Happy Halloween!

Final posts wrapping up this project are coming soon! For today, enjoy the celebration! 

A Living Dead Dolloween, Part 7: A Vintage Halloween Custom!

The Living Dead Dolloween is almost over, but I had to throw in one last short new entry before the finale.

A few months ago, when reviewing Grace of the Grave, I discussed how her bumpy, pitted, mouth-cut head sculpt was a total one-off, and speculated on potential other use cases it could have been applied to were it chosen to be repurposed. While the head sculpt had no time to be reused before the switch to ball-joint bodies shut the door on several unique sculpts in the very next series, I still thought maybe some creativity could have given it more life, and the holes and bumps made me think of a character themed around the Moon. This idea came back to me closer to Halloween as I realized I could customize a Grace into a vintage Halloween moon fit to add to the Series 32 cast. 

A Living Dead Dolloween, Part 6: Honorary Halloween Living Dead Dolls Roundup (Roundup #8)

Now that the series and exclusive history of LDD Halloween has been looked over...who says we have to stop there? Why not look at other offerings fit for the holiday?

A Living Dead Dolloween, Part 5: A New Exclusive Era

The same year Series 32 was released, Living Dead Dolls debuted a new format of Halloween exclusive dolls, starting with Jack O Lantern. These dolls were all themed heavily on the holiday, and have the same deathdate as that year's Halloween, like the first Halloween exclusives Hemlock and Honey. Each of these dolls was a solo release, though, and had three regional color variants available in different parts of the world. I imagine this string of Halloween exclusives could have continued for more than three annual dolls if the classic era of the brand had not collapsed to this very day, but with such a small selection of this phase of LDD Halloween, my choices were more narrow and easy. I have some appreciation for the first doll, Jack O Lantern. I like that he's based on the legend of Stingy Jack, who is the very namesake of the carved veg, and his orange/black UK variant looks really good. I was also briefly obsessed with the black-and-white variant of Vesper, a girl in a bat-winged hoodie. She has a very classic old-LDD 1960s-dolly faceup with a lot of classic-horror camp about her, but I felt like she might be a doll better suited by a classic dolly dress outfit in the same colors, and I was iffy enough about the effect of the painted fangs in her face paint that I let her be. To look at this collection of Halloween LDD, one little ghoul was the answer.

A Living Dead Dolloween, Part 4: A Vintage Halloween Viewing

Time to look at the last LDD Halloween series!

A Living Dead Dolloween, Part 3: A Series 18 Selection

 Onward to the next spooky series!

A Living Dead Dolloween, Part 2: A Series 16 Showcase

Now for our first Halloween series examination! 

A Living Dead Dolloween, Part 1: An Exclusive Entry

This Halloween season, we're going all in! I completely skipped out on any blog activity last October because other projects were occupying my holiday (and I decorated my room so thoroughly I deprived myself of studio space!), but I can't let that stand for a second year. Halloween is my most activated time and the holiday fuels my spirit like little else. I had to bring that energy here and spread the celebration.

And what better way to celebrate than with an overview of Living Dead Dolls' Halloween-themed history?