#mh skullector

[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??

[mooneonthings]

MH - Skullector Elvira CC

For the spooky month, I'm doing Elvira from the Monster High Skullector Edition doll. I've liked Elvira, don't know too much but I like how she's sexy yet goofy at the same time. It's cool that Monster High made a doll based on her but a bit more tame.

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[singing-not-sleeping-beauty]

Wait, has monster high never released a skullector doll based off of any classic werewolf movies?

Okay, I'm setting aside my need for an invisible man skullector until this is remedied

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list of skullectors i’d love to see !!

obviously i’m not going to buy all of them since not all skullectors are to my liking, but it would be really nice to see monster high’s take on all these !!

also making this since it’s rumored we’re getting another beetlejuice set next year due to the new movie which i’m excited about !! the movie that is. i’m kinda bummed we’re getting another beetlejuice skullectors since we already got one but i’m happy for those who wait for the new set :3

oh and if somehow anyone from mattel is lurking here on tumblr, hi !! please take these as suggestions sksk (for everyone else: i know i look and sound crazy but you never know who is lurking >.<)

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Edward Scissorhands and Kim Boggs - Edward Scissorhands

this would be a couple’s two pack. ideally i’d love for edward to be a manster cuz we need more skullector boy dolls but a girl is fine by me too. i don’t mind a genderbent edward, i’d just prefer for him to be him sksk

Emily, Victor and Victoria - Corpse Bride

i’ve seen this is a really popular choice and i really hope we get it someday !! a three pack with all of them would be my ideal but i would also be happy with just emily or a two pack with victor and emily. i do feel bad for excluding victoria, which is why a three pack is ideal imo. and keep victor as a manster please !!

Carrie - Carrie

another popular choice !! i would love to see her with the dress covered in blood. i feel like she’d be so cute ^_^

The Beldam and Coraline - Coraline

i’ve seen this mentioned a lot and tbh i’d prefer just the beldam herself, but i can see it being like the morticia and wednesday skuklsctor two pack. a mother’s day set which would be ironic xD

Michael Myers - Halloween

Ghostface - Scream

Jason Voorhees - Friday the 13th

Freddy Kruger - A Nightmare on Elm Street

Leatherface - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

grouping all of these together because come on. they’re the classics !! we need them. i’m kinda shocked we haven’t gotten any of them. you think we would’ve since skullectors were based off horror icons but i guess that kinda went out the window the moment they made the nightmare before christmas and the addams family two packs since those are not exactly horror lmao so at this point anything remotely dark goes. if they ever do make them i do feel like all of them would be ghouls and im okay with that :3 mansters would be nice but ghouls are cool too

Billy the Puppet - Saw

also needs no explanation. he’s also a classic and should get one !! we got chucky, tiffany and annabelle, so why not another doll based doll :3

Art the Clown - Terrifier

i know not everyone likes clown but we have pennywise so a genderbent art would be cute !! he’s a new slasher icon so let’s throw him in here too !! i’d love to see monster high’s take on art :3

The Wolfman - The Wolfman

The Phantom and Christine - The Phantom of the Opera

no introduction needed !! universal’s classic monsters !! we obviously need MORE !!!! we have the bride of frankenstein set, dracula and the gill-man. PLEASE MORE CLASSIC MONSTERS !!! i’m sure the wolfman will be genderbent but i sure hope the phantom isn’t. again, we need more mansters !!

Disney Villains - Disney

maleficent, the evil queen, lady tremaine, mother gothel, hades, cruella, THERE ARE SO MANY DISNEY VILLAINS i’d love to see them in the monster high style !! my personal fave being maleficent, i wanna SEE HER !! and yzma !! she has the skinny-skinny body G1 monster high dolls have so she’ll fit right in ^_^

these are all the ones i feel are most likely to happen. they’re the ones i’ve seen mentioned most and i would really love to see all of these happen one day !!

there are other popular choices of course but me personally, i wanna see these :3

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i’m throwing this one in here separately cuz i’ve seen it mentioned a few times and i’m not a huge fan of the show but i wouldn’t mind buying it if it’s cute since i do think these designs are cute :3

Charlie Morningstar and Alastor with pet KeeKee - Hazbin Hotel

i’ve seen hazbin hotel mentioned before for skuklectors and i think they could be cute in monster high style !! also, please keep alastor a manster. i specifically want charlie and alastor cuz they’re the two main characters. charlie is the main one, and alastor is the face of the show and the most popular character. it only makes sense to put him. i’d love for them to have keekee as their pet the way greta has gizmo but it’s fine if they exclude her :3

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okay final section and this is MY MOST DELUSIONAL DESIRES !!!! probably unlikely we’ll get them but a girl can dream >.<

Light Yagami, L Lawliet and Misa Amane - Death Note

i’d LOVE A THREE PACK OF THEM !! PLEASE !! AND PLEASE MANSTERS LIGHT AND L !! we need MORE MANSTERS !! i know it’s unlikely since mattel prefers making ghouls but come on !! and i know light and L don’t wear much but idk it’s monster high. YASSIFY THEIR OUTFITS IF YOU HAVE TO JUST PLS GIVE ME MANSTERS LIGHT AND L. i’ll be okay if it’s a single release misa of course. i’ll still buy her BUT GIMME ALL THREE

Junji Ito Characters

tomie is a very popular choice but i’ll take any junji ito characters !! they’ll fit right in the skullector line :3

Johann Faust VIII and Eliza Faust with pet Frankensteiny - Shaman King

this. THIS IS MY MOST DELUSIONAL DESIRE. i’m not even kidding. shaman king is my favorite manga and it’s my most delusional desire cuz shaman king is SO NICHE. not many people talk about it, let alone know it. but trust me when i say the faust couple would be LIT !! the art style fits right with G1 monster high. we have the mad doctor turned necromancer with his dead ghost wife and their dead skeleton dog. HOW MUCH SPOOKIER CAN IT GET ??!! i think they’re perfect for the skullector line >.< also please keep johann as a manster :3

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okay i’m done yapping now. sorry >.<

[bowser14456]

Got my Annabelle doll yesterday. Love her.

[iilelio]

the chucky set is supposed to drop at 9 am today yet I cannot see it anywhere????? theres not even a countdown???

[crabbyhellfire]

I don’t really know if there’s a large custom doll community on Tumblr but I wanted to share my Frankenhooker custom I made from a super thrashed Frankie my friend gave me

[dreamyzworldlove]

my grad cap!

some of you may know i’m graduating today, and monster high has been such a huge part of my life i had to commemorate it!

here it is in darker lighting so you can see the words better lol

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[laciedollblog]

Jack and Sally Monster High Dolls!

Releasing on Mattel Creations on October 27th for 90 USD.

[gh0stf4ce666]

I’m still so sad I missed out on skullector Dracula ;__;

[kryptokat96]

Ok I’m gonna get them but… MATTEL SLOW TF DOWN. we are broke af right now with 3 releases in a row. Like daaamn.

[mh-dreamscape]

Outta Fright Operetta Full Redesign!

I know this has taken a while, but here’s my redesign of the Skullector Operetta! Not going to lie, it took a while because I was kind of struggling on some parts 😅

I was trying to keep the general shape and style to show that Mattel didn’t have to completely change the design in some aspects, but at least change the patterns. I really struggled keeping the cape thing in but my favorite part was the actual dress and shoes! Like almost all of my creativity went into those parts and the face - theeeennn the rest I started struggling with. To be honest, I wasn’t fully sure if I wanted to post her but then I went “ehhh I’ve been trying to work on her for months so I should at least put her out there”

I hope you like her!

[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

[lipid]

🎃🖤 Nightmare Before Christmas Skullector set! 🌙💀

Available October 27 through Mattel Creations

[heartshapedcreaturefromcriptoon]

Jesus fucking Christ I fucking hate "The Doll Community" especially Monster High and g3 monster high, I really do...

I was just watching a video of this big name doll youtuber reporting on doll news, as they do, and they were covering the new Beetlejuice Skullector Two Pack, but what got me is they how said some pretty Anti leaning shit that was just unnecessary?

Like they literally said: "Obviously NO ONE ships Beetlejuice and Lydia so NO ONE would promote this as a romantic thing.. But if it's a wedding set that's set to release Valentines day then la de dah blah blah!"

And like? I honestly didn't know if this person was just saying this to just like, cover their own ass so THEY didn't get harassed by other tenderqueers because they were young, or if *they* genuinely believed what they were saying? Because from what I've watched from their channel, they're young and don't seem to know or care a lot about horror as genre in general? Like I don't mean to gate keep, but they're one one those obnoxious Monster High fans I made of fun of in my one post where it's like, "knows nothing about horror, just learned who Elvira is, only got into mh as a kid as the 'alternative' to their conservative ass parents who already believe pokemon is The Devil letting them experience Actual Horror and just never stopped consuming the dolls and Skullectors regardless if they're even familiar with the source material" kinda people? And yeah, that gets really annoying?

But I obviously didn't want this to be my cutting off point for watching their channel because ... Doll news?

So, I just wrote up the most, civil. neutral comment I could possibly articulate explaining how the Beetlejuice fandom's been practically built off of nothing but shipping for 36 years and how people can think whatever they want but Winona Ryder does ship it and it was quite frankly unprofessional of them to alienate Beetlebabes who might want to grab the two pack by implying there's a right way and a wrong way of interpreting the movie and the relationship between these iconic characters and they should respect the older fanbase and all the history that came before the musical?

And I was about to post it, but then I got nervous when I remembered, that I once purchased a doll from this person, which meant that they had my address at one point, which meant if they didn't like what I was saying, they could like, maybe dig it up and dox me? Or at least threaten to and I'd have cause to panic over it being like, legit or not? And I tried to brush it from my mind like nuh nuh they're cool they're cool... They're not on *that* level of Anti...

So then I just tried to check and refresh the comments to see any more overt ship bashing was taking place and of course, I just immediately find this:

So then I do this little blackout thingy for the usernames so that none of this can get back to youtube, and I go to screencap my comment so I can at least post it here in a vent, but I lost my comment trying to get the screen cap thingy to work and accidently clicking the youtube refresh button... 😔

... I just...I hate having such a lil' ghost face moment right now, but just like... I hate you legit fake horror fan Monster High collectors who can't appreciate horror having romantic subtext when that's the entire point yet you keep hoarding all the dolls anyway, I hate you little faggity boys with broccoli haircuts and split dyes who pressure girls into sending you nudes and the retired Mommy Vloggers who enable you, I find you extremely annoying XCanadensis, I hate you for your extremely annoying editing and intros zombiexcorn, I like you Lookin' Bratz but I hate your bratzline podcast cohost for fully admitting to doing a binge watch of all the Harry Potter movies in the franchise for "the first time ever" in fuckin' 2024 with absolutely no disclaimers or acknowledgment of the elephant in the room there and thinking that was a good idea to disclose something as quite frankly as disgusting as that and ruining what could've been a nice gothic doll chat for me and putting sour taste in my mouth about listening to the rest of your podcast...

And I especially hate that one dude with the ugly live action beauty and the beast dolls with the pink hair and the bowl cut and the glasses who for some reason keeps insisting every time she's brought up that Ghoulia Yelps can't be disabled/autistic because she's supposed to have some type of racial coding...

They're HEADCANONS!

They're PIECES OF PLASTIC!

GROW UP! 💀

(I love you weirdo OOAK Doll Artists, you're the only Real Ones left! ❤🫶)

[dollhaireverywhere]

Monster High Skullector Disney's The Nightmare Before Christmas Jack and Sally