A Truly Orphean Can-Can: Living Dead Dolls Series 33 Ella Von Terra by Mezco Toyz

Like Angus Litilrott, this doll isn't really getting a solo post because I wanted to set her aside as a special topic, but more for the fact that the next standard roundup she could qualify for is probably a ways off. My October plans are entirely seasonal, stacked with a Living Dead Dolls Halloween extravaganza series, so there won't be an assorted roundup, but Ella grabbed me enough to get her in September while working on Roundup 7 and I needed to talk about her shortly after it.

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?: Living Dead Dolls Scary Tales Little Red Riding Hood by Mezco Toyz

I've committed to documenting every Living Dead Doll I acquire, but I had low hopes for this doll. I honestly bought her for parts so I could swap her gripping arm and accessory onto an upcoming doll who wanted for them to feel complete. I was thinking this doll would be a footnote overviewed within that doll's review, but...well darn it, she's actually really cool. She earned herself a review of her own, because, regardless of the fact that swapping her arm made her unfair to resell, I genuinely liked her in person. Meet Red.

BONUS PHOTOSHOOT: Living Dead Dolls Bloody Mary

This will be a quick one, but Mary gave me another burst of photos when I found a new prop and I thought I'd make an update to show it off.

MARATHON/MEGAPOST RECUT COMPILATION: Living Dead Dolls Series 6

This, like Series 5, was not an isolated review series, so this is another re-cut to put my Series 6 reviews in a self-contained context with each other. As with other compilation LDD series posts, edits will be made where information is outdated by current knowledge (either seamlessly or as an editor's note in brackets) and extraneous discussion that made sense in the original roundups will be cut to contain the reviews to this post.

6 and 6 for 6: Living Dead Dolls Series 6 Complete

After all these months, Series 6 is complete!

Living Dead Dolls Roundup 7

Welcome to the last standard LDD Roundup for a little bit. LDD content is not slowing down a bit on the blog, but this review format will be on pause in October, replaced by a Living Dead Dolloween extravaganza instead, where I will examine pieces of the Halloween-themed releases in the brand across the original era--smaller roundups per post, but a great number of dolls in total! The next time you'd be seeing an assorted roundup of three again will be November, and no plans at all for who would be included. I also have a couple of solo reviews besides. But enough about those--let's look at now and the September trio of cadavers that entered my morgue.

Kinder Surprise, Part 2: Fantasy

(Continued from part 1 here.)

Even though I had reobtained all of my childhood Monster Hotel Kinder toys (and then some), I realized quickly when looking at the sets on eBay that one monster figure I had always lumped in with my sparse collection was absent. Clearly, I had put it in the Monster Hotel group erroneously--or at least, it wasn't ever part of the two series I had pieces from. Thus, I had to dive into the rabbit hole to figure out just where that little guy had come from. He was so distinct and I had the figure for long enough in my life that there was no chance of mismemory or fabrication--it was real just as I knew it...but whence did it originate? 

Is G3 Already Ending?: A Hypothetical Autopsy

So, news broke that the narrative media for Monster High G3 (the alternate continuities of the live-action films and the TV cartoon the dolls are matched to) will not be proceeding. This has obviously raised alarm bells about the prospects for G3 as a whole, and yeah, it is alarming.

Woe is She: Monster High x "Wednesday" Wednesday Addams Doll and Paint it Black Fashion Pack by Mattel Creations

It hasn't passed my attention that Netflix's Wednesday has abruptly (and relatively belatedly) gotten a huge marketing and merchandising push, possibly because they realized the show's popularity was juxtaposed against a relatively untapped market, and also they have a second season to hype up. The first season is even on physical media now, which Netflix almost never allows for their originals. Toys and clothing and other branded products are popping up everywhere, and now we have proper Wednesday fashion dolls in lieu of the cheap Chinese no-brand dolls that have been floating around online. And who else would be giving us these dolls than Monster High? It's an ideal match. Both are about spooky schools! Let's see how the doll collaboration turned out.