Current Mood : Excited !
This evening was
interesting. Dearest Son was playing with the kids across the breezeway – a pair
of nice girls who love that a grown woman has soooo much cool Monster High stuff – when Beloved asked
me if I knew how to fix a broken-legged Cleo. Although I’ve been lucky to have
never experienced that tragedy, I knew of several YouTube videos and websites
detailing repair jobs, so I pulled up my faves to show him. Seems the younger
girl’s Gloom Beach diva had a broken pin in her right hip, but it only took
Beloved a half-hour, a chopstick, and some sewing supplies from my stash
(including the elastic I bought at Hobby Lobby visit before last), and she was
ready to condescend again. I think their Mom was nearly as thrilled as they
were.
We were all talking about
dolls and such, when both girls told us what was on top of their wish lists.
Clawdeen and Lagoona. Hmmm…after the girls went inside, I told Beloved I had a
Lagoona to donate, but I kinda wanted to keep my three Clawdeens.
He asked me if Clawdeen was
still sold, so I pulled up the ones we could score locally – Ghouls Rule, Sweet 1600, Coffin Bean, and
a few School’s Out if we were willing
to venture to the CapitalCity TRU. Or if we really wanted to splash out, Target
still has the Skull Shores and Gloom Beach sets. Beloved proposed a
deal. If I’d donate my Lagoona and dress both dolls, he’d get any Clawdeen I
chose, and I could keep all her props and clothes. He wanted to use the ghouls
to encourage their reading, which he was helping them with in the courtyard
closest to their place. We wanted to be where their parents could easily keep
an eye on the girls. But buying new dolls for them would possibly bother their
folks, so if we could white lie a bit and say these were collection culls, it’d
probably go down a little easier.
I admit, I was tempted from
the start to go for Coffin Bean. Talk
about a score ! But it felt greedy to me, so I told him which ones the nearest
Mal-Wart had, and since we’d been meaning to pick up a few other things,
thought became deed in about ten minutes. Ghouls
Rule was soon ruled out by Dearest, as ‘not Clawdeen enough’, which I tend
to agree with, and it’d be harder to pull off ‘collection cull’ with a Sweet 1600 identical to his. Beloved
picked up the playset, and said I could have some fun with this one – why not ?
He asked me to look her over carefully, and pick the best out of the four.
(happy sigh) He understands me….
And I have to admit, that
playset is fine. The pieces are almost all assembled already – only the shelves/cashier
stand isn’t, and that’s partially due to the back cardboard featuring two different displays. I wish Barbie was
still this creative. It’s easy to switch between them, and as the customer, you
get first pick. It’s held in with four black plastic spider web brackets in the
back. It’s amazing that there’s detail in. the. back.
The chair and sofa are big
and heavy – kind of a surprise after years of flyweight Barbie accoutrements –
and lo and behold, they’re not too low and
come completely assembled. A doll with 90-degree bent knees can easily sit
on the sofa, the lowest of the two, and not topple over. The chair seems more a
throne, since it’s a bit taller in the seat than the sofa, and I was surprised
that it was so big. The shelves/checkout piece is rich with detail and I’ll say
it again, I really like the display choice. It’s big and heavy too, and you could
easily skip not putting the back cardboard in at all, and use it as a flat-screen
TV and bookshelves instead, with a little posterboard or printout art of your
own. The spider-webby branch-out shelf fits in a slot, but I got it to stand
easily enough propped against the side instead, or against a School wall, and
it hasn’t toppled yet. I love the little ‘coffee maker’, and the cash register
reminds me of all my fast-food jobs. And, what can I say, I have always loved
the coffin-shaped coffee table. Really, the only negative thing I can say about
it is that I wish it came with more food/drink props. Even the little apron is
cute, and Clawdeen is gorgeous. Well worth the $29. in my opinion.
It’s currently a student
lounge on the second floor of the School, where there’s barely space for the
sofa, chair, and coffee table. Had to move the speakers / trophy display to accommodate
it all. I’m probably gonna make a ‘Creepateria’ sign to go over the Coffin Bean
logo on the shelves, and keep that down there, load it with food pieces. Self-service
lunch !
We also got a brand-new sofa
on sale ! It’s funny that the dolls and we got new furniture today ! I gotta clear the space for it, then go help tug it in, so wish us luck !
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