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Had a lovely sleep and very weird dreams. One involved us at the old house doing some very weird laundry. My Hello Kitty was amongst it and so were what looked like baby shoes? Bizarre.
Second dream I remember was still at the old house and I couldn't quite tell whether it was a role-play or really happening. Something about rebels in a place with two moons (one was a giant lightbulb, LOL) and me playing hide-and-seek with a small white cupboard that I climbed in, and then it was a small, white closet and I was hiding behind clothes, and Lando was wandering around outside the closet and I think he's the one who found me. He wondered what the heck I was doing in there.
Third dream was toy shopping at Toys R Us again. I have a lot of those off and on. This one had me looking for Troll dolls again and being excited to find a small one for $1.50. There was also a bigger one in a wedding gown and it had black hair, which I found a hilarious combination for some reason. I was thinking I'd get both of those.
I woke up nostalgic for Trolls some more. I wish that the last time they came out with Trolls, I could have known about it long before I did. It seemed like I only found out a couple of months or so before they started getting rid of them again. Now I hear that Dreamworks has the U.S. distribution rights because they're going to make a movie next year. I was hoping they'd start releasing Trolls ahead of time to start getting people excited for the movie, but they haven't done anything yet.
I always longed for many Trolls, just like I longed for many Ponies. When it comes to being forced to resort to getting things secondhand, it seems better to get Ponies that way rather than Trolls. I don't know; somehow it seems like it would be hard to get Trolls' hair very clean, and if they're wearing clothes, I'd feel like I needed to wash those out by hand (too small for the washer). That would be such a pain. If I got plush, I heard that when getting secondhand plush, you need to keep it in a pillowcase separate from your other plushies for two weeks to make sure all possible bacteria is killed off. I'm just lucky my Darkwing Duck plush was apparently pretty clean, because I didn't know those tips when I got him. I wiped him off with paper towels and that was it; he joined my plushie family that day.
I could get Trolls mint in package so they'd still be clean in there, but that would send shipping prices way up. So bah, it feels like I don't have many options open to me unless Dreamworks does something with their distribution rights. (And unless I like what their Trolls look like.)
My very first Troll was a little keychain Troll with violet hair from All a Dollar. He was a naked one, so I wonder why Dad even let me get him. LOL. Naturally I clothed him when we got home. First I gave him a blue coat that I think belonged to an Alvin and the Chipmunks figure. Later I wrapped a rag around his body to make a piece of clothing. I really thought I was pretty clever to have made it work so well. Unfortunately, I haven't seen him for years. I think he was a fakie, not a Troll by one of the official companies, but I loved him and I wish I knew where he went. I kind of think he fell behind the bed and Dad found him when we were moving? He put the stuff from behind the bed in a specific sack, and I don't know where said sack is. Siiiigh.
I also have a green-haired Troll figure on a pencil that I don't have access to at the moment. I think I know approximately where that one is, though.
I remember when I was a kid and Smith's was actually selling Troll plushies. And it was right when I actually had a check of birthday money. It was December, about a week before Christmas, so either it was a belated birthday present or else I'd had it since October but hadn't decided what to spend it on yet. Needless to say, I was absolutely ecstatic. I rarely saw Troll figures around and plushies were even better! I got a green-haired girl and next week went back for another. The only one left was a red-haired boy, and both copies had things wrong with them. One had something stuck all through the hair (yuck!). The other had a hole and needed sewing. I ended up getting the latter because I wanted one so bad, even though my preference would have been a character they didn't have any longer. I sewed up the hole as best as I could, and I was glad to have another one even though he wasn't my first choice. I think it was a Troll family; the two I have are the kids, and didn't cost as much, and then there were two bigger ones that were the adults and cost more. I wanted the blue-haired one so bad, but he must have been more money than I could spend or I would have gotten him that first time.
I used to play my DOS Trolls game with the plushies on my lap. I used to always have plushies on my lap on the computer. I don't like to do that anymore; they're too distracting! I keep wanting to cuddle and pet them instead of doing what I'm supposed to be doing. Sometimes they make for awkward typing, too. So I put them on the bed I sleep on if I want them close to me while on the computer. Otherwise, they stay on the other bed.
I was so excited when I found that Trolls game at All a Dollar! It was just a Shareware demo, one little level, but I played the heck out of it. More recently I found the entire game online for free and downloaded it. It doesn't have the music, though. Sigh. But I play it sometimes. I can access all the levels and it's so weird and cracky and hilarious. The bad guys are different odd things corresponding to the themes of the levels, like ink wells and pens and pieces of paper are the bad guys in a writing level. Snerk. The only thing I don't like is that there are evil toys in a couple of toy levels. It's too sad to think of toys being evil, especially since there aren't any good toys to counter that. But eh.
My aunt knew I liked Trolls and one year she gave me some cute cheerleader Trolls she had around. Their hair is red, violet, and orange. The orange one has a black and yellow dress, so she looks like a Halloween girl. LOL. Soon after that, my dad actually found a really big rainbow-haired sailor Troll and I got that for Christmas. Squeeee. I think he's technically a fakie, too, but he looks like official Trolls and I love him.
The most recent time Trolls were out, I at last got a blue-haired Troll. I also got a white-haired angel Troll and a yellow-haired Troll dressed like a ladybug. (I had to.) I wanted more, but they were getting rid of them around that time. Sigh.
So, that is my Trolls collection. Oh, wait, as a kid I also had a Trolls sticker book, which thrilled me to no end when I discovered it at Rite-Aid. I also had some Trolls stickers, the kind you stick on things other than sticker books, and I don't know where I got them. It almost seems like they may have been a prize at kindergarten? I don't really think so, though, because I think I was seven when I got them. I stuck them around stuff. I think there's still one or two of them on the dresser I use. I know there's a pink-haired Troll I stuck on my old crib (where we used to put my plushies). Other than that, I can't remember where the stickers are. Maybe there's one on the high chair? Hmmm.
I had Mom make a whole bunch of paper dolls based on the Trolls in the sticker book and on the stickers. I love those. I should get them out of the box those paper dolls are stored in and look at them again.
I remember one time we got this invitation to look around this furniture store and I was in awe because there were Troll plushies all over the display beds and other places! I wanted one sooo bad. This was before I got my plushies at Smith's. I don't recall if the Trolls were available to purchase or if they were just on display. They probably would have been too expensive if they had been for sale at a store like that. But I was in Heaven walking around seeing them all. There was even some guy talking about them to a small group of people. I think he was telling which ones he bought for his kid and when?
I remember Hammon's Toys had Trolls sometimes. Maybe Hallmark did too? But I didn't have money to get them during the times they were there, and Dad didn't want to buy me one because he felt they were both ugly and expensive. Sigh. (That was before the sailor Troll.) But I loved looking at them, at least.
Also, I found it hilarious when I saw the Gomer Pyle episode where he has a Troll doll in his foot locker. Sergeant Carter's expression when he saw that.... ROTFLOL. "PYLE! A foot locker is for regulation items! A Troll doll is a non-regulation item!"
EDIT: Ohmygoshsquee! There's some Troll plushies on eBay in the same line as the ones I've got, and some of them still say New after all these years! They're very reasonable prices, too. Maybe I'll get a couple. Unfortunately, the only copy of the big blue one I wanted years ago is used, and even says it needs cleaning from light soiling. Ugggh. So he's out. There's a really cute pink ballerina, though, and there's a different blue one that says New! Also a yellow one and a pink/purple one that looks like a diva. LOL.
Second dream I remember was still at the old house and I couldn't quite tell whether it was a role-play or really happening. Something about rebels in a place with two moons (one was a giant lightbulb, LOL) and me playing hide-and-seek with a small white cupboard that I climbed in, and then it was a small, white closet and I was hiding behind clothes, and Lando was wandering around outside the closet and I think he's the one who found me. He wondered what the heck I was doing in there.
Third dream was toy shopping at Toys R Us again. I have a lot of those off and on. This one had me looking for Troll dolls again and being excited to find a small one for $1.50. There was also a bigger one in a wedding gown and it had black hair, which I found a hilarious combination for some reason. I was thinking I'd get both of those.
I woke up nostalgic for Trolls some more. I wish that the last time they came out with Trolls, I could have known about it long before I did. It seemed like I only found out a couple of months or so before they started getting rid of them again. Now I hear that Dreamworks has the U.S. distribution rights because they're going to make a movie next year. I was hoping they'd start releasing Trolls ahead of time to start getting people excited for the movie, but they haven't done anything yet.
I always longed for many Trolls, just like I longed for many Ponies. When it comes to being forced to resort to getting things secondhand, it seems better to get Ponies that way rather than Trolls. I don't know; somehow it seems like it would be hard to get Trolls' hair very clean, and if they're wearing clothes, I'd feel like I needed to wash those out by hand (too small for the washer). That would be such a pain. If I got plush, I heard that when getting secondhand plush, you need to keep it in a pillowcase separate from your other plushies for two weeks to make sure all possible bacteria is killed off. I'm just lucky my Darkwing Duck plush was apparently pretty clean, because I didn't know those tips when I got him. I wiped him off with paper towels and that was it; he joined my plushie family that day.
I could get Trolls mint in package so they'd still be clean in there, but that would send shipping prices way up. So bah, it feels like I don't have many options open to me unless Dreamworks does something with their distribution rights. (And unless I like what their Trolls look like.)
My very first Troll was a little keychain Troll with violet hair from All a Dollar. He was a naked one, so I wonder why Dad even let me get him. LOL. Naturally I clothed him when we got home. First I gave him a blue coat that I think belonged to an Alvin and the Chipmunks figure. Later I wrapped a rag around his body to make a piece of clothing. I really thought I was pretty clever to have made it work so well. Unfortunately, I haven't seen him for years. I think he was a fakie, not a Troll by one of the official companies, but I loved him and I wish I knew where he went. I kind of think he fell behind the bed and Dad found him when we were moving? He put the stuff from behind the bed in a specific sack, and I don't know where said sack is. Siiiigh.
I also have a green-haired Troll figure on a pencil that I don't have access to at the moment. I think I know approximately where that one is, though.
I remember when I was a kid and Smith's was actually selling Troll plushies. And it was right when I actually had a check of birthday money. It was December, about a week before Christmas, so either it was a belated birthday present or else I'd had it since October but hadn't decided what to spend it on yet. Needless to say, I was absolutely ecstatic. I rarely saw Troll figures around and plushies were even better! I got a green-haired girl and next week went back for another. The only one left was a red-haired boy, and both copies had things wrong with them. One had something stuck all through the hair (yuck!). The other had a hole and needed sewing. I ended up getting the latter because I wanted one so bad, even though my preference would have been a character they didn't have any longer. I sewed up the hole as best as I could, and I was glad to have another one even though he wasn't my first choice. I think it was a Troll family; the two I have are the kids, and didn't cost as much, and then there were two bigger ones that were the adults and cost more. I wanted the blue-haired one so bad, but he must have been more money than I could spend or I would have gotten him that first time.
I used to play my DOS Trolls game with the plushies on my lap. I used to always have plushies on my lap on the computer. I don't like to do that anymore; they're too distracting! I keep wanting to cuddle and pet them instead of doing what I'm supposed to be doing. Sometimes they make for awkward typing, too. So I put them on the bed I sleep on if I want them close to me while on the computer. Otherwise, they stay on the other bed.
I was so excited when I found that Trolls game at All a Dollar! It was just a Shareware demo, one little level, but I played the heck out of it. More recently I found the entire game online for free and downloaded it. It doesn't have the music, though. Sigh. But I play it sometimes. I can access all the levels and it's so weird and cracky and hilarious. The bad guys are different odd things corresponding to the themes of the levels, like ink wells and pens and pieces of paper are the bad guys in a writing level. Snerk. The only thing I don't like is that there are evil toys in a couple of toy levels. It's too sad to think of toys being evil, especially since there aren't any good toys to counter that. But eh.
My aunt knew I liked Trolls and one year she gave me some cute cheerleader Trolls she had around. Their hair is red, violet, and orange. The orange one has a black and yellow dress, so she looks like a Halloween girl. LOL. Soon after that, my dad actually found a really big rainbow-haired sailor Troll and I got that for Christmas. Squeeee. I think he's technically a fakie, too, but he looks like official Trolls and I love him.
The most recent time Trolls were out, I at last got a blue-haired Troll. I also got a white-haired angel Troll and a yellow-haired Troll dressed like a ladybug. (I had to.) I wanted more, but they were getting rid of them around that time. Sigh.
So, that is my Trolls collection. Oh, wait, as a kid I also had a Trolls sticker book, which thrilled me to no end when I discovered it at Rite-Aid. I also had some Trolls stickers, the kind you stick on things other than sticker books, and I don't know where I got them. It almost seems like they may have been a prize at kindergarten? I don't really think so, though, because I think I was seven when I got them. I stuck them around stuff. I think there's still one or two of them on the dresser I use. I know there's a pink-haired Troll I stuck on my old crib (where we used to put my plushies). Other than that, I can't remember where the stickers are. Maybe there's one on the high chair? Hmmm.
I had Mom make a whole bunch of paper dolls based on the Trolls in the sticker book and on the stickers. I love those. I should get them out of the box those paper dolls are stored in and look at them again.
I remember one time we got this invitation to look around this furniture store and I was in awe because there were Troll plushies all over the display beds and other places! I wanted one sooo bad. This was before I got my plushies at Smith's. I don't recall if the Trolls were available to purchase or if they were just on display. They probably would have been too expensive if they had been for sale at a store like that. But I was in Heaven walking around seeing them all. There was even some guy talking about them to a small group of people. I think he was telling which ones he bought for his kid and when?
I remember Hammon's Toys had Trolls sometimes. Maybe Hallmark did too? But I didn't have money to get them during the times they were there, and Dad didn't want to buy me one because he felt they were both ugly and expensive. Sigh. (That was before the sailor Troll.) But I loved looking at them, at least.
Also, I found it hilarious when I saw the Gomer Pyle episode where he has a Troll doll in his foot locker. Sergeant Carter's expression when he saw that.... ROTFLOL. "PYLE! A foot locker is for regulation items! A Troll doll is a non-regulation item!"
EDIT: Ohmygoshsquee! There's some Troll plushies on eBay in the same line as the ones I've got, and some of them still say New after all these years! They're very reasonable prices, too. Maybe I'll get a couple. Unfortunately, the only copy of the big blue one I wanted years ago is used, and even says it needs cleaning from light soiling. Ugggh. So he's out. There's a really cute pink ballerina, though, and there's a different blue one that says New! Also a yellow one and a pink/purple one that looks like a diva. LOL.
