So, Thursday was my birthday, and it was quiet and lazy and simple and generally pretty good and! I got this.

Honestly, I had half-forgotten that I’d ever sent a link for her to Mom, and it didn’t really enter my mind that I would actually get her, since sometime after that Tonner’s Browncoat Breakfast came to my attention and it was agreed that Mal, so long as he wasn’t over a certain price, would be my birthday gift…whenever the hell he comes out. (He won’t even be revealed for a month! AARRGGH.) But Mom has this thing, where she wants people to have something to actually open on the day, and for whatever reason, she decided that would be my something.

And y’all, she is rockin’. I wanted to use her for everything before, and now that I have her, I want to use her for ev-e-ry-thing. Underneath the silicone, there’s a normal doll frame, so she still has waist movement, while actually looking good. The hands and feet remove easily for switching, but they also stay firmly in place. Her joints will actually hold. I left her standing on one foot in a yoga pose, and she barely even needed the stand. SHE CAN DO YOGA POSES, PEOPLE. And! When you sit her down, the silicone at her lower stomach pooches out a bit like a real belly! Its AWESOME.

There are a couple of downsides. She’s slightly fugly, for one. I knew that ahead of time, so its not really a big deal, but there is a reason all the production photos are angled. And fresh from the package, she has a new-plastic-and-rubber stench that cannot be ignored. A few days in the hall to the garage with an open window have mostly cleared it up, but wow that shit was strong. And, the one thing that might prove a problem — or at least, narrow down the possibilities of who she can be — she’s surprisingly dark. The prototype photos show a really pretty kind of peaches-and-cream tone, and the actual doll is tanned, with a slight dusky undertone. Kind of makes me wonder what the Cuban version looks like in person.

Still, I’d like to get a couple more at some point. And some of the males, maybe. If the female True-Type figure turned out this cool, I am really interested in seeing how the male figures are.