SKELETON BOY & GIRL

At the begining of this century, McFarlane Toys was the king of the action figures market and created some really fantastic original figures as well as based on movies of literary works. NECA was very close following McFarlane specially with theyr Nightmare Before Christmas serires tough McFarlane pick up the licence of the most new work of Tim Burton, the Corpse Bride.

I wanted all the figures in this serires tough for some reason many of the characters seemed kinda pointless and wasnt as charming as the Halloween Citizens (specially Mayhew), from all of them i really regret not getting Victoria since she was such an important character, but i did get the Skeleton Boy and Girl since they were the most fun looking characters from the Land of the Dead.

This pair is really really small and are only articulated on the neck and shoulders soo theres not a lot of different poses for them, also given theyr small legs they cant stand on theyr own at all. Despite all this theyr sculpt and color is magnifiscent, McFarlane Toys at theyr best.

Theyr colors and vibrant and brigth, yet they have a lot of washes thatmakes them looks old and used, the girl pink dress and boy sailor outfit looks almost hand made, and theyr bony texture is clean with a sharp sculpt (i specially like theyr soft grey tones on theyr sockets.)

Thy come with this oddly shaped and huge base emulating the irregular and ugly streets of the Land of the Dead, with two holes to insert this metalic rods that conect with the Boy and Girl back´s. The rods are metalic and having them in pink and blue is a nice touch even if theyr are very well hidden behind theyr legs.

The Boy comes with a small toy boat with a very old look. The little toy is attached to the base soo the only way the Boy cna interact with it is by holding the rope that ties to the boat. The Girl have a....something... i dont know wath this is, is a weird looking base with an imposible to understand design... and they also have a football ball with a greta looking leather texture. Tough is nice to have all this toys, theres no real way to pose the skeletons playing with them.

I think this is the perfect example of McFarlane Toys products, the figures are exceptionally good looking, but they are mostly statues and ony can be displayed in a couple of ways and no more. This is not bad at all since this are not really toys for kids. I can complaing on how anoying is that big base or how delicate are the neck of this little kids but in the end they looks terrific with Emily and Victor.