#doll talk

[enbymattel]

Ramen panned cake

[window-view-orion]

why are we still here? just to suffer...

[thunderstomm]

Talking About The New Scare-adise Island Dolls (Monster High G3)

Monster High G3's newest line, beach wave Scare-adise Island has just fully leaked! As always, I am just delighted to see new dolls and want to talk all about them and my opinions on each doll, and if i will be buying them once they release.

The Line Overall

Not many people know this, but I love beach lines. They're a staple of any doll line naturally, but I love to see the takes that a brand does on swim wear or summer fashion, and how they make it both fashionable and practical. And for the most part, I do think Scare-adise Island does a good job at this. Each doll, bar one, comes dressed in swimwear, and all of them come with a bag, sunglasses, a drink, and an extra accessory. There is also a playset, which comes with a lot more accessories, as well as a doll.

Clawdeen Wolf

Clawdeen's doll is quite interesting, and I don't excatly think it captures a beachy vibe. Clawdeen comes dressed in a green leopard print swimsuit, with holes in the sides. She also wears a transparent purple pair of long pants with black patterns, transparent pink shoes, and a transparent purple visor, both made of a "gummy" plastic material. She comes with a purple bag, lavender water bottle with sipping straw, green crescent moon sunglasses and a novel, titled "Howler Thriller".

This look doesn't fully read as "beach" to me- the pants, and more full heels paired with her swimsuit almost read to me as being a "dance" look. I think Clawdeen would have been improved by one thing- having shorts instead of long pants. Her accessories are cute, and I especially like the water bottle, even if it is a recycled mold from G3 Basic Clawd. I also think her shoes should have matched the visor- why are they pink?? At least the green sunglasses match both the swimsuit and earrings. Her pink lipstick is also a little weird- MH PLEASE give her a natural lip. Or even, purple! I think her side ponytail is cute, but I cannot help but think it will be poly, again.

This Clawdeen is cute overall, but she is not for me.

Frankie Stein

This Frankie doll is super cute- and looks so transgender in all of the best ways. They are dressed in a silver and white top, and black and white checked board shorts, with yellow lightning bolts streaked across them. Over top, they wear a black button-up top, with yellow lightning bolt patterns. They have long straight hair, which is black, white and blue streaked, and sport a silver bucket hat, with blue and yellow rings piercing the brim. They wear cute black heel sandals, and come with a blue bag, yellow skullette drinks cup, yellow lightning shaped shades and a green sports ball.

I personally adore this Frankie, and I think it was the best possible thing they could have designed for them. I think the color combo of the look is great, and I hope it stays the same in the animated series. One of the only complaints I can really give is the pink lips- Frankie do you only own one pot of lip gloss? This Frankie would have been so cute with a black, blue, or even yellow lip! I suppose it is an easy fix for any customizers, though.

This Frankie is so so stunning! I think they are worth a buy for any fans of Frankie and beach wear.

Draculaura

And another banger! Draculaura looks absolutely stunning in this look, sporting a pink sunhat with black bat shaped bow, pink and yellow cobweb earrings that look almost like a sun, a pink bikini with cobweb patterns and black ruffles, and a transparent cover up with cobweb patterns. Draculaura wears pink pumps, and comes with pink sunglasses recolored from her core look, sunscreen, a mocktail with little bat wings, and a black, bat shaped bag with a pink charm. She wears her hair in a low ponytail, and it is mostly black with pink streaks.

This Draculaura is pretty perfect, and I don't really have any complaints other than she could maybe use a necklace or two in her look. She is oh-so very pretty, and I love the way that they made the cobwebs of the design look like suns.

I think that this Draculaura is great, and an absolute must own for Draculaura and beach doll enthusiasts. So pretty!

Heath Burns

Making his first ever doll debut in G3, it's Heath Burns! And honestly, I like it! Heath Burns has orange skin, and orange eyes, and has plastic hair, which is made to resemble a mohawk. The hair is shaved on both sides, and he has red painted hair. Heath's face sculpt also has small pointed ears. Heath wears a blue hoodie with flame patterns, and blue board shorts with a similar flame patterns. Heath also sports a pair of slip-on sandals, which are dark blue with flame patterns. The Heath Burns doll also comes with a blue tote bag, an orange, volcano shaped drink, a bottle of sunscreen, and orange sunglasses with flames on the frames.

As somebody who loved G3 Heath with all my heart, I have to say that I just love this doll. I do wish his face sculpt better matched his show counterpart, by having bigger ears, a longer, thinner face, and a different nose shape, rather than looking similar to the other boys. I also am a fan of bald Heath, and prefer it over the mohawk. The outfit is similar to what he wears in the show, except for the shoes. I do wish that this doll had come out in another line so that it could better match the show, but now is better than never, and Heath is the last member of the "poster cast" (characters featured on promotional posters and advertisements) to get a doll. Also, I really hope he's short! I NEED him to be shorter than Abbey!

I like this doll! He's pretty good for a boy doll, and I will be getting him so he can sit next to my Abbey.

Lagoona Blue

Lagoona Blue is the playset doll for this wave! However, I won't be talking about the playset, just the doll. And this Lagoona, oh boy she is PRETTY!! Lagoona has long yellow hair, with teal and pink streaks, styled mostly out, with a small ponytail in at the right. She has gorgeous pink lips, and soft makeup. Lagoona wears a pastel tie dye bikini top, with black ruffles and straps. She sports a matching skirt with drip patterns, black pleather ruffles and plastic pink rope-esque belt-cover piece. Lagoona's shoes match, being pink, and seemingly tied up with plastic textured to look like rope.

I personally love this Lagoona doll so much, and think she is so pretty. I am almost upset that she is a playset exclusive, as that just means that she will be more expensive for me to buy. I don't have any design complaints for her, it's a pretty perfect doll!

If you like playsets, then I'd give this one a buy JUST for the exclusive doll!! Lagoona is so pretty!

What Do You Think..?

[bunnymajo]

I am not immune to the new Abbey Bominable monster high doll (she’s both the tallest MH doll and has the fatter body type so getting her was important to me)

Cleo’s the only other mh doll I have so far to compare her with but you can see the slight differences in body types

My favorite little details are the lum horns here and her face up

Anyway G3 continues to be my favorite iteration of monster high

[aliendollien]

I've been apprehensive with using a ob11 body again for 2 main reasons; 1) the one Hello Kitty has, due to the neck joint being modded, issues keeping the arms on and nothing I do seems to fix the problem so far, 2) Every guide I've found has pointed me towards buying the doll body off amazon japan, but none of the listings will ship to me and I'm not very motivated to figure out how to fix that. However, I just learned Hobbysearch sells ob11 bodies along with tons of accessories, and Kewpie dolls. What I'm getting to is I'm going to get a Kewpie doll when possible.

[sadlazzle]

quick question for anyone who’s customised g3 dolls - do they have partially molded smiles ? like are their expressions blank without factory paint or are their mouths in permanent smiles/half smiles ?

[dollofheart]

i need to pull my eah dolls out of storage again, i watched legacy day and some of the webisodes again and i feel the hyperfixation coming on

[chaosdisorganized]

Covering my dolls' ears when someone says "it's just a doll" "it's just a toy"

Youre hurting her feelings.

[madsdawls]

Dolls I currently am collecting ♡:

Monster High all gens but mainly G3! 💀🎀

Zombaes Forever 🧟‍♀️💖

LOL Surprise OMG dolls 👀

Barbies, Barbie Extra, Barbie Extra Minis. 💖

Disney (namely the princesses/villains that are my favorites). 👑💫

Mermaids dolls in general no matter the doll brand I'm just obsessed with them 🧜🏻‍♀️💙

🎀🖤🎀🖤🎀🖤🎀🖤🎀🖤🎀🖤🎀🖤🎀🖤🎀

I have other dolls I have collected that I'm not as passionate about.

I have a few Rainbow High dolls which are visually stunning and come with amazing accessories/extras but they tend to take up a lot of space and I haven't watched the show yet enough to connect with certain characters.

Bratz/Bratzillaz I don't know if it's because I grew up more with Barbie but I'm not really finding myself connecting with these dolls or the brand as much as a whole. I adore the Roxxi and Nevra pride pack and my Bratz boutique Jade but I don't ever find myself wanting more Bratz or looking for them online like I've done with other brands.

As for my Bratzillaz I think they're pretty and I like how much they remind me of Halloween or MH but I think their doll proportions are weird? also I don't think they put a lot of effort in this doll line it really just felt like a MH but make it Bratz with a half baked under developed storyline.

[nat-20s]

rapidly learning that rainbow high sleeves are mine fucking enemy

[enbymattel]

I'm obsessed with him. I hope I can get another Jack secondhand so I can use his silly noodle body. Why do his ribs come off? Who cares!! Look at how lil his feet are!!

He ass stick out

[window-view-orion]

I miss Zombaes Forever so much.

My first was She’s Shady last July after having seen those coffin-shaped boxes in the doll aisle for a while. Cringily, my first thought the first time I saw them was “pah, Monster High ripoff”.

Not everything spooky-themed is a MH ripoff, 9-months-ago me.

Anyway! Funnily enough, I’m almost positive that box had been opened in store and put back. Her sticker sheet was missing and she was out of her little paper body bag already. She still had her character card though, and she was so cute!

Then a few days later I went back. The first series was running out of stock at the only two Targets I went to back then, so I picked up three of the second series instead. ✨ Wild Vibes ✨

I opened them in my car because I was pumped. It’s so funny I got the three beach themed ones all at once! She’s Got Bite was the first I opened, and still feels special. Her cracked goggles, little swim trunks, and one-eyed shark are great examples of the absolute best of Zombaes.

I picked up the rest of Wild Vibes over time, with liberal use of the codes. I never got the rare ‘Spacing Out’ though, which I’m still bummed about. I would go into Target very frequently to check, and anytime there was a So Chill (the one who had the same code as her), the box would be roughly open and rifled through. People really have no shame, though it definitely is frustrating that I ended up with multiple So Chill’s myself from all that searching 😅.

When I finally found a good Walmart in my area and started shopping there too a couple months later, I found they somehow still had a few boxes of series 1, so I ended up getting a Miss Everlasting and a Rock in Peace.

(I had to rubberband Shady’s parasol to her hand because she kept dropping it, as you can kind of see here)

It’s such a shame that this line seems to have been quietly canceled. I have the pet shop set and the bride-and-groom set now as well, and I hope to eventually get the other sets too as they lower in price. But there is such potential for more in these guys! They’re all so bursting with creativity and incredibly clever and cute designs. The art is so good, the collectible cards and little stands and coffin box, the little paper body bags you unwrap them from! They’re my spooky little zombie Polly Pockets, and Spinmaster can pry them from my cold undead hands.

And honestly, with Wild Vibes especially, the price was pretty good too. $9, and then $7, for all of that?? The big sets aren’t even expensive! Though maybe that was the problem in the end, along with people cannibalizing the displays as I saw all the time.

I did email Spinmaster’s media relations about a month ago to ask for any info they could give out, even though it’s a long shot, and I’ve not received a reply. In the unlikely event that ever changes I’ll update this post I suppose, but at this point I’m sadly considering these girls as dead in the water. It’s a tragic cancellation, but I’m really glad I got into the hobby just in time to experience them. And I absolutely love all of the ones we got. 💕

[thepinkdolly-ah]

I GOT THE GHOULUXE GHOULIA DOLLLLL!!!!

[thatweirddolldude]

The MH Elvira doll is so bland. . . and her dress is so modest? Shes a collector doll! You can make her sexy!

[pajamadragon]

DOLLAR TREE HAS DONE IT AGAIN

For those who might not follow action figure news, Greenbrier International started a Dollar Tree exclusive action figure that made quite a few waves by being legitimately good toys (and accessories) for $1.25 plus tax. The plastic was good, the painting was passable, the story was delightfully cheesy, and it now has a small community of fans.

Evidently, this success is one they're wanting to duplicate for the young girl demographic.

Introducing, the Friends Forever Club

With the cutest, most Babysitter's Club-esque backstory I've seen in a doll line, these are honestly quite impressive for what they are. They're a group of girls who met and became friends at Science Camp.

Carina is into astronomy and wants to grow up to be an astronaut.

Alanis loves tech and video games, and wants to be a computer engineer! (and influencer but we don't need to talk about that)

Viera loves rocks and gemstones and wants to be a minerologist and geologist! Twofer, this gal.

And Iha loves the ocean and wants to be a Marine Biologist!

All the dolls have fairly simple joints, the head, arms, and legs all swivel (no ball joints). The clothing they come with is a soft plastic that actually tabs together quite nicely (I've seen $20 dolls with worse plastic connections.) There are fabric fashion packs that are slightly better than the regular doll clothes, but they still aren't that great.

Are they jawdropping, stunning quality? No. But these are as good or better than some $10 dollar dolls I've seen, have slightly different face molds, and I'm glad to see a line of (good) dolls priced affordably enough for any budget. I hope this line sticks around, because I think these could make a few little girls (and everyone who isn't) quite happy.

[sadlazzle]

this doll is so wow in person .. it’s not my fave of the hc collection, that title goes to lagoona(coming soon!), but this cleo is rlly stunning. her eyes are wonderful, and the robe is really beautiful. im convinced her headband is reused frm her sdcc doll tho lmao. + blurb on coa

‘ Oh my Ra! Where have you been?! I've been waiting centuries... ok maybe not centuries, but given my royal stature, I have been kept waiting for far longer than what is acceptable.

I'm sure you're dying for a full recollection of what I've been wrapped up in. Father always says because we are of royal birth, it is our duty to always look our absolute best. I'm totally fulfiling my royal duty with this drop dead gore-geous glittery mummy fringed robe. My jogger set is fit for a queen with a golden mummy wrapped halter and matching high-waisted pants. With chic scarab shoes and accessories, this outfit is enough to make a monster unravel! Clawdeen Wolf certainly outdid herself designing this look. Don't you dare tell her I said that!

Lest you've forgotten, Cleo de Nile waits for no one. So let's creep out again soon, shall we? ‘