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MH roundup, part... whatever. 1, possibly.
Feb. 3rd, 2015 01:32 pmYou know what we haven't done in awhile? We haven't discussed the new/upcoming Monster High/Ever After High dolls! This seems like a terrible oversight, so let's try and correct it, shall we?
To be fair, one of the big reasons I haven't done one of these lately is that I am terribly behind on my MH/EAH collecting. I've snagged a few newish ones over the last few months and I had some incredible gifts over the holidays that I still can't get over (never will) but I'm beyond behind on the game.
One of the other reasons is that MH in general has hit the Mattel wall where they start to churn out very similar products and the good stuff is harder to find. Also, I don't really live nearby to anything other than a Walmart and uh, Walmart is hell. So I don't get my Target weekly fixes much because I don't trust myself to not blow money I don't have and when I do go? They got nothin'.
EAH is just a bitch to find anything that isn't Sig Raven/Maddie/Apple. Sort your distribution issues out, Mattel, and then maybe you wouldn't be losing so many damn sales. You give people time to think about their purchases and they're going to say "Yeah, you know, maybe I don't need 32 Apple Whites." You don't want that, you want them wondering if maybe an even 48 would be better. Seriously, how hard is this to understand?
Ahem. I seem to have inadvertently put on my ranty-pants today. Whoops.
Let's go backwards in terms of when things appeared.
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Overall, I think Freak du Chic is the highlight for me, line-wise. There's more that I want than I don't, and even the things I don't are at least interesting to me on some level. Ghoul Fair doesn't even seem like they TRIED, and I don't know how I feel about the purse line other than Robecca, want/need now.
Boo-York is the weirder line in that they obviously went all out, but I don't really like it as a whole. Not yet, anyway. It's got the blobby plastic cranked up to 11 (much like Gloom and Bloom) but then it's got things like Catty's entire look and that's just horrifying, really. I don't really get a lot of it, but I'm willing to give it another look when we get actual promo pictures and real dolls, too.
Next time I think I'll wind my way back a little further, but today I have to get enough sleep and visit Ari, so we'll pause for now.
To be fair, one of the big reasons I haven't done one of these lately is that I am terribly behind on my MH/EAH collecting. I've snagged a few newish ones over the last few months and I had some incredible gifts over the holidays that I still can't get over (never will) but I'm beyond behind on the game.
One of the other reasons is that MH in general has hit the Mattel wall where they start to churn out very similar products and the good stuff is harder to find. Also, I don't really live nearby to anything other than a Walmart and uh, Walmart is hell. So I don't get my Target weekly fixes much because I don't trust myself to not blow money I don't have and when I do go? They got nothin'.
EAH is just a bitch to find anything that isn't Sig Raven/Maddie/Apple. Sort your distribution issues out, Mattel, and then maybe you wouldn't be losing so many damn sales. You give people time to think about their purchases and they're going to say "Yeah, you know, maybe I don't need 32 Apple Whites." You don't want that, you want them wondering if maybe an even 48 would be better. Seriously, how hard is this to understand?
Ahem. I seem to have inadvertently put on my ranty-pants today. Whoops.
Let's go backwards in terms of when things appeared.
( Picture Heavy. )
Overall, I think Freak du Chic is the highlight for me, line-wise. There's more that I want than I don't, and even the things I don't are at least interesting to me on some level. Ghoul Fair doesn't even seem like they TRIED, and I don't know how I feel about the purse line other than Robecca, want/need now.
Boo-York is the weirder line in that they obviously went all out, but I don't really like it as a whole. Not yet, anyway. It's got the blobby plastic cranked up to 11 (much like Gloom and Bloom) but then it's got things like Catty's entire look and that's just horrifying, really. I don't really get a lot of it, but I'm willing to give it another look when we get actual promo pictures and real dolls, too.
Next time I think I'll wind my way back a little further, but today I have to get enough sleep and visit Ari, so we'll pause for now.