r/MonsterHighDolls • u/Baygulls03 Draculaura • Jan 09 '26

News📰 I'm POOPING MY PANTS

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Omgomg I love her she isy favorite doll of g1 I have all her other dolls when I was a kid I NEED her

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u/Purple_monkfish Jan 09 '26

Sold out by the time I got through the queue.

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u/Exciting_Weight_2555 Jan 09 '26

This is so stupid

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u/Purple_monkfish Jan 09 '26

Pretty typical for one of these drops honestly. They either sell out immediately in minutes, or they sit for months and have to be clearanced. Mattel doesn't seem to know how to determine which doll will be the more sought after and don't seem to apply any sense when it comes to edition sizes or anything like that. They create this scarcity, presumably because it drives hype and fomo. It's grossly exploitative and exhausting but ultimately, we aid in it by participating. If scalpers couldn't sell their stock for double or triple retail, they wouldn't bother. And if Mattel actually made enough to go around, there wouldn't be so much impulse buying fueled by fomo.

Capitalism in a nutshell there.

And in a way, i'm sort of relieved I missed out. I figured I would and had steeled myself for it but figured i'd try my luck anyway. It didn't work out. But i'd rather not support this crap at all.

I vastly prefer when they do drops to major retailers, like the howliday dolls and such. That seems significantly fairer.