I was curious about Ms. Leo's Kristi Yamaguchi doll so I did a little research. Playmates created dolls of Ms. Yamaguchi and a few other female ice skaters in 1998. Go, Playmates go, I thought. Seeing some of the faces, I thought ... hmm if I were them, I'd go very far. Like a place where I can hide in plain view ... Sometimes, it must be difficult to recreate 1:1 scale features in 1:6 figures. Not all of the figures are flattering. Eh but some people are just happy to be immortalized in plastic at all. Accuracy might not be as important as having your own action figure or doll.
One of the websites mentioning the Kristi Yamaguchi doll was a NEW doll site called The Celebrity Doll Museum.
This website has a list of many celebrity dolls and action figures. It's a new venture - since 2010 - so they have yet to have photos of all the figures they acknowledge exist. I think it will be fun to see them develop and to send them messages about dolls and action figures they might have missed.
Longtime online doll and action figure collectors will remember Famous Figures. Yes, the website that clued countless collectors into which doll or action figure resembles the star or famous person you needed for your diorama. While Famous Figures does not seem to have been recently updated, it has YEARS of photos of celebrities and dolls and/or action figures who resemble those celebrities. I bring this link forward for any newer DAF collectors.
Warning: the Famous Figures website can be addictive. Happy viewing!
Query: Do you have any favorite celebrity DAFs? Or are you working on a figure of yourself as the next UNDISCOVERED DAF?
3 comments:
That's what I like about your blog, I always learn something new! I didn't know about either of these sites. Thanks for the info. If I ever become famous I will holdout for Mattel to make my doll. Out of the folks that do the celebrity "dolls", they do the best job. Acton figure seem to have a higher rate of accuracy on getting celebrities right.
Thanks for the links!
Thanks, Ms. Leo and Frannie for checking the links. I'm glad that you enjoyed them. I need to add them to my DAF Reference column.
Ms. Leo, I was charmed by your Recent Head Swap article. We playscale collectors inspire and enable each other ;-D
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