My sister took me to a cute cafe with high tea served on Ferris wheels last weekend. Everything was very photogenic, so bringing a doll along was a must. Tinyfox Cygnus is the perfect size for that.

Over a year in the making, but Tinyfox Cygnus is here! He is so so cute and getting all the attention now. He is the C08 head painted by my friend. He’s intended to be more of a weird chibi version of Cygnus than a child version of him, and he definitely has a kind of tiny gremlin aura to him.

I’ve been interested in Tinyfox a few years now because I was fascinated by the idea of a YoSD size doll in vinyl (note that they are not actually vinyl, but I thought that at the time - they are actually some other kind of plastic with an added soft coating, their internal construction is also not exactly like a typical vinyl dolls skeleton nor a resin bjd’s elastics but what the company are calling ‘MJD’- or mechanical jointed doll). I wanted an animetic version of Cygnus to match how I draw him, that didn’t take up the shelf real estate of a DD, and thought a little chibi version of him would be cute.

The project ended up taking a lot longer than expected due to Tinyfox discontinuing their old 1/6 bodies right after I got the head - this turned out to be for the better because I much prefer their new versions they brought out next, it just took…ages for them to release it in the colour I needed. (‘Pink’ as opposed to ‘white.’ They even did a preorder for the bodies in pink that got cancelled due to not enough orders. Luckily they did eventually do another preorder, it just took months and months and months…) On top of that, my friend wouldn’t be able to send the head back for a good while due to the post being closed between Australia and the US. However, now that he’s finally here and all together he was definitely worth the wait.

I really love tinyfox! They have a nice weight to them that makes them fun to hold, and the recent fullsets they’ve been putting out are very affordable. It may only be a matter of time before I get another one. Personally, I hope they bring back the ‘toffee’ skin tone they had with their old bodies. I would love to see new dolls using it.