Vampire Heart Draculaura Review Part 4 of 4
In this final part of my review, I’ll be comparing her a bit more to some other Monster High vampires.
Including my G1 Elissabat (who really needs her hair de-glued) and I’ve had her hair “restyled” like that ever since I got her just because I liked how she wore it up in the flashbacks in “Frights, Camera, Action.”
The picture above has mini-dress Draculaura with Elissabat, the true Vampire Queen. Luckily she’s pretty cool with this Draculaura playing dress up, as long as she gets to try on her outfit too.
Also, I had never undressed my Eissabat before and didn’t know these were two separate pieces!
And here is she is!!! I kept her puff purple sleeves to make it fit more with her color scheme. It’s not a bad look at all and I would have loved to have seen a true Vampire Queen Eissabat Collector doll.
Something like this, but even more dramatic. Give her some large vampire wings, layers of bows and bats and deep purples, a better looking tiara to house the vampire’s heart than what she wore in the movie, the works!
I think her boots look better under the dress than Draculaura’s though.
Her purples and large bell skirt gown are also kinda reminding me of this collector Barbie:
The true Vampire Queen….
….and now
Jump scare!
I wanted to compare G2’s hair play Draculaura (my favorite of my G2 Draculaura) due to the light pink steaks in her hair (as I thought it was the same light pink Saran) and her “darker face-up.” Turns out, it is actually a shade darker than Vampire Heart Draculaura’s and her makeup is not as dark as I remembered.
The difference in these dolls are night day, so onto something a bit closer.
Draculaura’s 50 dollar Amazon Exclusive collector doll vs Amazon’s Exclusive Collector 90/100 dollar doll.
I never thought I’d say this, but I actually way prefer the new doll over the old one in every way except for the lack of diary in the current release.
I was actually never a huge fan of the Collector Draculaura’s eyes (they look better far away and look like they were designed by Tim Burton) or her extra long body (I did like the chest articulation though, but thought an ever TALLER Draculaura looked odd), and prefer the new face up and eyelashes on the newer doll.
It does look like they have that same really light pink Saran.
They both have crumby stands that don’t hold the doll very well (at least Collector Draculaura’s is beautifully detailed).
And surprisingly non of these lace/lattice patterns were present on Vampire Heart’s Draculaura’s skirt. The embroidery on Collector Draculaura is still unmatched though, and she’s still an extremely lovely doll.
Buuuuut, she surprisingly has more in common with Haunte Couture Draculaura than Vampire Heart’s and visa versa.
She’s like the in between of Vampire Heart’s and Haunte Couture (similar colors to Vampire Heart’s, buuuut the same layered skirt with bat wing edges, heel/sole to her shoes, and a cape that attaches to her wrists…and I guess hats and rooted eyelashes that Haunt Couture has).
Well, Draculaura likes to reuse and update pieces of her wardrobe from her long life.
“Come play with us Vampire Heart Draculaura.”
For fun, I compared OG Draculaura (whose hair has been degreased with LA’s Totally Awesome, but she just needs to be retro-brighted and I haven’t had time to do that).
She has the much skinner eyes of the OG Draculaura than the more “show accurate” Creeproduction Draculaura, but has the darker pink skin tone of the Creeproduction.
Well, I think that’s everyone, let’s get you to the Vampire Heart ball, or whatever ball your vampires are celebrating this week.
Huh. Looks like Valentine has offered to dance with you Draculaura. I wonder if he’s reformed in this timeline too….
Wait, now the famous movie star -and nothing else- Elissabat wants to dance with you instead. I’m sure Lord Stoker will be glad at all the attention you’re receiving….such a graceful model Vampi-
Tripped over Fangelica….it looks like she’s in this timeline too…
Anyways, all bow down to the Vampire Queen, the most beautiful of Monster High’s Skullector’s dolls (to date and my opinion).
….seriously I really want a diary to go with her…stop leaving those out Mattel!!
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I think elissabat will be a better choice,draculaura slay but she is not the queen ELISSABAT IS THÉ QUEEN 💜👑🖤
Why they don’t chose her Why is always the group 5 who’s have skullector
MATTEL U HAVE A LOT OF CHARACTERS, PLEASE WE WANT THE OTHERS CHARACTERS
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I don't think Mattel thinks....
I could end the post there lol but this is specifically ab how they made the Vampire Heart doll just another Draculaura. She would be so much more special as the original vampire queen Elissabat. And I think appeal to more than just Drac fans! She'd sell well considering she's a less seen character so imo she'd be more sought after. Plus a purple vampire? In gothic clothing?? The alt community would be ALL OVER HER.
But now it's literally just another Draculaura doll. Third this year. I get she sells but it's getting boring. It's now the reason I won't buy Draculaura collectors. I have enough of her.
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Vampire Heart Draculaura Review Part 3
Wait Draculaura, come back this way, we need to take a closer look and review your clothes! They’re all removable and separate pieces (a wonder for current day Mattel). And surprisingly fairly easy to undress and redress.
Her whole outfit looks lightly inspired by Elissabat’s movie persona: Veronica Von Vamp and Draculaura’s flashback version of herself in “Why do Ghoul’s Fall in Love?”
More close ups of all the individual clothing pieces under the cut, as these reviews are long suckers.
She has small satin ribbons on both wrists and black lace (the same that is used for her neck and hems of both her dress and skirt). Out of curiosity I checked Haunte Couture Draculaura, and it is different.
The rose on her chest is also made of metal (it doesn’t feel like plastic), another surprise from Mattel, and is a very light pink/lavender.
Now let’s get a closer look at large bow that also works as a shawl (I love that idea).
It’s so long and elegant, and like a longer version of Dawn of the Dance’s bow.
Here is the bow off of her. It was very easy to remove.
And here she is without her shawl/bow on:
Another really cute look for her. She just looks so cohesive and well designed!!
Let’s now take some closer looks at her large skirt.
A close up of one of the panels to her skirt. The pearl beads are also the lightest of pale pink as well. I’m very glad to see their not glued on, but instead sewn.
The panels really don’t feel like pleather, more of a rubbery plastic (hopefully they will not rot and peel). And there are two layers. It’s attached over this thicker plastic (vinyl?) that feels like one of those old blow up beach balls….or a pool toy. Hopefully it will not get sticky over time.
There you can see the two separate layers.
A better look at the scalloped edges and the ruffles layer over the edge (which is also a nicely hemmed, multi fabric piece).
And the patterned ruffle laying back down, more cute bat designs.
You can see how the nylon(?) pieces seems already kinda rough at the ends; like it was cut with a dull pair of scissors.
It is connected to the “mini dress” in two spots with a little bit of thread that is easily cut. And has velcro in the back.
The bell skirt off the doll. The vinyl is nice in that it helps the dress keep its full shape. Even if an actual fabric bell skirt would have been great to see as well.
A picture from above and underneath the skirt. The pattern closest around the doll looks like a bunch of bats, and I love that detail.
Without the bell-skirt, you get Monster High’s more traditional mini dress silhouette. But even just these two pieces look so nice together.
Another photo of her lovely face and a better look at her lightly puffed sleeves, and the black lace around her throat.
She’s also giving me some Duchess Swan vibes from Ever After High. Must be all the black and white.
Okay, now just the lace jumpsuit. I love the extra details of black thread along the front. Such a lovely addition! Also, I am surprised at how quickly I have gotten used to Draculaura on her shorter, chubbier body in G3 because she almost looks out of proportion here. But, I do miss the more delicate hand molds used in G1 over G3….anyways back to her outfit…
Just the mini dress and the bow together also don’t make a bad combination. I also didn’t want to keep removing her hands, so have a handless Draculaura in some of these photos.
I literally couldn’t stop taking photos of her……
Okay, and here are all of her fabric clothing pieces lined up:
In my fourth and final part of this long review, I’ll be comparing her to some other dolls in my collection, including some of her other collector dolls, and the actual Queen of the Vampires.
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