Designer Rapunzel Doll

Those eyelashes make me giggle.

It was a madhouse when Disney released the Designer Princess Collection. The manager at my local Disney Store told me about how much chaos there had been. She said people had run to the store in such a mass that they could hear them coming down the mall before they could see them. People were fighting and dolls were selling out in a few hours on they day they were released.

I had missed the release of the Rapunzel doll because I had to be at my internship that day. When I had gone later to see if the Rapunzel one was still around, I was informed she had sold out the fastest of any of the dolls they had had there at the time. I tried to tell myself she was ugly; tried to say I hated her dress and her pose and everything about her. It was hard to lie to myself.

I haunted eBay for a while to just stare at her and look over the different images people took and used for their sales. I also searched Google images and found myself annoyed at people who not only de-boxed and undressed her, but actually removed her eyelashes and repainted her face. I love OOAK dolls and make a few of my own from the open edition dolls that they sell at the Disney Store, but to use a LE doll for one... it was painful.

One side of the bag.

I continued to look online at persons who had purchased the dolls to sell online. Many people had hiked the price of the doll up and over $500. There was no way I was going to buy a doll for that much money when she had sold for $60 at the store.

I continued to wait and watch and wait some more until I saw the doll listed on eBay for just a tad over her original price. I used my typical technique of watching the auction for it's duration to ensure the bidding did not get out of hand and I managed to pick her up in the last few minutes of the auction.

Waiting for her to arrive was like torture. Waiting for anything you are excited to have coming to you is torture! When she finally arrived, I opened the box and found a folded bag with the other Designer Disney Princesses on it atop an acrylic case shielded by a heavy paper sheath.

The CoA and doll's number.

I was all over the imagery on the box. Three of the four sides were relatively the same; showing various cropped versions of the Rapunzel design with the most ineresting side of the sheath showing croppings of the design with little notes beside them. Once removed, the doll was exposed in all her glory. The back of the acylic case had another image of the Rapunzel design and also contained the CoA with the doll's number.

I loved how Rapunzel looked. I thought the designer rendition of her was adorable, though I am not sure I would have designed the dress she was in. It was definitely different and I am a person who tends to like different. It was one of the nicer dresses in the collection (though I really only disliked Ariel's dress.) I thought the dress had too much pink in it for Rapunzel though. In Tangled the main color of her dress and color scheme was purple with pink accents. They seemed to have reversed the colors for the dress and I was not too sure if I liked that. Further, the gems on her corset-bodice only covered the front. For an LE doll, you would expect them to continue all the way around.

Another thing I did not like about the doll was her choice in accessory. A mirror? Really? A mirror... There was so much in that film that they could have done! She could have held a hair brush, she could have held a small purse in the shape of Pascal, or (my favorite idea) she could have held a lantern or a lantern-shaped purse. Why a mirror? Were they playing on vanity? The mirror did have the same design to it that her hairbrush did in the film, but I think I still would have preferred to to have a different accessory.

Overall, I am still glad that I found her. She will be the only princess from the Designer Princess Collection that I acquire on my own. I would not be against another from the collection as a gift, but she was the only one I wanted.