Create-A-Monster

The Create-A-Monster line of doll parts was introduced to the franchise in late November, 2011. The line was inspired by fans' enthusiasm for making their own characters and adding them to the Monster High student body in personal play. From early on, Monster High has attracted astounding artists who made their characters into dolls by retooling and repainting official dolls. With Create-A-Monster, Mattel Corporate targets the less-experienced part of the fanbase, encouraging people to make and remake their own dolls from the parts sold.

Create-A-Monster comprises six types of products to create personal dolls. Starter packs contain two sets of parts for dolls of different species. Originally, the starter packs come with only one set of shoes, one wig, and one torso, meaning that only one doll at a time can be made from the materials in one starter pack. Half a year later, the starter packs were changed to include two torsos, which isn't enough for a full doll still, but makes it easier to finish up the second doll with own means. Add-on packs contain one set of parts for one type of monster. These packs contain no upper arms, upper legs, or torsos, meaning that a starter pack has to be purchased to make a doll with add-on pack parts. Mattel also shortly made a special Torsos set available through their website. This set contains matching torsos and upper limbs for the first two starter packs and the first three add-on packs. Create-A-Monster also has playsets in its ranks, both specifically designed for an extra kind of Create-A-Monster experience. The Design Lab and it's Design Lab add-on packs contain dolls without sculpted face, but with tattoos to create the faces and decorate limbs. The Color Me Creepy Chamber and its upcoming add-on packs contain dolls which color responds to temperature, allowing for designs to be made by making certain portions of the doll warmer or colder than the rest.

The Create-A-Monster line is praised for the creative possibilities it adds to Monster High dolls, but it also is criticized for forcing people to buy multiple packs. With only an add-on pack, no doll can be made, and with a starter pack, only one doll can be made. Originally, if one were to combine an add-on pack and a starter pack, only one doll could be created, while two almost-full sets of part are rendered useless. Mattel has responded to this critique by adding a second torso to the newer starter packs, including the re-released original starter packs. Though this does not solve all problems, it does allow for two dolls to be made at a time from a starter pack and add-on pack combination.

Design Lab

 * Release: Early July, 2012
 * Assortment number: None
 * Model number: X3732
 * Officially introduced to the public at Toy Fair 2012, the Design Lab playset takes the Create-A-Monster philosophy one step further. With the Design Lab, people can customize unpainted dolls with 'tattoos' of facial and skin mark designs. By inserting body parts and 'tattoos' into the device, the parts end up sporting the selected face and skin marks. The 'tattoos' are removable, however the box suggests using baby oil to remove the designs. The Design Lab playset comes with all the green body parts to make one full doll and a purple wig. A dress and shoes are included too, as well as several different 'tattoo' options.

Color Me Creepy Chamber

 * Release: July 2013
 * Assortment number: ???
 * Model number: ???
 * Officially introduced to the public at Toy Fair 2013, the Color Me Creepy Chamber playset takes the Create-A-Monster philosophy another step further. It comes with a full doll and a number of tools to add color-based detail to the doll's hair, clothing, and skin through manipulation of the material's temperature.

Werewolf & Dragon

 * Release: Early December, 2011; Mid October, 2012
 * Assortment number: W9155; Y6608
 * Model number: W9156; Y6609
 * Bodytype: Female
 * The Werewolf & Dragon starter pack comes with a full body for the werewolf, but lacks a torso for the dragon. Included for the werewolf, who is designed after an oft-seen backgrounder, are a grey head, a grey torso, grey hands, full grey arms, full grey legs, and grey wolf ear-clips. Included for the dragon are a pink head, pink hands, full pink arms with green fins and green markings, full pink legs with green fins, and green wings. All limbs but the head sport a scale design. Younger versions of the starter pack include a pink torso too. There's only one wig, which is pinkish red of color with grey streaks. The pack contains two outfits, one of which is a jacket-dress combo. The jacket is black with pink crescent moon and frilly lining. The dress has a black top and the skirt part is pink with black plant patterns and white crescent moon imagery. The other outfit is a halter top-skirt combo. The halter top is done mainly in dark green with tiny blue and yellow dots. The strap around the neck is black and separates an area on the chest, which has large yellow dots instead of tiny blue and yellow ones. The skirt is also mainly done in dark green with tiny blue and yellow dots, while an area along the left hip features the large yellow dot-pattern. There's only one pair of shoes, which are small black boots with open toes and crescent moon marks on the ankle positions.

Vampire & Sea Monster

 * Release: Early December, 2011; Mid May, 2012
 * Assortment number: W9155; Y6608
 * Model number: W9157; Y6610
 * Bodytype: Female
 * The Vampire and Sea Monster starter pack comes with a full body for the vampire, but lacks a torso for the sea monster. Included for the vampire, who is designed after an oft-seen backgrounder, are a pink head, a pink torso, pink hands, full pink arms, and full pink legs. Included for the sea monster are a blue head, blue hands, full blue arms with blue fins, and full blue legs with blue fins. Younger versions of the starter pack include a blue torso too. There's only one wig, which is black of color with purple streaks. The pack contains two outfits, one of which is a halter top-skirt combo. The skirt is black with soft horizontal lines and purple ruffles as lining. The top is half black with purple vertical helix-shaped lines, and half purple, with a purple neck strap and golden bat-winged jewel in the middle. An accessory to this outfit is a red barrette in the same shape as the jewel. The other outfit is a beach-themed top-skirt combo. The tops only covers the chest area and has one shoulder strap going over the right side. The top is black and features blue, purple and yellow bubble and splatter shapes. The skirt is blue with pink lines and orange circles in a bacterial pattern. The skirt comes with a black belt. There's only one pair of shoes, which are black with open toes and black and purple lace-style ankle straps.

Cat & Witch

 * Release: Mid May, 2012
 * Assortment number: Y6608
 * Model number: X3724
 * Bodytype: Female
 * The Cat and Witch starter pack comes with a full body for both the cat and the witch. Included for the cat, who is designed after an oft-seen backgrounder, are a pink head, a pink torso, pink hands, full pink arms with black stripes, full pink legs with black stripes, and a pink tail. Included for the witch are a green head, a green torso, green hands, full green arms, and full green legs. There's only one wig, which is purple of color with blue streaks. The pack contains two outfits, one of which is a T-shirt-skirt combo. The skirt features diagonal tiger print in black and blue with a black waistband. The T-shirt is solid black with turtle color and a green dead bird depicted at chest height. The other outfit is a simple dress with accessories. The dress is sleeveless and solid black, with yellow and black ruffles at the top and bottom. The outfit comprises two accessories, one a black and orange mini-hat, the other a black belt with green Skullette-shaped buckle. There's only one pair of shoes, which are black high-heeled sandals with cat-design ankle binds.

Gargoyle & Vampire

 * Release: Mid May, 2012
 * Assortment number: Y6608
 * Model number: X3725
 * Bodytype: Male
 * The Gargoyle & Vampire starter pack comes with a full body for both the vampire and the gargoyle. Included for the vampire, who is designed after an oft-seen backgrounder, are a pink head, a pink torso, pink hands, full pink arms with a black gothic tattoo, and full pink legs. The lower left arm sports a black tattoo. Included for the gargoyle, who may be based on "7", are a specked grey head, a specked grey torso, specked grey hands, full specked grey arms, and full specked grey legs. There's only one wig, which is black of color with a red streak. The pack contains two outfits, one of which is a tank top-cargo shorts combo. The tank top is black with horizontal, red, dripping lines and red mini-sleeves. The cargo shorts are solid red. The other outfit is a Monster High sports uniform. The T-shirt is white and features the Monster High logo. It has black sleeves and a pink collar. The shorts are black and feature two lines in pink and white at the bottom. There's only one pair of shoes, which are black with red shoelaces and grey soles.

Mummy & Gorgon

 * Release: Late November, 2012
 * Assortment number: Y6608
 * Model number: Y0416
 * Bodytype: Female
 * The Mummy & Gorgon starter pack comes with a full body for both the mummy and the gorgon. Included for the mummy are a grey-green head, a grey-green torso, grey-green hands, full grey-green arms, and full grey-green legs. All limbs but the head sport a bandage design. Included for the gorgon are a green head, a green torso, green hands, full green arms, and full green legs. All limbs but the head sport a scale design. There's two wigs, one purple of color with black streaks, the other green and molded into a ponytail of snakes. The pack contains two outfits, one of which is a salmon dress with blue and red Egyptian hieroglyphics. The dress covers half the thighs and is without sleeves and mono-strapped. The other outfit is a purple dress with scale design and green ruffle underneath the skirt. The dress covers half the thighs and is without sleeves. There's only one pair of shoes, which are golden of color with open toes and wrapping pattern.

Ice & Blob Girl

 * Release: Late November, 2012
 * Assortment number: Y6608
 * Model number: Y0417
 * Bodytype: Female
 * The Ice & Blob Girl starter pack comes with a full body for both the ice girl and the blob girl. Included for the ice girl are a blue head, a translucent blue torso, translucent blue hands, full translucent blue arms, and full translucent blue legs. Included for the blob girl are a pink head, a translucent pink torso, translucent pink hands, full translucent pink arms, and full translucent pink legs. There's two wigs, one blue of color with pink streaks, the other translucent pink and molded into shape. The pack contains two outfits, one of which is a black dress with pink and blue snowflake and ice-cream markings. The dress covers half the thighs and sports a halter neck. The other outfit is a blue dress with red goo markings. The dress covers half the thighs and features small blue sleeves. There's only one pair of shoes, which are translucent pink of color with ankle straps and goo heels.

Three-Eyed Ghoul

 * Release: Early December, 2011
 * Assortment number: W9175
 * Model number: W9178
 * Bodytype: Female
 * The Three-Eyed Ghoul add-on pack comes with a blue head with three eyes, a pink wig, blue hands, blue speckled lower arms, and blue lower legs with localized spot patterns. Her outfit is short, sleeveless purple dress with a red and black belt DNA strand patterns. Her accessories comprise a purple beanie, and her high-heeled shoes are purple with purple straps. The Three-Eyed Ghoul is designed after an oft-seen backgrounder.
 * The Three-Eyed Ghoul's shoes were reused from Frankie's Maul Fashion outfit.

After a contest on the Monster High Facebook page from December 10, 2011 to December 14, 2011, she was given a profile and the name Eyeris Polyphemus on December 16, 2011.

Skeleton

 * Release: Early December, 2011
 * Assortment number: W9175
 * Model number: W9177
 * Bodytype: Female
 * The Skeleton add-on pack consists of a skull-styled head, a blue wig, boney hands, boney lower arms, and boney lower legs. Her outfit is a short black dress with elbow-length sleeves and a turtleneck. The sleeves and skirt have pink lining, and the front of dress features skeletal imagery of the torso, including a pink broken heart image. Her accessories comprise a white bone-shaped hair bow. She wears open white shoes with ankle straps. The heels are designed to look like spines.

After a contest on the Monster High Facebook page from December 3, 2011 to December 7, 2011, she was given a profile and the name Skelly Bones on December 9, 2011.

Insect

 * Release: Early December, 2011
 * Assortment number: W9175
 * Model number: W9176
 * Bodytype: Female
 * The Insect add-on pack consists of a yellow head, a black and yellow wig, black hands, black-to-yellow lower arms, and black-to-yellow lower legs. The bee look is finished with bee wings and a 'mask' consisting of bee eyes and antennae. Her outfit is a short dress with elbow-length sleeves. The sleeves and collar-area are black, the rest features golden and black diagonal stripes. The black stripes have lines of pink dots inside. She wears simple high-heeled black shoes.

After a contest on the Monster High Facebook page from November 25, 2011 to November 30, 2011, she was given a profile and the name Beeanna on December 2, 2011.

Ghost

 * Release: Early June, 2012
 * Assortment number: W9175
 * Model number: X3726
 * Bodytype: Female
 * The Ghost Girl add-on pack consists of a white head, a hot pink and purple wig, white translucent hands, white translucent lower arms, and white translucent lower legs. Her outfit is a pink, black, and white dress with skull motif. The dress features a halter neck and ripped skirt. Her accessories comprise a hot pink, dripping necklace with purple chain motif, matched with hot pink high-heeled sandals with purple chain motif.

Puma

 * Release: Early June, 2012
 * Assortment number: W9175
 * Model number: X3727
 * Bodytype: Male
 * The Puma Boy add-on pack consists of a blue head with white marking, a black wig, blue hands, blue lower arms, blue lower legs, and a blue tail. His outfit consists of a blue tank top with three light blue slash markings and black cycling shorts with blue lining. He wears black sneakers with blue soles, blue shoelaces and blue markings.

Siren

 * Release: Early November, 2012
 * Assortment number: W9175
 * Model number: Y0419
 * Bodytype: Female
 * The Siren add-on pack consists of a blue head, a blue and green wig, blue lower arms with pink fins, a blue tail with pink fins, a halter top with a black, pink and blue abalone shell pattern, and what seems to be two belts, one pink with a starfish and shell, and one blue with an anchor.

Harpy

 * Release: Early November, 2012
 * Assortment number: W9175
 * Model number: Y0420
 * Bodytype: Female
 * The Harpy add-on pack consists of a pink head, a pink and black wig, lower arms with hands and wings attached, and extra set of hands, lower legs designed to look like a birds, with three toes, black, purple, pink feather dress and magenta shoes with a feather motif.

Torsos

 * Release: August 2, 2012
 * Assortment number: None
 * Model number: Y5698
 * Bodytype: Female
 * In light of the 2011 starter pack re-releases of 2012 that come with a second torso, Mattel made a special torso set of five available only on MattelShop. The two limbless torsos are for the dragon and sea monster, and the three torsos that come with upper limbs are for the three-eyed ghoul, the insect, and the skeleton. With this torso set, all five dolls can be completed. However, the set was only available for a few months and is no longer sold.

Nocturnal

 * Release: Mid June, 2012
 * Assortment number: X3728
 * Model number: X3729
 * Bodytype: Female
 * The Nocturnal lab add-on pack was briefly glimpsed at Toy Fair 2012. All the parts are semi-translucent orange, while the second head is green of color. The set comes with a tail and clip-on ears, and the tattoos are glow-in-the-dark.

Mystical

 * Release: Mid June, 2012
 * Assortment number: X3728
 * Model number: X3730
 * Bodytype: Female
 * The Mystical lab add-on pack was briefly glimpsed at Toy Fair 2012. All the parts are pearly light pinkish purple, while the second head is pearly light green color. The set comes with a horn headpiece, and the tattoos are glittery.