ROXY
Set: MISFITS
Year: 1986-7
Sold: UK, Mexico
We KNOW mexican ROXY came with the following:
~Purple top
~white trousers
~belt
~ purple guitar
~shoes
~Misfit bracelets (x2)
~Cassette featuring songs "Tema De Jem", "Click/Clash" and "Llevatelo"
~stand
~comb
Existing Variations:
Both a hybrid and a pure version of Roxy exist. It is not known whether there are any other variations on the Mexican doll theme.
I'd like to thank Cleothunderwith for the picture of the Mexican Misfit stand!
I am in need of a picture of Roxy's cassette - I am also in need of the cassette itself, so if you have it and want to trade or sell it, please get in touch!
Comments: Honestly I have to admit I think this doll is adorable. LOL :)
This is Pure Mexican Roxy. She has a far more dreamy expression on her face than normal Roxy dolls do, and her hair is wild and haphazard and seemingly of a rougher fibre. Don't confuse her wild hair with the wild hair of the European doll because they are nothing alike! Roxy has a distinct green flame and the familiar make up of a normal Roxy but her complexion is extremely pale.
(she's so cute!)
Comments: Mexican dolls have a few tell tale signs. Apart
from the obvious shiny (ceramic looking, but it is NOT ceramic) body, the
lines where the arms and legs' moulds were sealed are far more defined, the
hands are longer, thinner and marked in the palm quite often with a number
or letter. Mexican hands break off VERY easily, for some reason, and are
also prone to a white speckly deterioration. Both of these things are clues
to a Mexican doll. Finally the doll has greater proportions to a normal
doll - she will stand a touch taller than your average Roxy! This is true
for BOTH Hybrid and Pure dolls.As can be seen from the picture, Pure Roxy here has no stamping on her (shiny) back or beneath her hairline, which is a touch haphazard in it's threading!
Comments: This is hybrid Roxy! She has an ordinary Hasbro stamped head, with thickly rooted white hair and more classic makeup. I believe she probably has a second edition head, because it seems the rule that Mexican hybrids do have second edition heads.
Comments: As you can see, Roxy has stamping (it's just
faintly evident!) on her head, but nothing on her back. Mexican dolls have
a few tell tale signs. Apart from the obvious shiny (ceramic looking, but
it is NOT ceramic) body, the lines where the arms and legs' moulds were sealed
are far more defined, the hands are longer, thinner and marked in the palm
quite often with a number or letter. Mexican hands break off VERY easily,
for some reason, and are also prone to a white speckly deterioration. Both
of these things are clues to a Mexican doll. Finally the doll has greater
proportions to a normal doll - she will stand a touch taller than your average
Roxy! This is true for BOTH Hybrid and Pure dolls.
Comments: Quite distinctive if compared with an ordinary Roxy top - much more see through and the fluffy bits are further spaced apart. Seems fairly baggy too, even on a Mexican body. Same colour, though.
Comments: VERY easy to spot. In the same style/design/pattern as normal first edition Roxy trousers but completely devoid of the rainbow colour spatter pattern and in a white pleather fabric, same as that used for Mexican Shana's dress. Fastens with velcro at the back.
Comments: It's pretty hard to tell if you have a Mexican Roxy belt without doing a comparison side by side with a normal Roxy belt. All I can say from my observations is that the belt seems wider, the points less, well, pointy, and the angle between the pointy bits and the belt part is more curved than a right-angle. That sounds garbled, but take a look at a Roxy belt and I hope you'll see what I mean. The velcro is also stitched on more clumsily - a normal Roxy belt has TWO lines of stitching per velcro bit whereas the Mexican has just the one row for each. That's probably the most obvious difference. Oh, and Mexican Roxy's belt does NOT come with silver stickers - but since they peel off normal belts quite a lot, it's as well to check for the other signs, too!
Comments: Along the same lines as Second Edition Roxy's guitar but a very dark purple instead of the more familiar raspberry pink. Speckled with gold glitter and slightly smaller in proportion. Pretty distinctive and easy to spot!
Comments: Raspberry pink, fairly bright in colour. I'm 99% sure that these are Roxy's shoes because they came with a Mexican Roxy with other accessories and so far I haven't managed to match them to any other Mexican doll!!
Comments: Icky. These are like normal bracelets for the Misfits, only they seem overpainted and crusty to the point where the paint WILL come off on the doll's arm!
PIC
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Comments: The cassette includes the songs "Tema De Jem" (Jem Theme), "Click/Clash" and "Llevatelo" (Taking It From You - aka Takin It All) On the B side are instrumentals WITHOUT an instrument playing the vocal line, far more like second year instrumentals, but for the first year issue songs! Mexican dolls are unique in that they are the only foreign packaged dolls to come with a specific language tape. Roxy's tape is also different in another way. It has no label stuck on it and the text - in WHITE and not neon yellow - is printed directly onto the cassette itself.
Comments: Mexican Jem doll stands are distinguishable quite easily
- there are two types, Hologram and Misfits and of course, that means pink
and yellow. All of the Misfit dolls had this stand - yellow, clouded like
the second year dolls, but with no TM beside the M of Jem (or anywhere else
on the stand!) This is the easiest way to tell a Mexican stand from a normal
second edition stand! (The inset shows the missing TM, that picture has
been edited in art software to make the contrast show up better and the
image clearer)Comments: Unknown. At a guess? Probably PINK. All the Mexican combs that I've managed to assign so far have been hot pink, roughly the colour of Rock and Curl Jem's shoes!
Comments: No picture, but probably much as the other pure dolls, in ordinary design boxes with Mexican Spanish writing on.
PICTURE
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Comments: I have no picture to prove it, but as far as I can ascertain all hybrid dolls were sold in exactly the same packaging as the pure dolls.