Ghouls Rule (TV special)

Monster High: Ghouls Rule is a 2012 movie as 'announced' on page 51 of Toynews' November 2011 issue. It will premiere a few weeks before Halloween 2012, and tie into the Ghouls Rule doll line. It will be put on DVD and distributed and marketed by a joint effort between Mattel and Universal Pictures. It features CGI-animation by Nerd Corps Entertainment.

Monster High: Ghouls Rule trailer link.

Decription
As Halloween approaches, the students at Monster High are framed for a prank on the normies after they attacked the school (as every Halloween, the normies set out to hunt and torment monsters). But when the students learn one of their own is behind the pranks and is going to suffer for it, it's up to Frankie, with the help of some new friends, to stop it.

Continuity

 * "Ghouls Rule" takes a multitude of cues from the book canon as penned down by Lisi Harrison. The human settlement near Monster High is revealed to be a New Salem, akin to how in the books the school is locted in Salem, Oregon. Cleo's and Nefera's father's name is Ramses de Nile, a name that previously appeared in the books.
 * According to Mr. Rotter, Frankie experiences Halloween for the first time in this special. By webisode continuity, easily more than a year has passed since her creation. The sentence could only work if the previous Halloween Frankie's parents took her on a trip abroad or otherwise made her miss out on it.
 * Van Hellscream, the main troublemaker of "Fright On!", is mentioned several times while his niece occupies a role of 'lesser evil' in "Ghouls Rule".
 * Draculaura mentioned her sudden departure from Europe previously in "Why Do Ghouls Fall In Love?". "Ghouls Rule" reveals the exact circumstances of the move.
 * Toralei's claim that she would lull Frankie into a false sense of security before striking at her if she meant her harm is exactly what she did in "Don't Cheer the Reaper", the first time she and Frankie had any significant contact. And that was merely the first time.

Milestones

 * Ramses de Nile, Clair, Chad, Lilith Van Helscream, and Lilith's goons makes their webisode debuts.

Errors

 * The Halloween video being played every year does not match with the events of "Fright On!", as one would assume that if the video was old knowledge, then none at Monster High would've trusted Van Hellscream.

Other

 * Bartleby Farnum's model is used for a semi-generic farmer. Whether this is a coincidence or meant to imply ancestry is unknown.
 * Hackington owns a plushie that is of the same monster type as his rarely-seen assistant.
 * "Ghouls Rule" was announced at Toy Fair 2012. Interestingly, the DVD cover shown in the Mattel Toy Fair Analyst Presentation on the 10th of February is different from the one seen at the Toy Fair stand.
 * The DVD of Ghouls Rule contains three webisodes thus far not published anywhere else: "Flowers for Slow Moe", "I Scream, You Scream", and "No Ghouls Allowed".