(Weird, cause I can’t find a single one at the TRUs, where they sell for $10, but he’s got 3 for $24 each!)
So the dude that worked there comes over asking if we are looking for anything, and I asked if they had any of the MH dolls. He gets this attitude like “Oh we don’t really sell that crap, we sell the REAL ones, the Living Dead Dolls” and starts insisting that MH was just copying off of them.
And I was like, well, they are modeled after the Universal Monsters, whereas these ones seem to be from folklore and fairy tales…(the ones on the shelf, anyway)
So he points out the Damien doll “which sells for a $100 now on ebay” was based on the Omen movie.
And I was like, ok thats ONE, I wouldn’t say they had the monopoly on Horror movie kids.
He mentions that they are 10 years old, Monster High came out 2 years ago.
I asked then, if BE Goths weren’t more of an influence, since A. They’re cuter and B. They are also 10 years old?
He ignored that and pointed out how many of the dolls are collectors items now and sell for up to a hundred dollars. And I’m like, “Psh! Check out ebay! There are lots of morons selling MH dolls for 3-4 times what they’re worth. Is that why the Living Dead people are mad? Cause they’re actually really popular?”
He just keeps repeating that they are just cheap knock-offs, and his ‘tude was getting on my nerves. So I mentioned that these were more like kids toys than the LDD, (and isn’t it nice that there are varying degrees of spooky so that there’s something for everyone!) and he starts going on about a customer who bought her 10 year old son a Living Dead doll every month and he almost had the whole collection.
I blinked and pointed out how that was fine and all, but it says on the BOX “recommended for creepy kids 15 and over”. And that MH has a cartoon and was right there with the dolls at TRU. To which he replies “yeah they’re Barbies for little girls who wish they were goth.
My kid and I: Oh, like us?
Apparently you are a wannabe goth if you appreciate the Monster High girls. You can’t possible like their design or message or monsters or have always been a little spooky (but not into gore, much) and finally feel that a doll linegetsyou.
So I stuck the lunchbox back on the shelf and we walked off.