A fellow collector sent me these pictures of the actual doll that she received:
What a complete disappointment but not a surprise. When a company advertises with an artist rendering rather than a prototype or a production sample, you can be sure you will not get what you see in the ad.
Seriously, some of Mattel's $39.95 celebrity dolls have more of a resemblance to their human counterparts than this.
I agree, Terri. I returned my doll to DM this past Monday. It was a total disappointment, from the doll itself, to the dress, to the painted-on, molded shoes!
ReplyDelete@Black Doll Enthusiast: The shoes are painted on? It just keeps getting worse. What a shame.
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Does anybody remember the friend of the Ideal(?)"Dusty" Doll? This Michelle Obama doll looks a lot like "Sky" My sister and I (Inherrited from grandma) have ours. My sister might get this doll if she wants another sky like doll -she was a favorite- but I think the Integrity's ITBE doll "Groove" reminds me of Michelle more as does one of the Dynamite girls. I say buy both dolls and put on the dress on the ITBE doll and leave the MO doll as a OOAK project for yourself or sell her away.
ReplyDeleteI bought the doll for my mother for Christmas. Needless to say, she was VERY disappointed. She tried to be cool about it, but finally we had to accept it --- we'd been had. This is blatant false advertising. It's not a bad doll, but it's not what was advertised. We thought it was a porcelain statue and not a PhotoShoped picture of our First Lady. The hair is frizzy, the dress looks dingy and very little effort was put into its details, the shoes are painted on and I couldn't even get those ugly pegs to fit into the holes on the stand! It's an absolute rip off for $149. Danbury Mint should be ashamed. If they had put the actual picture that's included with the doll, then we could have made some better decisions about buying it.
ReplyDeleteI just got my doll too. My mom hasn't seen it yet. I am sending it back. It looks really rushed and nothing like the one advertised. it looks like a toy store black barbie rather than michelle obama. not worh the 158 dollars i paid for this thing.
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