#NOT JUST UMA. SHE GOT THREE WHOLE NAMES & PPL BETTER USE 'EM GDI.

[princessnijireiki]

fuck it, I give up, I waited too long after my adderall to try & sleep. I have no brainpower for the day though bc I've positioned myself to run around despite my spoons deficit like a goddamn video game glitch & that's the performance we're all gonna have to live with! anyways… I've been looking at videos for the new disney descendants dolls on youtube in the meantime, and I'm a liiiiiittle annoyed.

1) bc people apparently refuse to learn china anne mcclain's name even though she's like a fucking powerhouse p. much, and a disney channel actress already (same as dove cameron), AND was on the first descendants soundtrack + is the only member of the kid cast who can SING (the others can sing, but china can SANG), so likeee… YOU KNOW WHY

and 2) bc I know it's a budget thing + the dolls are meant for little kids— so I'm not knocking the costume repro quality as a baseline, it's not that deep at all (even for all the earlier dolls, only lonnie & evie's costumes consistently translated well to those budget restrictions for the girl dolls, imo)— but it kind of sucks that china has these GREAT braids in & the doll has crimped hair… especially when like I'm old enough to remember (tho couldn't afford lol) the mattel brandy norwood dolls, and most of them had braided hair…

like it can't be that cost prohibitive bc there were like 4 or 5 brandy dolls released over the run of "moesha," so people were buying them, yk? unless it's a matter of knowing ppl will have to take what they can get, so you can cut corners w/o alienating "mainstream" (white) doll buyers or disrupting their expectations of being able to brush dolly's hair. :P

not entirely unexpected as a development, ofc; you don't need to add a hair supplier or introduce new hair rooting procedures in one leg of the company's doll lines, and since iirc these dolls AREN'T mattel, they aren't even playing with as big a toolbox as like monster high in their factory/sweatshop labor contracts— which sounds DESPERATELY edgy, and I apologize for that, but tbh mass production is awful, that wasn't for shock factor… it's just literally that if you introduce a new process with new tools, that slows your assembly lines until it's more thoroughly integrated, and that ups your costs in terms of paying for more raw goods + workers' time & new skills, as well as in terms of time/moved product/productivity…

like I get WHY it makes sense to go "if it ain't broke don't fix it" and roll out the new machine molded dolls with the machine printed faces out to be rooted with the same kind of hair, just in a new style/dye… it's why I'm just like "oh :/" about it instead of mad. tbh especially for fully articulated DISNEY branded dolls that run fifteen bucks. extra especially knowing "ok abc elements are done by machine and the OTHER 23 letters are done by humans with a timed quota" on top of how the disney markup™ is REAL out here (which is why quality of hair clothing etc. falls below monster high dolls, BUT tbh is also part of why the disney dolls don't tend to have fucked up eye misprints; disney quality control tends to be pretty REAL, too, even if they make a loooot of weird DELIBERATE decisions that reveal themselves as missteps along the way).

it's just still like… a little bit of a bummer, is all, and like that combined with youtube doll reviewers who can't be bothered to google china anne mcclain's name but are like praising this crimped blue rooted hair is just kind of an aggravating moment in the life, lol.