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The last of my Monster High Unboxing backlog! At least until I open up my Music Class Ari.

It's the G3 Coffin Bean playset, which was of course absolutely irresistable to me.

Tiny food, my great weakness!

I also love useful doll furniture and shop-related items but tiny food!

The G3 Monster High Coffin Bean playset has an MSRP of $50, but I haven't even seen a planogram for it at my local Target since Christmas. I got it in October, I think, and clever use of the Target app meant I mostly use points on it-- I did not pay $50, I paid $13. (I meant to pay $3 but the cashier did not properly scan my gift cards.)



Anyway, $13 is thematic so I rolled with it (and now I have gift cards burning a hole in my pocket.)





Much like the original Coffin Bean (which I do not have, yet), the G3 Coffin Bean is a cafe playset with comfy seating, places to put your drinks/snacks, some display spaces, and tiny food.



Unlike the original Coffin Bean playset, the G3 version just... comes with more.



I do not understand why it appears to be in the woods, though. On the school campus, I get that, I seem to have picked that idea up from somewhere, but... in the woods? Very little of this furniture is outdoor-appropriate furniture.



Box removed! I waited so long to unbox this after buying it (because I wanted to unbox it as a treat, so I kept going 'after I finish this project. Oh that went fast. After this project. ... didn't work out. After--') that, when I finally did open the box?

I had to shoo and actual-facts real-life spider out of there.

(Spiders don't bother me too much anymore-- they used to, but I've spent a while trying to cultivate a 'live and let live' attitude toward them. They are not like mosquitoes, which want my blood, or ants, which want to steal the cats' food. They are cave dwellers, most house spiders, and I live in a pretty nice cave. Can't blame them for wanting to also live here... just not in the middle of what I'd doing.)



Pastry display case, coffin-shaped table, coffee table (not coffin shaped), slice of cake, two hot to-go cups, fancy eyeball sundae, the most Muppet sofa with eyeball throw pillows, "cat" that you will not convince me is a cat sorry not sorry I have plans, torso-boned chair, register, raven with perch that I also have plans for...



Kiosk/counter thing, two trays of pastries, coffee machine (is this a specific kind of coffee machine? I know nothing about coffee), cake under glass dome, two coffees in cups, two skeletal... spoons? Forks? Sporks? Three brain-frosted creepcakes, and the other chair.



Sweet sweet freedom! Pardon my lamp bases getting into these shots, it's a big set.

Also, congratulate me, I figured out how to use my phone camera without getting those weird lines through the pics.



The kiosk! Or counter!

One thing that disappoints me a little about this set is that it has some great ideas for what should be clear plastic... but the plastic in practice isn't really clear enough.

Also, fair warning, this kiosk is tall enough to put a girl doll behind it as cashier/barista. Maybe a G3 boy, I didn't check, but my Classic/Reboot Deuce is too tall, his head gets blocked off by the canopy.



The back side of kiosk!

I do like the colors and textures, though! I wish the shelf were easier to use, but I can fake that with a slice of cardstock and sticking my foods to that. Still not easy for little fingers to play with.



The pastry display!

Lots of colors happening here, and again I wish the clear parts were clearer.



But there's a lot of sculpting detail, and those visible tabs mean if I want to paint the inside white for greater visibility, I can fairly easily pop the whole thing apart and do just that.



Even the back is detailed!



And the doors open NICE and wide.



The square pastry tray, with the monstrous donuts, crossbones cookies, and isopod croissants, fits on either of those two little ledges like a shelf.

It's a bit of a pity that you only get one tray, and that the pastries aren't really tall enough to see once they're in there, but I have paperboard, paint, clear plastic from packaging, and over a decade of My Froggy Stuff videos; I think I can make a pair of "glass" shelves to go in there.



The top compartment is roomy.



But see, you can hardly tell what's happening in the bottom, between the hot pink and the spider web and the low profile of the baked goods.



Table and chairs!

Not a huge fan of the hot pink, but I have paint; very much a huge fan of the wrought iron, it's pretty.

The chairs have fantastic bases, can't wait to paint those, but the seats honestly look more cool than comfortable. I suspect my dolls will need clear-elastic seat belts to stay put.



School crest embossed on the table! Plus rivets. I kind of wish this had been cast in black, or metallic silver.



The wrought iron matches the kiosk, and is very pretty.



These are also very pretty. They just also look like you'd sit in them and slide straight off of them.



It's the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, Muppetational, this is what I call the Muppet Couch!

Ahem.

No, seriously-- semi-seriously, anyway-- there was a Muppet Show Breaking News skit wherein furniture came to life and turned on its owners. The line I remember is "A dining room table set for eight reportedly ate the eight it was set for."

And this couch, with its eyeball throw pillows and subtle little fangs, reminds me of nothing so much as that sketch.



The table is less Muppet, so let's look at that before I get distracted.

So we've got a nice oval coffee table, with a dripping edge and a spiderweb pattern, on bird legs. I... will admit I kind of wish they'd picked more harmonious monster elements rather than three disparate ones.



But it's still a neat little table, and well done putting the spiderwebs underneath, so the top stays smooth.



And well done ensuring they pop apart easily because that'll make it a LOT easier to paint this bad boy!



Back to the couch.

It's a little on the short side-- looks better with Little Sisters (or shorter EAH bodies, like I've got on Bunniculaura)-- but is still just beautifully sculpted even before you get into the fact that the shape of the cushions looks like a smiling mouth, and the throw pillows can be arranged to give different "expressions."



Or removed altogether.



The back is not great. Photograph from the front or position against a wall.



The feet are great, though--these aren't even that Monster High ish, although they do have slightly excessive detailing as compared to real-world antiques.



The cushions are super cute, and shaped so that they prop up best when they're upright. They stay put reasonably well, but I'd still advise, like, a dab of an easy-to-remove glue if you want to keep them in one place for a long time.



They slide in the chairs, but again, I feel like anything would.



On the sofa, you can set them wide apart...



... really wide apart, for a cross-eyed look...



... Or close together, for great focus.

Whatever makes you giggle hardest is what you should do, really.



The register is the same mold as the one that comes with Coffee Break Deuce, but it's green instead of stone-gray and has menu options listed instead of a notification that Frankie's order is up.

The coffee maker has bone-ended handles that turn, for important coffee-related reasons (coffee smells great but I can't stand the taste of it), and sculptural details all over the place.



Even on the back!



The register's touch-screen menu is UV printed and... borderline legible.



Logo #1



Posted menu with very reasonable prices-- a sticker, here, not paint or UV printed.



And logo #2.

Why does the Coffin Bean need so many logos?



Shop pets!

A corvid with a bow and a perch, and a glowy quadruped.

Normally I don't like the aesthetic of the G3 pets with their too-human eyes and weird proportions, but I'm making an exception for these two. And, okay, listen, I'm sure these two have canonical names in the G3 cartoon and that's fine, people who aren't me can acknowledge that and call their Coffin Bean critters whatever they want, but on my shelf?

This is Cawtion and Huebert.



Like I get why Mattel stopped including pets with signature dolls, because very frequently the pets didn't add much other than being able to say 'this character has a pet.' But in Haunted, Cawtion and Aye were there on screen, and Aye even had things to do.

So River's getting a cute little purple raven with people eyes.



And Porter is getting a booger-colored raccoon just as soon as I paint some stripes and a mask on this animal.



The goop looks ghostly enough, right? Ectoplasm is a thing, I've seen Ghostbusters.



I did take turnaround shots of Cawtion, too, but they all came out SUPER blurry so. Huebert is all you get.



That said, when I paint some details on here, I will have to go out of my way to find interesting paint, because... I can't just use flat solid colors.



Huebert glows in the dark.

Strongly! This isn't anywhere particularly dark, this is the bit of my computer armoire that's meant to hold a printer but normally holds my legs or my cat (hence the pillow).



I've been patient, it's TINY FOOD TIME!

Cake with eyes and dome, slice of cake, sporks, hot to-go cups, sundae, creepcakes, cups with sauces, and I will clearly never position the tray of pastries or cookies so that they're rightside up relative to anything else in the shot.



The cookies and donuts are great, but I'm going to have to figure out how to make some isopod croissants in 3D, aren't I?

The paint on these is UV printed, which is a little grainy but does make for a lot of detail that I did not have to paint directly onto the pastries myself.



The coffin cookies are not only character-decorated but clearly on a tray meant for presentation.



Normally I am not a huge fan of tiny food with faces, but I definitely make exceptions for anything with big goofy ping-pong ball Muppet eyes. I do wish the slice of cake were separate so you could put it back, cos I think it'd fit. Also the decoration on this cake is simple but really effective!



The best clear-plastic accessory in the whole playset!



More creepcakes! These will be perfect for my Zomb-Bake sale table in the student store. Though they do now set my standard for tiny baked goods at 'must have three of each thing.'



I don't know what these are, but they're very dark and probably much too bitter for my tastes.



To-go cups for hot drinks! I legit like these a lot, I'd like four more of them so I can make a for-sale display of them.



They even have the little spout thingy in the lid!



I don't know if this is a drink or something but it looks like Fancy Ice Cream.



You can see why I can't tell if the utensils are spoons, forks, or sporks, right? The little finger bones make it hard to decide.

So, I wanted to take pics of the new food with the rest of my tiny food, so I got to digging a few things out and...

... I may have gotten a little excited.



I got Coffin Bean drinks, I got Scaris snacks, I got Scream and Sugar, I got a little bit of Die-Ner, I got the original high school playset, I got Fright Roast, I got a lot of things, and I wanted to show how the set works with dolls, too.

I don't actually have many dolls out right now, because I'm still modding the basics of my display space, but I've got one of each body type I have around for testing purposes, so that's Deuce on the Reboot Boy body in the back there (showing how short the Fright Roast cart is, and a little bit that the Coffin Bean kiosk is for girls), Howleen on the Classic Little Sister, Draculaura on EAH Bunni Blanc's body, Heath on the Classic Boy body, Frankie on the Classic Girl body, and Lagoona on the Reboot Girl body. (Also around but would not fit in my space: Bloodgood, Manny, and Clawd-on-a-Ken-body.)



Yes I did paint up the Fright Roast cart, I'm very pleased with it.

And... yeah, my conclusion here is that the more tiny food you can cram into a cafe playset, the better. Part of me wants to build an unfolding roombox thing and have a semi-permanent place to keep all this stuff, and part of me has a much more realistic idea of the kind of display space I have.



Kiosk display with G1 Coffin Bean creepcakes, Scaris and Picnic Casket petite-fears, G3 Signature Deuce creepcake/cupsnake, G3 Coffin Bean creepcakes,
Creepateria and Lunchtime Ghouls sandwiches, Scream and Sugar macarons, and G3 Coffin Bean coffin cookies.



Lots happening here-- on the left, the G3 Coffin Bean table with coffee machine, four high school playset cauldron cups we're pretending are for sale as cups, in the middle, the Fright Roast Coffee cart, fully painted with its turntable display attached (featuring Coffee Break creepcake/cupsnake, Scaris cafe bat bonbon, Fright Roast creepcake, and Scaris Petite Fear), Coffee Break register showing Frankie's remote order, plate of tiny petite fears from... I think Scaris? Maybe a Frights Camera Action thing, and over on the end, Frankie's mobile order ready for her to pick up-- the Coffee Break cups and cupholder. On the right, there's the G3 Coffin Bean display case featuring cakes from Scream and Sugar and Sandy de Nile as well as a personal mini-cake from the Scaris cafe, and the pastry tray, just barely visible.



Down in front, the G3 Coffin Bean Muppet Sofa and coffee table show off Frankie's Maul fashion pack cake and fork, Coffin Bean Robecca's mason jar drink, a pink Fright Roast cup, a DieNer slice of ghostly blueberry (... booberry?) pie, and a G3 Coffin Bean spork. On the floor, the G3 Coffin Bean to-go cups fit neatly in the G2 Fright Roast cupholder!



See?



On the counter of the kiosk-- and behind it!

Let's start behind, where I stuck the Home Ick fridge with a few cold things-- well, on top is the blender from the G2 bus playset (which I got off the Parts Store), then inside, Abbey's Coffin Bean frosty drink, Frankie's Maul drink, I think the 13 Wishes Oasis drink (must've been in a lot, and just barely visible, G3 Draculaura's cherry drink and the G2 movie accessory pack cold drink.

On the counter proper, the green G3 Coffin Bean register, cake under glass, and cake slice (up front), Ghoul Fair Elissabat's cake pops, Monster Family Fangelica's cake, Scream and Sugar mini cupcakes, a cake from... somewhere in the Ghouls Rule line, I think, and two Coffin Bean Toralei cauldron cups which, again, totally pretending those are some kind of lidded souvenir cup for sale as I do not (at the moment) have enough seating for them to be full cups on tables.



A closer shot of that display case.



And up on top of Fright Roast, Cawtion flanked by those jumbo cups of ominous black sludge.

In conclusion...

Uh, in conclusion, I have had a lot of fun, and also I want all the tiny food forever.

I didn't pay anywhere near the MSRP for this set, but honestly if I had, I wouldn't have felt bad about it, and I am very likely to go scouring eBay for tiny food doubles if I ever have money burning a hole in my pocket and no other projects burning a hole in my brain.

I love that Monster High's G3 is so food-friendly. There are always snacks or drinks, like finally it's acknowledged that teenagers, including teenage girls, need to eat. I did go out of my way to get a lot of all the G3 signature dolls' snacks, even.




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