WOLFMAN

 Exactly a year ago i was pleasantly surprised by Jada Toys, a company that makes vehicle toys of all kind and - unexpectedly - they started to do "action figures" starting with non other than the Universal Monsters (just like Sideshow and Mezco did 20 years ago). This premiere action figures Monsters have a much more discreet quality than the NECA figures tough while theyr Dracula and Frankenstein Monster are correct, they did an amazing job with the Bride of Frankenstein and the Creature of the Black Lagoon.

It tooks them an entire year but serires 2 is finally out, tough sadlly instead of 4 figures we only got 2: The Invisible Man and the Wolfman. Of coruse the Wolfman is my favorite Monster and a must have soo i pick him in seconds. This Wolfman is the same size as Dracula and a little shorter as the Frankenstein Monster and the Gillman. Its really nice that Jada Toys really makes this guys in perfect scale with each other (something very few companys does).

He is articulated on the head, neck, chest, waist, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, legs, thigh, knes and ankles. Eeveyrhting is ball jointed and the elbows and knes have doulbe articulation soo the range of movement is HUGE. The figures from last year have pretty stiff shoulders for some reason but that gone with this Wolfman, Jada Toys gives him a pretty soft shoulder articulations.

Given his simplistic design theres nothing that can get on the way of the movement. His chest piece is made with hard plastic soo of course he cant cross his arms, but aside of that he have total freedom of movement. Also he can stand on his own....i mean, he is not digitigrade anymore.... i guess Jada Toys didnt find a way to make him balance standing on his toes and refused to give him a stand, soo they chose to redesign his antire feet.

The sculpt on this guy is really good: the strands of fluffy hair, the serious look on his eyes, cute nose and fangs coming out from his bottom lips, the scult is really really good given how tiny the scale is. I am not sure if i see something of Lon Chaney Jr in here but is not necesary, the character is perfectly clear even on his face expression.

The body proportions are good too and the shirt and pants have totally different texture to give them a look of different fabric (in the photos this texture is pretty evident but n person is really hard to notice). The hands in hands are not in generic claw shape, instead they have a pretty expresive gesture and the feet, while sculpted in "normal human" mode, they keep the design with the protunding bones soo iconic of the character.

Paint is kind of a mixed bag. The brown color on the fur looks good as well as the nacre on the nails on both hands and feet. Theres black lines on his hair to divide each strand and the eyes, fangs and pink bottom lip are painted perfectly. BUT....i wish they give him a little bit of ligther browns on his face soo the details can be seen more easy. He looks a little too....dark....dark with just shiny eyes and fangs.

The paint of the rest of the body is much more basic, blue pants, brown belt and green shirt tough this time with some darker tones on airbrush to highligh the wrinkles on the cloth and how it wraps around his body. He looks much better than Frankenstein Monster for sure.

His accesorys consist on an extra set of hands to hold items. They are pretty easy to exchange tough nothing can beat the basic claw hands.

He also have an extra head with a fierce (???) face expression. I mean, i cant see too much difference between one ehad and othe other. The second one is looking down and you can see his upper lip and upper fangs soo i guess is more like he is about to bounce? I wish his mouth was more open and his eyes more focused or something, i really like more the basic serious head.

He also comes with the same accesorys the Sideshow and NECA version shave (i guess theres not a whole lot of options to give him): the silver cane that is used to kill him and a bear trap. The cane sculpt is a little fuzzy and soft soo thers not much detail on the wolf head tough is easy to see wath it is and it fits on his hands perfectly (for wathever rreason he would be holding it).

The bear trap looks really fake and plastc...just grey with some orange aribrush tough somehow they give it a real chain. The sculpt is good i guess and can be closed on the Wolfman´s leg, i just wish they used a different material.

And thats it. This Wolfman is basic and stirdy enough to be a kids toy but he is pretty enough too to be an adult collector, also i feel like i cant complaing too much about him given hos cheap, cheap really cheap he is. Also, in asingle year Jada Toys release more Monsters than NECA already....

I got the feeling i would have loved this serires when i was a kid, in the 90s, this feels like my dream toy serires. They arent as perfect as the NECA or Sideshow ones but theres just something cool about having this Monsters in such a small scale and soo crazy articulated! I am just not loving at all to wait an entire year for the Mummy.