Spent on dolls: $21.58
Yup. I got her. I knew several moments of despair when I couldn't find her, either with the Disney Princess dolls, the Disney TV Stars dolls, or the Barbies, or the Fancy Nancy or the Moxie /Liv / Polly Pocket sets, or in with the Hello Kitty aisles, and I really wasn't looking forward to hitting a TRU on Saturday. Beloved Hubby actually found her first - in with the Fisher-Price toys ! Seriously, she was right beside a Ni Hao Kai-Lan doll, right above several ‘old style' Dora the Explorer sets - not the new tween computer-active ones.
Our Target had three, so of course, I lined ‘em up. It was kind of funny. The upper blue sleeves on all three were slightly different. One had no sealant /Fray Check, and had a deep pick on the left side. The next had thick, lumpy trails of sealant, and the third had thin, even lines of it. So I went by eyes, one of which had a small scratch. Ended up with the good Fray Checked one, with the best eyes. Beloved helped me pick her out, which makes her extra-special.
I also got to see all three of the ten-inch-tall Fashion versions. Ours had two Rainbows, one Moonglow, and one Tickled Pink. Interesting, but they had large heads that were oddly flat-faced when viewed from the side. Beautiful hair and clothes, though. Cheap bracelet-gauntlets. I may go back for Moonglow one day, but today, I was happy to have the Rainbow Brite I wanted.
The box back gives the story on all three characters and their domains, then mentions that they're also available as fashion dolls. Hm. I wonder if that means they'll make LDP Moonglow and Pink dolls, if these sell well. I'd definitely buy a toddler Moonglow ! Probably a Pink, too, to get the whole set.
But it's not something I have to worry about right now. I got a new Rainbow at Chez Insanity ! Her hair is noticeably different from the prototype photo I posted yesterday, with curled-under bangs instead of side-part sweeps, but I still find her adorable. Her fingers and toes aren't quite as detailed as the LDPs, which is a bit odd, you'd think they'd come from the same LDP molds. Rainbow has a few other differences from them. First off, no twist-around wrists, but the last Playmates LDPs had deleted those, too. Rainbow has molded-in panties, painted white with raised stars - LDPs had either cloth panties or white hosiery. There is no tag whatsoever on Rainbow's outfit, and her bottom has only some form of ID sequence (K9313) instead of manufacturer and licensing info. All that is on the back of Rainbow's head. On the LDPs, it's reversed. No head mold info, it's all on the doll's bare butt.
Anyway, I'm so very happy I got the doll I wanted. I've been incredibly lucky these past few weeks when it comes to dolls. So much that I had to ditch doll boxes - but they make great AirSoft targets ! Beloved's thanked me several times for Rainbow, Tiana, and Triana's boxes, demolished as he tested repairs to his latest upgrade of weaponry. While that was going on, I traded Tinkerbell and Rainbow's clothes, and they each fit perfectly. Feet are the same, too. So that's some added fun !
We didn't forget Dearest Son - while trying to find his latest obsession so we could see what he was talking about, we found an awesome item instead. He's starting to get interested in GI Joe, although he finds the recent movie ‘scary loud' (violent) and doesn't want to see it. He mostly likes the guns and heroism and action, which is part of why we loved Star Wars, so we're OK with it. So there we were, with a Rainbow Brite doll clutched close to my heart, perusing the always-darker Boys Toys aisles. While I don't really believe in ‘boy toys' and ‘girl toys', it's like saying you don't believe in clothes being gender-specific either, but that's the way stuff's always arranged in stores, and I find more boys into Transformers than girls. C'est le guerre.
I've just never really figured out if the aisles of GI Joe and Nerf are darker due to poor lighting, targeted merchandising research, or simply a side effect of mostly black and red packaging. I mean, in many Targets, you need sunglasses to get through the doll aisles. Anyway, we found a GI Joe tank and helicopter combo, with a convoluted acronym that designates it RHINO, that was uniquely awesome. It even came with a figure, and enough guns to take out any terrorist enclave or domestic compound. The helicopter lifted out as a separate toy, but fit in so well, we had to read the box to make sure it wasn't a ‘sold separately' deal. Was $50., now $23. What a great deal !
We got the one with the better box, deciding to encourage Dearest to pick up AirSoft BBs to ‘pay' for it. It's not really fair to buy him something he didn't choose, then make him pay for it with hard-won coupons, but with a simple task, it still reinforces ‘earning' his toys instead of being entitled to them . We hope he likes it, even though both of us think it's awesome, there's a chance he might not.
Well, with all this buying stuff, I haven't made anything - again ! (sigh) I gotta get back to my cheap roots. And not say ‘I don't want anything' ever again ! I love that the Universe loves me sooo much, but enough's enough. At least for a few months.
