crosspost from another forum, but since the latest dolls are (mostly)Russia-exclusive, which is the same as the last released Bratz dolls before their hiatus, is there a possibility for a Novi Stars resurrection?(since Bratz are returning)
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Wow - I found some Novi Stars outfits buried in the clearance at TRU... only paid $0.86 apiece on them ,wow! Now my Una can have some other clothes!
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Wow - I found some Novi Stars outfits buried in the clearance at TRU... only paid $0.86 apiece on them ,wow! Now my Una can have some other clothes!
Awesome! Can't believe you found stuff still in the store - what a great price! Congrats!
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Wow - I found some Novi Stars outfits buried in the clearance at TRU... only paid $0.86 apiece on them ,wow! Now my Una can have some other clothes!
I think I paid some ridiculously low clearance price for a bunch of outfits too- LOVED it (even though it spelled the end of Novis)I'd kill to have find some awesome clearance deals people have found fashion packs, I do still love redressing my Mimi on occasion.
These dolls are so ridiculously cute- I wish I saw more customs of them (started one but never finished...)
I'm a bit late to the party here xDAlie would definitely look great on the cam gorgon body! It's a little bit more of a yellow/gold green, meaning it would be a better match then say the cam witch. As far as color goes I don't think you'll find a better match to be honest.
I saw one of these girls at the thrift and thought they were very interesting looking. But i wasn't a fan of the small size. After seeing how some people customized theirs with monster high bodies, I'm really tempted! And I don't even collect fashion dolls!
Does anyone know if Alie lectric matches the monster high gorgon cam body? Or is the green too bright? I think she would look neat with a scaley body.
Novi Star/Monster High Hybrids are great! Though they are a little hard to dress except in MH clothes lolshe's beautiful!
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I wish I had a few of these but never seem to see them. I need to go to TRU.they don't sell them in stores anymore the line was discontinued a few years ago
???these are like the cutest things ever??!?? an actual line of human dolls who aren't thin as twigs!! AND THE CHARACTER DESIGNS ARE ADORABLE!! I've never seen these before, id totally be down for a trade or something if anyone's got any they're willing to part with!!
???these are like the cutest things ever??!?? an actual line of human dolls who aren't thin as twigs!! AND THE CHARACTER DESIGNS ARE ADORABLE!! I've never seen these before, id totally be down for a trade or something if anyone's got any they're willing to part with!!
oh has anyone seen those space pop promos or the star darling dolls? not the same as a novi but maybe they'll come back since space seem to be the new doll brand trend
I did find the Star Darlings- they do seem to have some similarities to Novis- but are way too human for me ;D (I like the stage though- although really? yet another series of pop star dolls?)
anyone want a lose justina hour?
you would think since brats got a redo novi would too
A wonderful member on the MHarena helped me get these 4 beauties, since they are so beautiful they get to hang with my bjds :)
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does anyone in the universe know if UK, or Russia or where oh where is a carmela to be found?? I "thought" it would be no problem to allow my daughters to give her to a BFF when she moved and I would be able to replace her... man, was I wrong.
having made the hybrids I found if you wrap them in a heat pad for a bit to soften the head, you can gently re-position the novi's eyes no problem... yeah I kinda freaked out the first time I sort of popped an eye, but it popped back in no worries thankfullyah, that makes me a little relieved, thank you for the info!
Umm... I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I've been having a go at designing a reboot for Novi Stars myself :blush:
I figured that main gimmicks would be shared by all of the dolls within one assortment, so you could have a number of lines at different price points instead of having to raise/lower prices to accommodate for dolls with more complex gimmicks within lines (electronic vs scented for example)...
Also elbow/knee articulation in addition to what they had already is a must, at least in the case where it doesn't hinder the gimmick or increase the price point due to complexity (I've thought quite a lot about this, as you can tell...) ^.^
I call this line 'Stellar Scents' and it has one returning character (Ari!) plus three new ones I designed.. I hope you like it! :heart:
Those are adorable! I would love to see them become actual dolls!
Those are super cute Crystal!
oh wow, these are super cute! and also very creative (I especially like the name Boo Kay - and I also like her the most overall)! thank you for sharing your designs with us, it does show you have put a lot of thought into them :)
Crystal-Sushi, these Novi designs you made are pretty awesome! I'd probably grab all the "snowglobe" ones (what can i say, i like that gimmick).
I especially like Coco Mette, Millie K. Way and Moonie Beem :)
Such KAWAII! concepts! If only we could buy them.... LOL
Crystal-Sushi, these Novi designs you made are pretty awesome! I'd probably grab all the "snowglobe" ones (what can i say, i like that gimmick).
I especially like Coco Mette, Millie K. Way and Moonie Beem :)Such KAWAII! concepts! If only we could buy them.... LOL
Thanks Dreamer! The snowglobe ones are probably my favourites as well (also my fav gimmick) :P
Milly is my favourite design of this batch, I just love how she turned out!
Thankyou too, babysquirmy! I wish I could buy them as well... Or that Novis were easier to customise >_<
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EDIT: Finished another set! Galaxy Glow, featuring all of our light-up girls and feat. Alie Letric!
Crystal-Sushi, these Novi designs you made are pretty awesome! I'd probably grab all the "snowglobe" ones (what can i say, i like that gimmick).
I especially like Coco Mette, Millie K. Way and Moonie Beem :)Such KAWAII! concepts! If only we could buy them.... LOL
Thanks Dreamer! The snowglobe ones are probably my favourites as well (also my fav gimmick) :P
Milly is my favourite design of this batch, I just love how she turned out!
Thankyou too, babysquirmy! I wish I could buy them as well... Or that Novis were easier to customise >_<
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EDIT: Finished another set! Galaxy Glow, featuring all of our light-up girls and feat. Alie Letric!
Really cute!
I sure wish MGM had revived these- no such luck at Toyfair I guess or we would have heard by now.
Crystal-Sushi, these Novi designs you made are pretty awesome! I'd probably grab all the "snowglobe" ones (what can i say, i like that gimmick).
I especially like Coco Mette, Millie K. Way and Moonie Beem :)Such KAWAII! concepts! If only we could buy them.... LOL
Thanks Dreamer! The snowglobe ones are probably my favourites as well (also my fav gimmick) :P
Milly is my favourite design of this batch, I just love how she turned out!
Thankyou too, babysquirmy! I wish I could buy them as well... Or that Novis were easier to customise >_<
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EDIT: Finished another set! Galaxy Glow, featuring all of our light-up girls and feat. Alie Letric!
Really cute!
I sure wish MGM had revived these- no such luck at Toyfair I guess or we would have heard by now.
More concepts of what could've been
http://pinkmochikitty.wixsite.com/youngsinkwon/novi-stars
More concepts of what could've been
http://pinkmochikitty.wixsite.com/youngsinkwon/novi-stars
Very cute! I wish they'd make these again... ah well.
I saw a very cute custom boy Novi once, it inspired me to make my own but I never finished it... haha
oh man, all of your designs are so cute (I like the boys in particular) but that Ina!! I wish she was real, she's amazing!
Ohhh myyyy they are so cute! AUGH
I know it's been awhile since anyone posted here, but does anyone know if there's anywhere to find Vera Tabray? I've looked all over google and the only places I'm able to find her are in Czech Republic and Russia, neither of which seem to be willing to ship to the US.
bootleg novi's????
https://hiveminer.com/Tags/knockoff%2Cnovi/Recent
yes please loona I would love to see pics :-) love the guys hanging around to help me take care of all the zelfs, LPS and MLPs ;-) fun party in my office
hey = anyone here is search of an anne arctic or ina ferna?? I have like doubles of everybody except the russians (and gave away carmela to daughter's friend so man, that is hard to replace) so I figured I would post here if anyone is searching as I prefer to do sales/trades here instead of evil-bay
but I had no idea there were more novis out there= anyone know how to get these bootlegs?
I know, right? I was wondering if there was a way to just get novi heads and MH bodies for mash-ups...
I just have zero experience with taobao and the last time I did an order thru here it didn't pan out so there went that $$ for those G4styling fakies... so I am admittedly a bit gun shy with that whole "I cannot translate" the page to be brave enough to find a broker and order
but yeah I would love to know if there are more of those novi fakies as I have been having fun with mash ups :-)
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So I just found this on taobao and I'm sobbing...
https://gyazo.com/b3447245fb914051a664db3305384328
So I just found this on taobao and I'm sobbing...
https://gyazo.com/b3447245fb914051a664db3305384328
How cute, is it an active listing?
Could I get the link?
So I just found this on taobao and I'm sobbing...
https://gyazo.com/b3447245fb914051a664db3305384328
How cute, is it an active listing?
Could I get the link?
There's several active listings like this one. Just go to world.taobao.com and search "novi stars" and you'll find a bunch just like it. These look like the actual parts from the factory, just missmashed onto the wrong bodies and such.
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Aliexpress has official novi stars right nowI can confirm this. However, I'd like to give a warning, in general, as well as for picky collectors regarding this: I ordered 4 boxed dolls from them in the beginning of November last year, and I had a terrible experience over the purchase, from basically almost every aspect possible - the sole exception being that the dolls are indeed originals (based on comparing the boxes and the dolls with store-bought MIB dolls I also had).
I haven't ordered from them before so thank you for experience! most people seem to have issues unless its something simple like plastic doll eyes or fake lego peicesAliexpress has official novi stars right nowI can confirm this. However, I'd like to give a warning, in general, as well as for picky collectors regarding this: I ordered 4 boxed dolls from them in the beginning of November last year, and I had a terrible experience over the purchase, from basically almost every aspect possible - the sole exception being that the dolls are indeed originals (based on comparing the boxes and the dolls with store-bought MIB dolls I also had).
First of all, the package took approx. 3 months to arrive. I did not mind this, as I did not need the dolls urgently, but if they were supposed to be a gift for a child for Christmas, this could have caused an issue.
Secondly, the boxes arrived in a terrible state. They were only wrapped in a plastic bag with no additional protection, and (quite expectedly) got severely crushed, they also had some gaping holes due to the bending of the plastic. Hands and accessories were dislocated and were all over the place in the box. Again, if these were ordered as a gift, or by a MOC collector, the crushed box and the dislocated contents would already be an issue enough, but there was also damage done to the dolls: more than one antenna arrived bent and their paint damaged - one even broke in half and the part that broke off fell out of the box through a hole caused by the bending! I got lucky it did not fall any further, and I found it within the plastic bag wrapping.
I do realise that the long transit and the unfortunate timing (pre-Christmas period with extended amount of packages at the post) most likely had an impact on the above damage, but I still don't think a simple plastic wrap is sufficient for packaging MIB dolls, at any time of the year.
Had it been enough, and had the boxes arrived in good condition, I still wouldn't have been happy. Out of the 4 dolls I ordered, none had well-aligned eyes, some were inserted so wonkily that I believe these may be dolls that were rejected on a 2nd QC run, when already in the box, because of the misaligned eyes, and this is how they ended up here instead of on store shelves.
I know there are many collectors out there who are picky regarding eye wonk, so if you are among them, please order with caution/think twice. Sellers may not even understand what you will be talking about if you open a dispute over this (I know they didn't in my case, I had to send them pictures on which I drew guiding lines to show the difference in alignment), and be prepared for an initial answer along the lines of "that is a small issue, your children will not mind" or "eyes are not always aligned, just like with humans". The latter of which is very true by the way, and we should indeed accept that. My eyes are not perfectly the same size either. But I do believe there is a difference between how we treat features in a human face and in an item we buy for money, as a collectable. Many sellers there treat these items as toys for children (which they are, btw), and do not consider QC issues a problem at all (which is less OK IMO. I would have been annoyed by QC issues already as a child). I have experienced this on several other occasions, too, like when I received 2 doll shoes for the same feet instead of a pair. They told me "my child will not mind, and also, doll shoes do not have to fit perfectly, just like human shoes also do not fit perfectly".
(Which is utter bullpoop, by the way. Doll shoes designed specifically for a brand usually do fit perfectly, and they should, because the size of all the dolls' feet in that range will be exactly the same size. Unlike human feet.)
And the worst part came here: when I took pictures of the damage and the wonky eyes and applied for the dispute, the seller started to behave in a way that I've never experienced before from a seller, not even in personal sales. AliExpress is less strict about rules, and sellers do tend to behave less accepting and cooperative there vs. on eBay (where, I believe, reportin this could have resulted in them being banned), but this was not even about cooperation. They started calling me names, and sending me messages like "how can you sleep at night" or "how can you look into the eyes of your children like this"? :blink: :shocked: I can't even understand the whole situation...
In the end I did get some of my money back, but you can imagine how happy I was with that solution, and with the dolls, after all... :huh: so yeah. Order with caution.
I buy on AliExpress constantly, but they do NOT value packaging, and very clearly try to ship EVERYTHING as cheap as possible- (mostly because shipping is free as a incentive)I totally agree with these. My main issue however, is that it used to be different in the past. I remember my very first orders all came in tiny boxes (and those were also with free shipping). Cost-cutting is a totally understandable thing and I wouldn't have any problem with it as long as it still offered sufficient protection. Many AliExpress sellers fail on the latter recently. For someone who orders now for the first time, the change will not even be noticeable, and they will just order already with this in mind. For me however, it's just a visible decline and an increased risk of probably not getting what I thought I'll get for my money.
Also, a lot of the toy products on there are what appear to be 2nd unauthorized runs, and factory rejects.
ok is it just me or have there been like a slew of knock-off novi and MH on ebay lately?? I am presuming these guys are fakes??they haven't made novi stars for years
Does anyone know if they even make novi dolls any longer??
think the "hard to find" russian ones are going over a hundred nowadays - at least on the evilbay
think the "hard to find" russian ones are going over a hundred nowadays - at least on the evilbayWhich ones are the Russian ones?
think the "hard to find" russian ones are going over a hundred nowadays - at least on the evilbayWhich ones are the Russian ones?
Thanks! I actually have some of them :blink:think the "hard to find" russian ones are going over a hundred nowadays - at least on the evilbayWhich ones are the Russian ones?
Doe A Deer, Frostina Sprinkles, Carmela Sweet and Justina Hour :)
Thanks! I actually have some of them :blink:think the "hard to find" russian ones are going over a hundred nowadays - at least on the evilbayWhich ones are the Russian ones?
Doe A Deer, Frostina Sprinkles, Carmela Sweet and Justina Hour :)