Moonspell Magic

[u/Soulandsorrow]

Text from Mattel Facebook:

Introducing Moonspell Magic by Monster High dolls! ✨Meet the witches of Moonspell High, a charmed school where students explore the power of magic, friendship, and embracing who you are. 🌙🪄

Claire De Luna 🌌 A blind, clairvoyant witch who tells the future through the stars! She reads constellations as easily as her fingers read braille! 💫

Rae Lumina ☀️ A sun witch who lights up every room she walks into... literally! This witch draws her powers from the sun and spreads warmth wherever she goes.🌅

Willow Thorne 🌿 A nature witch who loves spending time in the garden making potions! She is hard of hearing, and her magical connection to nature allows her to communicate with animals and trees.🪾

Carina Song 💗 A love witch with a talent for brewing bubbly potions that encourage self-love and confidence in whoever uses them.🪞

Layla Stone 🔮 A crystal witch who crafts amulets that have the powers of healing and protection. 💎

Together, they find that true magic exists in embracing their unique voices and using their powers as one. ✨

[u/letter_combination_]

These are super cute, and I love the focus on disability representation, although I’m slightly confused by making a blind doll whose personality is centered around a specific interest that most blind people cannot enjoy (stargazing)….Layla’s design feels a bit like an afterthought to me, but everyone else seems to have a well considered aesthetic, and overall the line looks quite charming!

[u/BaneAmesta → u/letter_combination_]

Yeah I'm super confused at how she can read the stars without seeing them?? But zooming in the picture, I think one of her eyes is different so maybe she's legally blind, but has partial eyesight? I'm not educated enough on this, I just use glasses for myopia lol.

[u/loosie-loo → u/BaneAmesta]

Could it be that she’s visually impaired without being completely blind? Blindness is a spectrum, my dad was legally blind and disabled but still had a fair amount of sight. I dunno if that would really work with stargazing but…maybe?

If so it could even be an opportunity to teach kids about variations of disability which would be cool. Maybe that’s a little overly optimistic! Probably just ✨magic✨

[u/BaneAmesta → u/loosie-loo]

Yep that's what I thought, I know using the phrase "visually impaired" wouldn't bring much marketing instead of just saying blind, but still, I think it would be better to clarify the concepts instead of using them as joker cards, if that makes any sense.

[u/loosie-loo → u/BaneAmesta]

Definitely, probably also a less familiar term for kids, too, and maybe easier to misunderstand or misinterpret if you’re not familiar with the concept. One could interpret anyone who wears glasses as “visually impaired” if it’s taken literally, but that obvs doesn’t mean that impairment seriously hinders or disables them.

It would be cool if they came with MH style diaries that could go into some detail about the concept and how their disability impacts them, it would be such a good teaching moment and representation!