If I only had a brain

Tonner Doll

My imagination is running amok after yesterday's Tornado Traveler Dorothy reveal, because the next doll listed was Scarecrow: I'm Not Afraid of Anything!

For now all I know is that you can get for $189.99:

• Dressed doll
• Face includes hand-painted details
• Fine quality vinyl and hard plastic
• 17" Matt O'Neill™ head sculpt
• 17" Matt O'Neill™ body
• Matt skin tone
• Painted blue eyes
• Black non-removable saran wigged hair
• Green long sleeved ribbed shirt with a cream ruffle on the collar and brown faux suede accent with an antiqued gold buckle
• Brown faux suede pants with a brown faux suede belt
• Green faux leather jacket with a green ribbed attached capelet and faux suede and faux leather brown straps and mismatched plaid pockets
• Cream net gauntlets
• Silver and gold resin sword with a brown faux leather sword holder
• Matching brown faux suede boots with rib knit cuffs
• Brown faux suede hat with brown faux leather and antiqued gold buckle trim
• Stand
• LE 500

This can only lead to speculation for more.

• Steampunk Tinman?
• Steampunk Cowardly Lion?
• Steampunk Witches?

Who knows! But I am over the rainbow about these releases!

I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore

Tonner Doll

Imagine my surprise today while perusing the 2012 Tonner Fall Holiday Collection, only to spot Tornado Traveler Dorothy.

Swoon.

For a mere $179.99 you too can receive:

• Dressed Doll
• Face includes hand-painted details
• Fine quality vinyl and hard plastic
• Judy Garland head sculpt
• Cheerleader body
• Tyler skin tone
• Brown painted eyes
• Brown rooted saran hair
• Brown faux leather hat with black ribbon trim and antiqued gold buckle
• Gold molded goggles
• Brown faux leather choker
• Brown faux leather bolero
• Brown faux leather corset dress with white bodice
• White and blue checkered skirt with brown faux leather straps
• Brown faux leather belt with bottle holder and green decorative bottle
• Brown faux leather gauntlets
• Blue striped tights with attached panties
• Brown faux leather spats
• Red glitter canvas shoes with red rhinestone decoration
• Stand
• LE 500

I do love that man's style.

This Week in The Civil War: Aug. 26, 1862

Second Battle of Bull Run or Manassas, Va.

Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson orders his forces to attack the Union army on the Warrenton Turnpike in Northern Virginia on Aug. 28, 1862, opening the Second Battle of Bull Run, or Manassas. Furious fighting rages for hours at the Brawner Farm, not far from the site of the First Battle of Manassas or Bull Run. Union Maj. Gen. John Pope is certain he has trapped Jackson and sends a large federal force to attack Confederates on the farm, set on a ridge. The opening day of battle reaches a thundering crescendo in a 90-minute firefight between rival infantry lines set about 80 yards apart. Sunset brings a pause as the first day's fighting abates. Then, on Aug. 29, 1862, Pope initiates a series of assaults against Jackson's lines along an unfinished railroad route. Heavy casualties arise as the attacks are rebuffed on the second day of fighting. On the third day, Aug. 30, Pope renews his attacks, apparently unaware that the Confederates have been heavily reinforced. Confederate artillery shreds yet another Union assault and a large fighting force of Confederates totaling 28,000 fiercely counterattack. The Confederate onslaught smashes one of the Union flanks and the federal army is driven back. Pope's army, despite an effective rearguard action, is forced to retreat to Centreville as Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee scores a decisive victory. In July 1861, the rival armies battled for the first time in the countryside overlooking Bull Run and a Union defeat made clear the war would be long and bloody. Now the Confederate triumph at Second Bull Run shows Lee at the height of his powers. And when the battle is over, casualties on the Union side approach 14,000 while the Confederates report more than 8,000 killed, missing or wounded.