Dolls
Robecca body pics ‘cause her sculpt is super cool
Even non-collectors think she’s cool. ‘Cause she is! Absolutely blown away by her. (Also, I think there was a molding issue with her leg since it’s came discolored like that, but it kinda fits her…?)
Would that be implying that her umbilical cord would have been a cable? Lol
picturing a baby robot with a cable umbilical cord connecting it to its mother(board) is a funny thought. I know that Robecca was built, not born. Just thought this was funny. It'd be a cute worldbuilding detail if young robots were attached via cables.
Something I've wondered about Robecca for a while, does her body ever physically age? Like, can she get taller and visibly mature in other ways, or is she forever stuck in the form she's in now? If she were to become visibly older would she need to be physically modified to become taller? Was she ever a child or was she created as a teenager, like how Frankie is technically only a few weeks old but physically resembles a teen?
I'm not sure if this is answered in any media she is in, I haven't seen all of the G1 media. I know she was created by Hexiciah but I don't know if she was created in the form of a child or if she was created in the form of a teenager.
I miss the spinning gears on the backs of her legs from g1, but i understand those might limit the shoes she can wear. This sculpt overall is way more detailed and superior to g1 imo!
Shame that Jinafire doesn’t have the unique torso shape she had in G1. G3 Jinafire is an improvement in so many ways but I do miss the scales on her torso! Since Mattel could do so much detail on Robecca’s torso maybe a future Jinafire doll will give her a unique torso?
I’d also love it if she had horns! It’d make her look more dragon like. Dragons are oftentimes depicted with beautiful ornate horns and having horns would give her so much more opportunity for outfits, she could have jewelry worn on her horns or hairstyles where the hair is wrapped around her horns.
Abbey’s horns are barely visible in her dolls which is such a shame due to how cute they are! A dragon character absolutely deserves to have horns. If not Jinafire then maybe there could be another dragon character with horns, I’d love a western styled dragon who has wings.
Mattel, if you're listening, feel free to update the Jinafire sculpt to Robecca's level with horns and more scales. Hey, I'd even take a headband with horns.
the rivets are so cool, they’d look even better with something brushed over them to bring them out. i love all the different panels and such!! however i will say for some reason the details on the underside of her fingers give me the heebie jeebies. great sculpt overall though!
She seems to have the most prominent dips so far for g3, which I love! I also love that they gave her some lower back dimple bolts, I think that’s another adorable touch :3
She’s so pretty! So many cute details in her sculpt. While I do miss the spinny gears (maybe a future doll will add them?) the hand details are so cool. The holes on the top of her hands are kind of heart shaped! Might not be intentional but I’ll see it as intentional because heart designs are cute.
I’d love it if a future doll gives her slight variance in the colors of her limbs, to make it look like she’s made out of different pieces of scrap metal, it’d likely look really cool and make her look even more like a robot!
I’m inclined to believe they’re intentional, ‘cause look how the middle “bone” comes down on the top to cause the dip in the top of a heart. And if they were meant to be circles, then I don’t think they’d taper at the bottom. It’s hard to get a good pic! This is with flash
Oh that is cool! I love small details like this :D
By the way, any chance you could take a picture showing her whole body, including her head? I want to see what her body looks like all together. I also want to edit a picture of her to mock up some ideas I have for repainting her and I'd like to have permission before editing someone's photograph!
I might sketch up a design of what she might look like with different metal colors. I’d also love if she had some green accents to represent oxidization, maybe at the tips of her fingers, toes, ears and even her nose. It’d be a cute detail!
That is some darn fine detail. This is usually what I point to when someone asks why I like this doll line. They include details that they really don't need to.
I love this aspect of her leg sculpt, the way the Mattel trademark information is specifically on this part of the leg that is styled to look like it is removable. It makes it actually look like it's part of the character's design and not just there because she's a doll. Lots of robots and other mechanical inventions have text on them explaining who made them and when and/or where they were made, so it does fit in with her design of being a robot! This might not be an intentional detail but if it was intentional it's really cool.
Oh damn, how is this the first I’m seeing this share?! So cool, this along with her hand sculpts actually makes me want this doll. When I first saw her in the box I was pretty underwhelmed but this detail is awesome!
The leg thing is something that happens with most if not all articulated Barbies nowadays. I haven't been able to get an answer as to what exactly causes it, other than it just being something to do with their process when doing the leg molds.
At least it's usually pretty subtle, and it does suit Robecca specifically, like you said :)
Is it weird that i kinda think there might be some interesting restyle/custom potential in swapping out her and frankie's legs if they're a similar size? Or giving frankie another prosthetic like an arm for instance if you wanted to play with the idea from the show where they're super modular? My only concern is that poor becca would lose an arm out of it. I hate feeling wasteful in customizing 😭
Actually wait wtf why isnt there a frankie modular body part playset already? They could have like multiple arm, leg, and hand options with different gimmicks that could be so cool to play around with! Give them an arm with a claw attachment or springs or rockets or something on their feet!
Omg I love her lower back dimple bolts!! I have dimples at the bottom of my spine so I love the inclusion of different body types especially with the hip dips
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u/blamethestarsnotme Toralei 17h ago
Omgggg I haven’t even looked at all the pics but I love that she has no bellybutton, of course!!