Another one bites the dust (Felicity)
Aug. 27th, 2010 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyIt's that time of year again, when a not so young company's fancy turns to... archival. Fuck you, Mattel. This time you take out Felicity and I am left completely conflicted!
First there's the freakish feeling of "IN YOUR FACE!" to everyone who was so sure it was Molly. Granted, it's not likely my reasoning is the same as the company's, but the result is still the same. All those collectors were running around gathering up as much of Molly's stuff as they could, figuring that Molly was next due to the fact that she was the last of the original three still standing.
Fair enough, but I'm betting her wartime ties bought her a little extra time. Anyway, my scenario had Mattel's execs figure that if they just archived Felicity/Lizbeth, they'd get twice the money. :P
And it worked.
Except... not so much for me. Once I figured out the dastardly plan, I alternated between Lyssie stuff and Molly stuff. Turns out that all the stuff I still want of Felicity's? Pretty much all of it is already retired. Of the remaining things, I still want:
Felicity and her accessories
Felicity orElizabeth's bed (ebay strikes again!)
Felicity's cloak (thank you, ebay!)
Felicity's night shift & mules
and maaaaaaaaaaaybe Elizabeth's holiday gown. Maybe. But I think I'd rather hold out for someone's handmade awesomeness.
Sadly, this means my hopes of snagging her summer gown have just plummeted something awful. Then again, I just got fairly lucky snagging Samantha's middy dress the other day so stranger things have happened.
I spent most of the morning trying to decide what to do. I want the doll. Duh. I have always loved Felicity's bed, but I think Elizabeth's bedding is prettier, partly because red doesn't do much for me. But I found a pretty cheap Felicity bed (all things considered) BIN on ebay and a cheaper than retail and definitely cheaper than retail + shipping Lizbeth bed... So I went with Lizbeth's. After hours of waffling. At first I was shrieking, "DOLL, you idiot! Buy the damn doll!"
Sometime around lunch (when I realized that the bottle of sketti sauce I bought this morning had been opened in the store. o_O; ) I realized that technically, if it came down to it, I could buy both with this paycheck because DUH. Still have money left over from earlier in the summer for just this reason.
And now I sleep. Hopefully.
First there's the freakish feeling of "IN YOUR FACE!" to everyone who was so sure it was Molly. Granted, it's not likely my reasoning is the same as the company's, but the result is still the same. All those collectors were running around gathering up as much of Molly's stuff as they could, figuring that Molly was next due to the fact that she was the last of the original three still standing.
Fair enough, but I'm betting her wartime ties bought her a little extra time. Anyway, my scenario had Mattel's execs figure that if they just archived Felicity/Lizbeth, they'd get twice the money. :P
And it worked.
Except... not so much for me. Once I figured out the dastardly plan, I alternated between Lyssie stuff and Molly stuff. Turns out that all the stuff I still want of Felicity's? Pretty much all of it is already retired. Of the remaining things, I still want:
Felicity and her accessories
Felicity or
Felicity's night shift & mules
and maaaaaaaaaaaybe Elizabeth's holiday gown. Maybe. But I think I'd rather hold out for someone's handmade awesomeness.
Sadly, this means my hopes of snagging her summer gown have just plummeted something awful. Then again, I just got fairly lucky snagging Samantha's middy dress the other day so stranger things have happened.
I spent most of the morning trying to decide what to do. I want the doll. Duh. I have always loved Felicity's bed, but I think Elizabeth's bedding is prettier, partly because red doesn't do much for me. But I found a pretty cheap Felicity bed (all things considered) BIN on ebay and a cheaper than retail and definitely cheaper than retail + shipping Lizbeth bed... So I went with Lizbeth's. After hours of waffling. At first I was shrieking, "DOLL, you idiot! Buy the damn doll!"
Sometime around lunch (when I realized that the bottle of sketti sauce I bought this morning had been opened in the store. o_O; ) I realized that technically, if it came down to it, I could buy both with this paycheck because DUH. Still have money left over from earlier in the summer for just this reason.
And now I sleep. Hopefully.