Is Forces of Destiny good?

A pile of colorful beads.
Click the next great Forces of Destiny doll:
Padme’s decoy who gets blown up on the landing pad - / jennynicholson
Zam Wesell - / jennyenicholson
Shmi Skywalker, whose youth, frankly, probably doesn’t include anything you’d want children to play out with dolls - / spider_jewel
The tauntaun which maybe was female - / spiderjewel
Inexplicably every character but Rose Tico whom they have featured in multiple shorts and whom they have yet to even announce the vaguest intent to make a doll of despite making other Last Jedi dolls, such as a THIRD Rey and even Kylo Ren - / jennynicholsonvids

[@archvaldor]

THE PORG IS NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING.

[@ShaunCheah]

If only we all could meet our end at the bottom of a sea of plushies and hot takes.

[@brianwild4350]

Archvaldor's Warcraft Hacks ihhhvgu

[@sixthsith7720]

Brian Wild YES!

[@mathieuleader8601]

drowning in an almighty ocean of ads

[@alfiewillis4893]

JUST A NERVOUS REACTION PLEASE DON'T RESCUE ME

[@jackedfilms]

A Kylo Ren doll without his bare Great Plains torso is obstruction of justice.

[@dylanthehopelessrema]

jacked films you mean miscarriage of justice, right?

[@mindface0012]

No obstruction, no collusion

[@mikedasik462]

@@dylanthehopelessrema you mean ben swolo

[@thanatoast]

Another unrealistic standard for men.

[@tgirl_fangs]

@@mikedasik462 Adam Driver isn't even swol, he's just very wide, like someone placed some PlayDoh on a flat surface and pushed down on it.

[@lisaparamonova3664]

I feel like Jenny's genuine understanding of what children, and specifically girls, look for in toys and media heals a part of my soul that's always felt frustrated at how I was perceived

[@nanahuatli2144]

It's so comforting to see someone popular celebrate girly things instead of deriding them. Even her criticism feels validating, because it's based on an actual understanding of those themes.

[@maleahlock]

Hear hear!

[@Crystal2193]

Right? I never thought about these things, but as soon as Jenny says something, it seems so obvious. It's sad that whoever designed these dolls either didn't know or didn't care about how little girls play with toys. Also, it sucks that the way to make toys for "empowering" girls means that they have to be tough and all about justice, and any aspect of fashion or drama play is clearly considered 'low' play.

[@swan7128]

I know, it's amazing. Usually media either talks down or makes fun of young girls (and teenage girls too) so much, and it's refreshing to see someone who actually respects it, even when she's lightly poking fun at it. Girls are so often made fun of for every single thing they do, and I love that jenny doesn't do that, and instead understands it and explains it in a completely understandable way to outside people who may not get it.

[@engelberthovel8566]

Seriously!! I was an only child with very few friends my age, and my mom, awesome as she is, was always very much the “feminist tomboy” type when she was a kid. I loved dolls and pretty much no one around me really understood why they appealed to me, so I always felt kind of weird and embarrassed. It makes me really happy to see someone fundamentally understand and explain why exactly little kids (both boys and girls!) enjoy dolls, and how specifically they like to play with them without giving it a sexist or “passive” spin. A little girl enjoying dolls doesn’t mean she loves traditional gender roles or is obsessed with her appearance, it just means she likes playing with little plastic humans and having them mimic how regular sized humans act and talk to each other in fun and interesting ways. It’s a pretty normal instinct for kids, both male and female, and I wish it wouldn’t have all these weird “sexist social conditioning” ideas assigned to it. I was definitely a strong believer in gender equality as a kid, and my Barbies used to go on fun little adventures as spies and explorers just as often as they dressed up for parties. Just because it was fun putting little clothes and accessories on little people and having them take care of even littler pets doesn’t mean the plastic people brainwashed me into having no ambitions beyond looking good.

[@kn1ght-788]

It'd be hilarious if the “Mean Girl” Character was just literally a sith lord? The comedic potential??!???!

[@rhodopisdenile8977]

And then for extra drama she can be pressured by her father to be all powerful and shit like that

[@swimmyswim417]

@@rhodopisdenile8977 her dad keeps pressuring her to unleash her sith powers to rule the galaxy, and she interprets this by unleashing her sith powers to become prom queen. I love it.

[@mariamatedei]

I love what they did in the Phineas and Ferb crossover where one of the characters you probably would least expect to be attracted by the dark side becomes a sith lord but when it happens you're just like oh, huh, I guess I'm on board

[@benosick9927]

Asaj Ventres as a mean girl trope would be very very funny.

[@hatemteirelbar9510]

@@benosick9927 like Ventress crossed with Regina George. On Wednesdays we wear -pink- black!

[@hanzycake]

I showed my 10 year old sister my Rey Forces of Destiny doll just after opening her and the very first thing she said was “I don’t like how she has rubber pants. It looks weird.”

[@allnaturalfigjam310]

When I was a kid I had two of the same mermaid barbie (coincidence, two people bought me the same birthday present) and I never played with them at all UNTIL my mom bought me a packet of realistic-looking plastic sharks, about 20-30cm long each. From then on every bathtime was just barbie Jaws, absolute carnage, indiscriminate murder all the time. Mom later told me that those sharks were the best $10 she ever spent 😂 Point is, you gotta leave kids play options open because they won't always play the way you expect them to.

[@SpiffanyWolfe]

I can attest to this. I had a bunch of playmobil as a kid that I would play with intermittently, that was until I went round my friend’s house and she had gotten a playmobil plane (like a plane you could put the little figures in, it was pretty big). From there, every time we would play with playmobil it would all be plane crashes, robberies and home invasions, basically the most traumatic stuff we could come up with for our little playmobil families to go through. Kids play with toys in weird ways if you give them enough free reign.

[@biptari]

@SpiffanyWolfe did we have the same childhood? my brother also had a playmobil plane and we would play by making the plane crash, i would always use my toy dinosaurs and Toothless to cause carnage and crash it and he would even make his toy ambulances come and confirm the deaths of the passengers

[@SpiffanyWolfe]

@@biptari omg I think we did 😂

[@divyatulsi1520]

🤣🤣🤣 relatable

[@erismason3441]

Old comment but I used to take my Barbie dolls all apart (I have no memory of this). My mom said I was probably going to become a scientist because of my curiosity, while dad was betting on serial killer lol. Don't worry, I'm a neuroscience student now.

[@chafinofsuburbia]

Must be hell for Sabine to find a cardigan that matches her Mandalorian armour.

[@aceshighdueceslow]

not only is Sabine a well-known artist, she is also a talented seamstress on the dl

[@puffedrice4624]

The only reason anyone would buy a kylo ren fashion doll would be to take its clothes off, so obviously this toyline is a bust.

[@frostingfluff]

I hate how true this is.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

“so obviously this toy line is a bust” (looks at Kylo’s chest region) ... I dunno about that...

[@FroggyMosh]

@@frostingfluff Heh.... It's almost like people are actually human or something. ;)

[@nbv6975]

Some of y’all clearly never had to make up your own complex storylines using your nail polish bottles and a single headless plastic fairy doll and it shows.

[@KOTEBANAROT]

I made "dragons" out of cloth pins. I had stupid amount of fun with those, honestly.

[@ZephyrinSkies]

@@KOTEBANAROT my dragon was my Flick Flak watch.

[@heyitzmae]

my sister and i used our barbies and created a story about social unrest and revolution

[@Elneco1]

My mums lipstick was a very good substitute for blood My toys went through some cutthroat adventures lol

[@lizziehn5928]

My nail polish bottles were all singers, I made them dance to music on the radio. I was a strange child.

[@helmetlesssolairedotpng4220]

"leias best friend on alderaan" wow another doll who canonically dies in a huge explosion

[@oscarlavergne6919]

epic

[@kharnthecuddly3483]

E🅱️ic

[@kharnthecuddly3483]

@@Spam181 E🅱️ic

[@zafool4997]

E🅱️I🆑Y 🅰️WESOME

[@jermuhh3359]

Honestly, doing Padme without her fabulous, extravagant, glamorous and fashion-forward outfits and gowns is offensive. No little girl wants jumpsuit blaster Padme. I would buy Padme and all her fabulous gowns if they just made it happen. I want the queen of Naboo gown, all her other gowns, her little less loud politician wear, and instead of that vest, that jumpsuit outfit needs that fabulous scarf thing. And not only for the fashion but also for story-telling reasons, her wedding gown and the gown she was wearing during her funeral.

[@mastermarkus5307]

And seriously, besides little girls, doll collectors in general would be ALL OVER that.

[@Valentyne90]

In 1999 they released a set of Queen Amidala fashion dolls

[@LilPinkFuzzyMonster]

I had a queen amidala doll growing up. She had the facepaint and that red velvet tunic and dress. Was awesome until my dog chewed her legs off.

[@lydiabowen3184]

Master Markus i

[@pantyhatgirl7568]

Couldnt agree more

[@fusionspace175]

Meagan found a sith holocron and is drawn to the dark side. "Dammit Meagan! You were supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them!" "What-ever."

[@beanieguitarguy4070]

“You were like, my BESTIE, Meagan! I like, totes loved you!”

[@albertskoften1452]

I mean, I feel like you're totally underestimating my power right now, okay?

[@Misora7303]

Meagan, you are like, the worst!

[@yeethittter1285]

"Just cut it out already, Meagan! I totally have the high ground!"

[@wesleyoldham4222]

"You think you're so much better than us, just because you live on the high ground side of town."

[@ShadowoftheDude]

Not even a Star Wars fan... but goddamn do I want a rose gold lightsaber.

[@kasaneteto4904]

Sounds so lovely

[@bismuthcrystal9658]

Jedi Fallen Order was not nearly long enough for me to fully enjoy my beautiful filigreed rose gold and pink lightsaber.

[@XescoPicas]

Same

[@raycearcher5794]

Wait so girls' toys are all about fun, colorful clothing, talking, and emotional conflict? Is pro wrestling for girls?

[@DoubleSemicircle]

Pro wrestling is for everyone.

[@oof-rr5nf]

Have you seen the female wrestlers? * fans self and sweats in bisexual *

[@matthillfromcollege4109]

Rayce Archer yep

[@Brujoneja]

I loved pro wrestling as a little girl

[@heathercalun4919]

“G.L.O.W.” Anyone?

[@jadeallisonhollingsworth]

Okay, but just saying…I would LOVE a purple lightsaber with a rose gold handle.

[@Kenfren]

So would I, and I'm an adult man

[@albertskoften1452]

@@Kenfren So was Mace Windu.

[@victormunhozzz]

Why can't I just have a pink one straight up

[@liamross340]

@@victormunhozzz dudebro star wars fans would cry

[@hoodedman6579]

@@liamross340 I sincerely doubt that any large amount of people would care at all.

[@beloooga_whale]

Honestly I would murder for a Padmé doll with any of her beautiful outfits. Like c'mon guys it's right there in front of you.

[@Meloncov]

And make them interchangeable across the line, so you can have Jedi Leia or Rey awkwardly wearing a fancy dress to infiltrate a party.

[@ajgreen1997]

There’s a Queen Amidala one! Or at least their used to be. I remember having one as a kid

[@killingmewillnotbringbacky9177]

My favorite is the sexy senator outfit. www.quora.com/Why-was-Padm%C3%A9-wearing-a-revealing-leather-dress-when-trying-to-reject-Anakin-by-the-fireside

[@cthulhuhoops]

I totally had a Padme doll in one of her gowns! It was BEAUTIFUL.

[@alexandraogilvie2168]

ajgreen1997 I had that one! My dad called her “Queen I’m-A-Doll-Uh”

[@RevolutionaryLoser]

One time I was with some people and a little girl had a Monster High. A lady said to the girl "Isn't this doll unrealistically skinny?" and the girl answered "Duh. She's dead."

[@fionatastic0.070]

Vincent Bullock this made me laugh harder than it probably should have

[@danielwarner3675]

that girl's gonna be fine in life

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

Vincent Bullock That girl is my fuckin’ hero.

[@punchupcoin2450]

She’s right tho

[@arlosteiner8382]

Kids know their shit

[@ShaunCheah]

"So Sabine's playmodes are pants-on, pants-off, no other options." Same.

[@dinothunder629]

ezra approves

[@Needler13]

andi le New mandalorian Jedi incoming

[@e.l.4409]

And that's canon.

[@dxanatos2]

So does Ketsu.

[@briggyb]

hahahahaha!!! Yep.

[@PrincessMadeira]

Honestly, I feel like pre-prequels Amadala with her handmaidens could be a great little show, like they have fabulous dresses, they have a palace, and there could be all sorts of drama and political intrigue (My dolls loved intrigue)

[@musicobsessive123]

for some reason (My dolls loved intrigue) took me out 😭

[@craftymuffin3066]

Exactly. The tie in doll line would be so good, too. As a child, I jealously coveted my cousin’s padme dolls. I still think about them sometimes.

[@doctorwholover1012]

I don't know why I don't see tons of little padme's running around every comic con, like I've never seen a "girl" star wars costume in any costume shop that wasn't a dull jumpsuit or Leia's white dress/bikini outfits, but padme has SO MANY epic fits!! That I would kill to wear as someone who watched star wars for the first time this year at age 23! I would have killed for those outfits as a kid 👀

[@GenJacoty]

Holy shit I wish they'd make that show with the Sith girl failing at killing everyone and them acting like she's just mean.

[@Saibellus]

random but thats a lot how sheego was in kim possible. like she has green evil glow hands and is always trying to axe kim but her and ron act like sheego is just rude.

[@leightonpetty4817]

And I want the schemes to range from like, “A Wile E. Coyote anvil held on a rope” to “Committing acts of Sith necromancy to resurrect Darth Plagueis”

[@zzuxon]

Dang you're smart. You just saw right to the core of the toy line's entire concept and broke down precisely why it doesn't work. This is one of my favorite videos of yours, and it's on something I'm not even interested in.

[@yakyonson7872]

zzuxon because it takes a true to genius to figure this out....

[@thomasjenkins7506]

that's kinda why people like her so much. she just kinda gets things and understands how they work. most people on youtube will harp on the technical aspects, but not really explore the psychology of the situation. it helps she's genuinely funny, too.

[@batwingsoda]

Jeremy Jones I mean defeminizing isn’t really the issue with the she-ra reboot or the doll line as much as it is a lack of compelling or interesting material to back them. feminizing won’t inherently make either properties better :/

[@quinnprice6991]

@Jeremy Jones did you even watch the video

[@user-wj6eq1cx7x]

@Jeremy Jones Lol you're talking out of your hole. No idea where you're even getting the unfeminine thing from.

[@quleughy]

So why hasn’t Disney hired Jenny Nicholson to their marketing department?

[@beanieguitarguy4070]

Because she has good ideas for the customer, not the shareholder.

[@oliviaspring9690]

@@beanieguitarguy4070 any idea that increases sales are good for the shareholder.

[@jessesmoot1285]

​@@oliviaspring9690 yea but caring and taking time to think takes time and money. Lot cheaper to slap some star wars toys in a purple box and hope the uncle rick market profits regardless of whether the kids end up enjoying it a ton

[@timothymclean]

​@@oliviaspring9690 Not really. To pick an obvious example, lowering prices increases sales but not necessarily revenue. There are also choices that would be good for consumers without necessarily increasing sales. "Anything that increases production costs" is an obvious one. Another obvious one, albeit less applicable to dolls, is being up-front and clear about the potential dangers a product poses instead of cramming them into a disclaimer that, for legal purposes, exists. And, of course, for every obvious example there are thousands of complicated, technical ones.

[@jimmysanders505]

It wouldn't matter. The core problems with these are that there aren't enough female characters that actually interact with each other and that there's not enough creative license with the characters' outfits. Those are both decisions made at the very top. So it'd be a different story if she replaced Kathleen Kennedy.

[@michaelbateman2563]

Kylo ren being a never nude is the best thing I have ever heard

[@JeMoederGamesJMG]

*camera pans to tobias crying in the shower*

[@oof-rr5nf]

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

[@David-bc4rh]

KyloRen joins a group for blue men.

[@austinbaccus]

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

[@SoyBioIogia]

now i HAVE to draw kylo crying in the shower in **the cutoffs**

[@saipandevo]

I know this is old, but something else that might play a bit into it is the lack of joints. If you look at the Monster High dolls, they have more joints than the average fashion doll- wrist, elbows, shoulders, neck, hips, and knees. If they want to play with the idea of action-adventure fashion dolls, then the dolls need a wider range of motion. The lack of arm joints is frustrating to look at in the Forces of Destiny dolls. Also, why is there no Twi' lek doll? Even before I was introduced to Star Wars, I knew what a Twi' Lek was and associated it with the series. It seems somewhat obvious, and they could even use a Sith one to introduce conflict.

[@timothymclean]

When my little cousins have their Monster High dolls get into fights, they just kind of swing them at each other. Granted, they are quite little indeed, and having highly poseable dolls is _definitely_ a plus for reasons other than striking action poses.

[@swimmyswim417]

Yeah. I was just barely too old to be into Monster High during its heyday, but I was always a little jealous that my little sister’s dolls had so much more potential in regards to posing and style because they had more joints and removable bits than my Barbies did. Granted, it also meant that we were more likely to lose poor Clawdine’s little hands and Cleo’s elbows might snap off completely, but still.

[@Jackk225]

As a kid I always viewed toys with “action features” as being worse than others, because it looked so fake that it broke my immersion from playing with them

[@rhodopisdenile8977]

Plus half of the time it made bending their limbs worst

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

Yeah, that was a terrible decision! I hate action features on dolls, especially dolls like those. They ruined them.

[@juliamavroidi8601]

in Momo: A Tale of Time there's a scene where the main character tries to play with a Barbie doll parody, but it's ruined, because it's a talking doll. "If she wouldn't have talked Momo could have imagined what she said and they could have had a wonderful conversation. It was the fact that she talked that ruined it" (quoting from memory) That's a problem with a lot of gimmicky dolls: By trying to make your play about what they can do, they only highlight what they can't

[@doopdoop9258]

unrelated but omg momo!!!! i’ve never heard another person speak about it lol. but big agree, that passage is the best summation of this concept

[@GrndAdmiralThrawn]

I know, right? Like, the most “action features” I want is for it to be able to shoot something from a spring in its arm. A blaster, a ball of energy, its own hand maybe. But that’s it.

[@MxGerryNava]

AHAHAHAHAH I lost it at "And Rey comes with Kylo Ren"

[@niveditatewary2012]

YES!!!

[@LivingformyJesus]

I'm crying.

[@maddyperson1498]

Reylo for life

[@TheStarToTheRight]

Themexicansnob SAME

[@entropyzero5588]

This reminds me of the old joke where a girl asks her parents for a Terminator* figure to play with her Barbie and whe asked why she wants that when Barbie already comes with Ken, the little girl answers that no, she only fakes it when she's with him… *or any other "manly" character

[@MiniNymph]

As someone who played with colourful beads as a child, I can confirm this is a thing. I had a self insert bead who dealt with all the deep psychological problems in the story.

[@negligible_reality]

i didn't play with beads as a kid, but i did play with bottle caps. i would draw little faces and stuff on them with sharpie, give them names and personalities, it was unironically a fun time lol. i remember making up a lot of really intense and crazy storylines with my little bottle caps.

[@kylefrank638]

Okay, if anyone else remembers being a 3-10 year old, back me up on this... When you were a little kid, and were playing with your dolls and/or action figures, when you wanted to make them move their arms or legs, you just moved them with your fingers, right? I never got the point of knobs or gears or special actions inside the figure, even at that age. It usually just sacrificed pose-ability for something you can do with your own hands...

[@neosaneo2]

yeah! you just...move them.

[@1TW1-m5i]

The one I ever thought had any merit was one with a fast karate chop motion you could not do with your hands. But even that was mostly because it didn't limit the limb movement much. Pretty sure it's a marketable feature not a useful one.

[@Flowtail]

Kyle Frank Yes yes yes forever

[@emjenkins464]

Especially back when Barbie dolls had bend and snap knees so they could sit and have weird fucked up legs

[@Cdr2002]

LEGO KILLER MOTH

[@laurahtje]

You really understand what little girls and collectors want from their dolls. I have a 5 year old niece that I watch/play with every weekend. She LOVES the Monster High dolls for all the reasons you said. She has 26 of them but she always needs more because of potential storylines and because they are all so unique. She loves Catty Noir because she is a pop star and so she spends a lot of time singing to me which is SO adorable. I think the Monster High movies are cute. They have good messages on accepting people even though they look weird. And I like that the non verbal Zombie girl is the genius. My Niece also loves to play with my brother's old Star Wars action figures from the 70s and 80s. She told me they were over 100 years old. lol She makes up all sorts of stories with them because they are small enough to put in doll houses and other playsets. She would probably like the Leia doll just because she recognizes her but would be disappointed with the clothes being molded on. She watches Clone Wars and has seen the first three original movies. Her favorite scene is in Jedi when Leia rides the speeder bike. I collect Monster High dolls. (i'm goth) I have 15. I also collect the mins and the vinyls. You should do a Go fund me and make your own line of dolls. You really see into all our souls.

[@kissarococo2459]

I hear you. I bought a monster high doll for myself because she was on sale and a cat. I promised to myself I would only get that one because I had just gotten rid of my old Barbie-hoard. Now mysteriously I have seven of the montser high dolls!!!!

[@kayhaven4710]

Dude I'm jealous of your collection. Also the webasiods are pretty decent. I haven't seen any of the movies though.

[@1TW1-m5i]

She should be the one telling Disney what to do here.

[@WolfJulia2001]

(I'm goth) LOL

[@joshualuke7003]

@@WolfJulia2001 Goths are people too.

[@Jackaxed]

"...and Rey comes with Kylo Ren." It took me a second to register that but I literally did a spittake. Jenny is both savage and correct.

[@glassisland]

I had the same reaction - it was lucky I hadn't just taken a sip of coffee.

[@timothymclean]

I mean, she is literally incorrect in the sense that Rey did not come with Kylo Ren. She's only metaphorically correct, and only through certain metaphors.

[@courtneya5463]

"this is janice she wears three different outfits" LMAO

[@Sharpe1502]

Kylo Ren looks like the kind of lady who gets pissed off of a coupon doesn’t work for a store and demands to speak to a manager.

[@CW257866]

I laughed. Spot on.

[@LARKXHIN]

"I WAS TOLD...BY SUPREME LEADER SNOKE - I MEAN APPLECARE."

[@John-sz7vf]

And then he throws a tantrum and destroys the register with his lightsaber

[@dankerbell]

karen ren

[@nectarinn3]

So a KaRen?

[@ewanmacdonald8466]

My forces of destiny doll is Miss Watto. She does the make up for all the slaves on Tatooine before they go to sale but she has dreams of working at the bubble opera on Coruscant. She looks like exactly like her Uncle Watto but with a blonde bob and red stilettos. Her bonus wardrobe includes her theatre costume which is just the dress Fairy God Mother wears in Shrek 2

[@TitularHeroine]

Miss Watto is *goals.* It's now my dream to grow up to be as glamorous as her.

[@starthelotus3453]

Miss Watto got her masters in motherlogical studies from the University of Servington

[@livebackwards]

You had me at "needlessly savage takedown of an unpopular but pretty benign doll line"

[@bassemb]

Why on earth can't we expose Kylodoll's torso like in the movie with the high waist pants

[@morganmae8396]

Bassem Boustany if you have some acrylic paint and a Dremel you could make it so

[@RatKingShriggy]

yeah... what about character integrity, huh @ disney??

[@ZundelArt]

Because we want our kids not to be traumatized.

[@mastermarkus5307]

@@ZundelArt I don't know why everyone made fun of him so much. I thought he was hot, even with the high pants.

[@ZundelArt]

@@mastermarkus5307 Thing of taste I guess... I honestly was thrown off by just how t-of-place this whole thing felt. It's just felt like we need an obligatory scene where our female main sees the potential love intrest topless and it's a little objectyfining. Imagine outrage with doing something alike with female counterpart. Beside, again, I'm simply not interested in seeing it. Just a thing of taste

[@MissMCwuffles]

It’s kind of sad that Disney Star Wars makes such an effort to distance itself from the prequels because it has some of the most beautiful fashion for some of the characters.

[@CNWhatImSaiyan]

All of it being Padmé; she just ate, constantly😅

[@negligible_reality]

@@CNWhatImSaiyan Padme is a baddie, full stop! She ate and left no crumbs!!! Iconic. 💅✨🌟

[@starthelotus3453]

@@negligible_reality They didn't give her much of a prominent personality in the prequels (they certainly fixed that in The Clone Wars!) but they pulled out every stop when it came to her slayage 😌

[@madisongillam5366]

1. Yes, I collect dolls 2. I love seeing someone who isn’t me talk about dolls for 30 minutes. 3. Monster High is amazing 4. The only doll I was tempted to get from this line is Kylo ren. Because he’s amazing and I want to dress him as matt the radar technician

[@jackiepierce6314]

you probably have to spray paint his hair, since it's molded plastic. Which is sad since Iwanted to make a L'oreal commercial with Kylo Ren.

[@AnimeOjou]

@Jackie Pierce Truly another sin against this line.

[@madisongillam5366]

Jackie Pierce actually, I repaint dolls fairly often, and if you use acetone to remove the original paint first, normal acrylic works fine

[@krystalfrazee]

Pinkrabbitears 1 I would pay for a Matt the Radar Technician doll!!

[@NerdyGamerGal]

"'Ugh, she's so mean, she's like the worst.' But she's actively a sith who's trying to kill them." 🤣

[@kendrajade6688]

Like Winx.

[@juliamavroidi8601]

@@kendrajade6688 I was gonna comment that (still disappointed that Jenny shelved the Winx video)

[@GrndAdmiralThrawn]

It’s Barriss, who’s disillusioned with the Jedi order and trying to get the other girls to defect, but they just roll their eyes and huff. “Look, Barriss, if you don’t want to come to my party just say so. You don’t have to go off on one of your rants about corruption and lack of freedom.” 🙄

[@claytonharbaugh308]

I am your 420th like

[@kajraske2002]

Having this be the first and only appearance of Mara Jade in new canon would be the ultimate troll move. Just astoundingly delightful.

[@JosephDavies]

I feel like they already trolled us by almost giving us Jan Ors as Jyn Erso and Kyle Katarn as Cassian Andor. Given how that turned out for those characters, perhaps this was for the best. Still, this seems to be a pattern, so you might have something there.

[@KronnangDunn]

I thought The Last Jedi was the ultimate troll move...

[@mrormrs5927]

KronnangDunn if you mean the old meaning of ultimate as in final. It was the troll equivalent of shooting yourself in the head to annoy someone else.

[@wowcringe4008]

Kaj Raske so many more " Disney ruined star wars" videos

[@blakebonecutter]

Astoundingly Delightful, Seymour...

[@scifikoala]

For some reason this reminds me when I was a kid and a relative bought me poorly made teenage Mary Kate and Ashley dolls. And I didn't know who the hell they were and they were slightly off in size and clothing like these, so they became the dolls I only used when my Barbie dramas became so elaborate that I needed more minor charecters

[@Albeit_Jordan]

22:16 "Children are very imaginative, if you gave them a pile of colorful beads they could probably form some kind of game out of them, that doens't mean they're a great children's toy." When I was a kid I literally used to tape fistful-sized bundles of popsticks together with clear sticky-tape and play with it like it was a spaceman action figure. I didn't even draw a face on it or anything.

[@emilylike-the-soup2502]

I had a pair of nail clippers - the safety kind - and I decided that it was a mermaid.

[@slimbo3774]

I had little bits of sticky-tac I would "borrow" from posters at school. They make fine figures if you're bored at your desk

[@goatdeer8403]

I used to imagine the letters I was writing had personalities and when I erased them it was killing them off

[@negligible_reality]

I used to draw faces on plastic bottle caps when I was a kid. They all had names and personalities as well.

[@jadesfire7920]

My mom gave me a Pringles can of old toothbrushes she had saved to use for house cleaning. They were a family and they all had names.

[@miguelsandov999]

"Rey comes with Kylo Ren" *smashes like button*

[@Taschenschieber]

I hate how every joke Jenny makes is absolutely, 100% plausible.

[@adriannespring8598]

You are not wrong. She absolutely does!

[@qwertyuoip1234]

Luke comes with .. Yoda?

[@Emppu_T.]

Distant squealing

[@lisasowa1195]

Qwertyuoip 123 don’t you mean Yoda comes with Luke

[@missolympiabinewski]

It feels like they had a built-in setting: a Jedi Academy for younger padawans. It could be largely female characters with a few boys thrown in. You could do alien characters. Flesh out all the dynamics among the students, everyone is struggling to come to grips with their growing powers.

[@ThreadBomb]

It would be a Jedi Academy by day, Sith Academy by night. Grey Jedi would either attend both schools, and be exhausted, or neither school, and end up dropping out to work in a store.

[@kyrroti]

There was an arc in Clone Wars with a bunch of padawans. They would be great for some kid toys.

[@desdes5622]

professorvanderjuice that's a really cool idea! :)

[@bearpuns5910]

And then they all get killed by Anakin in the final episode.

[@1TW1-m5i]

All her ideas are fantastic here. Her idea for a series would be great, and it's a pity they didn't do that, as even if they do it later, it's already to late for them to work them into the movies. Unless they run the movies into the ground by not taking a break from the main story after this. (Just let the galaxy have some peace for once)

[@thecatladytm7172]

I'm just wondering why they didn't use Hera or Asoka, they're both involved in Clone Wars and Rebels. Are they saying that they're not marketable to kids? Because I find that very wrong. As a little girl who watched Clone wars, Asoka was the cute, bubbly young padawan to Anakin who had a great dynamic with him, then grew up and had to face her former master who had fallen to the dark side with the skills she's learned on both on her own and from him, and Hera is an independent but also caring person who is a pilot AND has a romantic interest they could market her with because apparently death means nothing to Disney doll lines. Also, they both cannonically met. They exist in the same time as Leia, but older than her because Leia is actually pretty young in Rebels.

[@morganqorishchi8181]

It would cost more money to make plastic moulds that could render Twileks correctly. Lightly modifying existing human doll production to make Uncanny Valley Rey is much cheaper.

[@frejo1931]

theyre both in season two!

[@thecatladytm7172]

@@frejo1931 Are they? Cool! I don't actually watch it so I made this comment purely off of the video, lol.

[@tabbiexcat]

I feel like maybe they wanted to market to the “brushable hair” demographic of toys? Of course you can’t brush the hair of a Twi’lek or Togruta but it would still be really cool!

[@turtlie7309]

@@tabbiexcat I feel like the brushable hair thing is sorta weird as a selling point since most of the characters have their hair up, or it’s too short to style, but I see your point

[@MathewWalls]

Does anyone actually like action features? I know they look great in commercials, but I remember as a child I always found them underwhelming and would have preferred more poseable dolls. The exception, of course, being missiles, because those generally don't affect posability and actually work pretty well. The ones (like these) that just make them move their arm up and down are universally disappointing.

[@storageheater]

He-Man was bizarrely good value for a toy series that existed just to sell you the toy series I think. There was a serpent-themed He-Man one that you took his head off, filled his chest cavity with water, and then when you pressed in his head he functioned as a darling little plant mister. I suppose that comes under missiles really but it was the one I was keen on (did Ram Man have a springloaded leg bounce thing? That seems fairly ok, so long as all the ramming is vertical.) There was a skunk thing whose "action" was that his head was made out of really smelly and unpleasantly soft plastic, but you kind of had to use your imagination that it smelled worse than action figure plastic. Crucially few of these quirks appeared like giant levers in the toy's back, and didn't interfere with the standard aspects of that sort of figure. Oh god, and something that was like a multilimbed alien lego guy? And there was a red one that was even odder. I didn't really watch the show but those were fantastic, even if they barely count as action features ("you can unclip his head and put two arms growing out of there!" is an action feature to me, at any rate.) Then the other one I had was a Thundercats one that had lightup eyes, but you had to power it by pressing a gigantic plastic capsule containing the battery (I can no longer picture what the in-universe packaging claimed it was but I think it could be worn on a finger?) into its back. I think it may have had the "press switch to make arms move up and down" as a bonus for what that's worth. I do remember being really passionate about Thundercats as a kid, but I can't think of a single good reason why

[@empire_of_sand]

DUDE. I always thought this but assumed I was alone. Thank you!

[@beanieguitarguy4070]

I was more interested in the vehicles/sets than the action figures.

[@KuueenKumi]

I always hated them! They would be stuck in some dumb, legs-spread-wide stance and were impossible to stand up and pose, and for times when I wanted my dolls to have like, chill moments, they always looked insane and unable to relax. Plus they're way worse at pulling off varieties of fashions. _(Barbie connoisseur from 1996-2002)_

[@GhostHelwig]

I collected a lot of dolls over the years, and I hated most action moves. But I did have this one Bret Hart doll that you could wind up his arm and when you let go he’d uppercut really hard. I loved him, both because of and except for the fact that I kept accidentally hurting my older sister with him. Lol. Most of time though, the action features really were just annoying. I tried to use them but they were so useless and bizarre.

[@regularjoe5517]

When I was little, I loved shopkins, and my storylines were always about some evil mayor taking over a town. He would always kill/maim/torture his citizens as examples and my little team of shopkin carrots and dumplings would Take Him Down and literally kill him. Little girls just want violence to enact on their dolls. Physical, mental, or otherwise.

[@ntheflesh5687]

I remember my sister and I played “zombie apocalypse” with our shopkinz. There would be one that wound infect all the other ones because it was expired or something and then there would be a couple of them that would survive, but i don’t remember if they all lived or died though lol.

[@homegrowncozycrochet]

I only played with animal toys as a kid and every time it was them trying to escape The Wolves. I never had any wolf toys, but they were a daily terror. 😂

[@Pizzacade]

Most toy companies dont pay attention to child psychology. This is why the only toy concepts that HAVE stuck around are the good ones, like fashion dolls, Legos, and small cars.

[@thedeviantguy]

And it’s likely that the companies that have survived didn’t pay much attention to child psychology either, but instead accidentally chose to make compelling toys by chance

[@0042dt]

I sincerely hope there is a product manger at Disney, one who LOST an internal debate about the direction of the Forces of Destiny product line, who feels gloriously vindicated by this video. And shares it with his/her coworkers.

[@PassTheMarmalade1957]

I can just imagine the reaction after that very poorly considered announcement at the fan convention - "Star Wars stuff for CHILDREN? Everyone knows that this colourful fictional universe populated by space pirates, goofy-looking aliens, and wizards with lazer-swords is far too serious to be appreciated by CHILDREN!"

[@ConnorNotyerbidness]

Lady Marmalade well there was the movies where the main character slaughtered native villagers who he easily overpowered. Or the movie that followed where he slaughtered children Oh or the movie featuring s terrorist eho tortures prisoners. Oh or the tv show with the villain who was cut in half and left raving mad and cannabilzes people and ultimately he goes and slaughters children and burns down their village.... Or or the movies featuring...mass...genocide.... Depending on the lens you look at star wars its either very childish or very adult.

[@anyareyes2663]

Connor notyerbidness it has adult moments but no it isn’t ‘very adult’. It’s still a space fantasy with magic heroes and villains. Adult moments, sure, but not inherently adult. For every murder, there’s a wacky sound effect that comes with it. Most of the fan base became fans when they were young children. I think that’s proof enough. They do seem to be trying to grow the story a bit more because of that, since most of the original fan base is old and can now watch worse than PG13. That’s the problem they seem to have run into. Whether to keep recruiting young kids with for children content which was the original purpose of the brand, or cater to older fans who buy merchandise and in doing so recruit their kids. I don’t envy them at all. I think there can be a fine line but they just have to think about it more.

[@ConnorNotyerbidness]

@@anyareyes2663 my point is more that if you pick and choose details as you like its more childish or adult.

[@anyareyes2663]

Connor notyerbidness I don’t think picking and choosing is the right approach to decide the rating of something lol. I could say Sharkboy and Lavagirl is adult because of his parents falling out of love, the scene where a girl dies, another scene where another girl has to kill her dad. You can always make something seem different by picking and choosing.

[@treetheoak8313]

@@ConnorNotyerbidness welcome to Disney!

[@sorvian25]

"I do feel strongly about making good content for kids that respects their interests" best thing I've heard all week

[@ericmacmillan6395]

Loving the idea of Kylo Ren as Rey’s cute or fury companion creature for her to nurture or protect.

[@Graknorke]

Kylo Ren is definitely a furry.

[@ShaunCheah]

What would his fursona be? His own grandfather?

[@Graknorke]

Like the Star Wars equivalent of Nazi furries?

[@majklacik]

Shadow the hedgehog with a LIGHTSABER

[@ShaunCheah]

"psssh… nothin personnel… youngling…"

[@Jacky.c.v]

My two favorite Barbies had a lesbian relationship because one of them had working elbows and she was able to hug the other one. And they slept in a pink little bed together and it glowed at night. And they had a little castle with a kitchen and lots of fancy dresses. And the one with the elbows had a best friend, she was black and could do magic. And they had two fairy friends, who were two characters from Winx (Stella and bloom) and they were slightly smaller and had glowing wings. And there’s a lot more, so disney, sign me up for a new kids show! 😂

[@oof-rr5nf]

i c o n i c

[@birgithe4161]

sold

[@aloevera3317]

Wait. Winx Club had dolls? This is the first I'm hearing of this.

[@Flowtail]

//jacky// I lost the body of my favorite barbie doll, so her head became an oracle

[@a_bowl_of_sour_cream__]

//jacky// I had lesbian barbies because I had no male doll's. But when I finally had that 1 Ken doll, I still had barbie date Ariel and Belle with Jasmine while Ken just sat in the corner....

[@user-rx2ur5el9p]

No removable high-waisted Kylo Ren leggings? :( What a shame.

[@FortuitousOwl]

I always hated toys that had sculpted on clothes as a kid. Like why?? It’s so fun changing their outfits! My grandma would even hand make clothes for my dolls, I loved that

[@popfuntoplay]

I would love to see them do a bunch of random alien dolls.

[@QuarrelsomeLocalOaf]

Forces of Destiny doll of that one Neimoidian from Episode I that says "they've gone up the ventilation shaft"

[@kylefrank638]

I'd love to see Star Wars try to unironically sell a doll of that Rodian dancer.

[@doctorhandsome]

It would definitely not be that difficult to churn out some original characters of various alien races attending "Jedi Academy" (read: high school) in Old Republic peacetime for a doll line.

[@primeministerofgreenteam1983]

"She's just never going to wear pants again." Listen, Jenny, after this pandemic, neither will I.

[@mothcub]

"Tween Darth Maul" are my favourite three words I've ever heard now thanks

[@ilznidiotic]

I just keep thinking of Balthazar Bratt from Despicable Me 3.

[@litcrit1624]

*LEILA:* Hey, Kelsey, are we still on for the Cantina? *KELSEY:* Ahh, I forgot! I can’t go. I’ve got my test in basic rock moving and placement tomorrow. *LEILA:* Oh, come on, Kel! You know that Biggs is going to be at the dance, and I want him to see my new dress. *MEGAN:* Um, hey, not to interrupt - but do either of you hear otherworldly whispers promising a new realm of order and power?

[@marvelousTUD]

Lit Crit ALL: Oh, Kelsey!! You’re so funny!

[@yarpen26]

Leila would also have hots for Jako, the Sith jock, even though he keeps throwing datapads at her during clas but deep down she thinks she can turn him back to the light side by offering him help with the construction of his lightsaber as part of their Force class assingment.

[@ThreadBomb]

LEILA: Megan, you're weird! MEGAN: [shuts up and looks sad]

[@simoneskerritt1756]

So refreshing to hear a balanced critique that respects kids as interested thoughtful people. Drives me nuts to see people pass off kids media as unimportant and not worth making well.

[@Boreas74]

Party mode A - Pants on Party mode B - Pants off Just like real life.

[@kylefrank638]

I had no idea the Rebels show was so adult.

[@owenkonsmo1454]

Cheered at the sudden mention of Mara Jade. That's so funny in a clever way-taking a character whose striking physical appearance was likely designed for sex appeal, and repurposing her uniqueness to be the necessary redhead representation in a fashion doll line.

[@Cdr2002]

So funny thing about Mara Jade, she’s remarkably un-sexualized in the Thrawn books I’ve read, her first few appearances. Later on… yeah it honestly always bugged me how much Star Wars art and fandom treated her like a sex object

[@ajgreen1997]

I remember having a Queen Amadala doll as a kid, but she was obviously a fashion doll with lots of outfits, so that makes sense to me.

[@barneythedinosaur4877]

Why is Kylo the best doll in the girl's doll line and why do I kind of want one?

[@futurestoryteller]

Is it because of his sweet country girl outfit and gator handbag?

[@champagneandgummybears]

I was going to say god damn you Jenny now I want to buy a Kylo doll and put it in a spangled dress and then just, I don’t know, display it somewhere? Bring it with me to the movies? What do adults do with the toys they buy? For real, no judgement (I’ve sunk hundreds of dollars into shirts & backpacks I only use in Disney Parks so my house is the thinnest of glass) but I don’t know other than putting it on a shelf & knowing I own it?

[@jackiepierce6314]

I buy dolls and i just leave them in their packages and try to display them in my room. lot of my dolls though are in storage because I don't have space left in my room. years ago i did buy Transformers, took them out of the boxes, transformed them, put the stickers on t hem, pose them, but i never had them fight each other or do a story line. I had them out of their boxes for years and change the poses but they are in their boxes now.

[@Blackdeathgaming-yv1kk]

Because he is Ben swolo

[@dgray7537]

Champagne and Gummy Bears, Some people make dioramas, or use them in photography, and a few play with them(like smash them together pew pew roll around on the floor play with them). And the rest like having them around to look at.

[@rosieisla8286]

*"If you wanted to make a millennium falcon for a doll this size, it would be 4 feet long and cost $600."* (19:22) Oh, you mean like the lego set?

[@ElizabethStripes-nk8ww]

it doesnt apply because the lego set is sized for the tiny lego figures..it would have to be triple the size and price

[@jamesjoy7547]

4 feet long? I don't wanna do complex math or look up accurate dimensions here, so just some broad estimates: If a 12-inch figure represents (say) a 5'6" female, then a 4-ft Millennium Falcon is about 22 scale feet long to them. Like the size of a street vehicle. As I (vaguely) recall, Falcon exteriors on set were like 75-100 feet long, so a to-scale Falcon would have to measure at least 15 actual feet. Like an actual street vehicle.

[@ChikkiNoodles]

*Ladies, get you a man who can do both*

[@sabinajoh]

Chikki Vest on vest off

[@johnsmith2875]

pants on and pants off?

[@nothinghappens9811]

This killed me.

[@xingcat]

I'm pretty sure Barbie's friends Tutti and Todd died in an explosion, but it was the 19760s, so workplace regulations were pretty lax at the time.

[@jaredbowhay-pringle1460]

How do you know so much about 198th century workplace regulations?

[@Trevin_Taylor]

Maybe he heard it from Spectra? No? Nobody remembers that? Just me? She was “the most space age girl around”.

[@maddie-fz7tk]

19760s?

[@joshuamanjarrez6321]

You mean 1960-70s?

[@shadowwwwwwwwwww]

+Amelia, i appreciate the reference.

[@yourway2short]

I could listen to Jenny rant about paint drying.

[@lofr8982]

She did a video on Ready Player One already.

[@iliketrains5525]

Same

[@AmimikaMoon]

Honestly rewatching this vid back to back with the applejack video, really hammers home how good Jenny is at like, knowing what would make kids buy toys, and also incorporating the merchandising into their "shows" and such. She's got such a good sense for that stuff. Somebody put Jenny at the helm of a real toyline with a tie-in media.

[@BladerPR]

Local 21 year old man watches 31 minute think piece on Star Wars girls dolls to completion.

[@Chipiliro613]

Reads like something from The Onion.

[@leviangel97]

Same but 22...

[@patrickrowan5503]

Did not need to be attacked like this today

[@oof-rr5nf]

I blame none of you. This is riveting content.

[@spiraljumper74]

Bruh. I am RE-WATCHING this. And loving every minute.

[@jfhm1991]

Don't fret Jenny, we love your needlessly long and savage takedowns

[@CARATMom]

I am an avid doll collector. I didn’t realize that the three dolls you held up were different people. And the articulation looks cheap. All of your observations were on point. I looked at these dolls when I first saw your thumbnail on Amazon-I kept staring at the picture because I couldn’t believe that it look like their clothes were sculpted on. And I didn’t believe it because the original price of the dolls-, their clothes should’ve been removable. Sculpted clothes are literally for happy meal toys.

[@InkRose]

When first seeing the line, I was repulsed by the molded on clothes (fabric clothes ALWAYS look better on bigger dolls) , dumb action feature that takes away from poseability (and it really is just annoying to deal with when playing, when I was a kid I hated any dolls or figures that had action features), and most of all, the terrible way their hair is styled. The Ahsoka doll looks by far the best out of the line, specifically because she doesn't have hair so her molded lekku look great and appropriate. Her colorful design also helps her to stand out, unlike the three white brunette girls, Ahsoka is UNIQUE. In a universe full of cool looking aliens you'd think we'd actually get a lot more colorful looking alien girls to be made into dolls. Where's my Hera doll? Aalya Secura? Shaak Ti? Bariss Offee? Luminara Unduli?

[@Acerbium]

The lack of new and original alien main or supporting characters is one of my biggest concerns with the new movies. Human diversity is freaking great in a universe like Star Wars, but why are the important people almost EXCLUSIVELY human? Sad to see it spill into their toy lines.

[@InkRose]

Acerbium Definitely agree

[@stinky2040]

Ink Rose Not to be that guy but, didnt bariss commit a bombing??? That would probably scare Disney too much. ( i mean then she got blamed for poisoning felucia with aayla but ya know) I still want a bariss tbh shes very important. If they made an aayla they would definitely change her costume or edit it mildly, just to cover the cleavage. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't make a luminara or shaak ti though, I actually kinda want these to happen, an animated version would be really cool. The only excuse for hera is that they might not want to make the rest of the rebels cast but the shouldn't have made the mandalorien suit girl, the one with pants on and pants off functions. i low key want them to attempt to make an anakin doll, you know, mass child murder. Or maybe like a oola doll. Naked slaves, yay.

[@TundranTiconderoga]

Peter Trippi All of these characters have killed people. Hell, Ahsoka decapitated four dudes onscreen, I don’t think Disney quite cares about that.

[@stinky2040]

TundranTiconderoga yeah that's true, *yet barriss was labeled as a terrorist in canon* , I dont think Disney wants to market someone that's considered as a terrorist, well a terrorist to yoda. But then again, your probably right, if you think about it . Everyone does have a pretty big kill count. Also, i don't think ashoka couldn't have been left out. Shes by far one of the most popular characters, outside of the movie characters. (If I could find the clip of yoda saying terriorst I would link it. I think it was the scene where anakin crashes and yoda calls him right after. Maybe not, but someone definitely says it. Things have changed though, i don't think Disney would even use that word in rebels. [But they would confirm that the empire has been using luminara corpse to draw out jedi, fun times guys.] Overall its not a big deal. I'm just a bit needy lmao)

[@weiyin8046]

I can't lie the ever after high webisodes are iconic

[@DuelaDent52]

Average citizen Yeah, I found the ‘Monster/Ever After High’ toys to be surprisingly rather good.

[@osheenyeeha1162]

Average citizen I gotta say...I don’t disagree

[@madisongillam5366]

I actually really loved the eah illustration style. The reason the doll lines were so good is because of the detail put into their outfits and characteristics... and the fact that their clothes are removable...

[@catboymonstrosity]

I completely agree, but I think it's worth mentioning that those are half-hour episodes as opposed to like 3 minutes. They have a lot more time to establish a story and characters.

[@ionastewart8814]

Yeah, Ever After High is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine.

[@iammicrowavable]

I'm actually crying at the pants on pants off bit.

[@shetookmywarcrimesinthediv4830]

When she started talking about how young girls play, I got war flashbacks to when I would make my female monster high dolls kiss and marry because I didn't have dudes (-_-)

[@shetookmywarcrimesinthediv4830]

It's odd because it hinted at my gay future yet also made my parents mad

[@ellie1639]

@@shetookmywarcrimesinthediv4830 this is the best update, sorry about your parents tho

[@Jo-sv9io]

this reminds me of when i used to take my cousin's justice league action figures and make them kiss and date. i'm also gay now

[@juliamavroidi8601]

i only had one Ken doll as a kid, so sometimes I would play that his cruel stepmother was forcing him to marry a different Barbie each year until one of them eventually had his baby in a futile attempt to save the dying Barbie species

[@shetookmywarcrimesinthediv4830]

@@Jo-sv9io I’m proud of you

[@PhoebeHB]

As a kid, my favourite thing to do with my Barbies was undress them and put them in normal situations naked because I found that hilarious. The fact that these dolls have permanently sculpted-on dolls would have been enough to have stopped me from ever buying them.

[@witchflowers6942]

Same.

[@olleicua]

+

[@AnimeOjou]

Yeah, puts a limit on the customizability and creativity for kids. Plus, the fact that most of the doll outfits are sculpted on would only be a benefit for parents that now don't really have to buy new doll clothes when they inevitably go missing, which is an odd choice for a business.

[@joinsideke]

I was constantly switching my Barbie's outfits and whenever I wasn't playing with them, they were probably naked. Some of the new Barbies have sculpted on clothes too and Little Girl Me would have hated that. Like what if Fairy Princess Barbie is going to the beach but I can't put her in a bathing suit cos she has this bulky pink bodice permanently stuck on her torso?

[@Fickji]

I now realize what a strange little girl I was. I'd put them into porn situations. it just seemed normal that if they got married they would try for kids.... My fav memory was the Godzilla that I had that was just tall enough to play kidnap the Barbie doll with. Because nothing is more fun then reenacting Creature from the Black Lagoon featuring Godzilla.

[@barneythedinosaur4877]

I'm leaving this comment just to remind everyone to remember that Jenny is coming back to the topic of Monster High

[@barneythedinosaur4877]

ok we're back to monster high just ignore my comment

[@jameschapman2782]

She should have put a pin on that 😂

[@SlishSlashSlush]

This killed me...! 😂😂

[@werekill]

brushfyr No, the pin got taken down in the video.

[@cathycirc]

I literally have a video of me asking Kylo Ren for a hug in 2016 and he sternly just yelled “NO”

[@SoyBioIogia]

I NEED THE CONTEXT

[@cathycirc]

@@SoyBioIogia context is I wanted a hug

[@allnaturalfigjam310]

Upload pls I must see this

[@ysucae]

i love you and i want you to get mad dollars for that toy line idea especially the "mean girl but as a sith" idea, gooosh so good not enough tween girl sensibilities in star wars

[@battleupsaber462]

Hopefully there'll be an episode with Rey and Kylo, since Kylo has a Forces of Destiny toy I'm dying to see 2 minutes of badly animated Rey and Kylo talking through the Force with zero action. The kids will love it

[@weiyin8046]

i am ready for them sneaking in very, _VERY_ sexual innuendos

[@sabinea.4532]

Average citizen like Kylo wiping rain from his face? Hehehe

[@TadBigby]

It sounds like a gif goldmine!

[@Xelpherpolis]

Daisy Ridley's down for just about anything because she loves the character, but... good luck getting Adam Driver in the recording booth for a doll-line flash cartoon.

[@slvrcobra1337]

KashelGladio - They'll recast him like they do for basically everything else.

[@silbrandir]

thanks for dunking on this project. I animated on this and MAN did I hate working on this. I'm glad my utter disgust came sout in the final product (even if the dolls I guess were the real product?)

[@l.c.3118]

Ooh, interesting! Why did you hate it?

[@silbrandir]

L. C. So it can mostly be boiled down to the pay being pretty bad, and its domino effects. We were payed by the second, and the amount meant that I would have to do about 10 seconds a day for it to be worth my time with all the taxes and other fees I’d have to pay from it. 10 seconds a day is about South Parks quota for reference (from what I hear). Then on top of that they were a bit too picky on the retakes as I remember, given the pay. Plus a bit too demanding of my time given the pay, both on quality/retakes and deadlines. I hope thats clear enough, I don’t really want to get too into specifics.

[@l.c.3118]

@@silbrandir No, thanks, that was very interesting. I read a similar comment recently from a background artist on the Ever After High webisodes, except he was sad at the cancellation because he'd LOVED working on the projects, the aesthetics, the quality, everything. And watching a random EAH webisode compared to a FoD webisode, the difference is pretty stark. Disney has all the money in the world and clearly COULD make an aesthetically-pleasing, well-paid, and high-quality web series (not to mention doll line), but it's quite clear they couldn't have given less of a fuck.

[@psionicdreams]

This is gold. Not only have you excellently critiqued this product but you’ve given Disney/Lucasfilm alternatives on how to vastly improve this product. I also liked the Big analogy.

[@MuttFitness]

Sadly disney won't even notice. They'll just give up

[@sandythemaster6898]

''Sabine's play modes are pants-on, pants-off. No other options. Where's our episode unpacking this story element?'' AKA a story line that would actually interest all those 40 years old fanboys at Star Wars Celebration.

[@Pfhreak]

*Chris Evans voice at all the 40 year-old fanboys* Why don’t you take a seat right over there?

[@tychoschenkels7841]

@@Pfhreak LOL Chris Evans I think you mean Chris Hansen

[@mrpanda750]

@@tychoschenkels7841 What about famous Hollywood actor Rich Evans.

[@hrrees]

“a fashionista alien from Coruscant.” What a twist: Amethia Tope has been waiting in the wings for years.

[@ladycthuwu]

My wife also got yelled at for trying to hug Kylo Ren

[@SeaOfTides]

That also explains why the Storm Troopers were rude.

[@joinsideke]

Does Kylo Ren himself do the yelling? Cos if you went up and hugged him and he just kinda sulked while you did it, I think that would be fine.

[@ladycthuwu]

Joinsideke my wife asked him, "Can I hug you?" And he himself told her no in a very... in character way

[@joinsideke]

Consent is important.

[@SeaOfTides]

@James Did you take a video of that? I'd so love to see it.

[@shaggylocks]

My kid introduced me to the Forces of Destiny webisodes, and I don't think either of us had any idea they were promoting a toy line. So... not the greatest marketing, I guess?

[@dupersuper1938]

Yeah: I thought they were fine little 1-offs, but this is the first I'm hearing of a doll line.

[@swimmyswim417]

4:10 ah, yes. Kylo Ren is my favorite cute/furry creature to nurture and protect.

[@artemiswolf4508]

*Mom* : Well honey I’m on the toy store, what do you want? *Girl* : A Star Wars Doll *Mom* : Oh? There are a few, which one? *Girl* : Mmmm... I want the one that got choke to the death by her husband while pregnant *Mom* : ...

[@artemiswolf4508]

*Mom* : I... I don’t think they have that one *Girl* : Mmm... ok I want the boy one *Mom* : oh fine... which one? *Girl* : The one that stabbed his daddy in the chest and threw his dead body into the void

[@kissarococo2459]

"How I get you the twins with odd incestuous vibes. The ones who rebelled against their severely handicapped dad and got him killed? the girl will has a sexy slave-costume!"

[@lizasantoce6468]

Lol, I'm wheezing

[@TulilaSalome]

Also, the one with two play modes: pants on, pants off. Mom: I already got that for your 14 year old brother... In larger size.

[@pisscvre69]

Geez... Star Wars is pretty fucked up and very dramatic actually x,D

[@haileyb1731]

When I was a little girl I never had my barbies just talk to each other, they were constantly getting stuck in snow storms and having to survive for their lives or getting locked in abandoned hospitals. Maybe I was just a weird kid?

[@itbelikethat4940]

Hailey B nah most people did that don’t worry lol

[@kyoyameganebereznoff]

Hailey B Nah, sounds about right.

[@asmrtpop2676]

Same.

[@runeanonymous9760]

I had My Little Ponies, not-quite-to-scale plastic and wooden food, play mobiles (honestly bought because my dad wanted them and ended up projecting that desire onto me), Pokémon, Calico Critters, and Digimon. I had some dollhouses so I played war, politics, Pokémon battles, some stuff with airplanes, and Pokémon and Digimon saving humans from the ponies who wanted to eat them

[@reizak8966]

Yeah.... after x- men and the matrix came out my play time turned into shapeshifters, secret underground labs, and hiding your super powers from your friends and loved ones.

[@1234bobfox]

I never realized there was so much to explore in webisode doll series. Yet here I am, getting educated

[@runeanonymous9760]

bobfox I remember not minding the Star Darlings webisodes, but those are literally just animated adaptations of the books. I remember thinking that the Lucky Charms web series was amazing when I was little, but I was like seven at the time. It was just, here’s an epic adventure! Starring your favorite cereal mascot!

[@helloill672]

Ever After High had an ongoing storyline, it's pretty good

[@TheCottonCandyQueen]

Also I actually have a few Star Wars characters they can maybe be used for Jenny’s second idea. There’s Evelyn, a Jedi Princess. Blaire, a Bounty Hunter. Dadria, a Zabrak Storm Trooper. Odette, the Sniper working for the Sith Empire. Oweldise, the twi’lek jedi. So like, they can come with their original outfits and Dadria, Blaire and Evelyn can have space dance dresses with different hairstyles. Odette can have a winter disguise doll. Oweldise can have a Jedi Master doll

[@JennyNicholson]

I love these!

[@Chemicaldessert]

Padme's literally the space fashion queen and she doesn't even have one other outfit? For shame

[@jcwelsh4233]

You joke about the beads but when me and my two little sisters were kids we had this HUGE jar of glass marbles and to "play marbles" we would separate into colour groups and pretend they were families. Things got really heated when it came to multicoloured marbles.. There were very elaborate family trees

[@GrndAdmiralThrawn]

That is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.

[@safabekr]

Not even a Star Wars fan in general, didn’t know what Forces of Destiny was before I clicked on this-WHY IS THIS SO INTERESTING

[@greyareaRK1]

Malibu Barbie drove her corvette off a cliff in a coke-fuelled suicide after the death of the disco in the early 80's.

[@austinbaker8042]

You made that up that's not canon. Where's the gritty barbie cartoon about suicide?

[@maxiepattie85]

i saw it, that's true

[@blackberriee]

the jyn erso doll swinging that baton made me break down. there are truly tears in my eyes right now from laughing this hard. the savage intensity of her thrashing swing... girl power!!!

[@araxiel2051]

4:00 "The answer is because every Delux Doll comes with some kind of *cute or furry creature for the doll to nurture or protect* : Lei comes with an Ewok Luke comes with Yoda And *Rey comes with Kylo Ren* " You made me do a spit take all over my screen and nearly choke to death laughing, I hope you're happy! *Edit:* I'm not even halfway through the video yet and you're killing me Jenny! You're a danger for my health.

[@kaylaflava]

It feels like they made the clothes molded on so you would be forced to buy a whole second doll if your kid wanted another outfit. I'm sort of surprised they didn't do a Rose doll, but with you mentioning how terrified they are of deviating from the canon they probably figured no girl would want some doll in an engineer's jumpsuit. Like just the idea of leaving a whole character out because they don't have a better outfit is hilarious to me.

[@BrittnyShrub]

I really want a Rose doll now.

[@willonastring]

ok. i am not well-versed in star wars EU stuff. but when you said mara jade i recognised that this is the name of a real star wars character. and therefore i was tricked into googling squelch boswell to find out if she really was leia's best friend. well played.