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Preorders
Malicious (Jasper)
Pure (Erin)
(Photos, property of Integrity Toys)
While I was ordering Lukas I also pre-ordered the Nu Fantasy set of Malicious and Pure. I really liked Pure in the photos, and have not had an Erin before so thought it would be interesting to get her. Not sure about Malicious as she is supposed to have the newer body (large bust, taller, larger feet), not sure how many clothes will fit her! They are due in June/July.
Postage costs
Postage in Europe with tracking ranges from £25-£35 depending on item location and weight/size of package, this is with tracking and insurance. There are always other options of postage, such as without the box and tracking/insurance, which people have been asking me about. This is cheaper but less secure and I’m not really comfortable with it as I want the dolls to arrive in the same condition that they are sent.
I think I made a mistake listing the dolls at such a cheap price too, people want them shipped without the boxes to save on postage. While I can understand this and will wrap them carefully I am worried how they will travel without the protection of the box and outside shipper. I have received dolls without boxes and they arrived with loose joints despite being wrapped in bubble-wrap. Guess it really depends on the buyer. I think next time I will list the postage costs as what is charged, worked out after the auction ends.
Listed
I have listed Lukas, Romain and Victor on ebay. Still keeping to my rule of no more then 4 or 5 fashion royalty dolls.
Although Lukas looks great in a darker skin-tone, that hair would annoy me too much! I think he would look much better if he was flocked. As I am no expert on flocking, its better to let him go.
Romain has amazing eyes, and a peachy skin-tone. I like his hair, its half flocked and half straight.
Victor has a lovely even skin-tone, I was worried he may have the same issues that my other Lukas has, a mismatched head colour to body colour. His hair is very fluffy and bouncy.
new dolls
Although they may not be dollfie, I did buy a few *cough* new dolls recently.
Most Desired Eugenia Frost
Leading Man Lukas Maverick
They are designed by Jason Wu and called Fashion Royalty, and I first came across the collection when I bought a Glam Slam Kyori Sato way back in 2004. I did buy a few more, but then got more interested in dollfie so sold all of them except for Kyori. Then recently I saw Most Desired Eugenia and she looked amazing, but was extremely hard to get as she was released in 2008 with a run of 850. I did find a few on ebay but they were very overpriced, then found a ebay shop that had four and managed to get one ^_^. The second is a current collection Lukas, the first version to be done in a darker skin tone. While the skin colour is great, I really hate the hair! Its so odd, and there is hair in the box which is gross! (yes I know its plastic hair, but looks like someones had a shave in the box!). So maybe I’ll get rid of him. I want to collect some Fashion royalty dolls, but will keep them down to a group of 4/5 no more!
