And apparently, the ghouls are getting some diversity makeovers. Clawdeen is now Blaxican, Draculaura is chubbier and half Asian. Frankie is now Non-Binary and wears a prosthetic leg. Lagoona is now a Honduran Latina Ghoul. Pleasantly surprised that the article didn't use the dreaded Latinx adjective.
Mattel will also donate $1 from each Ghoulia doll they sell to DoSomething.org, a non-profit that helps teens with, uh, stuff. A whole dollar out if a $25 doll... yikes!
My issue is that they're retconning the Ghouls for "SocJus brownie points". Frankie's is the only one that makes the most sense, since she's based on Frankenstein's Monster, made out of spare parts. Being non-binary and having prosthetic limbs makes absolute sense, since she's built from multiple corpses. I'm honestly not a fan of making Draculaura chubbier. She drinks blood, not gorging on hamburgers. The one that should be chubby is Ghoulia, since Zombies eat brains and brain meat is mostly fat... you do the math. Had they done the full diversity thing in 2010, Mattel would've been a visionary. The issue lies on the lazy "Replacing instead of adding" diversity.
While I don't have a horse on this race, I hope that they don't start cutting corners like they did on their last run of Monster High.
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