thepurpleglass:

byronleboe:

A few Monster High concept pieces I did a while back.

The top piece is from ‘13 Wishes’ and was the attic in Monster High where the girls find the lamp. In the end the dinosaur bones were removed and replaced with large windows.

The bottom piece is from ‘Boo York’. Originally here was a story line where Lagoona and Frankie split off from the main group and had their own adventure. Here they are exploring a museum late at night.

Both were rejected on the basis that Mattel execs believed dinosaurs
were ‘too boy’. As in, girls don’t like dinosaurs. I still don’t agree
with that.

Re-post if you’re a girl and you think dinosaurs kick-a$$!

I was gonna reblog it just because I loved the sketches, but, um, forget Mattell and that sexist junk. I would have liked MH as a kid because they’re weird creatures, and in the same vein, the toys I had the largest collection of were dinosaurs. Dolls weren’t even really my thing. I can’t have been the only girl like that.

The best response to toy execs saying “Girls don’t like X:” When Bonnie Zacharle pitched My Little Pony, she was told that girls didn’t like horses but only wanted to play with toy irons and kitchen sets. The rest is probably history.

In any case these dinosaurs are just set dressing for a museum. If toy execs think girls (or the parents of girls) are so allergic to dinosaurs that you can’t even set part of a doll movie in a museum, what affect do toy companies have on little girls thinking science is something they can approach? Not that toys are the only thing to impact what kids are interested in, but still.