There’s something strange in Mattel’s neighborhood this week; a legendary movie villain is joining the Monster High Line that’ll require the Ghostbusters on speed dial.
Mattel’s Monster High line was originally dedicated to dolls based on classic monsters like Frankenstein and Dracula, but in recent years has grown to include all kinds of modern icons.
The “Skullector” line of Mattel’s Monster High brand has been dedicated to these for-collectors dolls, including H.G. Giger’s Xenomorph from Alien, Lupita Nyong’o’s two characters from Jordan Peele’s horror movie Us, and even Shorty from Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
Arriving this weekend for Monster High Fang Club members is none other than Gozer the Gozerian, a powerful, malevolent entity from another dimension who was summoned to New York City in 1984’s Ghostbusters, and to Summerville in 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, to destroy the world.
Much like the recent Shorty doll release, the new doll hails from an IP that’s also a merchandising powerhouse, making Gozer a long-overdue inclusion to the Monster High “Skullector” line.
Details are scarce until the reveal later this week, with Mattel’s tease on Instagram highlighting Manhattan’s “Spook Central” apartment building, but Fang Club members received two close-up teases (below) of the doll’s detailing that all but confirm the Destructor, played memorably by Slavitza Jovan in the original, and an uncredited Olivia Wilde accompanying Shohreh Aghdashloo’s voicework in Afterlife.
Beyond the latest drop, arriving this weekend on June 6, a new animated Ghostbusters series is heading to Netflix next year.
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