MARATHON/MEGAPOST RECUT COMPILATION: Living Dead Dolls Series 6

This, like Series 5, was not an isolated review series, so this is another re-cut to put my Series 6 reviews in a self-contained context with each other. As with other compilation LDD series posts, edits will be made where information is outdated by current knowledge (either seamlessly or as an editor's note in brackets) and extraneous discussion that made sense in the original roundups will be cut to contain the reviews to this post.

6 and 6 for 6: Living Dead Dolls Series 6 Complete

After all these months, Series 6 is complete!

Living Dead Dolls Roundup 7

Welcome to the last standard LDD Roundup for a little bit. LDD content is not slowing down a bit on the blog, but this review format will be on pause in October, replaced by a Living Dead Dolloween extravaganza instead, where I will examine pieces of the Halloween-themed releases in the brand across the original era--smaller roundups per post, but a great number of dolls in total! The next time you'd be seeing an assorted roundup of three again will be November, and no plans at all for who would be included. I also have a couple of solo reviews besides. But enough about those--let's look at now and the September trio of cadavers that entered my morgue.

Living Dead Dolls Roundup 5

LDD Roundup 3 was unthemed but had the commonality factor of all of its dolls being boys. Here, LDD Roundup 5 has the commonality factor of everybody being a fair-haired scare! All three of these dolls have a blonde or light hair color!

Consider this my July LDD roundup, since this was mostly done and all purchased during July. August should have its own dedicated roundup as well.

Living Dead Dolls Roundup 3

I don't set out to theme my LDD roundups, but by circumstance, dolls on the lower end which had good offers and piqued my interest around this time happened to all be boys! Basically none of the dolls I was considering for this roundup felt reasonable within the budget for May, so I improvised and ended up with another set of dolls I really liked.

I do have quite an interest in boy dolls just because the doll industry has arranged itself so they're a minority, and this holds true for LDD too, but I don't find myself taking a particular interest in most LDD boy dolls compared to other doll brands. These guys are exceptions!

Living Dead Dolls Roundup 2

Time for another LDD roundup...at last! (These are never going to be finished as quickly as I want, are they?) Fortunately, at the start of May, I was finally able to order the last doll I needed to make this a proper roundup of three. I think three dolls (or to stretch things sometimes, three characters) will generally be the size I stick with for these roundup posts. 

This roundup will be long despite the pool being no larger than the group in my previous LDD roundup. Each of these dolls got me more involved and hands-on re: the creative side of things with extravagant photo staging requiring more elaborate props or extended diorama crafting setup, and I made a really outsized number of art pictures here (which I also think include some of my strongest). I think it was all worth it, though, and three is three. I wasn't publishing this at just two dolls. Let's begin!

Living Dead Dolls Roundup 1

While LDD special topics will continue to receive their own posts, there are several LDDs I'm going to try to collect over time that aren't connected to each other and/or don't warrant a full standalone post, so I'm going to be doing roundups to update on more miscellaneous acquisitions. The way I see it, LDD is special enough for me to document every doll I get on the blog here, but not enough for every doll to take up a post for itself. These dolls can be complete releases, or even, perhaps, incomplete miscellaneous Living Dead Dolls I decided to adopt just because they had something I liked that didn't require the whole package. So here's my first roundup. 

I would say this post is pretty safe as LDD goes. There's some scary (gore-free) imagery with the first doll, but nothing I would call truly distressing.

Burying Myself Deep: An Introduction to Living Dead Dolls by Mezco Toyz

Were you ever enthralled by the creepy dolls in the attic? Did you want them scarier? Then Living Dead Dolls are for you. Be warned, and sorry for the drastic tonal whiplash from the last post!

 

Also, this cover photo is deliberately the least illustrative of the posts I've done and doesn't show every subject because the subjects of LDD aren't the most inviting of faces.