Hello! I bought this set for $40 off Amazon. I thought it was an okay deal at first. Two dolls, $20 each. That's normal. So, I bought them along with a couple other dolls and items to make the most of the free Amazon shipping. BUT THEN, I saw this set on sale for $25 on the ToysRUs website and I felt pretty bad afterwards.
I don't usually check every website for the best deal. I go with Amazon most of the time because the site hasn't let me down yet, but knowing I could have had this set for $15 less... (or maybe only $10 because I'd pay shipping) it bugs me somewhat.
Totally my fault though! I should have looked.
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| Garrott and Rochelle in box. |
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| Garrott du Roque (Son of a Gargoyle) and Rochelle Goyle (Daughter of a Gargoyle). |
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| Side box art. |
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| Back of the box. |
Garrott and Rochelle are incredibly cute together in these pictures!
When I first saw them online and in other doll reviews, I didn't like Garrott's doll. I liked his box art more than I liked his doll. I still do, but now the more I look at him, the more I like him.
His box art doesn't have that green around his eyes so I wonder why it was added to the doll version of him.
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| Scaris stamp on the bottom right corner of the back of the box. |
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| Art for you to keep! |
I love that this feature was added to the box. I'm not sure what I'd do with the art. Maybe cut it out and glue it to the cover of a notebook or something. Probably not this picture of Garrott and Rochelle being happy because it would just remind me of what I don't have.
ya know... things lik happiness and luv... ;____;
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| The art behind the dolls. |
By the way, I kept hurting myself opening this box. Be careful of the sharp plastic! Open with gloves or something.
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| Hidden diary. |
Just like with Honey's poster in my last review, I nearly threw the diary away! Don't forget yours!
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| Hidden brush and stand. |
I threw these away since I already have so many and I don't display all my dolls anyway.
I'm going to start with Rochelle because I'm more excited about Garrott. I actually only wanted Garrott when I bought this set. I love having boy dolls since there are so many girls already.
This Rochelle is beautiful though. I love her soft pastel look. I think I'm lucky too! My Rochelle's skin (what my eldest sister likes to call "cookies n' cream skin") makes her look like she has a very pretty mole beneath her lower lip.
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| Skulette in the center of the flower. |
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| Drippy mint headband. |
I would like to see what her hair looks like when it's down and I know it would be very easy to style again since her hair is only in a simple side-ponytail. But the headband is being held up on her head by two plastic tags. The headband looks heavy too, so I'm worried it won't ever stay up again if I cut the tags off.
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| Plastic wrap. |
There's plastic wrapped around her arm to protect her from Garrott's black jacket bleeding onto her skin.
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| Front of her outfit. |
The plastic easily slipped off.
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| Wings and back of her outfit. |
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| Rochelle's shoes. |
Her shoes are a mint re-cast from her basic doll's shoes which were gray.
Now we'll look at Garrott! I love that he is fully clothed. Meaning: Long sleeved shirt and pants (not shorts).
Totally not loving the green around his eyes though. I'll probably try to rub some of it off later. It's not bad, but I don't really like it much.
It might be hard to see from this photo, but because his hair is heavily gelled there's little dried up bits of gel that cause Garrott to look as though he has bad dandruff. I'll have to wash out his hair later.
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| Gold piercing. |
Looks like a painful place to put a piercing. I wonder how a gargoyle gets a piercing anyway... Do holes have to be drilled into their ears? Ouch. D:
There's nothing underneath is jacket.
His wings are one piece and they keep falling off.
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| PANTS! |
Yay for pants! There's red stitching at the bottom of his jeans that match his scarf.
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| Garrott's shoes. |
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| Skull flower to match Rochelle's headband. |
I'm not sure what colour this is called. It's gray mixed with light brown.
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| Tag holding his scarf in place. |
Ugh, I hate that I have to cut the tag off to re-dress him.
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| Plastic wrapped arms. |
If you were wondering why his arms looked funny with his clothes on it's probably because of the plastic wrapped around his arms. I'm glad that Monster High took steps to protect the doll's bodies.
I took the plastic off because I'm a rebel. d:
If his arms get dyed then... lol, my fault!
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| Accessories. |
So, here are the accessories they came with~
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| Rochelle's purse. |
The purse is a re-cast from Rochelle's swim line doll, I think.
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| Garrott's rose. |
This rose is a re-cast of Deuce's Dawn of the Dance rose. The stem on Deuce's rose was painted green though.
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| Garrott's diary. |
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| Missing a page? |
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| Another missing page? |
I took photos of all the pages of his journal, but it seems as though I'm missing pages. I thought at first maybe this was how it's supposed to be, but the writing doesn't make sense if you read it like this. It definitely feels as though pages are missing.
Too bad, I was interested in the story. ):
This is a cute set and a recommend buying it if you love the boy Monster High dolls like I do!
