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? :)

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

31 day Disney Challenge - Day 31

So the final day... favourite ending:

Beauty and the Beast, because I'm a hopeless romantic and I love happy endings but I liked the unusal bittersweet ending of Pocahontas as well. I also liked that instead of a storybook they used this handdrawn picture, like at the beginning. I liked how the ending of The Lion King suggested that the story goes on and on and never ends.Wreck-it Ralph is different again, the whole credits is a story by itself and very enjoyable in my opinion :)

31 day Disney Challenge - Day 20, Day 21 and Day 22

Day 20:
favourite soundtrack: The Lion King and Pocahontas were the ones I listened to most when I was a kid and they are still my favourites.

Here is one song from each album in hungarian so you get an idea what I was listning to:
Just around the riverbend:

youtu.be/V4jsNuIr5gg
I would have loved to include 'If I never knew you' but the hun version was never made - Disney didn't think it worth to make the hun dub for the anniversary version :( I love the version sung by Michael Crawford and Sherie René Scott most. Crawford has a Disney Album I just love.
Here it is, for you to enjoy:

Circle of life:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrUOBHy6hd0

Day 21:
favourite sequel: I'm mostly neutral about sequels (Except Mulan 2 - I think it turned out terrible) but Toy Story sequels are pretty good, if Pixar counts, otherwise I'd choose the third Lion King.

Day 22:
favourite Pixar film: Toy Story and Inside Out

I saw Toy Story in an open air movie theatre when I was about 8 and immediately liked the toys beeing alive idea. Inside out is something so different and interesting and still full of magic, it's really a lovely movie! 

31 day Disney Challenge - Day 2

Disney Challenge Day 2: favourite song:

Again, there are so many. As Lion King was our (my sister and I) favourite movie, our favourite song had to be „Can you feel the love tonight”

Later „Paint with all the colors of the wind” an Aladdin joined, those were the songs we used to sing as children :)

Paint with all the colors of the wind (hun version):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXYXuK0aPRA

Can you feel the love tonight (hun version as well)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrsS6xEV4wg

A whole new world (yes, hun version :))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-aQLiXVRCo

Let it go, Reflection, Friend like me, Circle of life, Just around the riverbend, One jump and - surpriseingly - For a moment. I'll stop listing up songs now.

Not my videos :)

Some fun facts: the lady (Janza Kata) singing Jasmine sings Can you feel the love tonight (not Nalas part but the rest :)) and she took part in Pocahontas as well, she did the voice of the wind.

The lady (Udvarias Anna) singing Nalas part lent Pocahontas her voice as well :) Well, our land is not that big. :)

Aladdins singing voice (Miller Zoltán) was only 19 years when he did this song :)

Toyfair 2017 thoughts

Before you get excited, no I wasn't there I just found som videos on youtube about the dolls and toys that interested me most:

Hasbros Disney Princesses, Frozen and Elena of Avalor dolls, figurines and playsets

 I just wanted to share a few thoughts, this is just my humble opinion, I'm not connected to Disney or Hasbro. I'll call the posable little dolls figures. They are adding Pocahontas to the  Little Kingdom line! I think she turned out really nice and the pose they found for her is in my opinion fitting, very "Pocahontaslike" You can take a good look at her at 0:56
There is a new Mulaan, too, and that makes me happy since Mulan is one of my favourite princesses.
There is something in the background during the frist minute that looks very much like the Beast, maybe a dancing set? He turns into  the prince, too but we don't get to see the prince.
There are new Elsa and Anna dolls and figures, too. Elsa as a piano. Interesting idea.
There are Moana dolls and figurines, too. The one with young Moana and toddler Moana is the cutest in my opinion. :)
While I'm not really into playsets, I remember I always wanted a Barbie house as a child and there is a house for both the Little Kingdom figurines and the Barbie-sized dolls. I think it wouldn't have bothered me  that the house was made for Elena and her family I would have let all the girls live there.
Elena has a pretty new dress and there is a Naomi doll, too! I'll have to take a closer look at her once she turns up in stores here.

And here is the video about the new Dascendants dolls (for Descendants 2)
I wish I could get just the outfits, as I already have the dolls I want. Carlos seems to have rooted hair this time instead of  moulded hair. I like Mals old, shorter hairstyle better but the two-pack Mals hair actually looks nice.

If you are intersted in other toys that were shoved there take a look at Idle Hands blog and look for the 2017 februar posts.