Mmy's Fantabulous Neck Fixin' Tutorial!

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The first few Pullips are adorable, aren't they? We all want Moon.
I was lucky enough to be one of those people who found out about Pullips early, and got Moon when she was retail price -- amazing, no? As a result, I had no dire warnings to be gentle with her, and SNAP! Off with her head.
I tried various fixes first, trying to re-create her neck joint. She kept snapping. Finally, Team Cute figured out a way to permanently fix her head -- she's gone through many months of rough play and she's still super sturdy.

If you have an old Pullip, it's almost certain to happen to you eventually. Some people replace the bodies with Obitsu or Volks bodies. If you bought your Pullip from Madison at Magma Heritage, he has said he will pay for you to ship it back to Jun Planning for a fixed/new, sturdier neck joint. But if you want to do it yourself, here's what we did:

Materials

Epoxie Sculpt (although apoxie putty from a hardware store may work just as well)
Wooden dowel (either the size of her neck joint OR the size of her head-hole)
Sharp knives
Pullip-screw tiny screwdrivers

Basically, you cement the dowel inside of her neck. I used a dowel almost as wide as her neck, and just widened her neck-hole to fit it -- but if you don't want to carve up her hole, you could probably use a dowel the same size as the hole. (Or a little smaller, and reinforce it with apoxie.) Obviously, the bigger dowel will be sturdier.

Then, plop the head on the new neck-stick and see where it sits -- you may have to carve the neck-hole to fit the dowel at this point.
You want to make a glob of apoxie right above where the base of the head sits, to act as a "stopper" so the head won't come off... just like the newer Pullips' neck joints. So, pull the head back off, make the stopper blob, and wait for it to dry.

Then you open up her head, pop the dowel-blob-ma-bob in, and tighten her down. Ta-da! A whole and healthy Pullip.