#takara jenny
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takara jenny doll collaboration with victorian maiden (the one with blonde ringlet in ponytails, and each ponytail has a black rose on top of it and she's wearing a black op with that neck tie thingy)
today's fashion doll is: Takara Victorian Maiden Jenny (2002)
#she is PERFECT#jenny#takara jenny#dollblogging#fashion doll of the day#fashion dolls#dollblr#fashion doll#doll#jfashion#lolita#gothic lolita#2002#submission
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Her name is Louise! I've got to wash and comb her, but she's part of my sudden violent interest in Jenny and friends dolls.
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#vintage dolls#vintage toys#anime doll#takara jenny#takara tomy#dollcore#kidcore#toycore#nostalgiacore#animecore#vintagecore#dollycore#kawaiicore#yumekawaii
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I do still work on dolls, but not as often these days.
I don't have a job so money doesn't come in often, which means I don't buy dolls too often.
I did put a bid in on this Kimono Jenny on goodwill's auction site and won. The price of the doll was very good, but shipping and taxes brought it up to $30 which felt like a huge expense for a single doll.
Then I looked them up on eBay and I don't feel so bad about $30...
Anyway, Takara dolls from the 90's and early 2k's are decent quality and Jenny's saran hair was very easy to fix.
All it needed was washed, conditioned, and combed.
The rest of her, though, had some gross, oily, black gunk.
She's on the Photogenic/PG body, which is silicone with an internal wire skeleton. It's more difficult to clean than the standard body, but I did my best.
I had pressed the seams inside her kimono before realizing it was still gunky, and unfortunately that set the gunk into the fabric.
Even though I tried washing it again, now it's just kind of grungy looking.
She also has no shoes and only one earring.
Still better than it was, and that's about all I can hope for these days.
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My Azone 50cm clothes arrived which means Big Jenny finally has nice clothing!!!
I got two outfits, but this is my favorite one (and the one with the best fit) so it’s the only one I bothered to photograph her in lol
The dress is a FLAWLESS fit and shapes to her torso perfectly, the sweater is a little larger but overall a nice fit and the collar is so so adorable!
Luckily it also matches her white heels!!!
I’m so glad these outfits fit her because I didn’t have anything else for her, and the wedding dress she comes with is just...way too much lol
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Still thinking about Barbie, the movie, and Barbies, collectively, and the very particular quirk of my childhood experience with the doll.
Here's the thing: I grew up in the '80s. (Yes, I'm old, hush.) I had several Barbies, and you'd probably recognize a few of them. Peaches & Cream Barbie even made it into the opening sequence of the movie, after all. That one was, justifiably, a classic.
But my favorite Barbies as a kid looked like this.
Yes, that's an officially licensed Barbie doll, made by the Takara company for sale in Japan. For several years there, from the early '80s to 1986, Japanese Barbies looked like they'd walked straight out of an anime, big, cartoony eyes and all. They came dressed in a variety of fashions, of course, just like their American counterparts, but it's hard not to highlight the traditional kimono. A friend of mine's dad did regular business trips to Japan, and he'd bring home dolls for her, so I got to play with her Barbies during visits to her house, and I always thought they were so much cooler than mine.
Years later, after the advent of the internet and, crucially, eBay, I decided to do some research and see if I could finally snag one of these dolls for myself. To my disappointment, I discovered that Takara no longer held the Barbie license, and the company that produced Japanese Barbies thereafter made the dolls look just like ours.*
*eta: Addendum here: Bandai had the license for a few years after Takara did, and their Barbies looked a lot like Takara's, although not exactly. The last thing I found said those were made until 1989. Correct me if I'm wrong about what happened after!
Returning to the main point, though--
But then I also found out what Takara had decided to do.
They'd lost the Barbie license, specifically. Mattel didn't have any ownership over Takara's doll design, since, after all, she didn't look like Barbie. There wasn't anything preventing Takara from producing the same dolls under a different name.
So this happened.
Meet the Takara Jenny. Same look, new name, new slogan ("Jenny is another yourself"). And without the restrictions of conforming to someone else's license, Takara had the license to do what the hell ever. Traditional dresses? Frothy, elaborate Lolita designs? Friend dolls modeled after famous J-pop singers? Why the heck not?
Takara did feel compelled to come up with an explanation for the name change, I note, beyond "Mattel won't let us call her Barbie anymore." The excuse they eventually went with still amuses me. I'll just quote Wikipedia for brevity:
Prior to 1986, the doll was known as Takara Barbie. In 1986 Takara ended their licensing agreement with Mattel, and, as they owned the rights over the Takara Barbie's design, came up with a new name for the doll. The explanation given for the name change was that Jenny was the name of a character Barbie portrayed in a play, also titled Jenny. The play was a success and Barbie had become so associated with her character's name that she decided to change it to Jenny. Jenny's boyfriend was renamed from "Takara Ken" to "Jeff."
Alas, alack, no more Kenergy for Jeff. Ah well.
(Seriously, though: Imagine that your girlfriend gets so carried away with a famous role she played that not only does she change her name, you have to, too. Poor Ken!)
Anyway: Takara Jenny's had a longer run than the Takara Barbie (interrupted during a discontinuation, but I hear she's back in 2023!), although of course Barbie still reigns supreme in the fashion doll world, and even in Takara's stable, their original fashion doll, Licca, was always more popular. But I've got a soft spot for the Jenny. After all, I'm a Jenny, too. And I still think the doll design is cute as hell.
Now, for an anime movie where Stereotypical Jenny looks like this...
Edit: Okay, I have to add this video. New Licca and friends, including Jenny!
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HOLD THE FUCK UP MOONBEAM TRAVELER DOLLS USE THE FUCKINH
JENNY FACE SCULPT????????
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I just found out there was a show based off the Takara Jenny doll that's a stop motion Tokusatsu show made with the dolls called "Kawaii Jenny". I didn't know I needed this in my life until now
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Doll rescue! Takara Tomy Jenny Chiffon Rabbit
She was on sale for 850 yen (around 6 USD) on Mercari Japan and when I found her on ZenMarket I couldn't resist. She was dirty and her hair was a mess, but I managed to clean her up nicely 💕.
She came with this dress that belongs to Sunny Day Date Jenny and it's adorable!!. I absolutely love her cutesy face and her wonderful cotton candy hair ❤️.
#dollblr#fashion dolls#fashion doll#dolls#doll restoration#doll collector#jenny doll#doll photography#doll community#dollblogging#doll collecting#doll collection#my dolls#jenny dolls#takara jenny#takara tomy#japanese dolls#doll rescue
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My Barbies wearing Takara Jenny outfits 🖤
MTM purple top Lea wearing a Takara Jenny kimono:
And a playline Lea rebodied onto a MTM body also wearing a Takara Jenny kimono:
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Takara Jenny Little Life Suite Dining (1986)
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Spa time for Takara Lina :)
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just found out the name of my favorite jenny screening, judy you will always be famous!!!!
#one could say she's a real good judy#if only licca castle dolls weren't so expensive lol#takara tomy#takara jenny#fashion dolls#textpost
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I still need to get an outfit for her. She came in a very generic pink dress that I dodn't fancy, so I put her in something else, but she is an early Takara Barbie from around 1982, before she had to change her name to Jenny. I'd love to get a Licca chan from around the era too
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