Lati Blue Boy Review

BJD Review

LatiBlue Boy

Here is a review of the A-type body. We just received Tim (YES, Tim doll is heeeere!) and Jason's body today in the mail at Ling's house from Kaga. :) ♥ ♥ ♥ Ty actually put him away right away for her trip, but I got weepy and sad so she took him out again.

So here we go. A review. By the way, there are like... no seams on him. And then the seams that ARE on him are very small. Niiice. :D Note the image I left on my computer.



We're using Jason here. Elliott was packed away, so I didn't do a comparison-- just a review. I'll do a comparison while I'm in Taiwan. Here's some music to set the mood.







Really quickly: note how tall Jason and Elliott are when compared to my computer screen. I know the angle is different, but it might give you an idea of the height difference until I'll be able to get a picture of it.



Double-jointed arms means he can bend his arms in a way that he can touch his nose.



This is the farthest Elliott can bend his arms when he's not hot-glue sueded (which he isn't, at the moment). Jason's not sueded, wired, or anything.



He can't touch his face at all. Go Elliott, go!



Abs. A-type body has rockin' abs. I took a lot of pictures of these abs. MUSCLES!



Double-jointed knees. He's strung really, really tightly so we're trying to loosen him up. He's having a hard time looking up, bending his double-joints, and using his hip joints.



He's wearing these shoes, by the way. He stands fine without them, but the rubber grip KEEPS him standing better. So I put them on as a precaution. Oh, those shoes are actually, um, a little smaller than SD size. So they're not really MSD shoes. He can wear MSD shoes fine, though. I've tried two pairs on him, and they went on really easy since his feet are slimmer.



So, arm stuff.



He can hold his arm up just fine and bend it at partial angles. Wonderful. Wrist movement is fantastic. :)



Bits are nicely sized, which means he looks good in underwear that are not boxers. Thigh joint allows his leg to rotate, so he can do a lot of poses that I would've never imagined with Elliott. Oh, and he's all leg. He's just a liiiiittle bit longer in the torso, and the rest of the height difference (about an extra inch over Elliott?) is all in the legs.



Sorry that this is out of focus. Small butt, but pert. :D The detail in his back is veeeery nice-- it was almost surprising! Elliott's got none of this.



Thigh joints again. Ahem. There's really good definition in his legs, but it's hard to capture with a camera. You can slide your finger down the dips and curves of it, though.



He can do this. Girly yes. But impressive!



Elliott's attempt.



His arms are strung perfectly, which is why I was so surprised at his legs being so tight. So yeah, he can pose with both arms perfectly.



Bart gets to hitch a ride. Action figure comparison, I guess. XD I know a lot of you guys have action figures in the same scale.



Jason really doesn't care too much.



Arm poses. When I do stuff like this for Elliott, I have to force it and pop his joints out.



Great detail on the feet!



Kneels easily and is steady. No ugly knee-popping here.



From the side.



A very confident curve of the back.



The Kahn Mystic (Jason) head is actually shorter than the Rei (Tim) head. Rei's face is also wider. To put the black wig on Jason, I wound like... five rubberbands around his head. Tim only needed one, and the wig still stays on even if I take the bands off. So I'm guessing Kahn Mystic is more like a 6", while Rei is closer to 7". Oh yeah, they not only share the body, but they also share that black wig. It's the only black fiber one we have. We have a black fur one that Elliott started using yesterday and hasn't stopped wearing it since.





If you extend his mouth a bit with dark paint, he'll look less "83" and more calm. Which is more Tim-like. But Ty doesn't want to do that, so I guess we have "83!!!!" Tim. :( Aww. That's not very Tim-like at all. It's a pretty face-up, though. I do like it. I just... wish we could modify it a bit to look more like Tim.

Yes, he's being ultra-smiley for someone whose two best friends just died in the past year.

The doll-Tim is a Tim-Tim, not Robin-Tim. I hope this makes sense. Tim suffers from the same identity crisis that Bruce suffers ("Am I the cape? Have I lost all sense of my humanity?"), so I guess those two would be really different. So this is off-duty Tim



Yaaay Tim.



On a table. Jason has dark violet eyes, and Tim has dark blue. Kaga sent him with olive-greenish-brown eyes, too.







I haven't really seen a lot of pictures of Rei yet, and it frustrated me when it came to deciding on if I want him or not. So I kind of vowed to take a lot of photos of the LatiBlues.



Anyways! Some other things: The resin feels grainy. There's a texture to it, but it's not a bad texture. It's just interesting. He's HEAVY. In fact, he's probably heavier than Elliott. This makes me happy, though. Even though he's broader than Elliott in the shoulders, generally he's skinnier. Just very lanky. Elliott has a big egg-head next to these two, but it looks okay when they stand. Especially when I put Jason/Tim in higher shoes. Then Elliott just looks like a pre-teen next to some teens.

Clothes fit, generally. Outfits that are fitted and don't stretch WILL go on, but they won't close. So Elliott's black dinner jacket from Dollheart? They can wear it, but only if they want to walk around shirtless or if it's over something else. Pants are too short by about half and inch to an inch depending on how wide the waist area is. I usually just tug it down a bit, though. The legs are long in the calf, so boots that swallowed Elliott's legs are now just... boots on Jason/Tim.

Posing is great, as you can see. He sits up just fine, despite how the stringing. It takes a while to get used to the joints, though. No torso-joint, which will take a while to get used to. He creaks, but isn't squeaky. A very solid-feeling doll. I LOVE the detail on him-- especially on the face. Their faces have so much depth and they photograph so well. Positioning eyes on them is a little tricky, actually. I think some 10mm might be in order... But 14mm fit! They look decent, and not awful. I put the metallics in Rei's head, and they looked too dark.

The heads go on with an O-ring, which is sort of cool... but I need to figure it out first. Luckily they came with a manual. There are two little plates on their heads-- one of the back near the neck, and one of the inside near the neck joint. For some reason, Kahn Mystic's embedded metal plate on the back near the neck is like, a third of the size of Rei's. Huh.

I love Latidoll. So. Much. They make boys.

Feel free to ask any questions. There's really not enough info on these dolls. :3 I can take more pictures too.