Troll Doll Vintage High Design
Showing posts with label trolls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trolls. Show all posts
Saturday, July 8, 2023
Saturday, March 18, 2023
Is this the WORST troll on eBay?
1960-70 Large Troll Doll
Item Information
Condition:
Used
Price:
US $45.00
Approximately C $61.89
100% positive feedback
Condition:
Used
Price:
US $45.00
Approximately C $61.89
100% positive feedback
Shipping:
US $20.00 (approx C $27.51) eBay International Standard Delivery. See details for shipping
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Located in: Rose Hill, Virginia, United States
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Friday, November 18, 2022
The Troll Doll Channel: Tons of TEENY TINY TROLLS!
This is one of the rare videos where I appear in person. These little trolls are adorable, but as usual I have no place to put them. I love the housing units, but where - ?? At any rate, Bentley makes an appearance as usual.
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
The Troll Doll Channel: DOUBLE UNBOXING of Juju Doll and 9" Bearded Troll!
O happy day - to have TWO trolls to unbox, with Bentley helping me every step of the way.
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
The Troll Doll Channel: 💗TROLL WEDDING MARCH!💙
Two of my favorite Dam trolls renew their vows (for perhaps the 15th time!).
Monday, April 11, 2022
😲The Troll Doll Channel: 😮HELP! MY TROLLS HAVE TAKEN OVER!😲
Sometimes I wonder how much longer this madness can go on! This isn't even my whole collection. Not by a long shot. Every once in a while I look around and say, "THIS IS CRAZY!" Then I see something on eBay that I simply MUST have.
I have three more trolls coming. Three. If it weren't such fun, if it wasn't such a dopamine hit, I suppose I'd stop. Maybe when I run out of cash.
Saturday, January 15, 2022
🤍The Troll Doll Channel: MAGICAL! Spinning in Silver🤍
My trolls are a great comfort to me in this time of trial. But they're taking over my office. . .
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Friday, February 5, 2021
The Troll Doll Channel: Troll Romance - and DISASTER!
My Grumpy Troll Sextette sings an old-timey tune, while Hugo the white-haired Lothario tries to woo the fair Simone. This leads to bitter rivalry (not really), and the inevitable romantic disaster.
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Sunday, September 13, 2020
Thursday, April 9, 2020
The Troll Doll Channel: Welcome to the family!
My trolls are a great comfort to me now. I'm in my second childhood, which is a damn sight better than the first one.
Friday, March 13, 2020
The Troll Doll Channel: Forbidden love!
Trolls are another rekindled fascination from my far-ago youth. When I was about ten, and everything was right with the world, I had a troll collection, and I collected "with" some of my girl friends. None of us had more than, maybe, half a dozen trolls at any one time, though a certain amount of trading and swapping went on. Some hair washing ended in disaster, as the hair was lumpy mohair and actually got rotten, so that collectible trolls now almost all have replacement mohair which is long and gorgeous. My two Iggy Normous trolls are a case in point. I never made outfits for my trolls back then, as they were all the teeny-tiny ones with DAM on the back (I only have one of those now, and it cost more than most of the rest of them). This collection just builds on itself, and I wonder where it will end sometimes - when I run out of money, or room?
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Big Hair Claire!
Just ordered this beautiful lady today from Etsy (Lucretia's Lair, my favorite custom/OOAK troll store). This is courtesy of the Canada Council, who once in a while remembers that I published three novels and sends me a cheque in compensation for my total poverty.
Friday, January 17, 2020
The Troll Doll Channel: GORGEOUS Troll Makeovers!
Ah, YouTube! Such a glorious way to not re-LIVE, but re-DO my childhood, taking one element I loved and multiplying it like loaves and fishes. Since I can't keep a horse, this will have to do. But such fun I have. SO FAR, there has been no major blowback from the FTC/COPPA fiasco. NO one knows how to mark their videos now, and so far the only direct result has been YouTube labelling some vids for kids, even though they weren't meant that way. Strange are the ways of YT. But I"m keeping on keeping on, probably not buying as many this year due to our budget, but still wanting to play with them (I never played with dolls as a kid, and NEVER did anything with my trolls, none of which had outfits of any kind). It's fun, that's why, and YT is a way of sharing it with (I think!) other collectors. It's hard to see a six-year-old wanting to watch a video featuring 60-year-old troll dolls. No one says they CAN'T, but they weren't made for them. YT's algorithm is flagging some of them, but in their usual haphazard/scattershot way. It's all done by bot, and the bot has moods, I guess. It's a lot moodier and less consistent than any human being would be.
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Friday, December 13, 2019
The Troll Doll Channel: DAM, I love these trolls!
Sharing a little bit of one of my favorite hobbies, which I hope YouTube doesn't take away from me. I have over 700 subscribers now, and though many have 7 MILLION, to have any at all is gratifying for me. It is so easy to get caught up in numbers as a source of personal worth. I don't know what the future will bring. 2020 SEEMS lucky, but is anything really lucky? I remember all those zeroes in 2000, but it was 2001, the actual start of the millennium, when everything changed forever, and a terrible ugliness was born. Please, God, if you're there, save us from this! Meantime, I will try to enjoy my ever-burgeoning collection.
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Troll makeover: trollies a-go-go!
Trolls being used to sell a line of makeup. Not sure what the deal was here, because this was meant as a tie-in to the Dreamworks animated movie Trolls. The so-called "trolls" in this movie looked like insects from someone's nightmare, nothing remotely like any kind of troll ever made. And yet, it was the Thomas Dam company who sold them the rights. Even stranger are the kind of trolls used here, whoring for M. A. C. cosmetics against their will. These are called Dark Horse trolls, and they were made under license from Thomas Dam for only a few years. They were sold mainly at Comicon-type conventions and at comic book stores. They look like no trolls ever seen, with bizarre flourescent colors, sparkles embedded in the vinyl, fur-covered skin like velvet, metallics, and other odd un-troll-like effects.
I thought, naturally, with all this troll hoop-la, if you actually bought some of these cosmetics, you'd either get a free troll (free troll. . . mmmmmm) or at least have the opportunity to buy one. These are, after all, relatively rare specimens, though a few are still floating around eBay. But no. There are pictures of trolls on the labels, but it makes no sense, because what does this have to do with eyeliner and lipstick and 47 shades of nail polish? Why even buy that junk at premium prices, unless it comes with a troll?
There is a good side to this, as there is to some things. The M. A. C. video had some troll makeover/trolls a-go-go snippets in it which made a VERY groovy gif. I used just the best parts.
Friday, November 2, 2018
Trolls! Trolls! Everyone trolls!
Trolls. Trolls! So when did this addiction start? I don't know, and I don't particularly care. How many trolls do I have? I don't count them. What are the names? Only half a dozen or so have names, and I tend to forget them anyway.
Am I attached to my trolls? As much as I'd be attached to a living thing, a pet, or at least a plant.
They are comforting to me, and sometimes I truly need comforting and can't find it anywhere else. These two lovelies are the ones I ordered from Etsy recently and haven't received yet. And I was going to just be happy and wait for them, and then. . .
I shouldn't have gone on eBay, I know. My cat tries to get me to stop.
But somehow, it never works.
I think the vendor of these trolls either has NO idea how much they are actually worth, or is salting her shop with incredible bargains to draw people in, as most stores do.
But here.
BEHOLD!
The thing you have to realize is that I live in Canada, so trolls will cost me easily twice what they are in the States. Shipping and handling is ludicrous, often much more than what the troll costs (even for tiny ones that weigh a few grams). And this set of three, all told, was $57.00 in Canadian dollars.
Any one of these large-sized (7", 8" and 9") beauties could command a couple of hundred in this country, given the pristine shape they're in. There is not much in the way of clothes, but I provide those, handmade with love and tailored to fit. Troll outfits are seldom very impressive unless you get those fancy custom-made ones from Etsy vendors such as Lucretia's Lair, and they'll run you $50.00 each (plus $65.00 shipping and handling).
The hair is in particularly good shape in this group, and the orange hair is gorgeous, a rare colour, and might even be a mohair replacement which would up the value by at least another $20.00 or $30.00. I only have one other mohair troll, and though he's totally lovely, there are flaws in the vinyl that would likely cut his market value in half.
So. . . sigh. More trolls. I had to buy them before someone else snapped them up, which has happened to me more times than I can count. I need something to make me feel better, I guess, as I wander through this wilderness alone.
I do troll box openings on YouTube which command the usual one (or zero) views, but I guess I do them for myself, and because I desperately needed a fulfilling hobby once the grandkids became adolescents and Grandma was no longer "cool".
Trolls take me back to the very best year of my life: 1964, when everything happened for me. The Beatles came on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time on my tenth birthday. My Dad gave me a horse. (Yes, a horse.) I was in an accelerated Grade 5 class in school which was total mayhem, a 1960s educational experiment in which nobody learned anything all year and the teacher had a nervous breaktown by Christmas. Sheer bliss! I also stopped taking violin lessons, which was like having a thousand pounds of chains slide off my shoulders.
And - trolls. There were trolls. Two close friends also had troll fever, and it cemented the bond between us and made it magical.
Trolls aren't like Barbies or Cabbage Patch Kids or ANY other doll. Even calling them dolls doesn't seem to fit. They have a spooky, slightly creepy quality that some people frankly hate, but that makes them all the more appealing to me.
So I have FIVE trolls coming, five times the excitement, five times the bliss!
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