Cheer Me Up! Poppy Parker

Call it the PP Club. It seems as if almost every doll is Poppy Parker and so many of them look the same. It's time for a change.

The Third PPClub doll of 2022 is, you guessed it, Poppy Parker, AGAIN.

Ho Hum. She does not cheer me up. 

Cheer Me Up

Poppy Parker® Dressed Doll 

The Poppy Parker® Collection

2022 W Club Exclusive Doll

Edition Size: TBD

Expected Ship Date: Summer 2023

Head Sculpt: Poppy Parker

Body Type: PP 1.5

Foot Sculpt: Articulated ankle with flat feet

Skin Tone: FR White

Hair Color: Auburn

Eyelashes: Yes, Hand-applied

Sales method: These dolls are guaranteed made-to-order for 2022 W Club members only- 1 per membership.

($50.00 NRD deposit due now, $95.00 + S & H due in approximately Summer 2023);

<<In other words, they get to keep your $50 for about 9 months and you get nothing.>>

Included:

• 12-inch articulated doll with rooted hair and hand-applied eyelashes;
• Light blue cheerleader sweater with embroidered "P" varsity letter detail and separate sleeveless striped turtleneck bodysuit;
• Pleated short cheerleader skirt;
• Knee-high white socks;
• Light blue sneakers with ribbon ties;
• Ribbon cheer pom poms;
• Matching light blue earrings;
• Light blue hair bows;
• Pair of "Poppy Parker" hands;
• Alternate pair of "grip" hands;
• Doll stand;
• Certificate of authenticity.

Integrity Toys Reveal August 18 2019

The Integrity Toy reveal which was posted to W Club members on August 17, 2019, included three Fashion Royalty dolls,  one Industry Tulabelle, three Poppy Parkers, Tina Tanaka and one male.

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The Fashion Royalty Boudoir Collection is being offered via a right-to-buy lottery and includes Kesenia, Natalia and Jordan wearing sexy lingerie. Each doll is $135.

The lingerie sets are very attractive; the dolls, meh. Still, tastes vary and there are enough to go around - 750 Jordans and 800 each of Kesenia and Natalia.

Kesenia uses the vampire sculpt that I detest. Her mouth is heavily shaded inside the lips to moderate the appearance of the vampire's teeth. Each doll comes with an extra pair of hands with long nails.

Early Kesenia sculpt. Was not named Kesenia at the time.

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The Industry Tulabelle is a mini gift set consisting of a doll and two 12" sized outfits one of which mimics the previously made 16" Tulabelle outfit.
The other outfit is an embroidered, frilly, mini dress that makes her look like a Swiss school girl.
This doll is being offered via right-to-buy lottery and is priced at $155.

Earlier 16" Tulabelle

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Poppy Parker The Girl From I.N.T.E.G.R.I.T.Y. Mission Brazil Capsule Collection

There are detailed backstories for the dolls in this collection.

First up are Poppy Parker and Tina Tanaka as double agents.
This is a two-doll gift set priced at $199. and will be sold via right-to-buy lottery.

The fashions and dolls are standard Poppy fare. The inclusion of a handgun is unacceptable. IT has made dolls with guns before and I didn't like it then, either. This time the guns are yellow, pink and blue.

https://www.personaldefenseworld.com/2015/06/5-colorful-personal-defense-pistols/

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Sergio Silva: Man of Mystery

IMO Buttry's strength is his male doll design skill. Sergio is a well-dressed guy with a good hairstyle. He comes with a saxophone! Perhaps that's his weapon.
I'm not a fan of the painted facial hair. It doesn't do anything for this doll or any other doll that I've seen with flat painted facial hair.
He will be available via Integrity doll dealers at $150.

Poppy Parker in Ipanema Intrigue

Bathing suit, terry cloth cover-up, big hat and sunglasses and a pink gun. Sigh.
Available via Integrity doll dealers at $135.

Poppy Parker in Rendez-Vous in Rio

She has a beautiful deep tone to her vinyl and wears a colorful Pucci-type print fashion.
Available via Integrity doll dealers at $145.

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IFDC Peace of My Heart Doll

IFDC Peace of My Heart Doll

Very cute doll with an adorable outfit consisting of a pleated embellished mini dress, embroidered vest, large floppy straw hat, knee-hi gladiator boots, shoulder bag, jewelry & sunglasses. This doll has the standard flat foot but the boots have a bit of a wedge.

 Her two additional hands consist of a peace sign and the I love you hand sign.

2018 IFDC Dolls - Triple Hippie Poppies

Here it is! The big reveal. Three Poppy Parkers, all dressed in hippie style.

Item # PP132 Peace of My Heart Poppy Parker™  2018 IFDC Companion Doll Approx. Ship Date: In-stock, ships once the lottery winners have paid Retail: $160.00 + Shipping

Edition Size: 500 Head Sculpt: Poppy Parker Body Type: Poppy 1.5 Foot Sculpt: Industry articulated foot Skin Tone: Japan Hair Color: Auburn Eyelashes: Yes, hand-applied Quickswitch: No

The Story:
Any girl attending a weekend long music festival will tell you- looking good at all times is the way... After all, you don't know who you will meet; you never know, rock stars are everywhere! Poppy Parker picked her weekend wardrobe with care, making sure that her sweet and fashionable personality shone through at all times!

I thought this description was pretty funny. I don't know what weekend long 
music festival they're talking about but the original one was a mud fest.

https://youtu.be/HKdsRWhyH30

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Item # PP130 Time of the Season Poppy Parker™  2018 IFDC Centerpiece Doll Approx. Ship Date: In-stock, ships once the lottery winners have paid Retail: $160.00 + Shipping

Edition Size: 350 Head Sculpt: Poppy Parker Body Type: Poppy 1.5 Foot Sculpt: Industry articulated foot Skin Tone: FR White Hair Color: Light blonde Eyelashes: Yes, hand-applied Quickswitch: No

The Story:
Ready to jump on-stage with her favorite band and dance to the beat, our girl Poppy is perfectly dressed for a swinging ol' time at the concerts!

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Item # PP131 Summer of Love Poppy Parker™  2018 IFDC Souvenir Doll Approx. Ship Date: In-stock, ships once the lottery winners have paid Retail: $175.00 + Shipping

Edition Size: 500 Head Sculpt: Poppy Parker Body Type: Poppy 1.5 Foot Sculpt: Industry articulated foot Skin Tone: Hungarian Hair Color: Ash blonde mix Eyelashes: Yes, hand-applied Quickswitch: No

The Story:
Poppy is the belle of the party, romantically dressed for the summer of love! Soft and ultra-feminine, our girl is a pure vision of femininity and could outshine any summer goddess!

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If I collected Poppy Parker, I'd definitely want Sumer of Love. Her hair is lovely and the dress is pretty. On eBay, she has already sold from a low of $277 to a high of $425. There are several higher asking prices currently.
Peace of My Heart seems to be averaging at $400-$450.
Time of The Season looks like it's going for around $340-$375.
Prices will go down as the week progresses.

I like the outfit on the "Peace of My Heart" Companion Doll. It's very cute. 

The notice says that the dolls come with an alternate "I love you sign" hand. I don't see it in the photos. 

To the photographer who shot these images, I wish you would have used a different background color. I'm not sure what the intention was in using a color so similar and without much contrast to the doll but she is disappearing into it. Were you going for vintage? It didn't work. :-(

The W Club is holding a "right to buy" lottery for what remains of these convention dolls. Members have been sent instructions for entering.

Another Hippie Poppy and I Really Don't Care, Do You?

With so many members of the W Club who weren't even born yet in the 60's and who don't have any idea about what it was like, this doll will be ideal. As far as I'm concerned, she's just another hippie wannabe doll. The one unique thing I see is a hand making the peace sign. Now that's different and it's pretty funny. It looks slightly small but that may just be the photo.
I must tell you that most 'real' hippies do not have highlighted hair and do not wear eye makeup. But Poppy is not real and I really don't care. She looks as if she really doesn't care either. Do you?

"Free Spirit" 

A Little Nazi

Joni Mitchell-Woodstock (1969 Live)

https://youtu.be/26LYjMww0GY

I came upon a child of God

He was walking along the road

And I asked him, where are you going

And this he told me

I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm

I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band

I'm going to camp out on the land

I'm going to try an' get my soul free

We are stardust

We are golden

And we've got to get ourselves

Back to the garden

Then can I walk beside you

I have come here to lose the smog

And I feel to be a cog in something turning

Well maybe it is just the time of year

Or maybe it's the time of man

I don't know who l am

But you know life is for learning

We are stardust

We are golden

And we've got to get ourselves

Back to the garden

By the time we got to Woodstock

We were half a million strong

And everywhere there was song and celebration

And I dreamed I saw the bombers

Riding shotgun in the sky

And they were turning into butterflies

Above our nation

We are stardust

Billion year old carbon

We are golden

Caught in the devil's bargain

And we've got to get ourselves

Back to the garden

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"Billion year old carbon...Caught in the devil's bargain"

2018 Poppy Parker City Sweetheart Collection Reveal

On Saturday, June 23, the W Club membership was presented with the Poppy Parker City Sweetheart Collection Reveal and a live chat with designer, David Buttry. I didn't attend the chat so I don't know what transpired.

Here is the collection and most the text as published by Integrity Toys:

Poppy Goes Back To The Big Apple!

Poppy Parker and New York City go hand in hand. Ever since her arrival last year to start her modeling career, Poppy has fallen in love with her adopted new home. Whether it’s taking in the tourist locations, poetry readings, attending debutante balls or new modeling assignments around the city, Poppy is becoming New York’s City Sweetheart!

Off-Beat Poppy Parker™ Dressed Doll
The City Sweetheart Collection
Approx. Ship Date: August
Suggested Retail: $135.00 US
Available Via Dealers

Edition Size: 900
Head Sculpt: Poppy Parker
Body Type: Poppy 1.5
Foot Sculpt: High-heeled
Skin Tone: FR White
Hair Color: Paper White
Eyelashes: Yes, Hand-applied

Co-Ed Cutie Poppy Parker™ Dressed Doll
The City Sweetheart Collection
Approx. Ship Date: August
Suggested Retail: $135.00 US
Available Via Dealers

Edition Size: 900
Head Sculpt: Poppy Parker
Body Type: Poppy 1.5
Foot Sculpt: High-heeled
Skin Tone: New Hispanic
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eyelashes: Yes, Hand-applied

World At Her Feet Poppy Parker™ Dressed Doll
The City Sweetheart Collection
Approx. Ship Date: Mid-September
Suggested Retail: $135.00 US
Available Via Dealers

Edition Size: 900
Head Sculpt: Poppy Parker
Body Type: Poppy 1.5
Foot Sculpt: High-heeled
Skin Tone: FR White
Hair Color: Light Red
Eyelashes: Yes, Hand-applied

Peach Parfait . Poppy Parker™ Dressed Doll
The City Sweetheart Collection
Approx. Ship Date: August
Suggested Retail: $135.00 US
Available Via Dealers

Edition Size: 900
Head Sculpt: Poppy Parker
Body Type: Poppy 1.5
Foot Sculpt: High-heeled
Skin Tone: Japan
Hair Color: Platimum/Light Blonde Mix
Eyelashes: Yes, Hand-applied

Girl Talk Poppy Parker™ and
Darla Daley™ Duo-Doll Gift Set
The City Sweetheart Collection
Approx. Ship Date: Mid-Sept.
Retail: $175.00 US + Shipping
***IT DIRECT EXCLUSIVE***

Edition Size: 800
Head Sculpts: Poppy and Darla 2.0
Body Type: Poppy 1.5
Foot Sculpts: High-heeled
Skin Tones: FR White / FR Black
Hair Colors: Auburn Mix / Black
Eyelashes: Yes, Hand-applied

Integrity Toys "Dolly Days"

W Club members were offered five opportunities to spend money beginning on 11/27 and ending on 12/1.  This week long event was called "Dolly Days."  

On Monday, which was also Cyber Monday in the real world, they held a sale of all in-stock items which consisted of replacement doll bodies, older Style Lab dolls and fashions, ITBE dolls, Color Infusion, Katy Keene and AHS: Coven dolls, < MLP, Victoire Roux and select The Industry Dolls. Included as well were select Fashion Royalty and IFDC  2016 dolls,  Jem and The Holograms and a few warehouse finds.
There is still a load of stuff in the Integrity on-line store which is available to the public here:
http://www.integritytoys.com/shop20/home.php

The Second Day was all about Poppy Parker.
There were three dolls to pre-order from doll dealers and one IT direct via right-to-buy lottery which will take place next March. (Positively Plaid.) This last one is going to be available to 2018 members only so why show it to 2017 members? That is a rhetorical question.

Here are the dolls:

$130 Friday Night Frug

$160 Where It's At

$130 Hold That Tiger

$130  Positively Plaid

I decided a bit too late that I like Hold That Tiger. It's completely sold out everywhere. If anyone who has a pre-order for her and is willing to transfer it to me, please let me know.

Wednesday was the last Jem and The Holograms collection offering. I won't miss them.

Shana Elmsford  On-Stage Mini-Giftset 

$150 AJA Leith On-Stage Mini-Giftset

$130 Jem  This is Farewell 

Thursday New bodies were revealed. All were priced at $35. plus shipping.

I know some collectors are not happy that the low torso joint has been eliminated. That is not an issue for me as I lost a lot underwear as a result of said underwear getting caught in that joint.  

It's too bad they waited so long to upgrade the Poppy Parker body so she could have a no-ankle-joint look. This is the body I wanted all along as I felt the ankle joint interfered with her overall pretty looks.


On Friday they finally released an interesting Fashion Royalty offering. This set consists of three heads with busts. Each head is an Adele sculpt from the first through the third.
I'm tempted but I only like the original head from this set. I am a big fan of the Adele 2.0 (the blonde) but I think this particular one is not as attractive as she could be.
The Faces of Adele is $200. plus postage. You get one full body and to additional busts with heads and all the clothing and accessories seen below. For an additional $30. you get two sets of body parts seen by scrolling down.

Of course, the more I look at it, the more I want it. Sigh. I suppose I could just keep Adele 1.0 and sell everything else...unless they look better in person. I wish 2.0 and 3.0 were wearing wigs.


From the offering:

At the W Club, we always try to think about what the collectors' feedback might be on each offering and anticipate as many needs as we can, as well as create solutions when we are able to. While "The Faces of Adèle" is meant to be a quick switch set & while each of the busts/portraits included with the set can be easily switched on the included body by simply disconnecting the arms and lower torso, we know that many collectors will still want 3 separate dolls. So, we spoke to Integrity and got approval to offer you an optional "Body Completer" pack sold separately that includes two sets of arms (with hands attached) and two lower torsos with legs attached, that will allow you to assemble all three dolls in this gift set into complete dolls for the added low price of only $30 + S & H per set!
Again, this is an optional offering. If you complete the dolls, they will no longer be able to use the Museum Podium Stand, which is designed specifically to display one doll and 2 busts, not 3 complete dolls. This extra offer is not directly part of the initial gift set and is only being offered as courtesy.
A deposit of $15 is required now to pre-order this body completer pack (these are not full replacement bodies) and 1 optional body completer pack per membership is allowed. You will be contacted to pay the remaining $15 balance closer to their arrival at the warehouse. Otherwise, the same timing and procedures as listed above apply. 

$30. for both.

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This has been a great year for Adele Makeda in my collection. I like the styling and the beautiful fashions of the first two dolls below and I like the innovation of the giftset. 

Exquisite Adele - Coming soon, I  hope.

"Frosted Glamour" Adele Makeda    Gala Dinner Event Centerpiece Doll

 2017 4th W Club Doll  Adele Makeda Gift Set