{"id":2517,"date":"2015-11-30T13:33:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T11:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eternalwinter.org\/blog\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2015-11-30T13:42:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T11:42:34","slug":"little-monica-muse-harmony-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/bjd\/little-monica-muse-harmony-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Monica Muse Harmony thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a terrible blogger lately, I have a huge bunch of backlogged drafts to finish and publish&#8230; &#8220;&#8221;&#8221;orz Perhaps I&#8217;ll feel more like blogging once my Christmas holiday comes along. ((\u00b4\u2200`;)) <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I noticed something curious today and thought that I&#8217;d write an entry about it&#8230; because I have some mixed feelings about this.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like in addition to BJD hobbyists, also BJD makers are becoming increasingly aware of Azone International&#8217;s dolls. Some months ago Blue Fairy released their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluefairyint.com\/shop\/step_submain.php?b_code=B20150313020607\" target=\"bfmilky\">Milky Fairy<\/a> line, which are kind of like their own equivalent to 1\/6 scale vinyl dolls, such as Azone. (\u30fb\u2200\u30fb) They use Obitsu bodies, actually. Of course, the faces have the charasteric Blue Fairy style, but they&#8217;re made of vinyl and have decal eyes.<\/p>\n<p>And now, Little Monica has introduced a new line, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlemonica.com\/shop\/step_submain.php?b_code=B20151120111602\" target=\"museharm\">Muse Harmony<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/littlemonica\/22714455634\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"[Notice] Muse Harmony Sale &amp; Winter Discount Event Start!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/657\/22714455634_7895759633_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" alt=\"[Notice] Muse Harmony Sale &amp; Winter Discount Event Start!\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<small>Photo &copy;Little Monica<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/littlemonica\/23295140985\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"[NEW] Muse Harmony, Basic \u201cMuse Sarubia\u201d &amp; Special \u201cGloomy Muse Sarubia\u201d Revealed!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5790\/23295140985_d62320a59b_c.jpg\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" alt=\"[NEW] Muse Harmony, Basic \u201cMuse Sarubia\u201d &amp; Special \u201cGloomy Muse Sarubia\u201d Revealed!\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<small>Photo &copy;Little Monica<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>At a first glance I didn&#8217;t pay much attention to it, &#8217;cause the doll looked like a regular BJD. However, today I visited their website properly, and was all &#8220;Heeeey&#8230; those dolls are wearing Azone&#8217;s Pureneemo clothes!&#8221; \u30fe(*\u2019\uff2f\u2019*)\uff72 so I did more research and turns out that they&#8217;re 1\/6 scale dolls with a more mature look. Okay, not that unusual&#8230; but THEN, I realised &#8211; they&#8217;re not strung together, but the parts attach with magnets. Wait, what? \u03a3(\u309c\u30ed\u309c;) And basically the joint structure is like that of Azone&#8217;s Pureneemos, except instead of pegs these dolls have magnets.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KiIKQ4Ibetg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now, visually they&#8217;re completely different, LM has done their own sculpting so it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re copying&#8230; but it kind of amuses me how they&#8217;re saying <em>&#8220;We have created a whole new BJD with magnets with the idea to make a doll with more convenient parts-assembling and posing, maintaining BJD\u2019s own beauty. We have finally been able to show you this \u2018new\u2019 BJD after a long research and development.&#8221;<\/em> &#8230; well, I suppose it took a while for them to figure out how to replace the pegs with magnets, but it&#8217;s pretty clear where your inspiration has come from &#8211; especially since you put Azone clothes on them. (\uff65\u2200\uff65\uff1b) Also, Fairyland&#8217;s been pretty keen on using magnets for attaching doll parts, which is especially clear when you look at their new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6venmLMGpUw\" target=\"flfairy\">Fairy Line bodies<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Well, I doubt that I&#8217;ll be buying one of these dolls, because honestly I&#8217;ve come to prefer vinyl over resin&#8230; but as an idea they&#8217;re nice. Perfect for those who like 1\/6 scale and resin BJDs, but would rather do without the trouble of stringing them. (\uffe3\u25bd\uffe3) I&#8217;d imagine you&#8217;d have to be pretty careful with these dolls, though&#8230; I already cursed my MNF A-line with the magnetic hands, it was a pain to fit clothes on because the magnets always tore out the pins, grr! (\u30fc\u30fc;) Imagine trying to fit a pinned cloth on these, when they have magnets pretty much everywhere&#8230; frustrating! Although, since they can wear Pureneemo clothes, I figure I could use a Pureneemo body as a model&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But well, personally I think I&#8217;ll stick to Pureneemos myself. They&#8217;re cheaper and come with cute outfits, don&#8217;t need eyes and wigs separately&#8230; and YEAH &#8211; just try to find a decent-looking wig for that doll. (.`\uff65\ufe4f\uff65\u00b4.) I already lost my sanity trying to find a wig that wasn&#8217;t super poofy and baby-like for my Soom Asis when I had her&#8230; one of the reasons why I no longer have said doll.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to see BJD companies trying out new things, though. I doubt this would work as well in 1\/4 or 1\/3 scale, though&#8230; (\u30fb\u2227\u2010)\u309e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a terrible blogger lately, I have a huge bunch of backlogged drafts to finish and publish&#8230; &#8220;&#8221;&#8221;orz Perhaps I&#8217;ll feel more like blogging once my Christmas holiday comes along. ((\u00b4\u2200`;)) Anyway, I noticed something curious today and thought that I&#8217;d write an entry about it&#8230; because I have some mixed feelings about this. It seems like in addition to BJD hobbyists, also BJD makers are becoming increasingly aware of Azone International&#8217;s dolls. Some months ago Blue Fairy released their Milky Fairy line, which are kind of like their own equivalent to 1\/6 scale vinyl dolls, such as Azone. (\u30fb\u2200\u30fb) They use Obitsu bodies, actually. Of course, the faces have the charasteric Blue Fairy style, but they&#8217;re made of vinyl and have decal eyes. And now, Little Monica has introduced a new line, Muse Harmony. Photo &copy;Little Monica Photo &copy;Little Monica At a first glance I didn&#8217;t pay much attention to it, &#8217;cause the doll looked like a regular BJD. However, today I visited their website properly, and was all &#8220;Heeeey&#8230; those dolls are wearing Azone&#8217;s Pureneemo clothes!&#8221; \u30fe(*\u2019\uff2f\u2019*)\uff72 so I did more research and turns out that they&#8217;re 1\/6 scale dolls with a more mature look. Okay, not that unusual&#8230; but THEN, I realised &#8211; they&#8217;re not strung together, but the parts attach with magnets. Wait, what? \u03a3(\u309c\u30ed\u309c;) And basically the joint structure is like that of Azone&#8217;s Pureneemos, except instead of pegs these dolls have magnets. Now, visually they&#8217;re completely different, LM has done their own sculpting so it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re copying&#8230; but it kind of amuses me how they&#8217;re saying &#8220;We have created a whole new BJD with magnets with the idea to make a doll with more convenient parts-assembling and posing, maintaining BJD\u2019s own beauty. We have finally been able to show you this \u2018new\u2019 BJD after a long research and development.&#8221; &#8230; well, I suppose it took a while for them to figure out how to replace the pegs with magnets, but it&#8217;s pretty clear where your inspiration has come from &#8211; especially since you put Azone clothes on them. (\uff65\u2200\uff65\uff1b) Also, Fairyland&#8217;s been pretty keen on using magnets for attaching doll parts, which is especially clear when you look at their new Fairy Line bodies. Well, I doubt that I&#8217;ll be buying one of these dolls, because honestly I&#8217;ve come to prefer vinyl over resin&#8230; but as an idea they&#8217;re nice. Perfect for those who like 1\/6 scale and resin BJDs, but would rather do without the trouble of stringing them. (\uffe3\u25bd\uffe3) I&#8217;d imagine you&#8217;d have to be pretty careful with these dolls, though&#8230; I already cursed my MNF A-line with the magnetic hands, it was a pain to fit clothes on because the magnets always tore out the pins, grr! (\u30fc\u30fc;) Imagine trying to fit a pinned cloth on these, when they have magnets pretty much everywhere&#8230; frustrating! Although, since they can wear Pureneemo clothes, I figure I could use a Pureneemo body as a model&#8230; But well, personally I think I&#8217;ll stick to Pureneemos myself. They&#8217;re cheaper and come with cute outfits, don&#8217;t need eyes and wigs separately&#8230; and YEAH &#8211; just try to find a decent-looking wig for that doll. (.`\uff65\ufe4f\uff65\u00b4.) I already lost my sanity trying to find a wig that wasn&#8217;t super poofy and baby-like for my Soom Asis when I had her&#8230; one of the reasons why I no longer have said doll. It&#8217;s nice to see BJD companies trying out new things, though. I doubt this would work as well in 1\/4 or 1\/3 scale, though&#8230; (\u30fb\u2227\u2010)\u309e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bjd","tag-little-monica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}