Oh no, avante!!!!avante wrote:I'm quite at a loss to describe how I feel about it, pretty much so I'll skip that part, but to cut it short: my doll just went out of commission unfortunately...
About half year to year into owning her she had a fall where her head hit the wall falling down and landing, leaving her with messed up neck, which already resulted in it not being able to fully move back or stay up in doggy poses, but she was pose-able at least. Just now, after I walked her up the stairs and sat her down, the whole neck broke (weight of the hair in knot on her head I bet, with maybe bounces from walking the stairs). Right now the top of goose neck is a separate part; I can feel it being loose within the neck, resulting in the head falling down completely when attached. So yeah safe to say pictures and basically this thread is over .
I will try to look for threads/ideas on repair later, if anyone has seen something and could reference, that be great, but atm kinda feeling like I'll prob. going to end up having to get rid of her, which is a total painful train of thought I'm not quite ready to even have right now.
That's really bad news. I do hope she can be repaired in some way.
It may be worth trying to find pictures of what the WM doll skeleton looks like, so you can try to work out where the neck has been broken and maybe see if a repair is possible.
I think the older dolls had a goose neck design and the newer ones with the shrugging shoulders are a different mechanism.
The late TDF member CrazyCajun did a video of how to mend a broken neck, but it was a bit tricky to do as getting access was very difficult.
CrazyCajun's website has now been removed but the video may be around somewhere.
It's terrible when your doll falls over. I was really upset last summer when my Tiffany fell over when she was outside in the backyard.
She ended up in a pile of arms and legs on the ground and looked really bad. I expected the worst.
Luckily Tiffany only suffered some scratches and she had some grit embedded in her head, but she survived that fall.
At the time it was horrible and it took me a few days to get over it.