I don’t own a SartoriaJ doll and no Raccoon man, but those who own these dolls will probably know how they compare to Iplehouse and Raccoon dolls in size.

The first picture shows Iplehouse FID women, the Raccoon NaPoSlim woman and the Raccoon kid next to an Iplehouse kid. While the bodies of the two kids are very close in size (they can share tops and dresses, IpleKid pants are a bit wide on the Raccoon Kid), the head size of the Raccoon kid is in perfect proportion with the mature dolls.

This is my new Raccoon kid with possible parents. First picture shows an Iplehouse FID man on the model body, and the Raccoon NaPoSlim body. In the second picture the dad is on a FID muscle body next to a FID woman on the classic body.

Various women, Iplehouse classic FID woman next to different Raccoon bodies. The original old slim Raccoon body is closest in size to the Iplehouse Fid, the NewSlim is a tiny bit shorter, and the NaPoSlim just a few millimeters shorter than the NewSlim body.

JID girl and Raccoon kid. The proportions are off, I just thought the two fiery mopheads looked fun together.

I hope this was helpful. If you own a Raccoon kid and a SartoriaJ woman / couple I would be grateful if you would take a picture for me to add it to this post.

My Ivy arrived! It surprises me every time how much sculpted detail the Raccoon faces have. You wouldn’t be able to tell from the promo pictures. She is every bit as lovely as I expected her to be. And I ordered her on the new slim body. Raccoon released another update of the original slim body a while ago, but this one is simply called New Slim on the website. As far as I remember it was released in 2021.

First things first, blank mugshots of my Ivy. Look how far she can bend her head back!

I’ll add the measurements for the New Slim as published on the Raccoon site to the doll measurements.

And now to the new body

I like the old body, but there are a couple of things that sometimes bug me. The huge head-hook for example. The advantage is that you could almost pull it up with your fingers, but it seems just a bit oversized. And although the robust lower legs are certainly unique, they don’t look that elegant with certain skirt lengths.

I always thought FID legs found elegant poses more easily, and even though the double jointed Raccoon knees make kneeling possible, simple classic counterpoise poses (contrapposto) are difficult. The dolls with the old slim body seem to have a slight backwards bend in the hips when standing unaided, and the legs pose a bit unwilling. All these points and more have been addressed and improved.

The changes are not so very obvious at first glance, but there are a lot of slight changes that make posing easier and the appearance more elegant, at least in my opinion.

The most obvious changes are the larger hands and feet. The hands have FID hand size, and if you don’t mind that the hand rings don’t fit into the smaller slits, you can probably mix and match with FID hands if you want more variety in hands. The comparison picture shows Rosie’s arms with FID woman hands next to the New Slim hands. The Raccoon hands are slightly wider, and the thumb points in a different direction, but they are pretty compatible otherwise.

As you can see in the very first picture above, the hand-gesture is taking up a lot of room. I tried some of my other Raccoon’s jackets, and the sleeves won’t go over the hands. That might pose a problem if you have a lot of expensive clothes with tight sleeves. Ivy will get her own clothes anyway, so it’s not a big deal to alter my patterns accordingly, but that’s just me.

The new feet have more sculpted detail as well, they are longer and the instep is slightly curved.  Some very small shoes like some YOSD Mary Janes or Mel Chan shoes do not fit the new feet. But now they can wear FID and JID shoes, and of course my favorite Matt Tonner boots still fit, just like other slim mini shoes. The FID high heel shoes are not an exact fit, but they don’t fall off the feet any longer.

Since foot swapping is possible without problems, you can put the new feet on the old body and vice versa. I hope the new ankle joints won’t become floppy after a while, but for now the new body stands like a rock – and I am sure the sculptor knows what he’s doing.

I added a picture of the heel feet in JID/FID heels and some American Model shoes from Facets. You can see the gap with the old feet.

The changes to the upper body are almost invisible, but they are there. The elbow joints create a more natural arm position, the nipples are sanded (no more pointy boobs) and the transition from torso to thigh looks smoother. I wasn’t a fan of the bulging thigh joints in tight clothes, so that’s great. And speaking of boobs: The small bust is now almost as large as the previous large bust (20.3 cm). I don’t know how large the “large” bust is, the measurements on the Raccoon page are not up to date yet. I asked, and I will update them here when I know.

The engineering of the arms is a bit different as well. Not very obvious, unless you pose the arms. Outstretched the old arms pointed straight forward. The new arms point forwards with a bit of an angle. This angle makes it possible to do a couple of nice things the old arms couldn’t. Like touching the face without problems – if you bend the elbows the hands go to the face and not away from it. There’s a whole range of things she can do with her new hands and arms. Face palm being one of them ;-D. I am sure I’ll have fun with those new possibilities.

Another huge improvement are the legs. Not only the shape in general but some small engineering changes that make all the difference. The legs seem straighter. And the hip joint makes poses possible that have been difficult before- or at least holding the poses was difficult. I have not tried to pose the new body in every possible way, and my other girls on the old slim body are all sueded, so I am just showing the most obvious differences. I am sure I will notice more of them when I really start to work with her and pose her dressed.

Excuse the dolly nudity. The last two pictures show the improved hip joint engineering better than an actual sitting-up-pose, that’s why you get to see unblurred doll parts. The changed socket and how the position and movement of the joint affects the angle of the legs in comparison is pretty obvious. The legs of the new body want to close naturally, while the old legs tended to drift apart. Draw a line from the knee to the ankle and you can see that the new foot is now where the center of mass would be when the doll is standing. The line has moved from slightly outwards to straight down. Balancing the doll in a classic contrapposto is now possible without problems. Well done!

It’s a beautiful body, and it’s still distinguishable as a Raccoon body. I will definitively want possible future dolls with this one.

If you want to know anything more about the new body I can help you with, ask away in the comments.

Update: The lovely Morganatron who runs Peppermint Circus on Etsy provided a picture of a Raccoonhead on the old Withdoll girl body next to the Raccoonbody. Looks like a great teenager option.

FID /Raccoon chest part on JID original lower body doesn’t fit (maybe they fit on the new JID body, they seem to be smaller in the chest). FID heads on the JID body don’t work either. You can however put a Raccoon head on a JID girl original body. It makes for a rather thick necked result with broad shoulders. Even more ridiculous is a FID male head on a JID girl body. FID male heads on JID boy bodies on the other hand might work pretty well as teen sons. Both my JID boys are on the muscle body, so I can’t show how it would look on the slimmer model body. The advantage would be a possible purchase of this hybrid over doll choice.

1. Raccoon Emma on slim raccoon body
2. Raccoon Rosie head on Iplehouse old Jid girl original body
3. FID Harace on the classic FID body
4. 27cm MYou doll ROD
5. Kruseling

As you can see in the picture above, a Raccoon head on a classic JID girl body might work as a teenage daughter. No 4 and 5 might be possible Kids aged 4 to 6. Willow looks very tiny, his head is almost too small. The Kruselings are jointed plastic play dolls. This one is a dark skinned doll, there are lighter skin tones as well.

Rosie is a very elegant and mature looking sculpt, so I guess if you want to go for a combination of a JID girl body and Raccoon, other/younger looking sculpts might be better suited.

This is a combination of a JID muscle body and Claude’s head. The head is still a bit large, but this could work.

Haha. This looks so ODD. Claude’s head is still smaller than the original JID head, but it still looks ridiculous.

And of course you could just go for the curvy FID to create a teenager. They are smaller than the classic body, but about the same height as Raccoon.

And to give you an update on my question to Iplehouse if they would consider downsizing the KID heads: Although their first reaction was promising they told me a couple of months later that they don’t plan to do this any time soon. Maybe I should ask Raccoon instead if he would consider making small heads for the KID body.

I very much hope Iplehouse will consider releasing a new headsize for KIDs. The bodies look actually fine in proportion, the hands are a perfect KID/parent fit. All Iplehouse would need to do is offer a smaller head version along with the existing KID body.

This is FID Raffine with KID Lonnie. I think the body is a good proportional fit, just the head is far too large.

What I did is a little photoshopping. I scaled the head down to 90% of it’s original size. It still looks natural with the existing KID body, although the neck opening would need to be a bit larger to let the head slide further down the neck.

Same scaling, this time with a wig.

Normal KID size head and 90% head. It looks better with a shorter neck.

I will suggest this to Iplehouse and I hope they will consider it. If you can chose body versions for the dolls, why not offer head versions for the same body? After all they do have experience with scaling down heads, don’t they?

The measurements of the FID curvy body are pretty close to that of the Raccoon glamorous body, although the thighs of the curvy FID girls are a bit slimmer.

Raccoon glamorous thigh circumference is 14cm, FID curvy have 13,5cm thighs, which makes them just those annoying 5mm wider than classic FID girl’s thighs. I don’t own a glamorous Raccoon, so I can’t tell if they can share pants. The stretchy Raccoon pants fit the curvy FID girl, but the cotton pants that I made for the slim Raccoon body are too tight in the upper leg. Roux pants on the other hand are too wide in the waist and slightly too long. If they were tight, they wouldn’t fit in the butt and thigh region.

The girls in a row with basic measurements: Raccoon slim body, FID curvy body, FID classic body and a JID girl body.

Like nYID girls the FID curvy body legs have a slight bend to them. I haven’t sueded the ankle joints yet, and I got the impression the classic body stands a bit more safely on it’s own without shoes.

But the curvy girls pose just as good as the other FID bodies, and the three sizes in a row show the variation in body size and shape. I think they would make lovely siblings of different ages.

Good news: FID guys can use SID/nYID heel feet that came with the classic body version (not the new SID woman body). SID/nYID women feet are an alternative if you don’t mind a transition from leg to foot that’s not entirely smooth.They are offered on the Iplehouse option parts page, and although there is a little gap the FID guys can stand unaided in Iple women heel feet shoes. I put Everett’s original foot next to the switched heel foot, and as you can see the SID women heel feet are much closer in size to his foot than the JID girl feet.

Somebody requested a picture of a Raccoon girl head on an Iplehouse JID girl body. While JID heads on the Iple FID body look rather off and FID woman heads do not fit on JID girl bodies, the Raccoon head looks fine on the JID girl body. In terms of realistic proportions it fits even better than the original JID girl head/body combination.

The Raccoon body is slightly taller and the curves are more mature. Rosie’s head fits well on the neck, no gap.

Since I don’t have Raccoon guys I can’t do a male headswap, but the FID guy/JID boy body swap has been done.
My friend Lorraine took this picture of a FID man head on a JID boy body.

The first thing I checked was if the feet are really smaller. But apparently they are not, at least there are no visible differences in length. But the body itself is quite different- very slender and almost a bit boyish compared to the muscle body. But I guess I just have to get used to it. Claude’s head looks much more in proportion on it, now I just have to make new clothes.

The model body has longer legs, a lot less shoulder width and slimmer legs and arms. The legs of JID boy pants are too short of course, but the width fits. The pants I made for the muscle body are definitely too wide and short.

Posing seems to be the same, the model body is a bit floppier, but I will suede both. And they both pose so well compared to the big guys!

And some mugshots of my Raccoon girls. I am very happy with them. I knew I would like them, the sculpts are even more detailed than expected. Pictures with wigs and FU don’t really show the amount of bone structure, the cheek bones. Unfortunately it’s still a bit dark, so these don’t show all either, but the give at least an idea. I didn’t fasten the heads.

Another great thing about the Raccoon girls is that the hooks are wide enough that you can put the head on the neck without fastening it, and the hooks don’t slip up the arms if you unhook the hands. And while BJD doll profiles usually look a bit odd, their profile view is just as realistic as the front view.

As you can see, the neck of the FID man is wider and the head on the FID woman neck leaves a large gap. The neck looks much shorter and at least for my taste the proportions are not working at all.

Since I was alreade swapping heads, I combined some other heads with Raffine’s body.
The first one shows the body with the original head. In opposite to some people I always thought the proportions were perfect and the head just the right size (not too small).

JID girl Isar’s head might work okayish if the neck-opening wasn’t too small. But it is, and as a result her head is balancing somewhat storky on the neck. Next comes Claude. Off for my taste, as JID boy Edwin, he’s just hilarious. Hope this helped.

A quick comparison picture, please excuse the quality, it’s getting dark. And the hands are blushed already, his have a slightly more masculine look – as intended. But without blushing the veins and some nail polish they don’t really look much like a guy’s hands.

And just for the fun of it, Leander with EIDw hand parts.

And to make it complete: Old and new EID man hands: