Doll Review: Monster High G3 Coffee Break Frankie & Deuce Two-Pack

Okay, that's the old backlog all taken care of, let's get back to G3 stuff-- nothing I think you can find on store shelves, these days, but ordering online is still a possibility! And since this is the Coffee Break two-pack, featuring Frankie and Deuce in a non-romantic context despite wild fan speculation before the two-pack was actually released, as of this writing you can still find bits of it on my eBay sales page!

Not many bits, at this point, but bits!



Okay, so, Monster High G3 Coffee Break Frankie Stein & Deuce Gorgon two-pack, MSRP of $50! I did not spend that, I don't remember what I did spend, but I think I used a bunch of Target points or a Circle offer or something and came away with a huge deal.

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Doll Review: Monster High G3 Coffin Bean Playset

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.)

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Custom Doll-- Process Pics for Signature Raythe

Okay, so, I got the G3 Coffee Break two-pack and as I was messing with it, I kept staring at Deuce:



I kept saying to myself, "He looks like somebody."

I knew I wanted him for a custom-- nonhuman-colored boy dolls that work with Monster High are thin on the ground-- but I wasn't sure who. I was debating between Spelldron Cauldronello and a couple of backgrounders when I had the sudden terrible realization that...

He looked a little like my boy Raythe, from the infamous Reboot/G2.

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Custom Doll-- Monster High Signature Raythe

First of all, let me apologize that somehow these pics just aren't as fun/nice as my process pics. I don't know how that happened. Not the right mood for doll photography that day?

But hey!



So I made myself a custom Raythe.

Click on the link in the paragraph above for a detailed report on how I did it, this post is a close look at his outfit, but.

The Reboot robbed us of boy characters generally-- we got, what, Shriek Wrecked Gil, who was basically just Gil but with opaque-molded hands, Dance the Fright Away Deuce, Winning Werewolves Clawd, and Vampire Kitchen Dracula-- who wasn't even fully articulated.

Robbed!

And the reboot actually gave us not just Raythe but Moanica's horde of Zomboys-- I would've paid for a five pack of Moanica and Zomboys, even with budget articulation.

But-- Raythe. The first boy to express an interest in Clawdeen onscreen, lead singer of Howling Thunder and Frightening (featuring Raythe and Deuce and the Rolling Bones and Woolee), hanger of lampshades-- hey, how come I didn't get an electrified outfit?

I've wanted one for years, I still kinda hope Mattel makes one (there's your Skullector Line, Mattel, do us up some missed dolls-- Pharaoh, Raythe, Mom Wolf, Madame Ptolemy, Mermanta Gil, Andy Beast, Gory, Bram, I could go on!), but I am not going to bet on that.

So I made one.

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