Old dead stock fascinates me, where'd it come from? How did it end up here? What even IS it in the first place?
And for the past year or so i've been seeing these Holly Hobbie fashion packs on Ebay and Vinted etc selling for very very little.
So I got curious, because I mean, I wasn't even aware Holly Hobbie HAD been rebooted at some point.
But let's start from the beginning shall we?
I've been trying to buy fewer dolls this year but of course, that's always easier said than done when you're a doll collector.
Still, I think i've been doing fairly well in that I haven't been buying much brand new at least.
But bundles of tlc dolls are my weakness, and the joy I get from bringing wrecked dolls back to some degree of respectability is worth the money.
So today i'm going to tell you about the last few bundles i've bought, what I kept, what I rehomed and all that jazz.
So I was trying to be good for January, I was all "i'm going to try not to buy dolls this month and i'm going to try to sell more than I buy for the year ahead"
well the selling is going pretty decently...
but the "don't buy any dolls" thing kinda flew out the window....
To be fair, I DID manage 20 days of no doll purchases which for me is quite a drought (I have a problem, I know this)
But what made me break that streak?
well let me show you.
I'm addicted, I freely admit this. big bundles of dolls are my weakness. I see them, i cannot resist them. I get this immense urge to paw through all the random bits and bobs.
And this one is no different.
Though i'll be honest, I did NOT actually expect to win this auction.
It's time for another "stuff I bought this month but didn't want to devote a whole blog to so let's bundle it all together in one big megapost" thing.
This month we have:
TLC Bratz dolls
big bundles of doll clothes
fun with hybrids
and random charity shop finds.
Let's do this thing.
So uh... Roblox... you know... that game platform with the lego looking avatars has um... fashion dolls now.
that's a real thing that exists.
and they look every bit as bizarre as you'd think.
I do enjoy a good clone doll. There's something charming about them. I don't mean the cheap copies of an existing doll just made with inferior materials, I mean the ones that actually put effort in and while clearly knockoffs, have a particular heart to them.
and so today we're going to talk briefly about my latest acquisition. B&M Rainbow High clones.
