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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??

[nanamis-username]

clawdeen 🌝

[monsterhigharchive]

Ghouluxe Ghoulia Yelps Doll (2023)

Fang Club Exclusive

[mxshlee]

elissabat for u hawt ghouls <33

[t3rr4byt3]

I’ll never get tired of drawing her 💗

[everafterwhat]

Idk why I went with drawing semi realistic but it reminded me why I don’t do it but I haven’t posting in forever so hopefully it’ll do for now! Been insanely stressed with school but I’m finding time to do some art again so hopefully I’ll be able to post more💗💗💗💗

Side note, Rochelle definitely hand rolls her cigarettes and 100% smokes, but not often (I mean she’s a French fashionista coffee book lover)

[jacobharvest]

Vote Round 2!

[ptlxser]

i mean you can’t tell me i’m wrong, frankie would absolutely drag cleo into some of their mischief and get both of them in trouble

(it’s also not finished i will prob post a much more detailed version sorry lol)

[eueuesart]

🎹👻🕸️🎸👠🤠🥀

Had fang club Operetta on the brain. I think if I were to make a deluxe version of her I’d want to reference some of Phantom’s costuming? And avoid the dreaded collector mermaid dress plague.

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Fund a small artist’s doll obsession? 🌹

[laciedollblog]

Addams Family Skullector!

[unl1f3-x-c0ll3cts]

WAIT…NO WAY!?!? monster high animated series cancellation!?!? :/

that would actually be so sad…

and like ik we would be still getting the dolls and season 2 be completed but we just got venus and jinafire animated, still gotta see catty

there’s still mh doll lines that we haven’t seen animated yet

also like who knows who would’ve been introduced in season 3 :(

like even if becomes a yt thing fully with the 2d animation that would be more suffice than no cartoon at all

[mh-dreamscape]

Outta Fright Operetta Redesign!

With the new Skullector coming out I wanted to make a small redesign! Overall, I think she looks okay! I just didn’t like how they changed her face and eye shapes. I don’t think I’ll be getting her, but she’s available April 12th for $50!

[unsertraumschiff]

When I’m in a defending poorly-designed dolls being sold for way too much money competition and my opponent is a monster high fan

[freaky-flawless]

I don't know how I completely missed the fact that Jinafire's doll is a Fang Vote.

At least this time we get to see her outfit prior to voting, and I'm actually glad we didn't get to vote which character. Not to mention the outfit already has a better design then Rochelle's. Seems Mattel actually took some of the criticism to heart.

But also... Considering how Rochelle's went, I do wish she was just a regular Skullector doll. Hell, how long did it take for people to actually get her from the time her design was finalized? By the time Jinafire ships out, it won't even be the Year of the Dragon anymore lol.

[thepinkdolly-ah]

Ghouluxe Ghoulia yelps: Fang club exclusive

[everafterwhat]

💫🎸✨🔮Casta and the Spells (feat. Catty Noir)🔮✨🎸💫

This is from a little while ago but I’m working on some bigger projects right now so hopefully some older art isn’t the worst thing in the world lol!!!

In my MH AU not only are Casta and Catty Noir besties, being both popular musicians and magical, but Catty can transform from bipedal (Catty as we know her) to quadrupedal (cat form like in this piece)!