Fairy Doors and More

I found these two fairy doors at a surplus shop. One is broken, but it can easily fixed with glue, and the other looks fine.

I didn't get any of these because I already have a pink one.

I saw this wooden checker board magnet at Kultura. It would look nice in a doll living room, right? 

These are plush toys on my bed. Those two on the left are Alf. The big one is my childhood toy, while the smaller one is a thrift store find. The other two are gorillas that were given as part of a care package from the US.

My McDonald's Peanuts toys. The one in pink is an old soccer Snoopy toy with wheels and music, but the battery is dead. I just painted everything with pink because its colours were starting to fade.

I have two Charlie Browns. One of them has two voice recordings in English, while the other has them in Japanese! Yup, the other one is from a Japanese McDonald's. It was a thrift store find.

I didn't realise that I have a Peanuts table mat that matches my Peanuts collection. I just didn't think of placing them all together for a picture until this photo happened.

And here are my two I Love VIP Pets hybrids, Dakota and Nyla, finally in one photo. If I get another I Love VIP Pets toy, I can make room for one more because I have a spare body. I mean I could totally rip apart my Chelsea-Breyer hybrid for a VIP Pet hybrid, haha.

I Love VIP Pets Nyla

One of my contacts is a toy seller, and one night, she made a Facebook post about a familiar looking toy. Anybody who would be able to identify the toy would get the toy for free. I knew what it was, it was an I Love VIP Pets toy but I had to use Google to figure out the name. It's Nyla! So I left a comment on the post, and I was the first to guess, so I won the toy. After a week, I got the package!

Here is Nyla! Her hair is wild, and she has a stain on her right eyebrow, but no biggie.

I removed her dog body and replaced it with a Breyer doll body. The body came from a veterinarian doll, and the neck knob was too small for her, so I had to thicken it with masking tape and a loom band.

The colour matching is awful, but I don't mind.

I wasn't that patient with her hair though. I only styled the front with braids, then tied everything else in a high ponytail. The rest of hair has too much volume, they can stay up like that without any styling product.

Her ribbon is from a La Dee Da fashion pack. Her dress is from the Sea Monster doll of the Monster High Color Me Creepy set. Her shoes are bootleg Bratz shoes that split in half so even if the shoe shape is not the best for her, she can still slip her feet in there. I secured the shoes with loom bands because they do come apart easily. The shoes give her extra height, haha.

Because the joints of the body are too loose, she is not able to sit up right all the time. I have to pose her with her legs wide open and her hands supporting her from the back, if I want her to sit nicely.

I now have two I Love VIP Pets hybrids; the first one is Dakota, which also has a Breyer doll body! They have yet to meet. SOON!

This Magik Petz Doll Looks Unoriginal

I was browsing online for Mimo figures when I stumbled upon a doll line on YouTube. It's called Magik Petz, and it was showed at Hong Kong Toy Fair in January this year. Here's the YouTube video I watched. One of the doll face sculpts caught my eye. First, let me show the thumbnail of the video:

Doesn't the sculpt look familiar???

That looks like an I Love VIP Pets toy from IMC Toys, doesn't it???

I Love VIP Pets Lea

I made a comparison of I Love VIP Pets Lea and this Magik Petz doll called Dana:

I Love VIP Pets vs Magik Petz

The eye screening is different, but the rest looks pretty similar. What where they thinking??!

I found a page where two of this dog-faced dolls are sold and these are their pictures of the dolls still in box:

Magik Petz Dana

Magik Petz Chloe

Seriously, Chloe's eye makeup is very similar to another I Love VIP Pets doll's makeup. It's really sad.

These dog dolls even come with pets sometimes:

Magik Petz Chloe with pet. Photo source: Gorkushin.ru

A pet with a pet. Doesn't this set gives off major Pinkie Cooper vibes? OK...

I don't know about the other Magik Petz doll. Some of them are human looking, and the other looks like a pig, but these dog dolls are ~something else. What a shame.

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...