SEA CREATURE

McFarlane Monsters is one of my favorite lines McFarlane Toys did back in theyr days. I loved theyr playsets of the 90s and the later action figure version where a mixed bag, but technically speaking they are still extremelly impresive. I loved theyr Dracula and Mummy and got extremelly mixed feelings over theyr STEAM PUNK PHANTOM OF THE OPERA(Ftankenstein) and JOHN CARPENTER`S THE THING (Werewolf), but the one i liked a lot in pictures was the Sea Creature.

Sadly, this guy and the Mummy are the most expensive and rare pieces of the collection (wonder why…) and i been avoiding spent a crazy amount of money for him until a couple of weeks ago, when i found him outside his blister on a retro-toy convention. The price was very low tough he didnt had his accesoryes.

This is supposed to be the Gillman from the Creature From the Black Lagoon tough McFarlane version dosnt looks at all like the 50s monster, tough it keep all the basics of its design.

This is probablly the biggest monster of the collection, tough since he is in almost 4 legs, hes not as tall as the Mummy but he is really long and takes away a lot of space tough he can stand perfectly with thise huge feet of him, even standing up rigth or in all four (i read about many people having troubles making him standing i dont know why).

He is one of the most articulated figures too with movable shoulders, legs, waist, neck and a bendable tail, tough he is sculpted looking at his left side, soo the neck articulation is kinda useless. This limit his poses a lot tough pre-poses was the basis of the McFarlane Toys soo it could be much much worse.

This character is the prime example of the “less is more”design ideology. He has no chains, no torture porn devices, no robotic parts or big blades, this is just a monster with nothing covering his design. Even just by looking at his silhouette is easy to know wath kind of monster this is.

His design may be straight to the point and evident, but his sculpt is extremelly intrincate and complex. He have different scales types and sizes covering his head and legs and body, showing how perfect to details used to be McFarlane. With big plaques covering his back and HUGE feet and hands with claws, this guy looks part fish, part crocodile, part dinosaur and nothing human at all.

There is star fish, sea weed and shells in between his plaques and scales and while his basic color is dark green, all this little details stad out pretty nicelly without looking out of place with the color palette. The blood on his fet and claws is really gruesome too and fits nicelly.

And the most spectacular part of this guy is how he is cast on transluscent plastic. With a source of light behind him, the tip of his tail, claws, feet, fins on his back and sides, the fins on his checks and arsm, they all shine with a beautifull iridiscence.

This gives him a pretty….”fish like texture” that looks disturbinglly real.

His accesoryes are a couple of spears that fits between the plaques on his back and a head of a fisherman stuck in a hook that can be placed in the claws of this creature. Sadly, i dont have them but they seems to explains a story by theyr own in a pretty cool way.

 This toy is one of the best sculpts McFarlane Toys ever produce and probablly the best of the McFarlane Monsters as well. Its extremelly easy to picture how this creature moves underwater just by looking at his shape and anatomy, is almost “biological possible” for this to exist at some point.

Is the only character in the Monster collection that dosnt looks gross or disgusting, but beautifull and elegant.