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Dreams of smol dolls

@97smol-dreams / 97smol-dreams.tumblr.com

A sideblog dedicated to toys, dolls and other cute tiny things. I sometimes craft stuff for my dolls. Portuguese 🇵🇹, she/her they/them. Main blog is @idiocydoesnotkill. Feedback on my crafts and wips is always welcome!
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i was able to get my DREAM CALICO CRITTER AHHHHHHHHH he’s on the way home to me!!!!!!

PUDDLEFORD DUCK MY BELOVED!!!

i would love to have the whole family one day :’) but im so so happy to adopt this fellow for now!!!

look at the feetsies in the ebay listing 😭

his name is going to be albert i think :)

Monster High Barker Wolf Custom!

One of 12 brothers, and presumably a twin based on his appearance in Clawdeen's g2 introduction webisode. Barker doesn't have much personality beyond being a rambunctious wolf pup.

My attempt at putting together a personality for him means that he's a nice kid that often gets pushed aside in favor of the others in his pack.

He's meticulous about his personal grooming because it's something in his life that he can control, and has interests in fashion like his older sister's Pawla and Clawdeen. He's bleached his hair and dyed it blue in attempt to stand out from the rest of his siblings. While it might not have helped to distinguish him from the rest of his siblings to most people, it did make him stand out to one ghoul in particular! Fangelica!

Draculaura being both Clawdeen's best friend and Clawd's girlfriend means that Fangelica was around the house very often! She became good friends with all of the Wolf's, but took particular note of Barker!

The two of them and the other ghouls, Pawla and Ebbie have formed a little pack of their own!

As for the actual creation of Barker, I got a little more creative than I have with past little siblings dolls! Despite having a natural skintone, there's only one male LOL Tween so I've had to repaint his body to match his skintone.

I'm pretty happy with how the color matching went for me, as I had to use quite a bit of color theory to get to the right undertone.

When I finished painting him I felt like something was missing, and that's when I figured out that I wanted him to still have his tail! So I carefully cut out and drilled a hole in his lower back for the tail that came with his original body. It worked pretty well! I might do this for Pawla too, but I'm not sure yet.

I think I want to start doing these posts but in the format of character biographies, so look out for those!

I kinda want to make his twin brother Pawl, so you might see that if I can get ahold of another Barker doll or maybe if MGA releases another male tween doll so I can have some real clothes to put on him. Who knows if they'll ever release another male tween though?

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An excerpt from a CNN article today (April 12, 2025) about how the Republican Trump tariffs are wreaking havoc on the toy industry, which produces 80% of toys in China. The CEO of Basic Fun, who makes Care Bears and retro G1 My Little Ponies, is quoted:

Jay Foreman, CEO of Basic Fun!, a toy company that makes Care Bears and Tonka trucks, told CNN in a February interview right after Trump enacted a 20% tariff on China that his entire supply chain is in China. “Our tooling, our factory base, the consistency of production — and how do you just up and leave and go to another market?” Foreman said. “There are things you aren’t able to make (in the US) physically, or produce here, and toys are one of those.” Speaking with CNN again after the 145% tariffs were enacted, he said: “The situation… has gone from a problem to a crisis for Basic Fun! and our entire industry. This threatens not only the price and amount of toys that will be in the market, but the actual survival of our industry.” It’s a situation many toy companies are confronting, especially now when they’d otherwise place holiday season orders. The loss of revenue means several “may not be able to stay in business,” Ahearn told CNN. Basic Fun! has paused all toy shipments, putting itself in a potentially dire situation. “We cannot afford to take the risk of not knowing what the tariff will be when the goods land,” Foreman said. But at the same time, he said, “if we have no product, we have no cash flow, and that means no money to pay bills.”

The entire toy industry has been losing sales for years, due to kids choosing other options to occupy their time, in part influenced by the added pressure a lot of kids feel now to abandon 'childish' things and ~have adult interests~ by the time they reach double digits. This is a new complication that, yeah, will destroy the industry faster.

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