Prom Date Zeke and Sharpay

I don't know or care for anything about High School Musical, but Mattel does make the dolls with better heads and faces than the current Barbie line. At $5 a pair, I went ahead and bought a few sets for the heads.

Even the dolls I cherry-picked have paint problems that were not obvious in the store. Sadly, $5 is about what the pairs are worth, if that. I've seen clone dolls with better quality clothing.

Wiggles 2

I love my kitten. She brightens up every day.

The reason I don't have as much doll time anymore.

Little Miss Wiggles. I caught her back in August. Nobody knows where she came from. My aunt fed her cats one morning, and there she was.

She was a tiny, skinny kitten with a bot fly maggot eating a hole in her neck. Now she is a big, strong girl.

This is her at two pounds, now she's over five.

Rebelde

I don't know where this set got off to.

I feel guilty, because I'm always wanting more non-blonde Kens. A series came out with two, and I bought the blonde one instead.

He looks more determined that the other two.

He would be nice to reroot, but I'm way too lazy.

Busy Francie's head

Just the head.

How to tell a reproduction head from an original

There are people who try to pass off repro heads as minty originals. Don't fall for the scam.

Here is a shabby vintage head next to All That Jazz reproduction.

However, the easiest way to tell is to look at it from the side.


The junction with the neck is smooth on the original. The reproduction head has a thick plastic lip that goes around the neck.

Batgirl Barbie