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Monster High is an American fashion doll franchise created by Mattel and launched in July 2010. The characters are inspired by monster movies, sci-fi horror, thriller fiction, and various creatures thus distinguishing them from most other fashion dolls on the market. Monster High was created by Garrett Sander, with illustrations by Kellee Riley and illustrator Glen Hanson.[1][2]
The Monster High franchise includes many consumer products such as stationery, bags, key chains, various toys, play sets, video games, TV specials, a web series, and direct to DVD movies. Lisi Harrison is the author of the Monster High books. The characters are related to or as offspring of famous monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, Medusa, theCreature from the Black Lagoon, the Phantom of the Opera, Zombies and more.
Overview[edit]
In the town of New Salem (which is the home of humans and monsters), the teenage children of famous monsters attend a school for monsters called Monster High.
Character.
Further information: List of Monster High characters
Monster High features a variety of fictional characters, many of whom are students at the titular high school. The female characters are classified as Ghouls and the male characters are classified as Mansters. The characters are generally the sons and daughters, or related to monsters that have been popularized in fiction. The franchise's official website identifies six of the characters as Original Ghouls:[3]
- Clawdeen Wolf (voiced by Salli Saffioti[4]) is the daughter of theWerewolf. She is described as furry, outgoing, and sweet.[5]
- Cleo de Nile (voiced by Salli Saffioti[citation needed]) is the daughter of theMummy Ramses de Nile and is 5842 years old at the start of the series. She is the captain of the fearleading squad. She is also the queen of the social scene and has a boyfriend named Deuce Gorgon.
- Draculaura (voiced by Debi Derryberry[4]) is a 1599-year-old vampire who is the daughter of Count Dracula.[5] She is in a relationship with Clawdeen's brother Clawd. Although a vampire, she is a vegetarian and does not drink blood.[5]
- Frankie Stein (voiced by Kate Higgins[4]) is the daughter of Frankenstein's monster and his bride. She is 15 days old at the start of the series. She is a bit clumsy.[5]
- Ghoulia Yelps (voiced by Audu Paden[4]) is the daughter of the zombies who is Cleo de Nile's personal assistant. She is very smart, but can only speak a zombie language which consists of moans and groans.
- Lagoona Blue (voiced by Laura Bailey[4]) is the daughter of the Gill-man (Creature from the Black Lagoon)[5] and a sea nymph. Lagoona is from "Down Under" and speaks with an Australian accent. She can talk with water animals. She is in a relationship will Gillington "Gil" Webber.
Media[edit]
Animated series[edit]
Further information: List of Monster High webisodes
The Monster High website went live on May 5, 2010.[6] Visitors can access games, character bios, several downloads and several more activities.[7] The site also makes available online webisodes for Monster High.[8] Two songs titled "Fright Song" and "We Are Monster High" have also been released digitally.
Monster High has also had several TV specials on Nickelodeon, including "New Ghoul @ School", "Fright On!", "Why Do Ghouls Fall in Love","Escape from Skull Shores", "Ghouls Rule", "Scaris: City of Frights", "Friday Night Frights", "13 Wishes", "Frights, Camera, Action!", "Freaky Fusion", "Haunted" and "Boo York, Boo York".
A live-action, around-the-world adventure, ten chapter Monster High musical movie is listed as in development with Universal Pictures and scheduled to be released on October 7, 2016.[9][10]
Video games[edit]
Monster High has several video games based on the franchise. The first video game released was Monster High: Ghoul Spirit which was released on October 25, 2011. It is available for the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo Wii with special "Ghoulify" feature for Nintendo DSi. The game revolves around the player being the new 'ghoul' in school and must work their way through activities and social situations to finally be crowned 'Scream Queen'. Another video game for Nintendo DS and Wii titled Skultimate Roller Maze was released in November 2012. The third video game for Wii, Wii U, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS titled Monster High: 13 Wishes was released in October 2013. In this game players take on the role of Frankie Stein who must free her friends from a magical lantern by collecting thirteen shards of a magic mirror. A couple of apps titled Ghoul Box and Sweet 1600 are available on iTunes for the iPad and iPhone devices. The Monster High website has also released a series of catacombs themed web games: "trick or trance", "phantom roller" and "scary sweet memories".
Books[edit]
The Monster High young adult novels are written by Lisi Harrison, who previously wrote the book series The Clique and The Alphas. The books take place in a different fictional universe than the webisodes and deal with the Regular Attribute Dodgers (RADs) and their struggles with love, social life, school and not be outed as monsters to humans. Mattel released the first Monster High novel on September 26, 2010. The book revolves around Frankie Stein and Melody Carver. The second book in the series, The Ghoul Next Door, was released at the end of March 2011[11] and features chapters on Cleo de Nile. The third book featuring Clawdeen Wolf is titled Where There's a Wolf, There's a Way and was released on September 29, 2011. The fourth novel titled Back And Deader Than Ever was released in early May 1, 2012[12] and features Draculaura. A Monster High book called Drop Dead Diary was released on January 19, 2011; true to its title, it is in diary format. It is written by the alias Abaghoul Harris.[13]
A book by Gitty Daneshvari, titled Ghoulfriends Forever, was released on September 5, 2012. The book is about Venus Mcflytrap, Robecca Steam, and Rochelle Goyle and their friendship at Monster High and a continuation/sequel titledGhoulfriends Just Want To Have Fun was released April 2, 2013. The next book in the Ghoulfriends series is Who's That Ghoulfriend? and was released on September 10, 2013.[14] Additionally, the fourth book Ghoulfriends 'Til the End was released in spring of 2014. The fifth book is an activity book with an exclusive story about Robbecca {if possible} to be face-to-face with her father. [15]
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