. Wish Disney Store would continue to make these incridible kind of dolls.
Sorry ya'll....I LOVE Tink and the fairies too. Hence my username. I will have to check Ebay again for Terence. I have an old Tink doll that is so cute. I just love her. Im also excited for the Pirate Fairy.There was a small Terance doll made by the Disney Store when the second movie came out. I had him, but sold him a while ago. He was really detailed, with removable cuffs, a molded cap, and his little nut satchel. If you love the character I defiantly recommend trying to grab him off eBay. Looks like there are a few sets of him single and also packaged with Tink on there for about $45.
I LOVE the Disney fairies line, books and films. I have eBay searches set to keep track of when the book fairies come up so I can get them for a good price. So far I have Rani and Prilla (the two most difficult to find, but Rani's box is a little crushed), and I am currently looking for a Fira.
I started collecting Tink stuff with the first film, but decided to sell my Disney collection and focus on other things. It was a huge mistake, because the only collection I want to consistently collect is Disney :facepalm: They also made some really, really nice 11 1/2 dolls for the first film I am trying to get on the SH market.
Vidia is one of my favorites, but even though there have been a few versions of her I have not found one that really looks like the character to me yet. The Jakks Pacific ones come the closest for her, and are actually very good quality for a non-Disney-direct doll. But they have a lot of variants so I try to stick to getting the characters that Disney doesn't make from them - like Glimmer, Spike, and Chloe.
I am so excited for the Pirate Fairy film, it should be out around my birthday! I hope Disney does a lot of dolls of Zarina and the gang in their switched talents!
Wow, guess I have a lot to say about Disney Fairies
"But who cares? No big deal... I want more!" Today I received the much-anticipated 17" LE Ariel doll via UPS that so many of us pre-ordered what seems like so long ago. I am really glad that DS.com was really on top of this release as opposed to some of the other pre-orders in the past year, which saw items that were pre-ordered well in advance shipped on or after the release date. As I recall, I received my 17" LE Cinderella about a week after release date and my pre-ordered blu-ray of Brave almost a month after its release... Not so with LE Ariel, who arrived today, so I can enjoy her along with thousands of other people world-wide. So much has been discussed about this doll on DPF, so I will keep this review rather brief.
17" LE Ariel - 10/01/2013
First, I just had to personalize my LE Ariel in some way, so I found her a dinglehopper! It did take some searching to find a metal fork in the proper scale for LE Ariel, but I am very pleased with what I found. The fork is also a bit worn-looking, which works perfectly as a found item from a shipwreck under the sea. I did wrap the fork in some clear plastic wrap so that the metal would not lay directly against the doll's hand (you never know what may happen as a result of some chemical reaction of the metal and plastic).
It is a bit hard to see in the photographs below, but my doll's hair was rather mussed up, particularly in the area around her shoulders and also at the ends. My doll does not have those nicely curled ends that they should have... Good old DS factory (lack of) quality control strikes again! On the positive-side, my doll's makeup, tail, bra, and accessories are all good.
I am very happy to say that I am a lot more impressed with LE Ariel after having one in person as opposed to just looking at the stock photos. The scales of her tail still kind of bother me, because Ariel's tail in the animation is very streamlined and these petal-scales are not. I also still do think that her bra is over-designed, but again, it is easy to overlook that in person.
Overall, LE Ariel is a very beautiful doll and certainly ranks fairly high with me among the 17" LE Princess dolls. For me, she is not as fantastically wonderful as LE Snow White of course, but she is a more successful doll than LE Belle or LE Cinderella in capturing the spirit of the character. I actually still would have preferred her in a gown as opposed to her bra and fins, but I totally understand why she is in mermaid form. Given the more limited design options for a mermaid, I think that the Disney Store did turn out with a great 17" collector doll for everyone's favorite redhead mermaid.
LE Ariel #0936 - 04 by Shivatopia, on Flickr
LE Ariel #0936 - 05 by Shivatopia, on Flickr
LE Ariel #0936 - 06 by Shivatopia, on Flickr
LE Ariel #0936 - 09 by Shivatopia, on Flickr
