{"id":2361,"date":"2012-05-24T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2015-07-15T12:02:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T16:02:18","slug":"wow-impldoll-made-an-attractive-doll-for-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/05\/24\/wow-impldoll-made-an-attractive-doll-for-once\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow, Impldoll made an attractive doll for once!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve long cringed at the dolls issued by Impldoll. They&#39;ve been producing a steady line of sculpts with bug eyes [which, in a field where big eyes are part of the Asian BJD aesthetic, is pretty hard to do!], minuscule pinched-up mouths and weird noses. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.impldoll.com\/goods.php?id=320\">Impl Child Joyce,<\/a> an early doll, shows the too-close-together eyes, squinched mouth and, for a bonus, a very pointy chin that I&#39;ve been talking about. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.impldoll.com\/goods.php?id=485\">Impl Model Mandy<\/a> epitomizes the weird nose. Why is her philtrum 6 feet long?! And I have no idea what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.impldoll.com\/goods.php?id=430\">this googly-eyed monstrosity<\/a> is [hint: it&#39;s an Impl Star Lauretta], but it&#39;s not coming to <i>my <\/i>party.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my surprise when they recently released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.impldoll.com\/goods.php?id=564\">Elvira.<\/a> She&#39;s certainly not original or stunning, but she&#39;s very cute. I see in her the same traits that were exaggerated flaws in earlier sculpts, here and now refined into parts of a wholly conceived aesthetic program. Nice to know that their sculptors can learn from their mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve long cringed at the dolls issued by Impldoll. They&#39;ve been producing a steady line of sculpts with bug eyes [which, in a field where big eyes are part of the Asian BJD aesthetic, is pretty hard to do!], minuscule pinched-up mouths and weird noses. Their Impl Child Joyce, an early doll, shows the too-close-together&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/05\/24\/wow-impldoll-made-an-attractive-doll-for-once\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wow, Impldoll made an attractive doll for once!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5339,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions\/5339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}