You'd think asking the internet for pictures would yield better results

[impy]

... I am disappointed, EAH fandom. Most disappointed. I can't go one image search into the MH fandom without finding a thousand comparisons of various versions of the same character (I myself have contributed to this and have every intention of continuing to do so) but you go looking for the same in EAH and DENIED.

I lucked out a little and found a few pictures of the variants out there (like Cerise's newer versions have eyes that are spread wider apart) but I need more. I need to know the minute differences between the different versions of Apple before she manages to convince me to buy every version of her even though I am TRYING to be good. Raven will have less luck because while I love her as a character, I think they fumbled the doll execution. Big time. My Raven looks like she's about three seconds away from cutting someone and then delighting in the carnage. It is almost unsettling. I say almost because, well, I have Princi to protect me.

Sooo... when my google fu failed me (and as I'm STILL sick this doesn't surprise me) I asked in the EAH comm. I'm hoping for more responses because as of now I've gotten one and while I am grateful (truly), I was hoping for more.

Oh, my Mattel order came yesterday. :D I'm unsure what I'm going to do with Madde 2, but I opened Cerise immediately. Didn't get the wider eyed variant (woe!) but I still think mine is pretty cute. How the blue hell are you supposed to get her cloak off, though?

And also, I don't normally (ever?) complain about the glue used to secure the doll's hair, but on the back of her hood, Cerise has this dark grease stain that I am left to conclude is from the glue. Which would be bad enough, but when I went to wash it out of her hair, clumps of her hair fell out. WTF is the point of the glue then?

Raven, like I said, looks like she's a bit psychotic. She's very angry looking.

Ugh. Now I feel like I'm on fire.

I would like for whatever this is to go away, thank you.

*curls up*

Tomorrow I get the joy of going mattress shopping. For Widget. Such joy, I cannot even begin to describe.

Comments

[picklepud.livejournal.com]

You are so welcome.

I have just recently bought (this week) the original version of Cerise and Blondie that you can only get in the US. Luckily Amazon US sent me the versions I didn't have. I actually preffer them to the newer versions that we got in the UK.

I can also use some of my friends photos of the Hattastic and LD dolls to edit them next to my dolls. I think that would give you an even better choice.

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[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

Eee, your awesomeness has tripled. :D

Now I get to be very dim and ask which of the Cerise's is the original, and I didn't realize Blondie had a difference. What is it/what are they?

This line is so weirdly distributed around here that it makes comparing anything really difficult, and something tells me that my place cannot handle a "collect them all" approach to this.

[picklepud.livejournal.com]

Hi hun

Right all done. I had to use a friends Hatastic Party photos and then another two friends for Legacy Day photos as I sold my dolls nude ages ago.

Cerise & Blondie....



Raven & Maddie .....



Apple ....



Briar .....

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

Eeee! Thank you so, so much for doing this. I don't think I could thank you enough, so imagine thank yous being said for an hour (by then my voice would give out) and a confetti cannon and parade in your honor. You are my hero.

This helps out a ton. Also, Blondie looks incredibly different from one variation to the other. So strange as I wasn't expecting her to look like an entirely different character.

[picklepud.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, you are so welcome.

It's brilliant now as I have a chart of the differences.

Doesn't she, I do prefer the US version.
She looks younger and cuter.

For me the Cerise issue bugs me.
They go from one eye screening to another eye screening and placement.
But for me Hatastic Cerise wins, she is stunning.

So happy to help you. xxxxxx

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your effort to help me will also help you. :D

The US version of Blondie does look younger which is why I think I prefer that one. She also looks less like a yellow haired version of Apple to me as opposed to the second version.

Hatastic Cerise is gorgeous. She's the only doll of the whole bunch Mums and I agreed on as we both zeroed in on her and went, "That one."

Thank you again!

[picklepud.livejournal.com]

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Did you figure out how to get Cerise's cloak off?

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

Sadly no, no I have not.

[picklepud.livejournal.com]

Okay, so at the front of the cloak there is a silver clasp.
On the right side of that clasp there is a fastening that just pulls out of the hole.

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

Aha! And now I feel incredibly silly for not having figured it out, despite vaguely remembering it was something like that. Thank you!

[picklepud.livejournal.com]

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