Monster High - Frights Camera Action! - Elissabat

It's Elissabat!

Or Draculaura 2.0, hehe.

 

Her CGI self seems far sparklier and more mature than her doll. I'm not totally sold on that pale purple hair, her deep purple is far more attractive.

The back of the box gives us the usual. 1,601 years... wow Vampire years must be really really dull. I'd be bored out of my skull after the first hundred or so years. Imagine 1600 years and you're still mentally a teenager, yeek.

Anyhoo, universe issues aside... Apparently Elissabat is an amazing actress who suffers from massive stage fright... riiiight. I've seen a lot of really bad rp characters with this kinda crap. Look at that pose, that ain't a girl with crippling stage fright. The diary plays it as a "i'm acting that i'm not scared but I am, but i'm just that good at acting you don't see" deal which feels like a cop out to me. I dunno, if this were an OC it'd be something that'd annoy the crap out of me and even for a canon character the cliche hurts.
Maybe they'll play more into it in the special, but it kinda feels like a phoning it it freaky flaw.
I'll shut up about it now lol.

Anyway here she is.

Elissabat very much feels like the "safe" doll for the Frights Camera Action line. Clawdia and her psycho grin is very marmite, Honey has her awesome hair and Viperine has her freaky snake thing going on. Elissabat is comparatively, really very boring. She's just a pretty pink vampire girl, like we've seen hundreds of times already.
But that's not to say she isn't freaking adorable.
The purple looks nice with the pink vampire skin and her hair is an absolutely stunning shade of plum. I love love love this hair colour.

Her outfit features a very detailed layered dress with lace up bodice and various ruffles and petticoats. Over the top of this is a patterned jacket that adds another textural layer and some gorgeous elbow length frilly sleeves.

Her boots have hearts and ruffled? platforms. These are very cute boots and crazy detailed.

Around one wrist she wears a semi opaque plastic bracelet, I think it's a heart with batwings. I couldn't get a decent picture of it.

She also has two blood drop earrings in each ear. Yes, that's right, two holes in EACH ear as you can see in this picture. I found this interesting, there's only a handful of MH characters with multiple piercings like this (Venus and Clawdeen spring instantly to mind) but it's certainly an unusual trait.

Straight out the box Elissabat's hair is nice. It's a little gelled in the bangs and there's bits of the hair that are kinda gloopy thanks to packaging yuck but the majority of her hair is soft and manageable.

The colour... oh my. It's a blend of plum purple and black. I think I had hair dyed this colour at one point lol.

 

She comes with two accessories. An award shaped like a hand, and this dvd case that actually opens and has a little removable dvd in it. EEEE! I love teeny details like this!
Not sure WHY she's got a copy of her own movie on dvd but eh, it's another movie for creepover night lol.

Somewhat sadly, Elissabat does share a face mould with Draculaura.
Edit: Apparently they ARE different moulds, but DAMN they're similar.
Elissabat's lips are a slightly different shape and she has a very slightly narrower jaw.. maybe. Even with the face paint removed i'm honestly struggling to tell them apart. So let's assume Elissabat is in fact a tweaked Draculaura sculpt rather that a simple reuse? Still, she is to Draculaura as wider faced Spectra is to regular gaunt spectra, that is, so similar they may as well be the same face mould.

Now, I get WHY they did this, her diary and the whole plot of the special has a bit of a prince/pauper vibe to me so having the queen and the commoner looking the same fits that trope, but it still feels like a shame. They look like twins.

Elissabat's screening has at least been made unique. She has smaller painted lips than most Draculaura's I own and her eyes are larger. 

I do believe Elissabat's skin tone is slightly more purplely but that might just be her hair messing with my colour perception.

I do find it interesting that Elissabat's eyes are pretty much the inverse of Draculaura's. Ula has purple eyes usually with pink shadow while Elissabat's are pink with purple shadow.

Overall, Elissabat is a very cute doll and i'm pleased to own her. She has a great outfit, her hair is beautiful and she has a sweet face, even if it is a very familiar one.

There's not many MH dolls with purple as their base colour, and I love purple so it's nice to see a bit more of it. (Though anyone else notice both Draculaura's BFFs wear predominantly purple? Coincidence? hahaha)

I do wish she wasn't reusing a face mould but at least she doesn't just look like Draculaura in a different dress.

I give Elissabat 7 inexplicable doppelgängers out of 10. She's a nice doll and her costume is high quality, but she's nothing special. Particularly not alongside the rest of the FCA line. She's not just reusing the same body as standard, she's reusing a face mould as well (or at least using one really bloody similar) so she's the least ambitious and least individual of the new characters. Some might go so far as to just call her "purple Draculaura."
I'm not that unimpressed myself, I do think she has a really sweet face that doesn't look too much like her mould twin. But I certainly couldn't fault those who couldn't see her as her own character because of the similarities.
Previously at least reused/similar moulds have switched up the skin tones, which helped keep the similarities down. Here we have same skin tone, same face shape, even a similar fashion style.
Still, I do like her. She may not work great as a brand new character, but even for a "purple Draculaura" she's really really adorable.