ILY4ever fashion pack review - first Belle fashion pack

"Unlimited, my future is unlimited" 

from The musical Wicked - music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman

 

 Thr next in the series is the first Belle fashion pack - since I got the first one a year ago, the made another one, I'll review that one as well sometiime in the future.

Belle is associated with golden color and roses so that appears for sure in the fashion and accessory packs inspired by her. A pair of jeans is always easy to combine with other pieces and  the basket seemed not only adorable but also very useful.

Belle is one of the few inspirations  for lack of a better word that has a different picture of her on the front and the side.

The other side and the back share the same photo of a doll modelling the set.

 A quick look at the setwithout the plastic cover:

The top has an off-shoulder cut and is decoratd with rufflesat the top at the bottom and at the sleeves. For once, they picked white roses as a pattern instead ofred ones for the top.

The pattern goes all around and it closes with velcro at the back.

The jeans haz actual tiny belt loops and a button for decration - the later one doesn't work

The red roses are a must for Belle and cover the front side of the jeans. There is a little decorative rollup stitched at the and of the leg part.

The backside has no pattern and this piece clises with velcro, just like the top. A piece with many uses, I think, jeans can be combined with so many other things.

 

 

The footwear chosen for this set is a pair of blue boots with flowers as decoration.

 Red roses and white... daisies? I'm no botanist  so I'll stick to flower.

 

In my opiniont it works well with the jeans but is a bit 'heavy' to go with a dreass or a skirt.

The set also comes with jewelry -  a golden necklace and two rose hairpins.

 

Many ets come with either golden or silver jevelry so they can all be mixed well, too. On the other hand, there isn't too much variety, just a bunch of golden necklaces with something different hanging from each one.

This set comes with some food items wich is rare - drinks come occasionally with the packs but I haven't seen any other packs with food. It connects to the first song of beauty and the Beast, "Belle" along with the basket it belongs into. While during the song  Belle wears her blue towndress and white blouse, the rest of the set is more inspired by her iconic look - the g9lden dress and the castle. it's no a criticosm  just an observation - I'd love to see more Belle sets that rely on her other outfts - her pink winter dress or her green library dress.

Back to the furits and the baguettes - thy fit nicely into the basket

The basket can be closed just fine with the food inside

The basket opening up like that  is a great idea in my opinion.

The initial idea was to put it in like that so it sticks out a bit. I actually use the backet to store small pieces of the sets in it that are not used at the moment - earrings, watches, hairpins and the like.

 

Original Jasmine fan Midoi tried on the top and the jeans.The golden top and the golden hair is not the best match but it looks still nice.

Favourite piece from the set: the basket, because it's so useful as storage

Who looks best in this set? The original Tiana fan, Yukiko

Edited: Teasers and new trailer released - Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2

"When Can I See You Again"

from Wreck-it Ralph ;)

Edit: I added the new trailer and a link to some more pictures and some thoughts towards the end of this post! Have fun!
Today I discovered that some pictures of the new Wreck-It Ralph sequel were released, among them a picture showing some of the Disney Princesses that will appear in the movie. I've been waiting for this since last year, when  a scene was shown at D23 where the girls appear. Here is an article from last year with more information:
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2017/07/15/wreck-ralph-sequel-disney-princesses/481531001/
I found two versions of that picture:

 

I linked this first one from Facebook, shared byWalt Disney Animation Studios The second one is linked from the USA Today site. I got the information from the comments section belonging to the first picture that the picture is cropped and where the full picture can be found.

I'm very excited for this movie I loved the first one and I as far as I know, Vanellope von Schweetz is going to give the ladies a makeover. I hope this means casual dresses for all of them and I also hope Disney realeases the outfits as dress packs. My dolls would love to exchange their ballgowns from time to time for more comfortable clothes.
According to the Wikipedia article, all members of the Disney Princess lineup will be included, so no worries if you don't see your favourite girl in the picture. (To make it clear: I consider Disney Princesses and princesses two different things. Disney Princesses is the lineup, with Pocahontas and Mulan beeing part of it, and princesses are - well, princesses. Anna is a princess but not a Disney Princess. Mulan is a Disney Princess but not a princess. That's how I see it.) I think they actually use the cast of Ms Amy Mebbersons Pocket Princesses - her lovely and funny weekly pictures feature Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, Merida, Elsa, Anna and Moana. It looks like these ladies will appear in the new Wreck-it Ralph movie, too. I understand that many people are disappointed that characters they love didn't make it but I greatly dislike the amount of negativity and rudeness it brings with it. Maybe the other characters (like Kida or Nala) will get a chance later where they won't have to compete with the princesses for attention. That is pretty hard in my opinion.
Here are some more pictures, also form Facebook, shared together with the first picture:

Oh and here is the link to the trailer, too, I'm pulling this one from youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMgLxOZJWvs
Neither the pictures nor the video are owned by me, I'm merely an excited fan who wanted to share it.
Here is the new trailer that came out today (4th June 2018):

https://youtu.be/_BcYBFC6zfY
This flickr user made some great screenshots, go and look at them! They are right at the top now, but will likely get lover and lover, as koji kiote  adds more new pictures to the gallery. Another flickr user with amazing pictures, drj1828, made an album for Wreck it Ralph 2 which can be found here and the pictures can be easily found there even as his gallery grows. Those pictures are of course not mine.
If you look at these pictures, you'll see that all the girls missing from the first picture are there: Mulan, Merida and Ariel.
No Elena, but she has her own Wiki (as far as I know) and she is from a TV show, so I think it makes sense she is not in the same room as the other girls. But I'm sure she is out there somewhere in the internet, we just don't ger to see her in this movie. :)
The US Release Date is said to be November 21, 2018.
I'm going to watch this one with the original dub, since most of the puns and jokes get lost while translating or doesn't work so well in another language - at least that's what happened to the first Wreck-It Ralph movie.
Who else is excited? :)

Treasures from my package

"We would ring in the season"

From Disney's Olafs Frozen Adventure

About a week ago I got a package form a good friend with lots and lots of treasures in it!
She got me some of it when she was at a Disney Park!
Let's see the treaures. When I opened the box, the first thing I saw was a Disney bag.With lots of cute things inside.

First thing that came out is a cute little kitty.

As you see it can be fatened to clothes and similar places. :)
There was a Belle pin.

This pin shows redesigned Belle wearing her ballgown while reading a book.
She looks great together with the other pin I have, Tinker Bell.

Tink and Belle. Tinkerbelle. Tinker Bell. With this new Belle, I've doubled my pin collection. Sounds cool. Now I own two pins. :)
A pendant with Elsa in one of her signature poses, holding up her hand making a snowflake.

My friend has one as well, I think that's really cool we both have it! :D

A pressed penny with Elsa and Anna.

I think those are very cute and they serve kind of taking home the memories from the park. :)
A very pretty snowflake, just the right size for my LE Elsa, Elinor.

It looks great in her hair, but I couldn't make it stay there so she's holding it now.

A Coco blindbag.

There was this cute dog in it - I think his name is Dante in the movie. (I haven't seen Coco yet.)

He is made of three parts and he is really easy to put together and he stays like that, too.

There were also two sets of Barbie clothes for my dolls. :)

This blue dress, modelled by Dolly, reminded both my friend and me of Elsas ice dress.

It looks really great on her! But other dolls will try it on, too, and you decide, on which girl it looks best.

Same ges for the blouse and the pink trousers.

Hannah Rapunzel is the first to try them on.
Aurora is second, also modelling the bag that came with the outfits.

Just the thing for Ariel to put her  gadgets and gizmos and whozits and whatzits and thingamabobs in it. This set is so pretty that I want to attempt making something similar. My girls doesn't have much to wear except their box outfits.

The last one is mine, and only mine - it's a card with a message for me in it. But I'll show you the cover, it's so beautiful!

Thank you, you are such a great friend :)

Disney Store 2017 Classic Belle doll review

"Jenseits der Nacht/ Jenseits der Angst, /Holt kein Schatten uns mehr ein."

Literally: Beyond the night, beyond fear, no shadow can reach us

From the musical Rebecca by Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze

 It's the counterpart song to the one I quoted in the Pocahontas doll review. Belle gets her happy ending and Pocahontas gets a bittersweet ending so thes get matching quotes. Also they are good friends in my dollworld.

Belle is one of my Chrismas dolls as well I wanted to add her to my collection for years. There was a Belle doll here who came together with Hannah Rapunzel, Diana Jasmine and Susanne Ariel. (And some of the boys as well but they are not interested in blogging, they asked me not to include them on the meeting site. I may have to make an exception for Hans. Now enough, back to Belle.) But... things happened. I do not have that Belle anymore. So I put a Belle doll in my basket when I bought my Christmas stuff. But I have an old photo of the older Belle so I put the two pictures of the two Belles together to compare them.

It looks like one photo (it was mistaken to be one picture) but it is two photos combined into one picture. The one on the left is the 2015 version - no glowes, no Chip, no real ribbon on the dress but one made of glitter - the one on the right is 2017 version , the one I own and I'm about to share my thoughts about. The hair is packed differently, too, the one on the left has two big curled locks, the one on the right has two wavy sections.
As she was a long awaited doll I already had a name for her. She is called Daphne after the authoress of the book Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier. The film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock  is quite well-known and I choose a quote from the musical version of the Rebecca story.
So let's get to the doll itself.

She has a box in the same simple style as all the 2017 classic dolls have. A Disney sign in the upper left corner, the characters name and the movies title at the bottom.
The fancy one is the movietitle and the plain one is the characters name - it is good to know in cases the name is also the title. (Mulan Pocahontas, I'm looking at you two)

One side shows Lumiére, the other Belle with Mrs. Potts and Chip with books, probably in the library.

I would't have chosen ballgown and reading combination but that's my problem. :) Hasbro uses the same combination, they have a very cute ballgown Belle artwork for their Little Kingdom Belle, which shows her with her nose in a book.

The back shows Belle in her ballgown, again with Mrs. Potts and Chip but this time it looks like they are in the garden of the Beasts home since they have the castle as background. But now it's time to free this mademoiselle who is said to be peculiar.

There is the usual amount of ties, some for the hair, hands, waist, feet and more. The ones in her head were not tight and quite easy to cut.

During deboxing I accidentally pulled one of her gloves partly off. What scared me was that there was something hard in the thumb part of it. I thought Belles thumb broke off. So I pulled it completely off. Her hand was all fine, what I felt was the seam - because it is so small  and the two seams are so close to each other. Putting it back was not that bad but I don't think I'll repeat it often. It can be helpful while dressing them into a long, tight-sleeved top.

Belle fresh out of the box

She has two sections of hair but I arranged her hair for this picture so it looks like she has only one. The shoulder part of the dress is a bit darker than the bodice, the glowes are the same color. The skirt is a bit more yellow and less golden and is covered in glitter and so are Belles legs. The ribbon on the dress is maybe a bit lighter than the bodice.

It goes all around the dress but at the back there are only two sections, and that is because there is the velcro, where the dress closes. There is also an ugly hole where the skirt and the bodice meet, that's where her waisttie was. It'll take some time till it is flat. I wanted to make that a bit faster and pulled her skirt so it lays nice so she can sit down and sit on that part so it straightens out. (Pocahontas did not have this problem, thanks to the fabric they used for her outfit) Then I found out that the sections of the skirt are actually gathered with the help of elastics. So it goes right back where it was as soon as I wasn't pulling the dress. I did not know that but thpught it's a clever idea to make the dress.
This year the ballgowns are shorter than usually, they are all showing their feet and Belle is no exception.

Belle had a good amount of tissue paper under her skirt.

This paperboa now serves as a stylish accessoire for holiday Elsa.

Belles shoes are visible and they kind of point upwards which I think is quite odd. She has flat feet and wears yeallow flats. An odd choice for Belle in my opinion but apperently Disney gave this year flat feet to all the girls I got. Flat feet-klick knee combination just doesn't work. She has of course articulation at the neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, the articulation the usual classic princess dolls from the Disney Store have. My Belle has a bit of a problem with her hip and she sits like her neighbour, Dolly, the Frozen Fever Anna doll, who has hard plastic legs and uhm doesn't sit really elegant. She has a bad influence on Belle. :)
Belles dress is very pretty and I think it is quite movie accurate, only the skirt could be a little longer. In the movie it touched the floor, here is a reminder:

No shoes visible, even if she sits down.
She has her hair styled in a half updo, similar to the movie.

The middle section of her hair is used for the actual bun, using some hairsections from her hairline on both on the left and the right side. That's why she comes with her hair in two big sections.

The upper part of her hair and the updo is quite soft but the ends of the two big locks I mentioned are hard because on the amount of hairproduct used on them.
Like during the last few years, she comes with her widows peak. She has a lovely face, subtle makup, green eyes (I would call it green but it is mostly called hazel) and a slight blush on her cheek.

She looks a lot like her mini counterpart that I got a year earlier. Mini Belle looks high up, though, so she doesn't look the same in the picture.
If you are curious of the Belle dolls from the earlier years, here is a link to a review of the 2016 Belle doll by Beastsbelle with comparing her to all the Belle dolls starting from 2010. She looks pretty similar to this years Belle.
http://nevergrowupdollguide.blogspot.hu/2016/07/2016-disney-store-belle-doll.html
The big Belle comparsion and Belle lineup can be found at the end of the post.
Chip came with Belle thes year as well. As far as I can judge, he is exactly the same as last year.

I think I got a fairly nicely painted one. He is up next to Mushu, just behind the girls.
Belle is also up on the shelf, next to her new friends.
Merida and Aurora are the ones left, plus a 2015 Jasmine. Who shall be next? I've one Little Kingdom girl left as well, waiting to be reviewed. ;)