Celebrity Fashion Dolls That Should Have Been Sued 

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Half of these face sculpts look like political cartoons but in 3D. So cursed.

Moral of the story: don’t EVER try making a doll look “too realistic” or it will end up looking terrifying and haunting like Emma watsons belle doll.. _shudders_

This is exactly why I was happy Disney made their limited edition Hocus Pocus dolls have cartoony faces. They look so cute and charming. Meanwhile, most dolls based on real people are just hideously uncanny

The Spice Girl dolls having a speech bubble on their box saying "try me" feels like a threat with those face moulds

Eeeeek! My bread and butter. I’ve said this so many times: one of the reasons celebrity dolls don’t work is because they’re imprinting a real person’s face onto a doll. These are DOLLS. As in, stylised human beings (for the most part). I think to get the perfect celeb doll, you need to strike a balance between the celebrity’s likeness while also stylising the features. Emma Watson’s doll is SCARY. That little girl yammering about “witchcraft dolls” should take a look at her😭

The childcare center I went to after school when I was a kid had a lot of these ugly celebrity dolls (basically all the ones from the late 90's early 00's). I am 100% certain they got donated (or strategically left there) by some parent who needed to get rid of a disappointing christmas/birthday present FAST. I think there were like 3 regular Barbies and 2 of the spice girls that kids WANTED to play with and it was warfare during playtime to get a good one.

I really cannot stand realistic faces on dolls. It’s like they’ve shrunk real people, tore off their faces and glued them onto dolls 😭 every time! Why don’t they ever make the bodies realistic??

Ashley Tisdale is interesting in that she simultaneously had VERY pretty dolls via Sharpay's HSM ones so how did that happen?!

I’ll never understand why celebrities aren’t more involved in the creation process of their dolls - I’d be all up in their faces, making sure my doll is pretty 🤣

the other issue i notice is the body proportions don't match, if you're going for a realistic face you can't take unrealistic body proportions! fashion dolls are extremely stylized and that includes the bodies. and i realize they're not going to always invent new body shapes for a single doll, but then that means they gotta start designing the head for the body as well. also like. molded laugh lines are something that just isn't typical of dolls. we're used to the flat faced smiles, to add that much depth adds age! they need to remember to do a stylized version of the person they're modeling after, not to force realism onto a stylized canvas -- doll repainters might be able to accomplish it, but they do it with shading and detail that is not going to be feasible with screenprinting!

it’s so funny how these dolls somehow manage to still kinda look like them even though they’re actual jump scares

I was nodding along like "yeah that's not great, yeah that looks pretty rough" and then you got to the Ashley Tisdale dolls and I literally recoiled from my screen and went "augh" out loud. Oh that's SO bad and uncanny and I feel so bad for her as well as any child who was gifted one of those dolls.

The Posh Spice doll looks like the evil British schoolmaster in a whimsical movie series about a boarding school

Just saw the Bindi Irwin doll for the first time the other day, and have to assume the only reason she is not on your list is because you haven't seen her. Not only it is the ugliest, most horrifying doll, the fact that it was of a child who then had to do promos with it is just heartbreaking. Every kid is self-conscious about their features, to the point I can't imagine Bindi even wanted to be made into a doll, but then to be told "this doll is a likeness of you, this is how we see you" when the doll is the maybe the worst caricature of her appearance, must be devastating. Mattel celebrity doll fails really annoy me since there are so many head sculpts already in their library that they just need to master the face paint, but then they go and create a new monstrosity instead.

I think Mattel is the best in the business when it comes to making celeb dolls. Their Halle Bailey dolls were PHENOMENAL!!! Better than Disney's

I think a lot of these used face-scanning to match the face shape of the actresses (which is why when you see doll repaints where they put meticulous detail and effort into the paint it looks very accurate). A telltale sign of it is cheekbones and "apples of cheeks" you can see those looking really pronounced in the Emma Watson and Hillary Duff dolls. I know that the face scanning became popular when Buffy had a line of collectable dolls and Sarah Michelle Geller wasn't satisfied with the first wave of dolls that weren't using face scanning, making the later waves more accurate and authentic to the actors. With a lazy paintjob or low-effort quality control on making sure the face actually looks like the actress the overly detailed face shape with printing that doesn't match is why we get things like pretty actresses looking terrible in doll form. The Kylie Minogue one is so tragic, someone needs to give those dolls a worthy face paint job like Hextian or Poppen Atelier cause the face scan was good but the eye print and flat makeup look so terrible.

This could almost count as a Halloween special, with how scary some of these dolls are

in 2004, at probably the height of my Bratz obsession, one of the main popstars in my country got a doll made, and I loved that pop star, but even back then as a kid I could tell that doll was TERRIBLE and did her SUCH a disservice. The body was tiny, and the head was GIGANTIC. And her face.... oof. Anyway, it was a huge deal in my country because people here don't get dolls made of them. Now it's just kind of an iconic relic of the early 2000s in my house. The fashion was actually really good too. Just... that face.... *shudder*

Mattel has an impecable record on celebritie dolls when it comes to Cher; all of her dolls are gorgeous and, of course, dressed by Bob Makie. i think that celebrities should go with proper doll making companies like Paris Hilton working with MGA to make her doll.

I laughed so hard with your concern for Ashley Tisdale's doll

SO THAT'S WHAT I FOUND.. A few years back my sibling and I were at a thrift store and I went to the toy area in hopes of finding some good dolls. In the pile of barbies there was THAT- the Baby Spice doll. I swear we were cry laughing for a good 20-30 minutes cuz we had never seen a doll that ugly before

i'm french, in the 70's-arly 80's Mattel made a doll of a french singer for kids named Chantal Goya. her face was actually nicely resembling and soft as far as i can see on photos. decades later, Mattel also made another doll of a french iconic singer Johnny Halliday. despite the guy himself being ugly, the doll was also pretty resembling and not uncanny looking. i think the "toned down" reproduction of the traits is the key to a good celebrity doll. the Margot Robbie doll, on the other hand.... i prefer when doll artists repaint her. still the sculpt is not at fault, only the factory paint is.

I started watching the nanny around two years ago. I fell in love with the whole show. I love Fran so much. Her personality is so fun and she's just soo stunning and beautiful (and still is). It's my ultimate comfort show now. So when I heard there were fashion dolls I was so excited. Then I googled them. Oh the horror. It's the worst one for me cuz it felt like a personal attack. Still really want all of them just for her clothes in doll scale. She's my fashion icon.

I'm still traumatized by the cancelled Lady Gaga MGA dolls, they were so wrong for keeping those from us

The fact that these girly pops are…crawling…screeching…on the ceilings of Barbie land really warms my heart ❤

I was shocked when you mentioned Huckleberry made the Ashley dolls because oh my god are they hideous! But what really shocked me is HuckleBerry also made the Gwen Stefani doll line (which i happen to own a few of) and they’re actually really good. So to find out they made Ashley’s dolls in comparison to Gwen, my jaw was on the floor.

I JUST unearthed my old singing Victoria Justice doll... she's so bad. She looks like a middle-aged PTA mom instead of a teenager -- I don't know why they had to do that to her lol. Awesome video as always!!

Thanks for the very enjoyable and funny video on these ugly dolls. I still have PTSD from my childhood in the 1970’s when I think of the Mego Farrah Fawcett and Cher dolls that they made. So ugly. I think they also made a Linda Carter Wonder Woman doll that was also very ugly. I remember seeing these doll on the shelves and being legitimately scared of them. Anyway, look them up when you get a chance. Thanks again for your great videos!

the closest i ever had to a celebrity doll was the hannah montana dolls and the sharpay evans doll as a kid. i tried to add mascara to sharpay with pen and then i tried to scratch it off, then cover it up with nude nail polish... rip to her

I'M SO GLAD I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE FREAKED OUT BY THE EMMA WATSON ONE I saw it in the stores and It spooked me 😭💀

One of the main reasons the marvel and live- action Beauty and the Beast dolls looked so bad is that they were using 3D scanned shrunken molds of the actors rather than having someone sculpt a simplified doll-proportioned face mold. Having all of the very specific bone structure and irregularities of a human face shrunken down with no painted shading or the correctly proportioned bodies slams you hard in the uncanny valley.

You should check out Pamela Anderson's Baywatch doll... Whoever designed it must have been terribly jealous of her beauty

You should check out the doll painter Noel Cruz. He repaints doll faces and makes awesome celebrity dolls.

This is surprising but I saw the Addison Rae doll in store and she wasn’t nearly as ugly in person. Also I have a Britney doll and she is a little creepy.

The only celebrity dolls I own are the BTS Prestige dolls. I don't really listen to BTS much but the dolls were just so nice I couldn't resist them. The faces are actually fairly accurate without being weird or creepy and the clothes are really pretty and detailed (the basic line not so much). Its like they made them to fit in amongst other Barbie dolls, like they had a Barbiefication ray-gun and zapped BTS with it! I feel like that's the key to a good celebrity doll. Its not about getting a perfect likeness but about creating a caricature in a style that works with dolls.

I absolutely cried laughing at this video, I thought the worst was over but they we got to my queen also, Ashley Tisdale. Why’d they do her like that? Ps, her cover of Kiss The Girl is A*

While your more educational videos are literally a service to the entire doll community, you don't always have to make informative videos. Sometimes it's more than enough to just point out a bunch of pictures of uggo lil dolls and let us laugh our heads off at them. This was a super fun vid

There was this very popular kids girl group in my country called K3 and they had in my opinion one of the worst doll lines to exist. Horrifying. If I was allowed to get something from the toy store when I was little, my mom would basically say ‘just please not those.’ I’m so glad she prevented them from entering the house lol.

The wild thing about the Lizzie McGuire dolls is that i could easily see a company doing doll styled like Lizzie's little animated doodle self from the intro to the episodes because its so cartoony

That Beauty and The Beast Emma doll…oh no.

I went to the local closeout sale when Toys R Us went under and they had a whole shelf of Emma Watson Belle. Completely empty unit except for her. no one wanted them even at knockdown clearance prices.

I honestly can’t tell you how many Mary Kate and Ashley dolls I have. I loved using them as the younger teen doll. They were my go to for a different body type thing growing up.

I thought FOR SURE the Gwen Stefani doll line was going to be on this list. 😂 As for my favorite celeb dolls…the Integrity Toys Trixie Mattel, the Cher dolls Mattel produced in the early 2000s, and Zomby Gaga from Monster High.

Part two, please! I would like to see some celebrity dolls of the 1970's and 1980's, too. Even if you don't have the dolls themselves, photos of them from those time periods could be used instead. I had a Wonder Woman doll that looked nothing like Lynda Carter, a set of the original Charlie's Angels, and a Cheryl Ladd doll made by Mattel. I did not find them ugly, but for some reason, did not look exactly like these celebrities (3D scanning technology was not invented yet)

I was a 90’s kid, so I’ve seen the Brittany Spears, Spice Girls and the Charlie’s Angels (the one with Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz and Drew Berrymore) celebrity dolls. But yeah, these dolls be; U-G-L-Y, you ain’t got no alibi! 😂

The Paris Hilton and Halle Bailey as the little mermaid dolls are great.

The live-action Cinderella movie doll was pretty bad too. Creeped me out. I will admit, I bought the Addison dolls on clearance cause I wanted the accessories. Her shoes fit my Maxie doll, which is what I had hoped.

Around 2004 the Icelandic singer birgitta haukdal came out with her own celebrity doll. It is the literal thing of nightmares. I used to own one because at that time I was friends with her niece and she gave one to everyone who came to her birthday celebration because they weren’t selling _:(´ཀ`」 ∠):

I have the Disney store Black Widow doll and I actually don't mind her hair. It was crazy crunchy with gel when I got it out of the box but once I washed it, it's actually really nice and super soft lol. But I feel like those dolls were made more to be like fancy action figures vs dolls (so hair play isn't a thing) so it's kind of weird they used the same hair method for the Belles.

Omg part-way through the video I was like "what would happen if you scanned a person's face and scaled it down to doll size?" And then my question was answered a almost immediately! Wonderful and unfortunate, thank you!

I found a Brandy doll while thrifting last week. I can not believe how great her face is!

I had a Brandy doll. She was gorgeous and the first Black doll I ever had so she was special to me. I also had a Britney doll!! She was amazing too but I hated that I was given the short hair doll. I remember being so mad about it 😂 I wish I could find her though 😭

A video on McDonald’s happy meal dolls would be a fun topic!

THE ASHLEY TISDALE DOLLS SENT ME FLYING OH MY GODDDD i was watching this video thinking there was no WAY youd know about them!!!! i still have the not like that ashley doll somewhere in my basement and she scared me even as a kid, even if they vaguely looked like ashley there was always something uncanny about them!! my mom was always like “you can use her for sharpay” bc i liked high school musical but she was too scary to be sharpay so id always use a hannah montana doll to fill in 😭 i remember barely playing with her, i only played with her when one of my parents was like “dont you like this doll” or whatever. thank you for helping me remember this doll and THANK YOU for vindicating my feelings towards the ashley tisdale doll line

I was JUST looking at some Addison Rae dolls that were in the clearance aisle at Walmart, that had been marked down about four times. I know nothing about her, but good lord. I'd be so insulted.

I have a strong contender for this list: the Dayanara Torres doll from 1994. For those unfamiliar, Dayanara Torres was Miss Universe 1993 and would later become an actress, singer, model and writer. The doll came with a music box that played some of her songs and also the dress that she wore when she won the Miss Universe crown. Again I want to reiterate that this woman was crowned the most beautiful on Earth and her doll was so ugly that my family constantly made fun of me for having her in my collection 💀

The Laverne and Shirley dolls from the 70's were so ugly I could not believe it, this video was so fun.

7:37 Before you mentioned the Dorothy doll's hair, I was thinking it's not that bad. When you said it has real human hair I thought "Hell no, that thing is haunted"

Posh looks like she's one bad day away from demanding the manager lol

I had a "that's so raven" fashion doll as a kid. Shes cute! Clothes are cute too. But she looks absolutely NOTHING like Raven 😭

That is why I am more into action figures. There are also bad ones, but generally the "model human" comes out pretty good. The only celebrity doll as such that I own is a Disney Store Bo Katan. But as that is the animated version, it works and she looks really good. I considered the Black Widow in black or white several times, but something just did not sit quite right with me. I think it is the general mismatch between the too large heads and the dainty fashion doll bodies.

Absolutely criminal leaving out the Hannah Montana dolls... especially the ones of Lily... YIKES!

My understanding is that the vinyl shrinks during curing and sculptors need to keep that in mind to get the proportions right. So, as you said, you need experienced people making these molds. Unpopular opinion: I don't care for the Margot Robbie Barbie sculpt and wish they'd used the Superstar sculpt instead. To me, it only looks good after having been repainted. 🤷‍♀️

IMO, if the celebrity doll isn’t made by Mattel, it’s usually not worth it. I remember as a kid thinking the Spice Girls Dolls were so cool and assumed Mattel made them, cause they were also sold in the Barbie aisle. Then when I saw them as an adult, I was put off by how harsh their faces looked and realized they were made by a different company. Same with the Britney Spears doll. They seem kind of cheap, with shorter arms and stubbier torsos with more angular high-heeled feet, as opposed to Barbie’s more graceful arches. But I’m assuming that’s because they can’t use Mattel’s patented bodies. Mattel’s face molds are very versatile. I remember the Heidi Klum doll looking very spot-on, and it only uses a Generation Girl head mold. The Brandy doll also looks very good (no surprise, it’s by Mattel).

why does the "i talk try me" sounds like a threat

Celebrity dolls should be 25% celebrity resemblance, 75% generic doll.

Totally off-topic: Your background/room would have been 5 year old me’s dream on what being rich and famous was all about: having all the cool dolls lol. I love it.

I actually took my Emma Watson Belle doll and repainted her after shaving down her face bit. Emma is such a pretty lady. But the dolly scared me😅😅😅😅

I feel like the Brandy doll was so good because she already looks like a doll, all smooth and perfect.

Ooooh myyyy GAAAWD! 😂😂😂 You woke up and chose VIOLENCE! I am HERE for this exquisite savagery!

That Posh Spice doll has the face of someone who tried to make red wine hot chocolate and learned how alcohol curdles milk the hard way

You really almost said “Haylie Duff” I’m dying

Anyone remember the Disney Channel VIP dolls?? I remember them being advertised as sooo special and like the biggest deal ever 😂

Speaking of Ashley Tisdale dolls, I got the HSM Sharpey doll as a kid. When it came time to pack up my Barbies cause I wasn’t playing with them anymore (I do still have them, they are waiting for me to have kids of my own!), I could not imagine totally giving up Sharpey. It was right around Christmas and my mom had knitted this clothes line of tiny Santa and Mrs. Claus outfits, so I convinced her to let me dress Sharpey in the Mrs. Claus outfit, and she remains a part of our Christmas decorations to this day

not on that scale, but one of the funniest things for me was walking into a popular toystore here in Poland and seeing dolls of polish youtubers. the line is called InfluHeroes and it's not the worst in quality (dolls have basic joints and the facemolds are simple in style, no creepy realism here), but it's very funny they exist because I've never heard of any of these people before

SO GLAD you covered the Fran Fine doll!!!

YAAAAS my favorite kind of doll: celebrities !!

I only ever saw those Addison doll's in the clearance section of my Walmart and they're still there living their best lives. 😂

Lmaooo “inspired by body positivity” and it’s a big baggy tshirt that took me out.

The Kylie dolls look like they have potential in the hands of a skilled repainter. Fran Drescher deserves to have an amazing doll, with lots and lots of her iconic outfits (pleaseeee)

It's a good thing I'm watching this in the early afternoon, because this is nightmare fuel.

that nanny doll is a complete jumpscare. horrifying!!!

I remember becoming a Mixer (Little Mix fan), around 2016-2017. When I'd seen they had dolls, I was excited. Since Jade was my favorite (seeing as we have the same skin tone, and she was the one that made me start liking them in the first place), I wanted to get her doll. As soon as I saw it, I internally went "Oh my god, what is that?!" and clicked off. Like, why is her skin grey, she's Arab for heck's sake. Jesy's having a slimmer build when at that time she was a tad chubby (and at that time was consistently belittled and shamed for not being as slim as the other 3), was also a war crime in my honest opinion. Leigh-Anne looks... nothing like herself, and Perrie... idk man. I know my girls, but THOSE were imposters. I'm just glad the Margot Robbie Barbie's and Elvira MH doll were done beautifully (Cassandra Peterson, Elvira, was behind the creative process).

The Ashley dolls remind me of those caricature paintings/sketches done at fairs and carnivals in nyc

When I see the Little Mix dolls I immediately quote the “fake Jamaican accent” video. BALLEGDEH!

I could watch you roast these hideous celebrity dolls for hours this was so funny! Thank you for the laugh

I don’t have many celebrity dolls, but when there is a doll of one of my favorites, I do like collecting them. I mostly have custom ones like Nessa Barrett or Melanie Martinez, but I was so excited when I found out that there were official Billie Eilish Dolls. The Billie Eilish ones are definitely my favorite and my only official celebrity fashion dolls. I also even got the two smaller Billie Eilish figures. Maybe you could make a video about some of the best celebrity fashion dolls, and I definitely think that Billie Eilish would be on that list. I loved this video. I think you should make more videos about celebrity dolls.

This is one of the funniest videos I've ever watched. I'm borderline deceased. The commentary was so spot on and just hilarious

12:05 This is the face Ozymandias made when when he told the sculptor to carve a message saying he's the king of kings

I had some of the Mary Kate and Ashley dolls and the Lindsey Lohan one, just your intro was such a throwback. Loved those dolls so much ❤

It’s bonkers that some of these werent sued

i LOVE that you mentioned shirley temple dolls, however briefly - i got an old copy of doll news at a thrift store once when i was younger, and it had an article about shirley dolls, and they have held a weird and wonderful place in my heart since. i have my late great aunt's beloved collector shirley temple doll and she's special to me

I didn't realise I needed you roasting dolls today

I’m enjoying your video while recuperating from surgery and I’m feeling like going to The Disney Store, The Matel Store and Target! But then the feeling goes away because I can’t drive right now.😥😰

I think the Spice Girl Dolls were my favorite. I had some and I loved how different and unique they were when at the time I was only familiar with Barbie,

I wanna know your opinion on the Margo Robbie Barbie! She's my first doll ever, and while I dont think they got her likeness 100%, she's still very cute imo. I've seen some repaints and restyles on insta that are just incredible!

The Ashley Tisdale in the thumbnail is reminding me of that Superstar Limo ride that Disneyland wants people to forget. Also, I reckon one other reason that these uber realistic dolls look so awful is that living humans are always moving in some way and we're used to seeing people with some kind of motion, even if it's too slight for us to consciously register. Mapping that out onto a totally static doll is legit uncanny.

That Judy Garland doll was like the proto-Renesmee animatronic from Twilight

Nobody knows of the unspeakable horrors that were the B*Witched singing dolls from the late 90s or 2000. For those who don’t know, they were a short lived girl group from Ireland. They were even briefly featured in the DCOM Smart House. Anyway, my mom got me one of the dolls for Easter, I think. I forget her name, but she was the leader of the group, and good LORDT they did her so DIRTY. If you thought these dolls were horrendous, they pale in comparison to this line of dolls. Even as a child I thought the doll was terrifying. I felt bad for my mom, but I really don’t know what she thought when she bought this doll for me. My guess was that she knew I liked B*Witched, knew I liked the Britney Spears dolls, so she may have figured I would probably like this doll. Not to mention it was on sale, I’m sure 😅 take the Sporty Spice doll from the ugly Spice Girls doll line here, the Ashley Tisdale doll, and throw in the uncanny, manly Emma Watson doll, and you have this cursed relic from the past. Truly a crime against humanity and the girls from B*Witched