A Deep Dive Into Monster High G3 Reboot

A Deep Dive Into Monster High G3! Monster High Live Action movie just launched and in only 2 weeks the new animated series with Draculaura Frankie Stein and Clawdeen Wolf debuts on Nickelodeon! In Todays video we're giving a comprehensive guide to all things Monster High g3.

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Monster High G3 is HERE! I was contemplating wether I wanted to upload this on my birthday or not (my bday is tomorrow October 16th!) but I decided y'all have waited long enough lol. Share with me all your thoughts on MH G3! Do you prefer the prototypes or end product? How do you feel about the new animated series? Excited to hear all your thoughts!

[rumis.dollsss.]

I feel like they should have kept Toralei's hard childhood backstory. With the economic effects in recent times, I think kids would have appreciated seeing a character with her old backstory. It seems like a step back to make the mean character come from a rich family

[ItsMeDuh]

Honestly, Frankie’s gender identity is the LEAST confusing/strange part of all of the changes that they made. Personally, I feel like it would’ve been way less confusing or “upsetting” to fans of G1 if G3 characters were just totally new or simply related to the G1 characters in some way instead of reinventing already established backstories and origins.

I’m personally not a fan of the changes to Clawdeen’s personality and characteristics. They completely neutered her of anything that makes her unique imo, and she just seems like a watered down version of what Frankie already is.

Overall, while I’ll probably always prefer G1, I’m optimistic to improvements to the quality of the fashions and media of G3.

[midnightfox]

Honestly for gen 3 there are some parts I don’t enjoy but overall I’m glad Mattel is doing this new gen for newer generations while also catering to us og collectors

[serenitymartinez]

I haven’t seen anyone else talk about how Draculura isn’t adopted anymore it meant so much to me as an adopted kid I actually really respect and love all the diversity Mattel is trying to represent why couldn’t they keep my girl adopted😢

[scring.e]

Lagoona’s origin change kind of hurt me especially since among the (Australian) community she was widely accepted as aboriginal due to her being native to the scarier reef
But ig since she still representing a minority (now in cannon) I can’t be too upset

[Etherealdjinn]

While I do encourage for fans to embrace the new gen 3 cause i see all the work they put into it, I'm gonna say I'll stick to Gen 1.
I tried to appeal to it as well as the movie, but Gen 3 doesn't have the same spark as Gen1 had. I know it's just starting, but I grew
to the freaky, chic and fly style and gen 3 is too cute and quirky for my taste. However, I do appreciate the time work and effort
they put into Gen 3 and I hope it grows freaky fabulous. I'm still clinging on to the idea of dimension crossover like Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go.

[kinkymarz]

I’m so glad the original monster high is still getting love. We had monsters from different cultures, with accents and unique styles. Monsters who were full of personality and coded to be certain things but also vague enough that anyone had the same chance to identify with them. Now we’re getting what feels like forced representation and pandering. We had Latin characters in the form of Robecca, Batzy, Skelita and Marisol and none of them were a specific race. That to me was part of the magic that they’re now ignoring by making clawdeen afro-Latin explicitly.

[yumimakai]

Honestly wish they'd actually sell the collectors dolls in stores like several rainbow high and omgs. It feels impossible to actually get my hands on them without finding them in person. I was DEVISTATED when the both Pennywise and the Twins were released because there was ZERO chance of getting them without giving into a scalper, which I haven't. We need more actually in stores!

[SapphyTaffy]

I honestly want Cupid to return. She is probably my favorite despite being pretty much forgotten about. She's literally perfect so no need to change her in this reboot. I also have this headcanon where Toralei is a part of a big family of country singers (playing off her being in a band) and she pretends to be British because she thinks she sounds cooler.

[kat]

Considering that if you look into werecat mythology, Toralei Stripe is supposed to be a weretiger. Weretigers are from Asian mythology, so they should have made her Asian in my opinion. In fact the word "Tora" is Japanese for tiger.

[bitbarbie]

Honestly im mostly shocked that draculaura wasnt made japanese with how much of her style is revolved around japanese fashion, (and that there seems to be a high vampire population in japan according to the webbisodes)

[KiwiJJams]

Ill be honest, as a Kiwi, I miss having an Aussi doll since its not often we get acknowledged in dolls or even on some maps 😭 I do think Lagoona looks gorgeous though and I've never heard of a doll from Honduras so Im excited to learn about her and her home!! Im thrilled a major charater (Frankie) is disabled right from the start rather than a side chatacter added on later. Overall, I love all the diversity, I'm glad they went that direction with Frankie and stuck with their disability and nonbinary gender, it makes PERFECT sense for a monster made up of different parts and pieces to be nonbinary, what if they have a boys thigh and a girls arm? Frankie identifies with all their parts and even bionic parts, how is that binary? Pfft

[sisilahep]

I’m so sad Draculaura isn’t Romanian fully and lost her accent. Eastern Europeans don’t get much good rep :((

Edit; holy moly! This blew up. I’m glad I started a discussion, though please be kind to each other

[PhatCat]

I feel the whole message monster high was giving was to be proud about heritage and to be yourself, or as in monster high, “scaritage”. I get the whole, appreciation or different cultures in the real world, but by bringing that into the monster high concept of how different types of monsters are like the different diverse races in the monster high universe. It was super simple as it should be because it’s still a kids show. And I don’t get how suddenly lagoona can go from a Austrailian swimmer to somehow a super stereotypical hispanic girl. Also with the other characters. Its not too late Mattel. We just forget this ever happened and moved on. Just bring back the old design and dolls please.

[AliceDorthy]

Honestly I wish Lagoona didn’t change so drastically. I loved the old face molds. I just wanted different body types. I see a lot of people switching the heads for the OG heads on the new bodies and that to me looks better and is what I wanted. I wanted to see real plus size monsters, but I can’t help feeling like body representation is still not there. I love that draculaura is curvy, but they could have gone further. I loved Kala Mer’ri because she was a “plus sized” ghoul, bigger arms, bigger bust, wider hips, and now I’m afraid we’ll never get a fuller figure in the way I feel us plus size girls need representation. Again, why did they make Lagoona pink? Even changing the colors of Twyla’s hands from gray to pink is not something I can get behind. I don’t know how to stress this, but not all girls like pink! I loved the darker colors of the OG. Taking that away takes away a whole group of girls who felt out of place in a barbie world. Frankie’s change (with the exception of her skin tone) doesn’t bother me. Although, why make Ghoulia “Frankenstein green“ and not Frankie… doesn’t sound legit about the color scheme. I’m glad they want to give kids a voice and relatable characters, but then why not make new characters for a new generation, with cameos by the originals? I feel like a lot of representation is actually lost. Like as OG fans, what we related to just doesn’t matter anymore. And that makes me sad. Also can i just point out that werewolves were always human until a full moon. Ugh! Clawdeen use to be so much cooler. If she’s half werewolf and half human than she’s just a werewolf, or she’s more human than werewolf. I can’t with this. 😢😢😢💔💔💔

[whatalsaid]

I read somewhere that in order for universal to come for your Frankenmonster, they would have to possess three or more of these 5 traits.
1. Neck Bolts
2. Green Skin
3. Protruding forehead
4. Forehead scar
5. Flat top head
Frankie only has TWO of those traits, so theoretically, they COULD have done a green Frankie. Also, you can’t really copyright a single color on its own, just shades of it. That’s why there’s so many green wicked witch of the wests in pop media, despite the original movie version being trademarked by MGM. I think making Frankie blue was more a design choice, to make them look more electric. Frankie's green skin was already a very different shade from the original Frankenstein Monster's, so they probably could've done a Green Frankie without fears of being taken to court by Universal. It's why the reproductions of Frankie can still be green and have neck bolts.

[DuskedDragon]

I said this before, but honestly, I'm so sad Lagoona isn't Australian anymore. Its so rare for Australia to get recognition in the doll world and Australian Lagoona just made sense because in Australia there is a mythological creature/monster called a Bunyip that lives in billabongs and lagoons. It also would have been great for matel to go further into the Bunyip legend as it derives from an aboriginal story, which I feel like would have been great to share with the world (they could have even used dome aboriginal art as inspiration for patterns on the skin! it would have been so cool!!!).
I feel like everything is from the Americas now (aside from a few notable characters), Less global than before.

[MoonTruffles]

The final product we got for G3 Frankie is great, but I do wish their colors were more similar to their prototype doll. Pink ended up working out for Lagoona (she just looks more striking with pink skin than the pale blue from her prototype), but in the cases of Frankie and Ghoulia it just seems like they dropped in pink accents for the sake of adding more pink to a girl-focused toyline, when not doing so could've added more interesting variety. Ghoulia especially, she already had reds in G1 and tbh I feel like that would've worked better for her G3 skater/gamer vibe than the magenta they used.

[PreciseSpace]

I don't have too big of a problem with the new gen, really my only serious gripe is with Clawdeen. I don't appreciate the personality change, they made her this smart dorky cute character and while that's normally fine it doesn't fit her at all, and I much much MUCH prefer her original fierce, fashionable, confident, powerful personality. They just completely changed her character archetype. Also the fact that they are pushing for her to have a romance with a man. Even if they weren't going to address her being a lesbian they could have at least not completely erased it (which sucks even more when they are pushing for diversity yet got rid of what was already there??). Also less of a problem but (as someone who LOVES witches), I'm not a fan of the draculaura witch storyline? It just doesn't really feel like it fits her character and if they wanted a main witch character I wish they just would've featured Casta or made a new character. Plus the banning of witchcraft does not really make sense in the world.. and makes me feel like they're going to totally get rid of Casta and Spelldon (another lgbt character :/ ).