Awwww your cat, he looks so smug!

And Chesty, OMG! What a wild guy!

Great interview!

Late to the post here but I saw these a while back elsewhere, I have been *F R E A K I N G  O U T* about these!!!

I will most certainly perish if I don't get ahold of at least the blue one.

Ahhh thank you Carrehz & Taffeta!!

@Taffeta I’d love to see your Jem display! I don’t think I ever have!
I think Lala looks weird because of her bangs. They are much too long… I’m toying with the idea of trimming them. I saw someone cut them into normal bangs- I like the widow’s peak, but it did look very good. Actually, I pushed her bangs out of the way and she is STUNNING without them, omg. It changes her face entirely. I like both ways but do feel the bangs hinder her natural beauty- I’ll take a pic if anyone’s interested!

Re: G2 sibs:
I liked SOME of the siblings in G2, you can see a few I have in some of my photos. Pretty much Ebbie Wake, Pawla Wolf, & Kelpie Blue. The rest made no sense to me. (I also made Ebbie Finnegan’s little sister. She was Lagoona’s sister, like what!? Yeah I agree adding random mishmash body parts to the siblings like wings/tails/etc is bizarre. Pawla’s wold tail pops off so I popped it off, and just headcanon the “puppies” are fluffier… Think I may acetone her nose off though, just have never been brave enough to do it cause she was hard for me to snag back in the day.)

Also, yes, Toralei & Deuce are also exclusives! I SNAGGED BOTH TODAY. Ordered online- they’ll be here in about 2-4 days!

The Howliday one is ADORABLE but I’m not going to get her! She just looks too basic for me at this time, maybe I’ll change my mind later on, but she IS so cute!

Also Shriekwrecked was G2, Taff! ;D <3
(It was the cutest line that came from G2!)
Haunted was the ghost line you’re thinkin’ of, with the Spectra variant!

Also, I LOVE the new locker ghouls! Oh gosh I almost regret buying regular Frankie because I like this one more. I know some people are not liking her hat but I immediately just thought biker/“leather daddy” /Judas Priest when I saw it, really just Judas Priest and maybe that’s why I like her so much.
This is a TON of releases at launch, it’s crazy! But it’s really making me feel optimistic about the line, too.

Also, about the quality of the dolls- They really don’t feel cheap at all! They feel on par with G1.
G2 felt cheap as HECK- hard, thin, kinda scruffy plastic, dry hair, etc, but the G3 dolls feel like very quality materials.

I can’t wait to see the new ghouls they’ve been copywriting again!! Optimistically nervous.
About Nefera’s “heart of gold,” I think she’s probably going to be snooty, and they were using her “gold dipped organs in jars” as play on words.

Apparently the Nick movie came out tonight! And YIKES from the clips I’ve seen, lmao!! Still gonna watch it cause I’ve watched them all at this point and morbid curiosity always gets me. (Also have a guilty pleasure for bad movies… )
I do really love the actor they got for Frankie though, it’s pretty spot-on to how I’d imagine them in a live action- Albeit better makeup.

Also, MASCARAH I TOTALLY REMEMBER YOU!!
I was… Esbayne on the MHArena!
I miss it so much too.

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Not my photo but apparently this is going on for Ghoulia’s special release for a month.

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I watched that live action movie tonight because it premiered and I was morbidly (hah) curious.

……….uh.


………
Frankie was adorable. I love their new character.
Abbey had a cute costume.
The…. Cuckoo clock was cool.


…………….
That’s all I have that’s good to say.

BIG post incoming with LOTS of photos!
Feel free to skip to photos, this is just hype about details & my own opinions.

Sooo I ended up loving them so much I asked my boyfriend if he could stop after work and get the last two!
I texted him asking if he could check back for me again today and grab Cleo, because I was kinda regretting not grabbing her... He replied "Okay sure thing, what about the wolf? Or do I have to wait and go grab her tomorrow? hahaha" omg... SO I said screw it, sure, grab her too. (it's my money so no worries lol, going to be my "fun" budget for a while lol!)
Now all I'm missing are Deuce and Ghoulia, and I'm going to be hunting Deuce down even harder now, and by god did I hunt for these HARD! Ghoulia's growing on me rapidly, even if her face does look Barbie-esque, the glasses fix it. My main gripe for her is the skirt, but I have a pair of tights that would replace them perfectly. Still REALLY don't like her media character really just for the fact she talks now.

So I'll say it, I like G3.
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I'll say it.
I LOVE G3.
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And I gotta say, I was NOT a big G2 fan.
But I find thinking of G3 as an alt-universe really helps. It's *not* MH, but it *is* MH, in its own ways.
I still don't like ANY of the media so far. Some of the live-action outfits look cool, but not many. I don't even like the box art, or even the box itself!! But the dolls are stunning once you free them from their plastic prisons.
One cool thing about the box though, is they all come with a little 3D plastic insert of the Monster High logo with the skullette, in the front of the box. I've been ripping them all out and keeping them. The first one I put on my doll shelf, and it honestly looks really cool in my opinion! Idk what I'll do with the rest, but... Something.

They honestly strike me as a more refined, higher quality version of G2. Holding them next to each other, they look like they could possibly be from the same line. G1 vs G3, or even G1 vs G2, not so much. They're both very much more "MH Lite" than G1.

I do think it's cool Frankie's neutral now, because it works so naturally for them being made of both male/female corpse parts- Honestly I think that's a really cool touch, and something I could've even seen being around in G1, had that been more acceptable then. (I mean, they wouldn't even admit to characters being gay back then!)
I LOVE thick Draculaura, and how wildly different all their faces and bodies are now. I mean- they ALWAYS were, but these ones are all different from each other in different ways than G1 one. These ones have expressions, and of course the different body types.
My one major gripe with Frankie that I've seen others mention- their head looks shoved down too far. Also, they don't have neck-bolts anymore. I initially overlooked that until today, and I do really miss it. Their leg is really cool though.

They ALL have chest joints! It makes them so much more poseable.
Their feet are slightly bigger with a little less of an arch, so they can lend themselves to both chunky flats & heels. So they can share most shoes with G1, but some might be a tad tight/loose. Clothes is a bit more different- obviously ones like Drac, forget it, she just can't share clothes with G1. MAYBE a stretchy skirt or shirt. But even the thinner ones have a hard time closing in the back, but stretchy stuff or stuff that doesn't need to close as much, like dresses, you can kinda get away with.

Their body paint. Is. DELICATE. Holy mother of crap is it delicate, I thought people may have been exaggerating a little but NO. Their faces and arms are totally fine, but their legs chip SO easily. My Toraelei has a few scratches on her stripes, and Goona-
OH. MY. RA, GOONA.
If you get her, be so, SO careful with her. It's unreal. Infact, I hate to say it- but unless you're dying for the OG, wait til later when they perfect her paint, because I'm fairly certain they will. (G1 had some bad paint problems in the beginning too, I like to think they're experimenting and this will be ironed out later...) Her lower legs are blue and spray painted to a pink fade, and seriously- her legs rubbed together just a little, and she has a HUGE scratch in the paint now. Like HUGE. I feel like even moisture might take it off, it's bad. Willing to bet when the days come of seeing these gals pop up second-hand, most Goonas will have 100% blue legs.
I adore her, but man I have to be so careful with her. Another doll knocked her over and she got ANOTHER scratch. So. Goona will be living like Bubble Boy from now on, I guess, until I get another one if they perfect her paint later down the line. I prefer the blue anyway, but I like the fade, so I want to preserve it.
Frankie, I honestly haven't had issues with YET, but I say that because I've heard other people still have.

They are very sturdy and don't feel so delicate/their arms and hands don't fall off like AT ALL, and have really big notched pegs holding them all in, but they pop out nicely. They're also not as stiff as G2, but they can still hold a pose really well, for the most part. Ones with long hair have a harder time, cause their hair is honestly THICKK and very heavy. Some of their hair feels better than others, but it's all pretty nice overall- better than G2's was, and closer in quality to G1 I'd say.
ALMOST of my gripes about their redesigns have faded upon seeing them in person.

Their pets are ADORABLE, their accessories are honestly nearly on par with G1- very detailed, all the bags open and things fit inside, Frankie came with a polaroid camera and two little TEENY tiny *plastic* not cheap paper but REAL little plastic photos, and they have itty bitty photos of the dolls photoshopped onto backgrounds, with labels "Boo York!" and "Scaris!" so more G1 homages! I'm loving the tiny very subtle nods. Also all of them come with extra clothes!

Really, REALLY miss the stands though, being that they're more expensive now (inflation, I get it, but plz) and if some of them, GOONA, fall over they'll be damaged. I'm wondering if it has to do with the body types? But that seems easy to overcome. I hope they change their minds on that somehow in the future, because I can't even use my extra G1 stands on them because of the waist/height differences.

SO. That novel out of the way...

PICTURES!!
Now these aren't going to be the best pictures because I had to take so many of so many things. But let me know if there's anything you want more of!
Beware, these are GIANT if you zoom in, but I kinda did it on purpose so you *can* zoom in!

Here's the only one I won't spoiler, cause it's a solo pic. All 5 of my G3 beauties together!
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YES I redressed Toralei and I'm sorry I didn't put her back in her OG clothes but I was feeling lazy about fiddling with all their clothes tonight. Not much is different, but I tied her hair up because it is SOO long and thick and heavy, put her in some jeans (G1 boy jeans! Custom made, but still- Fun fact, G1 boy pants fit G3 girls like a glove! Not much else though.) and some boots from Howleen. (tiiight squeeze but they fit, her heel pokes out a tad but the jeans cover it.)
No one else has been redressed or tweaked... Yet. However I did put some of them in the extra clothes that they came with, like their coats.

On to the more detailed pics!
We'll start off small.
Pets!


Next!
Draculaura through the ages

Cleo, G1 vs G3!

Lagoona! All 3 gens duke it out!

Frankie!

Toralei, in some new digs!

Last, but not least, but certainly least when it comes to redesigns:
Clawdeen!

Extras:


That's it! Sorry for the LOONG post but hope you liked the photos & let me know if you want more of anything!

I miss seeing Novi Stars around!

I only ever got ahold of one- She was a trade for something and I honestly can't remember what, all my old trade PMs are on the MHArena.

It's Una Verse- pretty sure she's one of the most common ones out there, but she's still gorgeous. Her head came to me on a Bratzillas monster mashup body? Whatever the equivalent of CaMs are for Bratzillas, idk, I only have one. (and the headless body. ) I transplanted her onto a CaM clear body- she was naked for YEARS until a week or two ago, lol, I figured out how to make a barbie dress fit on her and gave her Mouscede's accessories since I loved them, but hated them on her. X)

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I also really love that alien doll and the subtle nod to Novi Stars on the RH doll! If I collected them I would definitely be looking for her.

Can I just say... WOW she is adorable, with such gorgeous eyes....

squeeky butt pony

You beat me to it!! Came here just to add that lmao!

They are so dreamy 😍