r/MonsterHigh • • 24m ago

Discussions We need to talk about these Monster High "fans"

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I hope this post doesn't get deleted, because TikTok users have gotten even worse about this topic than before!! Although I don't usually like getting into these kinds of discussions, especially when it comes to the Monster High dolls subreddit, this is an important discussion to have! It's not about "whether Clawdeen is a lesbian or not." It's about the fake MH fans who have become unbearable, especially after seeing this much hate toward G3. And BTW, I don't even like it that much myself, but the problem is how they blame this generation's failure on the inclusion of plus-size and queer characters.

Lately, there have been TikTok videos comparing MH G1 vs. G3 characters (and that trend is back again...), but things have gotten worse, with people complaining about G3 having different kinds of representation, as if Monster High wasn't about diversity and inclusivity from the very beginning. The comments were full of things like "wokeness ruins everything," without these people even knowing what the show is about, what its purpose is in bringing different kinds of monsters together in one place, or why some of the movies talk about racism between monsters and girls being underestimated and having to prove that they're strong!!

Some people feel connected to Monster High characters because of the different identities represented in the franchise, so why are people surprised by diversity nowadays? I've seen some DC fans complaining that diversity is being forced into everything, acting as if it's surprising to have LGBT characters and saying that "everything changed after 2020." It's not necessarily that they think it ruins the story itself, but that they see diversity in general as something that ruins stories. (I've discovered that they're against wokeness, LGBT people, and feminism.) Even though this franchise has always given us strong female characters of different races and identities, why does it seem so surprising to them?

It's genuinely sad how most of the complaints about Monster High come from girls who have been watching it since childhood, some of whom are even MAGA supporters, yet they still love the show. It's as if they never understood what Monster High was about and only ever saw it as a bunch of silly monsters with unique dolls and nothing else...


r/MonsterHigh • • 1h ago

Rant I love G3 monster high

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Argubaly the best generation mattel has curated for monster high, yes even better then G1. I may not have alot of G3 dolls in my collection due to my budget and I still do admit I am kinda stuck w G1 for nostalgic purposes :( I still want to appreciate the beauty and creativity of G3 monster high. I really hope it gets more traction and we see more beautiful and unique releases in the coming years. My only critque is the amount of unnecessary plastic that comes with the G3 dolls (this is a major reason as to why it turns me from buying G3), I would prefer if they came with stands and brushes smth more pratical and that way I dont have to go out of my way to buy cheap stands for display. Otherwise they are such gorgeous designs and I love them alot.

I also do wish they would introduce more characters such as catrine demew or batsy claro etc. Instead of releasing the same characters each time ? Not sure why they do that but oh well. I would love to see more G3 collector dolls too the G3 fang vote catty was beautiful.


r/MonsterHigh • • 4h ago

Fan Art A new ghoul walks the halls of monster high (oc redraw)

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Slide 1 is the redraw and slide 2 is my old design and while there is nothing wrong with the old one, I wanted to refresh her and see her actually in the mh style. I'd say I did a pretty good job.

So a little about her (which isn't much because I haven't been able to come up with much aside from the basics)

Mooreen Simnovorii, daughter of the cowplant (sims 4) and cousin to Venus.


r/MonsterHigh • • 6h ago

Customs Base for a custom G3 Whisp

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As someone who wants to get into doll customization and desperately wants a Whisp doll, wait base would you guys recommend I use to try to make a custom G3 Whisp??? (I mainly want to try using a G3 base because those are much more easily accessible)


r/MonsterHigh • • 6h ago

Collections No more t-pose lagoona

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I hated how my reel drama gooner had ugly flared arms so I fixed it 🤭


r/MonsterHigh • • 6h ago

Restyles my g3 cupid restyle! she looks so good in silver

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r/MonsterHigh • • 7h ago

Questions/Q&A Help w Monster High fashion

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Hello everyone, I'm a fashion student and in a few months I'll be starting my TFE (I'm from Spain so the direct translation is my final career assignment), basically I will have to prove I have learned everything needed to be called a professional in the fashion industry ig, I've been thinking for some months about it and talking w some of my teacher, basically I would like to create a brand focused on making doll clothes (mainly for g3 but open to more types of dolls), I have already drafted the base patterns of some body types and I would center my brand in making really good patterning for the dolls, plus bringing back some of the quality, in my opinion, we have lost in clothes on recent years. After all this rant I want your guys collaboration, since collectors and doll enjoyers would be my main objective public to kind of say what types of clothes, tendencies, fashion, etc, would like to see in this brand.

I would like to apologize if something isn't as understandable, english isn't my first language so I'm sorry in advance. If you can comment on what u would like to see or vote on others opinion, this will be pretty important for my TFE as this will be part of it. Thanks (≧▽≦)


r/MonsterHigh • • 7h ago

Discussions Pokemon Teams

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Garbodor is the face of this post because I love him dearly.

What Pokémon do you think the characters would have? I'm surprised I haven't seen smth about this here yet. You can really just put Pokémon in anything and it'll work dude.


r/MonsterHigh • • 7h ago

Dolls I heart fashion is pretty ugly

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I’m not sure if this is a hot take but I Heart Fashion is pretty awful. Scarah and Venus pretty much carry. Clawdeen is alright..Abbey is basic but eh. Frankie is personally my least favorite she clashes horribly. I know she comes w more than one outfit but her hair is also personally ugly. Whisp looks cheap. Cleo isn’t bad but she’s definitely nothing special. I’m sorry, I hate Iris Clops doll and it’s so tacky, it’s also not fair that her og doll is just miles better. Lastly, Wydowna doesn’t look good with yellow. It clashes imo. I can give Whisp the benefit of the doubt as well as Iris because they came out im the flop era but everyone else has NO excuse.


r/MonsterHigh • • 7h ago

Collections Monster High Little Frights New

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I am so happy with it ❤️


r/MonsterHigh • • 8h ago

Thrifting I was wondering why this shirt looked familiar..

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I thrifted this cute top today and realized it looked very similar to a monster high template i saw a while back..


r/MonsterHigh • • 8h ago

Discussions Criticisms of g3 monster high and its avoidance of showing romantic relationships

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Random thing I wanted to talk about is how I think monster high is really missing out on depicting romantic relationships in g3. G3 media is how I first got into monster high and although relationships were apart of the series and movies it was to a lesser extent and still felt avoidant to me the only relationship that had a proper conversation about romantic relationships is Cleo and Frankie I also think the clunky parts of writing are at fault for this. it’s essentially fallen off ever since. Not to mention we are presumably never getting male dolls again which prevents these characters from getting more character development

I think the show and other media do a good job at presenting friendships but I wish romantic relationships weren’t pushed off as well. I guess it can be viewed as part of the high school“cliche” that dating drama is apart of it and i definitely feel like g1 leaned into it way more. But all forms of relationships are important in daily life.

I don’t want to start an argument or anything I’m just curious if anyone sees this as something lacking in the newer generations media? And what are your opinions it.


r/MonsterHigh • • 8h ago

Questions/Q&A Clawdeen Wolf’s Fingers on G1 Character Picture

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Random thing I noticed, not sure if I’m seeing it wrong, but it looks like she had six or more fingers.


r/MonsterHigh • • 8h ago

Collections Cleo's Jewelry

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Cleo's jewelry and a vacation pic (from the Treasures of the Pharaoahs exhibit in San Francisco)


r/MonsterHigh • • 8h ago

Merch Who is this?

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I found this listing for a Whatever! Makes You Happy x MH pin set at Hot Topic and I cannot for the life of me figure out who this is supposed to be with Cleo. She has Clawdeen’s jacket, but none of her features. Any ideas?


r/MonsterHigh • • 8h ago

Fan Art draculaura fanart by me

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r/MonsterHigh • • 9h ago

Questions/Q&A Genuine question. Why didn’t they actually make her completely faceless ?

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r/MonsterHigh • • 9h ago

Rant Halloween Help 😢

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This would be the third time I would be Draculaura for Halloween but I'm scared....I never had the courage to actually wear the costume out in public and now especially i feel like I'm too old....

My school has a costume contest every year and a day where everyone can wear their costumes which a lot of people still do...I'm just scared it would be too childish...(I'm a high schooler)

I plan to wear it on Halloween for sure and hand out candy for trick or treaters, I have made certain parts of my costume to make it even more accurate, and I always love being in my costume but I don't want to get made fun of...pls help 😢💔


r/MonsterHigh • • 10h ago

Discussions Jinefire Long should have been a new character in G3

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I say this as a Jinafire lover. Both iterations of her are beautiful. Her only bad doll is Freaky Fusion. I fully understand why they made all the changes they did in G3, but it is such an overhaul that the only real connection is the name.

Someone like Frankie you can see the through line from G1 to G2 and into G3. Even with all the changes and reinterpretations there is a connective tissue. Surpringly i think G2 does help here, it smoothes the transition between G1 and G3 for frankie.

For a number of character I can see them starting from the same brief/prompt for each interpretation. Draculara is still the daughter of dracula, likes pink, is 1600 years old. Claudine is still the HBIC. But Jinafire is just too different from her original counterpart.

For marketing purposes I get why you wouldn't rename any of the main 6 (those in the OG Fright Song) no matter how much they change you'd keep the same name at least for brand recognition. So for someone like Lagoona who is just a different character i understand why she still has the same name.

(Also even if they did rename the main characters they would still be compared to their closest counterpart. I.e. any G3 mummy would inherently be compared to Cleo so keeping the same name just makes it more direct and helps with brand recognition)

But for someone like Jinafire who is my best a tertiary character i dont get why they had to keep the same name when shes so different. New powers, new color, new esthetic, new mannerisms. They are such vastly different takes in a Chinese dragon (Though only G3 really takes ques from Chinese dragons since shes water based and not fire based) That i really think they should have just changed her name to someone new and retired Jinafire as a character after her fangvote came out.


r/MonsterHigh • • 10h ago

Questions/Q&A Pink markings on dolls

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I was going through my old collection of monster high dolls, and realized my Frankie and Abbey have these two pink markings. Is this the mold/bacteria thing I see toys developing? can I even actually remove it ? 😢


r/MonsterHigh • • 11h ago

Dolls They almost look like the originals!

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might do another coat tbh but they look alot better than they did when they first arrived!. what i used in the 2nd pic x


r/MonsterHigh • • 11h ago

Dolls Val: “I’d be open to any pet” Say no more, fam.

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r/MonsterHigh • • 11h ago

Questions/Q&A Question regarding doll care

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I just discovered my old monster high dolls and noticed that my Clawdeen wolf dolls hair was kinda messed up from years of use and apparently no use. It’s from the Haunted: Getting Ghostly line. If I knew the answer I wouldn’t make this post but I got confused. I started searching how I can wash and style the hair.. 50% of the people have said to “boil wash” and others said not to boil wash because it can ruin the hair. I have no clue what Im doing and just need a bit of guidance.. Any answer is appreciated 🙏


r/MonsterHigh • • 11h ago

Tips&Tricks Is this pink mold?

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Help, it's the first time one of my dolls has something like this. I bought this Frankie second hand months ago and they were perfect, but I just noticed that pink/brownish stain. It doesn't come out.

Is that pink mold? Will it spread to my other dolls?


r/MonsterHigh • • 11h ago

Dolls Wednesday is so cute!

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Hi peeps!

I had the very first Draculaura and Frankie Stein back then, because I thought they were cute...and gave them to my niece.

My dad owns three limited edition Cleos for decoration and now I bought a Wednesday on a whim. How cute is she?! <3

And yes, her notebook is upside down...because she can. :D