Tiny Tuesday. LOL and Merida figures

For my first Tiny Tuesday post I have a couple of little dolls that found their way into my house over Christmas. 

  First up is this Li'l Outrageous Littles doll. I had read about these online and had no interest in getting one. I don't like babies. They look like Bratz and I don't like Bratz. And in Australia they're generally priced between sixteen and twenty-five dollars. As a general rule five dollars is my limit for a blind box toy.
 But one day I had just been reading about how terribly hard to find these are and that afternoon we went shopping and they were EVERYWHERE! Target had a display of these at every single register. And almost every shop had them discounted. We ended up at Toys R Us where they were twelve dollars (by far the lowest price we'd seen) and I caved.
 I also immediately regretted it and assumed I would get whichever doll I was least likely to like, because I'm optimistic like that.

 Consequently I was pretty happy when I got the super hero baby with pigtails! Probably the only one that I was going to be completely happy with. Having said that, there's no chance I would buy abother one of these. Ninety-nine percent of the fun is in opening the packaging and they really are over-priced for what they are. I'm pretty sure if they were in blister packs there's no way they'd be more than ten dollars.

  Next is a Tomy buildable Disney Princess figure. Another blindbag item but at four dollars, far more reasonably priced. She's got a look that reminds me of the Funko-Pop dolls but she's still instantly recognisable as Merida. Her dress is actually a lot greener than it turned out in the picture. I was really pleased with this one. I bought her and a Frozen blindbag from the same range at the same time. Then I looked at the packaging and realised that out of the figures offered, unless I got Merida and Elsa, I was going to be disappointed. Luckily I got Merida and Elsa! (Sadly Elsa has since been kidnapped by the Giant Baby and I can't find her.)

Finally I got this Jakks Pacific Merida mini doll. These dolls are about three and a half inches tall and while the Frozen ones seemed to be everywhere last year, I've only seen the other princesses once. I chose Merida because she's hilariously awful.
 I would call this look 1980's country music prom queen. Not Merida. It looks nothing like her. Her little box had a LOT to say about her being posable. Um . . . Ok.
 My issue with that is that all of her plastic hair makes her head almost impossible to turn. It also gets in the way if you try to lift her arms. And if you do manage to lift her arms?

Suddenly her arms are growing out of her waist! I'm pretty sure that's not actually how anatomy works. On top of this the full extent of movement in her legs is this -

The poor girl can't even sit down! I actually love this doll, because she is so incredibly terrible. I think that might be weird. And now every time we go shopping I'm searching for these just so I can see if the other princesses are this bad. But so far I haven't spotted them again.

*The pictures in this post were taken on my phone and the whole post was written on my phone so I apologise if the pictures and formatting are slightly rubbish.