Painting McDonald’s Toys – Christmas Polly Pocket

Recently I’ve been indulging in a little nostalgia. As a kid, I loved Polly Pocket, which shouldn’t be surprising given how many miniatures I make and how much I love dolls and tiny things in general. It’s probably in a large part responsible for my artistic inclinations as an adult, and I always think back on playing with my old sets as a child fondly. That said, I can’t really justify having any now. Unlike the dolls I collect, I can’t really make anything for them, and they’d just be sitting on a shelf, unplayed with. However, I remembered one day that I had owned, and really enjoyed, the little promotional Happy Meal toys they made in conjunction with McDonald’s. And what do you know, those can be found really cheaply on eBay! So I picked up one that I remembered having, and it’s just as adorable as I remembered: Of course because these are cheap Happy Meal toys, they went cheap on the paint job, but I’ve always thought that the plastic molded details were really cute. There’s…

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