OYSTER BOY, BOY WITH NAILS IN HIS EYES & JUNK GIRL

Tim Burton´s Tragic Toys for Girls and Boys series was my christmas present for this year. Developed by Dark Horse and sculpted by Gentle Giant, this are characters based on the poem collection of Tim Burton; The Melancholy Deah of Oyster Boy.

Small on scale, this characters are more decorative than actual toys and they contain quiet a lot of details for having such simplistic designs.

The first one of the series 3 is the Boy With Nails on His Eyes. While Penguin Boy was the scaryest of series 2, this one is both creppy and really gory.The blanck expresion on his face and the withe skin with red blood makes him one of the more intersting visions.

His base have Christmas ornaments all over and the poem says he was building his Christmas tree, but for those who didnt read the poem, watching him hilding the hammer and with those nails on his eyes and the blood….well, he is really shocking to the eye. And fragile too, thanks to his thing legs and big round body and head.

Next up is the main character of the series, the Oyster Boy. Like the Stain Boy, he is the perfect manifestation of the Tim Burton style, with that blanck face expresion and head shape and the black and white strips… even his base - a set of stais with a strange shape - is perfectly fited for him.

The paint on his head is a little too dark i think, i tough he was more “whitish” and he is the only figure to have an accesory. This guy is based on the Halloween poem, soo theres a “trick r´treat” bag on one said and a mask to disguise as a human.

He cant hold the mask sadly, but this little accesory is well sculpted and painted perfectly.

Next is the Junk Girl. Her base comes with a trash can and she is pretty ghostly…like a black ghost. His limp body and disrty black hair, and his face….a really grotesque vision since she have no nose (like a skull) and have no eyes either, her skin is grey/blue with black cracks covering her, she looks like a 3D pencil sketch.

Given how thin she is, she feels fraile but not soo much as Oyster Boy. His head is HUGE and HEAVY and his lehs are soo thiny…even with his base, i have my doubst they can keep him standing for a long time.

In the end i have the feeling i will send this figures back to theyr blister in order to keep al theyr small legs safe.

And i dont know wich one os my favorite, one is just way too gory, the other is way too “Burton-esque” and the other is way too ghostly. This team is really solid.