In 2018 a Hotel Transylvania toyline was launched by Jazwares[]
History[]
In fall 2017 it was announced that Sony pictures animation had made a deal with toy company Jazwares to produce a Hotel Transylvania toyline to coincide with the release of Hotel Transylvania 3:Summer Vacation. The line includes action figures,Mavis dolls,plush,playsets and blind box figurines. The line launched in June 2018 originally as Amazon exclusives due to Toys r us going out of business at the time. The line was later released at mass retailers like Target and Walmart shortly after the release of Hotel Transylvania 3. The line is mostly based on Hotel Transylvania:The series with some things from the movies mainly summer vacation. Following the 2018 holiday season the toys were clearanced out and the line was discontinued after that with no further toys produced & Jazwares presumably lost the license.
List of products[]
- Action figures (Mavis mystery,Bats out,spooky scuba,Monsyer cruise)
- Figure gift sets (Drac pack with Drac,Mavis,Johnny & Dennis, Ghoul gang with Mavis,Hank,Pedro & Wendy)
- Boo Voyage-A gift set of Drac,Mavis,Johnny,& Dennis in vacation attire and accessories
- plush (Mavis,Wendy & Hank)
- Playsets (Grand lobby,Scream cheese cafe & ghostly goodnight
- Mavis dolls (bats out,wedding bride and vacation)
- Monster mayhem blind boxes
Trivia[]
- Jazwares previously collaborated with Sony pictures animation to make toys for Arthur Christmas. Jazwares also made toys for Planet 51 another Sony Animated film but not made by Sony pictures animation
- The monster mayhem blind boxes is labeled series 1 but they never made a series 2.
- A few products were shown at Toy fair 2018 but were never released including plushes of Pedro and Winnie as well as a role play item.
- The 3 playsets can link together to form a big Hotel Transylvania playset.
- For the most part Drac's friends like Frank,Murray and Wayne are ignored.
- The toys are based on the 3rd movie and tv show with nothing from the first two movies. Transformania didn't exist back in 2018.
- Some of the products have a limited edition sticker meaning they were available in limited quantities such as the Mavis dolls.
- The majority of the line is based on the TV series. In fact the playsets are in the style of the show.
- When they were in stores they were located in the girl toy aisle near the Dreamworks Trolls toys, this was probably due to the Mavis dolls.
- In retail the playsets came in plastic bubble packaging however when they were bought on Amazon they came in plastic free cardboard packaging so you couldn't see the toy.
- When shown at the 2018 New York Toy Fair the prototypes had some key differences such Dennis doning the 4 on his shirt which was removed in the final product.
Gallery[]
New York Toy Fair 2018
Playset
prototypes