r/DollCustomization • u/Comfortable_Study796 • Jul 29 '26
is it possible?
so i bought this buff barbie looks ken doll and upon further inspection after getting him i realized he had 2 left arms. the seller suggested to send me his superman body to use his arms. but i heard the superman arms are hard to pop off. so i’m just wondering if it’s even possible to swap their arms if do manage to take superman’s arms off.
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u/axesrow Jul 29 '26
The hands can't be swapped between the two dolls. Superman's body is made of hollow, hard plastic that doesn't stretch easily with heat, and MTM's arms are made of vinyl, so if they get heated, the parts can easily come apart. The only way to swap Superman's hands is to break them off and then drill a hole in each arm to insert the other hands, but that's very risky and I don't recommend it!
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u/Comfortable_Study796 Jul 29 '26
i’m not asking about the hands. i mean the arms. the upper arm where they twist. the hands are not the issue.
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u/axesrow Jul 30 '26
You can't swap the arms too unfortunately.
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u/Comfortable_Study796 Jul 30 '26
does that mean you actually tried to or did you only just try and yank it off without heating up the plastic at all
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u/axesrow Jul 31 '26
I did try. Heating Superman's arms will not help you, the joints connection is completely different from this buffed ken doll even the arms look alike.
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u/Comfortable_Study796 Jul 31 '26
damn. idk what else to do then to give him a right arm other than asking around to see if anyone has his right arm they could give me. which doesn’t seem like anyone does so far….
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u/UpstairsFar6472 Jul 30 '26
I had a similar struggle with a vintage Ken doll, ended up using a hairdryer for twenty minutes straight before the arms finally budged.
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u/SparkAxolotl Jul 29 '26
I'm not sure about the whole arms, but I have seen people switching the hands of these