Saturday, September 25, 2010

Monster High

[Source: Wikipedia] The Monster High website opened on May 5, 2010. In the site, the viewer can access games, character bios and several downloads. The site also produces the online webisodes for Monster High. The site added one new webisode weekly (on Fridays) from May 5 to July 30. The series is currently on hiatus. The webisodes can also be viewed on Monster High's YouTube Channel. A commercial for the website has aired in national television on August 5, 2010 in the U.S.


Subsequently, a music video for the line was also created and can be found on YouTube. Monster High's theme song the "Monster High Fright Song" is also available on iTunes.

Characters:
The events of the webisodes are set in a fictional high schoolcalled 'Monster High' where the whole student body and staff is made upof ghouls and monsters from various popular monster fiction. Most ofthe main characters are children of the famous Universal Monsters.
  • Frankie Stein — one of the main characters. She is the daughter of Frankenstein's Monster (and of, possibly, his bride).She is depicted as the 'new girl' of Monster High and is only 15 daysold (according to her online bio). She has various stitches all overher body and has pale green skin. She also has two bolts on her neckwhich serve as electric conductors (based from the image of Boris Karloff in the 1931 film version of Frankenstein).Like Frankenstein's Monster in the novel, she is highly athletic andagile, and even lands a spot in the 'fearleading' squad (even thoughher body parts, especially her hands, tend to fly off at the worsttimes). Frankie's place in the school is new and exciting, she even hasa sweet sixteenth day! Frankie has a pet puppy named Watzit, who hasbeen stitched together like her.
  • Draculaura — one of the main characters, she is a vegan vampire and daughter of Count Dracula. In the online bios, she is 1,599 years old. She has pale pink skin, protruding fangs and her appearance is similar to Béla Lugosi in the 1931 film version of Dracula. She also has pointed, elf-like ears. She wears Victorian era clothing and her style closely resembles Lolita fashion. She is known to be poetic and she loves creative writing. She has a pet bat named Count Fabulous dressed in a small pink jumper and large bow.
  • Clawdeen Wolf — one of the main characters, she is the daughter of the Werewolf (possibly Larry Talbot from the 1941 film The Wolf Man). She has an African-Americanappearance and has wolf ears and protruding fangs. She, along with herbest friends Frankie and Draculaura, make up the central characters ofthe webisodes. She is known to have a wild, uncontrollable natureespecially when she sees a full moon. She often shaves and plucks herexcess hair that grows rapidly all over her body. In the web series,she often bickers with Cleo de Nile and their fights have become arunning gag throughout the series. She has a pet cat named Crescent.
  • Lagoona Blue — the daughter of the Sea Monster (though her appearance is more akin to Gill-man from the 1954 movie Creature from the Black Lagoon).She has long, blond hair and light blue skin. She also has severalfins, webbed hands and gills behind her ears. She speaks with an Australian accent. She is depicted as a jockand is the captain of Monster High's swim team. She has a pet Piranhanamed Neptuna whom she carries around in a fishbowl purse.
  • Cleo de Nile — the daughter of the Mummy (most likely Imhotep from the 1932 film The Mummy). She is a 5,842-year-old Egyptian princess. She has olive skin wrapped with stray mummy bandages and frequently wears Ancient Egyptian jewelry. She is depicted as the 'queen bee'and 'mean girl' of Monster High and has a particular dislike forClawdeen. She is also in a relationship with Deuce Gorgon. She has apet snake dolled out in jewelry named Hisette.
  • Deuce Gorgon — a son of Medusa. He has green snakes for hair (which he styles into a mohawk). Despite being a Gorgon,he has a charming face, peach skin and athletic physique. Hisgirlfriend Cleo, even dubs him as the "hottest guy in Monster High." Hefrequently wears large sunglasses, since his gaze would turn anyone tostone (but unlike his mother's gaze in Greek mythology,the potency of his gaze would only last for 24 hours at most). He has atwin tailed pet rat named Perseus whom he named after an ancientwarrior his mother knew (much to her dismay).
  • Ghoulia Yelps — a zombie.She has light blue hair and pale gray skin. Her appearance is verybookish and she wears large, horn-rimmed glasses. She is depicted astimid and shy and could only speak Zombie (a possible reference to theghouls from the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead and other films from the Living Dead film series). She is also the smartest girl in Monster High. She has a baby blue colored owl named Sir Hoots A Lot.
  • Holt Hyde — The character debuted in the 2010 Comic-Con in San Diego.[12]His display box states that he is the son of Mr. Hyde. He has blue skinand bright orange hair. Little information is known about him asidefrom the fact that his name is a probable reference to the titularcharacter from the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.In Deuce Gorgon's bio, he cites a person named 'Jackson Jekyll' as oneof his best friends, this could possibly hint that Holt has inheritedmutations . He also has a pet chameleon who's name is unknown.