Inner Monster.
The most awesome doll in the doll haul from the American consignment shop:
MONSTER HIGH INNER MONSTER SHIVERING SAD, EEK EXCITED, & HAUNTINGLY HAPPY DELUXE PACK
So great. So great. Mine was without a box but I don't care about boxes. I had everything but the notebook/diary. I don't need that diary. I have this here blog.
Oh, and mine had one other issue.
A head detached from her body. I had yet to really understand how awesome she was. But her head alone had an exposed brain that, when pressed, changed her eye colors.
With much rattling and tweezers I finally got the broken neck-part out of her head. This allowed me to figure out how the neck and head were supposed to attach.
Oh, did I not mention that her body plates come off to expose her SPINE and such? When I bought the lot I DIDN'T KNOW.
Even when I got it I didn’t google for more info. I only figured it out when I saw how the seams of the body moved a bit when I manipulated the head.
I opened her up!I then drilled a screw partway into her neck and used Apoxie Sculpt to make a new head node.Here’s the copy for this amazing product in bold.
Monsters have feelings too!
Yes, we do.
And now they can express their monster moods - or yours!
Awesome! I am a sucker for toys and stories about how our emotions are a natural part of who we are...thus my Inside Out love.
This Monster High ghoul has creepy cool transformative features and killer ways of emoting!
Me too!
With three of options, this monster can run the gamut of emotions from Shivering Sad to Eek Excited to Hauntingly Happy.
I have more emotions than that. That’s not technically running the gamut.
Fun fact about "Eek Excited." I will respond to Eek. If I see it typed out I will identify with it as possibly meaning me. This comes from my misspent youth being a 14 year old with a 2400 baud modem who learned about local chat lines. I quickly chose the handle Eclipse and from ages 14-19 that was generally shortened to Eek.
Press on her scary cool neon brain to change the look in her eyes - the eye-changing feature even works with the wig on!
Three different eyes!
Swap out the three faceplates to change her facial expression from gore-geous to gaga.
This is something I’ve wanted with a MH doll AND IN LIFE. Extra faces.This is another thing that dates back to my childhood love of the Oz books and the brief appearance of Princess Langwidere.
"Langwidere is a different person every time I see her. For the only way her maids and subjects can recognize her at all is by means of a pretty little key made out of solid ruby; which she always wears on a dainty chain attached to her left wrist. So when we see the key we know we are beholding the Princess." ―Ozma of Oz (1907)
That key was to her hall of HEADS.Back to dolls.
Plug emoticons (emotion-based peggable pieces) into her inner skeleton to make a literal statement and get even more “in touch” with your emotions.
Ok. So you can put a clear chest plate on her and see her spine/pelvis AND put little mood pegs into that skeleton.
I’m just keeping the thunderstorm in her pelvis. I feel it. There are three more places to plug in emotions on the rib cage. All extra emotions can be stored in her purse. I generally done have emotions in my purse but I usually carry around emergency nuts in case my blood sugar drops and I get Radically Raged.
And of course, fabulous feeling fashions and clawesome corresponding accessories can match the mood on the outside.
Clawed omelette is what my autocorrect made of Clawesome.
Throw on the enchanting wings, the creepy cool genie tail or both! Choose a hair-raising purple ponytail or a colorful wig. Swap the chest plates and the fashions to complete the look. When the right mood is captured, record the monster’s story in the fill-in-the-blank diary to take personalization to new scary heights.
Ok. The creepy cool genie tail. I had questions.In the pictures of the lot I was going to get I kept wondering, "What is that hungry penis plant thing? Will it make more sense when it arrives? "It DIDN'T.
Turns out, that’s for her Eek Excited look. You pull out her legs and shove her pelvis in that. That’s ok and not disturbing at all! Probably less disturbing than the uncanny valley that Will Smith often inhabits in the live action Alladin.
This video from Surprise Egg and Toy Collector on You Tube shows each of the three looks. The whole video goes over every aspect I mention in better detail and each of the looks .
Eek Excited:
The set includes one full doll with eye-changing/brain feature, three interchangeable face plates, two peggable/interchangeable skeletons, one additional chest plate, three monsterrific accessories (wings, tail, furry peplum), multiple inner emotion-based pieces (that snap into the doll), two over-the-top fashions, one pair of shoes, doll stand, brush and fill-in-the-blank diary.
It’s a brand new way to play!
Collect other dolls and expansion Add-On Packs for even more frightful options (sold separately). Ages 6 and older.
I would have gone insane for monster high dolls if they'd launched at the right time of my childhood...or in my childhood AT ALL. I'm not changing this one. She's currently wearing another doll's outfit and being a Sad rocker.
And doing Sadness a great concern.
But, most things do Sadness a great concern. It's her thing, really.