Picking Bones, Part 3: Monster High 2025 Dia De Muertos Skelita Calaveras by Mattel

In 2023, I did a run of discussion on Monster High's Skelita Calaveras dolls, including, in my second feature regarding Skelita, her first two dolls made to celebrate the Dia de Muertos holiday--2016's standlone collector doll, and the first Howliday Skelita doll in 2023. Now it's time for another one, which I decided to group into my previous posts as a belated installment in their series!

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 12: Conclusion (As of 2025!)

Happy Halloween! Time to close out this project!

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 11: Turning the LEGO Haunted House into a LEGO Haunted Home

The crown jewel of LEGO Monster Fighters, and an enduring holy grail for collectors, is set number 10228, the Haunted House. But I didn't love it.

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 10: The 2025 Creator Haunted Mansion

This is a strange place to drop another parcel of monsters--a single LEGO Creator 3-in-1 set consisting of an homage to the 10228 Haunted House, with new but frustratingly unoriginal minifigure designs. I needed them regardless of what their designs were, of course!

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 9: Monster Miscellany

Time to wrap up some loose ends!

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 8: Pumpkins for Minifigures!

There have been many renditions of spooky pumpkins in minifigure scale, so as a side project, I thought I'd seek them out! 

Living Dead Dolloween 2025, Part 2: Spider Bite

At first, this doll was nowhere on my list for anything ever.

Warning: Lots of creepy spider imagery.

A Living Dead Dolloween 2025: Revisiting the Halloween Series (LDD Roundup #14)

Time for (a little bit of) Living Dead Dolls Halloween again!

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 7: The Rest from Minifigures, and LEGO VIDIYO

Time for a bit of a double feature here. One LEGO batch of monsters interrupted the Minifigures line again in such a way there were just too few Minifigures entries after the interruption to make another post just for them! We're still outlining things chronologically, but we're doing Minifigures, jumping out of Minifigures for a bit, and then briefly jumping back in!

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 6: Minifigures Series 14

Ten years ago...ouch. Well, anyway, ten years ago, in 2015, LEGO did its first Minifigures series of unlicensed characters united under one concept, and I will forever love that the horror genre was their first choice. And that this series came before the series-size reduction to 12 minifigures!

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 5: Scooby-Doo

Not too long after Monster Fighters, LEGO was back with another spooky theme, just a less real one! As anybody who knows Scooby-Doo knows, the franchise deals primarily with a gang of teenagers and their dog investigating supernatural events that turn out to be hoaxes perpetrated by criminals in monster disguises, though the franchise has gone into actual supernatural territory quite often as the decades have gone on. LEGO's theme arrived in 2015 and is based predominantly on the original 1960s Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? series, though, where it's all elaborate hoaxes and all of the monsters are thus depicted as humans in costume. Buncha frustrated theater kids, if you ask me. Sign the crooks up for community plays and I'm sure there'd be no more incidents.

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 4: More Monsters from Minifigures Series

Another small batch of Minifigures cropped up between Monster Fighters and the next big crop of horror figures, so let's take a quick look!

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 3: Monster Fighters

2012's Monster Fighters was LEGO's first and only supernatural horror theme based on the classic horror monster archetypes. Studios was artifice, all being produced on sets for movies, though could be played as real if desired, while the supernatural Hidden Side theme afterward is fully ghost/possession-centric and closer tonally to Ghostbusters than traditional or Halloweeny horror. Scooby-Doo, the thematically and temporally closest successor to Monster Fighters, is all about monster hoaxes. 

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 2: Monsters from Early Minifigures Series

 After the original Castle and Studios monsters from the "pre-modern" LEGO eras, the Minifigures theme served as the next major repository for horror minifigure designs, and started delivering right at the very beginning! The Minifigures line gave us the first horror designs in LEGO's current minifigure art style which stabilized around the late 2000s-2010s and hasn't really changed since, though it's arguable early series still look a bit different facially from minifigures of today. The Minifigures line also gave us our first iterative designs repeating and reimagining monster archetypes we'd already seen. Let's take a look.

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 1: Introduction to LEGO Monsters

Halloween season has begun, and this year, it's all about LEGO!

I've tried to figure it out before, but my love for the horror genre must be somewhat innate. I was always deeply enthralled by witches, adored Halloween, and monsters of any kind were my bread and butter. One of the bigger indicators for my belatedly-acknowledged passion came in the form of my LEGO hobby, and my singular focus therein on monster minifigures.