#astranova

But does anyone else think that Astranova might also be a reference to Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

For context, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is a Steven Spielberg movie where an ordinary man has an encounter with a UFO and over time becomes obsessed with the image of a mysterious mountain (the mountain the aliens land on at the climax of the movie).

In the movie, scientists communicate with the aliens using a five-note tonal phrase. In Boo York, Ghoulia also uses a set of notes to communicate with Astranova’s ship.

In CE3K, music is the only way humans are able to communicate with the aliens. In her diary, Astranova starts off not understanding any Earth language, but connects with them through music.

In the climax of CE3K, the cast groups with the scientists to talk to the aliens using a giant musical keyboard. In Boo York, the school also watches Ghoulia make contact with Astranova using her own keyboard.

And the alien’s mothership lights up to the music, kinda like how Astranova’s comet does in the movie and playset! Both even have similar silhouettes.

Also off topic - this is just something funny I noticed - but Astranova trying to contact her home with music notes kinda reminds me of “ET phone home” lol

This is probably all a huge coincidence, especially since a lot of alien movies follow similar themes/tropes. But, MH also does love their pop culture references.

I’ve never seen anyone talk about this before, which is why I’m bringing it up here lol

So what do you all think?

Monster High March(ish) / #2025MHChallenge

Prompt 3 - Sparkles

Meant to post this a couple days ago but I already decided I wasn't going to worry myself with dates lol

God: she's into science. She's time travelled before. She saved the world from an ansteriod. If it wasn't for her, the school would half fall apart every other day n the students don't even realise. There's a tik-tok/reel where *SHE'S* the one to make contact with the G3 multiverse through a usb.

I also think this would have been an amazing time to use ASTRANOVA. Literally she's an alien so she embodies the concept of SPACE n Ghoulia is a zombie, a monster who is notoriously slow, n so can embody TIME n together they can break Space Time n multiverse travel. Maybe tag along Wydowna to give a wink at the spiderverse, yk. We're into the monsterverse.

Literally why not include the character who hinted at the ever after high crossover?

Literally why not give one of the most beloved main 6 ghouls, the one who was always a comic nerd, her own comic spin-off??

Why not have the 2 nerdy characters get to visit their own super hero AU dimension???

Noooooo 🫠 we gotta give it all to the ex-villain who's redemption here was to become devoid of any personality n the diary backgrounder who in canon had less character than a plastic spoon, n therefore we can write as if OCs. See? it's easy cause this way we don't have to deal with any of those pesky things such as canon character traits. We don't know how to write those!!! We're Mattel, we don't know our own lore!!!! that's why all we do is relationship dramas n g3-fusion type retcons!!!!

These generic wattpad gays r gonna do the trick. Why give the spotlight to a girl who has been a main character in the franchise since it's debut 15 yrs ago. Let's recenter the franchise around 2 backgrounder men. That's what sells after all!!!!!! wHoLeSoMe GaYs !!!!!!

Monster High Scaremester 🕸 (w/ 2 new OCs)