Integrity Toys February 2014 reveal: Jem & The Holograms new characters!

Everyone knew that this year would keep on bringing new characters to the much favoured line of Jem & The Holograms by Hasbro and Integrity Toys. The appearance of a W Club upgrade exclusive character only served to wet the appetite for more. So here are the three new characters to join the rest of the line:


Item # 14046
 Raya Alonso™ 
Adult Collectable Doll
The JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS™ Collection
Limited Edition of 750 Dolls Worldwide
Approximate Ship Date: Week of March 17th, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: $119.00 US
Available for Pre-order from Any Authorized Integrity Toys Dealer


Doll Tech Specs:
Body Type: Color Infusion / Jem 
Head Sculpt: Raya (New Sculpt)
Quick Switch Feature: No
Skin Tone: Latino
Hair Color: Hot Pink 
Eyelashes: Yes, Hand-Applied


Known as the "Fifth Hologram", Raya joined the band after the girls ran a talent contest to find a temporary replacement for their friend Shana Elmsford. Raya Alonzo is a fully articulated 12.5-inch vinyl doll with rooted curly pink hair and hand-applied eyelashes. She comes dressed in her signature floral themed costume and includes her wonderfully detailed and completely adjustable drum kit! A doll stand is included. For adult collectors ages 14 and up. Some assembly required; detailed instructions are included. 


Item # 14047
Jetta Burns™ 
Adult Collectable Doll 
The JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS™ Collection
Limited Edition of 750 Dolls Worldwide
Approximate Ship Date: Week of March 17th, 2014
Suggested Retail Price: $119.00 US 
Available for Pre-order from Any Authorized Integrity Toys Dealer


Doll Tech Specs:
Body Type: Color Infusion / Jem
Head Sculpt: Jetta (New Sculpt)
Quick Switch Feature: No
Skin Tone: Japan 
Hair Color: Deep Raven
Eyelashes: Yes, Hand Applied


Jetta Burns,a saxophonist from London, was the extra Misfits member. Jetta Burns is a fully articulated 12.5-inch vinyl doll with fully rooted massive 80's raven hair and hand applied eyelashes. Jetta is in her signature costume which is composed of black and white stripped skinny pants, a polka-dot "pleather" over-skirt, a cow print belt and a wild-west inspired metallic snakeskin sleeveless fringed top. Jetta has an ultra detailed black chrome saxophone, earrings, shoes and a miniature poster from her former band, The Tinkerbillys! A doll stand is included. For adult collectors ages 14 and up.


Item # 14052
Astral Eldrich™
Adult Collectable Doll 
The JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS™ Collection
Limited Edition of 500 Dolls Worldwide 
Approximate Ship Date: Week of March 17th, 2014 
Suggested Retail Price: $119.00 US 
Available for Pre-order from Any Authorized Integrity Toys Dealer


Doll Tech Specs:
Body Type: Color Infusion / JEM
Head Sculpt: Synergy 
Quick Switch Feature: No
Skin Tone: Japan
Hair Color: Power Lavender and Magic Blue
Eyelashes: Yes, Hand Applied


The central character of the season three JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS episode titled "That Old Houdini Magic", Astral Eldrich captured every fan's heart with her enchanting bag of tricks! Astral Eldrich is a 12.5-inch fully articulated vinyl doll with long rooted duo-toned hair and hand applied eyelashes. Produced for the first time in doll form, Astral comes dressed in a meticulously reproduced TV-show inspired costume. The fabric of her long magical jacket was precisely custom screen-printed to match her signature "lava-lamp" print as seen on the hit 80's TV series as closely as possible. Astral has her magic hat, golden handcuffs and a full deck of miniature cards! A doll stand is included. For adult collectors ages 14 and up.


** HASBRO and its logo, JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbro and are used with permission. ©2014 HASBRO. All rights reserved. All photos and information contained herein is copyrighted Integrity Toys, Inc. and Intercap Merchant Partners, LLC 2014 and may not be reprinted or disseminated without express written permission.Please note that the photos are of prototype dolls and subject to changes and modifications.** 

Integrity Toys February 2014 release: Dynamite Girls - Love Revolution Collection

As was expected, February is the month that the first reveal from Integrity Toys took place, on the 12th. Members of the W Club had been duly notified about the date but, apart from some sneek peeks that kept everybody guessing, no other mention was made about which lines would be presented. A series of e-mails announced the new releases, so let's start seeing what's in store this years - for starters. First up was the Dynamite Girls™. This year's collection is composed of a mix of fan favorite characters and features the return of Susie, as well as the introduction of a brand new girl: Tooka (who has the Sookie sculpt). The collection is named Love Revolution. It is definitely 1970s inspired, particularly the centennial celebrations of that decade in the US, hence all the Americana references. Five dolls are part of the regular collection and one is a dealer exclusive. More details below.




Item # 66093
Free Spirit Jett™
Dressed Doll
Dynamite Girls™ "Love Revolution" Collection
Limited Edition of 400 Dolls Worldwide
Approximate Ship Date: Early May 2014
Suggested Retail Price: $70.00 US 
Available for Pre-order from Any Authorized Integrity Toys Dealer


Doll Tech Specs:
Body Type: DG
Head Sculpt: Jett 
Quick Switch Feature: No
Skin Tone: B-Tone
Hair Color: Sunkissed Blond
Eyelashes: Yes, Rooted


Jett is a fully articulated 12" doll with rooted hair and eyelashes. A doll stand is included. For adult collectors ages 14 and up. The details of the outfit are great and the accessories rock. Excellent value for money.


Item # 66094
Own The Moment 
Aria™ Dressed Doll
Dynamite Girls™ "Love Revolution" Collection
Limited Edition of 400 Dolls Worldwide
Approximate Ship Date: Early May 2014
Suggested Retail Price: $70.00 US 
Available for Pre-order from Any Authorized Integrity Toys Dealer


Doll Tech Specs:
Body Type: DG
Head Sculpt: Aria 
Quick Switch Feature: No
Skin Tone: Hungarian
Hair Color: Radiant Brunette
Eyelashes: Yes, Rooted 


Aria is a fully articulated 12" doll with rooted hair and eyelashes. A doll stand is included. For adult collectors ages 14 and up. Again a great outfit (look at that pleating on the bust) and amazing accessories. I hope the hat is not plastic though.


Item # 66095
Natural Beauty Tooka™
Dressed Doll
Dynamite Girls™ "Love Revolution" Collection 
Limited Edition of 300 Dolls Worldwide
Approximate Ship Date: Early May 2014 
Suggested Retail Price: $70.00 US 
Available for Pre-order from Any Authorized Integrity Toys Dealer


Doll Tech Specs:
Body Type: DG 
Head Sculpt: Sooki 
Quick Switch Feature: No 
Skin Tone: A-Tone
Hair Color: Raven
Eyelashes: Yes, Rooted


Tooka is a fully articulated 12" doll with rooted hair and eyelashes. A doll stand is included. For adult collectors ages 14 and up. She is a new character but uses the Sookie sculpt, re-incarnated as an African American. She looks great and ready to go for some serious groovy dancing! Her outfit and accessories though are not a match for the two previous ones, apart from the great denim jacket.


Item # 66096
All American Auden™
Dressed Fashion Figure
Dynamite Girls™ "Love Revolution" Collection
Limited Edition of 750 Dolls Worldwide
Approximate Ship Date: Early May 2014
Suggested Retail Price: $70.00 US
Available for Pre-order from Any Authorized Integrity Toys Dealer


Doll Tech Specs:
Body Type: Homme
Head Sculpt: Auden
Quick Switch Feature: No
Skin Tone: FR White
Hair Color: Light Blond
Eyelashes: No


Auden is a fully articulated 12.5" fashion figure with rooted and flocked hair. A doll stand is included. For adult collectors ages 14 and up. Of course this character would not be missing from the line-up, as he is the top-favourite of every collector from this line. If I did not already have a blonde Auden, I would definitely try to get this one. Love the watch and shoes. He looks like Jean Paul-Gaultier dressed him! Which is perfectly good for me, but he does not give me a 70s vibe at all. *Note: The tattoo on Auden's right arm is permanently applied.


Item # 66097
Take It Easy Cruz™
Dressed Fashion Figure
Dynamite Girls™ "Love Revolution" Collection
Limited Edition of 750 Dolls Worldwide
Approximate Ship Date: Early May 2014
Suggested Retail Price: $70.00 US
Available for Pre-order from Any Authorized Integrity Toys Dealer


Doll Tech Specs:
Body Type: Homme
Head Sculpt: Auden
Quick Switch Feature: No
Skin Tone: Latino
Hair Color: Light Brown with dark blond streaks
Eyelashes: No


Cruz is a fully articulated 12.5" fashion figure with long, rooted hair. A doll stand is included. For adult collectors ages 14 and up. He defintely has the 70's vibe, with the hair, the sandals and the bicentennial t-shirt (it's short-sleeved). I love the plaid shirt with the red accents.


Item # 66098
Sweet Freedom Susie™
Dressed Doll 
Dynamite Girls™ "Love Revolution" Collection
R&D Collectibles and IT Direct Joint Exclusive
Limited Edition of 300 Dolls
Approximate Ship Date: Early May 2014
Suggested Retail Price: $70.00 US

This doll will be available for pre-order from R&D Collectibles and IT Direct only.
THIS DOLL IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM ALL IT DEALERS! 


Doll Tech Specs:
Body Type: DG
Head Sculpt: Susie
Quick Switch Feature: No
Skin Tone: Japan
Hair Color: Raven
Eyelashes: Yes, Rooted


Susie is a fully articulated 12" doll with rooted hair and eyelashes. A doll stand is included. For adult collectors ages 14 and up. R & D Collectibles and IT Direct joint Exclusive! Sweet Freedom Susie™ is a joint exclusive and is only available from R & D Collectibles (located in Taiwan) and IT Direct. If you wish to pre-order Susie from R&D Collectibles, you may do so immediately (please visit www.rnddolls.blogspot.com). I love the red jacket but not anything else on this one.


**Please note that the photos are of prototype dolls and subject to changes and modifications. All photos and information contained herein is copyrighted Integrity Toys, Inc. and Intercap Merchant Partners, LLC 2014 and may not be reprinted or disseminated without express written permission.**

3rd Annual DollObservers.com Fashion Doll Awards public vote open!

Dear friend Simon Farnworth has set up an excellent doll community at DollObservers.com. Part of this fashion doll haven is the annual Fashion Doll Awards - this is their 3rd year running. As a member of that board (and thus having had a vote in selecting the nominees) it is my pleasure to inform you that the public vote for the awards is now open. You can go here to cast your vote; results will be announced on the 8th of March. Congratulations to all the nominees and may the best one win. Here are the nominees (click on the photos to see them bigger):

1. Best Playline Fashion Doll




Apple White 'Ever After High' by Mattel


Barbie 'Birthday Wishes' by Mattel


Lena 'Prettie Girls' by One World Doll Project


Midge 'Life in The Dreamhouse' by Mattel


Monster High Lagoona '13 Wishes' by Mattel

2. Best Collectable Vinyl/Plastic Fashion Doll




Emma 'Deja Vu' by Tonner Doll


Poppy Parker 'Sweet in Switzerland' by Integrity Toys


Elise Jolie 'Midnight Star' by Integrity Toys


'Coach Barbie' by Barbie Collector


Vanessa Perrin 'Out Sass' by Integrity Toys

3. Best Resin/Porcelain/BJD Fashion Doll


Gene Marshall 'Phoenix' JAMIEshow Dolls USA


Natalie 'Holiday 2013' by JAMIEshow Dolls USA


Sybarite 'Madame V' Superdoll Collectibles 


Apple Nougat by DollChic 


Cherub 'Inamorata' Emiliacouture

4. Best Male Fashion Doll


Alejandro 'Havana Nights' by JAMIEshow


Jay Gatsby by Tonner Doll 


Lukas Maverick 'Beauty' by Integrity Toys


Ken 'Tailored Tuxedo' l by Barbie Collector


Peeta 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' by Barbie Collector

5. Best Celebrity Fashion Doll


Peeta 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' by Barbie Collector 


Jennifer Lopez 'Red Carpet' by Barbie Collector


Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford 'Mommie Dearest' by Integrity Toys


Katniss 'The Hunger Games- Catching Fire' by Barbie Collector


Poppy Parker as Corie Bratter 'Barefoot in the Park' by Integrity Toys

6. Best OOAK Fashion Doll Artist




Emilia Nieminen of Emilia Couture


Peewee Parker


Mario Paglino & Gianni Grossi of Magia2000


Nik Moronese & Marie Lebreton of ninimomo


Noel Cruz

7. Best Fashion Doll Accessory 




Headspinner by Superdoll_Collectibles


Jem 'Stage Essentials by Integrity Toys


Silkstone Dress Form by Barbie Collector


Urban Vita Environment Show Case by Horsman Ltd


'Winter Weekend' Barbie Fashion by Barbie Collector

8. Best Fashion Doll Designer/Manufacturer


Charles Fegen & Desmond Lingard for Superdoll_Collectibles


David Buttry for Integrity Toys


Paul Pham for Dollcis


Robert Best for Barbie Collector


Robert Tonner for Tonner Doll

9. Best Online Fashion Doll Retailer


Angelic Dreamz


Barbie Collector


Fabric & Friends


Marl & B 


My Favorite Doll 

10. The 2014 Fashion Doll Innovations Award: Best Make-Up


Fashion Royalty by Integrity Toys


JAMIEshow by JAMIEshow Doll USA


Numina by Dollcis 


Poppy Parker by Integrity Toys


The sYbarites by Superdoll_Collectables

Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2014 advertising campaign: Kate Moss and a fashion doll

It seems fashion dolls keep fascinating more and more fashion people. The brand new advertising campaign of Alexander McQueen, shot by Steven Klein, one of my very favourite photographers, features not only Kate Moss modelling for the first time in a McQueen campaign (although she was very close to the late designer and founder of the brand) but also a fashion doll. And it is no ordinary doll too (how could it be?): it is a proper Kate Moss miniature, dressed in exact mini replicas of the outfits she wears in the photos featured in the campaign.


The doll seems to be in 1/6 scale, without articulation, made to look exactly like Kate Moss does in the photos, even down to the bright yellow hair. The outfits it wears look incredibly detailed and well scaled. I am jealous; I want all of the outfits for my dolls (would not mind having the doll too but non-articulated dolls are not a favourite in this house). Doesn't Kate look a lot like Tilda Swindon here? Can you imagine that doll?


There is also a small video clip made for the campaign, with a stalker following Kate around a dark and foreboding East London, with the doll in his hand. It is directed by Steven Klein as well, who returns to work with the brand after twelve whole years.



If you look at all the photos, some of them use the doll as a voodoo doll, with pins on its head. Steven Klein was inspired by the 1960s British thriller, Peeping Tom in which a serial killer murders women and uses a portable camera to record their dying expressions of terror. Morbid and fascinating at the same time. I love the way the doll looks in the campaign and covet the outfits. Sigh.


I have no idea who made the doll but I would not mind having it with the extensive miniature garment collection from McQueen! There is only one photo of the campaign without the doll - it's at the end of this post.






Jason Wu exclusive doll for Montaigne Market luxury boutique in Paris

Since 2005, Montaigne Market is a fashion check point on Avenue Montaigne in Paris,France. The 350 sq. m. shop, conceived by the architect Joannes Zingerlé in new tones of urban greys, blends some sixty international labels of clothes, accessories and bijoux selected by Liliane Jossua. From party dress to fur, from fine charms to studded perfecto jacket, Montaigne Market, the first multi-brand shop on Avenue Montaigne, offers a huge choice of ultra luxury and cosmopolitan styles. Jason Wu outfits are also available in the boutique. And now, an exclusive doll wearing one of his creations in miniature version will be too.


A mini version of one of his Spring 2014 looks, that Jason made exclusively for Montaigne Market store, will be available in a limited edition of 300 pieces during this spring's Paris Fashion Week. It will retail for 150 Euros (about $200).It will go on sale on the boutique's website as well at the end of February, so get ready!


This is not the first collaboration the designer has done with fashion boutiques. He has previously designed dolls for Colette, Bergdorf Goodman and Jeffrey. “It’s sort of my background, so it’s kind of a tongue-in-cheek thing to do this once in a while. I mean, I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It’s something I just fell into and really liked,” he said in an interview for WWD.


Apart from wearing a perfectly miniaturised version of a Wu original, the doll (she has the Elise Jolie sculpt) also carries a miniature of his Daphne clutch, wears true to scale versions of his shoes and has mini versions of the boutiques shopping bags as well. The style fits the "urban safari" theme that the main Fashion Royalty collection will have in 2014.



**Please note that these are pictures of the prototype doll and are subject to change. All photos and information contained herein is copyrighted Integrity Toys, Inc. and Intercap Merchant Partners, LLC 2014 and may not be reprinted or disseminated without express written permission.**