Barbie Star Trek 50th anniversary head finally arrived
I recently [posted](https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/58030516) that I found this bald head on Ali and was planning to root her (add hair).
Today the head arrived!
Here are a few close-ups in better quality. I always reduce the image sizes to avoid taking up too much space on the Lemmy instance (who needs photos of a doll head in 4k?), but it's still much better than what you can find in the store:
I can also confirm that it's indeed an original head. In the last photo, you can see the Mattel stamp. It says 2011, but it's not the manufacturing year - it's the year when this face was first introduced. As I mentioned earlier, it's the [Mermaid sculpt](fashiondollz.de/2011-mermaid-face). My wife has a doll with this face, and you can see the same year on the back:
I wonder how these Chinese sellers got their hands on it 🤔
I also ordered a Chinese green body called MengF. Unfortunately, in green the only available option is their old 2020 version with 12 joints. I think the green body wasn't very popular, so they stopped manufacturing it 😅 Color-wise, it's a good match. You can see the difference between the body and the head in the photo, but in reality it's fine.
For some reason, her hands look a bit different in this lighting. In reality, the color difference is barely noticeable.
For the hair, I ended up choosing black saran:
The plan is to try rooting this Karla head first for practice, and after that root the green Mermaid head:
I'll post the results, along with photos of the process 🙂
Today the head arrived!
Here are a few close-ups in better quality. I always reduce the image sizes to avoid taking up too much space on the Lemmy instance (who needs photos of a doll head in 4k?), but it's still much better than what you can find in the store:
I can also confirm that it's indeed an original head. In the last photo, you can see the Mattel stamp. It says 2011, but it's not the manufacturing year - it's the year when this face was first introduced. As I mentioned earlier, it's the [Mermaid sculpt](fashiondollz.de/2011-mermaid-face). My wife has a doll with this face, and you can see the same year on the back:
I wonder how these Chinese sellers got their hands on it 🤔
I also ordered a Chinese green body called MengF. Unfortunately, in green the only available option is their old 2020 version with 12 joints. I think the green body wasn't very popular, so they stopped manufacturing it 😅 Color-wise, it's a good match. You can see the difference between the body and the head in the photo, but in reality it's fine.
For some reason, her hands look a bit different in this lighting. In reality, the color difference is barely noticeable.
For the hair, I ended up choosing black saran:
The plan is to try rooting this Karla head first for practice, and after that root the green Mermaid head:
I'll post the results, along with photos of the process 🙂
