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MH Chatter #1: Abbey
Apr. 19th, 2016 08:10 amSometimes when I can't sleep for whatever reason, I count dolls. Not actually count them, but sort of mentally go through them and either see who/what I'm missing or which ones are my favorites. Stuff like that. Most of the time I'm out like a light in no time but sometimes all it does it keep me up even later.
With the revamp of MH on the way, and the Budgets having been in stores for about six months or so, I figured I might as well look back on each character and see which versions I love, which I loathe, and what I'm looking forward to or just want to snag at some point.
(I'm not sure whether I'll be posting pictures/links/whatever, but we'll work on that later. It seems that for the most part we're gonna go with stock images, at least initially. Woo.)
We begin with Abbey.
In general, I love Abbey the character. It makes me very sad that she's basically been sidelined for whatever reasons (maybe the ever shelf sitting Walmart exclusives that are still clogging up shelf space at my Walmart because they don't understand how clearance works?) since she's easily one of the highlights of any given special she's in. And that's not even counting her magic abilities. :P
Let's see. A quick perusal of her wiki Merch entry confirms my memory that A LOT of Abbey dolls look the same, even when they really shouldn't due to styling. The makeup just rarely steps out beyond pink lips and purple-y eye shadows. Which is a shame because Abbey looks AMAZING when she's wearing darker colors but for whatever reason they default to lighter stuff for her.
( Abbey, my love. )
Yeah, for all the build up for this, you would have thought the initial post would be longer. But I really didn't want to re-write this again and my laptop basically likes to do a thousand updates each time I look at it. So I put off looking at it until I have to and then it has all these updates and it's a vicious cycle. In any case, this is post one in the MH series. Bets on how long it takes for me to forget to continue it? :P
With the revamp of MH on the way, and the Budgets having been in stores for about six months or so, I figured I might as well look back on each character and see which versions I love, which I loathe, and what I'm looking forward to or just want to snag at some point.
(I'm not sure whether I'll be posting pictures/links/whatever, but we'll work on that later. It seems that for the most part we're gonna go with stock images, at least initially. Woo.)
We begin with Abbey.
In general, I love Abbey the character. It makes me very sad that she's basically been sidelined for whatever reasons (maybe the ever shelf sitting Walmart exclusives that are still clogging up shelf space at my Walmart because they don't understand how clearance works?) since she's easily one of the highlights of any given special she's in. And that's not even counting her magic abilities. :P
Let's see. A quick perusal of her wiki Merch entry confirms my memory that A LOT of Abbey dolls look the same, even when they really shouldn't due to styling. The makeup just rarely steps out beyond pink lips and purple-y eye shadows. Which is a shame because Abbey looks AMAZING when she's wearing darker colors but for whatever reason they default to lighter stuff for her.
( Abbey, my love. )
Yeah, for all the build up for this, you would have thought the initial post would be longer. But I really didn't want to re-write this again and my laptop basically likes to do a thousand updates each time I look at it. So I put off looking at it until I have to and then it has all these updates and it's a vicious cycle. In any case, this is post one in the MH series. Bets on how long it takes for me to forget to continue it? :P
