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Gravedale High model sheets (pt. 1)

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however’s trying to sell those toys clearly didn’t had too much love in their heart for them...

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Gravedale High model sheets (pt. 2)

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A couple bonus pieces that came with the Gravedale High model sheets, what I believe are print advertisements for the show.

Transcription under the cut:

Get set for ghoulishly groovy fun at the spookiest, kooky-est high-school ever!

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Dedicated teacher Max Schneider (the likeness and voice of comedian Rick Moranis) thought he had the wrong address when he arrived for his first day on his new job. But the forbidding mansion located in the heart of a creepy cemetery turned out to be "Gravedale High: School for Monsters!"

Now Max is the guiding force of an unruly class of underachieving teenage monster misfits, including cool teen vampire Vinnie Stoker, who can often be found on his motorcycle when he's not turning himself into a flying bat; bratty Frankentyke, a wild, irreverent fellow given to practical jokes; Sid, the Invisible Kid; and popular surfing dude Gill Waterman, who prefers his pizza with anchovies - live anchovies.

Populating the girls' locker room are Blanche, a snobbish Southern belle zombie who dreams of growing up a rich, fashionable monster. She lives (if one can apply that term to a zombie) to shop, spending much time at the mall. Duzer, the school's vamp, is named for her snake-hair. And portly mummy Cleofatra is everyone's friend and a gal with a yen for fast food.

Max's fellow staff members are equally off-putting: Coach Cadaver; Mr. Tutner, the mummified history teacher; Headmistress Crone; and Miss Webner - part English teacher, part spider!

These crazy kids get into all sorts of problems, just as any other teenagers do. They try their hand at running the school's paper. Blanche enters a cooking contest with great results - until her peculiar ingredients are revealed. Frankentyke rides a racehorse to save him from evil owners. And the local hospital gets in an uproar when the class comes to visit a friend having his tonsils out. Max has his hands full trying to guide and counsel his young charges. He tries to prepare them to enter main-stream society. But he's a determined soul with a great outlook on life, and he'll help his kids whenever and wherever he can.

Among the voice talents heard in Gravedale High are Shari Belafonte, Ricki Lake, Barry Gordon, Eileen Brennan, Johnathan Winters and Kimmy Robertson.

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Found this piece of Drak Pack art on eBay the other day, in a group of other HB animation cels being sold. While I have seen the uncolored version of this art before, I've never seen the characters with these particular colors.

Assuming that these were the intended colors of this piece (at least at one point), my best guess is that these are even earlier designs for the characters.

The Big D design seen here is reminiscent of his design seen in this piece of production art, and likewise so are smaller details like Franky + Howler's hair colors. I feel like if the creators had the idea of Big D being a human-looking monster then it's not unreasonable to guess they could have had the same plans for the Drak Pack themselves at one point.

I also want to note that in the description of this listing on eBay Howler is listed as "Howell", which is an earlier name used for him as seen on his model sheets. Similarly Big D is called Dr. Dred in the listing (though spelled as "Dr. Dredd"), which also matches his model sheets where he's mislabeled as Dr. Dred on some of them. The fact that the seller is listing these characters by their model sheet names as opposed to their finalized ones gives me the idea that this art was created in the timeframe when the designs were still being finalized so those were the names listed with it.

As for the designs and how I feel about them, I think the Franky design here works. I like how his clothes still subtle references the Universal Frankenstein's Monster design, and him having a human skin tone in his monster form works since a Frankenstein's Monster is reanimated human corpse and all that.

I don't like the Drak design as much, but I don't really dislike it too much either. I don't think having him in only dark colors really matches his character (or the finalized version of him in the show anyhow), but I can see it working in a sense of him trying to mimic Big D, really leaning into the "Jr" aspect of his name. Plus, having a human skin tone would work since that's a common trait in vampire designs anyway.

I'm not a fan of Howler's (or Howell's) clothing colors. The khaki pants are too close to his skin color and I just don't like the blue on him.

The only thoughts I have about Big D's design is that I don't like that pale brown cape color on him, but I do like how much more gray his hair is than in his finalized design, even down to his eyebrows. It plays into the whole "great granduncle" thing.

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A new piece of Drak Pack production art I found on eBay today:

It's one showing off the Drak Whack. I do like the idea of the light that covers them when they transform being in a bat-shape.

It's also another piece of art that shows them in their non-finalized colors, with Franky in his pink shirt/red jacket and him and Howler having their hair colors swapped.

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My Speed Buggy plush I got today.

Its tag is missing, but from what I've read this plush was part of the line sold in the Warner Brothers stores in the late 1990s, possibly made in 1998 specifically.