I get the idea of Novi Stars being *ahead* of their time, but part of me wonders how well they would have done if they were released earlier, specifically during the early/mid 00s when tween culture was still really big. The colors, sparkles, lava lamp/shaker elements, lights etc. feel like they would do so well during the era that brands like Justice were popular but idk.

For a second I was terrified you _wouldn't_ introduce us to every Novi Star. As a doll collector myself, I'm very pleased with your falling into the doll rabbit hole lately.

I wish Trashion Alley was fully realized, the body sculpts are absolutely gorgeous and there's just absolutely not enough experimentation with anthropomorphic dolls in the fashion market. Pinkie Cooper is a perfect example of how well it could work, I just adore em and wish we got more of them.

"What's-Her-Face" was a particularly weird doll line! They came with blank, featureless heads that you could customize with special markers and stamps. The tops of their heads were made of velcro to attach a variety of wigs. I had a second-hand one that somebody drew on the face with permanent marker so I never got to experience customizing it lol

I cannot describe how invested I am in Trashion Alley despite never having owned a doll in my life

I'm shocked at the creativity and detail of the Novi Stars, I've never seen retail market dolls that went that hard with that much effort into a design gimmick. Most modern doll lines could never

Me and my sister had a couple Novi Stars. They definitely felt more like figurines, pretty things to look at, but they were so well made and detailed. I wish we got more of them tbh.

I remember holding a Mimi Merize doll at a toy store BEGGING my mom to let me get it. She said I was too old. Now, that I'm older, the pricing of them on ebay along with the other Novi Stars makes me want to cry. Thanks mom..

As a kid who absolutely LOVED space/alien themed things, seeing Novi Stars and Nebulous Stars being cancelled makes me wanna cry :( I know I'm not the only one! We space kids deserve our dolls!!

The novi stars seem extremely intricate, their production can’t be standardised. One dolls has multiple arms, others have hollow legs, others are made of rubber etc. It’s a huge cost.

Growing up as an undiagnosed autistic girl, I loved novi stars so much. I resonated with their "alien coming to earth" storyline as I (much like many other neurodiverse girls and people) felt like an alien visiting earth, trying to copy humans and trying to blend it. Plus, I was a bug-eyed child so I saw some representation there too lmao

i'm not a fashion doll person, but oh i wish trashion alley had gotten to really exist, they're SO charming in concept

The Novi stars dolls look sick as hell, if they were released again im sure people would go crazy for them because of how unique they look. Maybe not for kids but like I'm sure theirs a bunch of adults and teens that would love how weird they are, hot topic girlies would go crazy honestly

The makeup look is really reminding me of the giant Lisa Frank sticker book I refused to ever take stickers out of as a kid so that I could hoard all of the rainbow sparkly glory in one central location.

I think if Novi Star released today, it would be a lot more popular, especially with adult collectors, and they are just so cool

If you love Novi Stars and this kinda aesthetic, Star Darlings was a very cool Disney doll line themed around space and zodiacs with an over-arching storyline and tv specials that ultimately failed. Would love to hear what you have to say about them. Once Upon A Zombie, Laloopsy Girls, (a spin off of laloopsy where they’re high schoolers) and MLP Equestria Girls are also very interesting doll lines-

I find deep dives into toy culture like these so fascinating. I collect action figures myself and as part of the community I can assure you there's a surprising amount of drama, controversies, leaks, arguments and flame wars in every corner of the hobby, whether you like dolls or action figures or cars or whatever, there will be spice.

Seeing the Nebulous Star dolls actually made my jaw drop (in a bad way) how can you have such beautiful art that exudes such dreamlike beauty, and then throw this out?? The art already looks like dolls, how did they miss this shot by so far

They really should re-launch the Novi Star dolls for collectors. The doll community would go wild for these!

I let out the most devastated sigh at the Nebulous Stars dolls 😭 after all of that gorgeous artwork, oh my gosh. I can’t even imagine seeing your character designs and art turned into… those. It’s like they had the complete opposite problem to Novi Stars, obviously it might not be possible to make the designs as intricate as the artwork, but they could do a whole lot better.

It's honestly really sad to me that all of the space/alien-themed doll lines seem to be the ones that fail/get cancelled the most; like Novi Stars, Nebulous Stars, Milky Way & The Galaxy Girls, etc. like, I didn't know about any of these dolls when I was a kid, but I've always loved space and alien stuff, so I would have loved them! and also Novi Stars look so cool and unique and fun to play with!

I really hope Trashion Alley gets made into a proper doll line, I want one of those silly little rats so badly

Man I got so excited when you were talking about discovering the head prototype for the rat dolls. Something about tracking a cancelled doll line through "leaked" prototypes is so fascinating. And I agree, the head design is nice and not too uncanny valley! Haha.

A doll line you might be interested in is Zom-baes Forever! They’re 3” plastic zombis girls with swappable legs and hair, glass eyes, rooted lashes, squishy brains, and AI generated concept art that looks.. very AI generated. The characters are very high concept like Novi Stars. Mourning Workout is an 80s workout themed girl, Rock in Peace is a metal singer with her tongue sticking out, Cold Hearted is a 50s ice cream parlor worker and has ice cube hair.. That kind of thing. They hit store shelves late last year and are mostly in blind boxes (which are shaped like coffins!) but there is at least one playset, which is a wedding between two girl characters, and a smaller cheerleader two-pack. Art suggests a pet store, dog show, and a two-pack featuring two dolls with a bunch of cats are/were in the works. I don’t see them sticking around long just because they are so high concept, but it’s worth checking out if you want an obscure doll line with really weird concept art.

There's a super obscure doll line(ish) made in around 2007 called Pocket Full of Posiez, created by an artist called Queenie Black. The dolls have this super cool gothic look, and there were 3 dolls made out of like the 20 characters that there were. The Pocket Full of Posiez brand however dates back as early as 2003, we know this because if you enter the website in the wayback machine, it goes back to that year. The first doll, Lyllionia, was sold at Hot Topic in around 2007, but the other 2 dolls, Panzy the Pirate (she might have been sold at Hot Topic, I'm not entirely sure) and Delilah, were produced but not sold by Hot Topic due to a dispute.

god, I remember being absolutely obsessed with novi stars when I was a kid. I never owned one, but I saw a lot of commercials on tv and I literally wanted one so badly. unfortunately, my family never got them for me, saying that they were expensive. at least now, years later, that I'm a working adult with money and stuff, I decided to fulfill one if my childhood dreams and bought myself one with floating glitter I inside of her body on ebay, since it's the one I wanted the most. literally the best investment in my whole life, I love her so much

I was around the doll fandom when Novi Stars came out, I remember people loving the idea and designs but being very disappointed in the lack of articulation. A lot of people re-bodied them with G1 Monster High bodies, which were setting the standard for kids' doll articulation at the time and also came in lots of appropriately weird colours. I feel like if Novi Stars had added even one more point of articulation at the elbows, the line could have been a lot more popular, at least with adult collectors.

I’m a 35-year-old guy who has never had any interest in dolls. I really enjoyed your video coming in as a complete outsider you never left me hanging assuming I knew anything about the topic and made it interesting and entertaining. I love your videos and how passionate you are about the topics cover and how they actually mean something to you. 10/10

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who went “NOVI STARS RE-RELEASE?!” When I saw Zooey. I have her and she would look so cute with some Novi Stars next to her.

As someone who grew up on IMVU and has real memories that seemingly take place in those chat rooms, I’m shocked we haven’t gotten a deep dive on it from you

I remember waking up one day to my mom bringing me Ari Roma as a surprise! It's one of my favorite childhood memories, I remember being super excited and crying from happiness, as I didn't get dolls often and it wasn't a holiday that day!! Her hair actually had a very pleasant bubblegum aroma :3 Really sad I couldn't save her, just like most of my childhood dolls. I absolutely adore Novi Stars and hope to buy some in the future ^^

Hey girl, I'd love to see you cover Winx Club dolls by Mattel! Only a couple of years after Mattel discontinued them the prices went absolutely crazy. Ebay listings of €500 or more weren't rare and people actually bought them. I remember I'd started collecting them again around 2011 and that it used to be war haha especially finding rare lines like enchantix glam magic and ballgowns. I think it could be an interesting video :)

I love the designs of the Novi Stars dolls, they had very colorful and fun themes to play around with. One downside about them is that they aren't articulated. They were made to compete with Mattel's Monster High dolls but these dolls didn't have any joints to make them posable! That's why Monster High dolls stood out more because you could pose them and they are fun dolls to customize for ooak designs. But Novi Stars dolls are a little harder since you have to remove their eyes and for me, it was frustrating to make my own looks for them. But I still loved their designs and gimmicks that made them a bit different from MH. Nowdays, I customize anime style bjds which are easier to customize but can cost a chunk of cash since I'm unemployed.

I don't really know if this is a lost/cancelled doll line, but I remember getting a weird, uncanny valley-type doll for my birthday one year. I think the brand was Only Hearts Club. The doll's eyes and head were extremely detailed and hyper-realistic, down to little freckles on her nose and glass eyes, but the rest of her body was soft and stuffed, with wire in the limbs so you could pose her. She was so creepy, and I was totally obsessed. I want to say she came with a book about being a good kid and respecting your parents or something. It's like it was a christian mom's idea of what Barbie dolls should be.

I love how original the novi stars are! You can tell the creators had a lot of fun making them

I actually almost cried remembering Novi Stars!! I had the Mae Tallic doll and the voice lines literally unlocked a piece of my memory. Thank you for making this video

As a man in his mid twenties I’ve never once owned or cared about dolls (beyond the odd action man if that counts) yet here I am absolutely invested in these deep dives and trashion alley updates, Izzzyzzz could make a video on literally anything they’re interested in and I would eat it up like a hungry victorian orphan boy being given a stale piece of bread

Novi starz honestly were so ahead of their time in the design aspect and ideas. I have all of the main four aliens and the cyclops and they’re to this day one of my favorite dolls in my collection. People don’t understand, these dolls had everything you described, glitter eyes, glitter eyelashes, details in the pupils like tiny planets, and even their stands that glow in the dark are shaped like tiny Saturns. I was lucky to get them all dirt cheap back in 2015, same with Bratzillaz. Legit $12 usually per doll. Or $20. At that time nobody cared about them and it was an afterthought to most people. Nowadays they’re ridiculously expensive, and without them, we wouldn’t have the juggernaut that is Rainbow high/ shadow high we have today. Small note, I have multiples of Zooey from shadow high cause she’s too stunning to only have one💖

the doll customizer, dollightful. i have a feeling she would be head over heels for Nebula Stars and Novi Stars. i really wanna see what she would do to make a real good doll for Nebula Stars. in her own way ofc. (honestly, she would love all 3, i vibe with all of them)

Whats-her-face, Betty Spaghetty and The G.U.R.L.Z are three doll lines I remember most fondly from growing up! I saw the snippet of the Whats-Her-Face ad at the start of the video and got really excited that they'd be included hah

The nebulous stars drawings looks like they could translate perfectly into OOAK dolls, it really reminds of custom/art dolls I've seen around

This isn’t a cancelled or lost doll line, but I would love to see you do a deep dive into the rise, fall, and “comeback” of the bratz dolls!! Their outfits, animated movies, and character types were my favorite as a kid and the only doll line that didn’t creep me out.

I'm absolutely obsessed with the Novi Stars!! If I had been just a few years younger when they came out I would have eaten up every release

Holy Primes this video unlocked a lost memory for me. When I was little, I received a Novi Stars doll. I remember that it was the coolest doll that I owner! I loved that doll to death, especially her pet. The moment I saw Una Verse's pet, I recognized it immediately. Thank you for reminding me of a lost but loving memory.

Other short lived doll lines that would be fun to look into: once upon a Zombie (Zombie themed fairytale dolls), Star Darlings (Star and Zodiac themed dolls), kuu kuu harajuku (Harajuku themed dolls, if your understanding of harajuku stopped at Gwen Stephany), LIV Dolls (Dolls with good articulation and changeable wigs). That’s all I can think of atm, but I’ll reply to this later if I remember any more.

I would kill to see someone recreate the Nebulous Stars dolls through a custom. The art really fits with most OOAK dolls you would see in the community and would love to see them do the intended style justice. I always thought the packaging looked really beautiful and pretty for a kids' activity product whenever I would see them in stores. They also reminded me of the 'Style Me Up' activity products if anyone even remembers those (I'm surprised I even remembered the name tbh)😅

The Trashion Alley doll head is just adorable. I had pet rats so I'm definitely biased but I wish those dolls had been released!

now officially obsessed with these novi star dolls omg, also love getting doll updates on here

Do you think you’ll ever talk about the Kuukuu Harajuku dolls that Gwen Stefani was a co-creator and brand ambassador for? She first had a perfume line called “Harajuku Lovers” and the perfume bottles were little dolls made to resemble traditional Japanese Kokeshi dolls but with more modern clothes and artsy flair that was clearly inspired from harajuku fashion. Later in like the mid to late 2010’s the actual fashion doll line (Kuukuu Harajuku) came out and they were really cute and well designed but they obviously didn’t last very long. I think it would be a really cool topic for a video because there were actually way darker implications to the perfume and doll line than initially meets the eye. Gwen Stefani was so racially insensitive and weird about the “Harajuku girls” and mentioned them in many of her songs. In the song Rich Girl (released in 2004) she mentioned she would “get me four Harajuku Girls to inspire me and they’d come to my rescue, I’d dress them wicked, I’d give them names: Love, Angel, Music, Baby” the latter being the actual names for both the perfume fragrance characters and the dolls from the doll line. Obviously that’s kind of weird because the song predated the dolls and the perfume, so in the context of the song she’s talking about acquiring 4 fully grown women from Harajuku Japan, giving them names, and dressing them up as though they weren’t people who already had names and could dress themselves. At one point she actually did just that and literally paraded around different events and red carpets with 4 Asian woman as her background accessories and ooof it just was really not cute and NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT! She was clearly fetishizing asian women (fetish was also mentioned in the song Rich Girl) and used actual human beings as fashion accessories (it’s kinda giving slave owner vibes like she owned these people and named them and dressed them up like???)! And then this later turned into a doll line? Like yikes! This is a topic that has fascinated and haunted me for years, I was like 6 years old when the song Rich Girl came out and I listened to it a lot growing up because my mom was a Gwen Stefani fan. When the perfume line came out I was a kid still but I knew about it because my grandmother worked at the perfume counter in our local shopping mall and we went to visit her at work very frequently. I remember asking for free samples of the Harajuku Lovers perfume often, and I was obsessed with the bottles because I was a kid who loved dolls and they literally looked like little dolls. I was a also an artsy weird kid so seeing these beautiful and creative perfume bottle doll designs with bright colors and striking hairstyles absolutely captivated me. I know that there was an accessory line for the Harajuku Lovers brand because my grandmother received a purse from them at her job and later gave it to my little sister and I was VERY jealous. The artist that did the art for the purse had such a unique style and flair I would really love to know who that was, and the illustrations of the Harajuku Lovers characters that were used in the accessories line (there might have been a small clothing line too but I don’t remember) were the clear inspirations for the stylization of the Kuukuu Harajuku dolls, more specifically in the face and head shape department. I have literally never talked about this topic with anyone so I’m sorry that this comment is so long and disjointed!

If you ever want to do a third video, look into the Mystix line. I had the vampire one, and it came with a handful of outfits and two wigs. The gimmick, however, was the fact that the head had a "human" face on one side and a "vampire" face on the other. You were supposed to make the doll transform between the two forms, and the outfit choices were meant to be for each form. I found them on a monster high hunt and never saw them again after that.

I love seeing people talk about Novi Stars! I began collecting BJDs at 12 but before I could get the money for such an expensive doll I bought myself a Novi Star because their inset eyes and high fashion appearance really appealed to me. I ended up getting the lava lamp one from the first release and gave her an angled Bob with Elvira bangs and made multiple other outfits for her. I'm sure I got rid of her somewhere along the way once I got my peaks woods Gouldie, haha! Love these videos Izz!!

I was obsessed with Novi stars and monster high as a child, and so were all kids in my kindergarten. I remember kids my age playing with those dolls and associating themselves with their favourite ( For example, I was Metalic, my friend was Cyla and so on). This video brought back so much great memories and I'm a bit sad that they stopped releasing them, I hope they'll be back

I'd love to see you cover Zodiac Girlz. It feels like a weird fever dream, but I remember receiving the Scorpio doll for Christmas as a little girl, but none of my friends my ages have ever even heard of them. The brand even had one of those early 2000s sites where you could look up your horoscope and stuff. It felt like a gimmick that could go far, and they were pretty diverse for early 2000s dolls, including girls of different ethnicities and even Aquarius (I think it was her?) who was the first wheelchair-using doll I'd ever seen.

The people who designed Novi Stars are frickin awesome! I love how much creativity went into them, and every single one is so interesting and pretty!

I just wanna say that novi stars weren't a total miss with kids! I owned one and absolutely ADORED her. I wanted every single doll they released, especially either nita light or una verse (I owned one and REALLY wanted the other - can't quite remember)

if you plan on making a video about niche doll lines I whould love to see you talk about Star Darlings, Kuu Kuu Harajuku, Hairdorables or Bratzillaz

Can we just appreciate how fascinating Izzzy's makeup design is for every video? I LOVE YOUR WARDROBE AHHHHH

I have several Novi Stars! A couple of the heads I've put onto Monster High bodies and they're honestly fantastic. I think if the line had gone in the direction of taller, more articulated bodies like the later designs it could have taken off. Fun fact, the talking Novi Stars made for Canadian distribution also have space catchphrases in French!

Girl I literally LIVE for these videos. Please please please keep making them!! I have been so fascinated with this community for such a long time but you do such a good job at covering it. Truly cannot get enough!

I had all the main 4 NoviStar dolls + 2 others, they were my absolute favorite! I loved how odd and cute their designs were, I was so sad to see them discontinued when I got into late elementary school. :( They really were dolls ahead of their time - the team who came up with the storyline and concepts were so creative. I loved how they had their own little channel with vlogs.

the nebulous stars dolls were literally a jump scare how did they fuck them up so bad 😭 the art is stunning, I dont understand why they couldn’t put more effort into making the dolls look like the art. I’m sure it was a budget thing or something but the dolls would have been a huge contender in the doll industry.

Trashion Alley looks so nice already, they need to bring it up, maybe have like interactive making clothes outta newspapers or magazines for their dolls too?

Oh my gosh I had 3 Novi stars dolls when I was younger and absolutely LOVED THEM, I remember they used to have little animated KZfaq videos with the main 4, they were structured like vlogs. Each one of them had the characters updating us on what they were learning on earth and get into lil shenanigans and I ate it up as a kid.

I hope so badly you'll eventually do a video about Ty Girlz. They perfectly combined the doll line (with various clothes to change their actual physical outfits) along with the online code and their elaborate cyber world seems totally up your alley. I love your videos!! Always thorough and enjoyable!

The trashion alley mystery feels like a treasure hunt. I haven't seen your first video about it but I was immediately hooked. It's so cool, I never would have thought that prototypes would appear on Ali express. I'm looking forward to finding out more about how they were going to paint the dolls.

holy crap, IMVU deserves a video of its own. I remember their ads plastered EVERYWHERE on the early internet. Insane that you got a sponsorship from them!

OH MY GOD I had metallic!!! I used to press her ear button all the time and half of the time I couldn't understand what she said, but I thought she was so cool!! I used to take off her wig a lot, I thought it was a bit too easy to take it off plus it got tangled really quickly lol Her design was so cool but she was SOOO much shorter than all my other dolls, but what peeved me off more is that she had moulded roller skates that didn't move!! Thank you Izzzyzzz, rediscovering my childhood has been way cooler now 😭🙏

Whoa, the shock of nostalgia that Mae Tellic's voice lines gave me was intense. I specifically remember having her and Nita Light, which DEFINITELY didn't work as a nightlight like you said. I didn't even remember what dolls I had until I watched this video, but now all the memories of the super loud burrings of the night light are soaring back. Regardless, I remember adoring these dolls and specifically buying them from Justice, where they were sold right alongside Monster High dolls. I sure hope I didn't get rid of them.

I'd kill to see doll customizers take on the Nebula Stars line. There would be so many gorgeous dolls made by individual creators..

A video idea for you! As a kid, I got addicted to and did the typical "kid with phone" thing of spending over £200 on a website called Ponystars. One day the website totally vanished and I never knew why. Turns out it was a case of them being a massive scam and even traced all their art from a different website? Anyway, I'd love to see your investigation so I can get that sweet, sweet closure.

I remember getting the Novi Stars doll that was scented for Christmas when i was a kid. I thought she was so cool, took her to school and everything. But my friends had the glow in the dark, stretchy one, and the other really cool ones. Poor younger me was pretty sad that my doll seemed so lame. Now I wish I hadn't thrown it away 😅

Gotta thank you for talking about novi stars! I adored the series as a kid and even had three of them (which meant a lot to me as I grew up without a lot of money and didn't get a lot of on-brand dolls)! I had no clue they were worth so much now which is super cool to me, as I remember being made fun off by other kids for liking them haha I hope they do consider reviving the line, they were super cool and if they received a decent budget I bet they'd end up really popular

I think you should cover Living Dead Dolls. They're not exactly a fashion doll line, but they have this dark and macabre vibe that seems right up your alley.

Vermina is an icon, a legend, and the moment. I can't believe she was found.

i'm obsessed with the doe doll from novi stars! i love her so much, what an adorable and sweet design.

I definitely recall when Novi Stars came out (I was in college at the time and lived near a Toys-R-Us). They did come off a cheap at that time, which really sucks to think about, because it was in that Bratz 2010-2014, when they had pretty cheap hair and such (though I will say some Brats from that time I still have, their hair isn’t that bad, but then a couple more are; Mattel has had some bad hair too more recently, like the BTS dolls and the hair that was then used on Fashionista Barbies). Honestly, the best way they could have done well was waited. If they came out around the time of LOL Surprise dolls, they would likely have done better, since LOL has very similar articulation and they could work like higher cost collecting dolls in blind boxes. On the topic of Articulation, MGA at that time seemed to be very Anti-Articulation, but for a reason. The 2010/2011 Bratz era did have it, but it was the hollowed out kind, and I can tell you my friend’s doll lost her arm from the elbow to the hand very easily. So I think that’s why a lot of the dolls didn’t have it. I even recall Project Mc² having it as well, though I think it was more of a body mechanic (like how they looked rather than being high quality), because those dolls, even with off proportions, are some of the more realistic look to human bodies I have seen on dolls. Also Also, MGA has this bad habit of making main staple black doll characters have bright colored eyes. Even with the mentioned Project Mc², where Bryden has ice blue eyes, despite her actress has brown eyes. McKayla also has bright color eyes while her actress has brown eyes too, but if you look at Bratz (with Sasha), and other black dolls that were first releases, they have bright colored eyes, which I’m not against (my own grandfather is mixed race and has blue eyes), but knowing how black dolls aren’t as well stocked as other races dolls, it’s sad that MGA has a bad track record of not having dolls that cover the majority of black girls with brown eyes; I think everyone should have a doll that looks like them in a way.

Izzy is falling deeper and deeper into the doll community, not much longer until she's one of us forever lol

I have a very clear memory of the year when Novi Star dolls were advertised. I remember how I saw a picture of them in this one toy catalog they published every Christmas. I kept that catalog for weeks and just stared at the picture, wishing to get a chance to play with them. Needless to say, I really liked the concept but I never actually got one for Christmas. I also remember the TV commercial for these toys.

update on trashion alley: yingzidoll (the original leaker of the vermina head) has posted censored images of two of the dolls WITH THEIR HEADS AND ACCESSORIES IN SAMPLE PACKAGING. unfortunately the images are partially blurred, but according to a reddit comment (not the most trustworthy source, i know) Crystalline Toybox, the initial discoverer of the Trashion Alley trademark, has purchased the dolls and is planning to showcase them and their boxes on their website once they arrive.

Hearing you talk about Novi Stars was a total throwback, me and my sister were actually pretty big Novi Stars fans in 2012-2013 haha. Back when i was like, 9 or 10 or something, I'd spend hours on the Novi Stars website, playing the little planet simulator game and watching the Novi Stars vlogs and the official music video. Even though it's a shame they didn't last long, I really did love them. They were perfectly wacky and experimental and ahead of their time. I'm not really into dolls/doll collecting, but my all-time favourite Novi Star as a kid was Mimi Merize, to the point where I vividly remember dressing up as her for one Halloween! Learning that she's not only one of the rarest and most sought-after Novi Stars these days but she ALSO made a cameo appearance on a recent Rainbow High doll really brightened up my day and took me back to my childhood. It also gives me some hope that the line could be rebooted...c'mon, MGA Entertainment, some brand-new Novi Stars would be so cool!!!

I bought my best friend an Una Verse doll for her birthday when they first came out and she still has it on display in her childhood bedroom 😂 The lack of articulation wasn’t too much of an issue because we were a bit older when the dolls came out (16-17) so it was just meant to be decorative. I can imagine how frustrating it was for people who wanted to actually play with the dolls though, or even for collectors who just like using different poses.

I love Novi Stars, they honestly deserve a second chance. The doll designs and concepts are just so creative and I’m a sucker for the alien aesthetic! I would die to own one now.

honestly, if there were ever a prime timer to release a rat-themed fashion doll line, it's right now in the 2020s. Rats are super popular right now! (Also, they look like Don Bluth mice and that's pretty adorable.)

You can tell that the Novi Stars creators put a lot of live and care and creativity and had a lot of fun doing them

I was honestly shocked to hear novi stars weren't popular, as a kid I didn't keep up with anything past the initial release but I remember ADORING my Alie Lectric doll and taking her with me everywhere. I kept begging for more of them but never got any other than her lmao.

“As always on this channel; my curiosity is now your problem” At least you know what you do to us 😭😂 I love your topic choice, whether I know it or not, you (and your team) do it so well!

My sculptor insticts are telling me that Trashion Alley head's ears were created with greenstuff Epoxy clay directly on the plastic to test how the prototype looks with the rooted hair lol. Epoxy and greenstuff is industrial standard material, so it wouldn't be that surprising. If that is the case, this is a very early prototype aiming to be used on a second mold.

I'm hoping that if Zoey from shadow high does well, that mga will bring back novi stars! (That's one of the reasons why I really want her right now, but also cuz I REALLY LOVE spacey dolls!) And I'm hoping to see that trashing ally line come out cuz I would LOVE THEM!! they're so cute!!!

The Nebulous Stars character artwork lends itself well to a lot of custom doll artists I've seen - I'd love to see somebody take a crack at making more on-model dolls using molds from other doll lines with lovingly rendered watercolor face-ups and body blushing!

I have liked Novi Stars since they came out and I have three dolls (Una Verse, Ina Ferna and Doe Deer), they are really pretty. Back then I felt so weird bc so many people tried to gaslight me into thinking they were ugly, it is really nice people finally see their beauty and uniqueness

i absolutely LOVE your doll videos!! as a doll collector myself, i end up getting super emotional seeing dolls that i remember seeing on shelves and not getting, only for the line to be cancelled (every time i passed by a novastar at walmart….. ough)-it’s such a neat feeling for someone else to remember them too!! i hope you do more doll videos and/or deep dives, it’s so much fun!!

Proposition for next video:Zelfs. They're not exactly dolls but their kinda them with their little sculpted bottoms (that was wild). I used to collect them as a kid and spend hours on their website reading characters profiles and watching video. I still remember their christmas song's lyrics 😂❤

The hollow legs with liquid inside sounds so creative to me, i have never seen any doll like this before :0

You mentioned before that you wanted to do an OOK deep dive video, and you absolutely should! I have an extremely surface level understanding of the artform, but know nothing else besides taking a basic doll and turning them into something new. I am excited to see what kind of things I could learn from you in a video about them!

I've never been into dolls at all even in my childhood but I fell in love with this Novi Star designs and ideas. They are so unique and wholesome in a way..

I LOVE how much research you do for your videos, I love knowing every little detail for a topic

IZZY ACUTALLY CALLING THE AFRO PUFFS, AFRO PUFFS MADE ME SO HAPPY!! SO MANY PEOPLE DONT TO THAT AND IT WAS REALLY NICE TO HEAR!!

Ok can I just say that the QUALITY of your videos is so impressive! Down to the clips and B-roll you use, all the images are so crisp and clear. A delight to watch you and your amazing content!!

im so glad you mentioned novi stars, i had the full collection of the dolls back when it released. all dolls were special, they all had different quirks to them like one smelt like strawberries and the other had glitter skin, another having elastic dolls

I appreciate you going through every design, that’s what we’re here for