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flareheart8 · 2 months

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My redesigns for the Uglydoll casts. Haven't changed too much besides giving them little accessories, stitches and tears. I'm also adding more to their character.

For example, Moxy is more into exploring outside of Uglyville and her curiosity gets the best of her. She knows there's more out there as she tends to collect stuff that's relate to the outside world, and likes to record everything she sees into her notepad. While she does love her town, Moxy often feels trap inside this safe haven and wants to see what the outside world has to offer.

Don't let Uglydog's chill personality fool you as he's willing to defend his friends and family from any harm. He's the protective guard of the group and is willing to put himself in danger in order to protect his love ones (It's the reason why his tail is torn). He also enjoys making music and partying everyday.

LuckyBat is the shy, but wise one of the group similar to how he was in the movie. Often giving out the best advices and being the emotional support. Though, he wants to learn how to be brave and courageous like Moxy as he often feels like a burden to his friends due to how slow, and weak he is. Wearing his yellow cape makes him feel like a superhero and he never leaves without it.

If you need a certain item or good shelter, Babo's your man. He did helped Ox with building Uglyville in the early days and always lending a helping hand to anyone in need. He makes sure he has the right item for certain situations, and keeps his friends out of sticky situations.

While Wage can be very cynical and harsh to her friends, she doesn't mean any harm. She's a kindhearted chef who loves baking sweets for everyone in Uglyville and putting a smile on their face. Wage just wants the best for her friends and gives them a reality check when needed. She's especially like that to Moxy as she thinks Moxy is too obsess with this so-called outside world and tries to reason with her. Wage also isn't afraid to called out anyone out on their crap and won't hesitate when it comes to standing up for her friends.

Ox is the founder of Uglyville and mentor to all the uglydolls. He makes sure everyone feels welcome and safe, and give them happiness their deserve. As happy as he can be, he knows what's really going on and tries to keep it secret in order to keep everyone safe. Thoughts about his secret being reveal makes him paranoid, and can't imagine what would happened to his precious home. He dismisses Moxy's theories about the outside world and tells that Uglyville is all she needs. After all, nothing can get better than this, right??? The white jacket he wears is a reminder of the memories he cherishes with a certain pretty doll.

#uglydolls #uglydolls moxy #uglydolls ox #uglydolls wage #uglydolls lucky bat #uglydolls uglydog #uglydolls babo #uglyville

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sourmilk14 · 2 years

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Miculito

#mydogiscutest #michael #uglydolls uglydog

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lousirs · 5 months

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it's 50s au time again BABEYYYYYYYY!

right, so for context on the first drawing: i thought it would be nifty if the imperfects had their own little secret hangout space, away from the prying, judgemental eyes. i suppose similar to the movie, ox would've made it as a sanctuary for those to go to feel safe and loved. thanks ox, very cool :D

(that's all the context your getting, have fun trying to decipher my doodles heheheheh)

anywho, transcript under the cut just in case: vvvv

2nd image:

Nolan: "Lou? Why are you- mh?!"

Ox: "Perfection over connection, huh?"

Lou: "It isn't like that!"

Ox: "Then what is it?"

Lou: "..."

3rd image:

Kitty: "That's terrible. Burn it!"

Lou: "Already on it."

Victoria: "Kitty is the perfect match for you, Louis."

Tuesday: "Why is Lou your boyfriend??"

Lydia: "Tues, you know that Lou isn't actually--"

Kitty: "--Interested in you at all?"

4th image:

Ox: "Your hat makes you look like a little mailman!"

Lou: "Oh, it does?"

Lou was sent to a farm in his early years, where he met Ox. This was his first time out of the city. It was also some of his fondest memories. (Leaving the farm)

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katrinthecat · 1 year

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Do you have old ugly dolls fanart?

OF COURSE

#my ocs #uglydolls #uglydolls wage #uglydolls moxy #uglydog #babo #lucky bat

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lakefoundtheirexit · 7 months

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Pitbull's fursona

#furry #furry fandom #fursona #pitbull #mr worldwide #uglydog sweep #ugly dog #uglydolls

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samfandeuglydolls456 · 1 month

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Versiones humanizadas de Moxy , Wage , Uglydog y Ox de una historia de wattpad mia XD , aún me falta aprender de dibujo pero algo es algo :^ @samfandeuglydolls456

#uglydolls #uglydolls fanart #uglydollspelicula #ox #fanart #ibispaint art #ibispaintx #ox uglydolls #moxy #uglydolls moxy #wage #uglydolls wage #Uglydog #Uglydollsuglydog #wattpad #waos

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0perfectimperfections0 · 10 months

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Hi I just wanted to ask if you could do a part 2 on that one short story when lou had a shock collar? I found that one really interesting I really wanna read more of it ^^

I'm actually really invested in it, too, now XD

This is gonna be another long one, so I'll put a 'read more' break right about here.

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"He's waking up!"

"Just stay calm. We don't wanna get 'im worked up."

"His hands are still sparking…"

"Just let him breathe and calm down. He's under a lot of stress."

Face pinched. Mouth twisting into a frown. Blue eyes blinked open a few seconds later and he was met with the sight of all the dolls crowded around him. They looked worried for some reason—

Lou sat up quickly, pupils contracting in fear as he looked at his hands. Hands rested on his shoulders tightly as Mandy shouted out a few syllables to get his attention. "Woah, lay back down, alright?"

"Th-The collar—robots—wh-what happened—"

Blue sparks became more erratic around his hands. Whatever this was must have been tied to his emotions. “Breathe, breathe.” Mandy took him by the wrists, keeping a safe distance from his hands. “You have to calm down, okay? Everything is fine. We’re in my house. We didn’t want to carry you all the way to Ox’s.”

The doll in front of her trembled, sparks not ceasing. The wind outside slammed against the windows and door as his breathing picked up speed. Wage pulled back the edge of the blinds to see storm clouds rolling in quickly. “Someone better calm ‘im down or knock ‘im out, 'cause he’s bringin’ in a storm.”

“Lou, hey, look at me,” Mandy lifted his face. His pupils were contracted again. “Lou, you’ve gotta breathe.”

“I-I-I can’t.”

Ox hopped up onto the sofa and sat behind Lou. “Wage, keep the blinds closed an’ make sure the door’s locked.” He wrapped both arms around the small frame in front of him, head pressed against Lou’s shoulder. “We’ll just ride it out, Bud, okay? It’s a panic attack.”

Electricity danced along Lou’s fingers and slowly traveled up his bare arms. Mandy quickly pulled the short sleeves of the t-shirt up to Lou’s shoulder so the sparks wouldn’t reach the fabric and start a fire. She paused on the right sleeve when a mark became visible. The number 3 in black ink.

“What–” Moxy started before Ox cut her off.

“Let’s focus on one thing at a time.” He spoke shortly, eyeing the insignia. Lou was beginning to shake even worse and the house trembled on its foundation. The whole Institute was shaking.

LuckyBat’s eyes lit with an idea and he disappeared upstairs toward Mandy’s room. She barely had time to ask him where he was going before he was gone. A few minutes passed of them trying to calm Lou down before the bat appeared again with a pair of black rubber gloves. Mandy forgot she had those when she took up gardening. “Here, rubber is an insulator for electricity. This should keep it from getting stronger.” She wasted no time in carefully sliding them onto his hands. They fit snugly, tightening around his wrists. The electrical sparks along his arms gradually faded and Lou watched them disappear beneath the black material. His breathing finally slowed down and the shaking ebbed away.

The wind from outside grew silent and the shaking in the Institute stopped.

The dolls looked around the house, listening to the wind ceased.

“Good,” Mandy finally let herself breathe. “Good…th-that was good, Lou. Everything is okay now, see?” She took him by the hands, lacing their fingers together. “We fixed it.”

Blue eyes looked up at her with a mix of every emotion aside from rejoicing. They still glowed a bit. This close and in the dim lighting of the room, they could see the faintest outlines of a weird design in his cornea. Like streams of wires and tiny dots of brighter lights glowing behind his eyes. “Fixed?”

The misunderstanding wasn’t hitting home yet. “Yeah. It’s fixed now. Just keep the gloves on and–”

“Fixed,” Lou repeated with more conviction. “As in ‘was broken’.”

Mandy finally caught on and she stumbled over her next words. “W-Well I—”

“I’m going to the recycle.” Lou pushed her away and stood on shaking legs. Ox fumbled forward and hurried to be there in case the doll fell.

“Lou, sit down,” Ox ordered.

“I’m not under your control anymore, Sir.” The word was spoken with so much venom. “I’m going to the recycle.”

Ox fisted his paws and stepped in front of Lou as he reached for the doorknob. “Lou, sit back down or I’ll—”

“You’ll what?” Lou hissed. His eyes glowed brighter and Ox couldn’t help the fact that he took a step back. Blue streams of light traveled like veins under Lou’s felt above the glove. Lou noticed. "This," he hissed, holding up a gloved hand, "is just more reason for me to be destroyed. Now I'm even more of a freak than I was before."

Ox had to choose his words carefully. "Sit down and let's talk about this."

“I’m sick and tired of being told what to do and when to do it!” Lou leaned down closer to Ox’s face, hands fisting at his sides. “For once—can everyone just let me do what I want! I want to go to the recycle and I want this to be over.”

“I can’t let you do that,” Ox felt his own frustration piling up. “You know I can’t. Don’t make this harder than it has to be.”

Another shock made Lou cry out, desperately trying to squirm out of the human hand that held him tightly. Russian blue eyes stared down at him placidly. “I told you not to break those rules, Louis. Don’t make this harder than it has to be.”

The bunny watched those pupils constrict again and the wind outside whistled. Lou’s chest moved in and out a bit faster. “You’re just like him. All of you.” Blue eyes skimmed across the room to the other dolls. “You’re just like my Creator. Keeping me alive just to see me suffer–”

A hand grabbed his wrist quickly and Lou was no sooner on his knees staring into Ox’s eye. “I’m keepin’ you alive ‘cause I love ya. I don’t care if ya listen to a word I say or not. I ain’t gonna punish you for it. But gosh darn it, Lou, I ain’t lettin’ ya kill yourself ‘cause I love ya too much t’ let ya go!” Ox kept Lou in front of him even as the blond tried to pull away. “You ain’t broken,” he spoke softer, catching Lou’s full attention. “This,” he held up the wrist he was holding, “this is what your Creator was scared of. I don’t understand it, but I know for a fact you ain’t his puppet anymore. You ain’t his pet. Now…instead of runnin’ from it, why don’t you control it and fight back.”

Lou’s eyes widened when Ox ripped the glove off of his hand and laced their fingers together. Ox bit down on his tongue as the electricity nipped and bit on his felt. It stung and sent the fuzz on him on edge, making it stick up around his paw. Lou tried pulling away. He knew it was hurting the bunny. But Ox didn’t let go. “Ox stop!” Lou screamed, using his other hand to try and pry Ox’s off. The bunny took hold of Lou’s other wrist and held it back. The electricity grew more frantic and Ox tried his best not to breathe through his teeth as the pain increased.

“Ox, let go,” Mandy warned.

“No. He can do it,” Ox grunted.

The wind outside grew frantic again and the room dimmed as clouds rolled overhead. “O-Ox, please…I-I don’t wanna hurt you,” Lou begged, eyes screwed shut, trying to concentrate on the electricity to calm it down somehow.

“Then I guess ya better learn to control it, cause I ain’t lettin’ go.” Lou felt Ox’s paw clench as the voltage grew stronger. More of the fuzz along the bunny’s arm started rising. The lights in the house started to flicker. One of the bulbs in the kitchen light busted and glass shattered across the floor. "Either get a handle on it or let it out," Ox closed his eye tightly, breathing labored. His heart felt tight and skipped too many beats at a time.

Blue streams of light glowed in vein-like patterns along Lou's arms. He clenched his jaw and roughly pulled down the other hand that Ox was holding up. He ripped the glove off with his teeth and bolts of electricity shot out through his fingers as he screamed. The window next to them imploded from the heat and the dolls ducked their heads as glass flew across the floor.

The wind still whipped angrily outside, blowing into the house now, but the intense voltage from the hand Ox was holding dissipated. He evened his breathing the best he could before opening his eye. Tears dripped down Lou’s face. “I-I can’t—”

“No, that was good,” Ox finally let go and wrapped his arms around Lou. “That was really good, Bud. Sometimes you gotta let it out instead of bottlin’ it up.” Something wet landed on Ox’s ears. It started raining lightly outside. “It’s okay,” he rubbed up and down Lou’s back, mouth pressed against Lou’s temple. “We’re gonna help you control it.”

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Something as untameable as electricity wasn’t the easiest thing to control. Lou had started off being really adamant about keeping the gloves on, but Mandy managed to get them off and hid them somewhere in her room. The wind had finally died down. The rain stopped. The sun started to peak out again and Wage and Babo were sweeping up the glass shards on the floor. Mandy was a little disappointed that her window was broken, but she tried to hide it as Lou looked awfully guilty about the whole ordeal.

“Let’s try something simple,” she suggested. Moxy stood up on the sofa to be almost eye-level with Lou. Her hands were stretched out, waiting for Lou to put his hands in hers. Lou took a step back, but Mandy was behind him, hands on his shoulders as she gently eased him forward. “Just put your hands in hers.”

“B-But the shocks—”

“I’ll be fine,” Moxy smiled. “I can take it, honest. Don’t be scared.” Blue sparks were already beginning to dance and swirl around his fingertips. It looked beautiful and dangerous at the same time.

“We need to figure out what increases your…voltage,” Mandy searched for the proper term. “Once we figure out what triggers it, then we can work to control it.” Lou’s hands were finally laid on top of Moxy’s. He swallowed, eyeing the sparks. “Good. Now, think about…,” her eyes searched the room, “Ox.” The bunny’s ears lifted at his name.

Lou’s mouth quirked minutely, but the streams of electricity glowed at the mention of his name. Moxy felt just the tiniest sting. “I’d rate that a two, maybe.” Mandy nodded and LuckyBat wrote that down.

“Alright, how about—”

“Pizza!” Uglydog suggested.

“Why pizza?” Mandy deadpanned at him.

“Why not?” Uglydog said defensively.

Moxy didn’t feel anything. She grinned at the way Lou’s brow rose and he wrinkled his nose at the out-of-pocket suggestion. “Zero. Didn’t feel anything.” That was written down.

“M’kay,” Mandy bit her lip for a second and gave a nod of assurance to Moxy. The pink doll braced herself. Mandy stepped up closer behind Lou, hands on his shoulder blades as she watched his hands. They lit up a bit as she stepped closer. “Think about the Big World—”

“Ow!” Moxy yelped and flinched back from Lou’s hands. He startled at both the intense emotion that had coursed through him and the result of it, causing another bolt of electricity to go haywire and blow out the light fixture in the living room. “Six, that was a six,” she put her fingers to her mouth.

“Sorry!” Lou backed up, only to remember Mandy was behind him.

“No, it’s fine. That’s what we were looking for.” Mandy brought her arms around him to hold either of his arms up. The sparks jolted and began to climb up his arms toward her hands. “Any emotion seems to affect it. The stronger you feel, the more intense the voltage is.”

“Does it depend on if it’s a good or bad emotion?” Ox wrung his paws together, recalling when his name was mentioned. Lou didn’t still feel anger toward him, did he?

“Not sure,” Mandy noted the electricity climbing up toward her. “Am I scaring you right now?”

“No,” Lou rose a brow, watching the sparks as well.

“Do you feel angry?”

“I…don’t think so.”

“Well, your powers say otherwise. What are you feeling right now?” Mandy experimented by sliding her hands up his arms. The electricity flickered, brightening, and chased after her hands like it was a game.

“I wouldn’t call them powers,” he mumbled. “I-I don’t know. I’m not mad or scared. I’m definitely not sad. What else is there?”

“Happy?” Moxy suggested.

“Happy about what?” Lou gave her an incredulous look. The pink doll merely looked back at Mandy pointedly. He set his face to look stoic. “No, I’m not.” Moxy didn’t look convinced. The electricity that glowed along his arms at just the insinuation proved her right, regardless.

"It's following you, Mands," Wage watched it curiously.

She hummed and watched the sparks dance up his arms toward her hands. "I've got an idea." She turned Lou around so that he was facing her and put her hands on his shoulders. "New game: keep it from touching me."

"W-What?" Lou's eyes went wide.

"You heard me. Keep it from touching me. That's your challenge."

"I don't like this game," Lou stepped back from her.

"What's the worse that can happen?" Mandy asked as if it wasn't obvious.

"I don't wanna hurt you," Lou glared.

Wage snorted. "Says the one that tried to recycle her."

At that, Lou barely refrained from wincing. However, his new abilities gave way to what he felt. Guilt. The electricity along his hands and arms seemed to die out immediately. The glow in his eyes dimmed back to their normal blue.

Wage seemed to perk at this improvement. "Well, whatever you felt then seemed to work. That made it go away." Lou turned his head away from her, staring at the ground.

Mandy’s gaze softened and she took a small step toward him. He replaced the distance again, looking at her through his bangs. His face was serious. “I don’t want to hurt you.”

The conviction behind his words had her pausing for a moment. “I know you don’t.” Wage scoffed. The other dolls, aside from Ox, had to say that they didn’t know if they believed it themselves. “But if we’re gonna control this, we have to be willing to take risks.” She held her hands out toward him. They were stared at. Lou’s face tensed at the thought of causing more damage than he already has. Not to mention all the damage he caused prior to getting these stupid abilities. “I’m not going to tell you what to do, either,” Mandy continued. He met her eyes.

It was confinement and constraint that even brought him to this point. This breaking point. And while controlling the person who had the abilities sounded like a good plan…it also had the more probable result of making things worse. So, instead of having someone else control him, he’d have to do that himself.

And it started with giving him the freedom to make a choice.

“You can let us help you…or you can tell us to back off and we will.” Mandy took a step back herself to give him more space. “It’s up to you and what you want to do.”

Lou glanced at the door. He could walk away from all of this. At the very least, he could finally get away and go to the recycling like he wanted in the first place. No more powers. No more Creator. No more emotions. No more being this freak of nature. This robot. Maybe he would come back as a normal doll and be able to do normal doll things.

It sounded so enticing that it almost didn’t feel like a choice anymore. It felt like that’s what his Creator wanted. It felt like the option was so good that it would be the only way for him to get out of this mess.

It felt like running.

Like being that submissive pet again.

And what would even happen if he did come back as a normal doll? He would be like the rest of them. Following the rules of the factory. He would still be required to go through the same process of learning how to survive the Big World, finding a kid, and being a proper doll. He would be another oblivious doll that didn’t understand the power the factory had over them.

Or he could gain control of his power…and take back what the factory stole from him: freedom.

The dolls watched his eyes slowly illuminate and those sparks reignited on his fingers. He looked at Mandy, replacing the distance between them again and holding his forearms out. “I want help.”

#ox #writing #uglydolls #lou #fanfiction #moxy #mandy #ask #part 2 #short story #wage #babo #uglydog #angst #hurt/comfort

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yanguazalie · 3 months

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Aah! Unattractively loud machine noise! A dog's number one adversary!!

-Not so fast!

-Yeah, not SO fast *hop!*

-Do you or do you not feel bonita?

-... I feel bonita.

You LOOK bonita!

Thinking on what made it click for me with this movie, it was always the simple scene of Mandy chasing Uglydog with the hairdryer. The interaction... the way they one-up each other so comfortably despite only knowing each other for a day... it just pulled out my heart! It made me love everything that all the characters and their universe could show me, only to find out that talk of a second movie and TV show fell to the wayside💔 And so my mission to draw all my thoughts for this silly movie began! I'm only at 25% in completing said mission, ouch. But I don't think anyone minds that :9 I'm drawing fanart for the long-run!

#uglydolls #uglydolls mandy #uglydolls uglydog #uglydolls moxy #first drawings of the year hooray!#i drew these in january #queued for february 1st!#my before story idea will just have to wait until i get better at drawing humans #here's to hoping my daily planner can help with me sticking to that #because i really do like my idea for it

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darkhoundbiscuitrebel · 1 year

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~{Uglydolls}~ - Backstory (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/902180166-%7E-uglydolls-%7E-backstory?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=DEMEZIOLIMADOSSANTO3&wp_originator=04G%2FThT3ieLn2KgBCl%2Fwf9gI6d%2FMK2uEhP4nYGEMdDR7K5Knsarg%2Bcl3eV9%2FGlS1xe6XYuL%2FlYkR%2Fx313zl16DGS8bNWFu1iRzfc6IGdVFy6P1Uqz6xyPqeKhuAj3r4%2B [Complete] |Reader Insert| (Edit: This is the only thing I've been proud of on this godforsaken platform) a normal day at the institute until those malfunctions came. The scanner broke and unidentified one. The other was unlike any doll had ever seen. she wore a dark black hoodies lace choker she had mismatched red and purple eyes. The unidentified One well, 'thing' if what she is called most so let's go with that. Thing was a blue skinned doll, with black eyes and grey sclarea(idk how 2 spell)and pastel pink hair. Everyone was shocked by the fact the Malfunction looked so odd. Ȇ̷̳̝̜̟̀̒̈́̂̈̚͘r̴̙̥̣͂̐͛͂̈͐̈̚r̵̯̤̝͙͌̄̆̔͜O̸̡̺̻̖͈̮̝͛Ṛ̷̨̣̯̰̙͓̬̆͆͋͂́́͝͠ ᴎoiƚɔᴎuᎸ|ɒM Ȇ̷̳̝̜̟̀̒̈́̂̈̚͘r̴̙̥̣͂̐͛͂̈͐̈̚r̵̯̤̝͙͌̄̆̔͜O̸̡̺̻̖͈̮̝͛Ṛ̷̨̣̯̰̙͓̬̆͆͋͂́́͝͠ I'm not sure if I will re-write this.

#authouroc #enjoy #insert #institute #lou #louxoc #moxy #mute #owo #perfect #perfection #slydog #uglydog #uglydolls #uglydollsxreader #fanfiction #books #wattpad #amreading

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chocosourlemon · 2 months

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I'm rambling again. Let's go. *crackles knuckles*

Uglydolls headcannons!

° Lucky Bat is the youngest out of the gang (Moxy, Ox, Wage, etc)

° Wage sometimes teaches Babo how to cook, but it always ends up with her banishing Babo from the diner for a few days.

°Moxy loves scrapbooking (kinda obvs) and every holiday she gives her friends a small handmade gift.

°Babo hates olives. (Idk why, I just get the feeling.)

°Wage is the second oldest of the group.

°Uglydog sometimes teaches Moxy a few words in other languages. (We love a bilingual king)

°Moxy would sometimes mess up the words and accidentally insult someone in Spanish.

°Ox loves green apples. But he hates the regular ones for some reason?

° I bet there was one time in Uglyville that it was a day where you dress up as someone you really admire, and Moxy dressed up as Ox. (Ox cried for hours after that)

°On Wage's birthday, everyone tried to whip up her favourite pastries, but ended up nearly burning her diner down, and got a scolding from her later on. (And free food for the effort. She was very touched.)

°LuckyBat is the therapist of the group. (It's actually so obvs)

°Ox misses his brother.(ykyk) He just doesn't show it cause he thinks it's kinda messed up.

°When Ox blocked the recycling out, he was numb for a few days until he decided to make a change and built his own little house. And waited until a few new uglydolls came along. And slowly the town got bigger and bigger.

°Ox and Babo vibe to country music from time to time.

°The group huddles around Babo whenever they have a bad day. (We love our Teddy bear Babo.)

°Moxy loves to ramble and LuckyBat is the best listener.

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That is all ♡

#chocothoughts #uglydolls

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polkadotart · 2 years

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my favorite is handsome panther! i got a little version of him for my birthday and i've loved uglydolls since. since then i've gotten a big groody and a big ninja batty shogun. an uglydoll i absolutely want is a fao exclusive variant of uglydog, which is black with multicolored teeth and a green scarf! i think you might like that one

He’s perfect…

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lousirs · 3 days

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If you could add scenes or change certain designs to the uglydolls movie what would they be ? (Idk alternate institute design or random filler scenes)

For exemple i wish they insisted more onto the « doll school/training » thing.

Or another exemple, i had this idea where instead of Ox finding out bout Moxy and mandy being in danger with the printer thingy, he would’ve (seeing moxy’s missing) suspected Lou done something/has hurt Moxy and while running in the Pipe to the institute, he hears Moxy and mandy screaming for help (would’ve added a lot if you think bout it)

Gotta save this 65mill$ budget 💪💪🤩🤩

good question and wonderful ideas! i very much agree with the ox finding moxy/mandy scene. he should've been worried that he hadn't seen moxy in a while. sure, she was upset, but she is never so quiet... so he goes to check up on her, only to find an empty room, and panic arises. he tells the other uglydolls, and they go around town calling her name. and then ox reaches the sunflower pipe. realisation sinks in: "lou must've gotten her". and so the uglydolls help each other to get up the pipe, and through the darkness there is a faint red glow and screams for help.... dramatic... but maybe a bit too dark for a kids film, who knows xDDD

anywho, i have a lot of things i would change about the movie tbh, but to name a few: (buckle up everyone cause i got a lot to say)

first and foremost GIVE THE UGLYDOLLS (besides moxy and ox) A PURPOSE. babo, wage, luckybat and uglydog are the main characters technically, and yet they serve no purpose. if you removed them, and only had moxy find the institute, nothing would've changed. my fix? allow them to do what they are good at to win over the prettydolls.

from what is shown, i'm guesisng moxy is a reporter, luckybat is a fortune teller (or something like that), wage is a cook, babo is a builder and uglydog is a DJ. so! have luckybat tell the prettydolls fortunes (reading their palms or something idk), have wage cook them a nice meal, have babo build a cool contraption for them and uglydog host a dance party. and all the while, moxy is writing about the institute, life there, how lou is a big ol' meanie head, etc. this would've fixed so much, because in the film, the prettydolls turned on lou so quickly, so GIVE THEM MORE OF A REASON TO besides "ew prototype" and "he kicked a baby!!!". make the prettydolls warm up to the uglydolls, not due to their appearance, but due to who they are inside and what they enjoy doing. make them think that lou is wrong for being so cruel to them.

speaking of this, moxy writing down everything about the institute (perhaps to put into the uglyville newspaper) could be a point of tension! lou doesn't want his reputation to be smeared, so there could be a scene (i'd say after the training montage where lou is further trying to dissuade moxy) where lou tears up all the pages of her notepad, leaving her feeling devastated, but still determined to carry on despite the odds.

the only other point i have about the uglydolls is their designs. i would've loved to see them more like their original counterparts, cause they feel a bit too cutesy to be truly 'ugly' or whatever in the film. especially the stitches around the eyes, they should've kept that!! more of a handcrafted ragdoll look, i suppose!

for the institute... i feel like this is a hot take, but i like how empty it is. kind of shows how empty and artificial trying to be 'perfect' is. the repetitiveness of the institute also works to show that as well... buuut they could've taken it further. perhaps they could've gone for the more city-like area like they did in concept arts, but have it a lot more organised (too organised), so everything feels disorientating. for instance, the dolls houses are all clunked into a square area, same with the training course, etc.

this concept art, although looking sterile, still feels quite open and lively, like that of a big city. so they could make it feel more suffocating? who knows.

(i get that uglyville is quite clustered and tightly packed too, but that feels more like a comfortable closeness)(so the institute could be an uncomfortable closeness)

one scene they could've added for the prettydolls is the spy girls being hesitant to throw moxy and mandy in recycling. their expressions as moxy is going down the pipe shows fear and regret, and yet this brief, and they go back to being fine afterwards??? i get lou not giving a shit, but c'mon girls, you just helped kill two dolls! kidnapping isn't good either, but recycling innocent dolls is on a whole other level.

even if it was just a small piece of dialogue between the girls and lou, it would've worked... like:

"surely you aren't going to actually recycle them? that's way too far lou!"

"we didn't agree to this lou! you just told us to take them to you!"

and lou shuts them up and says how they'll be perfect yada yada idk. and that could be a breaking point for the girls, where they begin to distrust lou, because bro's a maniac.

i've mentioned this in a previous post, but i believe that the novel's version of lou and ox's backstory makes a lot more sense, in how lou stepped on the line ox was passing to make it seem like he failed the gauntlet, and the robots dragging ox to recycling. instead of ox making other dolls fail, and lou being like "imma show you recycling now. cya bub"

similarly, mandy getting the audience to coax lou into running the gauntlet makes more sense than him running the gauntlet on his own accord, fully knowing that he would be exposed. yay, peer pressure!

nit-pick here, but i wish they made nolan more 'imperfect' design-wise. although yeah, his hair and eyes are different colours and his uniform is too small, he has no socks and lost a button and has freckles, it all seems too... polished? like, his freckles are just around the cheeks, and although yeah, people can have exactly that irl, i would've loved if they went harder on it. same with his hair, the green parts are in a neat clump, that still matches the hair model of the doll. so fuck it! have him have messy hair with green strands randomly placed on his head, make his freckles heavier, so they cover his arms and legs etc too, make his uniform have hanging out threads and missing parts, etc etc! alsooo further push him having a long neck, small head, being tall, whatever. cause it's barely noticeable... (which i guess works cause lou picks up on the smallest of things but stillll i want a more 'imperfect' nolan xD)

that's all i can think of for now, and the post is long enough as it is sooo yeah xP

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