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hat_plays_dollsSo, I do believe I finally own and have reviewed the entire Monster Family sub-line of Monster High-- I've got single-packed Pawla Wolf, Fangelica Van Bat, Sandy de Nile with high chair, the Vampire Kitchen with Dracula and Draculaura, Pharrah de Nile and the de Nile Family game Night set with Cleo, Lux, and Sandy #2, the Blue beach picnic two-pack with Lagoona and Kelpie, Alivia Stein andb Gigawatt, the Wolf bedtime three-pack with Clawdeen, Barker, and Weredith, the Wolf Family bunkbeds with Pawla, Weredith, and Packlyn, Howleen Wolf and allegedly Cushion, the Stein family cookout two-pack with Frankie and Alivia, and as of May 2021 (yes I am super backlogged, why do you ask?), the doll I hesitated on in stores because I could never find one with both her eyes on the same plane of existence...
Little Ebbie Blue!
It took a damn ass hell long time to find her on eBay, too-- I paid about $20 shipped for her, and that was my ceiling because she's such a small doll.
Back of the box! A little bent, but I'm gonna bust her out of there, so the box itself only matters in that I know everything is in there.
Why you gotta put words on the art, Mattel. I complain about this a lot.
... Also why is Lagoona drawn with her Dance the Fright Away sea-star face paint? That's odd.
Blurb! "The Blue family feels at home on any beach, and enjoys sharing those go-with-the-flow times playing in the sun and surfing together!"
... how is Ebbie supposed to surf. Ebbie has no feet.
Other single-packed dolls you can get in this line! If you are very lucky and search eBay dilligently and have alerts on your phone when something new comes up!
Why Ebbie took so long: Made in Indonesia and she has weird ears. Ebbie Blue is plagued with eye wonk, seriously.
And this one isn't flawless-- and yes, she has that weird dot-matrix printing that... all of the non-Dracula Monster Family dolls have, and some messed-up lip paint. But her eyes are okay and I can fix a lip rub.
Words on the art or glue on the art.
Open box! Ebbie comes with a shirt, sunglasses, tail ornament, ball, and... sandbox? Pool float? Kiddy pool? It is some kind of hexapedal cephalopod thing.
Face, unfettered by clear plastic. The more you look at her, the more she grows on you!
Sweet sweet freedom! Except from rubber bands and a couple of those plastic tab ties. Ebbie has very shimmery skin, more than Lagoona and Kelpie, big finny ears, and a surprisingly articulated tail.
No hair in her face! See, she's growing on you despite one eye being a little blurry, isn't she?
The back side of Ebbie! Box hair is fixable.
Her sunglasses are actually really nice-- they're very clear. A little silly, to be sure, but when has that ever stopped Monster High eyewear design?
Her shirt print is squiggles and bubbles, but in a limited palette and it doesn't strain the limits of the printing process as much as poor Barker's PJs did.
And yet even though Ebbie needs MAYBE two square inches of fabric in her entire shirt, it's half-printed.
You Can Tell It's Mattel!
Her tail ornament doodad appears to be... kelp with a sea star in it?
And her toys! The ball is a beach ball, pretty simple and reasonably accurate, although I coulda done without the clear finish to hide the post in the middle, and her... critter boat thing... has that charming goofiness you often see in kids' toys.
Seriously though what the heck is that thingy for.
Ebbie cannot quite touch her toe-equivalents (her arms go up further, but hit her ears so you can't spin 'em around with her head facing forward).
AND she can achieve a decent seated posture! Well done, Ebbie!
Her... rump area? Anyway, whatever you call that, it's a bare blue, which feels cheap, because--
The front is painted, and painted cute!
Seriously I can't easily do that, I'm cheesed off, give me the scaly butt, Mattel.
Ebbie does not have shaved sides-- like Gil, she has scaled sides! They're painted purple, to match her hair.
And like Kelpie, she has sculpted scales on her arms, and itty bitty little arm fins.
And little side fins by her fluke! All her fins are very gracefully sculpted.
Like if a betta fish were also a baby.
And there are four little flat spots in the spines of her fluke-- you could balance her to stand, if you need or want to!
But there are ways to pose her cutely on land without standing upright.
In conclusion-- there IS a little more but in conclusion anyway-- I clearly needed Ebbie because... the VERY LAST Monster Family product? (Also this makes thirteen reviews in my Monster Family tag, which is a delightful number even if I got that way cos I reviewed Pharrah with the de Nile Game Night 3-pack.) And I was pleasantly surprised by her tail articulation and a lot of her little details!
I think, though, I'm going to veer away from the Monster Family lore that the littler monsters are more monstrous, to the point where Ebbie here has no feet. You know who else is blue and has no feet?
Finnegan Wake aka Rider Siren. I'ma give him a baby sister.
Adjacent to finally buying Ebbie, I found this Barbie accessory pack that was conveniently mermaid themed. The sandals, I have passed long to my niece, but the rest of it--
Okay, should probably not be worn all together, but the MF elementary-age kids wear Barbie hats and sunglasses pretty well! Depending on their ears!
The headband is a bit iffy, and I think Lagoona is going to get the seahorse necklace. The pearls, I'm on the fence about. Sure, they're too big, but in a way that says 'playing dress-up' to me.
Ebbie's own accessories work fine with the Barbie pack.
Kiddo, you can give those to Fangelica, though, you know that, right? Her family has the heart motifs.
Like what I do and want to help me feed my cats, but don't need anything I have for sale on eBay? You can always support me on Patreon or throw some change in my tip jar.
Little Ebbie Blue!
It took a damn ass hell long time to find her on eBay, too-- I paid about $20 shipped for her, and that was my ceiling because she's such a small doll.
Back of the box! A little bent, but I'm gonna bust her out of there, so the box itself only matters in that I know everything is in there.
Why you gotta put words on the art, Mattel. I complain about this a lot.
... Also why is Lagoona drawn with her Dance the Fright Away sea-star face paint? That's odd.
Blurb! "The Blue family feels at home on any beach, and enjoys sharing those go-with-the-flow times playing in the sun and surfing together!"
... how is Ebbie supposed to surf. Ebbie has no feet.
Other single-packed dolls you can get in this line! If you are very lucky and search eBay dilligently and have alerts on your phone when something new comes up!
Why Ebbie took so long: Made in Indonesia and she has weird ears. Ebbie Blue is plagued with eye wonk, seriously.
And this one isn't flawless-- and yes, she has that weird dot-matrix printing that... all of the non-Dracula Monster Family dolls have, and some messed-up lip paint. But her eyes are okay and I can fix a lip rub.
Words on the art or glue on the art.
Open box! Ebbie comes with a shirt, sunglasses, tail ornament, ball, and... sandbox? Pool float? Kiddy pool? It is some kind of hexapedal cephalopod thing.
Face, unfettered by clear plastic. The more you look at her, the more she grows on you!
Sweet sweet freedom! Except from rubber bands and a couple of those plastic tab ties. Ebbie has very shimmery skin, more than Lagoona and Kelpie, big finny ears, and a surprisingly articulated tail.
No hair in her face! See, she's growing on you despite one eye being a little blurry, isn't she?
The back side of Ebbie! Box hair is fixable.
Her sunglasses are actually really nice-- they're very clear. A little silly, to be sure, but when has that ever stopped Monster High eyewear design?
Her shirt print is squiggles and bubbles, but in a limited palette and it doesn't strain the limits of the printing process as much as poor Barker's PJs did.
And yet even though Ebbie needs MAYBE two square inches of fabric in her entire shirt, it's half-printed.
You Can Tell It's Mattel!
Her tail ornament doodad appears to be... kelp with a sea star in it?
And her toys! The ball is a beach ball, pretty simple and reasonably accurate, although I coulda done without the clear finish to hide the post in the middle, and her... critter boat thing... has that charming goofiness you often see in kids' toys.
Seriously though what the heck is that thingy for.
Ebbie cannot quite touch her toe-equivalents (her arms go up further, but hit her ears so you can't spin 'em around with her head facing forward).
AND she can achieve a decent seated posture! Well done, Ebbie!
Her... rump area? Anyway, whatever you call that, it's a bare blue, which feels cheap, because--
The front is painted, and painted cute!
Seriously I can't easily do that, I'm cheesed off, give me the scaly butt, Mattel.
Ebbie does not have shaved sides-- like Gil, she has scaled sides! They're painted purple, to match her hair.
And like Kelpie, she has sculpted scales on her arms, and itty bitty little arm fins.
And little side fins by her fluke! All her fins are very gracefully sculpted.
Like if a betta fish were also a baby.
And there are four little flat spots in the spines of her fluke-- you could balance her to stand, if you need or want to!
But there are ways to pose her cutely on land without standing upright.
In conclusion-- there IS a little more but in conclusion anyway-- I clearly needed Ebbie because... the VERY LAST Monster Family product? (Also this makes thirteen reviews in my Monster Family tag, which is a delightful number even if I got that way cos I reviewed Pharrah with the de Nile Game Night 3-pack.) And I was pleasantly surprised by her tail articulation and a lot of her little details!
I think, though, I'm going to veer away from the Monster Family lore that the littler monsters are more monstrous, to the point where Ebbie here has no feet. You know who else is blue and has no feet?
Finnegan Wake aka Rider Siren. I'ma give him a baby sister.
Adjacent to finally buying Ebbie, I found this Barbie accessory pack that was conveniently mermaid themed. The sandals, I have passed long to my niece, but the rest of it--
Okay, should probably not be worn all together, but the MF elementary-age kids wear Barbie hats and sunglasses pretty well! Depending on their ears!
The headband is a bit iffy, and I think Lagoona is going to get the seahorse necklace. The pearls, I'm on the fence about. Sure, they're too big, but in a way that says 'playing dress-up' to me.
Ebbie's own accessories work fine with the Barbie pack.
Kiddo, you can give those to Fangelica, though, you know that, right? Her family has the heart motifs.
Like what I do and want to help me feed my cats, but don't need anything I have for sale on eBay? You can always support me on Patreon or throw some change in my tip jar.
