Legendary IT 2020 Convention: W Club Lunch Gossip Recap

They have been teasing us with a gorgeous Agnes face all weekend and many were expecting/hoping that she was going to appear at the lunch event.  She did not. I am wondering if she is going to end up being an extra special bonus or maybe a made to order dealie. We shall see.  ****UPDATE: This Agnes will be the 25th Anniversary doll and offered to the entire W Club for order.  It is unclear whether she is one of our pending W Club exclusives or a bonus. I am excited to get her. She looks STUNNING.

Anyway, so we got a crazy goth queen in Wicked Narcissism Eugenia Frost-Perrin.  I have yet to warm up to a Eugenia but I am pretty sure this is the one.  I love it. I wish she wasn't $175 bucks...but I am happy to get her. (To be clear, most centerpieces in recent years have been this price. It still hurts). She is totally going to rock that Soiree Agnes dress and a lot of the style lab. This doll was a throwback to Dark Narcissus Kyori. 


Then we had interviews with the designers.  Here is the hot goss...

  • David Buttry- wants to broaden and expand the Poppy line and be not so restrictive.  I read this to mean that she might move out of her sixties to seventies time periods.  (Can you just imagine Poppy in the 80s.  I'd die.)
  • Jessy Ayala- Isabella is an Afro-Latina character. There is still a Latina character coming for NuFace later this year.
  • Mark Tinkey- has a line coming. It is not FR Nippon. He said that he was "revisiting a popular brand that let people's fantasies come to life." I am guessing that means Nu Fantasy?  That would be cool.  Maybe we will get more Dracula Brides?
  • Chris Stoeckel- adding two new characters to East 59th...and teased the word "relative".  I took that to mean a character related to someone already in the line. It might be fun to have either a younger or older character show up.
  • Vaughn Sawyers- expect some twists and turns for Monarchs and he has many areas he wants to explore with men's fashion. He is keeping his lips sealed on Meteor. For Jem, they really looked to the forum polls. The working relationship with Hasbro has been good and they love everything that IT does with the line.
  • Alain Tremblay- totally game to do more dioramas: "I love a good cardboard structure." Also game for more funky things along the line of Anika's robot parts and such. 
  • They are wondering how we liked the online convention? They are exploring the technology available.

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