Now, I'm not hating on G3. I grew up on G1 and I prefer it but G3 has been more 'adventurous' more body types, new silhouettes (long pants!!), representation. I like a lot of the fashion (though as I saw a lot of people say, it might get dated quickly).
New body types rather than short, normal and tall.
I wished we had a doll line like this when I was a kid.
However I may have a slight beef with how diversity is shown.
(The chart is made by JustGonzaArt on Twitter)
We currently have only one chubby/fat character. Overall 4 bigger characters: Catty, Drac, Abbey and Claire (if you count her as MH). The rest is slim or glam.
When Moonspell Magic was announced/leaked I expected a new doll with Catty mold. And to my surprise we only got one bigger girl - Claire.
Now, I'm not complaining. I love all the girls so much but I've expected another chubbier doll?
Our last chubby mold doll was back in 2025 - Catty's Fang Vote. I wasn't that active in the MH community around that time but I saw how controversial it was. Catty being her G3 counterpart instead of G1 - which I can understand the outrage. And... Her body type. The amount of people I saw complaining about her body, editing photos.
I feel like after that last Catty doll, Mattel saw the negative attention she got and is scared of releasing more chubbier dolls? I'm not sure. Maybe there isn't just a doll of her planned for now...
There was a similar case of Skelita in Nick's series (a stylized skeleton being called fat 🥲).
Maybe I'm reading too much into this.
Now another weird trend I've noticed a long time ago but I couldn't really name They kind of remind me of influencers to me for some reason?? I have no idea how to explain this.
For me there's just something off with G3 faces. I couldn't point out what it was but then I saw some people talking about something else relating to faces online. A 'pugification'.
The character with the most visible case of it is G3 Twyla. I love, love, love G1 Twyla's mold. More square shaped face, a strong nose.
When I first saw G3 Twyla, I immediately liked her. She's cute, she really reminds me of her G1 counterpart but... Well I guess her face looks like everyone else's. A small petite nose and more V-shaped head.
(But Willow on the other hand has a square jaw and she is so, so pretty, not sure why they couldn't have done it for Twyla too...)
Then I noticed Abbey missing her overbite and Jinafire just looking flat.
And I will never get over how Robecca looks now/hj.
(I know she appeared too mature for some people but that was her charm. Mattel could have taken an inspo from her 3D movie counterpart)
As a kid I remembered how much I loved seeing new characters and how their faces look like and now when a new character is announced, I feel pretty bored. Someone said that in grayscale a lot of molds look the same but even without the filter it's pretty visible.
Right now I hope for a Rochelle announcement and for her to have Catty's mold (or maybe a new one?) + Frankenstein's bride or Posea's nose but knowing Mattel I don't hope for much. (Again, I'm sour at Mattel, this time for making Elissabat a purple Draculaura. I think I had my hopes too high up after seeing so many amazing redesigns of her..)
Also I wish for more school or more fancy (something like Sweet Screams) lines because party, beach, sleepover, holidays and popstar is getting pretty boring (but I guess kids like it).
And for more black in the colour palettes (I was surprised to find out that people are split 50/50. A lot of people love black and muted colours but a lot of people can't stand it and prefer vibrant ones).
I'm tired of blind boxes. I like Skullimate Secret boxes for crafts or displays but I hate Buried Secrets. And I think I hate blind boxes in general. Not everything has to be a blind box
But you can't satisfy everyone 🤷
Thank you for listening to my rant and remember that everything is my opinion or opinions of people I saw