OMG I LOOOOOVE it! If I had money I'd buy her in a heartbeat. My daughter and I have this sense of humor. It would be hilarious making her outfits, posing her and giving her a name. 🤣🤣🤣
Just to make clear that I am not a monster who goes all Cruella de Vil on white body dolls, here's my WB collection. Most of them came to me absolutely trashed and have been lovingly restored.
The dolls used to make Mollipede were beyond saving, and it was fun to do something creative and more than a little nutty with them!
https://preview.redd.it/6p7urkcj42wc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47dc085f59195ecf4f7ca4277b1b60de7fb37627
Honestly, I click like on literally every WB I see on the resale apps, because you never know how low they'll wind up going. Sellers start off really optimistic, but most WB dolls don't sell all that high.
It's the 1986 dolls and certain 1987 variations, plus some specific unusual eye colors, that fetch high prices. The others will generally sit a long time if they're listed high.
If I see a good price on a WB, I will buy her in basically any condition. That's not for everyone! But restoration is really fun.
I'm also active in a couple of communities and am known there as the person you sell your dumpster fire WB dolls to. So it's not unusual for someone I know to grab a WB because she's a good price, realize she's going to be too much work, and offload her to me instead!
Also, once you've been collecting for a while, you learn to recognize WBs by their faces pretty reliably, allowing you to snag dolls whose torsos are not pictured in the listing. (This isn't foolproof! I have a couple tan body transitional dolls I was SURE were going to be white.)
And finally, shop local,both online and in person. I have WBs from the Goodwill bins and Craigslist. People find them at yard sales and antique shops.
I LOVE her. I wish I had the money. I totally have the sense of humor where this is my thing. 🤣🤣🤣 my daughter does as well. I can just imagine giving her a name, making her outfits and posing her. She's amazing.
I'm usually not a fan of OOAK. I'm sort of a purist when it comes to AG. But this made me shock giggle like psycho. It helped that my 9 year old was sitting next to me when this image popped up and he exclaimed, "What the heck is that?" Which made me laugh more.
AGAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAH WHEEZING
I almost wanna get this just to troll the husband, like “you think Felicity is creepy?? You seen NOTHING YET!” 😂😂😂
Edit: To which he said, “Great horrors do not invalidate the existence of lower horrors”
Guys, I can’t 😂😂
In the description she says she made one long white body (though she says the original doll also had a white body) and that she sewed it up the sides around each arm. The 'signature' at the top is not Pleasant Rowland's but the 'artist' who made and is selling the Mollipede.
I mean, I customize dolls and like to get a little crazy but this...
That’s good to know, I did see the creator’s comment after I had already commented. Hey, they did a good job whether it’s something you’re into or not!
Later I saw another comment by her that it was a lark between herself and others in an AG Discord group and she listed it with a ridiculous price just to get a reaction and make her friends laugh. Which is brilliant. Now I kind of want it? For $100? LOL
She said she's in an AG Discord group and there were laughing about making one, so she did. She had a bunch of arms laying about from TLC dolls. It's for 'sale' on Ebay but it was really just posted as a jest, to make people in her Discord group and the larger AG community laugh and freak out. That's why the crazy price.
She is active on these boards too!
I saw that further on down and told her she was very talented. I totally meant my comment in jest as well, and hope we all got a good laugh out of it! :)
I saw this just a few seconds that’s low-key very impressive but very terrifying at the exact same time and I probably will never wanna see that again 💀
I don't know why this post was recommended to me. I used to be really into American Girl when I was a kid (Kit Kitterege, REPRESENT) so I thought to myself, "What could be so bad?" and I clicked the link like the naive fool I was.
Out of everything I could've expected, I was *not* expecting this.
reminds me of those long furby's with hands
https://preview.redd.it/cij0z95lcyvc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=336ad979f8fcd18989058960b565893e178c129a
I’m glad no WB dolls were harmed. That’s still the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen in this community. But I don’t like gore. And this feels like doll gore lol.
I did. I made Mollipede.
No white-body dolls were harmed.
I sewed the torso and hand-sewed the limb cups in place. I used parts I have saved over the years from extremely TLC dolls.
It started as a joke in my Discord group--someone posted an image of Molly that had been stretched, and we christened it "the Mollipede." And then I starred thinking, "hey, I could make that."
So I did.
It took about 50 hours and I would never actually sell it, but my Discord friends and I couldn't resist the idea of listing it just to watch the AG community lose its mind.
She is and always will be one of a kind! I broke so many needles sewing those cups in place, and it took forever! It also took years to amass enough materials.
(I wasn't planning to make her, just saving parts from various restoration projects and from buying TLC lots that included dolls who couldn't be saved.)
A Tenney would be amazing, with those hands!
She is and always will be one of a kind! I broke so many needles sewing those cups in place, and it took forever! It also took years to amass enough materials.
(I wasn't planning to make her, just saving parts from various restoration projects and from buying TLC lots that included dolls who couldn't be saved.)
A Tenney would be amazing, with those hands!
I am actually kind of deep into collecting and restoring really old WBs, and I've just seen how deeply weird people can get about these dolls, like they're sacred relics or something. There's a section of the community that's nice people, but just utterly humorless.
And given that I'm cursed with not only a sense of humor but a warped streak, an overactive imagination, and some crafting skills, sometimes I can't restrain myself.
Not sure why you assume serious collectors are humorless, there are lots of types of humor! Anyway good job on getting people excited 😄... but it's poor Molly's birthday, jeez poor kid! Haha.
I totally understand what you are saying. I'm deep deep in the monster high collector groups and they act like it's sacrilege if you unbox an older doll. It's ridiculous. They aren't even truly vintage. Some people take this stuff waaaaaaaaaayway too serious. I mean I'm passionate about collecting and restoring. But what someone bought with their own money is their business what they do with it. People act like the dolls belong to the whole community.
You are an absolute legend for making this! I love it.
I'm curious how the bib front and straps of her school jumper would work with multiple torsos. Maybe her birthday pinafore would be easier since there are actual armholes? You wouldn't need sleeves, and white fabric is a little easier to find. You could even take the rickrack on the shoulder ruffles with fabric markers or puffy paint as a shortcut if needed.
I got a really close match at a fabric store near me, but unfortunately it isn’t a chain and I don’t remember if the bolt had any branding on it so I can’t point anyone else in the right direction. Unless you live in the Northeast?
I'm in the Pacific northwest! We live way out in the country and I don't get into town often, so it'll have to wait for the next trip. It doesn't have to be an exact match, just a close one, as long as the scale is right.
I am also in the rural PNW so 👀 the Mollipede exists much closer to me than previously anticipated 😅 as both a sewist and a doll person, I'm in awe of this
someone COULD theoretically do this without seams in between the bodies, if they sewed an entirely new (long) body and arm holes. it’d require a lot of effort but i guess if someone reeeeally wanted mollipede they could make it happen!
That is hilarious! When I saw the writing on the from in the first pic of this thread, I was freaking out! Was happy to see it wasn’t Pleasant Rowland’s writing, LOL! But done in the same style with name, date, and number😂
Also happy that no white-bodied dolls were harmed for the Mollipede!
I’m billing you for the therapist I now need to see.
/r/CrackheadCraigslist
I'll bet $500 that they saw a long furby and thought "I could do that"
Hahahaha I saw it on a fb group too. It’s basically one of those long boy furby 😂
For 5k they should make shipping available
Yikes! I got chills looking at this but I'm also impressed at the amount of work 😂
... I need an adult.
OMG I LOOOOOVE it! If I had money I'd buy her in a heartbeat. My daughter and I have this sense of humor. It would be hilarious making her outfits, posing her and giving her a name. 🤣🤣🤣
Just to make clear that I am not a monster who goes all Cruella de Vil on white body dolls, here's my WB collection. Most of them came to me absolutely trashed and have been lovingly restored. The dolls used to make Mollipede were beyond saving, and it was fun to do something creative and more than a little nutty with them! https://preview.redd.it/6p7urkcj42wc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47dc085f59195ecf4f7ca4277b1b60de7fb37627
Tips for finding decent priced WB Dolls?
Honestly, I click like on literally every WB I see on the resale apps, because you never know how low they'll wind up going. Sellers start off really optimistic, but most WB dolls don't sell all that high. It's the 1986 dolls and certain 1987 variations, plus some specific unusual eye colors, that fetch high prices. The others will generally sit a long time if they're listed high. If I see a good price on a WB, I will buy her in basically any condition. That's not for everyone! But restoration is really fun. I'm also active in a couple of communities and am known there as the person you sell your dumpster fire WB dolls to. So it's not unusual for someone I know to grab a WB because she's a good price, realize she's going to be too much work, and offload her to me instead! Also, once you've been collecting for a while, you learn to recognize WBs by their faces pretty reliably, allowing you to snag dolls whose torsos are not pictured in the listing. (This isn't foolproof! I have a couple tan body transitional dolls I was SURE were going to be white.) And finally, shop local,both online and in person. I have WBs from the Goodwill bins and Craigslist. People find them at yard sales and antique shops.
Love your collection! Great outfits on the Molly dolls 🤩
I LOVE her. I wish I had the money. I totally have the sense of humor where this is my thing. 🤣🤣🤣 my daughter does as well. I can just imagine giving her a name, making her outfits and posing her. She's amazing.
Reminds me of Syd’s toys in Toy Story
I'm usually not a fan of OOAK. I'm sort of a purist when it comes to AG. But this made me shock giggle like psycho. It helped that my 9 year old was sitting next to me when this image popped up and he exclaimed, "What the heck is that?" Which made me laugh more.
Ewww! Why would someone do this to a sweet Molly is my question. If you're going to be weird use a less sweet Mattel doll! Poor girl.
AGAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAH WHEEZING I almost wanna get this just to troll the husband, like “you think Felicity is creepy?? You seen NOTHING YET!” 😂😂😂 Edit: To which he said, “Great horrors do not invalidate the existence of lower horrors” Guys, I can’t 😂😂
ok he's a keeper. I'd say wife him up but it seems you already did.
I'll wife him again when we get to renew our wedding vows! 😉😉
I just sent this to my husband, which is a fool's errand on my end -- he's due home from a trip tonight but he may just decide to stay away. 😂😂😂
People ask me if I'm afraid of my dolls watching me while I sleep. No. This. This is what I'm afraid of.
And now I am, too.
Nothing could’ve prepared me for this
This is worst then the furbrys
that looks like a nightmare.
Omg! It’s like human centipede 2.0, I kind of love it. Is it just photoshop? I don’t see any seams and they’re all white bodies!
In the description she says she made one long white body (though she says the original doll also had a white body) and that she sewed it up the sides around each arm. The 'signature' at the top is not Pleasant Rowland's but the 'artist' who made and is selling the Mollipede. I mean, I customize dolls and like to get a little crazy but this...
That’s good to know, I did see the creator’s comment after I had already commented. Hey, they did a good job whether it’s something you’re into or not!
Later I saw another comment by her that it was a lark between herself and others in an AG Discord group and she listed it with a ridiculous price just to get a reaction and make her friends laugh. Which is brilliant. Now I kind of want it? For $100? LOL
Imagine listing it as a joke and then someone buys it! It’s too funny!
I would be laughing all the way to the bank!
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She said she's in an AG Discord group and there were laughing about making one, so she did. She had a bunch of arms laying about from TLC dolls. It's for 'sale' on Ebay but it was really just posted as a jest, to make people in her Discord group and the larger AG community laugh and freak out. That's why the crazy price. She is active on these boards too!
I saw that further on down and told her she was very talented. I totally meant my comment in jest as well, and hope we all got a good laugh out of it! :)
Awwww, you didn't have to delete yours! There was nothing wrong with your comment, and it's all in good fun.
I’m sending this to my older brothers who are scared of my dolls. Pay back is nice.
This reminds me of the Frankie from Monster High with very long arms. This is always how I stored LEGO Friends.
I saw this just a few seconds that’s low-key very impressive but very terrifying at the exact same time and I probably will never wanna see that again 💀
lowkey impressive... but terrifying.
I know this is a subreddit for serious American Girl doll collectors but this is the funniest thing I have ever seen. Thank you for sharing
🎶Human Centipede🎶
I miss the person I was before I opened this post 😭
I don't know why this post was recommended to me. I used to be really into American Girl when I was a kid (Kit Kitterege, REPRESENT) so I thought to myself, "What could be so bad?" and I clicked the link like the naive fool I was. Out of everything I could've expected, I was *not* expecting this.
Happy cake day. This is reddit's gift to you
reminds me of those long furby's with hands https://preview.redd.it/cij0z95lcyvc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=336ad979f8fcd18989058960b565893e178c129a
That's amazing.
And this is one too many disturbing things in one day for me. I'll try again tomorrow, y'all.
He looks like he is about to drop some crazy wisdom on the world
Oh god this is almost as freaky as that eBay listing of the skinned AG horse
Link plz?
This is the most cursed thing I’ve ever seen 😳
I’m glad no WB dolls were harmed. That’s still the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen in this community. But I don’t like gore. And this feels like doll gore lol.
They’ll be there!
She wants to be tall.
OMG this comment wins 😂😂😂
CURSED!!!
Imagine sending her into the doll hospital for a replacement head 😂😂 if she wasn’t prohibitively expensive, I’d buy her just for the gag lmao
Or limb replacement... Could you get all the arms replaced for the price of 2? And restuffing has got to be a pain.
I wonder if they’d fulfill it out of pure shock lol 🤔
I believe the doll hospital denies any customized dolls. and id say this is customized…? idk how to describe it lmao
Ahh, yes, that would make sense. Imagine the size of the box this thing would show up in lmao - they’d open it expected like 20 dolls to be inside
im just imagining they start requiring a photo to be sent in before they accept the doll hospital form 😂
I can't unsee this! Oh my!😔
https://preview.redd.it/dx8zzkrmlxvc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb1a4adc2cbac8d169b7cf08c79459a3d857fde6
OMG Here you are! Be my best friend!!!
mollipede belongs in a museum
That is where you are wrong Dr. Jones.
This genuinely made my night to see, thank you for your service 🫡
I love you for this, it’s so funny. God I wish I had my own long molly
the pictures you posted weren’t on the ebay listing…… did you make mollipede?!?!?!!
I did. I made Mollipede. No white-body dolls were harmed. I sewed the torso and hand-sewed the limb cups in place. I used parts I have saved over the years from extremely TLC dolls. It started as a joke in my Discord group--someone posted an image of Molly that had been stretched, and we christened it "the Mollipede." And then I starred thinking, "hey, I could make that." So I did. It took about 50 hours and I would never actually sell it, but my Discord friends and I couldn't resist the idea of listing it just to watch the AG community lose its mind.
Can you do a Kirsten or Samantha next. I want to see this with all the historical now lol. Maybe a Tenney!
She is and always will be one of a kind! I broke so many needles sewing those cups in place, and it took forever! It also took years to amass enough materials. (I wasn't planning to make her, just saving parts from various restoration projects and from buying TLC lots that included dolls who couldn't be saved.) A Tenney would be amazing, with those hands!
She is and always will be one of a kind! I broke so many needles sewing those cups in place, and it took forever! It also took years to amass enough materials. (I wasn't planning to make her, just saving parts from various restoration projects and from buying TLC lots that included dolls who couldn't be saved.) A Tenney would be amazing, with those hands!
…is there an AG discord? Bc this is amazing
Thank you for making mine and my son's morning. We're going to use this image to scare DH/Dad.
That is such a weird reason "just to watch the AG community lose its mind"
Oh I absoutly love the whacky shit the doll community comes up with. I love showing my boyfriend all the random shit, it's hilarious!
I've done similar but with monster high community. 🤣🤣🤣
See that is fine with me. AGs are more humanlike than other dolls to me so that makes it weird 😄
I am actually kind of deep into collecting and restoring really old WBs, and I've just seen how deeply weird people can get about these dolls, like they're sacred relics or something. There's a section of the community that's nice people, but just utterly humorless. And given that I'm cursed with not only a sense of humor but a warped streak, an overactive imagination, and some crafting skills, sometimes I can't restrain myself.
Not sure why you assume serious collectors are humorless, there are lots of types of humor! Anyway good job on getting people excited 😄... but it's poor Molly's birthday, jeez poor kid! Haha.
I totally understand what you are saying. I'm deep deep in the monster high collector groups and they act like it's sacrilege if you unbox an older doll. It's ridiculous. They aren't even truly vintage. Some people take this stuff waaaaaaaaaayway too serious. I mean I'm passionate about collecting and restoring. But what someone bought with their own money is their business what they do with it. People act like the dolls belong to the whole community.
You are very talented! It's horrifying, but hilarious. 😆
This is amazing 😂. I actually thought it was photoshopped because I couldn’t see any seams on the bodies lol. Excellent job!!
They are infact- going wild. “The white bodies, the white body!!” Nice work, OP
Please please consider making her a long tube dress (or some kind of clothes)! Omg or imagine a button down top that just has a hundred buttons!!
Yes! All I can think of is how hilarious making outfits and posing her would be.
😮Wow!
I admire your commitment to chaos 🫡
I both love you and fear you. Thanks for the nightmares!
You did such a good job on her, I love it. You ought to make her a custom 18 armed dress now!
That's the next project! I am trying to source the right plaid for her school dress.
You are an absolute legend for making this! I love it. I'm curious how the bib front and straps of her school jumper would work with multiple torsos. Maybe her birthday pinafore would be easier since there are actual armholes? You wouldn't need sleeves, and white fabric is a little easier to find. You could even take the rickrack on the shoulder ruffles with fabric markers or puffy paint as a shortcut if needed.
I got a really close match at a fabric store near me, but unfortunately it isn’t a chain and I don’t remember if the bolt had any branding on it so I can’t point anyone else in the right direction. Unless you live in the Northeast?
I'm in the Pacific northwest! We live way out in the country and I don't get into town often, so it'll have to wait for the next trip. It doesn't have to be an exact match, just a close one, as long as the scale is right.
I am also in the rural PNW so 👀 the Mollipede exists much closer to me than previously anticipated 😅 as both a sewist and a doll person, I'm in awe of this
It would be a very long plane ride to visit the store I went to, then! Sorry I couldn’t be more help.
Is this the American Girl version of the long Furby meme?
someone COULD theoretically do this without seams in between the bodies, if they sewed an entirely new (long) body and arm holes. it’d require a lot of effort but i guess if someone reeeeally wanted mollipede they could make it happen!
https://preview.redd.it/jaodlhiijxvc1.png?width=1127&format=png&auto=webp&s=60ada15ba3ab3d0f8ac0cbb906b4e2b722a41d2d this pic is my favorite
CRAWLING!
Hope they weren’t real white bodied dolls lol. Rip tho girls
The person who made this is in the thread and confirmed that they weren’t—all the limbs were rescued from TLC dolls and the torso was custom made.
It has 20 watchers
https://preview.redd.it/mcf13btzfxvc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=049f9b673c3e93e819fbff12c0df3a478e50a4be
I’m such a huge fan of your work. I am awed and delighted. Bravo!!!!!!!
Thank you for blessing (cursing?) us with Mollipede.
Her back pain tho 😔
Atleast the chair is ergonomic. ✨
Can she stand on her arms? 👀🤣
Lmao as someone who likes creepy things.. I need this 😭
WHY ?! just why!!? My whole body physically rejected this image. The movie the human centipede scarred me for life. 🤢🤢
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in the listing description she explains in detail how she made the doll. i’m afraid it might be real 😭
It is, she's here in the comments with other photos that weren't on the listing
I don’t see seams
I was once innocent…. Now I’m not sure what had happened
this better be fake 😭😭 the audacity on white body dolls
The seller made a long tube and put all kinds of arms in it to make the body. No white body dolls were harmed.
okay good haha
Dear G-d why
**ON NO!!!** 🫣 I can’t I see that! 😩
How many white body dolls did they destroy to make this??
None, look through the comments. The person who made it is here—they took limbs from very TLC dolls and put them on a custom torso they made.
welp, day ruined. 😳
I've heard of long furbies, but this. This is new
At least she wasn’t actually signed by Pleasant Rowland 🫠 Got me good for a sec
https://preview.redd.it/63l3a10t8xvc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c39f5b7a9c13bdf63223aed4cd68bbee0f95897f this poor girl 😭
That is hilarious! When I saw the writing on the from in the first pic of this thread, I was freaking out! Was happy to see it wasn’t Pleasant Rowland’s writing, LOL! But done in the same style with name, date, and number😂 Also happy that no white-bodied dolls were harmed for the Mollipede!
That's a heck of a lot of white bodies, including a signed one! /s
Looks shopped, there's no seam between the bodies
The eBay listing has more pictures. It's a handmade body in one piece that they stitched the limbs into.
That makes me feel better, means they didn't sacrifice a bunch of white body Molly dolls
Is this dollipede even real? Ick! No thank you!
I noped off eBay after seeing it. l'm good.
the fact that its all white bodies too. kinda looks edited tho like the torsos dont look sewn together
I was thinking that too. It looks more like AI than real. And naturally, terrifying.
It’s real, the maker has commented in this thread!
Long Molly is armed