Licca Castle Confession

Their online shop has been offering 20% off dolls from 2007 and earlier. I gave in and grabbed three older friends, and a new-ish Tamaki I've had my eye on for a long time.























The older three characters seem to have fallen out of favor. I prefer the older looking designs to Angel's Garden, Ayano, Mirai, Puffy, etc... I'm especially happy with Abel, I love short haired dolls.

Now, to wait on the shopping service.

Free Licca coloring page

A printable PDF file
Color Licca and her friend Sakura. It's for a TRU-sponsored coloring contest.

I was hoping for a Jenny site update, but no such luck. They did update Licca's upcoming releases. This one looks like a lacy strawberry.

I scored black (or manba?) Photogenic Jenny on Mandarake. She should be here tomorrow.

Nanami

I grabbed a Nanami head on eBay. I thought I could use it with the Obitsu 25cm body I have, but the neck shape and skin color don't work. I wish Takara would upgrade the bodies. The faces are beautiful, but the bodies are still cheap clone quality.

Re-Ment Shoes and Bags Set 2 will be mine.

I realized the other night that since playline Jenny is dead, Licca is the only source left for shoes. Licca's color choices are all baby pastels. I realized I needed to grab the Re-Ment shoe set before it sold out everywhere forever.

I took the plunge and ordered it from Manika, the only site left with it in stock at roughly retail. I didn't want to spend that much at once, but it's obvious that playline variety is dying in both Japan and America.
















Here's the official photo, stolen from robochris.jp.

I can't wait for it to get here.

"Lovely Lisa and Friends"

TOMY has released "Lovely Lisa and Friends" as a follow-up to the 2008 "Lovely Lisa" game. Lovely "Lisa" is, in fact, Lovely Licca.

I hope that if the second game does well, there might be some hope for Licca in the US. In 2005, Takara USA displayed their doll lines at Toy Fair, and at least one Jenny doll was available through Toys R Us/Amazon's joint website. After TRU split up with Amazon, the dolls disappeared.

In summer 2005, they kicked off the "Tokyo Posse" doll line, using Jenny bodies and heads. The line started with two FLCL characters, and was projected to have more dolls from other series. The dolls look nothing like the characters, cost $40 each, and bombed terribly. They are now worth only a few dollars each, apparently they were grossly over-produced as well.

Playline Jenny seems to be out of production in Japan, and has been for several years. Scheduled releases were delayed indefinitely.

I think Licca and regular Jenny would sell well in America. They never really got a chance in 2005.