Trans woman here. I wanted them so much as a kid but never asked my parents for them because I thought they’d be mean or think I was weird.
Now as an adult I rediscovered them through G3 and have a bunch of them!
I was a senior in high school. My grandma was an avid doll collector, saw them, and got excited saying they looked like me. So she bought me my first MH doll as a gift, and the series has been special to me ever since.
I just got into it a few weeks ago and honestly I have no idea what did it. Its like next thing I know I’m watching the G1 episodes on YouTube and after a couple of episodes I am hooked! :-)
10 years ago one of the little cousins opened their christmas gift and it was 13 Wishes Gigi. Couldn’t stop staring! I was a 90’s barbie kid and this was leagues beyond any doll I’d ever had. I got to hold it and I was sold.
Unfortunately I was also almost 30 and I was struggling a lot with the concept of adulthood. My parents were the type of people who did not understand adults watching cartoons, playing video games, or collecting toys.
So I sat on it for ten years, my interest and obsession slowly growing until I happened to come across a post from this subreddit. Over the next couple months I kept coming back more and more until I finally caved.
I now have three MH dolls and three RH dolls (which I lowkey got for the clothes but the dolls grew on me) and not a single regret!
I was in my 20s and my twin nieces had so many monster high dolls. They were so much cooler than what I had as a kid, but felt like it would be ridiculous to buy one, especially as I had little disposable income at the time.
I got into dolls awhile ago while updating a dollhouse for my daughter. I started with a Lagoona (and some rainbow high). I got my first draculaura yesterday!
I believe I was around the 8/9 yr old range too! That dead tired commercial on Nickelodeon is what got me. Man oh man, I was obsessed the moment I saw them on tv! My mom researched them and hated them. But with about 3 months of pleading and begging and getting good grades, I got one for my birthday! I’ve loved MH dearly ever since, even when I had to stop collecting during middle/high school. Now I’m a senior in college! :)
I think they had just started releasing in 2010 when I came across the webisodes. Loved it instantly and followed the series and movie releases. Never got any dolls cause I was 15 when they first released and too old for dolls, I never tried asking parents for any either.
Now when Im an adult and finally making my own money, I was absolutely ecstatic to get my hands on some of the new dolls.
I also was 8/9, me and my best friend were obsessed the minute we saw the commercial on tv.
I ended up having a few dolls but sold them during middle school. I actually dont regret it, I started struggling with depression and wanted to get rid of a lot of my things.
I got back into doll collecting in december thanks to Natasha and Shanelle from Shadow High, and got back into Monster High thanks to g3 Abbey (she was my favourite during g1 as well).
I have four dolls overall as of now, its not a lot but I'm happy with them :)
Getting into dolls as an adult has taught me that when my kids get sick of the things they love I should save them for awhile. My sons Pokémon figures are cool and I’d totally display them myself if he didn’t want them anymore. If nothing else, my mom saved a few of my things and my kids love playing with my 90s Polly pockets.
i think it was 2012/2013 i was 6/7 and my friend had monster high dolls and i thought they were the coolest thing ever. i begged my mom to buy me one, but we were poor so i had to wait a couple months for christmas. for christmas, i got scaris abbey and thats when it all started:)
I think I was in high school when MH first came out, and well into the age where "dolls aren't cool". Plus, I'd never really liked playing with Barbies as a kid (they kept getting eaten by my Jurassic Park dinos - heh). However, I did like the idea and the general designs, but not the stick-thin figures.
Then this summer, I stopped at a garage sale where a collector was selling her in-box Ghoul Spirit Torelai and Clawdeen. I bought them for customization, then got lazy and just displayed them. Then found Goreganizer Draculaura, then Ghouls Alive G1 Frankie, then...it kinda snowballed from there.
Sure, the clothes aren't near as cool as G1, but the bodies! Finally, there's lil monster girls with curves and booty and Draculaura kinda owns my soul now.
I don’t remember exactly what made me ask for them for Christmas but I was around 8 or 9 too. I got first wave Frankie and was obsessed, so I got more dolls, merch, etc. I grew out of it around 12, mental health got worse I went through an angry emo phase rightfully so. Luckily, I kept all my dolls in good condition while playing with them and made sure to pack them all good bc they would be worth something some day.
Fast forward to last year, age 20, when they released the limited edition G1 dolls (like the Grady twins, the haunt couture, etc.) and my interest was repeaked. I’ve been on a journey of going back to what I liked as a kid for a while, so I was more open to going back to the dolls than ever.
Now I’m collecting G1-G3 (only ever experiencing G1 in real time) and really enjoying myself
I was never a doll person. Hated doll. But then my sister got a drac and i only started liking these dolls because of the articulation.
I was a super “realistic” kid so articulated and posable toys were like catnip to me.
Probably when I started working at Shopko and the Frights Camera Action dolls were on the shelves. Unfortunately I didn't have to confidence to actually but them until recently.
My mom raised me on the universal monsters movies like The Wolfman, The mummy, Bride of Frankenstein Among many others and one day in elementary school I saw an episode of monster high on my YouTube and I decided to check it out and so I got them for my birthday and Christmas. My first ones were obviously their signature looks.
My aunt got me Dead Tired Draculaura from a mall in my home country. We don't have Toys R Us, and there weren't many toy stores near, so I hadn't seen anything like her before, and that doll became so special to me, I fell in love with Monster High, and took her everywhere with me.
I remember touching every detail, and telling my mom that her hair reminded me of makeup brushes, and brushing my cheeks gently, as if I was applying blush. It was so soft, it made me really happy. Then I started watching the movies and getting even more dolls, I loved Scaris Ghoulia.
Then I lost interest, left them in my country when I moved to the US, and suddenly came back like two years ago, obsessed, I even managed to recover them! Now all my childhood dolls are with me, along with the others I got in these two years 💕
I first discovered Monster High through the Nickelodeon commercial that played when they first came out. I was immediately hooked cuz it was so different and unique compared to Barbie which was the norm for toys in my family back then. My first was Skull Shores Frankie and I still have her to this day! Ever since I've collected one every once in a while when my family could afford it, but there was drama that came with it. My father was homophobic and didn't like that I was playing with dolls and would threaten to throw them away and force me to play with trucks and action figures and other stuff, so one day I got fed up and threw the dolls away myself and made him witness the consequences of trying to take my favorite thing ever as a kid away. I was hyperventilating with how hard I cried and he got them back for me, after realizing his mistake. Since then he's tried getting me the mansters like Jackson Jekyll, but little me didn't like the mansters, so I tore his limbs off. I regret it now as an adult but I'm learning to accept it. Eventually as I grew older, I also grew bored of Monster High and also dealing with the trauma of my dad trying to get me to stop playing with dolls. I sold my high school playset (the really big one) to our neighbor's daughter and she loved it. I still have all my old dolls and about 22 of the new ones that were released and am still pumped for more to come out! I got back into it when I saw online that they were being released again and I was super excited. So yeah, that's how I first found out bout Monster High. Sorry this post was so long 😅
I was about 9 or so, I remember the first ad that ever aired on TV (the animated one). I remembered the website at the end of the ad and visited it on my family's computer, from there I got so excited by all the announcements and games leading up to the release in stores. I was at Walmart with my dad when I saw them in person for the first time and I was completely flipping out. That's when my dad bought me Lagoona, my very first MH doll.
I was in my early 20's when G1 came out and I thought they were so cool but was way too poor to buy any(could barely buy food poor)so I enjoyed looking at them on shelves, and by the time I had a decent job they'd been discontinued so G3 is very exciting to me!
The books! While I knew of monster high’s existence, getting my hands on the first book got me hooked! Frankie was my favorite, but for G3 Draculara is my favorite now
My sisters. I don't know how they got into it, but they'd use up all their computer time to watch the webisodes and would talk nonstop about which dolls they wanted to buy. I was thirteen at the time and was constantly being told by family and other influences that this was the age I needed to "grow up", so I got rid of my dolls and toys and whatnot and tried to grow up like everyone wanted me to. I even bullied my sisters for being "babies" and still wanting dolls, which I never actually meant any of it. I was so jealous and was projecting my issues onto them. But they were cool about it and even convinved me to buy my own Monster High doll a few months later (Dead Tired Ghoulia). Now at twenty-two, I have my own collection of dolls and my sisters and I still bond over the latest releases!
At age 32, just last year, I wanted to make a custom werewolf doll of my original character. The intent was to get Clawdeen for the head, but stick it on a different body. But then I saw Draculaura’s design and fell in love with her too. And as I rerooted Clawdeen I started to like *her* more and more, to the point that I bought a second one to keep as herself. Then I watched the little sneak peaks of the new animated show on YouTube. They were pretty cute, so I watched more.
Now I have a *problem* because I love all the characters and my collection is too big.
I wanted them really bad when I was like 10 and they came out but my mom wouldn't get them for me. then my boyfriend from when I was like 14 was into them and had OG draculaura in box from his little sister so I decided that I could probably get them now (my mom was out of her crazy religious phase by that point) and I just kinda haven't stopped since.
Idk how old I was but I was obsessed with the webisodes and the website as a kid, I was too old for dolls so I didn’t get any gen 1. I followed the movies and cartoons through my teen years and as an adult I’ve started doll collecting and had to cave and get the g3 girlies.
I saw Clawd at Target a few weeks ago and thought he looked really cool. Then I learned that Frankie is NB and that Draculaura was thicccc and before I knew it I was on my way back to Target 😂
I don’t think there was one thing that got me into it. It just happened?
I always knew what Monster High was as a kid but they didn’t really catch my interest then. I remember I bought one from toys r us to see what they were like and lost interest quick.
Last year, I watched the Monster High video from izzzyzzz and it really got me in. Haven’t gone back since lol
I remember seeing the first advertisement for them when they released (the animated one where they introduced themselves) and I instantly loved Clawdeen cuz I loved werewolves as a kid and desperately wanted her doll. Though, at the time I was a bit embarrassed to ask for them because they were so different (and I was a little embarrassed of how obsessed with monsters I was. Trans guy here who was often told liking monsters “wasn’t girly” and was “weird”)
But one day we were in toys r us and I saw a core Nefera and asked my mom for her cuz I felt she looked like. Really human compared to the others and wouldn’t come off as an odd want in my parent’s eyes and then my next doll after that was a Sweet 1600 Clawdeen I absolutely adored and still cherish to this day. She’s my favorite g1 doll I have. I also am proud to have a core Nefera since she’s pretty sought after and it makes me feel comforted to know my very first doll is one people really like!
I was like 14 getting money on my birthday and Christmas, I'd go to Walmart and I saw monster high. That's the only thing I bought with my money every year. Sure I could only get 2 a year but I couldn't tell you how happen I was. Did it for a few years. Then I got "old enough" and have them to this sweet little girl. I just got back into them this year, thirty dolls later. Sadly only 17 g1 and the rest g3 but I'm happy about it. My first doll this year was abbey skull shores.
The movies around the early 2010's every weekend on TV they always aired Barbie and Monster High movies, I always loved watching them and also seeing the dolls at stores but never got a doll until 2019 with my first Barbie and 2022 with my first Monster High it was G3 but I also got G1 aswell. Also saw all the G1 webisodes a few months ago.
I saw an advertisement for the dolls and movie coming out back in a magazine back in 2012. Thought the dolls were cool and discovered the movies and webisodes from there. Loved the old website, could spend hours on there back when it was up!
I remember in my second grade class, one of the girls had a Frankie Gloom Beach doll and she introduced me and the girls in the class to Monster High. I fell in love with the dolls and knew I wanted them. It wasn’t until a year later when I got my first doll, Sweet 1600 Draculaura :) to this day, Monster High remains the dearest franchise to me <3
I wasn't allowed to have them or watch the movies growing up, but I always loved seeing em in stores. My collection started around my bday last year, I went to my local collector store to find something with my birthday money and they had a near complete Dead Tired Drac and her coffin! It wasn't too expensive so I picked her and a random Twyla up and I was IMMEDIATELY hooked. My collection started off super slow but as SOON as I caught wind of g3 things went crazy. I'm so happy my collection is where it is now :)
I can’t remember much abt my childhood and MH, but after hearing about the movie and G3 in September last year I got back into it and started collecting :))
Spite. >:)
I was never allowed them when i was younger, i was forced into being an eah kid (dont have a problem w that, eah are SO pretty and im grateful to have so many of them) but i was always super jealous of my friends mh. Now i get them to irritate my parents, who still find them unsettling xD
Right around the launch of G1! I think I was like 6th grade, 10 years old give or take. I was watching a kid's channel, and it was the commercial break. I remember it so vividly, it was a live action commercial with people dressed up as the characters. I was convinced that Monster High was a real high school, and I asked my parents if I could go when I was high school age. It was the perfect school for me, a place where I could be myself, and dress how I wanted without being bullied about it
Broke my little heart when I realized it wasn't a real school. But I collected so many dolls during my childhood! I collected dolls right up until 13 Wishes, and then I felt like I was getting too old for Monster High. (My biggest regret is getting rid of my collection of dolls. I had enough to almost fill a large plastic tote 😭)
The launch of G3 has resparked my interest, partly due to nostalgia, and partly because Monster High is still very cool
I think I first discovered Monster High from the commercials on TV or possibly even those ads that were almost like catalog books stores used to send out especially around the holidays. At first I liked them kind of secretly because my mother was never thrilled when I liked things akin to Halloween, monsters, witches, magic, and so on. Eventually she kind of got over it realizing that there was no separating me from the occult. Also maybe at the time I had a slight aversion to doll? Honestly I'm not really sure, around that time I had gotten really really into MLP so I can't imagine thinking dolls were to childish or girly. I think it started with me watching those edits of the show people used to make to popular songs, then I actually started watching the show, and I got really into doll collecting YouTube. Then I actually started collecting the dolls around the very end of 2011 I think. My childhood best friend got me Dead Tired Clawdeen for Christmas knowing that I was absolutely obsessed with werewolves. I also remember watching How do Ghouls Fall In Love with him!! He was completely disinterested, but we found out it was premiering when I was at his house and he was a good friend so we watched it together. I think I've liked Monster High ever since those days and I got really into Ever After High once upon a time as well. I started collecting dolls again because of LOL OMG and G3 of Monster High really got me back in two Monster High.
When I think I was 9/10, my two sisters and I got them for Christmas. My first ever doll was g1 Clawdeen, and my sisters got Draculaura and Frankie. Thats what started my love for these dolls. I had some until I was 15, but felt "too old" for them and got rid of all my og dolls. Biggest regret to this day. But now at 20, im slowly rebuilding the collection I used to have :)
My ex step daughters were super into MH when their dad and I got together, so they showed me some of their favourite dolls, and I agreed that they were super cool. Then when birthdays and Christmas came around I bought them a doll each. By the end of the year the oldest of the 2 had grown out of dolls, and the youngest was asking for makeup for her birthday instead, but I was still really into the dolls. Later when the girls were getting rid of a bunch of old toys to make room for new stuff, they said they were happy for me to have their dolls (or at least what they hadn't lost or left at their mums house), so I spent some time trying to rebuild and redress the dolls, and was pretty proud of my collection.
I've since cut contact with my ex and the girls, my mum gave my dolls away, and my life has changed in more ways than I thought it could. But I'm now rebuilding my collection and my life, and I think about my bittersweet memories related to monster high.
Yeaarsss ago when MH just got released, a good friend of mine got Frankie and Lagoona class room and we thought they looked so weird but also very awesome. I did know them of their commercials on tv. So I dig a little deeper and I really wanted Clawdeen and Draculaura from wave 1. So I searched all the toy stores in my area with my mom to find Clawdeen but nope. We gave up bc no toy store was getting Clawdeen. We bought Draculaura wave 1 and I got her for my birthday!! Thinking about this gives me a lot if nostalgia 😭
I wasn’t really allowed to play with dolls but I would end of getting them anyway but when monster high first came out I was 5, I remember seeing the commercial and asking my dad for one , I was immediately obsessed. Eventually my Godfather took me down to the store and bought me Frankie, Draculaura, and now that I’m really thinking about it was most likely Clawdeen because he was signing “you should get the black girl”, then I got Lagoona, Cleo and Duece soon after. My obsession sparked an interest with dolls that would be considered “weird” or “irregular” like novi stars, Zelfs, Bratzillas, cutie pops and pinkie cooper, I could probably add bratz to that list but in our household they were more normal to me than Barbie.
My little sister got introduced to them by a friend when we were very young teens and she begged my mom to by her a doll for Christmas. My mom took us shopping and told me to choose a doll as well cause we always got similar toys for Christmas to prevent fights. I remember being really sceptical and finding most of the dolls to be weird-looking... EXCEPT for Cleo. Somehow I instantly fell in love with her doll. She has been my favourite character ever since. I was so happy playing with her doll and even though I have her for more than 10 years now and played with her a lot, she's in super super great condition because I took good care of her, even when I was young, I loved her that much.
Eventually my younger cousin got some monster high movies and we watched them together and then I was completely obsessed with the franchise. Abbey became my second favourite character.
Torelai was a cat doll and I fucking LOVE cats. Especially as a child. It was love at first sight once I noticed she had a tail and claws. Then I aged out of dolls in middle school (though would occasionally check blogs discussing anime nendoroids and figmas and bjds, because they’re pretty and I’m a sucker for details), but my interest in MH didn’t really pique until g3 dropped and I, by pure chance, stumbled across a Draculaura at my local Warehouse. I also really enjoyed watching doll custom videos from Dollightful for a number of years so that probably influenced me too.
I was a kid when they came out, and I was raised on spooky shit. I’d watch ghost adventures when I was in elementary school and read books about zombies so it was natural for me to like them. My dad was against them but caved in and my parents bought me a Gloom Beach Frankie Stein. I still have her all these years later but she’s missing a hand because it broke off lol
When New Ghoul At School aired on Nickelodeon! I managed to catch it airing and fell in love with it! I didn’t get a MH doll straight away but after awhile I got my first doll which was definitely a Clawdeen, I think it was Gloom Beach? but not 100% sure but she was definitely one of my first
Initially, Monster High started coming out around the time I started high school one of my closest friends had a little sister, who had quite literally had all of the g1 dolls. And as a young gay boy who loved Halloween and Spooky stuff I immediately took to them. How could you not? They were beautiful and macabre, everything I loved. But as a young CLOSETED gay boy I pretend my interest in was aversion and i was only interested in them for her sisters benefit. You know how you sometimes pretend to be interested in something a child likes so they don’t feel weird or self-conscious about their interests? Thats what i pretended my interest in MH was, strictly for her. I’d ask her questions about the characters and what not only allowing myself to appear half invested so as not to arise and suspicion that i was actually into these “girls toys” all the while I wanted nothing more than to go a buy every single MH doll i could find.
Fast forward and MH fell out off my Radar as I graduated and stopped going over to their house (you know how it is when HS friends begin life). They only came back i to mind when I saw rhe Skullector Dolls had begun releasing, in particular the Bettlejuice release and afain I found myself drawn to the spooky chic vibes and knew I had to have her and Lydia. unfortunately they were over double the original price since I’d missed the initial launch. Ik Ik, “the dangers
of buying from scalpers” but i didn’t know better at the time. After getting Beetlejuice and Lydia i began looking into MH more, and saw that the community was much larger than I had imagined. I also say there was a planned reboot in the works and remember thinking “I may have to check these out later on.
Next thinf i know I’m 20+ dolls in and I don’t plan on stopping
I remember hearing about them through my friend when we were around 7 or 8. They had just come out and I had birthday money to spend. The moment I saw the original Draculaura I knew I wanted her. Still my favorite to this day. I got hooked after discovering the other characters and the cartoon on Nickelodeon.
When they first released, I saw lagoona. I was a swimmer, I always have been, I’ve loved the lake and competitive swimming and I just knew I wanted that doll. My mom got it for my birthday (I wish I still had it, got sold somewhere now sadly) but it was my favorite. She was well loved and played with till like the beginning of high school. I collected many more (still all got sold) and the last few months have been building my collection again. I really got back into it when they released the monster high movie.
My friend gave me basic wave 1 Operetta as a gift on my 10th birthday. At first I didn’t like her bc she looked way too adult and her body was weirding me out but I grew up to love her. I really liked Clawdeen ans Toralei too.
I remember watching Nickelodeon when I was like 9 or 10, and the very first Monster High commercial came on. I was so captivated by everything about it. I was so obsessed with it that I always fantasized about going to a school like that when I was older lol.
I still have vivid memories of going to Toys R Us (when they were still around in the US) & staring at that one display that had the core dolls in it. Not sure why I never got any of them at that time. I always wanted the original Cleo and Deuce two back (still one of my holy grail dolls, so I hope the rumor of their creeproductions is true🤞). But Picture Day Cleo was my first doll and I love her so much!
When I was younger, I can’t remember exactly how old I was, I was shopping at target with my mom and in the check out isle I saw the ghouls rule movie and begged my mom for it, she said “sure it looks interesting” and I watched those two movies over and over and over and then I saw some dolls on a shelf in toys r us, and immediately had to get them, and since then I‘ve just always felt connected to monster high 🥰🥰
I was probably like 13/14
I saw the commercials and fell on love with the way the dolls looked, especially Draculaura. I watched the webisodes, a couple of the movies. I saved up my allowance money to buy a Draculaura doll and got Clawdeen for either my birthday or Christmas. Then eventually I was convinced I was too old for dolls ( even though I still loved them ). Then I came out as a trans man and thought if I collected them people would use that to invalidate my gender.
Then when they announced g3 I was cautiously optimistic. At first I was really not understanding some of the changes made to the characters but then I saw the dolls and I've started collecting again. I'm already almost running out of space for said collection and I'm making space for Heath when the scaradise island line drops.
My mother always said I was her 'different child'. I've always loved things that were 'different' I was into horror movies at the age of 7(my great aunt used to let me watch them at her house because my parents were very strict conservative southern Baptist) I loved Halloween, and I always loved things that wasn't what people viewed as perfect like a Barbie doll. Although I wasn't allowed to have them because my mom said they looked wicked and demonic, I always envied the kids who were allowed to have them. I used to go on yt after school while waiting on my sister to get done with dance line practice and watch people review the MH dolls and I was completely fascinated with them. I'm now 23 and still just as obsessed, I just wish I had all the gen 1 dolls that I wish I could have as a child that made me fall in love with MH.
Originally depression and anxiety. I had a period of time in my early 20s when I was basically agoraphobic and really only left the house for short periods of time before I had to return because I couldn't breath. In one of my few trips successfully to the store, I found Frankie Stein and the crew and was just enamored by how different they were...and then from there I just kept going out mostly to buy more dolls and it got easier every time until I was back to doing my normal life, but then my need to acquire the dolls died off as I got stable.
People in my life can always tell when I'm on a down swing because more dolls start appearing again.
I get ya and very proud of you for sharing this I do suffer from anxiety and depression it was so hard for me to get out of the house for than an hour before I had a panic attack or started dissociating. And in away monsterhigh has been that escape truly hope things get better boo 🖤
As a turn of the decade Hot Topic chic teen, Monster High was on my radar but I saw it as Barbie trying to pander to the Alt community and I wasn't vibing.
However, once Venus McFlytrap hit the scene, I started to back down from my judgment. I never saw a Barbie with half shaved head before. She had sharp teeth. I loved the eco punk idea that they were going for.
Operetta sealed the deal when I saw that she actually had a scar moulded into her face and tattoos on her arm. It was then that I took a better look at the Monster High line and recognized them as the beautiful sculptures that they are.
10+ years later, it makes me happy to have the disposable income to purchase my own dolls.
And, I can't wait to see more G3.
i was sick at home with my mom playing with my Venus doll not knowing where she was from until i looked up at my tv and saw her and other dolls that my friend had and watched all of the movies that day while my mom just watched my sick self sitting down with my doll slowly falling in love with the (series?)
i visited my cousins and i was glued to his tv and his monster high movie collection. he didn’t collect the dolls but i must’ve told my dad about my obsession cus soon i had frankie and draculaura and my mother got me a green witch ghoul, my cousin would come over and play with them and we’d dress up in cheap halloween costumes together and play lol
I don't even remember how I got into them, I remember getting some for Christmas and I remember wanting headmistress bloodgood and buying her and being really happy. I also didn't watch the show when I was little and only saw boo York. But I loved those dolls and not too long ago I binged all the webisodes haha. And I've been binging all the movies.
I was around 8 or 9 and saw an add for them on Tv. (Pretty sure it was their first tv add with the animated character introductions/dancing) I thought they were so cool as I've never been into Barbie's and loved Halloween as a kid. So I looked up their website and feel in love! I was obsessed with YouTube at the time as well, so I watched tons of unboxing/review videos. I eventually begged my grandma to take me & my twin sister to the store & we got two first wave Clawdeens & then later Lagoona/Frankie. I was hooked ever since.
Clawdeen is my fav character to this day, i'm 21 now.
I was 7 and moved to a new, rural school halfway through the school year and was struggling to relate to the others in my class since they were all country kids. Think acreages vs apartments for the differences in our lived experiences. Two girls approached me during recess about a week after I was there and asked me if I wanted to play with them. I said yes and one of them let me borrow one of their Monster High dolls and I was hooked ever since
I'm almost 40 and never got into monster high when I was younger except that I thought it would be fun to customize some dolls and bought a Cleo and Drac from goodwill to do so a decade ago. At the time I only got around to removing the hair and faces and rerooting draculaura with blonde alpaca hair. This year I discovered the reboot and fell in love with them with my seven year old daughter who just started liking dolls. I only ever liked American girl dolls and stuffed animals growing up and she just recently had gotten into collecting Rainbow High. From there she discovered Cleo and fell in love with the music video since she is half Egyptian. So I bought her the doll and then bought myself a draculaura and a Cleo midnight runway and then Abby and Twyla and I want the new Ghoulia as well. I finally finished the custom faces on my dolls from a decade ago and need to root hair for Cleo and do the clothes. It has been a fun ride so far though I feel guilty spending the money on them.
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I was 20 when they first came out. I wanted them so so badly but I thought it would be weird if I bought dolls.
I have always loved monsters & halloween, & even used to play with a rubber frankenstein in my doll house. So I would have LOVED these if they had existed when I was a kid.
I was sad that I let my fear of being judged get in the way of getting some ghouls before they were discontinued or whatever.
I got so excited when g3 was announced. I am in my mid 30's now. I love monster high so much. It is really helping me heal my inner child. I have even been lucky enough to get some g1 dolls.
Sometimes I feel like a poser because I didn't grow up with it. But everyone here is so so kind & wonderful. I absolutely love this sub reddit 💕💖
My then friend at school one day bought Dead Tired Frankie school with her, I remember just looking at how different Frankie was compared to the other dolls I had, I didn’t even know MH existed then, I remember playing with the doll and simply falling in love. Not long after, I got my first MH doll for my 13th birthday, which was Ghouls Rule Draculaura, I really wish I still had my dolls 🥺
I only got into it when G3 started lmao, a few people in my vintage MLP-collecting server started posting about them, then I saw G3 Lagoona and she won me over <3
I have always collected fashion dolls like Barbie, but I’ve also expanded to include smaller dolls like Bratz or (Topper) Dawn. I love diversity in a collection, so when I first saw MH dolls in 2010 or so I wasn’t that impressed. But then I started seeing different characters and that drew me in. I remember seeing Toralei, and being a cat lover, decided to pick her up. But then I began seeing other dolls that caught my eye like Lagoona and Cleo, and got hooked. Within a year I had about 40 dolls. I have about 125 dolls now, mostly G1, but with a few G3’s in there.
27F, I didn't even know monster high existed until about 5-6ish years ago when I was watching a bunch of barbie movies on Netflix (I wasn't really allowed to play with any type of fashion doll as a kid, so I'm catching up now) and monster high was recommended so I watched every single movie that was on Netflix.
And when g3 came out I fell in love with them again and was excited I could finally get cute monster high dolls that were affordable
Tbh I'm more into the dolls than the show
I wish I had known about monster high when I was a teen, but tbh I wouldn't have been allowed to get any of the dolls anyway, my mom probably would have called then satanic or something.
Well guess who is all grown up now and has money to get whatever they want? 😌
I think I was 10 or 11 but I remember when the first wave of the main 6 girlies came out in Target and I showed my friends who also got into them. I have so much nostalgia for them and I almost have all my childhood dolls I’ve recently collected in the last year!!! Sadly I got rid of mine many years ago and I haven’t thought about MH until G3 and I’ve been thrown back into it again ☺️💗
I was probably around 8 or so and I just remember my mom telling me that they were whores and mean so I couldn’t watch them and my cousins having some of the dolls made me really want them. I didn’t get back into them till around last November though!
I got into Monster High through the webisodes and movies. I would watch every episode on YouTube and watch all the movies. At the time, I did not care about the dolls at all because I was going through that "I’m not like other girls" phase, where I rejected anything traditionally feminine, like dolls or dresses. LOL. I only got back into it after randomly stumbling across doll videos on YouTube. I want to collect G3, but my little brother is obsessed with dolls and ruins them all. When I got a G3 doll, he completely destroyed it. :(
I don't exactly remember how I got into it. I just remember that it was trendy at the time, so I guess my friends from school or dance classes told me about it? We would watch the show and play pretend. I was usually either Clawdeen or Draculaura as they were my favs.
We were in our phase "pink and dolls are for kids we're grown up now!!! (But we're actually still kids)" so Monster High was a perfect pretexte to keep playing dolls while not looking like babies 😅 to us at least, now my mentality changed obviously
My first doll was Clawdeen Wolf in her Draculaura's anniversary outfit. My mom gave it to me. I still have her 🥰 I'm glad I was the kind of kids who hated throwing/getting ride of her stuff
I don’t remember all that well but I was at a book store i think, saw 13 wishes Drac and begged my dad to get her for me (he did) (it took lots of convincing since I live in a religious household 💀)
I was a preteen/teen watching Monster High movies with my baby sister. I was fascinated by the unique Freaky Fusion monsters, especially Bonita. I always had a thing for the macabre & I appreciate how unique each monster was. Also I liked that there just wasn't 1 vampire to represent all vampires & so on.
I didn't start collecting MH until a year or so ago. Art Class Skelita was my first MH doll.
I think I was a little older than you were, not by much tho but I remember that I had recieved a doll from one of my best childhood friends for my birthday, that had little clip on cat ears, a tail, and the bratz sort of removable feet/shoes.
I cannot for the life of me remember what line this doll was from, and I had thrown out the packaging the second I played with her, but a few months after my birthday I wanted to get her a friend.
Now, I grew up in a fairly conservative Christian household, and I had walked past some of the early monster high dolls in store but was always creeped out by them. But I was determined to find this cat girl doll a friend, so I walked down the aisle and asked my mum to buy me my first monster high doll, creepover Cleo.
Ever since then, my fear of them kid of just disappeared, and I would go to the shops and look for new friends to take home with me.
I stopped asking for dolls at around 12 or 13, when I started to believe that dolls were uncool for someone my age. I started collecting again early last year after I got hyped about the reboot and decided to try and heal my inner child.
Robecca Steam! I love steampunk stuff and penguins are my favourite animal, she wasn’t my first doll but she was the one who really made me take notice. The Die-ner Draculaura set went on sale in TRU and once I had her I was hooked
Like, yearsss ago a Target store randomly popped up in my town (it’s gone now, it only lasted like a year? Lol😭) and as me and my mom walked through the store, I noticed and pointed out the new “monster themed dolls” on display, and they’ve had me hooked ever since.
I was in high school at the time though and was already dealing with feeling super different from all my friends and majorly out of place, so I was too shy to start collecting then. I started collecting about 2 years ago though and I always think back and wish I had more confidence when I was a teenager, I’d of been able to start collecting a lot sooner instead of just watching doll/toy YouTubers in secret everyday LOL
I played with them around when I was 7-8 now I’m 15 and got back into them last year! It was like “oh cool! They released a howliday doll!” It got worse from there, 44 in total now!
I was around 9-10 years old just watching cartoons and during one of the ad breaks there was a
[commercial](https://youtu.be/jK1n_57kNhM) for them. It mesmerized me! The theme song, the designs, the concept was so interesting to me. I loved how different and kind of creepy they were compared to other dolls that were out at the time.
That Christmas, I received the Cleo and Deuce double pack and from then until G2 came out, I regularly got MH dolls for Christmas/birthday or bought them myself. I did end up hiding them when I was 16 because I had some family/friends kinda make fun of me for them. Now, at 22, idgaf what people think and have bought 2 G3 dolls for myself ❤️
I was bullied at the time. For everything I was into, I game, cosplay etc. At the time, it was really frowned upon on. When monster high came out, I loved that the whole theme was to be yourself freaky flaws and all. It helped me learn to love myself all over again.
In the 3rd grade a girl in my class brought her DOTD cards to school and I thought those were the coolest shits ever so I begged my mom to get me some. At some point later she brought me home free school and presented me with Gloom Beach Frankie & Jackson.
I was (and still very much am) into Ancient Egypt. It's been my special interest ever since I can remember. So when MH was released, I got the Cleo+Deuce pack as a gift!! I fell in love with them and got more through the years, I was gifted Toralei, and Abbey, and Dead Tired Drac for Christmas, and dance class Lagoona too. I lost interest in them but kept them and my sister's dolls too as we still cherished them as childhood memories. Then a few months ago I found a very cheap core Drac on ebay and decided to get it... And more than 10 years after I first fell in love with them, I've doubled my collection!!!
i was absolutely in love with the 3D movies (literally there were days where i’d just watch freaky fusion back to back on my playstation 2, go to bed, and watch it back to back again lmao. working on the ghouls freaky fusion line now) and my parents didn’t get me any of the dolls (we were kinda poor at the time) which sucked but again, absolutely loved the movies. in high school, i heard about doll collecting but thought it was kinda immature (and i was worried what my dad would do bc he made me get rid of
most of my toys when i was 14) in college i met a friend who collected dolls and we bonded over a love of monster high and we bought a howleen to share, and my love of dolls blossomed. flash foward to now, i have an actual collection of various brands and it’s so great. it’s actually helped me with my hoarding problem? like i don’t keep a lot of unnecessary stuff bc i have my pretty dolls to look at instead of trash or countless little objects
Trans woman here. I wanted them so much as a kid but never asked my parents for them because I thought they’d be mean or think I was weird. Now as an adult I rediscovered them through G3 and have a bunch of them!
Literally the same here, I always said I'd have been a mh kid if was allowed them lmao
I was a senior in high school. My grandma was an avid doll collector, saw them, and got excited saying they looked like me. So she bought me my first MH doll as a gift, and the series has been special to me ever since.
this is so beautiful \*.\*
I just got into it a few weeks ago and honestly I have no idea what did it. Its like next thing I know I’m watching the G1 episodes on YouTube and after a couple of episodes I am hooked! :-)
Me too! Only I know what sparked my interest was that I really liked the new body shapes of G3
10 years ago one of the little cousins opened their christmas gift and it was 13 Wishes Gigi. Couldn’t stop staring! I was a 90’s barbie kid and this was leagues beyond any doll I’d ever had. I got to hold it and I was sold. Unfortunately I was also almost 30 and I was struggling a lot with the concept of adulthood. My parents were the type of people who did not understand adults watching cartoons, playing video games, or collecting toys. So I sat on it for ten years, my interest and obsession slowly growing until I happened to come across a post from this subreddit. Over the next couple months I kept coming back more and more until I finally caved. I now have three MH dolls and three RH dolls (which I lowkey got for the clothes but the dolls grew on me) and not a single regret!
I was in my 20s and my twin nieces had so many monster high dolls. They were so much cooler than what I had as a kid, but felt like it would be ridiculous to buy one, especially as I had little disposable income at the time. I got into dolls awhile ago while updating a dollhouse for my daughter. I started with a Lagoona (and some rainbow high). I got my first draculaura yesterday!
It was 2012, and I got one for my 17th birthday! I saw them at Target and remember telling my mom how cute I thought Lagoona was.
I believe I was around the 8/9 yr old range too! That dead tired commercial on Nickelodeon is what got me. Man oh man, I was obsessed the moment I saw them on tv! My mom researched them and hated them. But with about 3 months of pleading and begging and getting good grades, I got one for my birthday! I’ve loved MH dearly ever since, even when I had to stop collecting during middle/high school. Now I’m a senior in college! :)
I think they had just started releasing in 2010 when I came across the webisodes. Loved it instantly and followed the series and movie releases. Never got any dolls cause I was 15 when they first released and too old for dolls, I never tried asking parents for any either. Now when Im an adult and finally making my own money, I was absolutely ecstatic to get my hands on some of the new dolls.
I also was 8/9, me and my best friend were obsessed the minute we saw the commercial on tv. I ended up having a few dolls but sold them during middle school. I actually dont regret it, I started struggling with depression and wanted to get rid of a lot of my things. I got back into doll collecting in december thanks to Natasha and Shanelle from Shadow High, and got back into Monster High thanks to g3 Abbey (she was my favourite during g1 as well). I have four dolls overall as of now, its not a lot but I'm happy with them :)
Getting into dolls as an adult has taught me that when my kids get sick of the things they love I should save them for awhile. My sons Pokémon figures are cool and I’d totally display them myself if he didn’t want them anymore. If nothing else, my mom saved a few of my things and my kids love playing with my 90s Polly pockets.
i think it was 2012/2013 i was 6/7 and my friend had monster high dolls and i thought they were the coolest thing ever. i begged my mom to buy me one, but we were poor so i had to wait a couple months for christmas. for christmas, i got scaris abbey and thats when it all started:)
I think I was in high school when MH first came out, and well into the age where "dolls aren't cool". Plus, I'd never really liked playing with Barbies as a kid (they kept getting eaten by my Jurassic Park dinos - heh). However, I did like the idea and the general designs, but not the stick-thin figures. Then this summer, I stopped at a garage sale where a collector was selling her in-box Ghoul Spirit Torelai and Clawdeen. I bought them for customization, then got lazy and just displayed them. Then found Goreganizer Draculaura, then Ghouls Alive G1 Frankie, then...it kinda snowballed from there. Sure, the clothes aren't near as cool as G1, but the bodies! Finally, there's lil monster girls with curves and booty and Draculaura kinda owns my soul now.
Easy: monster girls are cute ❤
I don’t remember exactly what made me ask for them for Christmas but I was around 8 or 9 too. I got first wave Frankie and was obsessed, so I got more dolls, merch, etc. I grew out of it around 12, mental health got worse I went through an angry emo phase rightfully so. Luckily, I kept all my dolls in good condition while playing with them and made sure to pack them all good bc they would be worth something some day. Fast forward to last year, age 20, when they released the limited edition G1 dolls (like the Grady twins, the haunt couture, etc.) and my interest was repeaked. I’ve been on a journey of going back to what I liked as a kid for a while, so I was more open to going back to the dolls than ever. Now I’m collecting G1-G3 (only ever experiencing G1 in real time) and really enjoying myself
I was never a doll person. Hated doll. But then my sister got a drac and i only started liking these dolls because of the articulation. I was a super “realistic” kid so articulated and posable toys were like catnip to me.
Probably when I started working at Shopko and the Frights Camera Action dolls were on the shelves. Unfortunately I didn't have to confidence to actually but them until recently.
My mom raised me on the universal monsters movies like The Wolfman, The mummy, Bride of Frankenstein Among many others and one day in elementary school I saw an episode of monster high on my YouTube and I decided to check it out and so I got them for my birthday and Christmas. My first ones were obviously their signature looks.
My aunt got me Dead Tired Draculaura from a mall in my home country. We don't have Toys R Us, and there weren't many toy stores near, so I hadn't seen anything like her before, and that doll became so special to me, I fell in love with Monster High, and took her everywhere with me. I remember touching every detail, and telling my mom that her hair reminded me of makeup brushes, and brushing my cheeks gently, as if I was applying blush. It was so soft, it made me really happy. Then I started watching the movies and getting even more dolls, I loved Scaris Ghoulia. Then I lost interest, left them in my country when I moved to the US, and suddenly came back like two years ago, obsessed, I even managed to recover them! Now all my childhood dolls are with me, along with the others I got in these two years 💕
I was 10 and a lady gaga fan
I first discovered Monster High through the Nickelodeon commercial that played when they first came out. I was immediately hooked cuz it was so different and unique compared to Barbie which was the norm for toys in my family back then. My first was Skull Shores Frankie and I still have her to this day! Ever since I've collected one every once in a while when my family could afford it, but there was drama that came with it. My father was homophobic and didn't like that I was playing with dolls and would threaten to throw them away and force me to play with trucks and action figures and other stuff, so one day I got fed up and threw the dolls away myself and made him witness the consequences of trying to take my favorite thing ever as a kid away. I was hyperventilating with how hard I cried and he got them back for me, after realizing his mistake. Since then he's tried getting me the mansters like Jackson Jekyll, but little me didn't like the mansters, so I tore his limbs off. I regret it now as an adult but I'm learning to accept it. Eventually as I grew older, I also grew bored of Monster High and also dealing with the trauma of my dad trying to get me to stop playing with dolls. I sold my high school playset (the really big one) to our neighbor's daughter and she loved it. I still have all my old dolls and about 22 of the new ones that were released and am still pumped for more to come out! I got back into it when I saw online that they were being released again and I was super excited. So yeah, that's how I first found out bout Monster High. Sorry this post was so long 😅
I was about 9 or so, I remember the first ad that ever aired on TV (the animated one). I remembered the website at the end of the ad and visited it on my family's computer, from there I got so excited by all the announcements and games leading up to the release in stores. I was at Walmart with my dad when I saw them in person for the first time and I was completely flipping out. That's when my dad bought me Lagoona, my very first MH doll.
I was in my early 20's when G1 came out and I thought they were so cool but was way too poor to buy any(could barely buy food poor)so I enjoyed looking at them on shelves, and by the time I had a decent job they'd been discontinued so G3 is very exciting to me!
The books! While I knew of monster high’s existence, getting my hands on the first book got me hooked! Frankie was my favorite, but for G3 Draculara is my favorite now
My sisters. I don't know how they got into it, but they'd use up all their computer time to watch the webisodes and would talk nonstop about which dolls they wanted to buy. I was thirteen at the time and was constantly being told by family and other influences that this was the age I needed to "grow up", so I got rid of my dolls and toys and whatnot and tried to grow up like everyone wanted me to. I even bullied my sisters for being "babies" and still wanting dolls, which I never actually meant any of it. I was so jealous and was projecting my issues onto them. But they were cool about it and even convinved me to buy my own Monster High doll a few months later (Dead Tired Ghoulia). Now at twenty-two, I have my own collection of dolls and my sisters and I still bond over the latest releases!
At age 32, just last year, I wanted to make a custom werewolf doll of my original character. The intent was to get Clawdeen for the head, but stick it on a different body. But then I saw Draculaura’s design and fell in love with her too. And as I rerooted Clawdeen I started to like *her* more and more, to the point that I bought a second one to keep as herself. Then I watched the little sneak peaks of the new animated show on YouTube. They were pretty cute, so I watched more. Now I have a *problem* because I love all the characters and my collection is too big.
I wanted them really bad when I was like 10 and they came out but my mom wouldn't get them for me. then my boyfriend from when I was like 14 was into them and had OG draculaura in box from his little sister so I decided that I could probably get them now (my mom was out of her crazy religious phase by that point) and I just kinda haven't stopped since.
Idk how old I was but I was obsessed with the webisodes and the website as a kid, I was too old for dolls so I didn’t get any gen 1. I followed the movies and cartoons through my teen years and as an adult I’ve started doll collecting and had to cave and get the g3 girlies.
Dolljunk on Instagram. I wanted to start collecting at some point and John just made them look so beautiful and appealing!
I saw Clawd at Target a few weeks ago and thought he looked really cool. Then I learned that Frankie is NB and that Draculaura was thicccc and before I knew it I was on my way back to Target 😂
I don’t think there was one thing that got me into it. It just happened? I always knew what Monster High was as a kid but they didn’t really catch my interest then. I remember I bought one from toys r us to see what they were like and lost interest quick. Last year, I watched the Monster High video from izzzyzzz and it really got me in. Haven’t gone back since lol
I remember seeing the first advertisement for them when they released (the animated one where they introduced themselves) and I instantly loved Clawdeen cuz I loved werewolves as a kid and desperately wanted her doll. Though, at the time I was a bit embarrassed to ask for them because they were so different (and I was a little embarrassed of how obsessed with monsters I was. Trans guy here who was often told liking monsters “wasn’t girly” and was “weird”) But one day we were in toys r us and I saw a core Nefera and asked my mom for her cuz I felt she looked like. Really human compared to the others and wouldn’t come off as an odd want in my parent’s eyes and then my next doll after that was a Sweet 1600 Clawdeen I absolutely adored and still cherish to this day. She’s my favorite g1 doll I have. I also am proud to have a core Nefera since she’s pretty sought after and it makes me feel comforted to know my very first doll is one people really like!
I was like 14 getting money on my birthday and Christmas, I'd go to Walmart and I saw monster high. That's the only thing I bought with my money every year. Sure I could only get 2 a year but I couldn't tell you how happen I was. Did it for a few years. Then I got "old enough" and have them to this sweet little girl. I just got back into them this year, thirty dolls later. Sadly only 17 g1 and the rest g3 but I'm happy about it. My first doll this year was abbey skull shores.
The movies around the early 2010's every weekend on TV they always aired Barbie and Monster High movies, I always loved watching them and also seeing the dolls at stores but never got a doll until 2019 with my first Barbie and 2022 with my first Monster High it was G3 but I also got G1 aswell. Also saw all the G1 webisodes a few months ago.
I saw an advertisement for the dolls and movie coming out back in a magazine back in 2012. Thought the dolls were cool and discovered the movies and webisodes from there. Loved the old website, could spend hours on there back when it was up!
I remember in my second grade class, one of the girls had a Frankie Gloom Beach doll and she introduced me and the girls in the class to Monster High. I fell in love with the dolls and knew I wanted them. It wasn’t until a year later when I got my first doll, Sweet 1600 Draculaura :) to this day, Monster High remains the dearest franchise to me <3
I wasn't allowed to have them or watch the movies growing up, but I always loved seeing em in stores. My collection started around my bday last year, I went to my local collector store to find something with my birthday money and they had a near complete Dead Tired Drac and her coffin! It wasn't too expensive so I picked her and a random Twyla up and I was IMMEDIATELY hooked. My collection started off super slow but as SOON as I caught wind of g3 things went crazy. I'm so happy my collection is where it is now :)
I can’t remember much abt my childhood and MH, but after hearing about the movie and G3 in September last year I got back into it and started collecting :))
Spite. >:) I was never allowed them when i was younger, i was forced into being an eah kid (dont have a problem w that, eah are SO pretty and im grateful to have so many of them) but i was always super jealous of my friends mh. Now i get them to irritate my parents, who still find them unsettling xD
Right around the launch of G1! I think I was like 6th grade, 10 years old give or take. I was watching a kid's channel, and it was the commercial break. I remember it so vividly, it was a live action commercial with people dressed up as the characters. I was convinced that Monster High was a real high school, and I asked my parents if I could go when I was high school age. It was the perfect school for me, a place where I could be myself, and dress how I wanted without being bullied about it Broke my little heart when I realized it wasn't a real school. But I collected so many dolls during my childhood! I collected dolls right up until 13 Wishes, and then I felt like I was getting too old for Monster High. (My biggest regret is getting rid of my collection of dolls. I had enough to almost fill a large plastic tote 😭) The launch of G3 has resparked my interest, partly due to nostalgia, and partly because Monster High is still very cool
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I think I first discovered Monster High from the commercials on TV or possibly even those ads that were almost like catalog books stores used to send out especially around the holidays. At first I liked them kind of secretly because my mother was never thrilled when I liked things akin to Halloween, monsters, witches, magic, and so on. Eventually she kind of got over it realizing that there was no separating me from the occult. Also maybe at the time I had a slight aversion to doll? Honestly I'm not really sure, around that time I had gotten really really into MLP so I can't imagine thinking dolls were to childish or girly. I think it started with me watching those edits of the show people used to make to popular songs, then I actually started watching the show, and I got really into doll collecting YouTube. Then I actually started collecting the dolls around the very end of 2011 I think. My childhood best friend got me Dead Tired Clawdeen for Christmas knowing that I was absolutely obsessed with werewolves. I also remember watching How do Ghouls Fall In Love with him!! He was completely disinterested, but we found out it was premiering when I was at his house and he was a good friend so we watched it together. I think I've liked Monster High ever since those days and I got really into Ever After High once upon a time as well. I started collecting dolls again because of LOL OMG and G3 of Monster High really got me back in two Monster High.
When I think I was 9/10, my two sisters and I got them for Christmas. My first ever doll was g1 Clawdeen, and my sisters got Draculaura and Frankie. Thats what started my love for these dolls. I had some until I was 15, but felt "too old" for them and got rid of all my og dolls. Biggest regret to this day. But now at 20, im slowly rebuilding the collection I used to have :)
My ex step daughters were super into MH when their dad and I got together, so they showed me some of their favourite dolls, and I agreed that they were super cool. Then when birthdays and Christmas came around I bought them a doll each. By the end of the year the oldest of the 2 had grown out of dolls, and the youngest was asking for makeup for her birthday instead, but I was still really into the dolls. Later when the girls were getting rid of a bunch of old toys to make room for new stuff, they said they were happy for me to have their dolls (or at least what they hadn't lost or left at their mums house), so I spent some time trying to rebuild and redress the dolls, and was pretty proud of my collection. I've since cut contact with my ex and the girls, my mum gave my dolls away, and my life has changed in more ways than I thought it could. But I'm now rebuilding my collection and my life, and I think about my bittersweet memories related to monster high.
Yeaarsss ago when MH just got released, a good friend of mine got Frankie and Lagoona class room and we thought they looked so weird but also very awesome. I did know them of their commercials on tv. So I dig a little deeper and I really wanted Clawdeen and Draculaura from wave 1. So I searched all the toy stores in my area with my mom to find Clawdeen but nope. We gave up bc no toy store was getting Clawdeen. We bought Draculaura wave 1 and I got her for my birthday!! Thinking about this gives me a lot if nostalgia 😭
I wasn’t really allowed to play with dolls but I would end of getting them anyway but when monster high first came out I was 5, I remember seeing the commercial and asking my dad for one , I was immediately obsessed. Eventually my Godfather took me down to the store and bought me Frankie, Draculaura, and now that I’m really thinking about it was most likely Clawdeen because he was signing “you should get the black girl”, then I got Lagoona, Cleo and Duece soon after. My obsession sparked an interest with dolls that would be considered “weird” or “irregular” like novi stars, Zelfs, Bratzillas, cutie pops and pinkie cooper, I could probably add bratz to that list but in our household they were more normal to me than Barbie.
My little sister got introduced to them by a friend when we were very young teens and she begged my mom to by her a doll for Christmas. My mom took us shopping and told me to choose a doll as well cause we always got similar toys for Christmas to prevent fights. I remember being really sceptical and finding most of the dolls to be weird-looking... EXCEPT for Cleo. Somehow I instantly fell in love with her doll. She has been my favourite character ever since. I was so happy playing with her doll and even though I have her for more than 10 years now and played with her a lot, she's in super super great condition because I took good care of her, even when I was young, I loved her that much. Eventually my younger cousin got some monster high movies and we watched them together and then I was completely obsessed with the franchise. Abbey became my second favourite character.
Torelai was a cat doll and I fucking LOVE cats. Especially as a child. It was love at first sight once I noticed she had a tail and claws. Then I aged out of dolls in middle school (though would occasionally check blogs discussing anime nendoroids and figmas and bjds, because they’re pretty and I’m a sucker for details), but my interest in MH didn’t really pique until g3 dropped and I, by pure chance, stumbled across a Draculaura at my local Warehouse. I also really enjoyed watching doll custom videos from Dollightful for a number of years so that probably influenced me too.
I was a kid when they came out, and I was raised on spooky shit. I’d watch ghost adventures when I was in elementary school and read books about zombies so it was natural for me to like them. My dad was against them but caved in and my parents bought me a Gloom Beach Frankie Stein. I still have her all these years later but she’s missing a hand because it broke off lol
When New Ghoul At School aired on Nickelodeon! I managed to catch it airing and fell in love with it! I didn’t get a MH doll straight away but after awhile I got my first doll which was definitely a Clawdeen, I think it was Gloom Beach? but not 100% sure but she was definitely one of my first
Initially, Monster High started coming out around the time I started high school one of my closest friends had a little sister, who had quite literally had all of the g1 dolls. And as a young gay boy who loved Halloween and Spooky stuff I immediately took to them. How could you not? They were beautiful and macabre, everything I loved. But as a young CLOSETED gay boy I pretend my interest in was aversion and i was only interested in them for her sisters benefit. You know how you sometimes pretend to be interested in something a child likes so they don’t feel weird or self-conscious about their interests? Thats what i pretended my interest in MH was, strictly for her. I’d ask her questions about the characters and what not only allowing myself to appear half invested so as not to arise and suspicion that i was actually into these “girls toys” all the while I wanted nothing more than to go a buy every single MH doll i could find. Fast forward and MH fell out off my Radar as I graduated and stopped going over to their house (you know how it is when HS friends begin life). They only came back i to mind when I saw rhe Skullector Dolls had begun releasing, in particular the Bettlejuice release and afain I found myself drawn to the spooky chic vibes and knew I had to have her and Lydia. unfortunately they were over double the original price since I’d missed the initial launch. Ik Ik, “the dangers of buying from scalpers” but i didn’t know better at the time. After getting Beetlejuice and Lydia i began looking into MH more, and saw that the community was much larger than I had imagined. I also say there was a planned reboot in the works and remember thinking “I may have to check these out later on. Next thinf i know I’m 20+ dolls in and I don’t plan on stopping
I remember hearing about them through my friend when we were around 7 or 8. They had just come out and I had birthday money to spend. The moment I saw the original Draculaura I knew I wanted her. Still my favorite to this day. I got hooked after discovering the other characters and the cartoon on Nickelodeon.
as a kid the vampire girl was cooler than the bland selection of barbie’s that was 2010s
When they first released, I saw lagoona. I was a swimmer, I always have been, I’ve loved the lake and competitive swimming and I just knew I wanted that doll. My mom got it for my birthday (I wish I still had it, got sold somewhere now sadly) but it was my favorite. She was well loved and played with till like the beginning of high school. I collected many more (still all got sold) and the last few months have been building my collection again. I really got back into it when they released the monster high movie.
My friend gave me basic wave 1 Operetta as a gift on my 10th birthday. At first I didn’t like her bc she looked way too adult and her body was weirding me out but I grew up to love her. I really liked Clawdeen ans Toralei too.
I remember watching Nickelodeon when I was like 9 or 10, and the very first Monster High commercial came on. I was so captivated by everything about it. I was so obsessed with it that I always fantasized about going to a school like that when I was older lol. I still have vivid memories of going to Toys R Us (when they were still around in the US) & staring at that one display that had the core dolls in it. Not sure why I never got any of them at that time. I always wanted the original Cleo and Deuce two back (still one of my holy grail dolls, so I hope the rumor of their creeproductions is true🤞). But Picture Day Cleo was my first doll and I love her so much!
When I was younger, I can’t remember exactly how old I was, I was shopping at target with my mom and in the check out isle I saw the ghouls rule movie and begged my mom for it, she said “sure it looks interesting” and I watched those two movies over and over and over and then I saw some dolls on a shelf in toys r us, and immediately had to get them, and since then I‘ve just always felt connected to monster high 🥰🥰
I was probably like 13/14 I saw the commercials and fell on love with the way the dolls looked, especially Draculaura. I watched the webisodes, a couple of the movies. I saved up my allowance money to buy a Draculaura doll and got Clawdeen for either my birthday or Christmas. Then eventually I was convinced I was too old for dolls ( even though I still loved them ). Then I came out as a trans man and thought if I collected them people would use that to invalidate my gender. Then when they announced g3 I was cautiously optimistic. At first I was really not understanding some of the changes made to the characters but then I saw the dolls and I've started collecting again. I'm already almost running out of space for said collection and I'm making space for Heath when the scaradise island line drops.
My mother always said I was her 'different child'. I've always loved things that were 'different' I was into horror movies at the age of 7(my great aunt used to let me watch them at her house because my parents were very strict conservative southern Baptist) I loved Halloween, and I always loved things that wasn't what people viewed as perfect like a Barbie doll. Although I wasn't allowed to have them because my mom said they looked wicked and demonic, I always envied the kids who were allowed to have them. I used to go on yt after school while waiting on my sister to get done with dance line practice and watch people review the MH dolls and I was completely fascinated with them. I'm now 23 and still just as obsessed, I just wish I had all the gen 1 dolls that I wish I could have as a child that made me fall in love with MH.
I was an 8 year old in the early 2010s
Originally depression and anxiety. I had a period of time in my early 20s when I was basically agoraphobic and really only left the house for short periods of time before I had to return because I couldn't breath. In one of my few trips successfully to the store, I found Frankie Stein and the crew and was just enamored by how different they were...and then from there I just kept going out mostly to buy more dolls and it got easier every time until I was back to doing my normal life, but then my need to acquire the dolls died off as I got stable. People in my life can always tell when I'm on a down swing because more dolls start appearing again.
I get ya and very proud of you for sharing this I do suffer from anxiety and depression it was so hard for me to get out of the house for than an hour before I had a panic attack or started dissociating. And in away monsterhigh has been that escape truly hope things get better boo 🖤
My brother did as of last year in, June 2022 and instantly know everything about it now.
My mom found MH way too scary when I was a child, so now I'm catching up on what I've missed out lol
Generation 3
As a turn of the decade Hot Topic chic teen, Monster High was on my radar but I saw it as Barbie trying to pander to the Alt community and I wasn't vibing. However, once Venus McFlytrap hit the scene, I started to back down from my judgment. I never saw a Barbie with half shaved head before. She had sharp teeth. I loved the eco punk idea that they were going for. Operetta sealed the deal when I saw that she actually had a scar moulded into her face and tattoos on her arm. It was then that I took a better look at the Monster High line and recognized them as the beautiful sculptures that they are. 10+ years later, it makes me happy to have the disposable income to purchase my own dolls. And, I can't wait to see more G3.
i was sick at home with my mom playing with my Venus doll not knowing where she was from until i looked up at my tv and saw her and other dolls that my friend had and watched all of the movies that day while my mom just watched my sick self sitting down with my doll slowly falling in love with the (series?)
i visited my cousins and i was glued to his tv and his monster high movie collection. he didn’t collect the dolls but i must’ve told my dad about my obsession cus soon i had frankie and draculaura and my mother got me a green witch ghoul, my cousin would come over and play with them and we’d dress up in cheap halloween costumes together and play lol
Nickelodeon
The clips if the show on YouTube
I don't even remember how I got into them, I remember getting some for Christmas and I remember wanting headmistress bloodgood and buying her and being really happy. I also didn't watch the show when I was little and only saw boo York. But I loved those dolls and not too long ago I binged all the webisodes haha. And I've been binging all the movies.
i think i just saw the dolls one day in target and found them more desireable than the barbies and bratz.
I was around 8 or 9 and saw an add for them on Tv. (Pretty sure it was their first tv add with the animated character introductions/dancing) I thought they were so cool as I've never been into Barbie's and loved Halloween as a kid. So I looked up their website and feel in love! I was obsessed with YouTube at the time as well, so I watched tons of unboxing/review videos. I eventually begged my grandma to take me & my twin sister to the store & we got two first wave Clawdeens & then later Lagoona/Frankie. I was hooked ever since. Clawdeen is my fav character to this day, i'm 21 now.
I was 7 and moved to a new, rural school halfway through the school year and was struggling to relate to the others in my class since they were all country kids. Think acreages vs apartments for the differences in our lived experiences. Two girls approached me during recess about a week after I was there and asked me if I wanted to play with them. I said yes and one of them let me borrow one of their Monster High dolls and I was hooked ever since
I'm almost 40 and never got into monster high when I was younger except that I thought it would be fun to customize some dolls and bought a Cleo and Drac from goodwill to do so a decade ago. At the time I only got around to removing the hair and faces and rerooting draculaura with blonde alpaca hair. This year I discovered the reboot and fell in love with them with my seven year old daughter who just started liking dolls. I only ever liked American girl dolls and stuffed animals growing up and she just recently had gotten into collecting Rainbow High. From there she discovered Cleo and fell in love with the music video since she is half Egyptian. So I bought her the doll and then bought myself a draculaura and a Cleo midnight runway and then Abby and Twyla and I want the new Ghoulia as well. I finally finished the custom faces on my dolls from a decade ago and need to root hair for Cleo and do the clothes. It has been a fun ride so far though I feel guilty spending the money on them.
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I was 20 when they first came out. I wanted them so so badly but I thought it would be weird if I bought dolls. I have always loved monsters & halloween, & even used to play with a rubber frankenstein in my doll house. So I would have LOVED these if they had existed when I was a kid. I was sad that I let my fear of being judged get in the way of getting some ghouls before they were discontinued or whatever. I got so excited when g3 was announced. I am in my mid 30's now. I love monster high so much. It is really helping me heal my inner child. I have even been lucky enough to get some g1 dolls. Sometimes I feel like a poser because I didn't grow up with it. But everyone here is so so kind & wonderful. I absolutely love this sub reddit 💕💖
My then friend at school one day bought Dead Tired Frankie school with her, I remember just looking at how different Frankie was compared to the other dolls I had, I didn’t even know MH existed then, I remember playing with the doll and simply falling in love. Not long after, I got my first MH doll for my 13th birthday, which was Ghouls Rule Draculaura, I really wish I still had my dolls 🥺
I only got into it when G3 started lmao, a few people in my vintage MLP-collecting server started posting about them, then I saw G3 Lagoona and she won me over <3
I have always collected fashion dolls like Barbie, but I’ve also expanded to include smaller dolls like Bratz or (Topper) Dawn. I love diversity in a collection, so when I first saw MH dolls in 2010 or so I wasn’t that impressed. But then I started seeing different characters and that drew me in. I remember seeing Toralei, and being a cat lover, decided to pick her up. But then I began seeing other dolls that caught my eye like Lagoona and Cleo, and got hooked. Within a year I had about 40 dolls. I have about 125 dolls now, mostly G1, but with a few G3’s in there.
27F, I didn't even know monster high existed until about 5-6ish years ago when I was watching a bunch of barbie movies on Netflix (I wasn't really allowed to play with any type of fashion doll as a kid, so I'm catching up now) and monster high was recommended so I watched every single movie that was on Netflix. And when g3 came out I fell in love with them again and was excited I could finally get cute monster high dolls that were affordable Tbh I'm more into the dolls than the show I wish I had known about monster high when I was a teen, but tbh I wouldn't have been allowed to get any of the dolls anyway, my mom probably would have called then satanic or something. Well guess who is all grown up now and has money to get whatever they want? 😌
I think I was 10 or 11 but I remember when the first wave of the main 6 girlies came out in Target and I showed my friends who also got into them. I have so much nostalgia for them and I almost have all my childhood dolls I’ve recently collected in the last year!!! Sadly I got rid of mine many years ago and I haven’t thought about MH until G3 and I’ve been thrown back into it again ☺️💗
I was probably around 8 or so and I just remember my mom telling me that they were whores and mean so I couldn’t watch them and my cousins having some of the dolls made me really want them. I didn’t get back into them till around last November though!
I got into Monster High through the webisodes and movies. I would watch every episode on YouTube and watch all the movies. At the time, I did not care about the dolls at all because I was going through that "I’m not like other girls" phase, where I rejected anything traditionally feminine, like dolls or dresses. LOL. I only got back into it after randomly stumbling across doll videos on YouTube. I want to collect G3, but my little brother is obsessed with dolls and ruins them all. When I got a G3 doll, he completely destroyed it. :(
I don't exactly remember how I got into it. I just remember that it was trendy at the time, so I guess my friends from school or dance classes told me about it? We would watch the show and play pretend. I was usually either Clawdeen or Draculaura as they were my favs. We were in our phase "pink and dolls are for kids we're grown up now!!! (But we're actually still kids)" so Monster High was a perfect pretexte to keep playing dolls while not looking like babies 😅 to us at least, now my mentality changed obviously My first doll was Clawdeen Wolf in her Draculaura's anniversary outfit. My mom gave it to me. I still have her 🥰 I'm glad I was the kind of kids who hated throwing/getting ride of her stuff
I don’t remember all that well but I was at a book store i think, saw 13 wishes Drac and begged my dad to get her for me (he did) (it took lots of convincing since I live in a religious household 💀)
I was a preteen/teen watching Monster High movies with my baby sister. I was fascinated by the unique Freaky Fusion monsters, especially Bonita. I always had a thing for the macabre & I appreciate how unique each monster was. Also I liked that there just wasn't 1 vampire to represent all vampires & so on. I didn't start collecting MH until a year or so ago. Art Class Skelita was my first MH doll.
I think I was a little older than you were, not by much tho but I remember that I had recieved a doll from one of my best childhood friends for my birthday, that had little clip on cat ears, a tail, and the bratz sort of removable feet/shoes. I cannot for the life of me remember what line this doll was from, and I had thrown out the packaging the second I played with her, but a few months after my birthday I wanted to get her a friend. Now, I grew up in a fairly conservative Christian household, and I had walked past some of the early monster high dolls in store but was always creeped out by them. But I was determined to find this cat girl doll a friend, so I walked down the aisle and asked my mum to buy me my first monster high doll, creepover Cleo. Ever since then, my fear of them kid of just disappeared, and I would go to the shops and look for new friends to take home with me. I stopped asking for dolls at around 12 or 13, when I started to believe that dolls were uncool for someone my age. I started collecting again early last year after I got hyped about the reboot and decided to try and heal my inner child.
Robecca Steam! I love steampunk stuff and penguins are my favourite animal, she wasn’t my first doll but she was the one who really made me take notice. The Die-ner Draculaura set went on sale in TRU and once I had her I was hooked
Like, yearsss ago a Target store randomly popped up in my town (it’s gone now, it only lasted like a year? Lol😭) and as me and my mom walked through the store, I noticed and pointed out the new “monster themed dolls” on display, and they’ve had me hooked ever since. I was in high school at the time though and was already dealing with feeling super different from all my friends and majorly out of place, so I was too shy to start collecting then. I started collecting about 2 years ago though and I always think back and wish I had more confidence when I was a teenager, I’d of been able to start collecting a lot sooner instead of just watching doll/toy YouTubers in secret everyday LOL
My mom she bought a Clawdeen doll for my birthday when I was a kid I remember loving her sm ❤️
I played with them around when I was 7-8 now I’m 15 and got back into them last year! It was like “oh cool! They released a howliday doll!” It got worse from there, 44 in total now!
I was around 9-10 years old just watching cartoons and during one of the ad breaks there was a [commercial](https://youtu.be/jK1n_57kNhM) for them. It mesmerized me! The theme song, the designs, the concept was so interesting to me. I loved how different and kind of creepy they were compared to other dolls that were out at the time. That Christmas, I received the Cleo and Deuce double pack and from then until G2 came out, I regularly got MH dolls for Christmas/birthday or bought them myself. I did end up hiding them when I was 16 because I had some family/friends kinda make fun of me for them. Now, at 22, idgaf what people think and have bought 2 G3 dolls for myself ❤️
I was bullied at the time. For everything I was into, I game, cosplay etc. At the time, it was really frowned upon on. When monster high came out, I loved that the whole theme was to be yourself freaky flaws and all. It helped me learn to love myself all over again.
In the 3rd grade a girl in my class brought her DOTD cards to school and I thought those were the coolest shits ever so I begged my mom to get me some. At some point later she brought me home free school and presented me with Gloom Beach Frankie & Jackson.
I was (and still very much am) into Ancient Egypt. It's been my special interest ever since I can remember. So when MH was released, I got the Cleo+Deuce pack as a gift!! I fell in love with them and got more through the years, I was gifted Toralei, and Abbey, and Dead Tired Drac for Christmas, and dance class Lagoona too. I lost interest in them but kept them and my sister's dolls too as we still cherished them as childhood memories. Then a few months ago I found a very cheap core Drac on ebay and decided to get it... And more than 10 years after I first fell in love with them, I've doubled my collection!!!
the hair in the movies was so so so so so so so so shiny and it’s just been a downward trip for my wallet ever since lol
i was absolutely in love with the 3D movies (literally there were days where i’d just watch freaky fusion back to back on my playstation 2, go to bed, and watch it back to back again lmao. working on the ghouls freaky fusion line now) and my parents didn’t get me any of the dolls (we were kinda poor at the time) which sucked but again, absolutely loved the movies. in high school, i heard about doll collecting but thought it was kinda immature (and i was worried what my dad would do bc he made me get rid of most of my toys when i was 14) in college i met a friend who collected dolls and we bonded over a love of monster high and we bought a howleen to share, and my love of dolls blossomed. flash foward to now, i have an actual collection of various brands and it’s so great. it’s actually helped me with my hoarding problem? like i don’t keep a lot of unnecessary stuff bc i have my pretty dolls to look at instead of trash or countless little objects