SPLITTING HEADACHE

Madballs were born in 1986 under the logo "Freaky Fun for Everyone!" amd started as a collection of soft foam balls in the shape of grotesque heads tough it later evolved into "Head Poppers" action figures, with full articulated bodys and exchangable heads that could be shot with the press of a button on theyr back. Yes there were dangerous toys and they where pretty disgusting as well, soo they surelly deserv to be back and while the balls had a lot of rebots over the years, for the first time the Head Poppers action figures are having a remake made by Premium DNA.

This remake have only four figures and while Bruise Brother is violent, Oculus Orbus is weird and Horn Head is pretty cute, the last one - Splitting Headache - is deffinetly the most....disturbing in a pretty serious way. He is smaller than your average action figure tough like the rest, he is pretty heavy given his huge head and chibi anatomy and like the rest, he can stand on his own pretty good.

He is articulated on the head, chest, shoulders, elbows, wrists, legs, knes and ankles and since all this articulations are ball joints, they have a big rnage of movement only limited by the short size of his apendages and his voluminous body. Actually the box ways he is not modular but MADular as an action feature, instead of shot his heavy head he can be divided into pieces and rebuild in a totally different creature with the pieces of the other figures, tough i cant confirm this since he was pretty pricey and i dont want to risk broke a peg.

This thing wasnt part of the Head Poppers collection, for 35 years we only seen his head as a ball and now we are discovering his body for the first time and is really....something else. A rotting corpse with his flesh melting away and half of his skeletal structure in sight, the kind of toy that would give nightmares to parents but would gatter all the interest of a 80s kid.

The sculpt is oustanding: his skin is saggy and his hands are swallow since he has been dead for quiet some time. Theres tumors popping out in different areas and his face have a pretty....i dont know how to call it, dead expression? I find his fleshy side to be rpetty scary somehow and the other half much more cute looking.

Tough the bony side is really impresive since the bones have a totally different texture, while his skin is smoth like velvet, the bones have pores and the build of the bones is realistic enough. The rib cage area is painted in black to give it the impression of emptynes and theres a lot of....juice in between his boney and fleshy parts.

While the sculpt is terriblly detailed and realistic, the paint is pure 80s fantasy, with his skin being electric blue and his brain and melting away flesh being darker blue and all the blood being in a intense red and the green slime....he is incrediblly colorfull in a very unrealistic way and he actually reminds me a blue velvet cake with blueberry and strawberry jelly.

This thing is really conflictive to me, its soo disguting and alarming yet soo incrediblly pretty and easy to the eyes, a really werid combination that portraits the Madballs character design perfectly (or any other 80s toy design).

He comes with 3 extra set of hands aside of the closed fist, open hands, pointing hands and hands to hold items and each one is pretty easy to use tough they are really swallow and the pink fingernails...

The rest of his accesorys show how playfull and violent is this creature tough. First he comes with a skate in a pretty damaged state. The paint is really good full of dirtynes and worms and while the whells dont move, he can stand on top of it with some patience since Spitting Headache is too big for it.

Next he have a bone with insects, blood and some metaic parts on it. I find it kind of scary to see this guy using that bone as a mace to commit acts of violence tough the sculpt and paint are really good, is pretty difficult to fit this bone on his hands given how swallow they are.

Next up is a crowbar. Yep, like i said this guy looks to be really brutish and theres even rest of one of his victims still lingering on this crowbar: a brain and an eyeball including a lot of blood. I am not sure if this are supposed to be decorations of if they actually came from the head of someone Splitting Headache attacked but that would explaind his name perfectly...

Overall this is deffinetly the shock factor of the entire serires tough the quality is top notch here as well as in the rest of the Madballs, i cant find anything to complaing since every single elements shines and they looks soo pretty and cool in the shelf it makes me want to get all other characters from the line.

Sadlly, Premium DNA lose the trust of many costumers since they didnt send this figures to most people who pre-ordered them years ago and it seems they are repeating that pattern with theyr new Batletoads figures it seems they are building a bad reputation for them and thats a shame gven the quality of this guys. It would be sad if they stoped here but only time will tell of they manage to expand to another four Madballs, i would deffinetly get them for sure.