stuck on a sweltering 40 minute bus ride.

Funny thing about said potluck though, we got an email the other day saying no more salads were needed and I was kind of thinking "huh, how many salads can people bring? Surely no one needs that much lettuce?" and then today I realized that a good chunk of the club are 50+, so yes, they would have a ton of salad recipes - ambrosia, macaroni, potato, and all those other salads I always ignore at potlucks 😅. So yeah, my picky eater brain was colouring my comprehension a bit there.

Non doll related - currently, I'm hanging out in hair salon, grooving to soft rock while I wait for the person I'm accompanying's hair to be done. Softcell, then Streetheart, then Roxette, Mellencamp, Trooper, Tom Petty and now Frampton. Clearly, I might be this one radio station's target audience.

I went wandering today, which, is basically just me walking to and from the various strip malls that surround my local mall, and then you know, wandering around said mall afterwards.

Which means I was able to hit up Toys R Us! And, while they actually had a better selection of Rainbow High today than when I popped in back in April, their display was much smaller today. It was only half a row instead of the whole row.

They did have the S5 Rainbow High dolls (except Victoria) and only had Rexx from Shadow High S2. The sole Priscilla actually had flawless makeup (she's very pretty in person) and the sole Kim had hilariously bad bangs but great makeup. Poor Michelle had horrid makeup on all three of her dolls.  And one day I'll see Zooey and Victoria in person, one day!

Sometimes, when Hotel California comes on, my brain immediately thinks "cool whip in my hair" vs the real lyrics of "cool wind in my hair"

That's it, that's the post.

• love love love the concept art for Jenny Rox and am looking forward to promo & owner pics.

• I do not understand what MGA is doing with Rainbow High but I do like that there's gonna be a wave 3 of the Junior girls. Come on baby Daphne! (Come on baby Delilah with hair like Jr High Krystal?!)

• Soom's releasing a 20th anniversary Teenie Gem later this month and my wallet is worried. But it'll probably just be Afi or Bygg again (fingers crossed) and I'll be safe

Had a relatively shitty (emotionally at least) week last week and when I was at the mall on Thursday I noticed GameStop had the new LOL Tweens in but because I was with work I couldn't pop in. So on Friday (since I already had to go to pick up other stuff) I popped on in.

They had Chloe Pepper (or as I like to call her "Ginger Spice the Copy Infregement". She's even cuter in person, like, all my dreams of having a Ginger Spice doll as a kid are now fulfilled (and she's not ugly AF like the old Spice Girls dolls) so that's great. I almost wanna send a letter to MGA asking why the tween quality control is better than rainbow high's.

I was chatting up the GameStop clerk while checking out like "do you have Emma emo? Well, she's not really emo, more scene, but I don't name them, anyways you got one in stock?" because again, I was there, and two birds and one stone and what not. Sadly they didn't, but the clerk was the right age to know the difference between emo and scene so that was nice.

I had shown my mom a pic of Emma Emo and she was like "you dressed like that!". I did not. I wanted to dress like that, but I in no way had the courage to dye my hair crazy colors and converse were out of my mom's budget, let alone knee high converse. But yes, I was kinda emo adjacent, but in no way a proto-scene kid, that was definitely some other kids I knew though, one of whom was in my programming class. And some of the younger years when I was in grade 12.

Random Stuff

• work has a supervisor! They seem nice & positive and fingers crossed this all works out.

• Finally got a Canadian/Disney+ release date for American Horror Stories, end of August. I'm quite excited, especially since the first episode is about a weird dollhouse/doll owner. I actually want to gather all my dolls together and take a picture of them "preparing" to watch it. Because I think that would be funny.

BJD Blabbing

+ It's Friday! Yay!

+ I really like Chicabi Choi, because of course I do. Then again I am rather fond of Chicabi Pony and Choi is just a bigger version of Pony. (Above link is to the Korean site, because the English site has the wrong doll in the pictures.)

+ Withdoll has a 31cm doll body now. I'm liking how more and more companies are jumping on this between size bandwagon. I remember when it was just Minoru Juniors.

+ Saintbloom is re-releasing their sweet line girl "Cookie". I asked on Instagram the neck size because if it works it would be a great head for a doll idea I've had forever. If not, I just still really love the head and will need to convince myself I don't need the whole doll.

+ These mockups are one of the reasons I really like the head sculpt.

+ The doll has a 5.5cm neck - so either I widen the hole or I build up the neck on the teenie gem. I could make it work. But is that better than the Aimerai head which would fit without needing any mods to the neck or head hole?

+ I really shouldn't buy any dolls at the moment though. Again, this is probably just me working through shit/trying to talk myself out of options.