Yes monsters. It would be extravagant, the rage. Dolls were given this new face. Now there can be dolls in crazy hair dyes and skin tones with extra limbs, fangs, scales and all of these features deemed otherwise unattractive in the contemporary doll world. But MH made it work. Rather than having the descendants of princesses or heroes, they chose of follow the path of monsters.
Which is interesting, because up until that point monsters were just nightmares and scary stories. Now their cool and hip and so in. Its different and a break from the same old, recycled pink sparkles spit out on dolls. The new molds, the new hair, the huge eyes, the corpse like bodies, the extra ghoulish features, the killer fashion that matches their themes. These dolls are true fashion dolls and works of arts. Their impeccable design and work, along with the creative story lines and savage dresses, really took imagination to the true new level.
Well lets see, Draculaura is pink and a short vampire, who is vegetarian and has a pet bat, Frankie Stein is the new girl who is always losing her limbs and stitches and has two different colored eyes, Clawdeen is a platform wearing sassy diva, who is also a werewolf, Ghoulia he zombie who can't speak the normal language, Cleo De Nile, the mummy with her royal attitude, the characters keep extending to new lengths, styles, and humorous backdrops. MH is the renaissance era in new dolls, they did what hadn't been done before. They gave rise to newer lines like Novi Stars, Bratzillaz, Disney Descendants, Star Darlings, Midnight Magic, and Ever After High. Now for the actual design. They kill it. They have detachable limbs, arms, wings, etc. They have many articulation points.
Much more than Barbie, or any other conventional dolls do. They have interesting clothes and crazy shoes, accompanied with books and children fiction stories, kids movies, kids webisodes, and games. These dolls were monstrously marketed! This dolls line is much more racially acceptant as well. They have monsters from all parts of the worlds, using myths and legends from different cultures. For example, Abbey Bominable, Deuce Gorgon, Skelita Calaveras, Rochelle Goyle, JinaFire Long, Cleo De Nile, Lagoona Blue, and the list goes on and on to the hundreds of characters they have.They have blacks, Asians, Europeans, Australians, hispanics, nothern europeans, and the list climbs on.
The point is, dolls like Barbie can only be redressed, re painted, re molded, and given a new movie every year. Its the same character with slight differences each year. MH can dream up any wacky character and make it work! Like a two headed hydra, or centaur, or pirate. Parents have always been on the fence about MH. They claim they look too promiscuous, anorexic, diva-ish, etc. To be honest, little girls view MH as fiction, they look purely fictitious too. Girls never really deem dolls as role models to follow, This is proven by many childhood studies, look it up if you like. Even Barbie and her unattainable proportions don't affect girls mentally or physically. Girls are more affected by the media and those magazines of women who achieved, these "ideals" of beauty through extreme means. Dolls will be dolls, fiction is fiction, a plastic mold is just a toy. I support MH, they will always be my top favorite line.
Their diverse and all in all unique. This wraps up my small talk about MH dolls, and how they pretty much changed the face of the doll industry. They are one of the most nefariously, chillingly, artistic lines today!
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