I Love VIP Pets Dakota

Because I've gotten a Pinkie Cooper doll recently, I've been thinking about anthropomorphic play line dolls. The only dolls that come to my mind at the moment are Peteena, and those animal dolls from Petworks. And oh, the Disney movie Zootopia is so timely right now. Have you heard of their singing gazelle doll??? It's so strange looking but I want one. It's only available at the UK Disney store right now.

Then I became more curious and checked out Littlest Pet Shop doll hybrids online. Basically, collectors take of the head of LPS figures and put them on human doll bodies. Some are really strange to me, while some do work well and look adorable.

Then I stumbled upon an I Love VIP Pets doll hybrid. I Love VIP Pets are fashion toy dogs with colourful and styled hair, bright eye makeup and fashion accessories. I've seen this line at the toy store previous times before but I didn't really bother to check them out. However, because of this LiveJournal post, I thought of making my own I Love VIP pets hybrid myself! Well, what are the chances of me getting a VIP pet at the toy store for a good price? Pretty slim. I've seen them being on sale, but I didn't take advantage of it at the time because I wasn't interested.

Lo and behold, I found one at Toy Kingdom.

Dakota was the only design left on the shelf. The saleslady explained to me that this is on sale because a newer but more expensive I Love VIP Pets stock came in, in a plastic dog carrier packaging and packed with more fashion accessories, ergo, stuff I don't necessarily need.

It was on sale for P200.

A closer look at Dakota.

One side of the box.

The other side of the box.

The back of the box.

Other characters from this line. I think I would have loved to get Alex or Sophie, but Dakota is fine.

The top of the box with the cool paw print design. 

Dakota out of the box but still attached to the cardboard insert I pulled out of it.

The back of the cardboard insert. There are plastic flaps and adhesive tape on it.

Dakota free from the box and with her accessories: a brush, a pair of earrings and a cowboy hat. The earrings are weird because they attach to their cheeks, not her actual dog ears. What??

I decapitated Dakota. Doing so reveals an extra accessory: a dog collar. Her gold rickrack hair band is also removable.

I brushed her hair and a hair plug came off, but I don't know from where. It's not that important though because if I can't find the spot where it came from, so can't you.

Remember my Breyer doll? I left it naked because I don't like it a lot.

Decapitation time!

I've compared neck knobs. This head transplant might just work.

And bam! The body is too orange for Dakota's skin tone, but because of her long orange hair, it just might work. And Dakota is a cow-girl dog, and my Breyer doll is a horse-riding doll, so it all fits!

Switching heads and stuff.

Heh.

Dakota all dressed up. I made pony tails out of her hair because it's unruly.

Dakota, Harry, Anastasia and Pinkie.

On Dakota: Daiso seifuku, miniature Furla jelly bag, Pocahontas moccassins

On Harry: my Breyer doll's suit

On Anastasia: Goya bits candy container cap, Daiso seifuku, La Dee Da bag, Barbie sneakers

On Pinkie: Monster High Create-A-Monster wig, Daiso seifuku, Chanel bag cellphone charm, black Barbie clone shoes

I think they are the only dolls I have of similar built. I can't wait to take photos of all my dolls to compare their height.

Dakota's big head is really overwhelming when she is next to other dolls, but I think she'd fit right in with Blythes and Pullips. I don't collect those though. I'm ok with Dakota and don't plan to make more VIP pets hybrids because I have no spare doll body of this size anymore.

This makes me want to try other kinds of hybrids though. We'll see...

Pinkie Cooper

I finally have a Pinkie Cooper doll! I bought one from an online seller. I got her for P350.

Photos from the seller:

The online seller was selling Pinkie with 2 Liv doll wigs, but I didn't want the wigs because I already have one plus three Monster High Create-A-Monster wigs. So Instead of paying P450, I paid P350, and P50 for shipping.

Here she is with a Create-A-Monster wig.

She's tiny!

I haven't brushed the wig that well when I put it on so the hair has a lot of volume.

If you're wondering how I managed to attach a Create-a-Monster wig on her head when it's too small, I attached it using Faber-Castell tack-it. First, I stuck a tiny piece on the inside of the wig and pinned down the plastic peg inside (that is really for CAM doll heads) so that it lays flat under the wig cap. Then I strategically placed four more pieces of Tack-it on the inner edge of the wig cap so that I can securely stick the wig on Pinkie's head, trying my hardest to avoid the hair strands getting caught on the tack.

Her hair gets stuck to her eyelashes sometimes. I have to keep combing her hair to the side so that it won't get stuck there anymore. Her knees can click twice, and her paw hands are not as versatile as the usual doll hands, but they look cute. She has no ears! That's because her original wigs serve as ears well. Hair ears or ear hairs, yeah? Her feet are small but arched very high so she can only wear high boots from other doll lines.

Here she is with Anastasia, and they are both wearing Daiso seifukus. Pinkie's hair is so flat now and it looks like she's balding, haha. I might change her wig someday to another one with bangs instead.

Harry, Anastasia and Pinkie. Whoa Harry, slow down with the doll collecting.

/I changed her wig. Took a little while to do it because of the sticky tack, but it's fine.

She looks better with bangs, I think. And she's another purple haired doll for me, YAY!

A Photo Dump! [Part 4]

This is my haul last Friday.

It's not much.

A Burger King Anastasia doll. She has painted underwear and shoes, and her hair grows like a Crissy Doll. There's a gear on her back that can be used to adjust her hair length.

She has a red stain on the back of her legs, and her price was written on the sole of her foot. When I cleaned her up using acetone (not pure), her white underwear paint came off, so I just decided to remove all the white paint. The price on her sole won't come off completely so it will stay there.

This doll cost me P60. In my previous post, you can see her wearing a Daiso uniform which she stole from Frankie, a red cap from a Goya Bits minis (yes, the chocolate!) container, and some doll shoes I bought from Vivo Citi.

A Gumby figure by Jesco Hong Kong! I have a very small Gumby too which I thrifted on a different occasion. Now they can enjoy each other's company!

By the way, what I noticed on this HK toy is that Gumby's head is much pointier compared to the American version. The thumbs are much thinner, too.

Gumby cost me P28.

This is the train case gashapon I couldn't stop looking at whenever I find it at the toy store. I got the Germany train case. Not my favourite out of the bunch, but it's still cute. There were even sticker flakes inside the capsule that are all about Germany. I've already put them all in my sticker flake book.

This one cost me P120, but I didn't pay for tokens out of my pocket but with my card points.

An Angry Birds kid's shoelace. I thought I could use it as a belt of some sort for my dolls. This costs P35.

The train cases from the machine. Aren't they cute??!

I was actually debating with myself if i should get the train case or this Hello Kitty ice cream set which costs the same, but I got turned off by those big ice cream scoopers, haha. They're really cute though and I think they cost much cheaper than Re-Ment stuff.

I didn't buy this at the thrift store, but I want to share this anyway. This is a McDonald's Shopkins toy from a Happy Meal, and my stepmom got this for me together with a Rabbids figure which is also a Happy Meal toy. She put both toys in a package sent from New York to Manila, woo! In my previous post, you can kind of see what I got, which is a green tote bag, and an orange Flippa Flops. I also got a pink Judy Jumper in the blind bag that came with it. 

I found this last Friday too but I didn't get it. It's a Novi Stars Space Dreamer fashion pack! I found it at Toytown in Glorietta 1, and it was on sale for P150.

I was thinking so hard and for a long time about getting it because I do have a Novi Stars doll, but this pack only comes with three items: the outfit, the shoes and a teddy bear. That's like P50 each if you think about it, and even if the bear is kinda cute, I would never pay P50 for something that tiny. For a little teddy bear? No. The shoes would fit Barbie, I think, but I don't want to keep buying Barbie-sized stuff anymore.. which leaves me with the outfit. So I thought so many times to myself, is it really worth it to pay this much for this outfit?

The back of the box. To be honest, I never thought I'd find anything Novi Stars-related in toy stores anymore. Then bam, a fashion pack!

Oh and I finally took a photo of the toys my cousin left behind. 

Burger King bobble head

(I posted this on my now private personal blog on September 11, 2014. Since I now have a toy blog, I'll post it here.)

Today I thrifted a Burger King bobble head for P10. I bought it because I feel that I could salvage it. It was stained with blue ink for a reason God knows what, and its stand is missing.

I used alcohol then an instant stain remover pen to see if I could get rid of the ink stains, but they barely worked. Then I remembered I have acetone because I keep a bottle in my nail polish kit. So I used it and to my surprise, the ink came off, but so did the paint on the plastic, LOL.

Anyway, some photos:

Burger King Touchdown King. An NFL 2006 memorabilia.

It's missing its stand so these pegs on its feet were useless at first. I couldn't make the figure stand up.

Fortunately I have a small tin lid lying around in my room.

I punctured it with my paring knife (the one I use to cut my Lush soaps) to make two small holes.

Now my bobble head can stand up, hey!

I used acetone to clean its crown because it was just stained with ink. Looks like some of the paint on the crown came off too.