LOL OMG Neonlicious

I preorders finally came in. Hairdorables boys which I reviewed last time and my LOL OMG doll.




Does the OMG stand for anything? I mean LOL is Little Outrageous Littles (what a redundant name) but does OMG have anything? I couldn't see anything on the box so hmm.

"Overpriced Massive Girl"?

hahaha.

These dolls are a whopping £30 here in the UK which is freaking PAINFUL.
But MGA always overprice their shit, it's like... their schtick.

The boxes are... odd.. and they lie. "20 surprises" my ass.

Also what is the point of the blacked out image of the character? It says who she is! Why conceal it!? it's bizarre.

So the back of the box has blacked out images of the 4 characters in the line who are all more mature versions of LOL dolls.

Now I never got that into LOL, I have a few but not that many so I had to look up who all of these were.

Apparently these girls are here to "surprise the world"

well... okay then.

The LOL character on the side of the box is really cute though.

The front piece of hte box flaps open to reveal the actual art, the blacked out effect is some sort of tinted plastic and I really don't get the point.

Neonlicious says she likes bright colours, city lights and "selfie or it didn't happen". Well thats just cringy.

She's always extra, never 2 much.

do teenagers talk like this? God I feel old.

Rather bizarely, the whole front of the box isn't actually connected, it lifts right off once you take the plastic sheath holding the whole thing together off.

I don't really get why.

The inside of the box is done p like a dressing room which is cute though.

Again there's the little LOL character.

Inside the box are two little bags, two plastic boxes and what appears to be a magazine with a horroscope.

The other side of the little door has a handbag shaped like a doll and a shoe box from BB Boutique pictured.

The doll herself has a brush and another little BB Boutique bag next to her.

also a pink stand.

The stand is chunky as all hell and the brush is round and has very very widely spaced bristles so i'm not sure how functional it is.
It also has a really short handle so it's hard to use anyway.

The stand is very odd. It has 4 pieces. 3 of those pieces make sense. Base, post, waist clip but the fourth piece is just bewildering. The instructions didn't help either, they seemed to suggest you put it on instead of the waist clip but offers absolutely no insight into what it then does or how you attach the doll to it.

I'm confused as all hell.

What IS nice though is that both these pieces clip neatly into the base for storage. That's a cool idea.

The bags aren't made of paper like I expected, instead they feel kinda like this strange plasticky fabric kinda like party tablecloths?

They're strange. I can't figure out if they're supposed to be kept or not.

The two boxes are very thick and nicely made.

the smaller one is a shoe box with a pair of shoes wrapped in tissue paper.

There's even a label on the side with a fake barcode. How cute!

these remind me a LOT of the packaging for the Teen Trends dolls Mattel did years ago. Those came with shoeboxes and hat boxes and such too.

the round hatbox does indeed contain a hat, a fabric beret made of velvetty fabric with an animal print.

Also a little tissue paper bundle.

Containing earrings, a bracelet and a pair of the most ridiculous glasses i've ever seen. What the hell is with the bar instead of lenses?

The yellow bag contains a coat hanger dress form with a pleather effect jacket while the other has a coat hanger with a plasticky see through dress. it's made from like, raincoat fabric?

The black bag in with the doll contained the handbag that's pictured on the back of the cubicle door.

Neonlicious herself comes packaged in her foundation garments, a stretchy pair of bicycle shorts and a crop top of the same fabric. The fabric has a subtle green wave pattern on it.

Her hair is vividly orange and pink and crimped with two long strands at the front.

She's short but wide, which is cool. This doll is for sure very curvy and I dig it.

Her arms are jointed and her hands come off for easier dressing but her legs are hard and don't seem to move much at all. In fact, she can't even splay her legs at the hips, they're VERY limited in their motion which is a shame. Some side motion in the hips would have made her a lot easier to balance and pose in sassy ways.

Her feet are really soft and squishy and very very high heeled while the shoes are VERY hard plastic, so getting them ON is a real chore. I'm not sure why they did this, it's a wierd combination.

Her platformed sneakers remind me of a pair I had back in the 90s lol, you know, when the Spice Girls were big. Mine were silver.

Neonlicious' are white with a clear yellow solve with a squiggle wave sort of effect.

They're fairly detailed shoes but yeah, VERY hard plastic.

Her nails are painted and she has the most realistic and beautifully sculpted hands i've seen on a doll like.. ever. These hands do NOT go with that big ol' stylised noggin. It's bizzare.

They're also VERY squishy like her feet but they also come off at the wrist joint like Monster High dolls which makes putting her clothes on a LOT easier.

She has a really interesting body shape, very big in the hips with extremely pointy boobs lol.

People say she has nipples but I didn't honestly notice anything that looked that nipple-like, just pointy boobs.

Or maybe bjds have just desensitised me to nipples on dolls so I no longer notice them.

Her arm articulation isn't great but it's servicable, it's fairly standard for MGA honestly.

Her legs however, despite looking really nice, are freaking USELESS. She can't bend her knees (they click if you force them but it barely does anything so what's the point?) and she can't splay her hips AT ALL, which means this is genuinely the ONLY way she can stand. I don't get why she doesn't have hip pegs like most dolls these days, hell, even vintage dolls could at least splay their damn legs outward.

She can only move her legs backwards and forwards like a budget 80s Barbie doll.
LAME.

And it's not like MGA can't do hips, Bratz can splay their legs slightly for better balance, as can pretty much ALL their doll lines.

for a £30 doll her extremely primitive hip joint is a dissappointment.

I DO love her hips though, it's such a pinup sort of body lol.

She has painted on low rise gold underpants that look rather uncomfortable. It's not quite a g string but it's certainly slowly receeding up the poor girl's ass.

All dressed up she's fabulously insane.

Like i've come to expect from MGA, her clothing is impeccable. The jacket has artificial little buckles and straps on it, the dress has a little pocket at the front and studs and even her hat has studs on.

Her bracelet really doesn't fit with the jacket's tight sleeves though. And she can't really pose her arm enough for her bag to stay on lol.

I still don't understand the glasses.

She's a little shorter than a Bratz doll but with a far more interestingly shaped body.

I honestly love her face. I know some people are weirded out by the very adult body and baby face but I suppose because I never got THAT into LOL and collect a lot of very stylised dolls, I don't see a baby face so much as a very cartoonish one.

She has star freckles! And wierd zig zaggy eyebrows.

The stand works pretty well though, the waist clip isn't too tight so as to damage or snag her clothing which I appreciate. That was always a problem with Monster High.
And she's light enough not to topple the whole stand over which is also nice.

I also really love the insanity of this outfit.

She's such a brightly coloured funky doll.

interestingly, she fits Bratzillaz clothes. She's shorter than a Bratzilla and her hips are wider but she does fit the Meyganna outfit I tried on her.

the shoes are a bit too big but they work.

Meyganna couldn't fit into the shoes and the jacket sleeves were too narrow for her irremovable paddle hands but she fits the OMG clothing too.

Barbie stuff was way too big and Bratz stuff far too small.

In the end I decided to put her silly glasses, her illfitting bracelet and the bag that kept falling off back into the hatbox.

But i have to say guys, I actually REALLY like this doll.

She's super bizarre, she's got this wierd combination of realistic and super cartoonish that's quite jarring and freakish but I really like her.

Her hair is crunchy as shit and she can barely pose but she looks so damn cool on my shelf.

Is she worth £30? I don't think so really. Yes her outfit is very detailed but i'm just not sure this is a deluxe enough doll and a lot of that price tag seems to have gone into frankly pointlessly gimmicky packaging. I like the shoe box and the hat box as accessories but the papery plastic bags and coathangers when the box doesn't even contain a rail to hang them from?
You can't use the box AS a closet because it has no railings or anywhere to actually PUT stuff once you've opened the box up.
Unlike the Teen Trends dolls who used a similar concept, the closet/changing room idea just doesn't quite work due to small details being ommitted.

and there are NO surprises in the box at all. Not one. The outfit is the same for every single Neonlicious, the accessories the same, so precisely how is that surprising?
What purpose really was there in any of it being packaged in separate bags?

I mean I liked having her partially dressed because it encouraged me to handle her and really get a good look at her body and engineering, and it also had that fun element of "new shopping, bought new stuff!" excitement lol. But i'm not convinced any of it needed to be blind bagged nor that any of it counted as "surprising"

What WOULD be a surprise would be varients of accessories or items but nope, none of that. What you see in the art is what you get.

I'm tired of companies lying about "surprises" that don't exist. Unless the surprise is the nipples and the g-string. <_< >_> Was that the surprise MGA?

I might pick up a second for £25, but £30 is a bit too steep imo.

Nice doll, cool outfits and accessories, beautiful quality, but wasteful packaging, inadequate jointing even for a display doll and an overinflated price tag.

I like her a lot more than the LOL dolls though. She feels more like something i'd actually play with.