Current Notes: Photo repeat. Sorry !
If you were slightly jealous
of me buying the Winx ‘Stella Design Studio’ playset, well, have a laugh on
me. I opened it today. If I’d have known some of what met my wondering gaze
ahead of time, I’d have taken it back for a refund. First off, the ‘backdrop’
that goes behind the table ? Nice recycling idea, but they put an edge of it
right where the box is glued shut. No way can anybody open it and not wreck
part of the thing.
Second, the ‘Sewing machine
makes real sewing sounds’ ? Don’t you believe it. Someone over at Jakks Pacific
got the idea that kids are so weak, they can’t properly apply stickers to
polyester, so they put a roller mechanism under the sewing machine. It’s
supposedly to push down the stickers for better adhesion. Ok, fine, but in
practice, it means the sewing machine doesn’t sit flat on the desk. Or
anywhere. There’s no recess for it, it either falls forward or back, your
choice. Kind of like if someone put a rolling pin under your sewing machine,
and about as useful. I know I like to push my sewing machine back and forth
while I’m using it, don’t you ?
As for the ‘real sound’
effects, well, you have your choice. A ‘rolling’ sound that pretty much sounds
like any plastic free-wheeling car toy you’ve ever touched, or a snapping,
cracking sound that would be very alarming coming out of your machine, for sure
! Beloved Hubby dug the roller piece out with minimal plastic damage, so mine
at least sits flat now, and won’t make frightening snapping noises any more.
Not much else to the set.
One polyester tube top. Stickers are very nice – two small sheets of pretty
iridescent ones and four tiny Winx t-shirt designs, kind of like iron-ons, probably
identical to kid-size designs on Mal-Wart tees. Table is kinda cute, even with
the fairy-wing X legs. Just wish half of it wasn’t carved up for the rest of
the set, which is mostly cardboard. Backdrop, coat hangers and thin cardboard
chest-only dress forms. Wish they’d done something more than include four
identical dress forms. A real dress-sized one would have been nice, and would
have broken up the strict parallel pattern on the desk. Not sure what to do
with cardboard coat hangers – there’s nowhere on the playset to hang them.
The Stella doll is a
donation, for sure. I think I now know why Winx always wear such short
clothing. Their legs are so long, they can’t help it. They buy a Barbie dress,
and even after taking it in over an inch up the back, what was a knee-length
dress on Babs is barely a tunic on them ! I was reminded of those old,
rarely-seen Leggy dolls. Her shoes look great on Miss Rarity, though ! Her
heels ride a bit past the shoes’ heels, but even that looks good.
Speaking of which, I’ll probably
go to the thrift Sunday, so I’d best get my donations ready.
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