Trollbeads Fall 2013 sneak peek

Wow  Can't wait

Thanks for showing...  Don't get me bad, but really disappointed... Few glasses to buy, but the rest...

I only love the stroller. Grandma and grandpa are boring!

Brightonbelle wrote:

Catsworld wrote:grandma is much to slim, if she had at least a bosom and a bit of a belly, looks like the wife of the anorexic skelly...

Why is she rolling on the floor?  My grandma never rolled.

This is the yoga practicing baby boomer grandma! I don't know if Lise Aagard is a grandma yet, but she looks like she could roll.

I love the detail of the flowers, a change from the visually less interesting recent ones. I can see collecting them all, but I love flowers anyway. The aurora kit is divine, just my colors. The fall fruits are intriguing and novel but not my colors. Yes to the lock, more artful than on the other recent ones, and pass on the other silvers. As much as we complain about the direction TB is taking with the silvers, the glass never cease to amaze with constant inventiveness.

Why are the engraved not in the kit? More to come?
And were is the white base flower of the kit it is not in individual photo.

I like the weird glass and even the flower silver beads. I hope they will be a good size and weght.

Thank you for the additional pics!!!

I'm interested in seeing these IRL.  Do we know the price of the flowers yet?

I really just don't get the PAC man, Victorian looking pram, and that fake 2 piece diamond bead!  I love the 2 piece heart, Christmas tree and house, but this just doesn't go with them at all to me.

Is the tiny Crown a stopper?

Sort of bummed about the silvers, not autumn inspired nor trollish. I actually think the flowers have more troll inspiration and I actually like my month, March.

I like a lot of the glass, especially the purple heaven.
There is something off about the other kit; those plops of color on the dotted beads look like lips.

I got it!
The new glass flowers is from The little Shop of horrors I knew it will come.  
Still I like it. I will worry it will chip on the leafs.

Brightonbelle wrote:

kionee wrote:

Brightonbelle wrote:

kionee wrote:Like the silver part of the flowers ... but I'm not that much into Pearls

Yes - I like some of the silver flowers too.  Why did they have to add the pearls?  They are all going to fall off.

that's what I'm afraid of too  

I would actually prefer the look of them without the pearl too.  

Brightonbelle, think this through. You'd like the flowers better without the pearls. The pearls are going to fall off. Therefore, you are going to like the flowers! And you'll get them for a song at pre-loved pearl-lost prices.  


I assume and hope the glass beads will look better in person. None of them do much for me in these stock photos.

The flowers of the month are way more interesting to me than I expected! I'm glad they didn't go by the usual list of flowers. I still will have to see better pictures, from more angles, but I see possibilities. Bindweed is perfect for a beach bracelet, Poppies for remembrance Day, Waterlilies for your swamp bracelet . . .

I don't need Grandma, Grandpa, Pram or Diamond silvers. But they show that Troll has not completely forgotten its market, is not going strictly for the younger crowd. Diamond could be good for a 50th wedding anniversary?

Pacman and Ms. Pacman could be fun.

The crown has a heart on it! A bit cutesy, but maybe for the Queen of Hearts on an Alice in Wonderland bracelet?

That diamond monstrosity is fecking hideous.

I think the purple glass is beautiful, but on discovering that I do not really wear glass ever I won't be buying it, but look forward to admiring it on the designs of others. I think it is one of the prettiest kits in ages.

T'other kit is wierdy, but then Troll is supposed to be wierdy so that is okay. The graphic ones are nice, again don't want any though.

Hate flower silvers, so that's a no.

No to all the other silver too.

But dying to see the rubber bracelet, hope it wasn't just a rumour  

Thank you very much for sharing! :-)

These are going to be awesome!!!

ok my resumee so far:

'skeleton-spirit-of-freedom' and 'the pac-mans' are funny

flowers... ok but not for me... see-through glass ok

cream-and-aqua glass cool especially the spherical triangle *geek*

love 'the wooly-mammoth lock'

no comment on another maternity related series...

the sapphire which I most anticipated... disappointing... seriously

LindaJo wrote:

Brightonbelle, think this through. You'd like the flowers better without the pearls. The pearls are going to fall off. Therefore, you are going to like the flowers! And you'll get them for a song at pre-loved pearl-lost prices.  


I assume and hope the glass beads will look better in person. None of them do much for me in these stock photos.

The flowers of the month are way more interesting to me than I expected! I'm glad they didn't go by the usual list of flowers. I still will have to see better pictures, from more angles, but I see possibilities. Bindweed is perfect for a beach bracelet, Poppies for remembrance Day, Waterlilies for your swamp bracelet . . .

I don't need Grandma, Grandpa, Pram or Diamond silvers. But they show that Troll has not completely forgotten its market, is not going strictly for the younger crowd. Diamond could be good for a 50th wedding anniversary?

Pacman and Ms. Pacman could be fun.

The crown has a heart on it! A bit cutesy, but maybe for the Queen of Hearts on an Alice in Wonderland bracelet?

 Love how you're trying to have a positive view on these creations Linda Jo    This will be the first release that doesn't interest me ... I like three of the glass but they are copies of Christa's (Luccicare) glass beads that I already have

Home from holiday (away from computer!). Intriguing photos - many thanks.   Love the lock and the crown - very troll IMHO - and will reserve judgement as usual on the rest. They always look so different IRL.

I just don't know about this release. It seems a jumble of odd things that don't make sense together. Firstly, the grandma and grandpa beads baffle me. The diamond is the most hideous thing ever, and what in THE HOLY hell is up with Mr and Mrs Pacman?

To Trolls credit, it does look as though the flowers are very artsy, sculpted little things, but I'd have to see them in person to determine if I'd actually buy a one of them.

The Aurora style glass looks like there may be a couple I would buy, but not so sure about the other kit with odd shapes and lips coming off.

The sapphire is a bit of a disappointment to me. While I do like grey, it is not my idea of how a sapphire should look. It's like the ruby rock, sans any ruby bits.... so inherently, a rock.

The skelly holds a bit of promise for me, but it does look as though he is missing a ribcage, and if he is meant to have a bead shoved in there, wouldn't that require him to sit sideways on a bracelet? I certainly hope not!

Oh well. I have a new project I've started, so I can spend my money to continue that if there isn't much here to do it for me.

Skeleton Spirit - a designer's response to the Troll CEO's directive - "Now, get back to the drawing board and create a bead with as little siiver as possible."
Spirit of Freedom - Troll then .. full and robust; Skeleton Spirit - Troll now ... bare bones.
Does anyone else find this stolen pose disturbing?

Or as it so closely resembles Spirit of Freedom, Skeleton Spirit could be their way of saying that Troll as we know it is dead, so get used to the flowers and family crap?

HeatherD, Exactly!

What is "Native" about the Native elements kit? Michelle, your comment of "Little Shop of Horrors" brings sense to the "lips." I was thinking of a different body part ... but, that's just me.

Actually Nancy... It wasn't just you, but I wasn't going to mention that  

Thank you so much for the additional pics!!

There are quite a few beads in there that I love. And the lock I find very trollish, it reminds me of a water spirit in a small pond in the middle of the magical forest

Others are a bit funny - Grandma and Grandpa look like the elder version of Mum and Dad, or rather the children look like grown versions of the babies in that bead. PacMan/Woman are a bit retro, but I am sure there is a story somewhere in there (?).
I love some of the flowers, especially the snowdrop! Oh dear, my purse is in trouble

Heather, I kept picturing one next to the Venus bead. My other thought was a Ladybug bracelet (with the emphasis on lady).

HeatherD wrote:I just don't know about this release.  It seems a jumble of odd things that don't make sense together.  Firstly, the grandma and grandpa beads baffle me.  The diamond is the most hideous thing ever, and what in THE HOLY hell is up with Mr and Mrs Pacman?

TB must realize that they can't please everyone and keep rolling financially, so they are doing a bit of this and that.  When TB asked on FB what we would like to see, many long time collectors tried to steer them back to their roots, but there were also a couple of out-in-left-field (American baseball slang for odd & unexpected) comments about Hello Kitty, Nascar and tourist landmarks.  Maybe TB wants these folks to give them a chance.  I probably wouldn't personally use the melons/gourds/squash glass kit but I still think it is quite cool and fall-ish.  There's the Peoplesbead, Halloween and holiday releases coming up so Troll may still get your bead dollars!

I agree with you! And by the way, I wouldn't be able to buy whole releases even if I would love each and every bead, so I'm happy to pick those I really love and let the others aside!