MUMMY

In the late 90s it was very nice to be a toy collector, not only everything was much more cheapter than now but the industry was also leaping and growing to a more adult market and on America it was McFarlane part of that change since it was the very first company to be associated with horror toys for both his Movie Maniacs and McFarlane Monsters lines.

The Monsters consisted on small scale action figures with a complete playset with accesoys and extra figures; a cementery for Dracula, a lab for Frankenstein, a forest for the Wolfman and a church for Quasimodo soo a year later, they released a second serires with other 3 monsters to play with. To my dissapoint and confusion, the first set was Frankenstein....again....with a two headed creature. I never understood why McFarlane had such a big dislike for the Bride of Frankenstein, he avoided her like a plague.

The second set was much more interesting tough; the Mummy. Bust again, this is the playset i like last tugh that not the problem of the titular character. The central piece is actually the best part of the set, the Mummy have such a good looking design: she is dry, grey, with hism limbs twisted under the rags of bandages and his head is almost pure bone, with his jaw completelly disjointed.

He is articulated on the head, shoulders, a elbow and legs, all basi cut joints soo theres not a lot of posability in here but all the bandages are made with soft plastic, soo the very little movement he have is not restricted. The sculpt is really outstannd as well as the paint, specially on his eye and teeth since this figure is on a really tiny scale after all.

His companion is not as stellar tough....is a statue of Anubis and comes armed with a big ceremonial lance. Is articulated on the head, shoulders and waist and cant stand on his own even removing the giant lance. The sculpt is really simple, with some cracking and stony details here and there but he is kinda plain....and the paint is also really plain. Mostly yellow with only a few blue details on his head dress, he pretty much blends with the background.

Also while the character is a little boring looking, its presence is also really confusing. Is he alive? Is he a guardian of the tomb? Does he help the Mummy or he actually fight against him? While in Dracula it was obvious the vampre bat was a transformation and Richard was a victim of the Werewolf, here this Anubis creature role is completelly obscure.

The playset is also as shaddy as Anubis since i am not sure if this is a pyramid or a cave since it dosnt looks like any. The groudn space is too small and only one character can stand on it but the wall is also too short soo is difficult to find out wath this place it. The sculpt have only bricks and the paint is just yellow with some noise. I can see Horus on the background but the lack of painting makes him blend away and looks more like a shadow.

There is a plank plataform that moves away with a level in the back and the character standing on it falls to a short and almost empty pit with a weird....two head snake. The snake is not very good looking tough since its made with bendy plastic and the paint is really cheap looking is more cute than dangerous looking. The problem is who will fall into this trap? The Mummy or Anubis?

There is also a sarcophagus that fits exactly in front of the snakes pit, soo my guess is that the Mummy is destined to fall there....but why?? Unlike the other play sets, this one dosnt have a logic visual story behind it and theres no small details to build one either, and it have soo very little space to play with...

The sarcophagus tough is the best lookign element here, it can be removed and have a nice looking golden painting with some blues and reds and a intrincate engraving. Once the lid is open, the insides have also engravings and paint of Horus and the Mummy can fit inside tough the lid cannot be closed with him on it. Despite that the sarcophagus looks much better than the rest of the set.

There is also a pair of canopy with the head of Horus and Anubis but they are made with soft plastic and the paint is soo simple, they dosnt have any use for the Mummy or Anubis and dosnt have specific spot on the background either soo they are only ornaments liying around.

The last accesory is a scepter with two colors in shape of a "?" that fits on the Mummy´s hand nicelly to give him a ceremonail look but not much more.

While i love the Mummy figure and the sarcophagus is really nice looking, the rest pf this playset is really outlandish, dosnt have too much place to play and the very little that is included dosnt answear to any logic. I wish they did a kind of archeologycal site or maybe a museum, but in here McFarlane really didnt knew wath to do.