HORN HEAD

 Gargoyles, Thundecats, Silverhawks, Toxic Crusaders, Alien, He Man...all the 80s-90s characters are suddenly back to the toy shelfs and Madballs are no exception: those little grotesque and wicked foam balls in the shape of heads and, more specifically, theyr "Head Poppers" action figures versions are having a remake thanks to Premium DNA, a pretty new company that dosnt have too good of a reputation for now thanks to most of the pre-orders of this figures being still in limbo...

Aside of Premium DNA actions, when this Madballs action figures were shown they were too good to be real and people was really excited for them and after getting Bruise Brother and Oculus Orbus i can say they are as good as they initially look and they catch perfectly the weirdness of the 1986 original versions.

One of the rarest character was Horn Head, a purple cyclops beast that came exclusivelly with the Madballs vehicle soo we only seen him in the back of the package and thats all, soo Premium DNA chosed him for theyr new remake and he turns out fantatsic.

He is smaller than your average action figure, like a Figma or Figuarts but he is extremelly heavy as well thanks to his huge head and round body, but thans to this and his big feet, he can stand on his own with no problem. He is articulated on the head, chest, shoulders, elbows, wrists, legs, knes and ankles with ball joints soo each part can turn around perfectly and fold with no issue.

Of course given the small size of his legs and big body dont expect pretty dynamic posing but he is als modular - or MADullar - soo each piece can be separated and mixed with other characters to create a unique mix-mutation. Pretty creative but i hasnt tried it yet given to my fear to broke the pegs since this guys are pretty expensive.

While Bruise Brother was violent and Oculus Orbus was weird, this guy is the most "normal" monster design, he actually looks like a character from Where the Wild Things Are with a very 80s twist. Actually find him to be the cutest. The sculpt on his hair is pretty sharp and well defined and the skin texture on his hands and head is very realistic. I love his mouth since his big fangsstands out a lot above the black empty of his mouth (there is actually a sculpted tongue behind them tough is not easy to see it!!).

His claws are soo cool in both his hands and feet and the big cuts on his head with sticthes are really gruesome, bout the wirst part is the cut on his stomach since theres blood driping out of it. I really love all the "battle damage" this figures have all over them, is pretty obvious this are violent beasts.

The color is really spectacular, i love purple and i love all the tones they used on him. His fur have darker tones in each identation to give it a pretty natural look but his skin is pretty perfectlly painted as well since it have pretty soft veins and shades to make it looks realistic even with the alien color. And with that brigth yellow eye on the center, with the red pupil and veins perfectly painted.

The blue beard, the blood on the wounds and black nails, the application is perfect and makes me wich they also released Wolf Breath with this same high quality.

Liek the rest, he comes with 3 extra set of hands: open claws, pointing with a finger and items holding hands and my favorites are the open claws deffinetly but all of them works perfecly.

He also have a big and heavy green club that looks like a cactus at times since it have big menacing spikes all around and even a skull pinned on them with blood. While the skull have pretty relistic grey paint around the rest of the item looks soo cartoony.

His ther accesory is a turkey leg with a bite on the side and lots of maggots and spiders crawiling around. This is both cute and sickening and for some reason remidns me Beetlejuice but it suits Horn Head pretty nicelly and the paint and sculpt dont dissapoint.

And finally he have a mace. While the handle is nice looking with bendages and metal parts, the best part is the ball and the chain, the chain is a real chain and the ball is sculpted with a Horn Head face!! The big eye in the middle with the big mouth full of fangs looks really cool with the silver paint and shows an oustanding attention to details!

I really strugle over wich one i like the most, this guy or Oculus Orbus, since both are kind of simple looking they are pretty cool and representative of the Madballs, and besides, while i dont have his Head Popper version i do have him on foam ball version and both looks terrific together.