Brutally Honest Doll Reviews

All the fun - none of the hassle Review of Cloveray 16" porceliosa As a doll collector, one collects artistry, and a piece of toy and fashion history. The holy grail for a lot of us is an antique. Not just something from the 20th century, but preferably from the nineteenth. Dolls of this age were a true luxury. Heads were made of bisque, an unglazed porcelain. The bodies were often made of cheaper materials, but not less intricate: they were often jointed and made of composite, leather or wood. Big brand names from this period are Jumeau, Bru, Simon und Halbig, Armand Marseille and Steiner, among others.  Victorian doll were fragile, and that makes them expensive too. And that's why I will never own one, even if I could theoretically afford one. Because I am a clumsy girl, and I like to 'play' with my dolls. For me all the fun is in dressing up a doll, finding the right accessories and props and setting up scenes and taking pictures.  And that is where this doll comes ...

Now this is a funny - and admittedly long- story.  A long long time ago, when my children were still small and budget was tight, we owned a Sluban princess castle. The legality of these alternatively sourced 'lego' bricks was, at this point, still debatable. Sluban was, along with Ligao and BanBao, one of the first brands that tried their hand at this.  These first bricks were of dubious quality. They either felt (and sounded) too hard or too soft, they often broke prematurely, the gripping strength was nothing compared to the real deal, and there was a lot of tension between bricks, and especially between bricks and plates. So much so, that your building might occasionally explode.  Our princess castle has since disappeared into the depths of our spare bits bin, and the legality issues have been settled. Since Lego only registered their brand and mini figures, but not the bricks, it is now completely legal to produce Lego-like building bricks, as long as you make your ow...