PIZZAZZ
Set: MISFITS
Year: 1986-7
Sold: UK, Mexico
We KNOW mexican PIZZAZZ came with the following:
~Pink and zebra print dress
~sock
~belt
~panties
~ blue guitar
~shoes
~Misfit bracelets (x2)
~Cassette featuring songs "Tema De Jem", "Fuera De Aqui" and "Travesuras"
~stand
~comb
Existing Variations:
Both a hybrid and a pure version of Pizzazz exist. It is not known whether there are any other variations on the Mexican doll theme.
***Aside from the loose dolls themselves, the Misfit bracelet and my Mint in Box doll, ALL images on this page were donated by cleothunderwith and are therefore her copyright! Thanks cleo!***
Comments: The most noticeable thing about this doll - aside from how beautiful she is - is her hair. Rather than the neon yellow of regular Pizzazz dolls, this is a more lemony pale yellow colour and actually is probably a shade closer to the colour she had when she was animated, because it does have a slightly greenish tint to it. Her makeup, as you can see is very pale and she, like all pure Mexican dolls I've seen has a slightly faraway look.
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 Pizzazz!
This is true for BOTH Hybrid and Pure dolls.
Comments: Well, you'd be forgiven for thinking that this was just any other ordinary second edition Pizzazz doll - but you'd be wrong. If you look you can see the shiny veneer of the doll's body, and it's fairly obvious what she is. Her hair is the proper neon yellow of a second edition, though, and her head is a normal hasbro stamped one.
By the way, she's also stunning. She has lovely hair. Juguetes Con Vida certainly chose GOOD heads to use for their hybrids!!
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 Pizzazz! This is
true for BOTH Hybrid and Pure dolls.
Comments: This is where things are a touch confusing. Read carefully! There are two normal editions of Pizzazz;s dress - one with white stitching, one with black. The mexican one mimics the white stitched one, but is proportioned bigger, has looser, clumsier stitches and it appears, a lighter colour of lame. It is not pleathery like you might expect it to be but it is not as vivid or dark even on my MIB one. The zebra striping is also a bit more haphazard on some. Basically compare it carefully with another loose zazz dress to see if you can spot it out as a Mexican one. It's hard to tell without comparing!!
Comments: Yellow!! It seems to be stitched to the same pattern as the normal sock, but I am unsure about the fabric since mine is mib and I can't get at her to see!!
Comments: Again, yellow. Seems to be made of the same fabric roughly as the normal belt, but quite a distinct colour difference!!
Comments: And this is another colour variation! Pizzazz;s guitar is see through and glittery like the second edition one, but is a blue colour, more like Second Edition Aja's guitar! It has a gold strap and is slightly smaller in proportion. I think it's a beautiful instrument!!
Comments: Ok, so in THIS issue it's Zazz who gets the yellow shoes! And they are very yellow! Seemingly they're the same colour as second Roxy or Euro Stormer's shoes, and they have the classic Mexican curl and letter/number on the base. BE CAREFUL not to confuse these with Euro Stormer shoes which are more angular but also have numbers/letters on the base.
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!
Comments: Online the song "Outta My Way" in the Mexican version is generally known as Fuera De Mi Camino (Get Off My Path/Outta My Way). In my own lyric files you'll find it called this (and not to confuse the issue, I am not gonna change it.)The same goes for Makin' Mischief, which is known as "Hagamos Travesuras" online.
But since I got my MIB Zazz I realised that this isn't exactly true. The cassette includes the songs "Tema De Jem" (Jem Theme), "Fuera De Aqui" (Get Outta Here - aka Outta My Way) and "Travesuras" (Troubles - aka Makin Mischief) 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. Pizzazz'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: Well, Juguetes Con Vida like their pink combs! Here's another with a pink comb. Again, identifiable by the lack of a TM by the Jem logo!
Comments: This is my Mexican Pizzazz Mint in Box (who I got from my friend Sel, who found her at a local steam fair!) Her box is fairly classic - she has Es Fabulosa beneath the Jem logo, giving it away that she is Mexican, and she is named as "Pizzazz De Las Misfits" (Yeps, spanish text!). The Es Fabulosa is important though. Spanish dolls have Verdaderamente Fantastica instead!!
The artwork and box style is the same as a normal first edition Pizzazz box, though of course it says "Hecho In Mexico" and has the Juguetes Con Vida logo as well as the Hasbro copyright. Mexican dolls were made under licence from Hasbro by Juguetes Con Vida :)
The text beneath the cassette picture says "Incluye un cassette con los exitos "Tema De Jem", "Fuera De Aqui" y "Travesuras". (Includes a cassette with the hit songs Jem Theme, Get Outta Here and Troubles."
Yep, fairly standard.
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.