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hat_plays_dollsThese pictures date to October 15, 2021, which... is the day I received this, I think.
Usually with mint-in-box Monster High stuff, I hang onto it and unbox it on a day when I need a little boost, but I pre-ordered these-- I set an alarm to make sure I was online and sniping in order to pre-order these in the six-minute window between 'going live' and 'selling out'-- and I was frickin' excited to see them.
And I'm going to post a lot of pictures of the unboxing process, as Skullector dolls are fairly comparable to SDCC dolls in terms of how schmancy the boxes are... and unless you can drop serious money on eBay or were lucky enough to get into that six-minute window...
Yeah these are hard-to-find. I paid $90 plus shipping.
And I'm probably gonna talk about that price a lot.
The box arrived wrapped in white tissue paper with a black paperboard band around it. Very dramatic.
I have no idea what that is in th extreme foreground, but this was right before Mom's camera died on me, so I think it might be the shutter.
But hey! What a great tombstone prop!
No sneak peeks yet, though.
And Lydia! And some ad copy...
"Beetlejuice... Beetlejuice... Beetle...
"C'mon, ghoul, it's showtime! Say my name three times and we'll be compadres, amigos, BFFs. I'll show you the ropes about being a ghost, and you help me get back to the land of the living. Whaddya say? If only more of the recently-deceased were like my goth-to bestie, Lydia. You gotta love her pitch dark sense of fashion. It's totally to die-for. She has some scary good calypso moves, too. So stop acting grave and just say it. Together, we're gonna be the best bio-exorcist team this podunk town Winter River village has ever seen."
In fairness, this shoulda been my clue that puns in G3 were just... not gonna be as good as I was used to.
Skullector tag!
One side of the box has headshots...
... And the other has the movie logo.
And I had to prop the box open with its own band to get fully-boxed interior shots, and it was still awkward. Like. It's a nice box! It's a really nice box.
But if you're charging $90 for two dolls who aren't actually signficantly better quality than playline, and part of that premium price is a premium box...
Shouldn't it stand open to display the dolls on its own, without props or bending the sides open and creasing the graphics?
Yeah so let's look at the dolls.
On the left, Beej is on the Moanica D'kay mold, classic standard body, cast in white. She has neon green nylon hair-- nylon for the crimping, so I forgive the fiber choice-- with judicious mold re-use. I believe those are Ghoulia's deluxe fashion pack earrings, and that's definitely Kala Mer'ri's belt, with EAH hands and... I really wanna say that tie got re-used for Coffee Break frankie. So if you're looking for parts to engineer your own Lady BJ, there are some starting points for you!
On the right, Lydia is the Vandala Doubloons mold, classic little sister body, cast in a pale fleshtone. Her black hair is saran, and all of her accessory molds-- and her hand molds-- are brand new.
On BJ's side of the box, the sign and tombstone he cooked up in the movie to convince Adam and Barbara Maitland to start digging.
On Lydia's side of the box, the Maitland house as Adam and Barbara wanted it. Before Delia started making interesting aesthetic additions.
And the details of the lightbulb stars is-- listen, Beetlejuice was a hyperfixation for me when I was young, I saw it in theatres (I would've been eight? I should not have seen it in theatres), and when it dropped on home video I spent one summer literally watching it once a day.
So I really like the box art, and that the box art works really hard at showing you this isn't a landscape of Winter River, Connecticut, the Actual Town, but the HO scale model of Winter River Adam built in the attic.
Complete with lightbulb stars.
Beej is wearing a fantastic black and white suit that we will look at the details of when we get her out of the box.
Her makeup reminds me much more of the animated series than the movie, and that's okay.
Lydia is just. She's so damn pretty. Ugh, look at you, beautiful, Mattel should do brown eyes WAY more often.
This didn't want to focus with the box plastic in the way, but, completionism!
Focus issues, but, the Handbook for the Recently Deceased! This thing reads like stereo instructions, so I hear.
And you can see the egg crate foam the set department used to mimic fake scale grass in Adam's model town!
Let's get that plastic out of the way at last. No more reflections.
Okay lemme address, like, one thing here before I throw out more pictures-- I like that Lydia is on the little sister body.
I know a lot of people are skeeved out by that, or by Beej being a girl on the classic 16-adjacent body, but... while most of the Classic MH Little Sisters were 14-ish, not all of them were (Mouscedes!) and sometimes people are just short.
Also, when I was eight, I thought Lydia had to be 13, tops, because I could tell she clearly wasn't a Real Grownup, but she was so cool she couldn't be my age, plus she was short! Still growing, right?
No, Winona Ryder was like sixteen when she filmed Beetlejuice, it's just that she's five-foot-three and filmed Beetlejuice next to Geena Davis (six feet tall), Alec Baldwin (six feet tall), Jeffery Jones (six foot four), Michael Keaton (five foot nine), and Catherine O'Hara (five foot five).
The Little Sister body is appropriate here because... well, Ms. Ryder is on the short side and, in this movie, she was surrounded by giants, and also Michael Keaton and Catherine O'Hara, who perform bigger than their frames.
I really like what they did with Beej's face. Normally I am not a fan of side-glances, but both dolls have them and it makes them look like co-conspirators, which is, frankly,fantastic.
The color in this one skews a little dark, but you can see all the shading that goes into Lydia here.
Okay, let's bid the box a fond adieu, for after this shot it got stacked in my office closet with all my other boxes, but. Let's also admire the art of Adam's model for a moment.
So here are the dolls out of the box!
I do not exactly regret spending $90 on this set, but... I wish it had been $75, you know?
I will say that the Beetlejuice set finally hit on the sort of aesthetic that Monster High can, you know, do. You already have Burton's stylization to work with, and there are lots of little places to pack in references to the movies...
So I wonder why they haven't done other similar properties?
I mean, I missed Greta and I am kicking myself, Gremlins was also a formative property and Gremlins 2 was much closer to Monster High in terms of color and Nonsense, but also, like.
Aesthetically, why not look for something else that's got really strong character design the way Beetlejuice does instead of trying to copy costume design (Dracula, Frankenstein, It, The Shining)?
... I would love to have recommendations for that, but apparently I don't watch enough horror, or horror comedy.
Oh! Get back in bed with Disney and do Hocus Pocus. (I have also heard people suggest Jennifer's Body, which, also fun! I have not seen it but I've heard good.)
Oh well, dolls.
Beej here is wearing a two-piece outfit; her pants are a sort of bustier-jumpsuit thing in a stretch knit, while her tailcoat is satin and three sheer layers.
And again, lemme say I love how they've done her makeup.
The thing about BJ is that he's grungy. He's dead, he's filthy, he looks like he's been buried for a while even in his pristine black-and-white suit. And part of that is the weird stringy stained blond hair, but even more of it is the gunk around his hairline, and the bruisy shadows around his eyes.
But Miss Beej here, she's got saturated colors, her hair has that same fried look, but because it's crimped (also deeply 1988) instead of unwashed since the fourteenth century. There's stuff around her hairline and under her cheekbones, but it's contour. The bruisy coloring around her eyes is magenta eye shadow... and because here she is in her 'step right up' carousel fascinator, her mascara isn't just nodding toward Tim Burton's love of swirly things, but all the way back to Freak du Chic. If I had more than just Gooliope, I'd consider posing Beej as theringleader ringmaster there.
Seriously frickin' look at this. And there's the side glance and the smirk on top of it.
And that is definitely Kala's belt.
This, though, this is a very unique accessory, and it mostly stays on by itself-- I need one straight pin through one of the tag holes to keep it in place, and that's it. Which is ridiculous for something offset like that.
Beej's shoes are the Maitlands in their 'scare them out of your house' guises-- that's Barbara with her eyes in her mouth, and Adam with the fingers-shaped coxcomb.
And this photo is hellaciously overlit so you can see all that detail. Why you no dry-brush, Mattel?
Seriously, this is one of the points on this set where I go "Sure I can but at that price point, I shouldn't have to." $90 and there's not a lick of paint on anyone's shoes.
No complaints about the tailcoat, though! It has a sheer magenta layer, a sheer green layer with metallic magenta... bits, and a black random-thread-y lace layer. All three work really well with the way Mattel pushed the Beetlejuice design to be more fashion.
Still looks good with the metallic magenta showing its silvery side.
Lydia, my little gloom cookie!
She wears a simple black dress with a spectacular holo-foil pattern, and I support that because it gives the whole look a lot of fire. Her hat is plastic and HUGE, her camera is plastic and black, which is always nice to see, and she has no jewelry but does have a... weird button thing? It's been a while since I watched the movie, I can't tell if that's a costume element that carried over.
She's in a very fair skintone-- I don't think as fair as Apple, but certainly at least as fair as Raven-- with warm brown eyes, sleek black brows, soft but not subtle makeup, and those gelled bangs.
Camera, way too light so you can see things.
The weird button thing. Is it... like, a mounted flash?
My Lyda has a slight snag in her hose, which is annoying and, at this price point, ridiculous. Her shoes feel very Twyla... at least to start with.
... I'm just building suspense.
The hat looks like plaited straw, but it's molded plastic, and again, this is a piece I really feel deserves a hit of dry-brushing in gray, so you don't have to light it like this to make out the details.
Like-- look at the holo foil! It's not that Lydia's dress is drab, but it is simple, to keep the costs down, so the fabric has to make the dress.
Shoes!
It's Bannister Snake BJ, wrapping around her insteps under that outsole like a railing, and again a hit of gray or dark blue paint would bring that out.
The handbook is UV printed, and all things considered I think that's better than a sticker in this case. Certainly it holds up to being held by the doll better... but they coulda matched the color covers better.
Not only can Lydia hold the Handbook, she can hold her camera! She can't hold it in front of her face, because the strap is a long plastic noodle instead of a ribbon, but she can hold it!
Because Lydia has a unique hand mold.
Okay I don't know if this is following a movie costume or if it's just my doll or if it's to de-emphasize her bust or what, but... that's not where darts go.
A little more saturated.
Seriously she's just so pretty. I don't know if I think she looks like Winona Ryder any more than Beej looks like Michael Keaton, but she looks good as Lydia, and I will take that.
That said, I should not have to trim a $90 doll's hair straight out of the box, either.
... Okay okay this is a two pack.
I should not have to trim a $45 doll's hair straight out of the box.
Props!
Back view!
Seriously, they could have tried harder to match the browns on that book. Maybe painted the pages white.
Beej's accessories!
Seriously I am 90% sure that tie got reused on Coffee Break Frankie. I can't be absolutely sure because I sold that, but. seriously.
Proof Beej is on the 16-adjacent body without stripping her: She can wear Draculaura's shoes! THey look weird, but.
Okay so.
Do I have regrets about buying this set?
Not exactly.
Beetlejuice was a massive touchstone for me when I was a kid, and these are really great dolls.
But given the lack of paint apps, the simple clothing pieces, the color match issues, the fact that Lydia's camera is on a stiff plastic strap, and the quality control issues (wait for it), I have a couple of regrets about paying $90 for this set.
They're great dolls, I won't say I'd never sell them but I will say anyone looking to buy them off me had better be prepared to bid HIGH, but they should've been $75.
Because the quality is not significantly different from a Classic Monster High Signature Doll.
And I have paid $45 for Signature dolls I "had to" get on the secondary market-- I paid more'n that for Deuce, he was like $50, as was Jackson. But I bought these new.
And they arrived and still needed a bit of TLC and styling before I was totally thrilled with them.
Also, it was at this point in the photo shoot that I realized I'd been struggling a little with Lydia's left arm. It didn't want to bend the way I thought it should bend.
So I took her dress off.
Do you know what happens if you message Mattel and tell them that your $90 two-pack of dolls has a Problematic Elbow Joint, with the peg being severely bent due to how her arm was twisted in the packaging, and you ask if they might happen to have replacement arms for this doll, as they used to have replacement arms for everybody in the good old days?
They send you a form letter and a prepaid shipping label to send your $90 dolls that you got up at 5:30am to pre-order inside a six-minute availability window just to wait months to receive them, they tell you to send those dolls back for a full refund, and never mind that a full refund won't actually cover the secondary-market price of those dolls or that it's only ONE doll who has a problem.
I do not know if it's the difference between collector and playline here, or if The Plague has destroyed Mattel's customer service department, but back in 2019, when I had a couple of joint-based quality control issues on a two-pack of dolls that I bought at Tuesday Morning for ten dollars, Mattel's customer service department sent me three dolls as an apology, after ascertaining that I did not have those dolls.
Two years later, I buy dolls that literally cost nine times that much, and even after I asked about other options, the only option was 'return for a full refund.'
So I soaked Lydia in hot water, pulled her arm out, carefully hit the bent elbow peg with my heat gun, and reshaped it, knowing that if I really fucked it up I could paint a Howleen arm to match and fake it.
So yeah.
I do not have regrets about these dolls as themselves, but I sure have regrets about Mattel.
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.
Usually with mint-in-box Monster High stuff, I hang onto it and unbox it on a day when I need a little boost, but I pre-ordered these-- I set an alarm to make sure I was online and sniping in order to pre-order these in the six-minute window between 'going live' and 'selling out'-- and I was frickin' excited to see them.
And I'm going to post a lot of pictures of the unboxing process, as Skullector dolls are fairly comparable to SDCC dolls in terms of how schmancy the boxes are... and unless you can drop serious money on eBay or were lucky enough to get into that six-minute window...
Yeah these are hard-to-find. I paid $90 plus shipping.
And I'm probably gonna talk about that price a lot.
The box arrived wrapped in white tissue paper with a black paperboard band around it. Very dramatic.
I have no idea what that is in th extreme foreground, but this was right before Mom's camera died on me, so I think it might be the shutter.
But hey! What a great tombstone prop!
No sneak peeks yet, though.
And Lydia! And some ad copy...
"Beetlejuice... Beetlejuice... Beetle...
"C'mon, ghoul, it's showtime! Say my name three times and we'll be compadres, amigos, BFFs. I'll show you the ropes about being a ghost, and you help me get back to the land of the living. Whaddya say? If only more of the recently-deceased were like my goth-to bestie, Lydia. You gotta love her pitch dark sense of fashion. It's totally to die-for. She has some scary good calypso moves, too. So stop acting grave and just say it. Together, we're gonna be the best bio-exorcist team this podunk town Winter River village has ever seen."
In fairness, this shoulda been my clue that puns in G3 were just... not gonna be as good as I was used to.
Skullector tag!
One side of the box has headshots...
... And the other has the movie logo.
And I had to prop the box open with its own band to get fully-boxed interior shots, and it was still awkward. Like. It's a nice box! It's a really nice box.
But if you're charging $90 for two dolls who aren't actually signficantly better quality than playline, and part of that premium price is a premium box...
Shouldn't it stand open to display the dolls on its own, without props or bending the sides open and creasing the graphics?
Yeah so let's look at the dolls.
On the left, Beej is on the Moanica D'kay mold, classic standard body, cast in white. She has neon green nylon hair-- nylon for the crimping, so I forgive the fiber choice-- with judicious mold re-use. I believe those are Ghoulia's deluxe fashion pack earrings, and that's definitely Kala Mer'ri's belt, with EAH hands and... I really wanna say that tie got re-used for Coffee Break frankie. So if you're looking for parts to engineer your own Lady BJ, there are some starting points for you!
On the right, Lydia is the Vandala Doubloons mold, classic little sister body, cast in a pale fleshtone. Her black hair is saran, and all of her accessory molds-- and her hand molds-- are brand new.
On BJ's side of the box, the sign and tombstone he cooked up in the movie to convince Adam and Barbara Maitland to start digging.
On Lydia's side of the box, the Maitland house as Adam and Barbara wanted it. Before Delia started making interesting aesthetic additions.
And the details of the lightbulb stars is-- listen, Beetlejuice was a hyperfixation for me when I was young, I saw it in theatres (I would've been eight? I should not have seen it in theatres), and when it dropped on home video I spent one summer literally watching it once a day.
So I really like the box art, and that the box art works really hard at showing you this isn't a landscape of Winter River, Connecticut, the Actual Town, but the HO scale model of Winter River Adam built in the attic.
Complete with lightbulb stars.
Beej is wearing a fantastic black and white suit that we will look at the details of when we get her out of the box.
Her makeup reminds me much more of the animated series than the movie, and that's okay.
Lydia is just. She's so damn pretty. Ugh, look at you, beautiful, Mattel should do brown eyes WAY more often.
This didn't want to focus with the box plastic in the way, but, completionism!
Focus issues, but, the Handbook for the Recently Deceased! This thing reads like stereo instructions, so I hear.
And you can see the egg crate foam the set department used to mimic fake scale grass in Adam's model town!
Let's get that plastic out of the way at last. No more reflections.
Okay lemme address, like, one thing here before I throw out more pictures-- I like that Lydia is on the little sister body.
I know a lot of people are skeeved out by that, or by Beej being a girl on the classic 16-adjacent body, but... while most of the Classic MH Little Sisters were 14-ish, not all of them were (Mouscedes!) and sometimes people are just short.
Also, when I was eight, I thought Lydia had to be 13, tops, because I could tell she clearly wasn't a Real Grownup, but she was so cool she couldn't be my age, plus she was short! Still growing, right?
No, Winona Ryder was like sixteen when she filmed Beetlejuice, it's just that she's five-foot-three and filmed Beetlejuice next to Geena Davis (six feet tall), Alec Baldwin (six feet tall), Jeffery Jones (six foot four), Michael Keaton (five foot nine), and Catherine O'Hara (five foot five).
The Little Sister body is appropriate here because... well, Ms. Ryder is on the short side and, in this movie, she was surrounded by giants, and also Michael Keaton and Catherine O'Hara, who perform bigger than their frames.
I really like what they did with Beej's face. Normally I am not a fan of side-glances, but both dolls have them and it makes them look like co-conspirators, which is, frankly,fantastic.
The color in this one skews a little dark, but you can see all the shading that goes into Lydia here.
Okay, let's bid the box a fond adieu, for after this shot it got stacked in my office closet with all my other boxes, but. Let's also admire the art of Adam's model for a moment.
So here are the dolls out of the box!
I do not exactly regret spending $90 on this set, but... I wish it had been $75, you know?
I will say that the Beetlejuice set finally hit on the sort of aesthetic that Monster High can, you know, do. You already have Burton's stylization to work with, and there are lots of little places to pack in references to the movies...
So I wonder why they haven't done other similar properties?
I mean, I missed Greta and I am kicking myself, Gremlins was also a formative property and Gremlins 2 was much closer to Monster High in terms of color and Nonsense, but also, like.
Aesthetically, why not look for something else that's got really strong character design the way Beetlejuice does instead of trying to copy costume design (Dracula, Frankenstein, It, The Shining)?
... I would love to have recommendations for that, but apparently I don't watch enough horror, or horror comedy.
Oh! Get back in bed with Disney and do Hocus Pocus. (I have also heard people suggest Jennifer's Body, which, also fun! I have not seen it but I've heard good.)
Oh well, dolls.
Beej here is wearing a two-piece outfit; her pants are a sort of bustier-jumpsuit thing in a stretch knit, while her tailcoat is satin and three sheer layers.
And again, lemme say I love how they've done her makeup.
The thing about BJ is that he's grungy. He's dead, he's filthy, he looks like he's been buried for a while even in his pristine black-and-white suit. And part of that is the weird stringy stained blond hair, but even more of it is the gunk around his hairline, and the bruisy shadows around his eyes.
But Miss Beej here, she's got saturated colors, her hair has that same fried look, but because it's crimped (also deeply 1988) instead of unwashed since the fourteenth century. There's stuff around her hairline and under her cheekbones, but it's contour. The bruisy coloring around her eyes is magenta eye shadow... and because here she is in her 'step right up' carousel fascinator, her mascara isn't just nodding toward Tim Burton's love of swirly things, but all the way back to Freak du Chic. If I had more than just Gooliope, I'd consider posing Beej as the
Seriously frickin' look at this. And there's the side glance and the smirk on top of it.
And that is definitely Kala's belt.
This, though, this is a very unique accessory, and it mostly stays on by itself-- I need one straight pin through one of the tag holes to keep it in place, and that's it. Which is ridiculous for something offset like that.
Beej's shoes are the Maitlands in their 'scare them out of your house' guises-- that's Barbara with her eyes in her mouth, and Adam with the fingers-shaped coxcomb.
And this photo is hellaciously overlit so you can see all that detail. Why you no dry-brush, Mattel?
Seriously, this is one of the points on this set where I go "Sure I can but at that price point, I shouldn't have to." $90 and there's not a lick of paint on anyone's shoes.
No complaints about the tailcoat, though! It has a sheer magenta layer, a sheer green layer with metallic magenta... bits, and a black random-thread-y lace layer. All three work really well with the way Mattel pushed the Beetlejuice design to be more fashion.
Still looks good with the metallic magenta showing its silvery side.
Lydia, my little gloom cookie!
She wears a simple black dress with a spectacular holo-foil pattern, and I support that because it gives the whole look a lot of fire. Her hat is plastic and HUGE, her camera is plastic and black, which is always nice to see, and she has no jewelry but does have a... weird button thing? It's been a while since I watched the movie, I can't tell if that's a costume element that carried over.
She's in a very fair skintone-- I don't think as fair as Apple, but certainly at least as fair as Raven-- with warm brown eyes, sleek black brows, soft but not subtle makeup, and those gelled bangs.
Camera, way too light so you can see things.
The weird button thing. Is it... like, a mounted flash?
My Lyda has a slight snag in her hose, which is annoying and, at this price point, ridiculous. Her shoes feel very Twyla... at least to start with.
... I'm just building suspense.
The hat looks like plaited straw, but it's molded plastic, and again, this is a piece I really feel deserves a hit of dry-brushing in gray, so you don't have to light it like this to make out the details.
Like-- look at the holo foil! It's not that Lydia's dress is drab, but it is simple, to keep the costs down, so the fabric has to make the dress.
Shoes!
It's Bannister Snake BJ, wrapping around her insteps under that outsole like a railing, and again a hit of gray or dark blue paint would bring that out.
The handbook is UV printed, and all things considered I think that's better than a sticker in this case. Certainly it holds up to being held by the doll better... but they coulda matched the color covers better.
Not only can Lydia hold the Handbook, she can hold her camera! She can't hold it in front of her face, because the strap is a long plastic noodle instead of a ribbon, but she can hold it!
Because Lydia has a unique hand mold.
Okay I don't know if this is following a movie costume or if it's just my doll or if it's to de-emphasize her bust or what, but... that's not where darts go.
A little more saturated.
Seriously she's just so pretty. I don't know if I think she looks like Winona Ryder any more than Beej looks like Michael Keaton, but she looks good as Lydia, and I will take that.
That said, I should not have to trim a $90 doll's hair straight out of the box, either.
... Okay okay this is a two pack.
I should not have to trim a $45 doll's hair straight out of the box.
Props!
Back view!
Seriously, they could have tried harder to match the browns on that book. Maybe painted the pages white.
Beej's accessories!
Seriously I am 90% sure that tie got reused on Coffee Break Frankie. I can't be absolutely sure because I sold that, but. seriously.
Proof Beej is on the 16-adjacent body without stripping her: She can wear Draculaura's shoes! THey look weird, but.
Okay so.
Do I have regrets about buying this set?
Not exactly.
Beetlejuice was a massive touchstone for me when I was a kid, and these are really great dolls.
But given the lack of paint apps, the simple clothing pieces, the color match issues, the fact that Lydia's camera is on a stiff plastic strap, and the quality control issues (wait for it), I have a couple of regrets about paying $90 for this set.
They're great dolls, I won't say I'd never sell them but I will say anyone looking to buy them off me had better be prepared to bid HIGH, but they should've been $75.
Because the quality is not significantly different from a Classic Monster High Signature Doll.
And I have paid $45 for Signature dolls I "had to" get on the secondary market-- I paid more'n that for Deuce, he was like $50, as was Jackson. But I bought these new.
And they arrived and still needed a bit of TLC and styling before I was totally thrilled with them.
Also, it was at this point in the photo shoot that I realized I'd been struggling a little with Lydia's left arm. It didn't want to bend the way I thought it should bend.
So I took her dress off.
Do you know what happens if you message Mattel and tell them that your $90 two-pack of dolls has a Problematic Elbow Joint, with the peg being severely bent due to how her arm was twisted in the packaging, and you ask if they might happen to have replacement arms for this doll, as they used to have replacement arms for everybody in the good old days?
They send you a form letter and a prepaid shipping label to send your $90 dolls that you got up at 5:30am to pre-order inside a six-minute availability window just to wait months to receive them, they tell you to send those dolls back for a full refund, and never mind that a full refund won't actually cover the secondary-market price of those dolls or that it's only ONE doll who has a problem.
I do not know if it's the difference between collector and playline here, or if The Plague has destroyed Mattel's customer service department, but back in 2019, when I had a couple of joint-based quality control issues on a two-pack of dolls that I bought at Tuesday Morning for ten dollars, Mattel's customer service department sent me three dolls as an apology, after ascertaining that I did not have those dolls.
Two years later, I buy dolls that literally cost nine times that much, and even after I asked about other options, the only option was 'return for a full refund.'
So I soaked Lydia in hot water, pulled her arm out, carefully hit the bent elbow peg with my heat gun, and reshaped it, knowing that if I really fucked it up I could paint a Howleen arm to match and fake it.
So yeah.
I do not have regrets about these dolls as themselves, but I sure have regrets about Mattel.
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.
