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2017 Designer Fairytale Robin Hood & Maid Marian Doll Set #0806/6000
I bought this set in-store at my local Disney Store on Tuesday, October 17, 2017. Only three of us had come to the midday raffle, so it was once again a very quiet release. The store still had the Cruella de Vil and the Tangled doll sets available for purchase.
Robin Hood & Maid Marian are now the fourth (and final) Designer doll set from 2017 that I will add to my collection. I do feel a trifle sad that I am not compelled to want the Moana, The Little Mermaid, Mulan, or The Incredibles doll sets, but there really is no point, as so many of my dolls are already languishing in storage.
This doll set is actually rather well-crafted, even though the hard-plastic, action figure-like appearance of Robin Hood and Maid Marian's heads and bodies does make them look more like play toys than collectibles. Add that to the fact that they do have bushy fur tails, and it's just a little weird. That said, their head sculpts are very well thought-out. They look exactly as they should when you think about the animated characters from the film.
Maid Marian is a vision in soft peach pink. Her gown is made of peach silk noil fabric, embroidered in gold. Her long hanging sleeves are trimmed in gold embroidered violet satin ribbon. A single, tiny pink gem decorates the bodice. Under her gown, she wears a long-sleeved white satin chemise with gold trim along the rounded neckline. The inner skirt of her gown is a printed gold fabric, which like many of the Designer gowns with a split skirt almost appears rather inexpensive for the whole ensemble. She has pink shoes with gold decoration. They did not provider her with her iconic horned headdress, instead just securing a white chiffon veil over her ears with a floral decoration at her right ear. Overall, Maid Marian's gown looks very pleasing on her, though it definitely comes off as more Renaissance than medieval (Note that the story has to take place before the year 1199, as that was the year that King Richard I, the Lionhearted died).
Robin Hood has been gussied up from just being in a long tunic, shoes, and a hat. His tunic is made in green faux leather and is embroidered in gold along the collar. The tunic has a lace-up front. He has a long-sleeved off-white shirt under the tunic with a nice thin criss cross ribbon decoration along the arms. He has separate brown faux leather bracers over his wrists. His archer's hat is made out of hard plastic, which is a little bit of a bummer, and it looks a bit more like a 1920s Driver's Cap from the side. However, I suppose that making it from hard plastic makes it easier to keep in place on his head. For modesty, they gave him cotton pants (he does not wear pants in the animated film). He also has brown shoes, a brown faux leather belt pouch, and a quiver with three arrows.
Both Robin Hood and Maid Marian feature brand new doll bodies for their foxy figures. They have narrow shoulders, long torsos, shorter legs, and paw hands and feet. They have articulated elbows and knees, but not articulated wrists. The visible neck joint is as alarming in person as it is in the stock photos, but what can you do?
I fear that this doll set is going to be grossly underrated. It is actually very nice, and certainly the under-represented Disney characters deserve good merchandise such as this. Unfortunately, Disney's Robin Hood is a film that is seldom promoted by the Disney company either in merchandise or in terms of a presence at their theme parks, so many average consumers (the kind that pretty much only think of Micky Mouse when the name Disney comes up) won't know who Robin Hood and Maid Marian are.
2017 Designer Fairytale Robin Hood & Maid Marian Doll Set #0806/6000
I bought this set in-store at my local Disney Store on Tuesday, October 17, 2017. Only three of us had come to the midday raffle, so it was once again a very quiet release. The store still had the Cruella de Vil and the Tangled doll sets available for purchase.
Robin Hood & Maid Marian are now the fourth (and final) Designer doll set from 2017 that I will add to my collection. I do feel a trifle sad that I am not compelled to want the Moana, The Little Mermaid, Mulan, or The Incredibles doll sets, but there really is no point, as so many of my dolls are already languishing in storage.
This doll set is actually rather well-crafted, even though the hard-plastic, action figure-like appearance of Robin Hood and Maid Marian's heads and bodies does make them look more like play toys than collectibles. Add that to the fact that they do have bushy fur tails, and it's just a little weird. That said, their head sculpts are very well thought-out. They look exactly as they should when you think about the animated characters from the film.
Maid Marian is a vision in soft peach pink. Her gown is made of peach silk noil fabric, embroidered in gold. Her long hanging sleeves are trimmed in gold embroidered violet satin ribbon. A single, tiny pink gem decorates the bodice. Under her gown, she wears a long-sleeved white satin chemise with gold trim along the rounded neckline. The inner skirt of her gown is a printed gold fabric, which like many of the Designer gowns with a split skirt almost appears rather inexpensive for the whole ensemble. She has pink shoes with gold decoration. They did not provider her with her iconic horned headdress, instead just securing a white chiffon veil over her ears with a floral decoration at her right ear. Overall, Maid Marian's gown looks very pleasing on her, though it definitely comes off as more Renaissance than medieval (Note that the story has to take place before the year 1199, as that was the year that King Richard I, the Lionhearted died).
Robin Hood has been gussied up from just being in a long tunic, shoes, and a hat. His tunic is made in green faux leather and is embroidered in gold along the collar. The tunic has a lace-up front. He has a long-sleeved off-white shirt under the tunic with a nice thin criss cross ribbon decoration along the arms. He has separate brown faux leather bracers over his wrists. His archer's hat is made out of hard plastic, which is a little bit of a bummer, and it looks a bit more like a 1920s Driver's Cap from the side. However, I suppose that making it from hard plastic makes it easier to keep in place on his head. For modesty, they gave him cotton pants (he does not wear pants in the animated film). He also has brown shoes, a brown faux leather belt pouch, and a quiver with three arrows.
Both Robin Hood and Maid Marian feature brand new doll bodies for their foxy figures. They have narrow shoulders, long torsos, shorter legs, and paw hands and feet. They have articulated elbows and knees, but not articulated wrists. The visible neck joint is as alarming in person as it is in the stock photos, but what can you do?
I fear that this doll set is going to be grossly underrated. It is actually very nice, and certainly the under-represented Disney characters deserve good merchandise such as this. Unfortunately, Disney's Robin Hood is a film that is seldom promoted by the Disney company either in merchandise or in terms of a presence at their theme parks, so many average consumers (the kind that pretty much only think of Micky Mouse when the name Disney comes up) won't know who Robin Hood and Maid Marian are.