Bloody Mary Finally Complete!

Back in June last year, I had my fourth LDD roundup review, focused on gruesome characters, including Bloody Mary from Series 17. I selected Mary at that time because I found a copy with a manufacturing error that mirrored her plastic coffin lid, and I found that a particularly resonant novelty that elevated the doll. However, in my haste to get that mirror-lid Mary, I failed to see that the copy did not include the chipboard completing the coffin, and this has remained a problem since. I finally saw a decently cheap Mary with everything but the physical box, and I scooped it up to be able to finally complete my own copy.

The second Mary has subtle differences from the first. 

Mary I (left) and II (right).

There are nuances with the difference in blood splatter, and the airbrushed eyebrows are darker on Mary II. II lacks some blemishes I saw on I. The biggest difference is in their hair. Mary I's hair felt very thick and fried, and falls in a center-parted two-lobed "lion's mane" shape, while Mary II's hair feels thinner, less fried and more combable, and has a more "effed up" feel with more ability to vertically arrange it and less of a pronounced parting.

I think Mary II's hair is closer to what I expected from the doll, and feels more neglected and disheveled and scary. Mary I's hair had its charm, but I think II's hair seals it: I'm keeping her as my Bloody Mary copy. I'm still not sure what I'm doing with I, but the fairest, most productive thing is just to sell her as an aid for future collection goals. She'd be an interesting custom base, but without any direction for what to do with her, it would just be a waste to destroy her.

Here's the coffin now fully assembled with Mary II and her chipboard taking residence.

Glad to have this wrapped up!