Disney Store Singing Frozen 2 Elsa doll review

"Every day's a little harder as I feel my power grow
Don't you know there's part of me that longs to go"

From Frozen 2, song:  Into the Unknown

There is no Anna without Elsa and I wanted to have an Elsa with each face (the Elsa from the Queen set was a gift and is not with me) so naturally singing Elsa landed in my virtual shopping basket  as well. (Currents classic Elsa was also a must so she came, too but she's for another post.) You can find my Anna review here.

Her box is very similar to Anna's.

The boxes have the same decoration of forest trees, the same shape, and the same parts are seethrough.

It has the same picture of the sisters on the front, but of course it says singing Elsa instead of  singing Anna.
The back of the box is also the same, quite simple. Might help me with throwing away at least one, Most boxes are too pretty to get rid of but they are just taking up space :(

It has the same holes on the back so you can hear her singing if you try here while she's still in her box. Let's get her out. We need of course our deboxer queen, Dolly, for that.

No Dolly, that's not what you are here for.

You can explain as much as you want, that doesn't change tha fact that what you're doing is rude. Get off and start working.

Off with the outer cover first.

Onto deboxing her. Her background is the forest, same as Anna's.

Lots of enjoyment in store, eh? Sissel, the current classic Elsa is also lurking.

Poor singing Elsa has those nasty ties in the head. And she kept singing while deboxing so I switched her off.
Finally free! Take a good look at her outfit.

Here is a picture of her movie outfit to compare:

To mee, it seems quite accurate, although not as flowy bu that's due to the size and the very stiff secction they used for her outfit.
She has lots of molded and painted details on her boots.

I checked her boots and they have the little L and R moulded inside, indicaing which one is for the left foot, and which one is the right foot.I didn't take then all the way off, jus the upper parts to peek at the inside of the boots. I got to know that these letter are there from a post of another collector, who got two left boots on a doll.

Her dress is all one piece except for the belt but her leggings are not painted on like Annas trousers, she has real, lightblue leggings.

I wish they gave Anna real pants as well. Her pants are not as tight as Elsas, so why?
The little middle section that represens her underdress is very stiff, very hard except for the bottom section, that is the same material as icequeen Elsas cape and this new outfit's ... fins? They remind me of fins some aquarium fishes have floating around them. (Also the ones her final dress has) They clearly put something on the fabric to make it stiff and it looks a lot like snow, shimmering just a bit here and there, like a freshly fallen snowfield does. Although it is just a section and not a whole underdress, it is nicely hemmed both at the bottom and at the neckline. The bottom part is constructed the same as Rapunzels skirt, so when she sits down, it does not fit that perfectly but nothing big.
Her overdress or coat or jacket or whatever is called is made of the usual dolldress fabric.

It is lightblue that gradually goes over into purple at the bottom part. It is also nicely hemmed, even the sleeves.

Both her outfit and the belt that is a separate piece close with velcro at the back. Her dress is easier to handla and take off because it's not one long cape but it's in two separate pieces. While her "fins" have some nice blue printed on patterns at the bottom, her shoulderpieces have silver snowflake patters that are decorated with glitter.

Her belt is a separate piece. it's purple with white snowflake pattern.

Her hair is in a braid, Elsas signature hairstyle. (until Show yourself) Her haircolor seems a bit lighter than the color previous Elsa dolls have. The end of her braid and her bangs are hard because of the amount of hairproduct it has. But those bangs are even less wild than Sissel's (the current classic doll), her bangs stick very close to her head. I'll try and loosen it up a bit, it looks better in my opinion but the hair is not very cooperaive. It also has some small sections that are  trying to escape from the braid. My first Elsa, Kiki, has them, too but they appeard years after I deboxed her and carried her around in the house and the garden. The small section of hair that falls into her face is in singing Elsas case the thinnest and shortest.

Singing Elsa has a lovely face although many people don't like it and prefer the first face. I like all three. Singing Elsa has a lot of makeup and it's more pink than purple.
As she is a singing doll, she has less articulation than classic dolls. The arm that has the singing mechanism doesn't have an elbow joint, other than that it's the same as for classic dolls: head, shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip and klick knee. Did I mention that I don't like klick knees? I mean, in this review.
When her hand is turned, she sings a small section of Into the unknown:

Every day's a little harder as I feel my power grow
Don't you know there's part of me that longs to go

Into the unknown
Into the unknown
Into the unknown

When the fist movie came out, singing dolls sang acapella, but lately they sing smaller sections of their song and have background music, too.
Her speaker is at her back and is heart shaped just like Anna's.I didn' t take a picture of hers but you can see Anna's in the Anna review. Under the speaker, there is the space where the batteries go.
 She and Anna both sing for the same amount of time but Anna is noticably louder.

She is a lovely doll I'm really happy to own, although I don't need the singing part. Those singing hands seem on both dolls a bit loose. If a Made to move Barbie with a suitable skintone appears, she'll also receive a new body.
I'm a bit unsure about her name, originally I wanted to name her Ilon, but as her sister has a japanese nameborrowed from a japanese translation of my favourite webtoon, I thought I should pick a name for her from there, too. So there is Megumi, Satomi and Shizuoka to choose from.

And to finish, here is a sneak peak photo from the comparison post of all three Elsas together:

First edition Elsa (with hinge knee joints!) aka Kiki on the left, new girl in the middle, current classic doll with the Olaf's Frozen Adventure face aka Sissel on the right.
Kiki seems so purplish on all pictures but in real life she doesn't look that purple, although she definitely has a purplish tint to her skin.

There is still some Frozen2 dolls and Snow and Merida to review and the comparison post (I collect photos for that bit by bit) so look forward to that!