Designer Mulan 11 1/2'' Doll - First Look - Deboxed - Closeup Left Front View #1
Designer Mulan has been fully deboxed, and is posed standing, supported by the custom doll stand. Her skirt and train, freed from the factory restraints, are now wider than the doll stand, and are allowed to drape over the edges of the base, especially in the rear.
First look at the Disney Princess Designer Collection Mulan Doll. I bought her online on release day, September 12, 2011. I received her a week later, so It's been more than a year and a half since I got this doll. But I have not deboxed her until now, and this the first time I am doing a full photoshoot of her. This the tenth and final Designer Princess to be deboxed. I will photograph her boxed, during her deboxing, and fully deboxed.
My Designer Mulan doll is a limited edition doll that was produced and sold exclusively by the Disney Store, and is numbered 4710 of 6000. She is the title character of the Disney animated feature Mulan (1998). She comes in an acrylic case with a built-in doll stand, with a base that has a golden filigree design, and a golden metallic nameplate. There is also a cardboard cover for the case that I have not photographed here.
She is 11 1/2'' tall, and has the same body as the other Designer Princess dolls, with jointed neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, hips and knees (internal). She has rubber legs and fixed ankles, with feet angled for high heels.
She has jet black hair wrapped into a beehive hairdo. There is a black rubber band tying the end of the original ponytail, the end of which is neatly tucked into the beehive. There is a long curl that goes from the middle of her forehead to below the front of her neck. After she was deboxed I chose to wrap the curl behind her neck so it wouldn't be so prominent. She has very pale white skin, in fact by far the palest skin of any of the Designer Princess dolls, matching the skin of the Classic Mulan doll. She shares the same face sculpt as the Classic Mulan doll, which hasn't changed since at least 2010 (I don't have any earlier dolls with which to directly compare Designer Mulan), but with glammed up makeup. She has narrow dark brown almond shaped eyes that are glancing towards her left. She has glittering silver eye shadow with blue above it, and thick black eyebrows. She has rooted eyelashes, that are tapered in length from short to long, then at the ends there are very long curved antenna like lashes. She has a small straight nose, full light pink lips in with a closed mouth exaggerated smile. She has very pale pink rouge on her cheeks.
Her two piece gown is made mostly of pink double layered satin. Her bodice consists of ruffled pink organza over pink satin, with pink lacy trim. Around her waist is a very wide deep blue satin sash, with blue jewels embedded. There is a bright red rope belt around her waist, tied into a bow in the front, and the ends of which dangle almost to the floor. The ends of the rope are sewed to the skirt by red thread, which I elected to leave alone. The floor length skirt is entirely of pink satin, is form fitting, and flares at the bottom, and is considerably wider towards the back. Attached to the back of the dress is a very long pink satin train, the top of which is shaped into a fan. It's a shame that most of it, especially the fan part, cannot be seen from the front, nor without deboxing the doll.
She is wearing light pink high heeled shoes, which match the color of her skirt.
Her accessories include gloves, earrings and hair picks. She is wearing full length pink stretch gloves, with light pink jewels embedded. She is wearing stud earrings with round light pink jewels. Finally she has two identical hair picks stuck in her beehive hairdo, decorated with large pink plastic flowers, with embedded clear jewels. The stems of the picks are deep red in color, and extend to stick out the back of her beehive.
Since she had a relatively simple outfit, with nothing underneath her gown, and her form fitting skirt would make it a hassle to remove her from the stand and later to put her back, I decided not to remove her from the doll stand. But since all the factory restraints have been removed from the doll, I consider her to be fully deboxed. The one surprise from deboxing her was the length and extent of her gown's train, as well as the fan design at its top. The overall look of the doll and her outfit matches the original design sketch very closely, except for the beehive hairdo (rather than a round bun), and the lengthening of her front curl. For some reason, her entire body was tilted to the right (her left) in the original packaging. I was glad I could straighten out her body before reboxing her.
Designer Mulan 11 1/2'' Doll - First Look - Deboxed - Closeup Left Front View #1
Designer Mulan has been fully deboxed, and is posed standing, supported by the custom doll stand. Her skirt and train, freed from the factory restraints, are now wider than the doll stand, and are allowed to drape over the edges of the base, especially in the rear.
First look at the Disney Princess Designer Collection Mulan Doll. I bought her online on release day, September 12, 2011. I received her a week later, so It's been more than a year and a half since I got this doll. But I have not deboxed her until now, and this the first time I am doing a full photoshoot of her. This the tenth and final Designer Princess to be deboxed. I will photograph her boxed, during her deboxing, and fully deboxed.
My Designer Mulan doll is a limited edition doll that was produced and sold exclusively by the Disney Store, and is numbered 4710 of 6000. She is the title character of the Disney animated feature Mulan (1998). She comes in an acrylic case with a built-in doll stand, with a base that has a golden filigree design, and a golden metallic nameplate. There is also a cardboard cover for the case that I have not photographed here.
She is 11 1/2'' tall, and has the same body as the other Designer Princess dolls, with jointed neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, hips and knees (internal). She has rubber legs and fixed ankles, with feet angled for high heels.
She has jet black hair wrapped into a beehive hairdo. There is a black rubber band tying the end of the original ponytail, the end of which is neatly tucked into the beehive. There is a long curl that goes from the middle of her forehead to below the front of her neck. After she was deboxed I chose to wrap the curl behind her neck so it wouldn't be so prominent. She has very pale white skin, in fact by far the palest skin of any of the Designer Princess dolls, matching the skin of the Classic Mulan doll. She shares the same face sculpt as the Classic Mulan doll, which hasn't changed since at least 2010 (I don't have any earlier dolls with which to directly compare Designer Mulan), but with glammed up makeup. She has narrow dark brown almond shaped eyes that are glancing towards her left. She has glittering silver eye shadow with blue above it, and thick black eyebrows. She has rooted eyelashes, that are tapered in length from short to long, then at the ends there are very long curved antenna like lashes. She has a small straight nose, full light pink lips in with a closed mouth exaggerated smile. She has very pale pink rouge on her cheeks.
Her two piece gown is made mostly of pink double layered satin. Her bodice consists of ruffled pink organza over pink satin, with pink lacy trim. Around her waist is a very wide deep blue satin sash, with blue jewels embedded. There is a bright red rope belt around her waist, tied into a bow in the front, and the ends of which dangle almost to the floor. The ends of the rope are sewed to the skirt by red thread, which I elected to leave alone. The floor length skirt is entirely of pink satin, is form fitting, and flares at the bottom, and is considerably wider towards the back. Attached to the back of the dress is a very long pink satin train, the top of which is shaped into a fan. It's a shame that most of it, especially the fan part, cannot be seen from the front, nor without deboxing the doll.
She is wearing light pink high heeled shoes, which match the color of her skirt.
Her accessories include gloves, earrings and hair picks. She is wearing full length pink stretch gloves, with light pink jewels embedded. She is wearing stud earrings with round light pink jewels. Finally she has two identical hair picks stuck in her beehive hairdo, decorated with large pink plastic flowers, with embedded clear jewels. The stems of the picks are deep red in color, and extend to stick out the back of her beehive.
Since she had a relatively simple outfit, with nothing underneath her gown, and her form fitting skirt would make it a hassle to remove her from the stand and later to put her back, I decided not to remove her from the doll stand. But since all the factory restraints have been removed from the doll, I consider her to be fully deboxed. The one surprise from deboxing her was the length and extent of her gown's train, as well as the fan design at its top. The overall look of the doll and her outfit matches the original design sketch very closely, except for the beehive hairdo (rather than a round bun), and the lengthening of her front curl. For some reason, her entire body was tilted to the right (her left) in the original packaging. I was glad I could straighten out her body before reboxing her.