FRANKENSTEIN

 Last years i was discussig with a friend how no one care or even know the Universal Monsters, how they started to fade in obscurity. Now in 2021 we got NECA releasing Ultimate action figures for them as well as Mezco and now out of obscurity, Jada Toys is also making an action figure serires. I never before hear of Jada but it seems its a toy company that works on toy cars and models, but they decided to make theyr debut on action figures terrain with the Monsters.

This are the cheapest figures i ever bough in years. Dracula looked....not very good to be honest soo did Frankenstein Monster, but i ended getting him anyways to see if this was a recipe for disaster. Aside of coming on a really pretty looking box, this guy comes in a really small scale, same size Figma or vintage action figures soo he is the smallest Frankenstein Monster i ever have (not counting the Funko Pop) and he can stand on his own perfectly.

He is articulated on the neck, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, chest, waist, legs, middle leg, knes and ankles and thats A LOT for such a cheap figure. All articulations works perfect and have a huge range of movement except the shoulders, for some reason they are pretty stiff and the chest articulation dosnt move at all. Also the jacket gets in the way of the legs a little bit.

The plastic used for him is really cheap, tough the sculpt is not bad at all. The texture on his pants and jackets are really good as well as his size and build. The face sculpt is pretty clean and it levitates in a weird limbo between "Boris Karloff" and "This is not Boris Karloff". The face features are the same as the actor and is easy to recognize the character, soo this is not an entirelly "generic monster" tough is still not spot on...in some sides he looks like Karloff but in other like someone dressed like him.

The paint is really good. The metal on his forehead, the red bloody scars, the decaying green with lots of shadows and brushes on the wrinkles to give volume to the face, for such a small scale he looks amazing and perfect, tough were the paint aplication fails is on his clothing. His pants looks kinda plain and his jacket is just green....with no shadows or shines for the details, soo it make him looks like just a cheap toy.

As accesoryes he have a pair of claw shaped hands and a fierce looking head. All 3 can be exchanged pretty easy and crash with the "cheap toy" concept. I mean, extra hands and heads are a luxury or McFarlane Toys. The second head have a perfect paint as well and the expression sometimes look like a smile but still its much more fun and menacing than his sad basic expression.

His other accesoryes is pretty much the same accesory he always have on every action figure to date: handcuffs with chain. Is not like you can give him lots of weapons or items to use anyway and instead of one he comes with two chains, one longer and one shorter. While the handcuffs are plastic and opens pretty easy, the chains are real metal. Again, very impresive for such a cheap figure. McFarlane would envy.

All my uninterest i had when i saw him on photos prooved to be wrong. Sure, his jacket need a paint job and the blurry Karloff portrait keep it away of perfection, but this figure is not too bad. He is pretty damn descent, fun to move around and pretty resistant. Pale compared to NECA´s Ultimate edition, but the quality is pretty high for the price.