#mh creature from the black lagoon

[mh-dreamscape]

Fun fact brought to you by a marine biologist/marine affairs major!

Part 3: Creature from the Black Lagoon Edition!

Sooooo I ended up getting her and when I finally got to look at her details up close, I got inspired to do another one of these! Now that I’m graduated, I’ll most likely be taking her out of the box at some point! This will also be a little bit of a review too!

In my previous post, I rated her a 9.7/10 because I was confused by some design choices, like the harpoons in her heels. I feel that would’ve looked better with some type of shoe unless her feet are supposed to be like boots? Anyways, I’ll be going from head to feet with aquatic biology and my feedback!

The Fin Headpiece:

Most fins have multiple lines or filaments like that and tend to start with either a darker color or color that matches their body on the inside. That color starts to fade out the further on the fin we go because the material is a lot thinner. They can appear to have a sheen look sometimes because they can be shiny and reflect light a little!

The Face:

Probably the most informative part, the face has many qualities to it! Makeup? Iconic. Flawless. The only thing I might change about it is maybe a not-as-bright lip color, but I think I feel that way about many designs and might just be a personal preference so I’ll let it slide. Aquatic factors? To. The. MAX!

Unless a fish has a protruding lower jaw, they don’t typically have an upturned smile. Body shape and mouth position can be linked together too. Bottom feeders, like catfish and sturgeon, are usually wider and flatter with an inferior mouth or a mouth that’s toward the bottom of their face or completely under it. Fish with superior mouth types (“a” in the picture and towards the top of the body) and terminal (“b” and towards the middle). As you can see, either way, the fish will have a downturned mouth and I just love that quality on this doll. This follows with her nose as well! Her nose does stick out like a normal monster high doll. It’s flattened a bit and has wider nostril sides which goes along with the snout on fish.

Now, I know most of her design is literally based on the Creature of the Black Lagoon so I’m probably just listing facts about him too, but let’s talk about the sides of her face, the part I highlighted the most in this 3/4 perspective!

Probably the most prominent features on her head sculpt: Gills! They generally follow the rules of anatomy having the the arches and filaments, but she is missing an operculum, which is a protective covering for the gills made by a series of bones. This doesn’t mean she’s entirely inaccurate though as only bony fish have operculums!

The Hands:

While it isn’t related to fish much, I wanted to admire her hands too! On Mattel’s page for her, they mentioned amphibious a couple of times so I thought I should show that. This is a comparison to frogs hind leg and foot (I couldn’t find a good picture of a “hand” or front leg).

The Body/Clothes:

As mentioned above, this piece was called “Pearlescent amphibious body armor” and while it does resemble a frog-like skeleton a bit, I felt it looked more like a fish! The top part that rests on her shoulder reminds me of the head portion of the skeleton.

Now, let’s take a look at her tail/fin which I believe is made of some type of tulle, but please correct me if I’m wrong! I don’t know much about fabrics.

The way the tulle sticks out in the first set of body pictures (middle one) reminds me of a caudal peduncle which as described in the picture above, connects the main body and the caudal (tail). The way the tulle is spread, it looks like it would be a truncate tail. Tail shapes are connected to the maneuverability and speed of a fish and each in the third picture shows how they could work. I know it probably doesn’t lay that way when she’s taken out of the box, but it was a cool design choice!

The Feet/Shoes:

I haven’t taken her out of the box yet, meaning I don’t have any good pictures of her feet or the stand so I’m using the stock photos from Mattel’s site. The fins follow fish biology with them being a lighter or different color and the tops and bottom of her feet/shoes resemble a more amphibious or reptilian nature. Taking a closer look at it, I can now see that the harpoon is attached to a rope that wraps around her ankles! I wish they colored it differently so we could distinguish that (or maybe I was the only one who thought they just stuck harpoons in her heels lol). After finding that out, I don’t have much complaints. I think it’s kind of cool they made the feet into boots!

The Stand:

I adore the stand! I love when stands can add a bit of background or a pop of color to the doll! The kelp/seaweed was a great idea to hold her up and there’s detail on the sea floor as well! My only tiff is that I don’t quite know how stable this will be. With the usual stands, the clamp in the back holds their waist up while the bottom gives their feet something to rest on. It makes it stable in general posing of dolls. These pictures show her feet barely resting on it and I’m sure you could probably stretch her one foot out to land on the higher part of the terrain, but it wouldn’t quite look as good as the stock.

I tried making a quick edit of another way to keep the pose. I originally wanted it to be a harpoon and harpoon gun but I felt that was sort of off brand with Mattel and Monster High so I instead lifted that anchor from the terrain, colored it differently to look like it was covered in algae, and rested it in the seagrass! The only drawback would be that it requires a bit more plastic for each stand and may make it a little more clunky. Like I said, I haven’t taken her out of the box yet so I don’t quite know how stable the original stand is, so this is more so brainstorming!

Overall:

Making this post made me glad I got her and appreciate her design more. I got her about a month before graduating and it seemed fitting for my final doll delivered at college to be one that’s similar to my major (er I guess I should start saying degree now huh 😅)! I know this was such a long post and I’m sorry for it but I figured combining my “Fun Fact” series and an observational review of her in-person would be great! Her rating still stands at a 9.7/10!

What do you guys think? Do you like her design? What’s your favorite or least favorite part? What would you change about her? Should I keep doing this series??

[floozydolls]

The euphoria of having one of your favorite fictional characters being adapted for your favorite doll line is a feeling that is completely unparalleled. I saved up so I could snag 2 of these girls at the Skullector drop a few weeks ago, and now I can have one in box for display and another to hang out on my gaming desk every day 💚

photos of her before re-curling her hair are under the cut

[laciedollblog]

Creature From The Black Lagoon Skullector!

Available April 26th for 65 USD.

[kryptokat96]

She has risen from the deep 🐟

[meiko333]

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[dollhaireverywhere]

Monster High Skullector Creature From The Black Lagoon. I love this doll, she is simple yet still worth it. I do feel that a lot of the budget went into the new face mold and the licensing. Her outfit, while still satisfying enough, left a little more to be desired. The shoes which double as the claws for the creature were creative and fun. She comes with her own personalized stand which I thought was a nice touch, especially since the kelp wraps around the doll's leg instead of interfering with the outfit, it adds to the aesthetic. I absolutely adore the face mold, the fish like nose, the gills, and those little bumps on the forehead. Her profile has to be one of my favorites of monster high.

[marine-indie-gal]

Monster High has always been my Huge Jam back then in the early 2010s. I LOVED them so much as a Kid, I'd always have a Doll of each and every design of the Characters (probably one of my first exposures to the Liberties behind Old Horror).

As of now, considering that Mattel has been re-booting Monster High twice with New Generations (which I still haven't thought about wanting to give each of them a Chance since G1 always has a place beneath my Heart), I'd figure why not have a good batch at Re-Designing each of the Characters in my own way (with the honor of Halloween coming up anytime soon).

Taking inspiration from the Liberties myself behind to where their own Parents' lore were based drawn of, I'd figure to make each of the Monster Girls' designs to be more realistic as I took inspiration from Each Folklore & Old Monster Movie (Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman, Creature from The Black Lagoon, The Mummy, and even Night of The Living Dead).

I know there are Other Characters in the Franchise that could've been easily redesigned but given on how so many Monsters there in every Culture which counts that MH has way, WAY too many Characters, I've decided to mainly focus on the Main Six themselves (I might do Another one if I ever dare to continue this as sort of a series).

Monster High (c) Mattel

Redesigns of The Characters (c) Me

[justacuppat]

I hope you all appreciate this, it’s a New MH sculpt test head. I think it’s supposed to be for the Creature from the Black Lagoon. It looks like a g1 style female head sculpt. Pretty neat in my opinion. I hope to get some decent quality pictures uploaded soon too, thanks for reading all of this.

[beemers-hell]

Girl I just wanted to talk ab some dolls wtf is goin’ awn

Y’all fuckin wildin in the Beem-beem’s inbox. Take your hate and weird stalking to Reddit Google docs that are opened ten times in total after three years. Fuckin morons. Someone’s inbox on anon isn’t the place.

Anyways, do u think we’ll ever get cryptid mh

this is my life now ig lmao

anyway, im not entirely sure? Cause like they've done "generic" monster types for the skullectors like Frankenstein's monster but that was pretty clearly inspired by the Universal movies version, and the same goes for other "generic" creatures like Dracula and the swampman monster they recently did from The Creature from The Black Lagoon, if anything if they were to do some cryptid based creature I'd assume it'd be based off a movie's version of it.

Actually after typing all that I remembered Luna Mothews exists and she's literally the daughter of the mothman LMAO

I think I wouldn't expect any New characters/skullector dolls based off cryptids anytime soon but we Did get them in G1 lol

[disconnected-dragon]

okay ik i dont talk much abt doll collecting on here but i do collect fashion dolls. they spark joy for me, or used to. i tried to have a sideblog for it, but the whole logistics of it hurt my cranium. so i shut it down aughhh. but since twitter is actively hurting my mental health atp i figured i should start posting abt it here more.

so, blah blah blah, all the yappin aside, i've made the decision to refocus my collecting on skullectors/G1 MH. since it's nostalgic to me. its the brand i grew up with, and this what tends to appeal to me as an adult. plus im really not in the position to keep spending money on playline every time there's a new release.

(also lowkey G3 MH isn't doing it for me anymore. they're good dolls but they're just not for me. i like G1 and their rail thin bodies better, for all their flaws.)

so i figure "one expensive thing every few months or so i can save up and look forward to" is a good philosophy.

so, here's my rough wishlist:

dark blue are grails

green is "ehhhhh ill buy them on sale/if i get a good deal"

pink is "for sure want"

red is "for sure do not want"

light blue is already have.

(please for the love of god someone give me creature from the black lagoon/morticia and wednesday i regret skipping them so much augghhhhhhh)

[mh-dreamscape]

Monster High Creature from the Black Lagoon!!

Rising from the depths to serve lurks, the Creature of the Black Lagoon is finally here! She’s retailed at $65 and available for Fang Club Thursday, April 25th and for everyone on Friday, April 26th!

My Opinions:

I’m a little bias as a marine biology kid, but I think she looks great! At first I wasn’t sure about the bathing/body suit but it suits her perfectly! The head sculpt and fins are everything! I also wasn’t sure about all the green but for some reason the picture with the white background really helped me see the concept - it’s a gore-geous color! Once again, a little bias because my favorite colors are those soft blues and greens 😅 the box looks pretty great too! The only thing I kind of find weird is the harpoon heel - like there isn’t really a shoe?? Why does she have a black harpoon sticking out of her heel??

Creature from the Black Lagoon Rating: 9.7/10

[floor-thirteen]

Literally so bummed. Tried to buy the Creature from the Black Lagoon MH doll and she sold out in literally less than five minutes 🙃 like. I had her in my cart and was checking out and she sold out from under me. Fuck 😭🥺 this was the one I really wanted

[magnyljunk]

insert funny aussie rambles here

[kryptokat96]

Yes please

[strangestcase]

my favorite piece of forbiddenTM monster high lore is that Holt is constantly implied to have superhuman strength and bouts of murder fury but that they never do anything with it, at all

[dollhaireverywhere]

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