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Hi! I'm pretty new to the arena and also quite new to MH collecting. I decided to come out of lurking just to wonder - is it just me or is the quality deteriorating quite rapidly? The only doll I have that is 'perfect' is Howleen. All my others have at least one or two flaws in their face. I recently got DotD Frankie, and not only does her face have one or two flaws (albeit easily overlooked), but her shoes are in a terrible state - all chipped and with dried glue stains. I've already contacted Mattel CS about ordering replacement shoes. I also recently sold my DotD Ghoulia because of her face-up problems. Now I find my Operetta has one eye set higher than the other, so her face looks wonky (that and frizzy hair). -__- Unfortunately it's so hard to tell when they're in the packaging (not to mention Operetta's mask was over the 'bad' eye).Am I just terribly unlucky? To be fair, I have to buy from online retailers because I can never find any in stores (except for the werewolf sisters), so I can't compare before purchase. I just ordered the werecat twins off TRU UK, and with all the horror stories I've heard about those, I'm going to be scrutinising pretty carefully before deboxing. I don't know if I can even justify collecting them if they're going to have problems all the time. Sorry for the lame question; I know others have the occasional quality issue but I seem to get it with every doll. .__.
Quote from: papier on April 04, 2012, 11:36:06 AMHi! I'm pretty new to the arena and also quite new to MH collecting. I decided to come out of lurking just to wonder - is it just me or is the quality deteriorating quite rapidly? The only doll I have that is 'perfect' is Howleen. All my others have at least one or two flaws in their face. I recently got DotD Frankie, and not only does her face have one or two flaws (albeit easily overlooked), but her shoes are in a terrible state - all chipped and with dried glue stains. I've already contacted Mattel CS about ordering replacement shoes. I also recently sold my DotD Ghoulia because of her face-up problems. Now I find my Operetta has one eye set higher than the other, so her face looks wonky (that and frizzy hair). -__- Unfortunately it's so hard to tell when they're in the packaging (not to mention Operetta's mask was over the 'bad' eye).Am I just terribly unlucky? To be fair, I have to buy from online retailers because I can never find any in stores (except for the werewolf sisters), so I can't compare before purchase. I just ordered the werecat twins off TRU UK, and with all the horror stories I've heard about those, I'm going to be scrutinising pretty carefully before deboxing. I don't know if I can even justify collecting them if they're going to have problems all the time. Sorry for the lame question; I know others have the occasional quality issue but I seem to get it with every doll. .__.I don't think the quality is deteriorating. My daughter has close to 70 dolls and most of them are perfect, very few have flaws. Yes, they all have box hair, since she collects them MIB, but that's to be expected. We order about half of them online, I guess we've been lucky
Papier, I don't know if it's just you. I have had pretty terrible luck with a lot of MH dolls too, ESPECIALLY multi-pack dolls. It seems that if 1 or 2 of the dolls in a pack looks great, the others are hideous! I have been unable to get the Clawd/Draculaura two pack yet because one of the two ALWAYS looks severely bad. I have seen over 30 of these packs in person, and have yet to find one where this wasn't the case! My Clawdeen from the werewolf Target two-pack has an eyeball desperately trying to escape into her hairline. Misplaced/different size eyes is one of the most annoying flaws to me, and it can be extremely hard to spot in dolls like Sweet 1600 Clawd, Deuce, and Ghoulias because they're packaged with their glasses on (also, hurray for stains and head-dents!) My werecat twins...I'm afraid to touch their hair because it falls out!! Is that a common problem for those two? It's pretty awful!