Another Magic Mixies Pixling Review!!
This time of Marena and how she compare to similar themed dolls.
So many fins and shades of blues!
Here is a close up of Marena herself. She’s really cute (I have been loving the Pixling dolls). She’s similar to the other dolls in the line, with a ball joint in the head, shoulders, hips and elbow joints, a (very nice) fabric skirt, and a molded on top.
She’s supposed to be a mermaid Pixling, but she gives me more of a water nymph vibe…..yup, that’s just going to be my head canon.
A close up of her face up. Her screening is lightly pixelated, but it’s not distracting like what Mattel uses on their Fashionistas. I love the little scale pattern around her eyes and wish that’s what would have been printed on G3 Lagoona’s forehead. Her ears look to be added on as separate pieces and have a tiny bit of glitter in them.
While her shirt is molded on, it is a very cute mold and “ties” around the back. The extra molded detail, paint, and unique design adds to her cuteness (they could have just had the same top design for all the dolls, but instead they have made separate molds for all the characters….so far).
Her skirt is silky (but not the paper-like silk that Disney/Jakks Pacific/Mattel uses), hemmed, with a tule around the bottom (along with the cut, it is is reminiscent of a mermaid tail).
Even the shoes have cute little pear, heart and scale patterns (matching her skirt).
More under the cut:
Marena was swarmed by some adorable, big haired aquatic monsters. Marena meet the Mermalades!
I always like to compare the Pixlings with Moose’s Zelfs. Their ancestor of sorts.
Marena likes the look of these sea buddies.
Mermalade is a darker blue, and the newer Mermalades actually has more fins than Marena does (I wish she did have some webbing in between her fingers and maybe some fins off of her forearms). Interesting to note, that the fins are more curved than the pointy fins Marena has.
She actually has a much closer color pallet to Sealia or Oceana. But I do not own these little guys…yet.
Huh, something scared them off….I wonder what it-
Well that is startling, but not an usual sight around my house.
“Is this how you treat your dolls?!?”
No no no, this Taylee Turtle Enchantimal was going to be a Monster High custom…and that’s as far as I got…
“I can’t see anything!! Hello??”
Don’t worry Taylee, you’re doing great.
Enchantimals are about the same height as Pixlings, but have smaller proportions. They also have opposite joints (well, at least Taylee has knee joints, I don’t believe most Enchantimals have these). You can also see how basic the molded (granted I acetoned some of it away) and fabric pieces are compared to Marena. I mean it’s not really a fair comparison because I think of Marena as more of an aquatic mammal, fish, or amphibian and Taylee is more of a:
Here are Dolce Dolphin and Sedda Seahorse.
Yeaaaaah, the skirts might look a bit more inspired, but none of them have fins sculpted to their legs or arms, and their shirts are still kinda boring.
Also wanted to compare her to this unreleased mermaid Novi Star, just because her decorations around her eyes and her large ear fins reminded me of them….and actually the large head, small torso and hands are kinda reminiscent or Marena too, huh….
Okay, Taylee wandered off when I was looking at the other Enchantimals and Nobvi Star concept, soooo, let’s compare Marena with Ebbie Blue, the youngest of G2’s Blue family.
“She’s like a mini me!”
She is both less and more detailed than you Marena (I LOVE the scales on the arms and under her pigtails, her little fins on her arms, and how the scales merge into her tail, but she can’t tip her head up and can move her arms out).
Also, she’s got widdle, round fingers that look like they have not finished growing.
Let’s compare you to someone a bit older: Kelpie Blue from G2!
“Look at her sharp toe-nails, and those shoulder spikes! I think she’s more sea monster than nymph.”
“Is someone saying something down there? I can’t move my head down to see.”
Well….that’s a little better. Kelpie has really cute and unique scales, fins, and shortened webbing in between her fingers, but her articulation is REALLY poor (she can’t move her head up/down, or move her arms/legs out).
Her ears were also added on later, like Marena’s.
“I wonder if all dolls get stiffer when they grow up?”
“I dunno, I have a torso joint that es magnífica.”
“Are you a sea monster too??”
“Sí! But don’t worry I won’t eat you up, you’re too cute like my Señor Squishy.”
“Whoa!!”
“Let me introduce you to more Lagoonas.”
After chasing the speedy G2 around, she finally got to look at her tiny little ear fins while playing with her hair, and Freshwater Lagoona and Saltwater Lagoona both couldn’t get over how cute she was.
“Look at the lil’ kindy!”
“A lil’ sea grub!!”
She’s actually closest (design wise) to both G1 Lagoona’s. A lack of scales, she’s in-between both their colors of blue and she has the added pink accents too.
Side tangent about Lagoona:
Thought I should add a quick summery of my thoughts on my different generation Lagoonas.
G1 Lagoona:
pros: All the different material used in her clothing, her face-up, her personality, her addition of a diary, her fully webbed hands (with different colored webbing and see through fins).
cons: she has an ill-fitting swimsuit, her fins keep falling off, her thin joints make her pretty delicate, glue head (this one is treated with La’s Totally Awesome cleaner, but I still need to treat Freshwater Lagoona, and de-yellow her head), and the elastic hip joints make her floppy. Her character being ALL about Gil in the series (I really don’t hate his character and I LOVE his G1 design, I just wish there were more to her stories than just him).
G2 Lagoona (I’m still looking for the OG G2 Lagoona, so have the Beast Pet one here):
pros: Her softened face is kinda cute, her sculpted scales around her arm and leg fins, her stronger joints, her fins stay in SO MUCH BETTER.
cons: I remember her being a lot more hyper and speedy than G1 and it’s an odd choice to me, her eyes were changed from green to blue, her webbing decreased in size and is no longer another color (and many of her dolls didn’t have this much articulation).
G3 Lagoona (I originally gave her braids to make her have kinky hair, but the braids are kinda growing on me).
pros: torso joint on most of her dolls, see through legs, her fins stay on pretty well, larger ear fins, a really fun personality on the show, her joints are stronger/her doll feels sturdier, I like many of her shoes and themes (jellyfish/tentacles/pearls).
cons: I didn’t like her first couple of releases, her pink (while it reminds me of an axolotl) is a bit too sunburnt looking for me…? Maybe a paler or darker pink. I would have liked it if they would have painted her ears/and had a blue to pink fade on her arms as well…also her dots on her forehead should have either been sculpted scales or drawn scales like Marena. Biggest disappointment: should have hand webbing, a diary, and accessories that have to do with her love of telenovelas!!! I’m still getting used to her being really different than G1 Lagoona and would have really liked it had she been her cousin from the Amazon (because I want to see them interact with each other SO BAD).
Anyways, Tangent over:
My last take aways is: MARENA HAS THE BEST HAIR FIBER OUT OF ALL OF THEM!!
okay, now the review is over.
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