Picking Bones, Part 2: The Skelita Collector Dolls

In the previous post about Skelita, we looked at the start and end of her G1 career, and had to grapple with some dark discussions about the way her designs created a distracting and distressing implication. In this post, we'll be looking at her two collector dolls, which include her sole G2 appearance and her first appearance contemporary to G3. The previous post has more context, but know it gets serious. Read it here.

Picking Bones, Part 1: Skelita's Debut, and Difficult Concerns

This post might be a bit grim. I'm bringing in a character I find very tricky to talk about, but I find it fascinating how complicated she is. She has a lot of good and bad that's worth discussing, but it gets dark on the bad side.

Banking on Snow: Monster High G3 Abbey Bominable by Mattel

 It's been a very cold day, and I just finished a review of G3's warmest character. I thought it was about time to come back to its coldest today. 

Deal or No Deal? Monster High G3 Scare-adise Island Heath Burns by Mattel

 What a weird time to release warm vacation dolls.

Festive Love: The Monster High Skullector "Nightmare Before Christmas" Set by Mattel Creations

Well, Mattel has completely broken the Skullector formula in 2023, hasn't it?

Left Out Dolls 3-D: The Revenge

 Go here to see the post where the Left Out Dolls came from, and here to see the preceding post to this one.

RESTYLE ICONS: Petrifying!

Deuce Gorgon was a really great character concept. A gorgon for the most prominent male character, or for a male character at all, is a respectably unusual choice, and it's pretty awesome that they managed to make that work for all three generations of the brand so far! Heck yeah!