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Fashion Royalty’s Adèle Makéda Dolls

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

I’ve been listing the Fashion Royalty dolls gradually on the DollWiki site and I’ve finally finished listing the Adele dolls (her name starts with A… lucky lady lol I am so not looking forward to listing the Veroniques and Vanessa dolls! There’s so many of them! Next up, Agnes… another lady with a name starting with A…)

So I thought to compile an image grid of all the Adele dolls (I hope the list is complete, but there are no guarantees!)

counted 22 Adele(s)!

Out of all these dolls… I only have the final one – The Muse

my dolly!

To see who which doll is, check out the Adèle Makéda page on the DollWiki…

Here’s to next year, 2010… wishing I can add more Adele(s) to my collection!

Tags: adele makeda, african dolls, fashion royalty
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Kyori – Flight Pattern SKU# 91230

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

I’ve been waiting for an articulated Kyori doll with brown eyes and black hair that I could *afford* to add to my collection. This doll went on sale but she doesn’t have black hair… so medium-dark brown hair will have to do for now…

Kyori - Flight Pattern

Of course, no post is complete without a criticism by yours truly – why does Kyori have to be characterised with that awful Dragon Lady (the Asian version of the Sapphire caricature) stereotype? Why couldn’t she be an average girl next door… you know, like the Perrin sisters?

Can Takeo Mizutani NOT be a ninja, please?

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Dear Jason Wu, why does the only East Asian guy in your Fashion Royalty series have to be a ninja? Aren’t YOU sick of people thinking all Asians know martial arts and kung fu?

mister ninja

Why couldn’t he be… umm… a designer? Or a photographer… or chef even?

jason wu = asian guy = designer

regular guy

If you ever add a South Asian guy to your set of characters, please don’t make him a call centre guy no matter how exciting his secret identity is… thanks.

Tags: doll designers, east asian, fashion royalty, integrity toys, male dolls, stereotypes
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OMG! Finally, an Asian Male Fashion Doll!

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Well, actually… Takeo Mizutani of Fashion Royalty was released in 2008 but it would have made a clumsy title… and he’s East Asian to be exact… or is he really Eurasian? (still waiting for our South Asian and South-East Asian boys to appear…)

In the Mix Takeo Mizutani SKU# 82022