CYCLOPS

After two very good series of The Nightmare Before Christmas action figures, it was pretty eivdent NECA was having troubles keeping the quality and good price at balance and Series 3 suffered this by re-releasing figures, Santa Jack and Sally. Jack was just released in last series and only had a winking eye and a set of new accesoryes ( a silly elf, a penguin and a possesed werath instead of the sack and shrunken head kid) and Sally also had a new face sculpt with a troubled expression and had all her accesoryes removed for a giant sewing machine. The machine was beautyfull for the display but wasnt enough to buy her again.

Things looked much better with the third figure of series 3: the Cyclops, one of my favorite characters and one of the cutest too. I actually have a lot of favorite characters from the movie, i am sorry, but i find the Cyclops really adorable and cute.

He is thin and short, smaller than the Mayor with no hat and his build is really something. His entire body seems to be made with wood and his arms and legs looks like branches. He is articulated on the legs, shoulders, elbows, neck, jaw and eye. Yes, his eye is articulated and he can look to any place you want as well as his jaw can be opened to show his lower fangs.

He would never stand on his own given his small hooves, soo he comes with a wooden create with a skull painted on it. The crate have a transluscent rood that can be attached to the Cyckops back and that way he can keep balance perfectly. Its really neat how they manage to make a specific base for him that looks like an accesory and blens with the display!!

His other accesoryes are a small red gift box and a hauted doll. The doll is your tipical Burton toy with rotten hair and a hauted expression, tough the Cyclops have troubles holding it given the odd shape of his arms.

He also comes with a christmas elf, a fat elf, with a music sheet. The elf have articulated arms soo you can place the sheet between his small fingers and he is almost as big as the Cyclops himself, with a perfecly accurate sculpt and paint tough i am not sure wath to think about this guy. I like then they add entire figures as an accesory, but this little guydosnt fit at all on the Halloween Town display...

Overall, i think this is one of the best looking figures NECA did about this movie and this guy is one of my favorites.