DEVIL

By the time NECA released the series 4 of The Nightmare Before Christmas action figures, we already had a pretty amazing collection of characters of the movie and a few issues NECA had to correct, but series 4 seemed like the rigth direction to take after a very spectacular Pumpkin King Jack.

The second figure was (yhea guess it.......) one of my favorite characters from the movie, the Devil himself. Tough this is a really small Devil, inly 1/3 of Jack´s height and susprisinglly, he can stand on his own and need no base. He is articulated on the head, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists and legs and his entire tail is bendable. The tail is really long and helps him to keep his balance.

This guy looks soo much like a claymation puppet, thanks to the texture on his dark cloack and his cartoony and stylish design, with the huge head a pointy angles, looks like one of those design that works wonderfull on 2D as well as in 3D. He only have two colors: black and red and while the black have sme grey tones, the red on hsi skin is really vibrant and intense. Even his big eyeballs have some soft washes of red to make them looks like they have fire inside.

One thing to points out is his mouth, i was pretty sure it could be opened but it dosnt have articulation at all.

He comes with his always present red pitchfork, the most basic pitchfork design i ever seen and gits perfectly on his hand. He also have a skull with a mistletoe. The skull is pretty evil looking despite the ornament and looks pretty striking on the Devil´s hand. And lastly, he has a two man saw. I am not very sure wath to think about this saw since is pretty raw looking and he cant even hold it not even with another character (his hands are too small) but i guess is better than not having more accesoryes.

Evidently, he have pretty delicate joints that can be broken easy, but soo far i still hasnt broke him soo i guess he is stronger than Jack. Aisde of this small detail, he is a pretty solid and perfect representation of a pretty awesome character.