As detailed in my Welcome page and my first doll review on this blog, I started a doll collection when I was a teenager, but felt too unconfident about my hobby at that fragile age and decided to get rid of the dolls as part of a downsizing project when our house was being sold at the time. I deeply regret that now, of course, but I thought it would be a fun curiosity to put down the dolls I had back then, with notes for what I kept and what I ended up reacquiring (with links to those reviews). Do keep in mind that I made no effort to reobtain any of these dolls in the same order I initially obtained them, so review links to them jump around in order of when I wrote them for the blog.
Doll lines within brands are listed for the dolls even when the information is redundant (i.e., that character had no other releases so their only line was the one they're listed under). Many of these choices were driven by acquiring the character moreso than their specific edition, with several slim-box budget editions being picked because they were an easy way to get X or Y character, only for me to not like them as dolls because of my choice. Today, I'm more thoughtful with my selections. There are still several dolls I never should have let go, though none in the realm of "crazy grail" because I was collecting late into Monster High and didn't have the means to get more prized items. This is divided into categories and listed chronologically within categories, but some of these doll brands intersected with each other in the fully chronological order, which I still have (I'm so glad I recorded it!)
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| Early dolls in my original collection. |
Monster High G1
- Gloom and Bloom Amanita Nightshade (reobtained)
- Frights, Camera Action! Hauntlywood Operetta (reobtained)
- Great Scarrier Reef Down Under Ghouls Kala Mer'ri (reobtained)
- Secret Creeper Critters Dustin (kept)
- Secret Creeper Critters Azura (kept)
- Secret Creeper Critters Hissette (kept)
- Music Festival Venus McFlytrap
- Scarnival Skelita Calaveras (reobtained)
- Freak du Chic Gooliope Jellington (reobtained)
- Casta Fierce
- Haunted Kiyomi Haunterly
- I Love Fashion Wydowna Spider
- Signature Jane Boolittle
- Freak du Chic Twyla (I kept her copy of her pet Dustin, but ruined the doll)
- Great Scarrier Reef Hissters Peri and Pearl Serpentine (reobtained)
- Dead Tired Robecca Steam
- Ghouls' Getaway Spectra Vondergeist
- Ghouls' Getaway Jane Boolittle
- Dance Class Rochelle Goyle (from the five-pack)
- Dance Class Lagoona Blue (from the five-pack)
- Dance Class Operetta (from the five-pack)
- Dance Class Robecca Steam (from the five-pack)
- Dance Class Gillington "Gil" Webber (exclusive to the five-pack; I got it for him)
- Freak du Chic Honey Swamp
- Freak du Chic Toralei Stripe
- Boo York, Boo York Gala Ghoulfriends Elle Eedee (reobtained)
- Freaky Field Trip Gigi Grant (restyled with a high ponytail and the dress from Gigi's horrible low-jointing budget doll
- Ghouls' Getaway Jinafire Long
- Boo York, Boo York Gala Ghoulfriends Luna Mothews
- Haunted Getting Ghostly Clawdeen Wolf
- Ghoulebrities in Londoom Catty Noir (part of a three-pack)
- Ghoulebrities in Londoom Elissabat (part of a three-pack)
- Ghoulebrities in Londoom Viperine Gorgon (I got the three-pack for her)
- Ghoul Fair Scarah Screams
- Boo York, Boo York Gala Ghoulfriends Mouscedes King
- 13 Wishes Twyla (I kept her copy of Dustin while ditching the doll, but also reobtained the doll later)
- Monster Exchange Batsy Claro
- Freaky Fusion Neighthan Rot
- I Love Fashion Djinni "Whisp" Grant (technically a G2 release due to being on shelves after the reboot, but she was clearly a G1 doll that released on a delay)
- Gloom Beach Frankie Stein (rerelease edition; I cannot believe this was my first Frankie--why her?)
- I Love Fashion Iris Clops
- Great Scarrier Reef Down Under Ghouls Posea Reef
- Monster Exchange Lorna McNessie
- Dead Tired Cleo de Nile (rerelease)
- Original Favorites Frankie Stein (reduced-value reissue of her G1 signature doll; I got a better reissue to start this blog with later!)
- Monster Exchange Marisol Coxi
- Music Festival Abbey Bominable
- Gore-geous Accessories Honey Swamp
- Boo York, Boo York Comet-Crossed Couple Cleo de Nile (part of a two-pack)
- Boo York, Boo York Comet-Crossed Couple Deuce Gorgon (part of a two-pack; mine got swapped onto the G2 Deuce body)
- Inner Monster Fearfully Feisty and Fangtastic Love (the doll that made me take notice of MH to begin with, but a late collection addition. She was the sole doll I held onto and saved from the purge of this collection, but I ultimately had to replace many of her parts to get her to reviewable state, making it murkier whether she still counts as being kept from the old collection or not.)
- Scream and Sugar Nefera de Nile (part of a two-pack set that was another G1 release delayed into the G2 doll line and left unmodified)
- Scream and Sugar Amanita Nightshade (I got the two-pack for her)
- Freak du Chic Frankie Stein
- Inner Monster Frightfully Fierce and Spooky Sweet+Spooky Sweet add-on Mood Pack
- Create-a-Monster Mummy (part of a two-pack)
- Create-a-Monster Gorgon (the other half of the two-pack with the Mummy)
- Monster Exchange Kjersti Trollssøn
- Original Favorites Draculaura
- Haunted Porter Geiss
- Anti-Styling Head (garage sale find, incomplete kit, it was the version with pale green skin and blue hair with yellow streaks)
Monster High G2
- Welcome to Monster High Dance the Fright Away Deuce Gorgon (I got him out of curiosity and liked his buffer body sculpt but hated his G2 face paint, and popped a G1 Deuce onto his body. I repeated these steps with a different G1 Deuce head in my current collection.)
- Welcome to Monster High Monstrous Rivals Draculaura (part of a two-pack)
- Welcome to Monster High Monstrous Rivals Moanica D'Kay (I got the two-pack for Moanica, but this same "signature" design for the character also had a solo release I would have picked instead if it was available where I shopped)
- Winning Werewolves Clawdeen Wolf (part of a two-pack)
- Winning Werewolves Clawd Wolf (the other half of the two-pack; I got it for him)
- Shriekwrecked Gillington "Gil" Webber
- Shriekwrecked Dayna Treasura Jones (reobtained and restyled)
- Monster Family solo release Fangelica van Bat
- Garden Ghouls Winged Critters Beetrice
Ever After High
- Thronecoming Blondie Lockes
- Signature Kitty Cheshire (rerelease)
- Way Too Wonderland Courtly Jester
- Carnival Date Bunny Blanc (part of a two-pack)
- Carnival Date Alistair Wonderland (the other part of the two-pack; I got it for him, but have since gotten and made myself a better Alistair with his signature edition as a base)
Misc.
- Jakks Pacific Alice Through the Looking-Glass Hatter (based on the first film in the duology)
- Jakks Pacific Alice Through the Looking-Glass Red Queen (mostly based on the first film in the duology except for her crown transferring to her sister)
- Jakks Pacific Oz: The Great and Powerful 14'' China Girl
- Disney Store Alice Through the Looking-Glass Hatter
- Jakks Pacific Alice Through the Looking-Glass White Queen
- Jakks Pacific Alice Through the Looking-Glass Alice (based on the first film in the duology--for all these dolls I collected, it's funny that I didn't even like the Tim Burton Alice film--I did like the character designs, though)
- DC Super Hero Girls signature/original Harley Quinn edition
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