LDD doing fashion dolls ought to have been the apotheosis of my doll hobby. I started my hobby with spooky fashion dolls and then became obsessed with the storytelling of LDD's more classic-style dolls, finding some of my greatest creative joy with LDD subjects. But when they finally tried a fashion-doll spinoff, LDD boinked their opportunity in every sense of the word with Wave 1's ineptly sexual doll design that was hard to glamorize or accept. Read that review here. Fortunately, they had one more chance to impress me, and the very next year, in 2004, Wave 2 of the line presented a total overhaul that seemed to be basically what I wanted. Was it?
Clearly, LDD took the Fashion Victims concept back to the drawing board, and made something far less concerning! The doll size and two costumes were retained, but the cup size was markedly less exaggerated. (I have to imagine that was a significant part of what the official LDD website archive description meant when it said Wave 2 featured "improved proportions"!) The dolls were also just less tacky, subjectively and physically. They had a new head design with inset eyes, and new body sculpts in a solid plastic material without the rubbery tactility that felt so dirty in context. The dolls didn't go totally chaste, but they're much less sex-shop than they were, feeling more fun in their naughty aesthetic. Wave 2 alone wouldn't require "uncomfortable" classification. I think the newer dolls do have a command of art style and sculpting and design that lets them be viewed both as art dolls and as camp icons for adults within the range of pinup culture, rather than appeals to porn. I can easily picture drag queens doing the Wave 2 doll looks, while Wave 1's different exaggeration of the feminine, while patently absurd, doesn't capture the admiration and fun that fuels drag. Lulu, though...she goes a little trashier and ma'am, we need to talk about that belt of yours. Don't know how to feel about that one.
My grail doll for wave 2 became Sybil, with her full loooooong-sleeved striped jacket, which is never sold anywhere these days. Her second outfit, aping A Clockwork Orange, would be a bonus for me and give her boots to stand with, but I want her main look. I gained an obsession and kept an eye out for her, but didn't want to stall this review on her behalf. I saw one listing for her, but the website was very questionable and was likely stealing the photos and description from an old eBay listing that sold years ago. Another listing, on eBay, was for the full set of wave 2 mint and the seller was unwilling to sell Sybil alone, banking on her to justify the exorbitant price they were asking. Rats. I just hoped FV Sybil would be more of a "variant Toxic Molly grail"--that is, remote but achievable--than a "variant Resurrection Bride of Valentine grail"--seemingly impossible. I didn't tell you I almost had a great opportunity for the variant Bride last year, only for it to be gone by the time I followed up on the listing!)
For the purposes of this current discussion, I picked Hollywood, another character I can compare to her original. I went on record directly saying I wouldn't pick her as my FV Wave 2 example previously, but you take what you can get, and I certainly had nothing against her! Maybe I should reflect on times hindsight bit me in the rear with this blog!
I'd love to have made Sybil my FV Wave 2 showcase here, but that was always a long shot, and the availability of Hollywood letting me document the doll wave new in box was another appealing incentive--I'd have even less chance of getting Sybil boxed than to get her at all.
But pump the brakes for a moment--I need to square away my original Series 5 Hollywood before I can discuss the Fashion Victim, because my doll was in no state to model design differences after what I did to her poor hair. As 2025 was a space for me to revisit some dolls from 2023 and fix them up or atone for errors, 2026 is shaping up to be a place to make amends with dolls from 2024, and I have multiple LDDs I'm working on reconciliation with. Hollywood joins the pack!
This is what my original Hollywood looked like out of the coffin with her factory curls. They were really pretty nice, and could have just used some trimming around the silhouette.
I was led astray, however, by the official LDD photo of the doll having looser hair that approached a glamor starlet wave, and I felt that was more in-tone with the design aesthetic anyhow, so I tried to straighten her hair to give it more of that shape. Emphasis on "tried". Extended boil and combing efforts just created a cloud of hair with the ends getting textured the same as poly-fil fabric stuffing. I worked it well enough to finish a photo session, but it didn't take long for me to regret it, and to compare Hollywood's two doll designs, I needed a better exemplar of the doll in original state.
My Hollywood 2 has some unresponsive faint red stains on the clean side of her face that I just have to live with, and peroxide yellowing treatment didn't get her nearly as stark white as my first Hollywood looks. Granted, it's from a suboptimal setup; I'd have best results in warmer weather when I could get her directly in sun for longer, but she's evenly colored and clean now and might just have a base cast difference in color. My first Hollywood would have been the ideal copy had I simply left her alone, but the fact is the prototype photo of the doll reflected a hairstyle the factory wasn't directed to make, and my efforts to replicate the looser hair didn't work.
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| Pale, ruined-hair Hollywood 1 on the left; yellower, curly Hollywood 2 on the right. |
I was left unsure what to do with Hollywood 1 now. She's not good enough to sell, and I imagine wiping her heavy red paint wouldn't leave me with pristine blank vinyl, so the best thing to do was to customize her as an alternate look for the same character, leaving the paint in place. I could reroot her, but I wanted to see if curling could fix most of her hair's problems, maybe to go for more of a Marilyn vibe. I also painted her forearms red to look like she used blood as elbow gloves, removing her black nails first. I also painted her lowered eyelid black and added messy lashes. I put her in the fake Resurrection-variant Lilith dress with the X stitches cut out, plus a Shadow High necklace, to dress her. I...think I did some magic here.
This actually turned out way better than it had any right to; this could make a fun official variant doll or Resurrection design! It looks far more intentional than the truth, which is that it's a patch job for a doll whose hair I ruined. It helps heighten the blood and battering which are hard to swallow on the original design, and turns the gore into something more flashy and campy. I might even like my hasty rescue redesign more than the original...but don't tell her.
And of course, you may recognize this iconic Hollywood look--it's right out of the famous number in her hit film Gentlemen Prefer Blood!
I actually love her. I think the two Hollywoods have to share shelf space. What a save! Now, I'm reconsidering the black-and-white variant too, because she's got her own presence and intrigue, but Series 5 having three instances of the same character in their corner of the shelf could get crowded.
Okay, now we can talk about the Fashion Victim.
Almost.
I swear the start of any year is a cursed work time for me. 2024, I held up a Clawdeen customization project with lots of missteps, revisions, and orders. In 2025, I went through a mess last year in my failed quest to receive a listing for LDD Hollow, with a totally unresponsive seller who ultimately gave up and refunded me after hounding them, while a February Valentine custom doll project was delayed into early March by a dye order which was delivered sans product (empty open envelope!) and forced me to wait for the replacement. Here, some nasty Hollow déjà vu was hitting me because my purchase of Fashion Victims Hollywood was undelivered and without response or update for over two weeks. With other orders breaking down for this one project, I was starting to lose it and I didn't want to have this doll delay me any further by needing to get refunded and repurchased elsewhere.
Guess what?
Well, after losing the order and needing eBay to refund it for me due to total silence from the MIA seller, I was already considering a wild plan. Would it just be possible to actually get that whole lot of Wave 2 dolls? While I observed it, nobody did a thing on the auction at all; zero bids, so zero winners. If that auction could just hold out until February, I had a very good chance of being the sole and victorious bidder. The minimum placeable bid was better than the "buy it now" price, but not cheap. This would be basically all of my February hobby in one go, but winning the auction uncontested, as it very much looked like I could, would avoid some significant cost and make it achievable. I crossed my fingers and prayed it wouldn't sell for a couple more weeks so I just had a chance to enter the auction. In the event the dolls sold before I could be that buyer, Sybil was back to being a once-in-a-blue moon appearance, and I would have to content myself with ordering Hollywood again and dreaming. But if I could pull this off, it'd be my craziest get ever and would supply me with a new review series! I just hoped it would wait for me, that nobody would snipe and/or win by default first, and that the dolls wouldn't be sold off-platform before the listing was taken down. I had reasons to feel both very confident and also very nervous, and I'd just accept whatever outcome I got.
I understand why some hobbyist reviewers have accounts on viewer-patronage platforms now, since it makes collecting easier, but even if I had the follower base to fund crazy whims like this, I'd feel really guilty asking for support toward something so frivolous.
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So. Here's Hollywood.
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| Even just Hollywood is great! |
Wave 2 does the right thing and returns to the iconic LDD branding of a coffin-shaped box. I was surprised to find it's actually the same very weird pinched-in construction on the sides as the talking Resurrection Cuddles and Chloe boxes used, many years before those dolls. Both boxes are one piece that almost look like a sleeve around an inner box.
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| Res Chloe's box design. |
The boxes use printed coffin handles like some early classic-series boxes at the same time as these FV dolls released, and I like the spooky purple and green branding. The box has a huge ugly choking-hazard sticker slapped on in the corner. The character names are not provided on the Wave 2 boxes, meaning only one print graphic file would have been developed for all four dolls' packages.
Maggots are printed bursting out of the coffins at some points.
Hollywood is packaged in the outfit uniquely designed for her Fashion Victims doll, which might be considered her "B" look if taking the classic-style looks as the "A" style for all four. Lulu is packaged in her all-new costume as well (bad look there, girl), while Inferno and Sybil are boxed in their "A" looks, the costumes directly interpreting their original dolls' outfits. Hollywood and Lulu's "A" looks are packaged as the second outfits...though, it gets confusing because by default, the "new-for-FV" costumes must be the "A" looks for FV Hollywood and Lulu.
What's unusual about these boxes is how they used the back side. Rather than text copy or advertising the rest of the doll line, the back of the coffin is another window showing the other tray inside with the second outfit, placed back-to-back with the doll tray.
This is uncommon presentation, but it highlights the tonal shift to make these more good-faith traditional fashion dolls. It looks like a department store window display! Other cases like this where the doll has a rear window on the box are the later Mystixx dolls which expose the dolls' second faces with a back window, and the Witch Weaver, whose box frames their halo-like hat in a clear circle that can be highlighted by light from behind.
One thing I've previously observed in LDD that I think bolsters their art-doll reputation is the lack of "here's the other dolls you can buy!" imagery and advertising on their packaging, which was a trend Wave 1 of the Fashion Victims broke. It feels like correlation to see that the classier, artsier Wave 2 did away with that mode of collectible advertising.
The back of the box carries a 15+ age rating, which is typical for the brand and not nearly as insufficient as I found the same rating to be for the adults-only content of the Wave 1 dolls.
The Wave 2 Fashion Victims have no doll stands, like wave 1, but also do away with the profile-sheet element, with no paper pieces equivalent to the classic death certificates or the skeevy data files of wave 1. Hollywood is someone to note on the "not represented in these pages" side sheet in my FATALogue collection binder.
Here's the second costume off its tray. Twist wires and plastic strips were used to position it, while the shoes used a plastic shell. Fashion Victims has a weird thing with redundant items, apparently, because both Hollywood outfits have identical pairs of shoes. What's the point?
With the doll unboxed, I immediately love her; she makes such a starkly different first impression than FV Sadie did. To compare:
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| Sadie freshly unboxed. |
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| Hollywood being a diva from second one. |
My Sadie is no longer as representative of the Wave 1 design as she used to be, thanks to my modifications to reduce her bust and remove the vinyl coating of her costume (which also required a messy replacement collar), but there's still quite a difference. A Wave 2 doll is slightly shorter than Wave 1, not as heavy, and it's a whole other art style.
Hollywood is probably the very classiest of the Fashion Victims bunch, with nothing really naughty about her, unless you're especially prudish about fishnet stockings. Her classic-cinema vibe has not been compromised, and I appreciate that. The first outfit, however, places her further back in time than her original LDD, reimagining Hollywood as a 1920s silent-era film queen, while the original doll was more midcentury-starlet in tone. You could almost imagine a different death backstory for her, like she was in a crime/noir film, only the "gangsters" she was acting with were the real deal and really shot her in the head. Since this version of Hollywood has no supplemental text, it's easier to treat her as an alternate-universe character who could have died at a different time and/or in a different way.
Hollywood's first piece out of the box is her hat, which is a beret made of sequined black fabric.
I'd have thought it was a pillbox hat at first, but it's not structured enough to count as one, and a beret makes more sense for this costume's twenties theme, anyhow. The box held this hat on with a twist wire around the doll's head, but it stays on fine by itself. It's not super elasticated or tight, but sits around her crown easily and securely, and has a red rosette decoration which the LDD photo suggests orienting to Hollywood's right to offset the matching one on her dress. The sequin fabric is the same type as Viv's red jacket, but Hollywood's pieces had some strange loose fibers (I don't know if they can be called threads; they're like stretchy plastic) that needed trimming.
Instead of white poodle curls or a white fried straightened mess or a short curly cover-up, Fashion Victims Hollywood has clearly blonde hair in a short side-parted bob.
I like that this hairdo distances her visually from the character's pretty tasteless original inspiration, Jayne Mansfield, whose real death by car crash directly inspired the LDD character. The hairstyle does seem like it's designed for the benefit of her flapper costume, and not for the look which recreates the S5 doll. In that sense, the S5 look being the designated "B" costume of the doll feels enforced by the doll base, while Lulu, I feel, is far more cohesive in her "B" look recreating the S4 original--perhaps because her hair isn't changed as much as Hollywood's was. I feel like maybe short curls in a retro style could have straddled both costumes better, suiting a flapper dress (maybe with a feather headpiece instead) as well as the more midcentury-starlet look of the long dress.
The Fashion Victims face design is much different for Wave 2. And I love it. I'm obsessed with Hollywood's face. Someone give the sculptor/designer a fancy dinner, because this is exactly what Fashion Victims needed. This is goth and this is camp. It's awesome.
Rather than flat bold-line cartoons, the dolls have a more delicate and spooky style that feels much more like goth stylized artwork, with caricature glam that sings. The eyes are big while the pupils are small, and the eyes have an eerie staring quality as well as some of those extreme LDD brows. The sculpt itself has full cheeks and the brows are sculpted in a furrowed scowl under the paint. I like this face design much more. It's prettier and has some eerie attitude to it. A fashion doll needs a strong identity, I feel, and this face knows exactly who she is and what she wants to be.
The Wave 2 aesthetic actually strikes me as the dolls becoming a more accurate match to the 2D art seen in Wave 1 promotional materials. The illustrated Wave 1 dolls in this print ad bear a much closer art-style resemblance to the Wave 2 dolls than the actual Wave 1 dolls they depict.
The face shape and the angry furrowed brows in the art are very very similar to the Wave 2 dolls, and even the body proportions in the illustration look more Wave 2-esque. Maybe LDD used art like this as the guiding star for the redesign, aiming to land this drawn aesthetic more closely with their second attempt. Damn shame they didn't get there earlier. This art looks better than the matching dolls, and the Wave 1 designs with the Wave 2 sculpts would be much more palatable. It hurts to realize the Wave 2 art style existed the whole time, but just wasn't captured with the Wave 1 dolls!
Funny that art that actually looks like the Wave 1 dolls came later, and in a fully different context--the Series 15 spirit-board portraits (see the Wave 1 post for the comparison).
Hollywood's skintone in Fashion Victims has a blushed blue effect, which is a big difference when the original Hollywood was close to stark white--closer, evidently, on some copies. This blue blushing is more like what I'd have wanted from FV Lilith, and would be a great way to translate her original doll's solid powder-blue coloring. I think I'd have preferred a white-toned FV Hollywood, which would be more chic and vintage-toned and look like an old modernist drawing against red blood and lips and blonde hair, but I can't call this unsuccessful. There was a spot of gloss that distracted me on the forehead, but I couldn't remove it without also damaging the airbrushed blue in that spot, and attempts to blend it out weren't really working. I think it passes for deathly skin mottling fine, and I love the doll enough to not feel devastated by my error. When I can get the right paint color, I'm sure I can easily cover this up and blend it out so it'll look good as new.
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| Plus, she has a hat. |
The face mold for Hollywood is unique among the Wave 2 quartet, with her left eye having a smaller, narrower cutout for the inset piece to replicate the swollen-closed look that eye had on the original doll. I wonder if the inset pieces themselves are different sizes. The other three Wave 2 dolls seem to all have the same face sculpt, though Inferno has her horns, leaving three distinct molds in the wave (Lulu and Sybil share a mold exactly.) I believe the head is firm vinyl like the Wave 1 heads. I was a bit unsure, because the official Mezco photos of the dolls made a couple of heads look glossy enough to be read as hard plastic, but Hollywood has no such gloss. I'm not opposed to glossy doll heads, but I tend to favor a matte finish for doll skin, and find that to look more refined for an art-doll pedigree.
Hollywood and Lulu are the only Wave 2 Victims with clearly defined sclerae, irises, and pupils in their eye design, and for both, the irises are shrunken along with the pupils to create the disproportionate sclera effect. The inset eyes are glossy with separate chips for the irises, which have a slight glassy effect. The eyes definitely look more cartoony in a way where the inset probably wasn't necessary--but it is very much appreciated. It really gives the dolls more of that classic "creepy-doll" aesthetic, and that touch of "goth stop-motion puppet" that makes the Wave 2 feel so aesthetically in command. The Fashion Victims really found themselves here. I also have to appreciate the really delicate pink lining inside the inner edge of the eyelids, making the eyes even more realistic and detailed.
The dolls also have lashes attached to their eyeball pieces, again adding a touch of dolly effect which the previous wave didn't aim for. And Hollywood's lashes ever so slightly more horizontal on the swollen lid that would be dropping them down. That's absolutely incredible attention to detail. Bravo, Mezco.
It's really hard to capture in photo, but the right eyelashes are definitely drooped, and this is something all of her copies seem to share. I'll grant that this could have been less of an intentional detail and more forced by the manufacturing--that the droopier position is a natural consequence of the eye/socket shaping on the right side--but regardless, it would be a weaker design if the lashes ended up perky on both sides.
The blood on Hollywood's face isn't totally flat red, but it's far less textured and visceral-looking. Comparison below.
It has similar splatters to S5 Hollywood and covers the same area, but FV has less ugly bruising effects and does what I wish S5 had by making the battered eye look glam in a campy manner. The mouth is also far less beaten-looking, and some blood splatters cross onto the clean side of Hollywood's body with paint on the neck and cheek. The right arm is less bloody, too, with only a splatter on the shoulder and no cuts or blood further down. FV Wave 2 overall seems to display an aversion to translating the gorier aspects of the dolls, as Lulu is far less injured and gross-looking, as well as lacking her signature leg wound. I'm okay with that. If the fashion aesthetic is compromised by unpleasantly plausible gore and decay, then begone with it! I certainly found the body shading on Wave 1, plus Lilith's face sculpt (and a few other aspects) to be counterproductive to the sexy theme the dolls clearly wanted to capture.
The blood does go under the rooted hair, but there isn't a separate paint color on the scalp, implying brain tissue, like S5 Hollywood had.
Hollywood is the only Wave 2 Fashion Victim with non-black lipstick, as Lilith was for Wave 1. Both have red instead.
Here's Hollywood's faces compared. The eye color on the Fashion Victim matches her bluish skin, while the S5 doll's eyes are pure green.
Hollywood has a beaded pearl-effect necklace which is long and not super flexible. The necklace loop is wider than her head and fits around it easily, but can also slide up and down her body to add or remove it from her ensemble.
A pearl necklace was seen in Series 5, but on Dahlia rather than the original Hollywood.
Hollywood's boa is derived from her Series 5 outfit but assigned to the FV original ensemble by the packaging. It's not too different from the S5 piece, but might feel fluffier, with less stringy feathers.
The dress is the same fabric as the hat, with simple shoulder straps, a rounded dip neckline, and classic flapper fringe at the hem.
I was pleasantly surprised to hear the clink of a zipper when unboxing the second dress, and it turns out, both of the dresses this doll owns use zippers to close in the back. I like that. Wave 1 evidently just used playline-standard velcro for anything, like most classic LDD clothing, while it seems Wave 2 is consciously courting the air of refinement by using fancier, more old-fashioned doll clothes techniques. It reminds me of the later Return dolls' level of pointed construction polish to make them feel more luxurious. Return Sadie had a zipper...but Return Sin didn't. I do acknowledge the potential for zippers to come apart and stop working, so velcro is more reliable, but a working zipper is nicer than velcro.
Hollywood wears net tights under the dress, and the first of two identical Mary Jane heel sets. These are not the same sculpt Wave 1 Sadie had.
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| Sadie's very similar heels. |
The body design is the most marked difference between Wave 1 and 2 in my mind, and 2 takes the dolls out of the seedier connotations the Wave 1 line struggled under.
Warning for the giant-breasted, nippled Wave 1 body again.
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| The tights stained her a bit. |
The heads are still large, but feel less unappealingly so, while the torsos are very different. Wave 2 is breasting quite boobily in its own way, and the dolls have more detailed contour than most doll bodies when viewed from the side, but they're not exaggerated balloons making a shelf in front of the doll, and they don't have the pruriently-sculpted nipples. The waists have some curved hourglass contour and a swayed back years before Monster High, while the body has some curvature around the belly and the butt which works well. The body retains a sharp collarbone detail. The major difference in the impression is that Wave 2 isn't sporting hypersexualized porn proportions, and the body design overall feels more harmonious. The legs don't feel overly short and the stances are tidied so the feet aren't in a wide awkward "mom I threw up" stagger. The blue body blushing also looks good, and it's an improvement over the shading elements of Wave 1 which harmed the dolls' appeal rather than flattering them. Hollywood's spoiled a bit by black boa stains on the arms. The body does have some ugly seams, too.
What really surprised me with the bodies was the articulation. I was under the assumption that there had been cutbacks to the old Barbie standard of only swivels for limb joints, but I was delighted to see rotating hinges at the shoulders! The hips also work better, though they still aren't designed to let the dolls sit anywhere near elegantly.
The head is ball-jointed like Wave 1, and tips further back than forward (and also further to the doll's left than her right). This could be variable between copies of Wave 2 dolls. It strikes me that the Fashion Victims were the first LDD items with ball joints, preceding Series 9 overhauling the classic doll body.
The next surprise with articulation was...they did the wire internals again! I first noticed when I realized the ankles could bend, and then I found the knees and elbows could be posed too.
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| Legs are very limited bend, as before. |
Later, I found that very careful bending can get a fairly decent flat-footed stance, so that suggests Sybil can be off her tiptoes when barefoot. It's not able to stand the doll freely, though. A doll stand would still be needed if you affected a flat-foot bend. I might have preferred an adaptation of the hinged separate pop-off foot pieces from Wave 1. I have to imagine they could make standing these dolls a tad easier, and the versatility and comparative stability of the ankle joint was appreciated. Flexible feet are never going to be great at holding up a doll.
The material of the limbs is some non-rubbery soft plastic, perhaps just a type of vinyl, so I don't anticipate tearing, though it does limit the flexion of the wire inside more than the Wave 1 rubber did. I'm also not sure if I should be nervous about what looks like a wire bump in the left arm.
The dolls having any arm bend at all is quite a wonderful bonus, though, and should make for more expressive poses even if they can't do a whole lot. I think this also means Sybil can be posed with her arms in a passable straitjacket-binding shape by bending them across her torso as far as they'll go. I doubt it would be as good as the S4 doll, especially with no actual binding system on the FV sleeves, but it's cool that her arms don't have to be straight all the time. That would miss the point a bit, regardless of how awesome the rest of the doll is.
I must still say that internal armature, for me, is never going to be better than external joints, and I'm disappointed at LDD's frequent failures to design hip joints that swing directly, tidily forward, but at least the Wave 2 body plastic is a major tactile improvement. No clingy tacky rubber on this doll at all, which makes her less heavy and makes her clothes much easier to use.
The Wave 2 dolls evidently can't use their bare feet to stand them, but Hollywood stands pretty well in her shoes--better than Sadie did. Helps that she's much lighter. Wave 1's dense rubber bodies makes them quite heavy.
The Wave 2 dolls' hands can rotate at the wrists and detach for dressing purposes, but have a flat-cut wrist that doesn't leave a gap which would let them tip a little like ball-jointed hands. The wrists don't seem fully aligned with the arms, either.
The Wave 2 hands are more claw-like and a tad closer to a "crawling hand" pose a la The Addams Family's Thing. All of the digits on the Wave 1 hands were separated, but here, the third and fourth fingers are molded to be pressed together on the right hand and with less separation on the left hand. The hands are large but feel balanced to the rest of the sculpt. Wave 1 and 2 dolls can swap hands, though none are color matches that could cross over.
Here's Hollywood in the S5-based ensemble--so no tights or necklace or hat, but yes to the boa which S5 had. Same exact shoes as the main outfit, but a different pair!
This actually works better than I thought it would, considering the hairstyle change. The dress itself has a more ruffled lace effect at the top, but its cut and feather trim and textured straps and neckline trim all mimic the S5 dress. The material is a waterproof stretch fabric, though, rather than the velvety material the S5 dress used. As mentioned, this one zippers down the back too. The dress can get a little tight and accidentally translucent around the bust, but not to the effect of certain accidentally-revealing tight doll clothing I've seen. Hollywood's dress is perfectly acceptable.
The beads and nets can be added easily to this look to give it a bit more.
Here's the two Hollywood dolls in the same outfit.
I found the Wave 1 Fashion Victims to feel very culturally dated, not only in their objectified nature, but also in their art style which was very bold-line cartoon with big heads and attitude like many '00s dolls and animation projects featured...more adeptly. Wave 2, however, feels more timeless, even prescient, in its art style and design. There are passing similarities to the titanic Monster High to follow in the way alt and fierce themes were used with fantasy skintones to create creepy glam, plus the sway back on the torso is pretty similar. I think there are also plenty of comparisons to make to Rainbow High/Shadow High which came even later. Both doll brands feature inset eyes with applied lashes, and Shadow High has fantasy skintones, well-constructed clothes, and edgy themes that are passingly similar to Fashion Victims Wave 2.
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| Hollywood with Monster High Frankie Stein (left) and Shadow High Zooey Electra (right). |
It's surprising to me that Wave 2 was where Fashion Victims truly died, because I'd have thought this design concept would have legs. I'm sure it could easily be released today...I guess FV kind of just woke up as the Return dolls instead, adapting the inset eyes, expressive faces, multiple outfits, better articulation, and fancy clothes, while retaining the classic dolls' childlike design and original visuals more closely.
For this doll, I wanted to repeat the "Grauman's Theater sidewalk footprint slab" idea I did for Series and other celebrity-entertainer LDDs, but in the right tone for FV Hollywood. I used her face as an imprint again, like I did for S5, but changed the signature to have the H mimic a pentagram and ended the D on a devil tail. I also added tire treads from the car she died in. I signed the name facing the viewer rather than the footprints this time.
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| I love that her lashes actually made a real imprint. |
Unfortunately, even though I made the prints with the doll in shoes, I must have squeezed her legs together closer than they naturally rest, so it's hard to get her stably posed with her feet actually nested in the prints. She looks good regardless!
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| I got her shoes nested in place here! |
Here's the two slabs I made for the two Hollywoods compared.
And with the two displayed.
If Hollywood wants a proper doll stand, I discovered a Shadow High one just barely works for her height, with the clip accommodating her waist well. This is not ideal, though. She's still technically too tall, and the stand poles in this brand already pop out too easily when the intended dolls use them.
I later discovered a L.O.L. O.M.G. Fierce stand was more successful. The pole is tall enough and the clip will support the doll, but the prongs aren't long enough to truly grab the waist well. It's not genuinely clipped on.
I can hunt around for another stand that would be most secure and suited to her look.
I started photographing the doll, beginning with a black-and-white shot of her on her pavement stone, like I did for S5.
I then shot the film still used in the cover photo--Hollywood looming in the doorway as if ready to throw a Miss Piggy-level fit.
The red light gives her more of a giallo tone, which is a genre of crime film, but really emerged the decade after S5 Hollywood died...so we're jumping all over time periods with this one!
Under blacklight, Hollywood's eyes and lips pop out!
Mixing the red and blue light created a really beautiful effect. I like how it straddles the red/blue colors of 3D glasses while also looking like the lights from emergency vehicles finding Hollywood dead on the pavement.
Here's Hollywood reclining and choking herself on her beads. This idea actually came from our next guest, since I got Hollywood second.
And here she is hanged on her boa.
I then restaged the shoot from the original doll where I depicted her inventing the red carpet by leaving a blood trail from her head wound.
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| I love this shot. |
Then I took several publicity-photo/headshot pictures.
Here's a shot edited to only show red.
Since this is a remake of the Hollywood character design, I restaged the movie poster I designed for S5 Hollywood under the context of this being a poster for a remake of the fictional film!
Here are pictures from the photo composition I used.
I also shot for a crime-film adaptation of the character in her 1920s look.
I thought the flapper look could also be suited to a lighthearted vintage comedy film, and I really wanted to draw the look as a minimalist no-outline graphic retro piece.
I'm obsessed with FV Hollywood. I can't stop looking at her.
She is the fashion art doll I wanted from this doll line. The face design is impeccable with its creepy campy glamor and piercing stare, and the costumes are fun. I like the flapper reinterpretation a lot and the S5 look, while less cohesive this time around, is still better than I thought it would be. I'd be entirely comfortable leaving Hollywood on display in either look. I also had a few pleasant surprises from the doll--the zippers, the retained armature feature, the intentional eyelash asymmetry! There are typical production drawbacks. There are blemishes to the paint which can't be fixed without repainting because it's all airbrushed over the base material, and there are flaws in the costumes and molding and hair quality. The articulation is also substandard compared to modern fashion dolls, and even older ones knew how to sit down in prettier ways. But Hollywood is still a beautiful, striking horror doll with a full command of art style and identity, excelling in every area Wave 1 put me off. It was an absolute delight working with this doll. While there are elements I like from S5 more, I think I overall vastly prefer FV Hollywood for amplifying the sense of absurdist contrast between glamor and gore. FV Hollywood is straight from the land of Beetlejuice caricature where even a severely battered eye can wear a two-inch lash, while S5 Hollywood is too close to a crime-scene photo for a sense of iconic glamor and the character "owning it" to really hit as well. (Speaking of Beetlejuice, stay tuned. Skullector just had to announce another drop...)
Hey, remember Bleeding Edge Goths? Well, Series 8 of the BEGoth dolls can be compared to LDD Series 5, as it has a retro-Hollywood concept to it.
I was actually set to review the 1920s-style Gloria Phobia as an example of a later BEGoth with the second body design, and a thematic resonant counterpart to FV Hollywood, even devising the split two-part format with a mirrored FV/BEGoth review structure for Gloria. According to her profile, Gloria is very diet-focused, which isn't my own experience, but she hates the Hays Code, so I think we could get along. Then the wind was totally ripped from my sails when the seller messaged me and said they were issuing a refund because they had sold the doll outside eBay and hadn't taken down the listing in time.
That was a huge disappointment, but this time, I decided, for once, not to double down and marry myself to the doll. I could get Gloria through one other source, but losing her didn't devastate me enough to get her again at a higher price than my first attempt. I was still bothered by my vision being challenged. Another Series 8 BEGoth doll would be awesome to review in parallel to FV Hollywood, but vampy Greta is nowhere and Silent Storm is very pricey and not sold stateside. I then had to ask myself if I wanted to accept the excess to actually reach for Silent Storm instead. She was growing on me more. Was she good enough and meaningful enough to eat the import and higher price? Getting another Gloria was more feasible, but I wasn't sure I liked her as much. Other second-body BEGoth dolls I liked weren't available or viable. Storm was an even better visual parallel to Hollywood. I'm a sucker for silent-era glamor.
Well. Things have been prosperous enough for me in the moment that I could do it without getting wiped out or waiting until the next month, but this review sidenote objectively counts as a grail doll! This wasn't even about her, and I wouldn't have gone this far were it not for the compelling intertextuality I cracked open between these two doll brands. Anything for the analysis and research of toys! Storm, you are the definition of a diva for this.
It must be noted that Storm was actually the first doll I acquired and reviewed for this post, but only because getting Hollywood was such a rigamarole. Putting her first in the order of the post didn't feel necessary, though.
This copy of Silent Storm is pristine in-box, which gives me more of a look at BEGoth presentation and packaging.
I'm not really impressed by the branding and graphic design here. While it is charmingly of its time, it doesn't feel especially cohesive or mature to me, and doesn't create that "iconic" feeling of packaging you get from G1 Monster High or Living Dead Dolls. It seems fairly on-the-nose spooky with less of the artsy expressionism I'd want to identify these goth alt dolls with. Where's the sketchier art styling and expressive character illustrations? We just get some generic spooky imagery and skulls which are honestly easy to mistake for a dalmatian pattern.
The back of the box is also not going to win any graphic arts awards, with text that is struggling to distinguish itself from the background and messy composition.
Here's the copy regarding the series.
"A time where icons and legends were made" is not a complete sentence. I do like the tagline "Toys that Refuse to Conform", but part of me wonders how true that ethos held over time. The packaging was evidently never as confrontational and edgy and expressive as the dolls inside, and by this late stage of BEGoth, it'd be easy to accuse the dolls of shifting more vanilla and losing some of their oppositional edge.
The box is marked with a 2009 copyright.
The internal tray of the box has its edges cut to fit precisely under the edges of the outer box. Storm is packaged with her hat off and the character card is taped to the back of the tray.
The twist wires for this doll are flat, like the kind used for bread bags, and she had some plastic tags for her skirt as well as plastic strips holding down her braids under tape.
Storm's character card features a portrait of the doll which was a major source of collector dysmorphia, because I realized quickly this depicts a prototype with meaningful production differences from the doll I was unboxing. As such, this image on the card, which I love, cannot be fully replicated with the doll BEGoth sold.
The back of the card includes a profile with Storm's information. It looks like most of it is the same as the original Storm, but the likes and dislikes have changed on theme with the doll edition. Other editions of Storm have different changes to her profile.
I believe, in context, the "TMC" she refers to is The Movie Channel.
Here's the doll unboxed.
The BEGoth dolls never included doll stands, which is a real shame because they cannot stand unaided. It looks like maybe the Back to BEGoth revival is considering including doll stands, though, based on this concept image of a Halloween Storm edition with a customized BEGoth stand.
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| This is a really cute design. |
This Storm is clearly a digital edit over an older BEGoth base body, so doesn't demonstrate the new molds the brand is working on or a physical product, but the promise of doll stands is exciting--I hope they keep that idea.
Of the three Series 8 dolls, the Silent edition of Storm O. Misery feels like the most classic film star in the silent-movie aesthetic. Gloria is beautifully twenties, but feels less definitively like an actress--she could just as well be a socialite. Greta Vendetta is pure vamp, and a very classic sensual sinister actress archetype. Storm, however, fills the role of the more mainstream glamor actress, not so much playing the bad girl, but being a film icon with broader appeal. I'm not fully sure which decade Storm is meant to fall into. Gloria is unambiguously 1920s, while Storm looks like she could be more early 1930s--I'm just not sure about the style of her hat, which I love. I tried to look around at fashion examples from the silent era, but couldn't be sure if the hat and dress were aligned or if they pointed specifically to one time period. (The hairstyle must be discounted on Storm's behalf, because she's wearing it as a note of character consistency rather than as a period hairstyle.)
Storm's first piece is by far her best-her hat. It's a firmly-shaped silk style that doesn't deform, and has an asymmetric slope over her head, longer in front, and a scalloped edge with elaborate piping trimming the edges. It's all black save for some white beading forming a floral or X shape on the left side.
I don't know the name or decade of this hat style, but it's very nicely made and unlike any other doll fashion piece I've encountered. This is the kind of nice doll hat that feels plausible for an antique. Certainly, Mattel would never ever make a hat like this when they could just cast it as a lump of plastic.
Storm O. Misery has two very consistent design traits across her many editions--inverted high-contrast mismatched eye colors, usually black and white (a lot like LDD Sadie, but with X pupils) and hair in twin braids. Regardless of what else she's got going on, Storm keeps those two features. Here, the braids are advertised as a low twin set rather than a high pigtail style, but in practice, don't seem much different from other Storm braids--there are just no thin loose locks in front.
I don't know if the braids are incidentally chosen for Storm or if they're derived from Wednesday Addams in their own way. The promo photos of Storm make it look like her braids should hang more flat against her head and with the center part forming a curtain to frame her face, but the produced doll's hair hangs in clumsy curves and doesn't frame her face. That's an issue.
The face itself is very pretty.
Storm's skin is starkly pale and her faceup is very clean, with single-winged eye makeup and faint lashes on the lower lid, with grey eyeshadow around the eye and a painted lid section with no shading. Storm's X eyes are red and black rather than black and white this time. She has a movie-star beauty mark under her right eye, and her lips are black. She has the same earring setup as Lillian, and a lip ring in the middle of her bottom lip.
Her face is high-contrast and pretty, but I don't read much in the vein of silent-era makeup here. I expect more of a sad eye look sloping down at the outer edges and a Cupid's bow dolly lip for a silent-movie glam style.
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| Really messy sketch, but a bit more like this. |
Maybe that didn't suit the doll sculpt, but maybe they just weren't attempting that to begin with.
It looks like this head mold is different from the first BEGoth body's head mold. The face seems to be slightly wider and with a slightly sharper chin.
I checked the mold stamps, and Lillian's is dated 2003 while Storm's is dated...2004. So the head was updated, but that must have been before the body was. I wonder what the story was there.
Around her neck, Storm has a looped pearl strand. This is another clear difference from the photographed copy of the doll, as the necklace is evidently shorter.
The photo doll has two extra-long strands of pearls hanging down her front while one part of the loop is tight against her neck, but the production necklace is only long enough to have one long strand. Pulling the necklace loop enough to create two longer strands makes them hang much shorter. Like these small bead strands tend to be, and like Hollywood's, the string is not the most flexible and doesn't hang with the weight and realism I wish it did. There's also an ugly chunkier bead where the string is held together and keeping that on the back of her neck is annoying. I think the best display is the single long strand, as that hangs the best.
The boa piece is my biggest disappointment with the doll. In theory, it's nice. It has elastic strings near the ends for the wrists to slide into so the boa stays in place...
...but it's definitely not the piece in the photos because the core of the boa is not nearly as flexible and slinky as seen in the promo picture. This boa cannot loop around Storm's wrist and hang down daintily, and that's a real shame. I'd have loved a thinner, drapier boa to match the picture pose just so. I'm not sure where to find a boa with a thinner, more flexible core that I could swap onto this doll. That's kind of something you have to feel hands-on before buying.
Storm has two tattoos--one is a lightning bolt down the right of her collar, in correspondence with her name. It looks like this is a detail on all of her editions, since the Storm used as a base in the Halloween concept art also has it.
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| The white speck on the bolt is just a speck that brushed off; it's not a nick in the black paint. |
On her right shoulder, which I'm assuming is exclusive to this edition, is a tattoo of an old movie camera.
Storm's dress is a satin piece that hugs the body and flares out around the angles. It has symmetrical shoulder straps and is cut with a symmetrical scalloped low neckline.
The legs don't have the best mobility in the dress and can get crossed inside. The base of the dress has a ribbed red pleated section in the middle front starting at the shins, and starting at the edges of the red, the hem is trimmed with black features matching the boa--a black boa and a feather-hemmed black dress are traits very similar to LDD Hollywood!
The dress trains behind Storm in a circular shape.
The satin material isn't the highest quality, and has some loose threads at the hem section. The dress closes in back in an unusual way--there's a plastic snap at the top, then a strip of velcro below. I've never seen the two combined on one piece before.
Storm is wearing the same boots as Lillian. They're not contoured to her feet inside at all, so they can spin around her ankles, and are zero help in getting her to stand. If these hugged her feet better, they might counteract their rubberiness and tiny size and give her some stability.
The most salient points I wanted to hit with a late BEGoth doll regard the new body.
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| The first BEGoth body, clearly ripping from Barbie molds. |
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| The second body design. |
The sculpts have been differentiated more from classic Barbie, and the torso is probably the most noticeable. The second BEGoth body has more exaggerated breasts which look stuck on from a front view due to how circular they are and how little they blend into the contours of the torso. The torso also lacks any side curvature above the waist, making the shape look a bit blocky. From the side, the breasts have a slightly conical shape like a 1950s bullet bra.
The torso also has a rib contour under the breasts. The exaggeration and the ribs are traits that remind me a bit of wave 1 Fashion Victims, and while I think the BEGoth v2 body is more tasteful, it's funny to see further similarities, no matter how incidental, between FV and BEGOth later in the latter brand.
The hip section has molded thin panties which are painted black here.
The v2 body has the same articulation basics as the v1 body while adding a few points.
The shoulders are now rotating hinges that allow for more arm poses, but the rest of the arm is still static.
The torso joint is now an elastic-strung piece mimicking a ball joint, allowing the torso to swivel as well as to tip forward, back, and side-to-side. I think the elastic has partially loosened with age, but not to the degree of being unposeable--I just notice Storm wanting to tip a bit with the weight on top. Inside the waist is a rougher grid texture which I assume is to give friction to the joint, but the molding looks messy.
The hips are also elastic-strung, which is never ideal, but their mobility has increased to let the hips swing in and out, and my Storm isn't too bad with the elastic there either. The legs keep their internal click knees and tiny flexible rubbery feet that can't easily stand the doll.
Here's an example of the increased posing the new body can do.
Storm's hair was bothering me, so I spent a long time rebraiding and rebraiding her hair, trying to make the new job fit the photographed hairstyle while also trying to minimize the mess and stray hairs a rebraiding job creates. It didn't help that Storm's braids basically permanently shaped her hair from being tied for so long and boiling did very little to straighten it. I think I just don't like braids! I eventually had to give up and call "good enough" for my sanity once I got something basically proper, because doll hair is really hard to braid into the right shape and hang while keeping tidy. Silhouette was more important to me at this rate than perfection. I just wanted the center part and straight-down hang. I knew the doll as produced wouldn't fully give me the promo photo, but to get closer would unlock the doll for me. I was determined to enjoy her since she was such a big get!
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| Hair after many rebraiding sessions. |
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| Working her boa as best she can. |
Here's Storm with a Wednesday Addams who vaguely matches her.
While the aesthetic theme is shared between this Storm and this Fashion Victim, there's no real comparison otherwise. By Wave 2, Fashion Victims bore no meaningful similarity to BEGOth dolls, even the ones which were actually contemporary to Wave 2 (Storm is not).
I photographed Storm in a posed scene reclining on a bench, and this doll was where I first had the choking-on-the-necklace idea. I did multiple shots in multiple degrees of color.
I then took several "spotlight" photos against a red curtain.
I don't have a saddle stand that fits the doll, but the Monster High Inner Monster stand, with its frequently-broken cradle, slides up her dress well enough with the prongs broken off. If I need another IM stand, I'll get one, but it's the best solution for Storm right now.
When I take the stick out of my backside and disregard the misrepresentative promo photos, I have to admit that Silent Storm is a striking and pretty doll.
I love her stark palette and contrast and her beautiful clean faceup. I also think the v2 BEGoth body, for how silly it can look undressed, is a great asset to the doll. I had fun using the ball-jointed waist for dynamic torso poses, and I think the motion range and placement of the joint is more interesting and worthwhile than bust joints as seen in Monster High or Barbie Made to Move dolls. This isn't the only doll body jointed this way, but I enjoyed it a lot. I wish all of my favorite BEGoth designs were on this body, because this one is definitely better than the v1 Barbie-stolen body.
Knowing the experience of the Silent Storm doll in person, I probably wouldn't have chosen to purchase her; not for the price I did. A cheaper BEGoth on this body might be favorable, and certainly more reasonable, but Storm was a nice piece for this review concept. Between her and Hollywood, though, there's no contest. I prize Hollywood far more, and it's possible Storm won't be a forever doll in my collection. I'd like her more if she was the doll from the promo photos.
Had Series 9 of BEGoth come out, we would have had another mirror to LDD, as BEGoth Series 9 was to have centered around French cabaret culture like LDD's Series 33, years later, including one doll designed directly after a Toulouse-Lautrec poster.
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| BEGoth character La Femme Toulouse. |
BEGoth might have fallen further and further from alternative edge, definitely including the planned Series 9, but I'd have liked this series to see release because La Femme Toulouse would be a great counterpart to LDD's Carotte Morts, with both being redheads inspired by the artwork of cabaret posters.
I've gotten a lot of spooky dolls based on the cinema aesthetic!
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| Not pictured: Spirit Queen (No longer in my collection.) The other Series 5 dolls don't count because they're not based on cinema, but other kinds of entertainment. |
I feel comfortable claiming that the BEGoths fell in profile as they continued. Series sizes reduced from four to three dolls, while faces more often featured eyes without crazy "contacts" or tattoos and some dolls that more approached the conventional side of the spectrum of alternative fashion. Series 8 Storm is tame compared to several faceups in earlier series, but feels the most "alt" of her own series. BEGoth at the end had fewer alienating confrontationally-edgy dolls than at the start, and one wonders if there was a trajectory toward mainstream appeal--the very ethos the brand was initially designed to oppose. I can understand the classic approach being too niche for profit, so maybe crowd-funded support-based production will prove the right path. I love Storm for what she is, but I can't claim she's peak BEGoth. Lillian is more what I immediately think of from the brand, and quintessential BEGoths to me would be dolls like Infinity or Hypnotica or Abcynthia who go the furthest with their face designs. Theming the series, as BEGoth headed toward doing, seemed pretty fun while also weakening the brand's edge in my mind. Classic LDD adopting series theming only bolstered its creativity without ever compromising its tone, though it seems to help that LDD quickly unbound itself from any singular art style or tone to define itself, allowing them greater range from a much earlier point. Maybe Back to BEGoth will be a triumphant brand revival with legs, but by the time BEGoth ended initially, it was probably the correct choice for the sake of its identity.
Contrarily, Fashion Victims had a much shorter run, but its end was the moment it spread its wings. It's shocking how much of a 180 my opinion takes from Wave 1 to Wave 2. I feel more ashamed to have Wave 1 Sadie inducted into my collection because she's such an icky execution and an awkward, aesthetically clumsy doll who's hard to make look good, but I am enthusiastically proud to have Hollywood in my collection!
I think FV Hollywood is beautiful, fun, and exactly what Fashion Victims needed to be. Wave 2 is an interesting doll format, and without any of the judgmental tone that may be packed into the word "interesting"! Wave 1 was that kind of "interesting". The Wave 2 dolls are still a little naughty, more visible beyond Hollywood's design, but that's fine. It could have continued to be their "thing" because the design as of wave 2 is much less grotesque and drooly about women, striking a more acceptable pinuppy, perhaps burlesque tone of sexuality than a pornographic one. The characters seem to own it better in Wave 2. The doll sculpting and design feels far more artistic than the Series 1 design tone, being stylized in a way that prioritizes aesthetic signature and appeal. And clearly, they represent the realization of an art style that was at least floated for Wave 1 but never translated to the toys. Capturing the style of the print ad renditions of Wave 1 was the correct move. The costuming is less cliché and none of it is latex, while the production seemingly avoids playline velcro in a way that lends the dolls some classy stature. The inset eyes are great while the alternate head mold just for Hollywood is wonderful.
Articulation is improved, if dampened in slight ways. The arms flex less and the legs still do next to nothing, and I wouldn't have minded the pop-on feet and hinged ankles to be retained or adapted to this body type. I'd still much rather have this body build with its more trustworthy body material and shoulder improvements over rubber that feels icky, makes dressing an ordeal, and rips open. I'd have been game for FV to continue in the Wave 2 style, where it could have turned into a steady cult hit within the already niche doll brand, rather than an embarrassment like wave 1. I wonder why it didn't. Sadie made me halfway regret ever getting her in the first place, and any further interest I could have in FV Wave 1 would be to see how I could alter it into something more palatable. Hollywood, however, hooked me on Wave 2, and does make me want to experience the rest of the wave. That's one hell of a predicament to be put in. How dare she do that to me, when that collection is so hard to achieve???
Alright, sorry. I simply can't continue like this.
It's been absolutely agonizing pretending this whole review.
I didn't have to settle for Hollywood. My sample size isn't limited.
The fun doesn't have to end.
The matter of being hooked on FV Wave 2 is already completely resolved for me.
Yes. I did the crazy thing.
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As I expected, I was the only bidder to ever interact with the auction for the whole wave, and I bid early in the day it was set to end, so there was still a chance for competition--it never came. Winning the items this way with the minimum bid meant I got to pay $400 less than the "buy it now" price, which was certainly nice, though it was still a lot to commit to, and wouldn't have been possible without a good amount left over from my fairly booming December. This is the most expensive single blog post I've written! Hollywood was an excellent showing, though, so I'm pleased to not feel dread and regret for going through with this. The others ought to be very nice as well.
My record for dreadful project luck at the start of a year had started to get me spooked and paranoid, so I did start to have a minor breakdown when I was faced with a good few days of total silence after purchase. No order update, nothing from the seller. I was slightly scattered in this period of uncertainty, and filling with dread for the possibility that I had been scammed or that the seller had gone AWOL. I was so worried that either way, I'd have to get refunded and would have wasted my time and directed so much of my hopes and plans for squat. I allowed myself an agonizing window of a week since purchase before I raised hell, and I couldn't have been more relieved to have a shorter wait than that, receiving a message from the seller late on the third day after purchase. They were shipped! I got my girl, and all the other ladies too, and have probably hit the peak of my collecting game for 2026 already!
The full wave of FV wave 2 is an absolutely ridiculous acquisition, and I've since seen a Sybil auction pop up as a solo item, but I've grown to appreciate the collective as more than just an absurd means for getting Sybil. I genuinely love Hollywood and like Inferno as well, and Lulu is certainly worth discussing, plus she has those trousers that would suit Sybil so well. I also treasure the (I believe, in 2026, genuinely one-of-a-kind) opportunity to fully document and review this obscure hard-to-find collection of dolls as new-in-box items, so expect them all to get reviewed in succession with solo posts. I might not get S4 Inferno and Lulu as original texts to compare to FV, especially not if I want to get the FV reviews out before March (I can't afford the S4 dolls right now!), but Sybil will be the grand finale, where, of course, I certainly can discuss the classic and FV editions side-by-side.
Losing the first Hollywood order might have been the best thing to happen, considering! These dolls did price me out of preordering Fang Vote Abbey Bominable, though, and while I will be able to get the new Skullector Beetlejuice set, which is highly relevant to prior blog reviews, I do so wish they could be dropping next month instead!
Stay tuned for the rest of Wave 2! I'm sure it'll be a blast.
OMG! What a twist! I'm so excited for the next FV reviews
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