"Now SERVING" or "Dolls Divided 3/2": The Monster High Skullector "Beetlejuice" Waiting Room Two-Pack, and a Zombini/Viv Revisit!

...so Mattel made a fool out of me. Remember how last year, I did a two-half project about two-half gimmick horror dolls which split apart at the waist, comparing the body designs of brand-new Monster High manananggal Corazón Marikit and classic Living Dead Dolls' unfortunate magician's assistant Viv? Yeah, well, turns out I should have waited a year, I guess, because it turned out Mattel was adapting the bisecting concept to the exact same murdered magician's assistant concept as Viv. It's a real Doofenshmirtz's Nickels situation here. There aren't many dolls in this type, but weird that it happened twice. Poor Viv never got her timing right--first an incomplete solo review in 2024, then a review of her full two-pack set ahead of her ideal MH counterpart! And now I don't know what this post is. I can't very well add a third half to the two I wrote. It's unmathematical. Is this a third in a series or a separate review that happens to be a follow-up to a duology? Yes. 

Warnings for very bloody imagery as pertains to the LDD half of this discussion, and discussion related to, and imagery alluding to, suicide as pertains to Miss Argentina.

Death Drops on the Runway: Living Dead Dolls Fashion Victims Wave 2 Complete

I never thought I would have this group. How did it all turn out?

Absolutely Losing My Mind: Living Dead Dolls Fashion Victims SYBIL!!!

Oh, what a journey to reach this review. 

Did I Get Burned?: Living Dead Dolls Fashion Victims Inferno

Time for the third doll in my Fashion Victims Wave 2 series! On the one hand, this might have been a doll I could pass on altogether. On the other, she might be one of the best designs in the small FV line!

Hot Mess On Wheels: Living Dead Dolls Fashion Victims Lulu

Time for the next Fashion Victim in Wave 2...and I didn't have the highest of hopes for her. She had the most prominent content repellents in her design and I never quite got the character, anyhow.

The Living Dead Dolls Fashion Victims, Part 2: Why In Damnation Did Mezco Stop Here?

LDD doing fashion dolls ought to have been the apotheosis of my doll hobby. I started my hobby with spooky fashion dolls and then became obsessed with the storytelling of LDD's more classic-style dolls, finding some of my greatest creative joy with LDD subjects. But when they finally tried a fashion-doll spinoff, LDD boinked their opportunity in every sense of the word with Wave 1's ineptly sexual doll design that was hard to glamorize or accept. Read that review here. Fortunately, they had one more chance to impress me, and the very next year, in 2004, Wave 2 of the line presented a total overhaul that seemed to be basically what I wanted. Was it?

An Unforeseen Surprise: Monster High Skullector Scarah Screams by Mattel

So Mattel's next in-house Skullector release is a forgotten character, done basically as close to perfect as possible? How'd that happen?