Fairyland MiniFee MNF discussion part 68

Thank you! Also good luck! You really can’t go wrong whatever you choose. They’re all lovely.

 

Wow @sephyelysian - your blue gal is really gorgeous! That resin IS lovely!
Love the photo with the flowers too.

I wanted to share my Ciara (ns Chloe) who has finally found her ‘look’. I’ve
bought so many wigs for her in the last two years - but took one last chance
and got this deep golden blond alpaca wig for her from etsy - and am at
long last super happy with her ‘look’. She was painted by the amazing
VittaVera. Both the corsets were made by Minne - Raouken corsets.

I may hang onto the plum angora wig as it looked fairly well with her
previous corset too - but I’m over-the-moon happy with Ciara as a blond!

Spoiler: her previous ‘look’

 

@Robyn_in_WA, Thank you so much! That is super kind of you! Congratulations on finding Ciara’s wig. I know from experience how frustrating it can be to find just the right thing and she definitely looks lovely in it.

 

Amazingly beautiful!!! ❤️❤️❤️

 

I love how these dolls are engineered. The posing is lovely. Minifees are just the right size for their joints, if that makes sense. The size means that the weight of the resin doesn't overpower the doll's joints and elastic - something that I see a lot with my big (BIG) dolls. In fairness, that's something to be expected with bigger dolls, cuz all that resin is heavy, but I understand a little better now when collectors say they prefer 1/4 scale dolls.
Not that I'm getting rid of any of my big dolls. I love my enormous girls and boys.

 

Does anyone know how consistent Fairyland's tan is? I really like one of the Lookback heads, but I'm not sure I'm ready to also buy the body just yet.

 

I've seen tan from several different years, but all within ~5ish years, and they all matched nicely, even accounting for yellowing.

 

@Thymeseer Thanks!

 

Hey y'all! Just got my order of the new high heel/"kill feet" and was wondering if anyone knew of a good place to buy shoes for them. Not sure what shoes will fit them besides the resin ones from Fairyland.

 

I’ve only recently begun to acquire any Fairyland tan dolls but my experience is that it’s not actually that consistent. My Ingrid and Realfee vampire bunny Luna (early 2022) are a reddish tan and quite similar. The two tan Ingrid heads I purchased on the mp however while definitely of a similar darkness are a yellower tan than the doll I have. One head is blank, the other has FL’s original faceup and both are the same shade so can’t blame it on that. The differences aren’t glaring but depending on your colour vision they’re there.
The heads I think came from Ingrid’s initial release, my own Ingrid from later batches (Aug/Sept 2022) if that helps any.

 

I have a few MNF dolls in Fairyland's tan and where as there is some differences between years/batches, they are all close enough to share hands. So I think it's a depends thing where sometimes the pigment of a batch is slightly off, and also age effects color.

 

I just ordered a tan Dreaming Dark Elf Soo head from Denver Doll. I intend to get a body from them within the next 6 months or less. I've always liked Dark Elf Soo and have a weakness for tan resin and dreaming eyes, so I didn't want to miss the chance to get her. I'm also waiting on several pre-ordered dolls right now and wasn't quite ready to commit to a whole new one just yet!

 

@Leo Pheonix Congrats on your new Soo!

My Niella looks so skeptical in this picture:

 

What an incredible outfit @brightberry ! I'm super excited to finally be getting a version of DES, I've admired them for years.

 

I wonder if some old school MNF enthusiasts can help me!

I'm looking for the old minifee LUTS hands - when they weren't magnetic and just had the hook part. I'm wondering which 'number' of these hands they released in the old LUTS days? I can only see up to no.4 on the waybackmachine, can anyone confirm that's correct?

 

This page might help. Looks like 4 might be all of them. IIRC Fairyland did the archer hands for the girls in MNF size when they first took over the line. I vaguely remember getting a couple of pairs with the first dolls I got from them.

 

Super helpful site, thank you!! I think it's the no. 4's I have already. I felt like there was more but I might be confused with the Delf hands, of which there were a few!

 

Is anyone else obsessively collecting the lookback heads/event heads of old sculpts? There are a variety of DES heads on the MP that I'm sooooo tempted to get. Along the same line, has anyone made a list of all of the lookback/event heads?

 

@sailorchiron it would be cool to see a list of the Lookback heads. I'm pretty new to Minifee, my first was a an in-stock blue Jiyu from DDE last October. I wasn't too interesting in owning one, and then I saw him. I got my my Lookback Dreaming DES head yesterday, and OMG I love her so much! I'm going to order a body for her from DDE soon. Awkward photo of the head in my hand-

Dreaming Dark Elf Soo Head by Zoe Gold, on Flickr

 

Same. I had a whole conversation with my wife when I answered your post like, “Do these other hands exist or am I just thinking they do because Delf hands?” But we both remember them so I’m pretty sure the pair still available as magnet hands #6 were gift hands included if you bought a Minifee when Fairyland first opened their own site.

I’m definitely watching now that I’ve gotten back into Minifee (like veeeery recently and there are already a squad of them in the house). I appreciate the nostalgia, but they vary so much in terms of accuracy. I did have a Dreaming DES for 2.5 seconds that I impulse bought to paint if anybody wants to see what she looks like with a faceup:



She is a dead ringer for the old VDES from some angles, so good job CP. (I assume the actual VDES they did is too.) On the other hand, my wife got a blue DES head making a face with her Chloe and she didn’t really look like DES to me. I’m really familiar with the originals though so ymmv.

IIRC they’ve done vairiants of El, Lishe, Chiwoo, Shiwoo, Woosoo, and at least four DES, right? That’s not counting Soony and Yder forever ago that weren’t technically part of this line. I wish they’d bring back old MNF sculpts like Seorin and Marcia again, but I’m sure I can hold my breath on that one!