On Jan. 6, William Herrington of Colorado came across a new Belle doll Disney released ahead of its live-action movie starring Emma Watson. The only problem was that the doll looked nothing like Emma. Nope. Not even close.
The internet and your neighbor’s great-aunt were quick to react, accusing Disney of drawing more inspiration from Justin Bieber, the Queen of Hearts (from
’s lead actress. The doll, which Herrington found at a local J.C. Penney in Grand Junction, is currently not listed on the department store’s site. It’s also nowhere to be seen on Disney’s official online store. Regardless of what happens to this Belle doll, it will live on forever, thanks to the fine meme genies online.
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When you order an emma watson doll online but a justin bieber doll in a yellow dress & a wig arrives instead pic.twitter.com/PUQUBXyufT— bek (@barbekkue) January 7, 2017
They got Emma Watson's Belle doll looking like Lord Farquaad with a mix of the Queen of Hearts & a sprinkle of Justin Bieber. Who did this? pic.twitter.com/4rUIxmrzYo— whit (@skymidala) January 7, 2017
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Spoke to doll artist extraordinaire Robert Tonner to find out what might have happened with this particular Belle doll. Tonner, who has been in the doll-making business for 26 years, has designed and sculpted dolls for films like
Film came out, Tonner and his company were licensed to create an entire collection, which included multiple versions of Hermione and Harry dolls. When he found out about what happened with Emma's Belle doll, Tonner says he tried to look for one for his personal collection. Right now it might be fun ... for under $20 bucks, I'd buy one for a hoot.
Disney knows they have a movie coming out. There are toy people at Disney and they decide they’re going to do a Belle doll. So that’s the first step, and then they go into sketches and take pictures from the movie, and they have the costume. Then it’s handed over to a sculptor to sculpt it. Then you have people over the sculptor to guide and to correct. The big clinker in all this is sometimes the talent has a say in it. [Although] I doubt Emma Watson sat there and said, 'I think the nose is too big' ...
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So you finally get a finished head. Then it goes to a face paint designer who’s trying to as cheaply as possible make it look like as close to Emma Watson as possible. There’s probably an artist and somebody to do the first paint. Then there are multiple screens made from the face paint — that’s a whole other set of artists. It could be literally 100 people that have their hands on it.
The people who do mass dolls — Mattel, Hasbro, and Disney — they have the best sculptors in the world working for them. They absolutely do. So seeing something like this this is disturbing.
What happens with a sculptor and doll is that you have to idealize. Emma Watson has very refined features. It’s hard to idealize her. It looks to me like what the sculptor did was he made her face a little bit longer to emphasize that she has a long, narrow face, she has not a prominent chin but she has a nice, beautifully shaped chin, but he exaggerated that just a touch. Then the sculpt can get approved because it looks like her but then you have so many other people touching it.
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To me, the head is too big for the doll’s body. That’s one thing. The hair rooting, the sewing of the hair into the scalp is wrong, it’s too high up, which makes it look like she has a gigantic forehead. It also isn’t rooted on the side of her head, which also makes it look like her forehead is wider. And then you have the face paint. She has naturally dark eyebrows but if I was doing a doll like this, I would lighten them slightly so it doesn’t look so heavy. In a doll, you have to get these features but you have to know what to emphasize. It looks to me like every step up and down the line, there were a lot of hands in it, and it just got terrible.
I think there are two steps in where it went wrong. The first step is in the sculpt. The second part is the styling of the doll for production. Had the hairline been lower, had the eyebrows been less strong, it would’ve looked better. Would it have looked like her? Probably not, but it would have looked better.
We’ve done so many sculpts of celebrities. Sometimes the celebrity will look at it, sometimes they don’t want anything to do with it. I did
May 16, 2017
. I’ve done an Emma Watson. Of course, she was a kid then. My understanding was that J.K. Rowling looked at the likeness [of the dolls] and she was the final approval. They were kids at the time so they had less say.
We had the license to do Halle Berry as Catwoman. The first go around, I thought we nailed the sculpt. I absolutely felt like we nailed it. I sent them the sculpt. The people that were working with her didn’t seem, in my opinion, to have experience in looking at unpainted sculpture. It takes an artistic eye, you have to imagine what it’s supposed to look like, and look at the form and not the paint. We had to paint this sculpt for them. I painted it, and they started correcting the paint, which has nothing to do with the sculpt. I feel like the sculpt was ruined by the time it went to market because of all the changes they made. We weren’t changing the sculpt, we were changing paint.
. They were easy. We signed on before the movie came out. My company should not have gotten the license but I guess I was on top of it. They did really well for us. He’s our top seller. Harry Potter, Captain Jack Sparrow, and then Edward from
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, and the royals. She’s also a proud Canadian and pug lover. When Peggy’s not obsessing over Leo’s latest lover or gut size, she can be found watching old episodes of
. Her dream is to one day live on a pug farm and write children’s books, with illustrations by her very talented husband Greg.
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A photo of the doll first made its way online when William Herrington, a photographer and doll enthusiast from Colorado, posted a pic of the figurine on Flickr after spotting it for sale at a JCPenney at a Grand Junction mall.
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“I knew that Disney Store’s live-action dolls are never 100% accurate to the actors, but this one was atrocious!” he told BuzzFeed News on Saturday, January 7. “Her face was shiny and covered in freckles (that looked more like a skin disease) and her head looked like it was being ripped open and torn where the hair was rooted into the head.”
“As for any resemblance to Emma … yeesh. There really isn’t any, ” Herrington continued, adding that his “excitement turned to disappointment and disgust” at the puzzling plastic interpretation of Watson as Belle.
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Since Herrington posted the photo, Disney fans have taken to social media to express their mixed feelings about the doll. Some are similarly distraught over Belle’s shocking new look, but many have found the humor in the toy’s interesting mug. From Justin Bieber in a dress to Jennifer Garner as Alias, online fans seem to think the Belle doll bears a resemblance to anyone but the British actress.
When you order an emma watson doll online but a justin bieber doll in a yellow dress & a wig arrives instead pic.twitter.com/PUQUBXyufT — rebekka (@ETHANSHONEYMOON) January 7, 2017
This doll looks like Jennifer Garner trying to disguise herself as Emma Watson in an episode of Alias. pic.twitter.com/c071qeSdXN — Ol’ QWERTY
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