MUMMY

While my main Universal Monsters collection consist of the 12″ figures, i cant keep drooling over other smaller figuresof the Monsters and one series that i ignored for a long time was the Sideshows action figures. Working as the “cheap” option of theyr Universal Monster series, this guys are the best action figures based on the characters.

This is mostly because Sideshows made contract with the familly of each actor behind each monster, soo theyr figures are the extact portrait of said actors. Also, the accesoryes and overall design are 100% faithfull to the on screen scenes soo this make this series stand out from the ocean of Monster toys out there.

I try to avoid them, but i ended up getting the Mummy, In-hotep - portrayed by Boris Karloff - since i was able to find him at a really low price.

He is actually big, towering over normal action figures and having the height of two Figma´s, something really impresive considering this is an action figure from the 90s. His articulation are also very “vintage”, very in tune with McFarlane Toys: extremelly useless and basic.

Then again, this is not a character that needs a whole lot of movement and they did a great job hiding the articulations nicelly. This fgure is all about style and esthetic over functionality since is mostly a statue (like figures from back then).

The sculpt was done by Oluf W. Hartvigson and is trully amazing. The face features of Boris Karloff and pretty sharp and evident and the amount of wrinkles and agging sculpt on his face are outstanding. His bandages are also finelly crafted and while they are PVS, they have this weathered cotton texture in each one of them.

The paint tough, originally, was pretty awkard. It had the mummys face and hands in this green/dark brown color with a wet look that made him like like chocolate with two eyes. This one tough is a costume.

I get this mummy mostly because i liked a lot his painting, even if it wasnt on package, the person who painted him did a great job making the sculpt stand out, painting each wrinkle in dark and giving him a bluish almost glowing white skin tone. Looks really ghostly and he even painted the veins on his hands.

I am not sure i like the yellow on the bandages tough he keep the cotton texture on them perfectly sharp.

He didnt had the accesorys of the figure tough: a stone with hyeroglyphics, an ancient bault and a scoll, but he gives me the base, the most basic of them all.

The base looks like a tiny island yet it have a pretty nice athmosphere on it, with the sandy texture and all the rocks with egyptian writting on it. The box on the front reads “THE MUMMY. BORIS KARLOFF. 1932″ a detail that gives this guy some kind of museum quality style. Is not only a figure of a Mummy, but is also a portrait of Boris Karloff.

The Mummy can stand on his own tough, soo the base is purelly decorative.

I liked this guy soo much that i even got some more Monster friends for him…