Here we are with The Top 10….. (as per Shaun Wong’s post)
#9
Description of Toy/Toyline: So in Style Trichelle: Mattel’s 2009 attempt at …um…Diversity? 
Why is she on the list:
I liked her headsculpt. It’s as simple as that.
I hoped to use her as a cast member for my photostories. My current cast is short on other ethnicities aside from Hot Toys’ Terrence Howard & Claudia and some Hot Toys guys.
Why is she so low on the list?
Let me count the ways… :undecided:
- The body. She comes with a crummy playline body that although it has articulated arms (wrists, elbows) it does not have articulated knees/legs. That to me is a big bummer. Because of that I swapped her head onto a Barbie Fashionista Body (Fashionista Sassy is a very good skintone match not Artsy as one would be led to believe see photo below). I should note that even with the body swap her still body sucks–just not as horribly as the original.
- The hair. Her hair is disappointing. I wanted hair with body or at least curls that were promised by the packaging (I’d have preferred her to have come with Generation Girl Nichelle’s hair).
- Price. Even though I got her on sale she was still more than I would like to spend on a playline doll (especially when you consider I bought her only for her head).
4 Responses to “Top 10 toys of 2009 …#9 (So in Style Trichelle)”
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I love the way you have re-bodied her. The outfit looks cute, too. Posing in setting, great.
I think that the SiS Hairstyling dolls need the hair to be wet to curl. The curly-haired ones are the first SiS with the little sister and possibly the Rocawear doll just arriving in some stores. I like the facial screening on the Hairstyling doll, but I want the curly hair, so I am waiting for the Rocawear doll.
I’ve got the Terence Howard Hot Toys guy – I think he looks even better than the actor, LOL, but he’s one-sixth scale
hey the articulation is quite decent on this piece. Nice one, Erica.
She really is very pretty and unique looking. And she’s much better on the fashionista body. I know what you mean about buying a whole doll set when you only want the head. Gets to be kind of absurd, but sometimes a doll just really speaks to you, and won’t shut up until you buy it, lol. I’m enjoying your countdown– gotta get working on mine
Thanks D7ana, I did actually try the damp hair & wet hair thing to get the curls to appear. No dice on my part. I’d have loved to get the other Trichelle, but at the time I was in the states she hadn’t been out in the market yet (or at least there was no sign of her). If I feel motivated in the future I may take my spare nichelle head (who sadly never found a better articulated body that matched her skintone) and scalp it for Trichelle. I’m also, fingers crossed, hoping that the new TTL girl bodies AA version may match someone’s head)
Shaun– thanks for stopping by! I’d say the articulation was OK–but the fact is that it toowk 2 dolls to get this one figure
which i think sucks. Ah well! Here’s hoping the TTL body will be a match!
C Yes! Get working on your count down!!! Do itttttt!
I have to agree that sometimes it’s hard to resist when one of them talks to you. Her head was like that for me–I went into 3 different stores and every time I saw her I picked her up…looked at the price…put her back down…walked around. Wnet back to her…picked her back up and walked around some more…LOL. I finally broke and got her…and then came the search for the fashionista bodies…found those and I was really surprised when it turned out she was a better match for Sassy. 
But it’s all working out for now.