Superstition Superstar: Monster High G3 Signature Catty Noir by Mattel

Catty Noir was fairly low on the list of G1 characters I expected to come back. 

MARATHON/MEGA-ROUNDUP Recut Compilation: The Living Dead Dolls Series 23 Project

This is just my previous seven S23 posts all edited together into one long saga with tweaks in prose for flow, and some changes influenced by hindsight coming in. This cut of the project, as a linear marathon, will not be the journey through months of discoveries that the original posts were, so part of this is written with a retrospective lens, as if I had written these reviews and published them all in one go rather than doing them gradually first. If you're curious, take a look at how that's shifted things, because I found it interesting to edit myself. But that's really all there is to this one, so feel no obligation to read again in this form. Just wanted to have the work available in one.

A Twisted "Teatime" Teatime: Living Dead Dolls Series 23 Complete

Thus marks the first completion of a Living Dead Dolls series in my collection! Let's reflect!

The Living Dead Dolls Series 23 Tea Party: Photo Story

Here's the story I envision for the LDD tea party.

Go here to read the first post in this series (Agatha's review),  here for the second (Betsy's review), here for the third (Teddy's review), here for the fourth (Jennocide's review), and here for the fifth (Quack's review).

Duck, Duck, Her Goose Is Cooked: Living Dead Dolls Series 23 Quack by Mezco Toyz

The final doll of Series 23 has arrived: Quack, a loopy-looking doll in a fuzzy sailor duck costume whose tea was implicitly drugged.

I liked Quack's oddball charm and detail, and she was planned as the finale of the collection for a while. I expected to like her a lot, my ideas for her worked as a cap to the doll reviews, and it made sense with her being the most pricey in the aftermarket.

An Electric Concert Atmosphere: Monster High Monster Fest Frankie Stein by Mattel

 This is kind of a shorter topic this time. I just really liked the doll!

Living Dead Dolls Workshop Roundup

Here's my current policy--if a Living Dead Doll is loose and incomplete, its chances of being completed again are next to nil because loose parts for LDD are so rare on the aftermarket...so loose dolls missing things are fair game for customizing. I had a pressing need to take advantage of that policy, and I went on quite a journey with some other fun projects as a result!

This will be the LDD Roundup for July, because the next trio of dolls I want to round up will require location-specific photos taken on vacation in early August for full project completion. Quack and a standalone doll will feature this month and this is a roundup, but I'm not listing this in the series of canonical doll roundups.