Frappzilla Dandelion Moons (1/4 line)

One of my favorite anniversary gifts!! Zaire:

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I got my Alula in Peony and it's such a lovely color!! I am in love. I also have a Vega in medium and a Polaris in Peony on the way. Polaris is on layaway for now though. And my Vega was only a head, so I'm going to hybrid her onto a doll family H 1/5 scale body! Hopefully it works well. I love these dolls!

 

Frappzilla's home was flooded yesterday. They are mostly okay and all orders were moved when it became evident that river was going to overflow. But if you are emailing them or something they may be a bit slow to answer for awhile, there is going to be a lot of clean up.

 

Let s hope that everything is fine with them.

 

Frappzilla is mostly all cleaned up and getting back on track. Their internet is still spotty though and the biggest hold up is that the Royal Mail service isn't doing any international shipping still. Hopefully that will be resolved soon, it started the day before the flooding happened due to a cyber attack.

 

Has anyone had any luck improving a Dandelion Moon's posing with wiring? I've never wired a doll before (been meaning to do it with another doll of mine but haven't gotten around to it) but I've been really struggling with the legs collapsing whenever I try to pose my Delphi. Unfortunately she's been in a box for a while because of that and issues sewing for her (patterns would be welcome too!!) and I'm not sure how well I've been bonding with her. I think maybe trying things like posability improvement and such might help, but I don't know where to start. I may look into joining the Frappzilla Discord I've heard of since I haven't seen a lot of Moons in the wild outside of here. I remember someone mentioning somewhere that the artist was disappointed with people's reactions though and I don't want to make them feel bad if I have issues with posing and such and post about it there.

I do hope they are able to recover from the flooding, that sounds like an awful situation and I hope they're okay, not just the dolls!

I've heard about the Royal Mail issue, and yeah it still seems to be a thing- at least, UK sellers on Etsy aren't shipping internationally right now which is kind of a pain but I hope it clears up for everyone soon, especially people who are waiting on dolls or other expensive items, or relying on shipping for their business/livelihood.

 

There were issues with the way the castor sanded the inside of the knees, I think? Frapp mentioned they’ll send out silicone kips to all moon owners that should help with the knees buckling issue. I definitely recommend hitting up the discord as they’d have more information on getting those free kips and replacement hooks

Until then, I hot glue sueded mine inside the knee areas and inside the hips and it helped a lot with the buckling issue

 

Ah right, I forgot about the kips! Though again that might be a while due to the flooding and mail issue of course.

I need to relearn how to hot glue suede dolls, I remember doing it on Laika (DZ Shoyo, OT for this thread) a while back but it was very messy so I need to look up some tutorials to see if I can do it right. With Laika all that I ended up with was having to pick out scraps of dirty glue from her joints after I got fed up with my failed attempt at sueding and how messy it looked. So I might wait for the kips, since I do have other dolls to focus on right now. I still really like my Delphi's sculpt for the most part, so I do want to put in more effort to make things work before I end up giving up and rehome her or something. It's just been frustrating trying to work with her with the posing the way it is, I feel bad that it's affecting my enjoyment of such a lovely doll.

 

kip set arrived today along with my missing coa, so that's nice. I don't know how to use kips but i'll have a go at some point. One of my two poses absolutely fine, the other has an issue where his legs like to buckle. Wierd.

 

Hi all, Frappzilla just caught my eye and I’m totally smitten with Lyra in deep or medium resin tone! I’m mostly a Minifee collector though so I was wondering if anyone knows where I could find some size comparisons and if anyone has done any hybrid attempts? I know someone earlier mentioned resinsoul but I’m open! Thank you all so much!

 

Edit: Forgot to say what I initially came here to say which is: I saw a cute photo of an orange alpaca wig on a Delphini and now I have a better idea of how I want to style mine!! I forgot how much of a difference wigs can make. Ideally Delphi will have something white with green/lime streaks, I think. But alpaca wigs are pricey so it might be a bit.

This is a comparison spreadsheet linked on the Frapzilla Discord (I hope it's okay to post it here ^^; )
No images though.

On the Discord (linked here under "Join our Discord Family") I've so far seen someone trying out a hybrid of Delphini on a Legrand Doll body, of which the consensus was it could look good with a shorter neck and some modding, a Rumpeldoll Abbey body (which people seemed to conclude was very out of proportion- the head looked huge) and a different Moon sculpt (not remembering off the top of my head which one) on a 1/6th Dream Valley centaur. I highly recommend joining the discord, it seems a lot of activity regarding Moons is there especially as orders are going out more and Moons are arriving at their new homes. The 3 hybrids I just mentioned were posted w/ pictures and discussed in the last 3 days. So it seems like a good source of information.

Downside is, if you're not into Discord as a platform or don't like fast paced chats, you might want to mute the channels you don't care about to avoid unwanted pings and only see what you want to see- and there are a lot of chats. It's not incredibly fast paced in the way famous influencer Discord groups can get but it does see plenty of activity

I would love to see more Moons posted about other places, and they do go by on Instagram, but the Discord really does seem to be the main hub for information about these dolls.

 

I love this little duo so much I had to drop in and share!
Willow and Zaire:

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thank you so much for taking the time to share all of these details! I’m not a huge discord person, but I might have to branch out and “get with the times”

 

I've just discovered these dolls and I'm in love . Does anyone know if there are any preorders planned or likely? Or are they discontinued?

 

If I understand correctly the resin Moons are not planned to be cast again, though the designs may return in their other (sadly off topic) non resin (or maybe 3d printed resin? I don't follow those so not sure) lines. They seem to be focusing more on the kits now rather than another full doll preorder. There might be people looking to rehome theirs but as far as I know the resin Dandelion Moons are indeed, effectively, discontinued.

(again, I recommend the Discord for updates or if you are interested in their other dolls; they hardly ever post info to their Instagram anymore, the Discord seems to be where they do their big announcements these days)

 

@Cattya thanks for your reply. Oh that's such a shame, there were so many of the moon sculpts that I liked as well! Well, time to stalk the sales threads

 

Oh man, this reminds me I need to do something with my Alula. ^_^' it's been a year and she's still waiting for me to customize.

Seconding the discord if you have it, especially since a lot of the members will list their dolls there before instagram/DoA.

 

Just stopping by with, to spread a little lyra love this morning.
Zaire is the sweetest and I am over the moon to have her in my crew.

I love all the moon sculpts as well; I've been tempted at times to get their non-human
sculpts to be customized as imaginary friends to my lyras.

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Back after another long DOA break, figured I'll post them here so they exist.
This is my Delphini, Myrtle. I can't believe this is a 2022 pic. She's my mock turtle from Wonderland.

 

aww she's adorable!
You did a great job on those shell markings on her cheeks.