Mattel's Monster High

I hear you professor

I have been on the lookout for a few of these for my daughter, but they just are not stocking them. I saw the Abby, Spectre, Gil, and Toreilai on the shelves in various places before xmas, but did not want to put funds into kid toys when we had other obligations. Now the MH sections are all but decimated. Even the build a monster kits are getting scarce and they were everywhere 2 weeks ago.

Either there are some serious scalpers out there, or Mattel has massively underestimated the popularity of this line.

The problem is Monster High is "hot," so now we've got kids, collectors, hipsters, and flipper scum all after the same short-packed figures. Fortunately the kids are supporting this line beyond the "chase" figures, so there are few if any peg warmers lately. Of course, Mattel is their own worst enemy, and they seem to never address production/distribution issues, so before everyone that wants an original Abbey or Toralei gets one, BLAMMO, Sweet 1600 shows up

For Everyone who Got into Customizing these ...
The Liv Dolls Custom Hair, Does fit with these heads too.
Just throwing it out there ..., I bought 1 of em for my Skeleton Chick.

Thinking about the Name Skelenia . :silly:

Thought I'd post a pic of Cindy's Monster High collection thus far:

http://www.thedollpage2.com/photopos...gh_display.jpg

Chris

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Originally Posted by Earth 2 Chris

Thought I'd post a pic of Cindy's Monster High collection thus far:

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Very nice collection! :smile:

nice. my daughter loves these. we just finally snagged Draculaura's dragster. it is pretty cool although a tad pricey on TRU.com at 34.95. would porobably make a cool custom Batmobile if you sanded down all the girly design and repainted it.

i had gotten Abbie for both my daughters for Christmas on Target.com for 12.99 each. then after Christmas I was looking on amazon and they were going for like 60.00 each. also the CC Dead fast doll and the dead fast figures from comic con were going for over a hundred on amazon. i said to my wife i should have just sold them and gotten the kids something else...LOL

Somebody should figure out how to mold the build-a-monster torso and cast a bunch of them.

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i had gotten Abbie for both my daughters for Christmas on Target.com for 12.99 each. then after Christmas I was looking on amazon and they were going for like 60.00 each. also the CC Dead fast doll and the dead fast figures from comic con were going for over a hundred on amazon. i said to my wife i should have just sold them and gotten the kids something else...LOL

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these are definitely going for crazy money now. Not necessarily these exact dolls, but whatever is new and just released commands some serious online premium. I was looking at some custom stuff with my daughter and one of the sellers also had made sales on some of the newer dolls. $75 bucks for Operetta??? 3x the money. Wow. No wonder the scalpers are all over this stuff - and no wonder there are none in my local stores.

I wonder how long the interest in lines like this last. It is barely over a year old - is that correct?

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Originally Posted by GaryPlaysWithDolls

Somebody should figure out how to mold the build-a-monster torso and cast a bunch of them.

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Mattel Just needs to release a Torso/Arm/Thigh body and sell it for 6to9 Bucks in like 10 Different Colors.

Still no sign of Toralei, but I found Operetta & Nefera yesterday (from the look of it, that case breakdown is 2 x 2011 Cleo; 2 x Nefera; 2 x Operetta). Great additions!