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D23 DFDC Elsa & Hans Doll Set #0825
With great thanks to a wonderful friend of mine who attended the 2015 D23 Expo, I am able to add this beautiful exclusive doll set to my collection! The fact that this set has Elsa in it immediately makes it a target for resellers who attended the Expo in order to profit off of the exclusivity of items like these, and as soon as they were purchased, they hit eBay listed at several times the retail cost. Luckily The Disney Store created 1023 of these sets, which is 423 more doll sets than the 2013 D23 Expo's DFDC Snow White and The Prince, which were LE 600. Now anyone who knows me knows that I have never been a huge fan of Elsa's Arendelle court looks: prim updos and closed up constrictive clothing are not really my thing. However, this set has something that I really have been wanting since the film was released: Hans in his white outfit that he wore to Elsa's coronation!
Elsa is a very good smaller replica of her Disney Store 17" Limited Edition doll, with the exceptions that her gown and cloak are no longer made of satin and velvet. If anything the new materials hold the embroidery better. They also enhanced her crown to look like it has a blue gem in the center (which up until now has been absent in all coronation Elsa dolls by the Disney Store). Best of all for Elsa, they included her scepter and globus cruciger (though the priest of Arendelle would probably disapprove of her holding them with her gloves on!). Overall, a great doll that measures well against her 17" doll counterpart.
Now... the handsome bad boy of the film Hans is the stunner of this set for me. He looks dashing and charming, but with a slightly sinister expression on his face. This is of course the same sculpt as the Classic Hans doll, but they painted his eyes and eyebrows differently. Not only is he glancing in the opposite direction as the Classic doll, but his right eye is more narrowed and right eyebrow is lower, as if he were eyeing Elsa's royal accessories, plotting to swipe them from her. The Classic Hans doll has evenly painted eyes and eyebrows, which give him a much more innocent appearance.
His outfit is beautifully embellished and a good amount of attention was put into it in order to make it look accurate to the film. His white and silver jacket are embroidered to the nines in gold and silver thread and also feature the same hard plastic moulded shoulder fringed epaulets that were given to the Prince Kit doll from the 2015 Disney Store Cinderella film wedding set as well as shiny gold "buttons". The tails of the jacket have a deep red satin lining, which totally remind me of my gender-bend Cruella de Vil tribute Halloween costume I made for myself from last year. Hans' white pants also feature embroidery flanking his crotch area as well as silver satin stripes along the outseams. A green collared shirt, yellow vest, burgundy sash, cream ascot tie, white satin gloves, burgundy velvet cumberbund, and his signature black boots complete his look.
Hans' hair is dark: darker than it ought to be and lacking the reddish highlights that should make it a medium auburn color. My doll also has a funkily painted sideburn on his right-hand side (the painter lazily did not completely paint the whole raised area). Like the Classic Doll, his pants, the cumberbund, and his shirt are all sewn together, sort of like a jumpsuit or onesie. For whatever reason, his vest is NOT made of a corduroy material (as depicted in the film, and is featured on the original 2013 Classic Hans doll). But these are all minor quips. I am over the moon that these are in my ever-growing doll collection! I'm not sure if I will debox them as I had originally planned...
D23 DFDC Elsa & Hans Doll Set #0825
With great thanks to a wonderful friend of mine who attended the 2015 D23 Expo, I am able to add this beautiful exclusive doll set to my collection! The fact that this set has Elsa in it immediately makes it a target for resellers who attended the Expo in order to profit off of the exclusivity of items like these, and as soon as they were purchased, they hit eBay listed at several times the retail cost. Luckily The Disney Store created 1023 of these sets, which is 423 more doll sets than the 2013 D23 Expo's DFDC Snow White and The Prince, which were LE 600. Now anyone who knows me knows that I have never been a huge fan of Elsa's Arendelle court looks: prim updos and closed up constrictive clothing are not really my thing. However, this set has something that I really have been wanting since the film was released: Hans in his white outfit that he wore to Elsa's coronation!
Elsa is a very good smaller replica of her Disney Store 17" Limited Edition doll, with the exceptions that her gown and cloak are no longer made of satin and velvet. If anything the new materials hold the embroidery better. They also enhanced her crown to look like it has a blue gem in the center (which up until now has been absent in all coronation Elsa dolls by the Disney Store). Best of all for Elsa, they included her scepter and globus cruciger (though the priest of Arendelle would probably disapprove of her holding them with her gloves on!). Overall, a great doll that measures well against her 17" doll counterpart.
Now... the handsome bad boy of the film Hans is the stunner of this set for me. He looks dashing and charming, but with a slightly sinister expression on his face. This is of course the same sculpt as the Classic Hans doll, but they painted his eyes and eyebrows differently. Not only is he glancing in the opposite direction as the Classic doll, but his right eye is more narrowed and right eyebrow is lower, as if he were eyeing Elsa's royal accessories, plotting to swipe them from her. The Classic Hans doll has evenly painted eyes and eyebrows, which give him a much more innocent appearance.
His outfit is beautifully embellished and a good amount of attention was put into it in order to make it look accurate to the film. His white and silver jacket are embroidered to the nines in gold and silver thread and also feature the same hard plastic moulded shoulder fringed epaulets that were given to the Prince Kit doll from the 2015 Disney Store Cinderella film wedding set as well as shiny gold "buttons". The tails of the jacket have a deep red satin lining, which totally remind me of my gender-bend Cruella de Vil tribute Halloween costume I made for myself from last year. Hans' white pants also feature embroidery flanking his crotch area as well as silver satin stripes along the outseams. A green collared shirt, yellow vest, burgundy sash, cream ascot tie, white satin gloves, burgundy velvet cumberbund, and his signature black boots complete his look.
Hans' hair is dark: darker than it ought to be and lacking the reddish highlights that should make it a medium auburn color. My doll also has a funkily painted sideburn on his right-hand side (the painter lazily did not completely paint the whole raised area). Like the Classic Doll, his pants, the cumberbund, and his shirt are all sewn together, sort of like a jumpsuit or onesie. For whatever reason, his vest is NOT made of a corduroy material (as depicted in the film, and is featured on the original 2013 Classic Hans doll). But these are all minor quips. I am over the moon that these are in my ever-growing doll collection! I'm not sure if I will debox them as I had originally planned...