Shrek's Failed Fashion Dolls: A Princess Fiona Story
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- “You didn’t slay the dragon??!”
Where would the Shrek franchise be without the bubbly firecracker princess herself, Princess Fiona? And where would the world of fashion dolls be without our merchandisable Ogress? Apparently here, because there’s actually only been a few Fiona dolls! Today we’re looking at all the Fiona dolls, both the good, the bad, and the exceedingly rare. So really it’s just another day in the world of Shrek and Dreamworks collecting!
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I'm kinda surprised there were no attempts at making a set of human Fiona and human Shrek. From a movie standpoint it would make no sense, but I could definitely see it being marketed as Barbie and Ken kind of thing just for profit.
@@LSuperSonicQ Man that would have been GREAT! They even could’ve thrown a generic horse re-used as a Handsome Donkey. I mean the Shrek 2 handsome designs already look so similar to those CGI Barbie fairytale movies from the mid-2000s. Feels like a big missed opportunity.
That Fiona prototype with a frog balloon is my Roman Empire
Now that we have Monster High, Shadow High, Wednesday, Wicked etc "weird" dolls and they've seen it works, let's hope Shrek 5 will bring us Fiona fashion dolls 😍
@@jst5028 It’s wild that the Shrek doll line released literally *right* before the fairytale-fication of the doll industry. What could have been!
If they ever make a Shrek sequel, this would make more sense, since some doll owners are more open to the monster market.
I can see Fiona and her daughter, Felicia. Where Felicia doesn't want to be an ogre (because she fell over in love for a kind prince), but after some soul searching she is perfect just the way she is;... Or go for the human route or something, but just like Fiona, the prince fell for Felicia.
Basically a modern version of Shrek 2.
Yess I love Fiona she’s such a badass
I just know that Beverly Hills Fiona would ATE in those y2k doll restyles,sad thing that she's so rare(
Another fantastic video!! I only knew about the licensed Barbie and Bratz and the Storytime Princess-esque MGA line. This was a massive fumble and your point about Monster High being a proof of concept for a Shrek doll line was something I hadn't thought about!
That blockbuster princess Fiona doll is amazing as a doll collector myself.
Aww the kids artwork on the box is so cute 💚
I love that prototype fiona doll, if i had it as a kid i would have loved the frog balloon.
I’m curious about how the exploding bird would have worked. That was my favorite Fiona moment from the first movie because of how unexpected it was. Would it have shot up a tiny bit into the air and leave behind eggs and feathers in the nest just like the movie or would it fall or flip around with an electronic sound effect?
You’d think human Fiona would be a huge hit and that would be the version doll companies would try to produce and sell more but I can see why her ogre form would be a more logical move to turn into a fashion doll. It is the form we see the most after the first two movies and the one that true love had made default for her. It’s unconventional but Monster High has proven that non-human dolls based on monsters and legendary beings can sell very well if done correctly.
You know, Monster High still does big collab dolls called "Skullector dolls" that they've collabed with a lot of really big franchises and celebs, that paired with the fact they've really been diversifying their MH doll body types, it'd be insanely cool if they did a collab with Dreamworks to make one of Fionna! I feel like that'd be a huge hit and perfectly on brand for them
I've been waiting! It seems like a no-brainer. Especially since Universal has been doing a bunch of Shrek collabs lately aimed at adult collectors. (YouTooz, G-Fuel, Loungefly, etc.)
@@austin_the_brimstone TRUEEEEEE 👏
This is such an informative video, and it's really a shame that there aren't a lot of Fiona fashion dolls that were made. The MGA Shrek fashion dolls are also really interesting to me, especially as a doll line that was trying to compete with the Disney Princess brand. With MGA's current success, I can't help but wonder how MGA would handle making the Shrek dolls if they had to make them today in more recent years, considering that MGA introduced two fully articulated bigger body types into the Rainbow High New Friends doll line with the characters Pinkly Paige and Blu Brooks.🖤💜
@@VeronicaStorm98 There was even a green-skin RH doll. I considered making a custom at one point lol. But yeah modern MGA would do a lot better with Shrek.
I saw a few of one of them in a discount outlet store around 2007 and I thought the idea of giving them karate kicking action was pretty cool and interesting for a fashion doll and I wish it was utilized on more dolls. The closest thing I’ve found since then was the Teresa action doll from the Barbie Spy Squad movie and it wasn’t the same as you need to hold the doll and press some button or something and basically her leg just spin around. And the next closest was the Gymnast Diva Barbie dolls where you had to plug in this holder with triggers and the one lower leg was floppy and only straightened when the one trigger was pushed down. I want a fashion doll to perform a high self defense straight leg kick from a standing position like the Shrek Princess dolls.
Lol! I worked on the Charlie’s Angels dolls with my team when I was the Product Manager at JAKKS in 2000!
We got to visit the set and take pictures of all of their outfits and we got to meet Drew, Cameron and Lucy!
In fact, Jane Krakowski was visiting Lucy Liu when we visited her trailer!
They were all super-nice!
We worked very closely with Gentle Giant Studios and the actresses to find the perfect balance of being a portrait and a doll, (which is why the dolls’ faces don’t look dated 25 years later)!
Wowsers, I am very humbled to hear from you. Sounds like it an amazing experience. Those dolls look fantastic, your team did phenomenal work! Gentle Giant makes total sense. I think people forget that they did a lot of contract work with other companies for sculpting. Often, they were the unsung hero of many 2000s figures. (Especially that great 6" Indiana Jones they still sell at the Disney parks 18 years on.) While it's true that toy production continues to move forward with new tech sometimes an amazing sculpt can truly stand the test of time. And that Cameron Diaz sculpt alone is a testament to the quality of work you guys at Jakks did back in the day.
Omg still got those dolls in my parents house. I got the collector 3 dolls packet. They look so good specially Cameron & Lucy.
I found that Blockbuster Fiona doll in an empty movie theater. For years she's been standing in a corner collecting dust. I never knew she was something rare.
I love fashion dolls and Shrek so this was such a nice surprise to find in my recommendations! Wish they did more to market Fiona, becuase she really is such a cool character. Hope to see more merch of her when the new film comes out next year 💕
Honestly I like your original intro as it is :)
I remember really wanting the bratz collab doll!! I thought her green highlights were super cute but I mostly just wanted the headband. I don’t remember the princess doll line at all which is funny because I had a book bag with all the princesses and came with a Fiona keychain. It made me realize there was hardly any merch of them and I remember wishing there were dolls made. Either my local stores didn’t carry them, they were just really unpopular or I saw them but didn’t realize they were supposed to be Shrek dolls since they all look quite different from the movie.
I had the MGA Fiona as a kid from the Shrek Princesses doll line. She was no word of a lie my favourite doll I owned. I loved her Dress being the first movie dress and the flats (so nice to have a flat footed doll with more practical footwear) her face was gorgeous (both human and Ogre) the ogre head actually had a veil/cape attached that could cover the top half of her body to hide her petite human figure and human flesh coloured hands which I thought was very creative. And I loved her little Kung Fu outfit under her dress. I actually got upset at one point cos her Painted on sports bra started to get scratched away. I loved the Shrek tattoo too. She was just so cool. And her hair was beautifully styled when I got her and her tiara was so shiny and accurate. The Shrek I used to play with her with was one with rubber arms and legs you pulled and he said things, I think it was meant to be like Stretch Armstrong. He was very heavy though because he had a hard plastic body with a voice box and battery storage inside. But yeah I saw all the Shrek Princesses dolls at Home Bargains where I bought Fiona as a kid they were all so beautiful and detailed. Even if some of the other princesses didn't look super like their movie counterparts their designs were gorgeous adaptations of the classic fairytale princesses. Xx
@@rosepilling275 Thanks for sharing! I am missing the cape. I would be curious to see if that does a decent job at hiding the body. Not really an ideal solution lol but better than nothing. That Shrek you mentioned is the Stretch Shrek, also by MGA and released during the same time. If you can get around the stretchy arms he does scale nicely with the Princess dolls.
Wow the Blockbuster Fiona is really cute 🥰
wow! great video! i never knew about this blockbuster doll....so cool! i only have mcd toys and the mini shrek doll
my new favorite video of yours
Hey! I am lucky enough to live in Brazil lol. I remember those dolls, i watched shrek 4 in the theater with my mom and I did get a little shrek for myself afterwards. I had no idea those dolls were exclusive to my country but that's really cool!
@@Ana-ty7ng They look pretty spectacular. You are very lucky, Brazil had a lot of exclusive and great Shrek stuff. I did a video on it a couple months ago. Very jealous!
i want a doris fashion doll! and a plush! shes my favorite character from Shrek and UK didn't get this much merch and i dont agree on some things but a great review
@@connor5838 The fact there’s a complete Shrek Princesses doll line and we didn’t get a Doris doll is an absolute crime against humanity.
@@austin_the_brimstone am confused how is she a crime against humanity? shes amazing! and you cant be a true fan if you dont like all the characters equally unless your saying its a crime that we didn't get Doris than ill agree lol
@@connor5838 lmao I forgot to type the word “get”. Thus creating a very unfortunate run-on sentence. Like not getting Doris was the crime against humanity. She is a national treasure! 💚 Literally in my top 10 Shrek characters and I am not being ironic. You can feel the weight of Doris as she carries Shrek the Third’s only charming moments 😅
@@austin_the_brimstone haha oh thats a good save id be hunting you down saying mean things about doris lol only joking! i definitely agree!
Love the blockbuster Fiona! I hope they come out with a doll box set of Fiona and shrek for the 5th film!
I would love that! Especially a 12" Shrek doll. It's crazy we never got a proper Shrek in that scale.
I was today years old when I learned there were shrek dolls 😂
I like your new intro idea and the classic one, I vote doing both and switching it up each vid 🙃 I was so mad seeing the amazing 90s looking Fiona doll that we could’ve had 😩 We were robbed! But, I’m pretty positive that we’ll get an ogre Fiona doll when the new movie comes out because with a movie like Encanto, they made a doll of the bigger/muscular girl (I’ve never seen it, so I’m not sure of her name), and Barbie does more inclusive dolls now, so I think we can bet on it happening 🤞🏻
Oh yeah! Times have changed for the better. Those Enchanto dolls look exactly like the animation models. Hopefully the Shrek 5 toys look of similar quality.
oh my god waiiitttt youtube is finally recommending me something truly amazing. im so excited to watch this later !!! (im busy rn but waow...)
The dolls are so cute 😭 Fiona needed more merch fr
You have the best Shrek stuff.
Now since everything advanced I wonder if they would attempt to make another Shrek Fiona dolls I think they should
I don't collect dolls (though I'd love to get some Hot Toys like Tobey Spidey and Jango Fett) but that Blockbuster Fiona doll is glorious. I had some memories of Blockbuster since 2 were near where I used to live (one near the highway and one south from my old apartment). I did go to Hollywood Video more often, though.
When i was a kid i had Dragon, and she was my favorite toy for a good while. I would have loved an Ogre Fiona as well, we were robbed 😂
I also agree so much with the other comment that we should have gotten Doris!!! I really hope they step up their game when the fifth one comes out. Overall toys from shrek i would want are Doris, Ogre Fiona, Dragon, WARRIOR FIONA FROM SHREK 3, Prince Charming, Fairy Godmother, hell even Arthur 😂 Oh, my soul would ascend if they made a doll pack of Warrior Fiona + Shrek and Cookie with his Chimichanga Cart 😂😂😂
The best Shrek characters:
Cookie
Doris
Warrior Fiona
Shrek characters who's never received figures
Cookie
Doria
Warrior Fiona
we truly live in the tragic timeline.
The only thing I care about is the Spongebob Kool-Aid plush because there's so little documentation on it
I’m such a big fan of your videos. I love Shrek. I do not have any toy of shark but it’s amazing to see your collection. Thank you. ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you!
My sister and I had two of the Shrek the Third Princess dolls! We had Cinderella, and I think either Snow White or Rapunzle (I think it was Rapunzle. The hair accessory looks familiar).
You were very lucky! These were not on shelves for very long.
Did Broadway not make a Fiona doll? I am pretty sure that when I saw Shrek The Musical in the UK there was a Fiona doll (it may have been a plush)....but I know that Broadway usually make a Barbie - like doll for Disney shows and shows that have Princesses. 💚
@@kaylovesdisney4582 If there was I sadly was not to locate a photo. But it’s entirely possible it exists! Broadway dolls are super interesting usually because they have very low production runs. And boy would a Shrek the Musical specific Fiona be a pretty neat thing to exist.
@austin_the_brimstone I did a quick Google search and couldn't find anything 😕 which surprised me.....I really would have thought Broadway would have made a Fiona doll.
@@kaylovesdisney4582 If there's one thing I've learned from trying to collect this stuff it's that Google is pretty useless. There was SO many Nanco Shrek plush I couldn't find any pics of on google. Honestly I'm inclined more than not to believe a Broadway Fiona doll does exist. It seems like something that would've existed. Just maybe in very limited quantities. Keep an eye out! One may show up someday...
Funny You mention it, I was just thinking how that fiona Lamp from the video happens to look A LOOOT like Sutton Foster 👀
@ That lamp has to have the most off-model Fiona likeness ever. They were trying to sculpt the 2D promotional art of Fiona into 3D...which is super weird since Fiona already is 3D. I'm fascinated by it lol
I have all of them even the princess
I love Princess Fiona
Not gonna lie, Ogress Fiona is lowkey more beautiful than Human Fiona aksksksksksks.
Real women have curves!
I prefer the original, can’t mess with a classic XD
Random question, do you believe that the Far Far Away Idol short is canon to the movie?
@@mckennabones0278 I mean it’s animated by Dreamworks and it’s in the movie so I assume yes it’s canon. Fun fact: the original dvd release always plays this after the credits as it was originally marketed as an “extended ending” rather than just a bonus feature.
Shrek’s canon is such a funny thing because the characters break the fourth wall so often. I just say take the Sonic route “Everything is Canon” 😅
I choose number 3 💚
✌ Number 3, my lord!
We need american girl doll of her
I only watch the first minute in the video and then I start to think Monster High be perfect for Fiona
We got Tiffany from the Chucky series why not Fiona Shrek?
A Mattel Creations Shrek collab-thingy seems inevitable. I could totally see it happening.
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Do not like 'brogres.' Reminds me of THAT greentext. 🤢🤮
If you truly care so much to complete your Shrek collection you´d sell your soul for it. What is your soul in contrast to having a complete Shrek collection?
How am I just suddenly discovering this account?! I love this video so much, it’s so amazing to see other shrek fans. This makes me so happy 🥹❤️❤️❤️
Thank you! Lots of swampy content to come...send help I cant stop buying shrek crap.
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