#ldd lydia the lobster girl

[toitown]

(For the 100+ followers asks)

What are your favorite/dream dolls?

And

Unpopular Monster High opinions?

@belfryprepz Aaaahhhhhh that’s a hard question. It’s really tough to pick favorites when it comes to my dolls, I love them all so so much! For MH, I would have to say my favorites are OG Frankie Stein, OG Clawdeen Wolf, and OG Deuce. All three were ones I’ve had since Childhood and, while in good condition, are very well played with. I don’t use them for set ups/dioramas/scenes anymore because they’re fragile. They’re for standard display only. As for LDD, it’s OG Lydia the Lobster Girl, Hook, and The Unwilling Donor. They’re also some of my first (Lydia and Frankie are my first dolls in each brand respectively), and even though I’ve never played with them like my MH dolls I have a lot of very fond memories with them. I also have some sleeper favorites from other brands. Like the Creatable World doll model DC-220 (also called the “blonde curly hair model”, I’ve since named them Avery).

As for unpopular MH opinions, Manny Taur’s doll design is actually mediocre. Like his cartoon and box art look good, but it does not work when translated into a doll. His arms look awkward when you bend them upwards at the shoulders; they gave him a custom bodybuilder torso and arms, but just left the standard MH boy legs on him. So it looks like the guy has skipped every single leg day since the dawn of time.

Luna Mothews design is also terrible, even worse than Manny’s IMO. She doesn’t even have good box art or animated version, her design is just straight up bad. Like I get that they wanted to add a third color to her palette because they don’t want just another black/red palette so she doesn’t look too much like Wydowna Spider, but why in the wide wide world did they decide it was a good idea to choose yellow as the third color??? She looks like a bee! I literally thought she was a bee when I first saw her. (Nothing against bees, but Luna is supposed to be the daughter of Mothman! Is is too much to ask that she look more like him?) Her wings and antennae are also incorrect and don’t help this problem. Moths have filaments on their antennae which make them look like feathers along with opaque wings. Yet they gave her smooth antennae and translucent veiny wings, also like a bee! Not to mention that while her shoes and headpiece are both metallic, they clash rather than match! The worst part is that this design could’ve been fire if they just changed a few elements. Like her antennae should’ve been molded to look like they had filaments, her wings should’ve been opaque black with red eyespots, the third color that they used for her skin should’ve been a deep indigo or some other color the (I chose dark indigo because I think it pairs nicely with the dark red and black palette while also NOT making her look like a bee, and she could’ve had silver lipstick and sliver and red eyeshadow so her makeup would standout), and her headpiece and shoes should’ve been matching silver. It would’ve looked so COOL!

Jackson and Holt also got terrible backstory in their diaries. Like, the bios and boxes list Holt as the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hyde and Jackson as the son of Dr. Jekyll. Which would imply that Holt is the direct descendant of Mr. Hyde and his wife (who is a another monster or human, and also not romantically involved with Dr. Jekyll because no “Mrs. Jekyll” is listed), and Jackson would also be the direct descendant of Dr. Jekyll. But on the first page of Jackson’s journal, he says “I saw mom's Hyde side come out was when I was 5,” revealing that their moms are actually descendants of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde somewhere down the line, and that they’re dad is actually a fire elemental with no duel nature connection at all. Like?? How do you fundamentally contradict the canon backstory within the first installment of said canon backstory??? But I guess good has come out of it though, like mine and others’ motivation to write really thorough AU and headcanon content on the two of them.

But I think that’s about it! Thank you for asking!!

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an ill-fated trip to the underworld. alison is trying her best.

[toitown]

So glad to see another Living Dead Doll collector on Tumblr! I have Siren, Calico, Envy, Spider Bite, and Vanishing Hitchhiker. Who do you have, if you have any LDDs?

I actually have quite a lot of LDDs, I think I’m probably one of the only super fans who exist. I need to contribute to the fandom more honestly. Some of my faves are the Unwilling Donor, Hook, Purdy, Lydia the Lobster Girl, Pumpkin, and Sybil. I’m glad to see another LDD collector too! :) There’s so few out there that it can be hard to find people to talk to about it with.