BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

Some months ago i started to collect the Universal Monsters action figures from Sideshows. They are 18 years old but they are still the most faithfull representations of the characters to date and looks damn good when in good conditions. I got The Mummy, The Wolfman and The Creature From The Black Lagoon and just in time for Halloween, i just get the Bride of Frankestein at a really good price.

Sculpted by Oluf W. Hartvigson, she stands as one of the tallest monsters (along side the Gillman) thanks to her hair and yet she can stand perfectly for herself and have a really good balance.

Articulations are really limited. This woman is a 90s toy - back in the McFarlane fever - soo her articulations are pretty basic and not very helpfull but they are not intrusive at all.

Her body dosnt looks comic book style with huge boobs or anything, she have a pretty “normal” silhouette for a female and i dare not a pretty healthy female. The sculpt on her banadges are really impresive since they have a pretty thin and soft texture on them and they fold in an extremelly realistic way around her body. I am not sure if i like how yellow looking are those bandages tough but they contrast pretty well with her dress.

Her dress is made with fabric and is not just a random piece of fabric at all, but it have a pretty specific shape for her and joins in the chest part like a cocktail dress. Is kinda tricky to put the dress on her with the limited articulations, but once eveything is on place, the dress have a pretty good flow and looks spectacular.

Her face sculpt is by far the closest fo Elsa Lanchester, specially on profile view, she is stuning beautyfull and i love her red eyes and bloody red lips with black. At first i tough her chin was damagged but all figures have the same mark and taking a closer look, Elsa Lanchester actually had cleft chin soo it looks like they didnt wanted to leave any detail out, tough the cleft chin looks kinda strage with this scale of figure.

Her hair is nicelly sculpted and have the two white stripes in the rigth place (and both have a different size) soo this is trully 100% faithfull to the character on screen.

Her only accesory is an extra head with the bandages on. The paint is pretty simple (tough we can see her red eyes and blue make up under the bandages) but the sculpt is really amazing since you can see the shape of her face perfectly and how the bandages wrap around it in an very realtistic way. She ooks fritghtning like this but i like her dressed version much more.

She also comes with the most intrascendental and boring base out of the figures i have. Just stony floor from the laboratory with a strange and tall electrode and a blue …. thingy…it add some color to the set up but i am not sure wath this equipment is. She have the box that reads “THE BRIDE OF FRANKESTEIN. ELSA LANCHESTER. 1935″ ,just like the other monsters and this gives her a pretty “museum quality” style.

Not counting the 12″ scale dressed figures of Sideshows and theyr ridiculous priced statues, this is the best Bride of Frankestein figure to date - since Diamond Select version was trully awfull - and i am glad i got her. I am still not convinced by her mate but i really want Dracula to make her company.