Tangkou Doll - "The Gap Year"

New arrival in da house! Yes, another Tangkou doll, like I got addicted really fast or something. I blame the relative cheapness compared to Pullip and the like. Here's the outer box/sleeve, which features some cool artwork.

Here she is out of the outer box/sleeve. Everything is neatly packed in little bags and the doll is MUCH easier to debox than her Pullip, umm, "cousins."

Not-really-visible is her cute little hat. Or big hat.  I mean, she does have a massive head but I don't want to give her a complex or anything. She comes with the usual stand-comb-brush cheapo plastic accessories, and then a higher-quality set of things unique to her, which are her hat, her sunglasses, and her little rucksack which has actual zips on it. She wears a pink t-shirt, blue-and-tartan jeans-sort-of-things with a little belt (they open at the front like real trousers ermagerd!) and yellow trainers/"sneakers." She also comes with a passport (identical to China's one, so presumably always the same) and a little card of "authenticity" with some art on. Oh, and she is also wearing a pair of yellow knickers under the rest of her clothes.

One immediate thing -- her wig is not glued on and you have to lift it if you want to put the little button on that changes her eyes, which will make it fall off.  Bit odd that, but possibly an element of compromise since earlier Tangkou dolls have rooted hair. Her wig is a weird green-yellow colour, I am not really sure why that seemed like a good idea. It's not as horrendous as it sounds, but it's an odd choice. I will probably attempt rewigging at some point. Wig is quite soft, and elasticated so it goes on as easily as it slips off.



Her eyes change in the same combination as China's but her face-up is less pink which perhaps makes her less terrifying in the face, I am not the best judge of that. Unlike my China, her torso joint moves, so that might be an issue from doll to doll. Her eye mechanism appears to stick less out-of-the-box, which again is probably something that varies and is pot luck what you get.

First impressions are that she is pretty nifty and cute, like a tomboy counterpart to "Chinese Girl" or any of the other, girlier dolls in the series. She has eyebrows, and a strawberries-on-black pattern on her eyelids. Which actually is a bit odd in that it doesn't seem to go with the rest of her image.