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Dawn of the Dance - Clawdeen Wolf[]
Garrett Sander: I want to do something to post about some of my favorite dolls I got to design, so each Monday I'll be posting the original design alongside the final doll! For the first MHMonday it's Dawn of the Dance Clawdeen Wolf! I loved designing this line! It was inspired by the 80s mixing bright neon colors with metallic shine. Clawdeen is rocking a purple zipper dress with oversized high collar, neon fishnet tights and gold heels with zipper opening detail. For the final doll we went with more of that totally clawsome green hair. It was always so fun to give Clawdeen different hair styles and colors.
New Scaremester - Catty Noir[]
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Garrett Sander: It's MHMonday!! It was so fun getting to create Catty Noir. Her first doll for Friday the 13th showcased her in her pop ghoul look. With her New Scaremester design I wanted to carry across the fun of a pop star with an everyday going to class look! She has her silver dress with shattered allover print. Shiny pink tights with white lace, pink gloves with matching lace detail. And pink shoes with shattered mirror heels. In the original design the show colors are revered, but the pink top with silver heel looked better once I saw it in 3D! She also has a quilted cat shaped purse for all her required back to school materials! Fun Fact: her dress was originally supposed to be a foil dot print fabric, but something went wrong with the order for it (I forgot the exact reason lol) so last minute we had to find a new fabric to use. The amazing team in Hong Kong and at the plant located the silver weave the final doll came in! Which was even more perfect and gave a better effect and held the structure of the dress better. So sometimes what seems like an unlucky event can become just what you need, just like our resident Black Catgirl.
Extra: [I didn't design] all of them. I created Catty, but depending on what line she was in other designers designed looks for her too! I did her original Friday the 13th look, New Scaremester, Boo York, Boo York, and Fierce Rockers looks! Oh, and I should clarify I did Catty's Frightseers look for Boo York, Boo York.
Extra: I didn't design Gooliope, sorry! Rebecca Shipman did!
- Source: New Scaremester - Catty Noir
Basic - Ghoulia Yelps[]
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Garrett Sander: It's MHMonday!! And here's everyone's favorite zombie ghoul Ghoulia Yelps! And her pet owl Sir Hoots A Lot. Ghoulia was designed with the rest of the first wave, which is why she was in the original webisodes too! So it was so fun to see the fan reaction to her knowing she'd be coming along the next season!!! She released in spring of 2011 (which meant she was out right before Xmas 2010). Fun Fact: Ghoulia is named after one of my co-workers who helped work on the original Monster High Pitch: Julia Phelps! Another Fun Fact: Sir Hoots A Lot's original name was Brains, we were going to have that be the only word Ghoulia would say - like old times zombies - but that name was already trademarked so Sir Hoots A Lot was born! In the end it made Ghoulia a better character not saying any words. I do love her so much! I love her style, getting to put her in comic inspired clothes later on to continue to show geek shriek style was always so fun! The last pic is Ghoulia from the Monster High 6-pack where we re-released the Ghouls in their original looks! There will definitely be more Ghoulia showing up in future MHMondays!!
- Source: Basic - Ghoulia Yelps
Maul Monsteristas[]
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Garrett Sander: It's MHMonday! This Monday brings you the Maul Monsteristas 5-pack! Fun Fact: this set was originally supposed to be a Fraidie Hawkins 5-pack with two couples: Heath Burns & Abbey Bominable and Invisi Billy & Scarah Screams with Headless Headmistress Bloodgood as the chaperone! Maybe one day I'll be able to share those designs! So it was a last minute change to this concept! Just a few small changes: Spectra Vondergeist's boots tool ended up being at a different production plant so I switched them to the chain heels which were at the same plant as this set was made at. And for Draculaura just deleted the second pink strap so it became a one shoulder dress. Was so fun getting to use the Vampire Heart movie poster design from Frights, Camera, Action! for her dress! And finally we got a maxi dress for Gigi Grant! Clawdeen Wolf got her two tone hair with signature animal print down the front and Invisi Billy was painted so only his head was solid and the rest of his body was translucent! Thanks to Jendayi Smith for creating all the fangtastic prints based on my quick sketches! I also love this package! Shevaun Seene did an amazing job on the design and Lauren Montgomery did the sketches for the poses of the characters captured their personalities clawsomely!
- Source: Maul Monsteristas
Freaky Fusion - Freaky Fusions - Neighthan Rot[]
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Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday, ghouls and mansters! This week brings you Monster High's very own hybrid monster Neighthan Rot! Half zombie, half unicorn; all manster! Neighthan starred in Freaky Fusion where he and his hybrid friends started at Monster High. His design stayed pretty close to his original design. His sweatshirt became a baseball tee. With a graphic inspired by vintage anatomy drawings. His pants have a graphic "muscle fiber" print on one leg and his shoes lost the black. He was our first MH boy with long hair (and a rooted tail!). He was really fun to design. The zombie details on his body are one of my favorites! Subtle but really nice. We also toned down the black around his eyes to be more gray so he didn't look so sinister haha! His horn was originally black, but got lost in his hair so it was changed to blue, which makes it stand out nicely and I think worked out better! Seeing something in 3D always helps and makes you adjust things you didn't see in 2D. Fun Fact: the original movie idea had our ghouls going back to the 50s! But we wanted to take a look back at the beginnings of Monster High and get to meet Robecca's dad Hexiciah Steam!
Extra: I designed Neighthan, ClawVenus, and the low price Freaky Fusion - Fusion-Inspired Ghouls: Frankie, Ghoulia, Scarah, and Operetta!
Extra: I wanted to do a bold look on him, but also represent a rainbow of colors. I really liked the way the primary color palette popped against the black and made him feel unique amongst the rest of the cast!
Boo York, Boo York - Comet-Crossed Couple - Catty Noir & Seth Ptolemy[]
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Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday everyone!! Since this outfit reappeared in Adventures of the Ghoul Squad I thought I'd share her original design from Boo York, Boo York and since you've seen a Catty Noir design before I am also including the original design for Seth Ptolemy! Fun Fact: in the very beginning of designing the Boo York, Boo York line Seth was supposed to be a doll! There were going to be two two-packs: Deuce and Cleo and Catty and Seth! Unfortunately the Catty and Seth set was dropped early on, we used the Catty design for a 3-pack, but Seth never got a doll. I really loved his design too. He was so fun to work on. But at least he got to come to unlife in the movie! I love this outfit on Catty! It’s pretty much exactly as it was designed! Some of the binding changes to stitch detail, but that usually happens when changing to doll scale. Her shattered pink holofoil jacket is my favorite piece!
Haunted - Student Spirits - Rochelle Goyle[]
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Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday, ghouls and mansters!! Here's Haunted Rochelle!! Designing the Monster High Haunted line was really fun! We went for a pastel color palette even making blacks grey to give the Haunted school and the ghost world its own look. Rochelle Goyle was super fun to work on, this was the first and only time I got to design for Rochelle (she was created by the ubertalented Rebecca Shipman!) She is pretty much the same as the original design, added some contrast stitching on the fleur de lis in light pink to make it stand out a bit more. Her skin also looked extra clawsomely for her ghostly version! Because she is made of stone we speckle her skin and making it translucent made it so you could see the "stone" specs floating inside her! Fun Fact: the bracelet Rochelle comes with (and she, Draculaura, Twyla and Clawdeen wear) was originally a part of the story. The ghouls wore the hourglass bracelets as the boogiesand would only keep them as ghosts until the sand ran out! The story changed somewhere along the way, but we were too far in production on the toy to change it. But it's still a cool accessory!!
Extra: Rebecca created Robecca too!
Extra: We were always tasked with making the characters look new and different. The mask had been done on the ghost Create-A-Monster and we thought it looked cool and would be a way to signify that these were monsters changed to ghosts, not born ghosts if you will.
Boo York, Boo York - Gala Ghoulfriends - Luna Mothews[]
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Garrett Sander: It's MHMonday!!! Here is Luna Mothews who made her debut in Boo York, Boo York! It was really fun getting to work on all 3 new characters (well 4 with Seth) and getting to design both their day looks and their gala looks! I was so happy we were able to do Luna's wing print train and that when next to one another make a skull! The prototype used for the sales photos doesn't look as nice as what we got in production. The production version has a great sheen to it so it almost sparkles! But you can't always get the exact fabric/printing for the prototypes. But always nice when it comes out better than expected! Fun Fact: her tiara is inspired by Psylocke from X-Men's butterfly effect when she uses her telepathic powers. And I love that it looks like it sits so naturally and stays in place pretty well since we used the earring holes as the leg-in to hold the tiara on her head! All of her sculpted detail on her body turned out so cool as well thanks to our talented sculptor Adam Defelice!
Frights, Camera, Action! - Hauntlywood - Elissabat[]
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Garrett Sander: It's time for MHMonday!! And this week it's Elissabat from Frights, Camera, Action!! It was really fun getting to design her and go a bit darker goth vampire. She is pretty much in almost all black with a nice dark purple accent. Fun Fact: the story originally called for Elissabat and Draculaura to be cousins who looked very similar (you can see the heart on her cheek in the original sketch like Draculaura's). But the story changed after the head sculpt was already done to resemble Draculaura's. She's still a super cute ghoul and your Reigning Queen of the Vampires! I really love the fabrics on her, while dark in color they are soft and shimmery, and I just love how her boots turned out! The only thing we got rid of was the headband, she just didn't need it her hair looked so pretty without it!
Extra: We would reuse the poses at times as later on it was asked out drawings look like more like the final illustrations. While I can get my idea across on paper I am not the world's best illustrator lol. So we would use the bases of poses we liked and draw the new characters on top! Plus we would be designing quickly a lot of the times and using croquis would help save time!
Boo York, Boo York - Gala Ghoulfriends - Elle Eedee[]
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Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday!!! I present Elle Eedee from Boo York, Boo York! Fun Fact: Elle's robot torso, lower arms and lower legs first came to life for a later edition Create-A-Monster add-on pack that got dropped. The parts were so gore-geous they just had to be brought to unlife somewhere so I design a futuristic robot girl to join our cast of ghouls and mansters in the Boo York, Boo York movie! Designing Elle with all the sparkly metallics was so fun! Once we got to the 3D model the necklace just wasn't working so I changed her belt to be a larger more statement piece and made it silver so it stood out more. Her satellite headpiece was changed to wrap around her ponytail, which made it stay on better and to a metallic blue to stand out better against her purple hued hair. She lost her bracelet, but she really didn't need it, the shimmer in her skin made her sparkle on her own! I love her cape, it's so pretty and the print turned out so nice! As I was working on her face design I made her irises into the photo shutter style, all the rest of her was so unique she needed that special something in her eyes as well! And my absolute favorite part is her speaker-like ears and that her earrings are like earphone jacks and plug in! I also love that we have a steampunk robot and a futuristic robot in the line! Not every robot is built the same!
Great Scarrier Reef - Down Under Ghouls - Kala Mer'ri[]
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Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday! Since I'm in Australia thought I'd share one of our Great Scarrier Reef ghouls Kala Mer'ri! Fun Fact: Kala started off as a spider crab monster before becoming a squid monster! Her original concept included a marbled-plastic skin (where two colors are swirled together and it looks like marble). However in production there were issues with the two plastics burning when being combined (this had never happened before.. of course) so I had to just pick on color to go with. She still turned out as awesome as I had hoped! Because these designs were so different from a regular Monster High doll we did control drawings: front side and back views of the doll for the sculptors to work off of. These were so fun to do and also helped me work out the final color scheme. The final squid print on her sheer overcoat is one of my absolute favorites! (You can see it was a crab earlier on in the sketches before the graphic was revised). Jendayi Smith did such an amazing job <3<3<3. The bright neon color palette was so fun to work with and the glow in the dark feature brought out the bioluminescence of the creatures of the deep! Her hair changed in styling to a simple pony so that her facial details could be seen! Her makeup was so clawsome to design! We really got to have fun with this line!
Scarily Ever After - Clawdeen Wolf[]
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Garrett Sander: MHMonday time! This week it's Scarily Ever After Clawdeen Wolf as Little Dead Riding Wolf! This line was a blast to do and reimagine Clawdeen as a monster version of the classic fairy tale! Who doesn't love a giant hooded cape?! The small details like the real ribbon for her corset, the crossbones at the waist line and the belt buckles at the end of all the ribbons really make it! The devil is in the details! Only a few small mods from her original design: her makeup changed to a dark Smokey eye with red upper lids and she kept one lower arm sleeve, I always enjoy a bit of asymmetry! I love the black glitter animal print on the inside of her cape! Fun Fact: the final doll has a black picnic casket, the prototype one in the photos was painted purple. I don't remember when it changed but the black just screams picnic casket so much more doesn't it! For a change of pace we streaked her hair with red! And who could forget the amazing storybooks each ghoul comes with illustrated by the uber talent Darko Dordevic and written by the totally clawsome Eric Hardie!! He turned these around super quick (thank you!) and I couldn't have been happier with the way they turned out!
Haunted - Student Spirits - Porter Geiss[]
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Garrett Sander: Today's MHMonday brings you Porter Geiss from the Monster High movie Haunted! The glowing pastel colors for this line were really fun to work with! I just love how his skin turned out. The plastic is both transparent and gives the illusion it's glowing! He stayed pretty close to his design, in making him into 3D I of course realized his suspended chains would need to be sculpted to a belt to work, haha! He wears a button down shirt (that should be tucked in, but the promo pics it was left untucked) with paint drip design, brick print shorts with paint splatters, translucent shoes, and silver belt and holster, that holds his two ghost paint spray cans. His hands are also sculpted so he can hold them! Also, each ghost has unique chains amongst the regular loops, Porter gets art inspired ones. Fun Fact : all the Haunted dolls were supposed to come with their pets. Unfortunately they were removed. They were so cute! Huebert wasn't in the movie so I can't show you him (as he was sculpted) but Cawtion was so when River Styxx is an MHMonday you'll get to see him!!
Boo York, Boo York - Comet-Crossed Couple - Cleo de Nile & Deuce Gorgon[]
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Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday everymonster! It's Boo York, Boo York Cleo de Nile and Deuce Gorgon Monster High's resident power couple! For their Boo York, Boo York looks we got go a bit more formal looking. Since Cleo is an actual princess she typically dresses a bit more formal than the other Ghouls do! While it's always fun to design a new look for her it can be a challenge too - to make sure we find new ways of incorporating her wraps into the design. For this look I went with a more royal blue for her and tweaked her golds to be more bronze metallics. I do love the wrist wrap she wears, it's so dramatic and so Cleo! Her Goddess Isis tiara and Sphinx shoes were so fun to design: it's actually Cleo's face sculpt on the head of the Sphinx! Getting to dress Deuce up formal is so fun too! It's rare we get to dress the mansters up! It's fun to play with his snake motif and I am so happy with the way his sweater turned out, the snake wrapping around the top turned out clawsome! And who doesn't love a nice (faux) snakeskin pant?! Fun Fact: while he didn't get the paint on his shoes, it gave me the idea to cut out the stripes instead and then they also felt more gladiator-esque and true to his Greek scaritage! Also you'll notice the colors are off on the models (with the white backgrounds) and Deuce is missing the black in his sunglasses. Those were corrected for the final product as you can see in the last several scene images.
Haunted - Getting Ghostly - Spectra Vondergeist[]
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Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday!! Today brings us Haunted Spectra Vondergeist!! Fun Fact: So as many Monster High fans remember there was an accessory that was originally planned for the line and it was going to come with Spectra. Unfortunately retailers decided not to order it and so it was never produced so we had to take Spectra and package her individually and add her to the low-price Haunted assortment (with Twyla, Clawdeen and Draculaura). Which is why she rolled in late as packaging had to be created for her. On her original design I had wanted to do a chain head crown for her, but with the way the feature of the playset worked (by using a lever on the back, Spectra would "float" up to the desk and the tombstone lockers would open!) her hair need to be more pulled back and so it was changed to half up, half down. We also brightened up her colors a bit so she wouldn't be so monochromatic, she was the star after all! I was really happy with how her chain corset turned out! And I love her pearlescent translucent skin! It is fun to give the main characters a new look every now and then and the Haunted line was so fun to design!
Extra: I never designed a Nefera.
Freaky Fusion - Freaky Fusions - ClawVenus[]
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Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday!! Today brings you: ClawVenus! From Freaky Fusion! What other fashion doll could take their characters and actually fuse them together!?!? This was a super fun concept to work on and I had a blast combing Clawdeen Wolf and Venus McFlytrap! They both have such clawsome style! I had the most fun with the hair! While the initial sketch shows multiple green twists, it was reduced down to 3 as it looked much better on the doll, otherwise it was too crowded and didn't give the effect I was going for. The fur I found was just meant to be! Bright green with purple and pink throughout! The fur was shortened to a vest (which was more in line with Venus' best from her OG doll) as it was too thick to get the belt around well, so then the belt design was elongated to make it a bigger piece. The gold vines were changed to pink for a pop of color on the shoes. I also love the leaf detail on her ears and her makeup - a mix of petals and animal print was fun to design. This whole segment was really fun getting to combine ghouls together to create new looks for them!
Birthday Doll Candy[]
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Garrett Sander: Merry Christmas and Happy MHMonday to all!!! Since there was a lot of requests for more images of "non-Monster" Frankie Stein I thought I'd take this MH Monday to post a few additional images of her! I was fortunate to visits the PTMI plant a couple times and Indonesia and the staff there was amazing! They worked so hard to make the best Monster High dolls possible! I just want to say thank you to them for all the amazing work they did. Without them there would be no Monster High in the shelf! Fun Fact: this was the first time the PTMI Birthday Doll wasn't a Barbie! She has Dance Class Howleen's hair, Ghoulia's cherry print on her top, Clawdeen's soccer cleats and Cupid's purse.
- Source: Birthday Doll Candy
New Scaremester - Gigi Grant[]
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Garrett Sander: With the Holiday yesterday I missed posting for MHMonday, so here it is (Better late than never!). This week brings you New Scaremester Gigi Grant! Coming off of her role in 13 Wishes Gigi joined the ghouls at Monster High! Her design stayed pretty close to the original concept. Now that she wasn't trapped in her bottle she could go for a more casual genie look! Lol. Fun Fact: I got inspired by her scorpion symbol after the initial sketch and decided to play up that motif on her New Scaremester look. Originally her top had a "wish power/magic" graphic going on but I changed it to the gold scorpion graphic. I knew I wanted her shoes to be scorpion detailed, but I hadn't figured it out quite right for the sketch so I took some time and designed the shoe to better match to Gigi’s scorpion. (Scroll right to see the re-design). Unfortunately her belt isn't on correctly in the stock photos (it happens!) but it's on right in the package shot and was packed out on her correctly! Gigi of course came out alongside Catty Noir, Twyla Boogeyman and Invisi Billy. I designed all four so look for Twyla and Invisi Billy in future MH Monday posts!
Extra: The short version of the story is: I started as a packaging designer at Mattel in 2004. While working on the MyScene doll packaging I came up with the Monster High idea!
Extra: I may have had the idea [for the 2012 April Fools' Day joke] but a lot of people on the team helped to make it happen! So a big thank you goes out to them too!
- Source: New Scaremester - Gigi Grant
New Scaremester - Jinafire Long[]
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Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday!!! It's New Scaremester Jinafire Long!! The most fun part of designing this look for Jinafire (who was created by the killer talents of Rebecca Shipman) was working with our counterparts in Hong Kong! There is a team of designers in HK that help us bring the ghouls to unlife! This was fun cause I got to do a lot of research with them into the Chinese culture and wanted to make sure that the details were appropriate and would be a fun way to incorporate Jinafire's Fanghai scaritage! The only thing we ended up deleting was her scaled detail ponytail holder, it was just too big and bulky. I love the gold foil skeleton dragon on her black ribbon trim and those shiny red pants! But I'm most proud of the shoes! The jade fudog shoes turned out better than I could have hoped! The sculpt is absolutely GOREgeous! And the translucent pearlescent plastic really makes it look like they are sculpted out of jade! Fun Fact: Her shoulder bag was designed by Rebecca, originally for the Scaris doll, but they ended up with just one piece of luggage. But it was too beautiful not to use again so it became her school bag!
- Source: New Scaremester - Jinafire Long
Frights, Camera, Action! - Hauntlywood - Clawdia Wolf[]
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Garrett Sander: Happy belated MHMonday!!! It's the eldest Wolf sibling - Clawdia Wolf!! Making her debut in Frights, Camera, Action! Clawdia stayed pretty darn close to her original design, lost the paint on her shoes, but they still look pretty fangtastic! I distinctly remember drawing her glasses, but they weren't in the file for some reason... but she had them from the beginning. I love her look! The gold Union Jack print dress with "wolf" graphics in it paired with the red suit jacket with black trim! She's dressed to impress at her classes in London and in the set of the backlots in Hauntlywood! Her bright yellow hair highlights her smile and helps accentuate her bright personality! Fun Fact: we looked at two options for her face sculpt a closed mouth and the smile, I had been wanting to do a smile for the longest time and once I saw the sculpt I knew it was meant for Clawdia! It gives her personality and also helps to be a distinction between her and her Sisters Clawdeen Wolf and Howleen Wolf! I also love the chew details on the script she comes with, when she's thinking up new stories in her head she can sometimes chew on her old writing to help bring out more ideas lol! She's one of my top faves, that smile gets me every time!
Student Disembody Council[]
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Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday everymonster!! This week brings the We Are Monster High Student Disembody Council 5pack! Featuring: Slomo, Lagoona Blue, Cleo de Nile, Gilda Goldstag, and Scarah Screams! So this one started out with each character getting multi piece outfits, but sometimes costs go up for labor and oil and fabric and you have to simplify! So taking the part of each outfit I like most I modified them to be simpler construction. I wanted to keep Gilda as close to her show version as possible cause I wasn't sure we'd get to make her again (and we didn't) but I have to say I ended up really liking the dresses for Lagoona, Cleo and Scarah! And while Slomo didn't get his Jacket he got a fun Deadfast print on his shirt! Cleo's dress turned out especially chic if I do say so myself! Fun Fact: Since Gilda was a background character without an official monster she was based off of we researched to try and find the best match, having remembered the Golden Hind from Greek mythology we thought that was the best fit for her to match her golden skin and horns! I love that we got to do a doll with horns like hers too!
- Source: Student Disembody Council
Haunted - Getting Ghostly - Draculaura[]
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Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday! It's Haunted Draculaura! I do love her pastel pink batwing dress! Fun Fact: her original design had pastel yellow chains, but they got changed to silver at the last minute so she still has pastel yellow ones in the movie! Did you also notice that the Monster High Haunted line has stands that are a ball and chain? And hold the dolls up higher so that they can float! Draculaura was going to originally have a print on her sheet batwings too... I don't remember exactly why we got rid of it, probably cost. But it still looks great if I do say so myself! I miss the paint on her shoes but the translucent gray is still ghostly chic! All the translucent skin made for a fun transformation of all the characters!
Extra: I didn’t work on any of the designs for Scarnival, sorry.
Extra: I forgot about that! You couldn't see her fangs in the pastel yellow so it got changed...
Freaky Fusion - Fusion-Inspired Ghouls[]
Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday every monster! This week it's the Fusion-Inspired Ghouls from the Freaky Fusion line! It was fun to take this four and dress them inspired by another character. It's almost like they are MH-bounding each other haha! You have Ghoulia Yelps inspired by Draculaura so she's got her vampire going on! Frankie Stein inspired by Clawdeen Wolf ready to let her inner werewolf howl! Operetta inspired by Frankie ready to electrify and Scarah Screams inspired by Toralei Stripe is ready to get her werecat on and let her inner fierce flag fly! If I remember right these were used as designs in Clawdeen's diary (which is why her name is signed on these) and Fun Fact I got to sign her name and give her her signature!
I Heart Fashion - Abbey Bominable[]
Garrett Sander: Happy #MHMonday!!! I know I missed last week but the 9th was my bday and the celebration lasted all weekend long lol! Today brings you #IHeartFashion #AbbeyBominable!! These packs were some of my favorites to design and they really let you get an idea of the character through their fashion! Some colors changed for the final version (if you scroll to the last image of #Abbey in package) you can see the final colors for the sneakers (black) and the heels (white) it was so long again that I have no idea why those colors changed... haha! But either way they looks pretty scary cool! I liked to take inspiration from the signature look of the character so Abbey got a sweater dress for an everyday look! #funfact: Originally we were just going to print the lacing down the dress on a ribbon, but we found this awesome trim that looked just like the string being laced! It’s one of my favorite details! Abbey also comes with a faceted top and “snowflake” fireworks pants in gLiTtER!!! For something a little more dressed up and for a night on the town her “cracked ice” print dress with fur belt and sheer black overskirt! Originally I wanted her #skullshores heels to go with this dress, but the mold for them was at another plant so I went with #Clawdeen’s heels from her #entrepreneurClub fashion pack. No outfit is complete without accessories so she has 3 ice necklaces (one for each look), four bracelets, an icoffin and a faceted purse!
Extra: Yes, I did [design Jackson/Holt]!
New Scaremester - Clawdeen Wolf[]
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Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday!! It's New Scaremester Clawdeen Wolf!!! I must say I do love designing for Clawdeen. I just love her purple and green color combination, it's one of my favorites combos. Clawdeen stayed pretty close, couldn't afford the three tiered skirt so it became one, and the engineered skyline print was too expensive as well so created an all over print that could be used. But I have to say the Jacket came out amazing! And it's always good to have a signature piece that stands out and to I think the simplified dress really makes the jacket more special. I was super happy with her boots as well. I designed them so that the sole and heel could be replaced so different ones could be molded for each character should we need it. And it got reused for Freaky Fusion Frankie Stein with a new lightning bolt heel! I'm quite proud of her purse too, love the zipper pull handles on it! And her itomb fits inside!! Haha. And who doesn't love her animal print eyeshadow!?!?! 🤓
Extra: Their phones are icoffins and their tablets are itombs!
- Source: New Scaremester - Clawdeen Wolf
New Scaremester - Twyla Boogeyman[]
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Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday every monster!!! It's New Scaremester Twyla Boogeyman! This was the only Twyla I got to design, but I had so much fun, she's so cute!! I enjoyed playing up her bug motif with graphic foil print bugs on her dress down to the bugs crawling up the back of her Mary Jane shoes! Her color palette is so pretty with purples, teals and grays. I was inspired by A-Line dresses from the late 1960s, as I think Twyla is an old soul and appreciates vintage fashion. She didn't stray far from her original concept just adjusted the length on her dress for the final doll and have her shorter side swept bangs as well. She of course kept her glow-in-the-dark eyes! Fun Fact: all the Twyla dolls (in the OG MH lines) have glow in the dark eyes!!!! It's part of her Boogey Monster scaritage!
I Heart Fashion - Clawdeen Wolf[]
Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday!!! It's time for Clawdeen Wolf in her I Heart Fashion looks! These were really the most fun to design cause you really get to show off the characters style with 3 looks! Clawdeen comes in an outfit inspired by her OG look: quilted vest with fur collar, animal print top, ombré jeans and gold studded boots and a boom box bag in neon green! She also comes with a dress for a night out with the ghouls with zipper and leopard print and gold and black striped straps along with her animal print spiked heels in black. And for a more casual look her wolf print sweatshirt with purple and gold shorts and purple heeled tennis shoes. Fun Fact: I even found a scan of the black and white sketch of some of the ideas I was working on for her fashions! I live the black underlayer on her hair and her dark purple lipstick!
- Source: I Heart Fashion - Clawdeen Wolf
I Heart Fashion - Iris Clops[]
Garrett Sander: Happy belated MHMonday! This week it's your favorite one-eyed ghoul: Iris Clops! I was so happy we got to do an I Heart Fashion set for her! Playing up bright colors for her and having lots of fun with eye prints! Iris stayed close to her concept, a few color changes here and there: her eyelash buckle belt changed from pink to teal (it was still pink in the instagram photos!) and her peplum on her night out dress changed from pink to a black with silver metallic sparkles in it! Fun Fact: the 2nd MH Graphic Novel was being worked on while I was designing this so we sent over the concept sketches to the ubertalented Kellee Riley and she incorporated two of the outfits into the pages! So fun when you get to see the characters wearing the fashions you designed in content! One of my favorite pieces are her eyeball print tights - they just make me smile! I had wanted a cyclops girl in the line since the early days of the brand, and was so excited we got to have one in the background of the show that we were able to then bring her to life in product form! She is just too scary cute!
- Source: I Heart Fashion - Iris Clops
I Heart Fashion - Cleo de Nile[]
Garrett Sander: Let's keep the I Heart Fashion train going! It's Cleo de Nile and her I Heart Fashion closet for MHMonday!! There were a few changes to her design. When I did the sketch I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with her hair color so I left it all black and added in the teal streaks as she was coming together. Her gold pants changed to a coppery bandage print skirt and red was added to her wrap body suit, she lost the skirt in the middle sketch... too many layers!! Lol. I do love the black and teal dress and I think it's simple, chic, and very Cleo! Also, the gold fabric belt should go with that dress it got put on the hieroglyphic top for the photos (it happens!). I couldn't resist reusing the Skull Shores Anubis heels! It was fun to give Cleo a couple more casual looks as well, she may be a princess, but she's a people's princess 🤪🤪🤪.
- Source: I Heart Fashion - Cleo de Nile
Catty Noir[]
Garrett Sander: In honor of Friday the 13th this week for MHMonday we celebrate Monster High's resident pop star Catty Noir! Catty was a late add as we had the idea to celebrate Friday the 13th with an all new ghoul! Black and pink are of course iconic to MH so I wanted to play up those colors, but throw in some sparkle for the ultimate in on stage wear! Catty is pretty much ears to tail metallic! From her silver bodice with shattered mirror spiderweb print with pink glitter 13 to her metallic shattered mirror boots! Her layered torn pink train features silver and pink foil to mimic mirror shards. Even her necklace is a shattered mirror! In developing her character and style I wanted to make sure to play with unlucky things but reverse it that to her are lucky! So she's a black cat-girl who loves shattered mirrors as they bring her good luck! I was over the moon with how she turned out. The dark pink super long ponytail and the fullness and glow of her dress! You can totally imagine her closing her concert in this dress! Catty became one of my favorite characters, it was always fun to design for her. Fun Fact: I did Catty's signature on the box! So it's kinda like I signed every one! 🖤🤓
Extra: She's an amalgamation of several different pop stars.[1]
- Source: Catty Noir
I Heart Fashion - Scarah Screams[]
Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday! It's MH's resident banshee Scarah Screams!! Designing her closet was really fun - I love her mod inspired style. I also used some of the scary cool prints from the Monster High style guides that were being used for MH branded clothing for girls! I was able to add a couple of details from the original design: the pink bow on skullette purse (from the OG Frankie!) and the black necklace additional scareccessories are always fun!. I loved getting to sculpt her new boots! And playing with all the white was really different - and it really brings out her eyes don’t you think?! 🤓 The white belt with skullette shaped buckle should go on the sparkly green dress (isn't that fabric to die for!). But that's also the fun of these sets to mix and match the looks! Scarah's looks are also really useable for lots of the MH characters - her style is a little less specific so it allowed me to design some pieces that could be shared across several of the characters! Have you mixed and matched any of these pieces to give your ghouls a new look?
- Source: I Heart Fashion - Scarah Screams
I Heart Fashion - Frankie Stein[]
Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday!! It's the first I Heart Fashion ghoul Frankie Stein! I love Frankie's preppy goth style and her color palette is great for mixing and matching! Let's start with a Fun Fact: her hairstyle is one we looked at for the signature look of Frankie! While we decided upon her black and white streaked hair, I had to bring this one back! The color palette stayed the same but the colors were switched around on a few of the items, and she lost the jacket. Which while super cute the outfits still work. Her shoes and bag also changed as we had to make sure all the tools were at the factory she was being produced at, but all of Frankie's accessories look great so it was fun to do them in new colors. I love the actual fabric plaid tie she has! Too scary cute!! It was fun to add a touch of red into her palette as well, there is some red in her original dress plaid so wanted to play that up and it created a nice differentiation from the other Frankie's out at the time!
- Source: I Heart Fashion - Frankie Stein
Boo York, Boo York - City Ghouls[]
Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday it's the Boo York, Boo York - City Ghouls 3pack of Mouscedes King, Elle Eedee, and Luna Mothews. I was super happy we got to do this 3 pack of these ghouls in their "core" looks. Mouscedes is wearing a Swiss cheese inspired print top, with a teal cupcake pleat skirt with a cheese triangle wedge print, mouse trap ballet wrap heels, and teal bow headband. Elle is wearing her New York City Lights print dress with circuit details, purple jacket with purple foil thread, binary necklace, and gravity defying boots (the thought behind these was that if they were real, she can change how tall she wants to be by adjusting the clear "beam" to be long or short). Luna is wearing a cityscape print dress, with double silver belts, big eye glasses, and black cocoon heeled boots. Fun Fact: the Boo York, Boo York New Ghouls were originally supposed to come in their Gala outfits with their core outfits packed out on the side. Unfortunately that was changed, and we almost didn't get them in their core looks. But we were able to do this 3 pack for Walmart in the U.S.
- Source: Boo York, Boo York - City Ghouls
Great Scarrier Reef - Glowsome Ghoulfish - Lagoona Blue[]
Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday!! And let's celebrate with a nod to MerMay or as I like to call it MerMonsterMay with Great Scarrier Reef Lagoona Blue! In the movie Posea Reef accidentally turns our ghouls into MerMonsters even Lagoona! Which is fun as it gives us a chance to give Lagoona a new look. Lagoona actually started out as being like the Whisp Comic-Con doll where she was going to be able to transform from regular Lagoona to Mer-Lagoona. You would be able to pop her out at the waist and attach legs or her fin. As she was originally going to part of the assortment with Kala Mer'ri and Posea Reef. But it was decided that she should be a part of the existing character assortment. Her wings also came later as Fun Fact the story called for her to be a fast swimmer as originally there was a underwater race, but it was changed to a dance performance but we were too far change her design, but they still work and look great on her! Her shirt pattern is a starfish pattern that ties to her starfish pattern on her fin. I love how big her tail fin is! And it needed to be that big to help her to stand as we wanted all of them to be able to stand on their own! For this design I also did turn arounds for the sculpting team and if you swipe you can see them, they are a lot of work, but also a lot of fun to do as it helps you think and solve a lot of things ahead of time!
Fierce Rockers[]
Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday! Makes some noise for the Fierce Rockers 2pack with Catty Noir and Toralei Stripe! Fun Fact: this started off as the Shattered Spells 2pack and had Catty and Casta Fierce in it! It was changed to Toralei per management (even though it didn't really make any sense since Toralei isn't a singer, but what are you gonna do...) I love Catty's cracked Mirror Jumpsuit and matching shattered mirror makeup! Toralei was a last minute change so while her performance outfit is fun it's not my favorite. Another Fun Fact: Toralei was supposed to have a full cat scratch above and below her eye, but there was worry it was too scary... so she only got it under her eye, but it's still fun!
Extra: I didn't design [[[Sirena Von Boo]]], sorry!
Extra: [The elements between the belts of Catty] were left over "spell" accents that it was too late to change for production. The idea was Catty had some spell elements on her and Casta was going to have some shattered elements on her like they were on tour together!
- Source: Fierce Rockers
Casta Fierce[]
Garrett Sander: Happy MHMonday!! It's Casta Fierce this week casting her spell on the music charts! Casta's dress started off a bit different. I was asked to make a giant skirt (even though it wasn't the look I wanted for her) so I did, but when we got costs in it was so expensive so we could only afford one layer of tulle... and it didn't look great. So I lengthened her dress and took the same amount of tulle fabric and folded it upon itself two layers to create a new look (that was also closer to my initial idea!). I love her broom/microphone stand that she can fly around on while she performs. I am also proud of her shoulder cage spikes! It was a bit of a challenge to design and make it fit her right. She was also meant to celebrate Halloween hence the orange and black with purple (the main color of her magic). I love posing her in different performance poses on my shelf! I also love that she conjures up her band The Spells when it's time to perform! Fun Fact: her name was just going to be Casta, but it didn't clear trademarks by itself so she got a last name Fierce and I think it suits her well! It was also fun to finally introduce a Witch as an official character (outside of Create-A-Monster).
Extra: Maybe [there was supposed to be a link between Casta and Spelldon]... 🤔🤫😉
Extra: Rebecca Shipman designed most of the Create-A-Monsters and what a totally clawsome job she did!
- Source: Casta Fierce
Shattered Spells Tour[]
Garrett Sander: Happy Friday the 13th!! Here's the 2 pack that 1/2 never was! Originally the Catty Noir and Toralei Stripe 2 pack was meant to be a Catty and Casta Fierce 2 pack! I wanted to call it the Shattered Spells Tour 2 pack as though Catty and Casta were on tour together, but alas it did not happen I had to use Toralei instead. I felt it didn't make sense since Toralei couldn't sing, but 🤷♂️. The pack still turned out cute but I really wish we could have done another Casta! Plus I loved the boots I designed!
- Source: Shattered Spells Tour
The Very First Sketch of Frankie Stein[]
Garrett Sander: Happy Friday The 13th, Ghouls and Mansters! Here's a little something no one has seen before: the very first sketch of Frankie Stein! This was the first sketch I drew when the idea of a High School of Monster Teens popped into my head. While she looks different from her final version, this sketch was the starting point for the entire Monster High franchise as we know it today. You'll notice that the date of the sketch is 06.26.2007 - which is what Frankie's birthday is as she was born on this day with this sketch! Wanted to unearth a bit of the history behind Monster High and Frankie, the ghoul who started it all!
Extra: I named a lot of them, and so would the other designers when they created characters, sometimes we would brainstorm together on the names too!
Haunted - Student Spirits - River Styxx, Round 1[]
Garrett Sander: It's been a while since there has been an MHMonday! It's been a challenge to do as my hard drive went bust - so I've been digging through my photos and papers to see what I can find to share! They will be more infrequent but will still be happening! So let's take a look at River Styxx! The Haunted line was originally to come with their pets, but they were unfortunately removed. I found pics of River's pet raven: Cawtion! Cawtion would have been molded in translucent purple plastic with his ghost bones visible through it (just like River's arms and legs). It's hard to see in the prototype images but it would have been more clear in production! For River herself, she was supposed to have a floating skull inside her head like her arms and legs! The prototype got a frosted look when it got tinted and again would have been more clear like her actual limbs. Instead of getting the skeleton details painted on her face there would have been an actual skull inside! Mark in the Mattel model shop did such a spooktacular job on this head it was not an easy prototype to create! It would have happened too but a girl in testing said she though River looked too creepy so management nixed it... at least I have picture proof! Cawtion was sculpted by Denise Saffren! And River was sculpted by Adam deFelice of the Mattel Sculpting Team!
Haunted - Student Spirits - Cawtion[]
Denise Saffren: I found a good pic of Cawtion! 😍😭👍 I also remember that the skeleton was glow in the dark. Right? Oh well... 💀💜
Garrett Sander: The ughmazing Denise Saffren who sculpted Cawtion had more pics of him! So you can see his cute little skeleton! She also reminded me his bones were going to be glow in the dark! Also, be sure to check out her clawsome sculpting abilities!!
Extra: One of my favorites was sculpting Dustin, Twyla's pet dust bunny. I'd never been asked to sculpt a dust bunny before. It was fun being apart of the birth of MH💜
School Spirit Sports[]
Garrett Sander: Happy Halloween!🎃⚰️🕸☠️👻 Here's a line pulled from the depth of the catacombs that partially saw the light of day! This was the original School Spirit Sports line where the ghouls and mansters would be dressed in their Monster High sports uniforms! This was also going be Clawd Wolf's introduction to the line in his football uniform with foot, football! Draculaura and Frankie Stein are in their fearleading outfits, Deuce Gorgon in his casketball uniform, Clawdeen Wolf in her track and field uniform (she was to come with her bone javelin, skullput, and crescent moon discus) and Lagoona Blue in her surf team uniform! A few of these pieces came out as fashion packs! But wouldn't they have made clawsome dolls! These were going to come out after the Gloom Beach line in Spring 2011. Swipe to see the original sketches and closeup shots of the dolls! Hope you all enjoy this Halloween treat!
- Source: School Spirit Sports
Original Prototypes[]
Garrett Sander: Happy Friday The 13th every monster! Unearthed from the depths of the Catacombs - Check out the very first prototypes that were made to pitch the idea of Monster High! These prototypes used a head mold from a doll line that never made it to retail, feature the Barbie collector pivotal body (I was always all about that articulation) and you'll notice some My Scene shoes and accessories to help complete their looks plus some actual jewelry used to create their details! Just like customizers - we build prototypes out of what we have around sometimes, especially when the idea can be out there - like Fashionably Fierce Monster Teens! You'll notice that Frankie isn't green either... management said girls don't like green so we couldn't paint her up green... luckily when we tested the brand girls said if her dad is Frankenstein, she should be green! I felt so vindicated! Thanks girls in testing! For the most part the ghouls stayed pretty close to these designs, but Clawdeen got an all new outfit and a more purple color palette!
Extra: The line was called LaTEENaz, I didn't work on it but loved the headsculpts and we didn't want to use a sculpt for these (basically breadboard models) so that way they looked like new dolls. The ears were actually ears cut off from the heads of I believe the Barbie Thumbelina dolls and glued on haha!
Extra: No, this was not what they were supposed to look like. We built these so we would have models that have the idea of what they could look like! This was back in 2007, 3D printing was just starting. We couldn't just sculpt entire doll and output (at least not very quickly!) so we used existing (mostly) stuff we could find to build them and show so people could see the possibility of what the line would be like!
Extra: This was at the very beginning so she was still Howleen here!
Extra: Yup! People were very skeptical a monster doll line would work, they didn't think it could be "pretty" or "fashionable" so we showed them just how GOREgeous they could be!
Extra: Cleo, Ghoulia and Lagoona first model look like their dolls that were released. These were only built to help show the idea of the line, they weren’t meant to be what the actual line was going to look like.
- Source: Original Prototypes
Haunted - Student Spirits - River Styxx, Round 2[]
Garrett Sander: Happy Friday the 13th weekend every monster! With such an uhhhhhmazing day yesterday with the release of the Beetlejuice Skullector Set, I wanted to keep the clawsomeness on a roll! So I dug and finally found an image of the initial concept for River Styxx! I found the sketch (or at least a picture I took of my screen lol) and an image of the original prototype doll! The original design she was in a tie dye pastel hooded dress with "shredded" ends. As you can see in the sketch she also was supposed to have a pixie cut hairstyle - but that got vetoed early on cause "girls don't like dolls with short hair" lol! So for the model that went to testing we have her longer hair. You'll notice the model has the floating skull inside her head too, it would have looked so cool in production, but what can you do?! The model even had a blade on her scythe, before it was considered "too violent" haha! I really love the look of her her hooded dress, I think it was changed cause there was concern it looked too close to Catty's. I think she reads much more pastel goth in this look. I also wish we could have afforded to paint her chains different colors - and of course keep their pets! You can see Cawtion next to the prototype doll!
Kala Klawasaki[]
File:MHMonday - Kala Klawasaki.jpg Garrett Sander: Happy October every monster!!! Gotta start this month off right with an MH Fun Fact! Did you know that Kala Mer'ri started off as Kala Klawasaki, inspired by the Japanese Spider-Crab? I remember we were asked to really push what a monster could look like and be for Great Scarrier Reef - Down Under Ghouls, so some crazy designs were done early on! I love where Kala ended up, but it would have been pretty terrorific to have seen this come to unlife! Designs can take lots of twists and turns along the way to final product - it's all part of the toy design journey!
- Source: Kala Klawasaki
Classroom - Operetta[]
Garrett Sander: Part 1: Happy Halloween Every Monster! Hope everyone is having a fangtastic day! 10 people didn't want to see this, but the 3K votes for yes won out! Lol! To help celebrate Halloween and the UUHHHMazing release of the Greta Gremlin Skullector doll, I wanted to post some unearthed Monster High history! Some fans may know that the Classroom line from 2011 that included Home Ick Frankie, Mad Science Lagoona and Physical Deaducation Ghoulia was also meant to include a Drama Class Draculaura! But what no one knows is it was originally going to be 5 dolls and was to include New Student Operetta in Marching Band! Operetta originally began her unlife as the "villain", before it was Cleo, Operetta was the HBIC (head BEAST in charge) of Monster High. But she was replaced with our beloved mummy ghoul. So we were looking for places for Operetta to be introduced in the line. We thought it would be fun to have her be into performing both theater and music and she would fit perfectly in the Monster High Marching Band! So here are the sketches for her and her band accessories, fashions and prototype doll and fashions/accessories. The initial idea was that Operetta was going to be the steampunk one and loved to build and create her instruments from parts she found in the catacombs. I also found pics of the model we had built! She used Ghoulia's head for the prototype while we were working on her head, as we wanted her to have the half scarred look to match her famous monster parent, the Phantom of the Opera!
- Part 2: The prototype is wearing a dress that's not part of the initial concept. She also has some existing accessories like Operetta's actual bracelet, so I think this was taken later, after the actual Operetta came out, but I can't remember why lol! (Maybe a third try at putting her in the line before her actual debut?) But you can see she was going to have a lace-y steampunk inspired look with a gray top w/ pink lace print and trim, yellow and black shorts and black and yellow boots w/ gear buttons! She has her chandelier earrings and since she was going to be extra dramatic, she had a microphone she took everywhere just in case the opportunity to perform arose! Freaky Fun Fact: the microphone was modeled after a karaoke microphone Radica was making (but it never came out either). You can also see the drawing for her steampunk key-tar, Band Class uniform and she would have come with a locker like the other ghouls did! Operetta kept her purple skin in her re-design to rockabilly and while this one was fun to design and I was excited for her to be part of the Classroom line, I think it worked out that we waited to introduce her in the core line and she became our rockabilly phantom! I just love her look that Natalie designed and it felt right for the character! And the steampunk look works so perfectly on our resident robot ghoul Robecca! But it's nice to look back on how Operetta went from part of the initial ghoul group, almost getting a spot for in the line in Classroom, to Phenomenal Phantom doll we all know and love! Sometimes the initial idea of a character, or even the second and third versions of them, may not work out, but you find a spot for them where they were meant to be!
- Source: Classroom - Operetta, Part 1
- Source: Classroom - Operetta, Part 2
Notes[]
- Garrett Sander: So happy to add these two beauties to my collection! MoonMystic and SunSpell: the Guardian Goddesses by Mattel 1979. I've been wanting these two for a while now but prices are always ridiculous for them until a recent eBay auction that was too much of a steal to pass up! Can't wait to find the fashion packs too! Fun Fact: I was inspired by this packaging for Monster High. And early package concept I did featured a comic on the back panel that would tell a little about each character. We later decided to change to the diaries the characters came with![2]
- Garrett Sander: Day 83: Spectra from Spectra by Mattel, 1986. Leader of the Shimmerons! She's Lacy, Spacy, Out of this World! Featuring a full pink chrome body, shimmer shine hair and metallic makeup, Spectra was light years ahead of her time! I just loved it all! Especially her Buffatron Bed that polished her body! And yes, Spectra Vondergeist was named after her as an homage to this line! I also referenced Spectra when I was told the all chrome SDCC Robecca couldn't be done! The ailver package with lace print foil stamp - LOVE!! I wish I knew who designed this line so I could thank them for amazing memories and totally helping to inspire Monster High![3]
- Garrett Sander: [The name of Clawdeen wolf] is also an homage to the She-Ra line! I loved the name Clawdeen from the beginning and knew. I wanted it for MH's Clawdeen when I designed her![4]
- Garrett Sander: Day 148: Chase Ghoulia from the Monster High Vinyl Collection by Mattel, 2014. These vinyl figs were so friggin cute! The line was designed by the clawsome Ivy Bleser and the fangtastically talented Darko Dordevic and I believe the package was done by Roy Juarez and Tonya Rios, the line was sculpted by Denise Saffren and Kittaya Wongchinda of Mattel Sculpting. While I love them all you all know by now I can't resist a chromed toy, so the chase Ghoulia shines on my shelf![5]
- Garrett Sander: Happy National Coming Out Day! My one wish is that we could have had at least one official LGBTQ+ character in MH. In case you didn't know, Valentine was supposed to be that character. His diary was going to reveal that because he was afraid to love monsters of the same gender as his heart desired, he had to syphon "love" as seen in Why Do Ghouls Fall in Love?. And as a love vampire he would have found that loving himself as he is would have kept his hunger satiated - and then only grow more fulfilling with true love. I wanted him and Spelldon to get together as well - that was the plan, but it unfortunately got nixed "as it wasn't the right time". But hopefully we'll be seeing lots out and proud students at Monster High in the new reboot (I have no information just hopeful). We tried to say it without saying it wherever we could, but it wasn't enough and I'm sorry I wasn't able to make it happen, as a gay kid I would have loved to have seen gay characters in my favorite shows and I know it would have meant so much to so many fans to see it in Monster High.[6]
References[]
- ↑ Catty Noir for Friday the 13th
- ↑ Guardian Goddesses at Garrett Sander's instagram account
- ↑ Spectra at Garrett Sander's instagram account
- ↑ Spectra at Garrett Sander's instagram account
- ↑ Monster High Vinyl Collection at Garrett Sander's instagram account
- ↑ National Coming Out Day at Garrett Sander's instagram account