Olga Tanon Doll - Last Doll Received in January 2009

Olga Tanon is a Puerto Rican singer. In 2000, Haschel Toys created this doll of her. I first saw the Olga Tanon doll on another collector's website, Madeboxer, and the link is http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1330796646031176672hAZfTV

Here is my Olga's photograph:



I like how the doll resembles the singer.

I purchased Olga from an antique shop called "Beautiful Dolls for Sale." The link to the Olga doll is

http://www.collectoronline.com/10077/PictPage/1921832139.html

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Fashion Royalty Luchia Z Arrives!

W Club Bewitching Hour Luchia Z has arrived.

She's every bit as lovely as described by other collectors. Jason Wu and the Integrity staff have done a wonderful job. She has a French manicure - where the tips of the nails, both fingernails and toenails, have white tips and "sheer" polish. Her lipstick is the faintest pink bisque, and her eyes have real lashes. Her black trench coat and the black corset belt ... wow. The mini dress is like dusty pink champagne.

Deboxing Hrithik Roshan (SpinMaster)

Last night, I was removing Hrithik Roshan from his box when I discovered that his head was stapled to the cardboard backing of his plastic box. Ellen Smith - formerly Grandma Walton - discovered him face down and helped detach him.









Grandma's new outfit is from the Only Hearts Horse & Pony outfit line.

U.S. Source for Girl's Mission and Lady's Mission

If you do not want to place an international order, you can find the Girl's Missions figures and some of the Lady's Mission figures at Nouveau Toys. The link to that online store is

http://www.nouveautoys.com/index.html

I recommend Nouveau Toys because I had placed two orders with them last year. I received prompt and courteous replies to my e-mail queries, well and neatly packaged boxes, items received as expected (NRFB) and items received when expected. Funds permitting, I would order from them again.

My first orders with Nouveau Toys were for Lady's Mission dolls no longer carried by HobbyLink Japan. I ordered the Lady's Mission No.24 described as "Woman doctor(obstetrician)" - Tanaka Miina and Lady's Mission #22 described as a "resistant covert agent" who also works as a nun - Sister Kyoko Tenryu. Please note: Sister Tenryu comes with a standard black and white nun's habit and a black pleather habit that laces up the sides. I then ordered the Lady's Mission #21 Street Princess - Madam Ryu Reika.

Welcome Girl's Mission Mai and Soccer Player Benjamin Lauth

I picked up my HobbyLink Japan order that included Girl's Mission Mai and Kick-o-mania soccer player Benjamin Lauth. The Girl's Mission dolls are collectible action figures from Aoshima's Skynet; Benjamin Lauth is a collectible action figure produced by Revell GmbH & Co. KG of Germany that was distributed in Japan.













HobbyLink Japan (www.hlj.com) also has on sale the other five Girls' Mission action dolls and another 12" soccer player, Roy Makaay. You would type in the main page and then choose either the 70% clearance button OR search for 1/6 scale action figures. I've placed orders with HobbyLink Japan for years now: they provide excellent services. I am so glad that they ship to the United States.

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Video Link of Missing Bollywood Legend Doll

I found these video links of the Shahrukh Khan action figure that I do NOT have now:

Breaking Free of the Box--With Magnifying Glass

Breaking Free of the Box--A Birthday Gift for SRK

He's borrowed some Ken shirts and an Elvis gold jacket in some of the photos.

Bollywood Legend: Priyanka Chopra Arrives!

Today, I picked up the third and last - for this order - Bollywood Legend doll, Priyanka Chopra. I had missed yesterday's delivery so I had to pick her up at the post office.

These dolls are so well packaged, I am almost tempted to leave them in their boxes. Spin Master uses the same clear plastic box construction that Mattel uses on the Jazz Diva Barbie and the Red Queen Barbie only instead of constructing a setting, Spin Master has a reel-strip layout of photos of the actor or the actress alongside the doll. My eyes run from the actor's photo to the doll; the likeness is amazing.

In the package, the dolls and the outfits look like better Barbie quality figures. At this time, I am enamoured of the boxed look; once I get beyond that stage, I will remove the figures and examine the figures and the clothes.

Behold, three of the Bollywood Legends!