The Poppy Parker Archive: February 2011

Perfectly Purple Poppy Parker

Original price: $119
Limited edition of 400
From the mainline 2011 collection, although she didn't arrive until Jan. 2012.

Forward-facing green eyes with pink eyeshadow and pink lips. Medium-brown hair and brown eyebrows. She has the same eye screening as "Tears Go By" Poppy, but in a different color palette.

She comes with a lavender-and-black outfit that consists of several pieces. The ensemble includes: a solid lavender jacket; a lavender-and-black gingham skirt with a matching lavender-and-black gingham tam hat; black shoes edged in lavender; a solid lavender vinyl purse; a black double-breasted, sleeveless vest; silver stud earrings; white three-fingered gloves; nude pantyhose; and a lavender-and-black gingham scarf at the neck.

Foto Fab Poppy Parker

Original price: $119
Limited edition of 400
From the mainline 2011 collection, although she didn't arrive until Jan. 2012.

Brown, forward-facing eyes with blue eyeshadow, pink lips and golden blonde hair pulled into a side ponytail. The eyes have the same double-winged, forward-facing screening as "Shadow of a Smile," "In The Air" and the 2010 Workshop Poppy, but in a different color palette.

She wears a party dress of turquoise blue with a black lace overlay. Accessories include a necklace of blue stones; earrings that match the necklace; a rhinestone bracelet; nude pantyhose; black shoes and a black ribbon for her hair. The dress zips down the back.

Youthquake Poppy Parker

Youthquake with hair taken down.

Original price: $90
Limited edition of 400
From the mainline 2011 collection.
July 2011

Blue, right-glancing eyes with neutral eyeshadow; pale pink lips and vivid orange-red hair. Her eyebrows were a slightly darker red than her hair.

She sported an eye screening new to the Poppy Parker world at the time of her debut: No painted eyelashes with the exception of a single "wing" at the outer corners of each eye to give her a doe-eyed look. The eye screening was similar to "Twist 'n Shout" Darla's screening except that her eyes looked in the opposite direction. ("Shout's" eyes were left-glancing.)

The outfit was also the same as "Shout's" except in different colors. "Youthquake" had a black sweater under a brown jumper, with black fishnet stockings and black shoes, and "silver" stud earrings.

The hair of the actual production doll looked dramatically different from the original promo pics, seen below. The color ended up being a different shade of red, and the hair was curled differently.

Twist 'n Shout Darla Daley

Original price: $90
Limited edition of 400
From the mainline 2011 collection.
July 2011

Deep brown, left-glancing eyes with a neutral color palette, including silvery-gray eyeshadow. She sported an eye screening that was new to the Poppy Parker world at the time of her debut: No painted eyelashes with the exception of a single "wing" at the outer corners of each eye to give her a doe-eyed look. The eye screening was similar to "Youthquake's" screening except that her eyes looked in the opposite direction. ("Youthquake" was right-glancing.)

The outfit was also the same as "Youthquake" Poppy's except in different colors. "Shout" had a white sweater under a black jumper, with white fishnet stockings and black shoes, a white headband, and stud earrings.

At Integrity's Jet Set convention in Oct. 2011, Integrity announced that Darla's face mold had been broken at the factory and that a new sculpt would replace it, making this the only time Integrity fans would see this particular sculpt. This was the first Darla, and the only to have this particular face sculpt for that reason.

Hit Single Darla Daley

The actual production doll.

Limited edition of 400
From the mainline 2011 collection.
Jan. 2012

Brown, right-glancing eyes with purple eyeshadow above the eyes and gold eyeshadow below. She had black hair in a dramatic curled up-do with bangs.

Comes with a purple mini-length dress, gold hoop earrings, and gold shoes, gold clutch purse, nude pantyhose and a simple gold bracelet. The dress is one piece, with a zipper down the back. There are no panties.

At Integrity's Jet Set convention in Oct. 2011, Integrity announced that Darla's original face mold had been broken at the factory and that a new sculpt would have to replace it. For this reason, "Hit Single" was never actually produced with the original sculpt, shown in two of the pics below. The new sculpt was very similar to the original sculpt, although in the final production doll, the eye screening was changed to be right-glancing instead of left-glancing as shown in the original promotional photos.

"Hit Single" was supposed to come out in 2011, but production delays made her appear in Jan. 2012 instead.