Completing my Childhood: Kinder Surprise Monster Hotel

Before Hotel Transylvania, there was Monster Hotel. This might be one of the simultaneously most niche and personal toy memories I discuss here. 

Living Dead Dolls Roundup 6

For a moment, due to the gritty, ugly first doll in this group, I was considering throwing together a dedicated "scary roundup" for a theme, but I found the concept a little too nebulous and my collecting budget for the month was pushed heavily toward building my Halloween pool of LDD posts in October (where I made great progress!) so I decided to just go for another assorted pool. I did, however, end up with two significant wishlist dolls!

Al is In Wonderland: Ever After High Alistair Wonderland by Mattel

Lewis Carroll's Alice is an icon, and her having a son in the Ever After High-verse was intriguing. But while there were things I liked...I just didn't see much of the famous character translated over. Still, I like boy dolls and I was motivated to make a masc-Alice restyle of my own. I thought I could do better service to the origin character with the right pieces. 

"DIRECTOR'S CUT" COMPILATION RE-EDIT: Living Dead Dolls Series 5 Assembled

While all of the reviews of these dolls came from separate roundups rather than a broad-scope concept with standalone posts like with Series 23, I thought these could be cut together into a marathon feature with some edits in just the same way to make the reviews all self-contained. Consider this your one-stop shop for my Series 5 thoughts.

Warnings for gory imagery and discussions of true-crime misogynist brutality and suicide, as well as graphic suicide imagery on one of the dolls.

Death In the City of Devils--My Living Dead Dolls Series 5 Collection Overview

This will not be the most proper "completed series" LDD overview because I did not complete this series in the most standard way. I got both editions of one doll, and I got all five characters, but my complete set as I like it consists of three mains and two variants, so it's not a fully representative set of Series 5 either way. As such, I can't be as objective about the ranking because I did select dolls to serve my appeal.

An Uncomfortable Living Dead Dolls Discussion, Part 1

This blog project is going to be tricky. I will attempt to navigate the social issues as best I can. 

Content warning for scary horror imagery, and discussions and imagery relating to fatphobia, suicide, and true-crime misogynist brutality.

Not everything decays equally well.

Embalmed for the Gods: Monster High G3 Refresh Cleo de Nile by Mattel

There were things I liked about signature G3 Cleo, but if you asked me which of the now-two basic dolls of hers feels like Monster High, there's just no contest.