Disney Store 2017 Classic Pocahontas doll review

"Hilf mir durch die Nacht/ Gib mir die Kraft /durch die Dunkelheit zu gehen"

Literally: Help me through the night, give me the strenght to go through the darkness

From the musical Rebecce by Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze, it's the beginning of the song and the first line is also its title.

She does go through dark times in her movie, doesn't she?
One of my other Christmas dolls is Pocahontas, and she is the very first Pocahontas doll I own.

She has a nice, simple box with the name of the character and the movietitle on the front. The fancy one is the movietitle and the plain one is the characters name, if anyone is interested.
It is decorated like each one in 2017:

a picture of the character on one side,

another one, not showing the character but connected to a film, on the other side.

Closer look at the ship

In Pocahontas' case it's the ship but I've seen sidekicks as well on for example Belles box. On the backside there is one more portrait of the character.

It's the picture they always use for Pocahontas. I like the one on the side of the box better and would have put that one on the back.
Of corse Dolly has to welcome her by sitting on her box.

Naughty girl.

Pocahontas comes with Flit, like last years doll but this time the doll imitates a running pose and does not hold out her hand for Flit. I like the idea but the knee joints are not really fitted for it in my opinion. More on her feet and legs later. She has lots of threads holding her long hair in place but had no plasic ties in her dress. To make up for it, she had two in her head. But they were fairly loose and easy to cut so I won't complain.

She comes with a pretty forest background.

She has a nice face with a good likeness to the movie character in my opinion since she got the very much needed update. She looks like a dreamer. She has brown eyes, interesting eyeshadow combined of a goldish, a brownish and a bronzeish color. A little blush and thick, orange-pink lips complete her makeup. I wondered if she looked a bit like Mulan since both girls belong to the Mongolid race so here is a picture of my Mulan doll to compare:

 

I think while there are certainly a lot of similarities (thick lips, flat noses instead of the little turnup noses many other princesses have, the eyes), these are quite hard to catch because the base shape is very different, Pocahontas has a more angular face and Mulan has a round face. She also has an overall smaller head than Pocahontas. I think both girls are pretty.

Pocahontas profile is unique and quite different from most of the other princesses and I was curious how well they caught it.

Here she is as she looks in the movie and as she looks in doll form.

I think they catched her quite well but of course there is room for improvment. They could give her a bit more copperish and darker skincolor. And lipcolor also.

Her long black hair is quite soft and has only a little styling product around her face and in one section so it stays like it was in the box. Her necklace is missing the gem part, as always but I never knew it closes with velcro, like her dress. I wish they would make it plastic.

I think the dress is nice and movie accurate (although not as perfect as I thought before I saw a screenshot), she has the belt part that goes all around and of course her tattoo on her arm.

The fabric they used for it hid the hole for the waisttie as soon as I removed it. Usually it needs quite some time untill the fabric straightens out, Belles dress doesn't lay as beautifully on her lower back as Pocahontas'.
Now we come to her legs. She comes barefoot and she has flat feet and klick knees. She has of course articulated arms and can move her head. Head, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips and klick knees sum up her articulation.

You see, a little above her knee a tiny little hole is visible

I discovered a tiny hole on her leg and I know from one of the Toybox Philosophers posts that it is caused by the inner structure, the armature of her leg. (She has a post about the inner structure of those legs, a review ended up like this, it's really interesting, you can find  it here: http://www.toyboxphilosopher.com/2014/09/2013-and-2014-ariel-and-merida-from.html)
So I left her with one bent and one straight leg because I'm afraid it may break. I tried very gently but she refused to straigten her leg.

Flat feet actually work quite well for Pocahontas since she is barefoot and spends most of her time out in the forests. I compared her flat feet with the earlier (2015 to be precise) princess feet.
The new feet looked a bit bigger to me.

I looked at them from  different angles. The new feet seem broader.

Looks like the toes are a bit different, too.

The older feet look more elegant in my opinion, more fitting for elegant outfits while the new feet work best for the barefoot characters.
The Flit figure she comes with is cute though very small. He has a Disney sign on one of his wings.

This little bird has feet that are made so that he can sit  for example on Pocahontas hand or on the edge of the box. He could sit better on the later so he was photographed from different angles there but here is a picture Pocahontas holding him.

He is quite well made for such a small figure. He is already good friends with Chip and Mushu.
Overall, Pocahontas is a nice doll and I'm happy to have her in my collection but I think because of her pose in the box she needs extra attention and care so her leg won't snap. This could be an issue for younger children but even careful adult collectors can run into this problem. I wish the princesses would get a new knee design, the one they gave series Rapunzel seems nice. Now they only need to start using it for the classic dolls.
And last but not least, my Pocahontas is named Sorghoktani. My sister gave it to her and I think it suits her very well. She is the only Pocahontas here for now but that might change.


Update 29 01 2017: Added a new picture, Pocahontas holding Flit