MARATHON/MEGA-ROUNDUP Recut Compilation: The Living Dead Dolls Series 23 Project

This is just my previous seven S23 posts all edited together into one long saga with tweaks in prose for flow, and some changes influenced by hindsight coming in. This cut of the project, as a linear marathon, will not be the journey through months of discoveries that the original posts were, so part of this is written with a retrospective lens, as if I had written these reviews and published them all in one go rather than doing them gradually first. If you're curious, take a look at how that's shifted things, because I found it interesting to edit myself. But that's really all there is to this one, so feel no obligation to read again in this form. Just wanted to have the work available in one.

A Twisted "Teatime" Teatime: Living Dead Dolls Series 23 Complete

Thus marks the first completion of a Living Dead Dolls series in my collection! Let's reflect!

The Living Dead Dolls Series 23 Tea Party: Photo Story

Here's the story I envision for the LDD tea party.

Go here to read the first post in this series (Agatha's review),  here for the second (Betsy's review), here for the third (Teddy's review), here for the fourth (Jennocide's review), and here for the fifth (Quack's review).

Duck, Duck, Her Goose Is Cooked: Living Dead Dolls Series 23 Quack by Mezco Toyz

The final doll of Series 23 has arrived: Quack, a loopy-looking doll in a fuzzy sailor duck costume whose tea was implicitly drugged.

I liked Quack's oddball charm and detail, and she was planned as the finale of the collection for a while. I expected to like her a lot, my ideas for her worked as a cap to the doll reviews, and it made sense with her being the most pricey in the aftermarket.

Burned at Teatime, But Not How You'd Think: Living Dead Dolls Series 23 Jennocide by Mezco Toyz

Yes, that is her name. Yes, I heavily disagree with the choice. Just making that clear. I'm being a descriptivist and honoring the character's official name but I find it poorly-chosen for its inappropriate glibness and its irrelevance to her concept.

Warning for surreal doll gore.

A Beary Hungry Guest: Living Dead Dolls Series 23 Teddy by Mezco Toyz

Time for the third member of the tea party, and the boy doll of LDD Series 23!

The Hostess With the Leastess: Living Dead Dolls Series 23 Betsy by Mezco Toyz

The Living Dead Dolls tea party continues with the second monthly addition--the awful little host, Betsy.  She was always going to be early in this project, and because she wasn't the first, she had to be the second.

Old Lace and Arsenic: Living Dead Dolls Series 23 Agatha by Mezco Toyz

I've admired many Living Dead Dolls, but mostly I pick and choose from collections which ones I want. I generally lack the completionist impulse as a collector, and yet I found one series I'm getting everyone in. This is the first of those dolls.

If you have any familiarity with the LDD catalogue, it should be no surprise to readers here which specific series compelled me to collect a whole set. It's a dolly tea party series!