Articulated Disney Princes?

[OkamiKodomo]

Actually, I owned a Max Steel doll once... I wonder if I still have him. I used him as a mannequin for poses, since he was more articulated than most dolls that I knew about back then, including actual artist mannequins. Next time I'm in New York, I'll look through my old toy box to see if he's still floating around.

[kittyasauras]

There is one in a lot right here:
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions/Gr ... 4.html#des

If one of you guys wins this lot, I'll buy that beast/adam from you. They don't have a good picture of him, he's cropped out of the shot. ... So I dunno what he looks like haha

I don't know who that other prince is Charming or something from Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella or Snow White? One of them, they all look the same. xD

[magkelly]

Well so far I've tried the new Caucasian Basics Ken and a Fashionista 1000 Poses Ken and both of them are too dark really for this body. The Basics head goes on but his neck looks just a bit short really. The Fashion Ken actually looks better, fits better, but I need one with a lighter face! I have to wonder is there a newer, paler Ken out there in Barbie land that isn't a vampire? Beach Fun Blaine would have been perfect but he's got the wrong type of head. I actually tried modifying him and the end result was just ugly. I'm going to have to take the body with me on my next TRU trip I think. I'm determined to use this body but I'm also a stickler for properly matching heads to bodies. So far, no luck, all the Ken skin tones are just off, sigh. I'm seriously considering painting the Fashion Ken's head paler. He looks really good on it except for the fact that he's several shades darker...

[catshem]

Ii can only think of the twilight Edward head but it's painted in glitter and you'd have to wipe his face.

[magkelly]

I have Edward and he is stark white. That's actually too pale for this body. This body is a very pale beige, but it's beige, not white. It's about maybe 3 shades lighter than your average newer Ken doll. It's not unbearable putting a 1000 Poses Ken on there, but you can tell his head is just a bit darker, but it's definitely too beige for Edward.

[kittyasauras]

Here's another one of the princes:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOT-DISNEY-STOR ... 1c23145ac8

Why do I keep finding these guys? But no Beast! haha

[magkelly]

I really like this body but the trouble I had actually finding a Mattel head that fit properly and that wasn't way too dark makes me hesitate on grabbing another one. Did they come in different skin tones? Just wondering. Ben, the Barbie Basics blond does have the one I have so far His head is still slightly darker than his body but it's pretty close and in the right light with a shirt on it's not that noticeable. He's a Blaine sculpt with a Ken paint job basically so "Ben" kind of fits though I still consider him more of a Blaine than a Ken. Nod to that he's wearing Blaine's black and read dolphin lycra shirt and black jeans and showing off all those lovely muscles, laugh. My girls are all like "OOOOOhhhh, nice...." but he's pretty shy and hasn't actually managed to find a girlfriend in the pack as yet. I think the Mackie Basics with the raven hair, bangs, and the dark gothy makeup is in the lead so far though. He keeps giving her the eye.

You know I think my one blond 1000 Poses Ken just might be gay. He's been eying Ben too, though maybe it's just a good case of body envy. He was totally trying to convince me he looked better on it! But no, it's Ben's that body. I've been wanting to put a Blaine on that body ever since I first saw it and since none of the earlier ones will work this hybrid Ben will have to do. He looks great on it, nice and buff, but the longish hair also makes him cute and very approachable.

I did trim it up just a bit but I'm not going to mess too much with that. Lately every play Ken on the shelf almost has freaky hair and his is blessedly normal. I love the 1000 Poses guys but I hate, hate, hate the hair most of the time. I wish they'd quit razoring the sides. It looks goofy. It's their idea of trendy I guess but to me it looks lame and so far only one of those Kens, a Ryan, that I've gotten isn't up for a re-root. Blondie with the dual part was the worst. Lovely face but who thought THAT up, the two parts and hair sticking up straight thing? It looks ridiculous! Right now he's just got it all cut shorter and more punk but eventually he's getting a full re-root job. He's got 4 Kens in the line before him though so it will be a while. I'm currently working on 3 shades and textures of redheads, and I've got the one extra Basics guy to root very long before I can concentrate on Blondie.

One thing I have always wanted is a couple of redheaded Ken dolls, proper ones not just flocked. I'm doing a repainted Edward up with straight multi-red hair, long. (Hair extension, fabulous color, a bit coarse but very, very interesting the mix.) I'm doing one Sporty Ken up with mohair in bright carrot and I'm doing another 1000 Poses Ken up with several shades of auburn and blond and brown in nylon doll hair. Probably I'll do the other 1000 Poses blond in longer blond and brown eventually or maybe I'll get daring and do him up all raven and blue ala Adam Lambert. He'd be awfully cute with rocker hair...

[Wardah]

If they made an Aladdin he would probably be darker.

[magkelly]

I'm not sure which prince my body came off of but he's awfully pale. Not white, but about the palest slightly pinky beige you can imagine. He didn't have an outfit on and I tossed his head almost immediately so I can't really tell which prince he actually was. I suspect he might have been a Prince Adam though I can't be positive. That B&B prince face looks awfully familiar.

He's about 1 1/ shades lighter than the Basics blond Blaine Ken who is actually just a bit paler than most regular ones but that Ken's head is oddly colored in a way. Like most Basics it's a bit more matte and smooth than a playline doll and that helps. Without a shirt on you realize the arms and hands are a bit lighter but it's really not bad. In certain lights it's almost unnoticeable. You can see it a bit more clearly under a lamp, but you'd really have to look a lot to notice it if he was just sitting in regular light on a shelf.

I'd love to have a slightly darker version of this body closer to a playline Ken and I'd really love to have a darker body that might work for a lighter AA male head but I doubt that even an Aladdin doll would let me do that. I'm guessing that if I really want to have a fully articulated AA guy someday I'm going to have to actually break down and buy a used FR Homme doll or something. Don't really want to. I don't really like the FR dolls at all, but it may be the only way to go about it.

Closest thing I've got to date is a My Scene Sutton and he just doesn't cut it with the regular Barbie girls. You can't even do a body swap with him really. His hands are just too darned big and he's not really fully articulated anyway. Just knees and elbows. There's the SIS style guy, same deal, no full articulation, just elbows and knees but I've never seen him locally and I don't really like him anyway. He's got the big toothy smile thing going on and that I am not crazy about.

What I'd like is a fully articulated version of the Barbie Basics AA guy but that's going to be harder than heck to do I think because first I'd have to find AA Basics guy at a price I can afford, not easy, and then on top of that I'd have to find him a body, even harder, sigh. I'm about to go for one of those 1/6 AA action guys I think, if I can ever find one sans gun hands that is...

We have plenty of skin tone variety in terms of the girls around here but nearly all my men are Caucasian. Basics guy he helps but it's still not what I'd like. Ultimately I want an Asian guy and an AA guy too. Basics guy he looks very Native American to me so that's nice, but it's still not as rounded a collection as I'd like. Problem is every time I see a 1/6 guy I like he's got those stupid gun hands or he's on a model muse body and I don't really have much use for those. Oh how nice it would be to finally have a fully articulated 1000 Poses AA Ken...but I'm not holding my breath. I can barely find a "Steven" in with the beach Barbies from time to time....Clearly Mattel doesn't think articulated AA guys can sell well but I think a 1000 Poses AA Ken would be sweet, don't you?