i don’t want to get into doll collecting due to already having my own odds and ends of collectibles and limited shelving space (no, don’t say get more shelves, don’t set me on that path) but sometimes the things you share make me go hmmmmmmmmm, y'know? like okay maybe this’ll do this. dangerous.

LISTEN. 

I bought Bowling Carpet Ariel last year and I was like, “Oh, good.  This is the first limited doll I’ve ever wanted, and it will probably be the last since they’re never going to make anything of Esmeralda and Meg ever again and they’re my other favorites.” 

AND NOW WE ARE AND NOW I HAVE TO. 

Those two were so important to me as a kid, and they still are now.  I had Meg posters on my bedroom wall and as much Esmeralda merch as I could get my hands on.  The dolls that were released with the movie are some of the most cherished dolls I have from before I realized I was collecting and not just buying toys.   

Both those characters inspired a ton of my own characters and artwork.  I change my animated ladies doll shelf around a lot, but Meg and Esmeralda always stay at the front.   Limited dolls of them - real fancy gorgeous shit with embroidery and detail and articulated arms???!!!  - are like an obligation to my childhood self, agh, my heart.  

That all said, I hope they look good, I hope they look Worth It.  Until bowling carpet Ariel it was like, ‘These are lovely, but I don’t feel any big need to own these.’   And then she was pretty much made for me and now these two?  A new doll of them after no releases since their movies happened 20+ years ago?  I will buy the shit out of those and my wallet will cry briefly and then they will be given places of honor on the shelf.

what a good, what a goddamn good 

shelllllllves