Doll Review: Monster High G3 Cleo de Nile

The same day I picked up G3 Ghoulia, I also picked up G3 Cleo (and a 5-surprise ball, because there was a discount on $50 worth of toys and 4x$24.99 does not = $50).

Do I like her? Yes, with a couple of caveats. Is she going to bump Classic Cleo out of her spot as Definitively My Cleo?

... You know what? Read on and see.



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Playset Review: Monster High Fright Roast Coffee Playset

Ah, I see, if I sort by name, everything with IMG (phone camera) comes first, while the older stuff (starts with P) comes later, but if I sort by Date Modified, I can see the OLDER stuff I still need to review!



The Fright Roast Coffee playset never appeared anywhere on store shelves in my area, so I got it on eBay after the fact in... uh, probably 2019, but my unboxing dates back to September 2020. I got mine as part of a lot of things that appeared to have some water damage, but you can find it on eBay for around $35-$45 shipped in the US. It's a pretty cute playset and I regret not being able to pay the $15 MSRP for it; if I could've, I might have two.

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Doll Review: Monster High Monster Family Ebbie Blue

So, 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.

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Doll Review: Monster High Lots of Looks Draculaura

Lots of Looks Draculaura came to me in a lot of three dolls, and so far I have... recouped shipping. Like Ebbie, she dates back to May of 2021, so that's how long I've been sitting on her. She was the last secondhand but new-in-box doll I purchased until VERY recently.



She also pretty clearly came from Tuesday Morning.

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Doll Review: Monster High Skullector Beetlejuice and Lydia Two-Pack

These 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.

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