#creatability

[obscuredollz]

🔆 Creatable World 🔆

[dollsinvogue]

Creatable World DC-073 pants » Versace patchwork jeans

[theoriginaleppieblack-blog]

A Fairytale of Two Boys at the End of Summer

Dedicated to Robert Plant on the occaision of his 76th Birthday. May you enjoy many happy returns of this day. The world is a better place for all the magic and music you have shared with us. Ramble on.

[bg99vova]

Old pics. 2021

My Creatable World dolls. Unfortunately, I have only these two.

[marzipanandminutiae]

me: it kind of annoys me that the new Barbie trailer claims Barbie was the first non-baby doll for children. here are some examples of ancient lady dolls, presented in a Ha Ha Funney tone

everyone in the notes: OH MY GOD JESUS CHRIST IT’S JUST A BARBIE MOVIE CALM DOWN GET A JOB NOBODY’S GOING TO BELIEVE IT ANYWAY!!!!! YOU’RE DUMB AND AWFUL AND NO-ONE CARES

(a bunch of other people in the notes: it’s true though/she was the most popular so she’s the only one that counts/wait there were adult-shaped dolls before Barbie? where?)

[wurdulac]

comparison between various shorter dolls, original barbie body for the reference. also showing possible hybrids.

from left to right:

mtm original body barbie

marvel rising ms. marvel with a barbie head (neck peg isn’t compatible)

petite barbie

creatable world doll with a barbie head

lol omg doll

failfix doll

snapstar doll with mattel spirit doll head (neck peg needs to be altered)

dream ella extra iconic mini doll

barbie extra mini with mattel spirit doll head

created this reference pic because i like bodytype/height variety and because i want to eventually make some gnome/halflings characters. other dolls that are short but aren’t toddlers/small kids i know of but don’t have are mattel cave club and mga lol tweens.

other notes: mattel spirit dolls are compatible with barbie extra minis out of the box and they even might have matching skintones. lol omg have their cartoony instagram baddie bodytype but they look most similar in size to curvy failfix doll (afaik failfix have different bodytypes too and maybe one is even a little bit taller?). and umm sorry abt two dolls being faceless, i haven’t got around to repainting them (again).

[barbielore]

Pride Month is again upon us so it is again my duty to note that there is technically no named character in the Barbie doll line who is unambiguously LGBT.

I have posted before about various LGBT / pride Barbies so just for reference:

Last year's pride month posts one and two

Lesbian Visibility Day post

Not discussed in any detail was Mattel's foray into dolls with customizable gender expression, the Creatable World line. Marketed as promoting creativity and customization, these dolls were designed to look more androgynous than either Barbie or Ken.

Inclusivity of gender diversity was explicitly a part of the brand statement for this line - Mattel designer Kim Culmone stated “Toys are a reflection of culture, and as the world continues to celebrate the positive impact of inclusivity, we felt it was time to create a doll line free of labels.” 

This caught some flak for "sinfully" suggesting that gender isn't as straightforward as Barbie and Ken make it look, with the One Million Moms petition protesting it saying, "Mattel has actually created a toy that glorifies gender inclusivity and ignores one's biological sex."

To me, that sounds like a selling point rather than a criticism, but I'm far from one of the One Million Moms.

Not all the backlash was conservative-driven: Devon Price wrote for Medium, while acknowledging why a great number of trans people find the line validating, raised some other criticisms, such as that the line reinforces the idea of "androgyny" as looking essentially like slim tomboyishness when we should be promoting the idea that bodies of all shapes do not have to be perceived as gendered.

I can absolutely see the point, though I personally wonder if that is a little high concept for Mattel, the company behind Barbie "Don't Eat" Roberts.

Either way the doll line has quietly faded away after two releases, with this being variously attributed to the backlash from conservatives, poor sales, limited access (as they were sold only in some retailers), to them not being interesting enough to grab the attention of children.

[starfall-isle]

They are soo

[indarlingarmor]

More Pride dolls!

[doll-princesse]

Small dolls :)

Creatable World, Licca-chan, and Lottie dolls.

[ohmydolly]

Barbie Dream Besties Ken sort of look like those Creatable World dolls.

It looks a bit odd because he’s an adult with the face of a 10 year old.

[torresdesigns]

Available at my eBay Store: https://www.ebay.com/usr/torresdesigns

[theoriginaleppieblack-blog]

This one's dedicated to John Bonham. Happy Birthday, wherever you are.

[bg99vova]

My BTS dolls and Creatable World dolls.

Old pictures. 2022

[toychive]

Can you please give us a gender non conforming doll? Just someone who’s got some Gender going on

creatable world : dc-725

[alldollsarevalid]

Of course I had to give Lexi a skateboard