Integrity Toys: Obsession Convention 2021 Day 2 (Poppy Parker Style Lab, Final Gala) *Our Thoughts*

[@robbearoz]

I agree the theme was off , I’d love a couple more of the poppy’s and fashion but the resale prices are crazy lol ! Love the videos on the convention , you guys do an awesome job

[@ToyChat]

Thanks for watching! Poppy seems to be the most popular dolls out of the convention. But since everything has high edition sizes, hopefully resale prices will be a bit lower this time. If you're in the club this year, there might be lottery opportunities for the leftover convention dolls. -Sang

[@pumpkinspiced]

I was soo looking forward to your videos regarding this year’s convention. You did a great job, as usual!

[@ToyChat]

Yay! Thanks for watching! We'll try to keep it an annual tradition :) -Sang

[@tinaburdo7739]

Great job, and cannot thank you enough for all the work you guys do making your videos. Also agree more Poppy's! Look forward to The Haul episode. :)

[@douglaswild3852]

This ADELE!! Omg!!! Just LOVE her!! I did not attend this convention and I can only imagine her secondary market price! 😩 Hope I can someday acquire her without needing a co-signer! Lol Thanks for your amazing detailed convention insight. Great job! 👍🏼

[@ToyChat]

Adele was gorgeous! Great way to end the convention. I'd imagine walking into the ballroom at the final gala and seeing that Adele in the center of the table... I'd faint! Since there's so many of her, I hope you can find a reasonable price for her! Just wait until she starts shipping and be on the lookout for a deal. It's all about luck and timing and a nice collector selling. Thank you for watching our coverage :) -Sang

[@DIVINEADVENTURER]

I really admire the way you explain the FR collections. Thank You.🥰

[@Drewski217]

Catching up!!! (Also, wrong video but thanks for the shout-out 😘) I think what's happened is that IT has experienced probably it's biggest year of growth during this very hard pandemic time where they can't pump things out like usual and it being a very lean doll year has everyone *extra* critical and that's *before* the higher cost on everything. I do get people wanting tried and true favorite styles but I always appreciate them pushing the envelope for things even still. Hopefully the next year has us seeing more dolls in general and things going smoother for sure. As an outsider to the con the only dolls I feel truly sad about missing are Adele, Alejandra and the style lab Ginger but I will be ok in the long run.

[@ToyChat]

Definitely. Like you said, it's been a lean year for dolls. So I think there's high expectations for this convention. There's always been the idea of conventions having the best dolls of the year (which isn't really true, maybe more dolls all at once). It's really hard to please the masses when there's fewer selections. IT's growth in recent years is partially due to them taking risks with their designs. Maybe this convention being the largest one, with the most amount of first-timers, wasn't the best place to be too experimental with the designs. -Sang

[@luvlyleo2836]

I love the IT doll line. This line is beautiful ❤️

[@abakerful]

Thank you for such a great review video. I definitely had to have Adele, but many of the other dolls fell short for me. Some of the WClub dolls we got this year were way more glamorous than the Convention dolls. I blame the sports theme! Hopefully next year they will bring a more cohesive theme.

[@ToyChat]

Adele overall, seems to be the most popular of the convention dolls. And for good reason. It does seems like the convention offerings was a mixed bag to most people. Still looking forward to what the Club has left in store for us. Can't believe the club year is almost over! -Sang

[@happyyappyhome8034]

Thank you so much for providing this video for the Integrity Toys 2021 Convention! For those of us that were not able to obtain a ticket, this video has been very helpful to see what the IT convention provided for their collectors. Question...Being a first time W Club member this year, does IT provide any options for non attending convention W Club members to purchase leftover convention dolls? Thank you and wishing you both the Best of Success with your channel! :)

[@ToyChat]

Hi there, thanks for watching! Once all the convention dolls have shipped, IT will hold lotteries for any remaining stock of unsold convention dolls through the W Club. There's not guarantee on what is left over or which dolls will be available via lottery. But since all the convention dolls are such high edition sizes this year, there's a high possibility they'll have leftover lotteries for some of the convention dolls this year. There's no outright way to buy leftover dolls unless there are still stock left after the lotteries. -Sang

[@onlyalisaawilliams]

Loved the Dolly conversation from both of you 💗💜💗💜

[@ToyChat]

Awe thanks for watching! :) -Sang

[@5um0fMe]

Thanks for a fun video guys! I’d love to hear more of your thoughts on things and more info that was only shared in the live streams. A podcast wouldn’t be as fun as a vid cuz with a vid you can show us on screen what doll you’re talking about and the past dolls you reference from memory. Is there an IT doll fan Facebook group? That would be fun. I’d love to not only see amateur redress pics (I don’t have time or patience or talent to compete with those people on Flickr who set up photo shoots for their dolls. I just want to see how other people redress their dolls and show them my redressed dolls. We need a Facebook group!

[@ToyChat]

Thanks for the input! If we did a KZbin podcast, we would try to include images and references while we talk. But we are still discussing that possibility. You should definitely check out the W Club forums if you're a member. Also there's quite a few IT Facebook groups. Unfortunately we aren't a member with any of them currently. So you might have to do your own research on that. -Sang

[@5um0fMe]

@@ToyChat I joined a few of the IT fan groups on Facebook. Not sure why I never sought them out before!

[@douglaswild3852]

“ Walking On Gold” Adele from the 2018 convention was also done in a sun kissed skin tone. Also a beautiful doll.

[@ToyChat]

Thank you! We actually both have that doll. Walking on Gold Adele looks darker since we saw her in person while Sovereign Adele was just through the promo images. It was hard for us to make that connection through the different lightings. -Sang

[@francesdipasqua7610]

I attended the W Club event. The centerpiece was a disappointment. The doll was pretty but the outfit didn’t live up to her and I couldn’t convince myself to buy her. I did pay for the shipping on the event doll since I did like her skin color and hair enough to accept the white eyeliner and the colors of the outfit were appealing enough to me. I do like Elyse and Adele and if there are any extras, I hope I can score them.

[@ToyChat]

Seems like that's a common comment about Rayna. We will be seeing a lot of her clothes on eBay and on the forums. She has potential but it does suck to have to redress her when she should look beautiful out of box. Just my opinion, of course. I think we will be seeing extras for lottery. The edition sizes are quite large and the reception for the dolls were lukewarm compared to previous years. Elyse, unfortunately, won't be offered for lottery since she was a souvenir doll. But I think you can find a decent secondary price for her though. Just keep an eye out on the forums when she arrives. -Sang

[@dwightburch6691]

I think the Poppy Design box remind me of Chanel woven material

[@patricerogers5299]

i love them all. :~) But, oh so expensive. :~( BTW, I'm sending you this comment from the fuuutuuurrrre... owwww. :~))

[@ToyChat]

Hello ~~~ Are the dolls still expensive in the future? We are hoping prices will go down after the shipping crisis ends. If not, we hope dolls will come with more stuff! Thanks for watching :) -Sang

[@ralex3697]

Adele is very elegant. I don’t care for the Jason Wu offering. Not for me. I wish I could pay 180.00. I wouldn’t complain I agree with the theme idea over random dolls Thank you for the excellent synopsis. Your opinions are very respectable

[@5um0fMe]

Right? The $180 price tag seems like a dream when you compare it to the secondary market prices us plebes have to consider!

[@ToyChat]

Awe thank you for the kind words. Adele is very pretty. I hope the club will get more FR dolls like her, offered as a club doll. I'm really loving the royalty theme that Graceful Reign Vanessa and Sovereign Adele has. I hope to see more of that. -Sang

[@MauricyoNavarro]

I dont know who is calling the shots at IT, but someone needs to wrangle in the designers and shut them down when their designs dont follow the theme. IM TIRED

[@ToyChat]

Awe they have had a lot of success with their previous releases. They should choose a more concrete theme next time so the designs will be more cohesive. -Sang

[@ChrisAndAurora2011]

This was my first convention, and it was meh. Not enough dolls like you said and no cohesive theme, I LOVED the Gingers; I'm a huge fan of her, so I had all my Ginger needs met. But where are the BOYS?! NOT A SINGLE BOY SINCE THE TWINS, what's the tea there? Representation doesn't just include women and skin color, male dolls in a predominantly female doll market are ALSO just as underrepresented. I tried asking why are there not more male dolls and I didn't get a straight answer. Like, from a business perspective, tell us why you don't make more male dolls. Are you trying to perfect screenings? Does the factory not like to do male doll hair? Why not come out with a line of long hair male dolls? Long hair would be easier, no? Give me Aquaman, Legolas and Aragorn, Jared Leto - if the fashions and screenings are right, I'll buy!

[@ToyChat]

The Gingers were gorgeous ;). I think IT is struggling with producing more dolls this year because factory restraints. The year is already almost over and we only seen a handful of dolls. Still no mainline FR and Poppy collections yet! I think they would be proactive in producing more diverse collections of dolls once they are able to. Feels like they are sticking with a handful of dolls/characters that they know will sell. The reception of the Monarchs have been a bit lukewarm so I hope Vaughn is working on a killer collection. Other lines should include Hommes since people have been asking. But because collections are shrinking, any boys or less popular molds tend to get the cut first. Hopefully 2022 will have more doll offerings that will satisfy more collectors. -Sang