Broadway Meets Tonner Doll

An announcement from Tonner Doll today:

Dear Collectors, 

We've got some very exciting news to share:  We are releasing our very first venture with a Broadway license:  The Memphis Collection!  Here's a little background about Memphis:

Memphis features a brand new, Tony winning score with music by Bon Jovi's founding member and keyboardist David Bryan and lyrics by Bryan and Tony-winner Joe DiPietro, who also pens the musical's book. Directed by Tony nominee Christopher Ashley and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo, Memphis takes place in the smoky halls and underground clubs of the segregated 50's, where a young white DJ named Huey Calhoun fell in love with everything he shouldn't: rock and roll and an electrifying black singer.  Memphis is an original story about the cultural revolution that erupted when his vision met her voice, and the music changed forever.

This is a very special release because it kicks off the Memphis U.S. tour.   To find out where Memphis is playing in a city near you, visit   www.memphisthemusical.com! 

  - The Memphis Collection-

Felicia

T12MSDD01

LE 750

$174.99

Ship dates TBA

• Dressed doll
• Face includes hand-painted details
• Fine quality vinyl and hard plastic
• Felicia head sculpt
• Tyler bending wrist body with changeable feet
• Spice skin tone
• Brown painted eyes
• Rooted dark brown saran hair
• Gold dress with embroidered bodice trim and chiffon drape
• Gold rhinestone earrings
• Gold beaded bracelet
• Gold rhinestone necklace
• Nude pantyhose
• Faux leather gold shoes to match dress
• Stand

Huey

T12MSDD02

LE 750

$174.99

• Dressed doll
• Face includes hand-painted details
• Fine quality vinyl and hard plastic
• Huey head sculpt
• Matt O'Neill™ body
• Tyler skin tone
• Blue painted eyes
• Molded hair
• Black and white pants
• Multi-colored patterned shirt
• Black and red polka dot jacket with leopard print lining
• Charcoal grey hat with ribbon trim
• Black faux leather shoes
• Black socks
• Stand
• LE 750

Dolls are being offered individually or as a set. If you order the set, the price is $300.
Link to the Pre-Order Page.

The IFDC Dolls

Integrity Toys again created dolls for the IFDC which took place in Las Vegas this past week.
There were three dolls created to fit in with the convention's theme of "Shock, Rattle N' Roll."

Kesenia as Long Cool Woman
Shock, Rattle 'N' Roll Collection
IFDC 10th Anniversary Souvenir Convention Doll
Suggested Retail Price: $150.00 US
Limited Edition of 300 Dolls

Korinne as Shake It Up
Shock, Rattle 'N' Roll Collection
IFDC 10th Anniversary Companion Doll
Suggested Retail Price: $150.00 US
Limited Edition of 300 Dolls

 I like her shoes:

Rayna as Rock Me, Baby
Shock, Rattle 'N' Roll Collection
IFDC 10th Anniversary IT Direct Salesroom Doll
Suggested Retail Price: $150.00 US
Limited Edition of 300 Dolls

 

All of these 12" vinyl dolls use the "Vampire" body. The remaining dolls are being offered by lottery to members of the W Club.
 

DATURA: OOAK NUMINA "Ajuma" doll by Paul Pham

Paul Pham's dolls keep getting better and more highly valued. The eBay auction for Datura ended early Sunday morning with a winning bid of $2,101.00 
 The link to the completed auction is here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160849299327&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1123

Congratulations, Paul. She is worth every penny. Everything about her is stunning and unique.

All photos are Paul's from the auction page.

Jamieshow IFDC Ginny VIVA LAS VEGAS Doll

Viva Las Vegas Ginny is an LE 15 Jamieshow doll which has sold out. She was for sale via lottery.

She has a gorgeous face and shouts glitzy Vegas, Rio or Mardi Gras depending on how you look at it.

Zombie Boy NOW AVAILABLE

Zombie Boy is now available on the Tonner Direct website. Ships worldwide. $159.99

Click on image to go to order page.

Toy maker sues Lady Gaga

NEW YORK (AP) — A toy company is suing Lady Gaga for more than $10 million, claiming the pop star sabotaged a deal to make a doll in her likeness that would play snippets of her music.

In a suit filed in New York City on Tuesday, MGA Entertainment, the maker of the popular Bratz doll line, said it paid a $1 million advance to the company that handles Gaga's merchandizing and spent a mint racing to meet deadlines to ship the dolls this summer.

The dolls were to feature some of the singer's outlandish costumes, as well as a "voice chip" with samples of her songs.

But the toy maker said the plan was derailed in the spring when the merchandizer, Bravado International, abruptly tried to back out of the part of the deal allowing the dolls to use the singer's music. MGA said Bravado then tried to delay sales of the doll until next year, when her new album is expected to be released.

The toy company claimed the singer's representatives ultimately stopped cooperating with the project while she went on a world tour. MGA said her refusal to sign off on the final doll designs is jeopardizing $28 million in expected revenue from the fall shopping season and holding up orders from 10 countries.

A representative for Lady Gaga called the lawsuit "ill-conceived" and said there was "no legitimate reason" to drag the singer into a dispute primarily between MGA and Bravado, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.

Bravado issued a statement through a spokesman calling the lawsuit "meritless."

In the lawsuit, MGA's lawyers claimed that Lady Gaga's representatives were initially thrilled with the doll prototypes, although they had asked for a few tweaks. In one email cited in the lawsuit, Bobby Campbell, the vice president of Gaga's management company, the Atom Factory, asked if the doll could be "more supermodel-like" with "more of a cat-eye and sexier, poutier lips." He also discussed a doll with a removable head that would pop off to reveal a bloody stump.

"We would like to see options with and without a bloody stump for comparison," he wrote.