Lately I've been busy swapping doll heads around.
"Oh yeah, Sasha, it's about to go down."
The photo above is of Bratz Sasha (left) and Hottiez Kiara (right) before the swap. The photo below is of Kiara's head on Sasha's body. Sadly, this has resulted in a doll casualty. I have caused irreparable damage to Kiara's original body. I like Kiara's head on Sasha's body, though.
I saw this mermaid doll in the store and thought that she was cute, and she was cheap so I bought her. I have no use for her mermaid's body.
I thought that she would look cute with Juku Couture Kana's body.
Success! The head fits and the skin tone is a close match. The head is just a little loose, but holds poses well.
Opal has had her current action figure body for quite some time now, but her original body had been languishing in my bin of forgotten dolls until recently. Well, a fellow collector sent me a Top Model Nikki head which has found a home (for now) on Opal's old body.
I purchased Making Waves Alexis (pictured below on the right) for the sole purpose of swapping her head for one more proportionate to her body, and to give one of my other dolls more articulation. Well today is Mattel High School Musical Taylor's (pictured below on the left) lucky day.
Success! Taylor's head fits perfectly on the Liv Alexis body, and the skin tone is a close match. I am thrilled with this swap.
Speaking of Alexis, I rebodied Isla again from the Monster High Clawdeen body that she had been occupying to an Alexis body. Her body now matches her twin sister Hadley's body again, and the twins are much happier now with their articulated bodies.
Todd has long envied Janet's articulated body, wishing that he could move like her.
Well, today a little boy's wish came true!
Pictured below are some of my happy head swap recipients.
Hello from Spain: perfect head changes. The new bodies are very good. Keep in touch
ReplyDeleteThank you, Marta!
DeleteYou took chances and came out successful. My favorite is Todd because now he can get around and play like a real boy! LOL
ReplyDeleteYour choices for head swapping was great. Taylor looks awesome! Thanks for the idea of giving Todd a new body. Nice post!
ReplyDeleteNow those heads have better - articulated and balanced - bodies. Applause! Good to see also that Opal's original body has a new life ;-)
ReplyDeleteLove seeing all the swaps. Todd was my favorite, too. He looks so excited to be able to move.
ReplyDeleteThank you The grandmommy, Georgia Girl, D7ana, and Vanessa! Taylor and Todd are my favorites, also. I think that Nikki would look better on a skinny body, so I think that she will be rebodied again one day. I feel a little bad about Kana. My plan was originally to rebody that one, and open my other boxed Kana (with brown hair). Now I'm feeling like I should leave the other one in the box. I keep telling myself that I don't collect dolls to leave them in the box, I collect them to enjoy them. But sometimes I just get the feeling that I should leave one boxed. Maybe my husband is rubbing off on me. :) Meanwhile, I have Kana's head in a drawer, and every time I open it I see her startled eyes looking up at me almost accusatorily. I'm gonna have to move that head...
ReplyDeleteWhat or who did you rebody Todds' head onto? He looks great - as do all your other rebodies. The new heads and bodies look like they belong together.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Carrickters! I rebodied Todd's head on a Janet body.
DeleteOk, sorry to come in so late, but... where did you find a poseable Janet to rebody Todd onto to start with? I can only find nonposeable Barbies in that size, with the exception of a Skateboard Stacie I have...
ReplyDeleteHi Stacy, I know that one of my poseable Janets is Gymnast Janet. I think that the other one is Bicyclin' Janet.
DeleteThanks a lot! Finding decent poseable kids is hard (unless you want a shelf of albino pale obitsus!), and I like more variety on my shelves than that. :)
DeleteYou're welcome, Stacy! I have since rebodied Todd's head onto a Keyshia body. Keyshia is another good articulated body for a child doll, and is a little taller than Janet.
DeleteWow, thanks again! I almost passed on those because most of the pictures on Amazon and such looked like the elbows didn't pose even in the cases where I could see the knees, and articulation wasn't mentioned. I'm definitely going to aim for one of those, I think, as it would also make Chris a little taller than Amy (the skateboard Stacie mentioned, with her 'weak leg' XD), and I really do like my 'character shelf' dolls to be as individual as possible. :) Are they all poseable? Because if so, slapping the cheapest one on next month's grocery list might be a do-able thing. :)
DeleteYou're welcome! As far as I know, all of the Keyshia dolls are jointed at the elbows and knees.
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