STAIN BOY, ROBOT BOY & GIRL WITH MANY EYES

For a long time i been thinking on buy Dark Horse series of Tim Burton´s Tragic Toys for Girls and Boys. With Burton making dull and boring movies in rescent years, this characters from his Oyster Boy book are crystaliced Burton magic, a reminescent of his original vision and style from the 80s-90s and now day pretty far on his past.

I never got them because, i dont know how is on USA, but here in Mexico this little guys are SUPER EXPENSIVE for they small size. I been letting them slip over and over again until now, that a kind sould give them to me as a Christmas present!

This guys are manufactured by Dark Horse and sculpted by Gentle Giant and they are kinda old by now. They are kind of small but since they are kids, they are in the perfect scale with the Mcfarlane´s Corpse Bride series and NECA´s The Nightmare Before Christmas figures.

They are basically statues, with no articulation and with a pretty obvious ornamental nature.

The Robot Boy is pretty close to Burton´s drawings and looks more like a mechanical chimera than an actual “boy”. The wires and athenas and claw are made with soft material but they are not bendable and the metalic paint is perfect. His base is a little twisted tough i dont know why as well as the black cord that conects him into the wall.

Stain Boy here is not looking too much like the drawings of Burton, but instead is based on his design from the Stain Boy animated shorts. His expression is priceless and while he is simplistic in nature, he have the rigth details. He is pretty delicate tough and i am afraid to broke him on any minute, given his big head and round body levitating on those thin legs.

He feels extremelly fragil and if i can complaing abut something, he is way too clean for Stain Boy…he is suposed to be covered in grey/black ink of some sort but mine is withe clean.

Lastly, is the Girl with Many Eyes. Her sculpt is pretty close to Burton´s art and hes colors are vibrant and livelly; the intense blue, pink shoes and purple base match perfectly and her hair have a lot of shadows and blonde tones. She is the most detailed of the team.

I like all of them but i am not sure wich one os my favorite in here, the Girl of the Stain Boy. The Girl is really colorfull and eye catching while Stain is really plain and yet, his simplistic design captures Tim Burton vision soo perfectly.