TRASHIN PUMPKIN

 The toys from the 80s are soo unique and special, not only they had sometimes big muscles, but they also came with vibrant colors, gore, ooze, mutilations, mutantions and monstruisity, some of them even transformed or were even dangerous, deffinetly an era that wont be back again. But Premium DNA has managed to reproduce that era with the remake of the Madballs action figures they produced a few years ago.

I am not sure how it worked, but after the release of the first Madball series, Premium DNA had a collaboration with the mobile game Need for Speed On Limit. The game had a scenario and a vehicle based on Madballs while Premium DNA produced an exclusive limited edtion figure based on that same collaboration, a stand alone new Madballs monster called Trashin Pumpkin.

In the same scale as the rest of the Madballs (only a head shorter than your average action figure), this guy is crazy heavy!!! But he can stand on his own perfectly thanks to his short legs and huge feet. He is articulated on the head, chest, shoulders, elbows, wrists, legs, knees and ankles. All ball joints soo the artculation have a big range fo movement BUT he suffers from a lack of movement the same way the other Madballs do.

Since he have no neck and his body is round, his head cant tilt up or down and only move to the sides and given how short are his legs they dont have many options of movement either. Also, his best is made of hard plastic and have a lot of spikes, while his arms also have thorns soo this keep his shoulder movement pretty limited. This is, sadly, something that cant be fixed given the nature of the character design tough i wish the vest was made in softer material.

This is a totally new Madball, and i am surprised that at this point it took them soo long to release a Halloween themed character, a sort of scarecrow with a pumpkin as head, this is a design very rooted on Halloween that could be perfectly on The Nightmare Before Christmas or Medievil, or even Ghostbusters.

The sculpt is soo soo seriuslly good, the pupkin have a rugged texture and the shapes around the sockets looks soo organic, theres very deep cuts on the back of his head with ooze coming out from it and the ooze have a softish and liquid texture. At first i tough the head was hollow but is not, the black inside really evade ligth nicelly and make it looks like theres nothing inside and the evil expression with the cross shape on his eye make it incrediblly creepy.

The stitches on the vest, the rope on his waist, the wrinkles on the panths, everything looks really good but not as good as the realistic skin texture on his arms and feet. The veins on the hands and feet and rugged looks of tendons mixing with skin is really amazing! This mix is realistic details along side cartoony anatomy makes for a really strocking combination.

He have big and pointy thorns coming out from his arms and feet as well as in the ivy tentacles around them and while they are incrediblly sharp, the end of the ivy tentacles is made of soft plastic. But like i said earlyer, the vest is not made of soft plastic and is very thin, wich makes me think it demands extra care soo the peice dosnt broke but judging the quality of the plastic used here, i doubt something like that happens anytime soon.

The paint aplication is at the same level as the sculpt. The big orange pumpkin have  a lot of darker washes in the rigth spots to make it looks, ready to rot away in any moment while the green ooze on his mouth have a totally different green color than the ooze coming out on the cutson his head. All this details reminds me soo much the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys from Playmates or the Toxic Crusaders.

Aside of the golden pin in the vest, the stitches have a different color and the vest itself have many tones of brown mixed with green that gives it a lot of deep and texture. The pants have the same tones and each patch have a different color as well. 

His skin coloring looks pretty natural, aside of the fact is green, it have a lot od dark green details and veins that makes his arms and legs looks like dry and old organic tissue made of plant. The ivy have a much more healtyer color but my favorite part are his feet, sicne one of his feet have an orange/brown color that, in fact makes it looks like this is a plant rotting away. Even the nails have a totally different color than the nails of the other more fresh feet.

Maybe because this is a special edition, instead of coming with 3 pair of hands, this guy have 5 1/2 pairs. Closed fist, open hands, graby hands and pointy hands like the rest of the Madballs but they also added grab hands with no ivy and an extra open palm with ivy on it. I find this pretty unecesary since i dont see why someone would display him with clean hands....but oh well, i guess is better to have more than necesary hands than having missing hands and the sculpt and paint is really good and they can be swaped pretty easy.

His best accesory is a pitchfork, pretty integral to the scarecrow look with the rigth amount of cartoony look: worms and green ooze as well as lot of blood and intestines wraped around the it. The material is kinda soft soo is easy to warp it, the sculpt of both groos and cartoony and the paint work matches perfecty.

Next he have a tire iron with both ivy, blood and even an eyeball in one of the sides with muscle tissue wraping round the metalic structure. I am guessing this is because of the Need for Sppeed theme since i cant see how this matches the character, but oh well, this is a really fun and creppy looking items toug its made with very soft material and is pretty difficult to put it on his grab hands made with haird plastic, at least difficult without damaging it.

He also comes with a piston, a pretty old piston with lots of blood on top as well as nails. It looks like a pretty gruesome and brutal weapon tough i cant see how i can pose Trashin Pumpkin with it since it even have difficultys holding it. The metalic paint of this item is really beautifull as wlel as the copper color in the nails.

While the other Madballs have only 3 accesorys, this have a fourth one; a severed hand. It is blue with darker blue spots and a bloody cut that shows the bone. It looks very very cartoony and i am not sure wath to do with it actually....Trashin Pumpkin cant really hold it and i dont see where to put this. It looks more like a scenary item for me tough.

And the last extra in here and unique to this figure is another head designed by James Groman. Its basically the same head but meanier and even much more gruesome than before: the pumpkin skin have holes and even more damage and looks even much more realistic this times!! The ooze looks less cartoony and theres purple worms coming out from his mouth and other areas but even much worse, he have human eyes inside his sockets and one is hanging from muscle tissue and almost falling into his mouth and in the back, one of the deep cuts have the knife still sticking out from it.

The paint is soo astonishing! Specially on the eyes!! With all those red veins and green pupil as well as the muscle tissue exposed. Worms, insects, cuts, theres soo much detail on this, it trully looks like a gruesome piece of designer art.

Premium DNA shocked me with the quality of the first Madball series but this one is even more impactfull. Articulation have its limits and this is not a cheap figure, but the amazing quality of the sculpt and paint deffinetly make it more than worth the money. 

The overall design is pretty top qualty as well, like i already mentioned not only this figure materialize the spirt of the 80s toys but also it can fit with any Ghotsbuster, Medievil or any ther horror and gothic collection. They are going to release a second series of Madballs soon and i am defifnetly pretty hyped to see this gruesome collection to keep growing.

KRAMPUS

 Krampus is told of in hushed whispers, for to say his name aloud invites his attention. The people of the frozen mountains know that this devil haunts them during the winter festival, while the good folk celebrate to drive away the chill and darkness of the season.

Krampus seeks out the wicked, especially children, for his punishment. Any he judges unworthy are whipped with birch reeds, locked in shackles, and stuffed in his basket. He takes these children away, perhaps to the underworld itself, never to be seen again.

If you see the shadow of a horned figure, or hear the discordant jingling of iron bells, take care: Krampus seeks fresh prey.

It was the Yuletide Demon - Krampus - the very first one to start the Figura Obscura toy line from Four Horsemen years ago and while i was able to ignore theyr Mythic Legion series for a long time (not that they are bad figures, quiet the opposite), i wasnt able to ignore the Krampus, i just cant. Releasing him on Christmas Eve, there was no more perfect way to start a series based on holidays or even....theres no better toy than this for the season actually.

Sadly, just like the Headless Horsemen, i wasnt able to get Krampus either and had to wait for the second version of the figure to came out and after a long long delay, he finally arrive. I was pretty excited for him in christmas but now on february it feels kinda off and wrong but the wait was worth it since the qualty is pretty high in here, even with the beautifull box he comes with (tough i admit, is less intimidating and spectacular than the Headless Horsemen).

Krampus comes in the same scale as the Horseman soo he fits with everything McFarlane, NECA, Storm, Furay, most action figures of the market soo he have the perfect size to have a precense on the shelf but not take too much space. He has no base but can stand on his hown tough is pretty tricky, sicne he is cloven footed, soo the legs needs to be in the rigth angle to have enough balance for him.

H eis articulated on the head, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, legs, tighs, knees and ankles as well as his tail. While all articulations are ball joins and in theory they must have total freedom of movement, the truth is that theres a lot of restrictions in here. His mane of hair around his neck limits his head movement a little bit but not much, but since he has no butterfly joint on the chest or double articulation on the elbows, his arms are can bend only to a certain degree and he can join his arms at the front.

The armor....belt...loincloth or wathever he is wearing is made with pretty firt plastic, soo his legs have a much better range of movement than his torso. Even his tail is removable tough he have the same issue the Headless Horseman have: his legs joints are kidna lose soo that makes him extra tricky to stand. I am not sure why the legs are soo lose while the shoulders are soo tigth...

The sculpt is amazing. The warped face features and wrinkles around his eyes and mouth, small eyes and animal like nose make him looks like a vampire bat. The fangs are sharp as well as the tongue and even his troath can be seen behind his fangs. The horns sculpt is extremelly realistic as well as the hair sculpt on his beard and mane that cover his neck. By the way, this hair can be removed as well.

The body is muscled, really fit but not too bulky, athletic with a ripped definition and very sexy details, like veins on his chest and biceps and his nipples, tough theres no skin texture in here. His gautlets, boots and armor thingy on his waist have a half medieval half futuristic design and not only have scratches and identations to make them look old and used, but they are made on very soft plastic (even one of the spikes on his boots is warped).

I love his cloven hoofs, they are also sculpted underneat and his tail is amde with haird plastic soo it cant bend but is sculpted in a movement motion, soo it can be turned around and looks different constantly, and it looks like a lion tail, very very cute.

The original version of this figure was pitch black, totally black with only his eyes and tongue shining in red, this second version have him painted on red skin with deep blue eyes. I find this much more better looking since the original version was....well....like a black shadow with horns, its was pretty difficult to discenr wath was Krampus and wath was metal or other element, but in here the red skin really contrast with the black metalic and black claws and show the details of the musculature much better.

His skin is painted on a vibrant crimson tough it have some dark shadows airbrushed soo the muscles can stand out much better, he looks really sexy and really hellish at the same time. The tail and his mane of hair have a much darker red on them, with black washes to give shadows to all that hair. The dark pink of the tongue get kost a little bit with the redish beard but the cream colored fangs stand out as well as the blue eyes that looks like jewells.

Theres not a single drop of paint in the wrong place in here, everything is perfectly painted, specially the hrosn with the brown wash that gives them a very realistic look. The very little armor he is weating is painted in gun metal black with some shine elements to make it looks metalic (while Super 7 insists this cannot be done with modern technology) and the cloven hoofs are missing the shine tones but have a very soft dar brown on them to make them looks organic with the horns.

The hairy loincloth on the front is painted on green, perfect for the christmas spirit of the character but also it contrast wonderfully with the red and black of the rest of the figure.

He comes with a lot of accesorys directly taken from the legends of  Yuletide. An extra pair of hands to hoold them that are very easy to swap, aside of his claw shapped hands, but he also have a set of shackles with real chains. In the legend he use this to catch children tough in here he can use them himself to have a eerie look, dragin the chains around hanging from his wrists. 

He also comes with a red cord with some ring bells attacjed to it. Six ring bells of small and big size that shine like jewells in hands of the Krampus and they actually works and rings, since the legends says Krampus is close when a ring bell is hear. Just like the shackles and chains, this cord with ring bells can be wrapped around his necl, arms or hands.

Krampus use also a birch reeds to attack his prey. This branches dont looks like too much but i guess they are a way of torture, like a whip. The sculpts is nice and to contrast with the red color of the demon, they are covered in white snow and they fit nicelly on his secondary hands.

His other accesory is his always needed and important woven basket to carry children. The basket is not that big and have a lid, but sadly the lid dosnt fit. The sculpt is nice and the design really fits the north side of the world art crafts, painted in yellow mixed with red and green, tough i find it way too colorfull for the Krampus, it looks very "toyish" but i guess that was intentional.

The basket have a ring on the side and a pretty raw looking yellow cord. At first i tough putting the basket on the Krampus back would be way too difficult with my big hands but i find how to do it, i just wrap the cord around the Krampus shoulders and tie it with a knot on his back and let the basket to just hand there....i dont know if this is the correct way to use this but its the easyer way for me and it does the job just fine.

Best of all, he also comes with the skull and hands of one of his victims!! A pair of bony claw shaped bone hands with an articulated peg (??) and a kid skull. There the hands have not much details, the skull is really good looking in both sculpt and paint, with a yellowish tone with some dark washes, its very realistic.

Put the kid hands at the endge of the basket in the inside and balance the skull in between them and you got the skeleton of a child peeking out from the Krampus basket!! Balance the skull is nto that easy, but the final display is really creepy and fun looking!!

Also, theres an adult skull included. A bigger skull with an articulated jaw and a ball joint identation on the base, i wondered why theres to skulls in here? And it seems this is actually the Headless Horseman missing head!! It fits him perfectly and rise the question of why the Krampus have his head???

Lastly, the box can be unfold like a 3 part screen to reveal an background for the figure: A snow filled natural landscape with snow falling and the moon peeking at the top in between dark clouds. There is also a pretty ominous rock formation in the center with candles on top that gives the impression of a shrine of some sort. There is also candles on top of the trees.

The artworks is beautifully done and is both relaxing and peacefull but also creppy and dark, theres is something blasphemous and weird in the candles at the top of the trees and the clouds almost engullfing the entire moon.

This is one of my all time favorite figures and one that i been waiting to get for a long time. This is the most classic Krampus, every single element is faitfull to the Yuletide tradition and is also one of the most devilish figures i ever seen. Sure some of his articulations are kinda lose but pretty much everything else is pure perfection.

He is deffinetly not as magestic as the Headless Horseman but is much more sexyer and Four Horsemen already added four more figures to the Figura Obscura line soo i am way behind. They release Santa to pair with this Krampus but i find him the less interesting release of the collection and somehow they also release Son Wukong, the Monkey King, but my interest is on the second Halloween and third Chrsitmas figures of the collection....

HEADLESS HORSEMAN

There are places where the walls between this world and the next grow thin, allowing spirts from beyond to roam unbidden between the two worlds. One such place is a small village on the East bank of the Hudson River in New York. Originally named North Tarrytown, this haunted glen is more commonly known as Sleepy Hollow.

Rumored to have been bewitched long ago, stories of strange happenings and distant voices on the air have long been told in Sleepy Hollow. The most dominant spirt that haunts this enchanted region is that of a headless, cloaked rider atop a great black steed – the Headless Horseman. Said to be the restless ghost of a Hessian Trooper who lost his head to a cannonball during some long-forgotten battle of the Revolutionary War, the Headless Horseman rides forth on the blackest of nights, desperately searching for his lost head. Any who are unfortunate enough to meet the Galloping Hessian on his ride are never to be seen again, the only proof of their encounter with the dread apparition being the shattered remains of the jack-o-lantern he often uses in place of his lost head

Thats how Four Horsemen introduce the second piece of theyr Figura Obscura collection. Yes, Four Horsemen....weird name, but is in fact a studio thats has been around for more than 20 years producing figures for different brand and creating theyr own for theyr Mythic Legion series, creating a big following of collectors over the years tough i never got any of theyr products, a few years ago they started theyr Figura Obscura collection, focusing on characters for the holidays.

A pretty strange concept that allows them to create some really unique figures no other studios produce and theyr second Figura Obscura was focused on Halloween - the best festivity of the year - and used one of the most iconic character of the sesons: the Headless Horseman. While the Tim Burton movie is one of my favorites, wath made this ghost soo iconic was the Disney animated movie from 1949, a movie that was seen every single year on Halloween season for many generations, fusing "Halloween" and "Sleepy Hollow" into a single concept.

The first time i saw this figure i was blown away, and it looked way too good to be real, one of those figures that make real a child dream in the most perfect way. It was pretty expensive and it sold out pretty quickly but Four Horsemen finally released a second version of this figure and i knew this was the only chance i would ever have to add him to my collection and i really dont regret nothing, since even the glow in the dark box full of amazing artwork make this figure worth the price.

The Horseman is in the standar scale of McFarlane and NECA soo he will fit with most modern action figures perfectly tough with no head, he looks a little bit smaller than the rest of the figures but that can be fixed once he find a suitable head. He is articulated on the shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, legs, knees and ankles. All of them are ball joints soo they have a descent range of movement only limited by the sculpt: the shoulders dosnt go up too much and he only have a single joint on the elbows and the leg armor block his ankles movement a little bit as well.

Even with that, his articulation is good and manage to reproduce a handfull of poses with some patience. He cna stand in his own, in theory, since his feet are large enough but his legs artciulations are a little lose, thanks to all that horse riding!!!Soo make him stand is a little tricky at times and this is the only issue i have with the figure.

It seems Four Horusemen figures have a modular build since it seems they are made of peices of previews figures: the chest area is from "insert name of figure A" and the leg armor from "figure B", etc...i guess thats only important for those who collect Mytic Legions tough but i am impressed they build this figure using other figures pieces. 

The torso piece have a pretty soft leatherish texture thats only visible up at very close look, and the metalic studs gives it a pretty medieval look (a hint this is build over a sword and sorcery figure), the gloves also share the same leather texture while the pants and sleeves have a cotton texture thats more evident that the leather one. All the wrinkles are pretty natural looking and both the end of the chest piece as well as the belts over them are made with soft plastic, soo he legs can be moved and the belts can be adjusted. Also the little begs and the design of the buckle are pretty cool looking.

The armor in the legs looks like something out of The Lord of the Rings, but somehow it suits the overall look of the character. The neck collar is huge and share the leather texture and the scarf in front really add the touch of the 1800s era.

The leg armor have a very good loking metalic grey paint while the pants and inner shirt are black, with some darker tones here and there to give deep to the wrinkles and make them more natural. The shoes, glvoes and chest piece are purple with some metalic grey on the studs and is in here the first difference with the first edition: the first edition of this figure was totally dressed in black and to be honest, i like this much more since the details can be seen much better and looks more regal.

His cape is made with with real fabric, cottong actually, a very thick cotton since it have two layers, ablack for the ourside and an orange for the inside. The tailoring is really exquisite and the cape is long enough to cover the whole Horeman and cover some ground around him. It have two metalic pics on the side and a chain to adjust on his neck, a real metalic chain.

The Horseman neck piece can be removed with a peg in the base of his back soo the cape can be put on his shoulders, then reattach the neck piece and the scarf and neck piece keep the cape in place. Is a pretty simple design but really effective since the cape stay in place perfectly. 

And here is the second difference with the original release: the original version ave a red cape while this one is orange, also the original version have a wire soo it can be posed, while this one dont have it. But i dont think the wire is needed anyway, sicne the material of the cape is thick and pretty solid, soo it stays in shape most of the time and makes posing him more easy.

His accesorys are 3 sets of hands: open hands, hands to hold his weapon and an open palm to hold his pimpkin. The hands sculpt and paints are really good and can be switch pretty easy while the open palm comes with a black cone thingy with a ball on the top. The pummpkins can be put in there since the ball woorks like a ball joint soo the pumpkings dosnt fall over and can be moved to any angle posible. Also since this little cone thingy is black, is invisible to the eye!!! I love this!!!

His other accesory is his sword, the weapon he use to behead anyone on his way. The sword design is very generic and dosnt have anything speciall beyonf the black handle and silver blade. it fits perfectly on his hands and also in the belt on the Horseman belt, tough in here the sword really gets in the way of the cape, and makes him stand almost imposible.

Another accesory is his cut neck....a circular thin piece with a peg in one side and and ham on the other side. The peg can be inserted in a hole on his neck and the ham is in fact....the inside of his neck. Lots of meat and muscles, woth his closed troath and a circular ring that is in fact, his spinal cord. The paint is excelent...is not bloody, but pink and that makes it even more disgusting. Theres black in the identations soo the details of the muscular structure pop up even more.

This "cut neck" can be switched for another black cone with a ball on top that works like a neck for his pumpkins. This lets them be moved pretty good and since the items is totally black is, again, totally invisible to the eye!!

And like i mentioned earlyer, punpkins!! He comes with two pumpkins that can be attached to the ball joint on his open palm or the ball joint of the neck soo they can act as his head. And extremelly traditional Halloween pumpkin and the most permanent icon of Halloween, with the carved eyes and the big smile with pointy fangs the shape and texture are perfect as well as the orange paint with some brown in the identations and in the inside theres a ghostly texture that looks like flame, or supernatual ligth.

The second pumpkin is the same, except it have green flames coming out of his eyes as well as a huge glame curling behind it, this are made with tralsucent plastic in a venomus green that looks really supernatural and ghostly!! And this is another difference with the original release: the original one had yellow flames and inside, while this ones are green but also, they glow in the dark!!!

The box of this guy is pretty huge and heavy because a Horseman is not a horseman with no horse, soo theres a second figure in here: the black steed!! Thise horse is really big given the scale, and really impresive since standar action figure reach to his back soo he is a full head taller. He can stand on his own.....as long as he have his 4 legs on the floor thats it soo if you want to pose him runing, you need an incrediblly strong base and given his body shape, find a suitable base is a HUGE challengue.

He is articulated on the head, the base of his neck, his front legs, elbows and hooves, the back legs, knees (???) and hooves as well as his tail. The head cna be moved up and down only a little bit and the base of the neck also moves up and down but also to the sides, but not much, this two sections are pretty limited.

His front legs have a pretty standar one direction joints, soo he can move his legs front and back but cant open them and the hooves also only move up and down since the hair really limits them. The back legs tough have a giant ball joint, soo they have a huge range of movement and can be opened, to help standing i guess and gives him stability. The rest of the legs have the same range of movement of the front legs and the tail have a ball joint that make this the most articulated part of the whole figure.

This is the very first time i have the figure of a horse....soo i am not sure how to name each part (specially in english) and pose him is actually quiet a challengue given i am not well informed of horse anatomy or how his legs move soo i had to use anatomy charts to find out how to pose the legs to make them looks like he is runing or walking, and actually even with those guides its not easy at all.

The sculpt is really nice, with all the muscles of the nimal quiet visible, as well as veins on some of them and a very soft fur texture thats quiet difficult to see from a distance, its an extremelly realistic horse and i specially love the amazing and wild hair  at the end of his legs and just covering his hooves, is really spectacular.

The face have a very fierce expression, with his nostril and mouth fully open. Actually, his huge protunding teeth in contrast with his tiny eyes is wath makes him looks very beastly and both the hair and the tail have a very nice hair sculpt, tough most f the detailing is on the saddle.

The whole saddle is build with different peices made of soft plastic and my guess is that it can be removed  completelly. The attention to details here is amazing, since the girth even have some lamb skin around it soo the horse stomach is not damaged. The seat have a pretty impresive leather texture and this time is pretty evident from the distant. The skirt have a cotton texture and all the straos and belts are really really realistic. Also theres even a rolled cloth behind the cantle soo the hessian can camp.

The bridle is also made with soft plastic, the noseband, the brownband and the head piece are removable as well and they are painted in brown with lots of silver details in the buckles or the union sections. The seat also comes in a pretty greysh black that makes it looks full of dirt and dust and all the belts around it have the same aged touch.

The whole body of the horse have no paint at all, just a velvetish black with some dark greens on his hair, tail and the hair close to his hooves. His nostrils are very black tough and the paint on his mouth is really good, the teeth looks weet and yellowish and his gums and tongue are pink and that makes a nice contrast with the rest of the black body.

And another contrast are his hooves and eyes and here is the last difference with the original release: the original ones had red eyes and hooves, while this guy has venomus green for his hooves and eyes and they glow in the dark as well in a very spectacular way!!!

The horse seems a little simplistic, but once in close inspection is very realistic and more tha enough for the Headless Horseman since his sword can be hold on the billet straps aroudn the saddle and munt the Horseman is pretty easy, his feet fits perfectly on the soft plastic stirrup and his hands also can hold perfectly the reins. The horse is of course strong enough to keep the Horseman riding him soo this two works wonderfull to display together.

And lastly, the amazing glow in the dark box can be open like a 3 sides screen to reveal a background for the Horseman. The background is pretty thick and sturdy and the quality fo the imrpession is top nothc. The artwork on it is amazing and shows a painting of Sleepy Hollow, the woods, the houses, a windmill on the background behind the river dark clowds in the sky with a huge moon at the center.

All painted in purples and intense greensm withs lots of shadows but also richnes of details and theres even cues to the animated Disney movie with a tree with a hole and two glowing eyes in the center. At the other side theres an incredibly eerie tree with a fanged mouth, a giant nose and two hollow eyes reflecting putrple and green shadows and ligths.

The ilustration is really spectacular and while its kinda dark, it makes the figures stand out perfectly and makes them look just in home.

As a kid, having a figure like this in my hands would have been a dream come true, Four Horsemen really nailed perfection in here, more in this second edition of the character since the glow in the dark effect and ghsotly green mottif really enhance the look of this evil spirit. Some joints are kinda lose and i wish they give a base to the horse, but aside of that this is pure perfection. 

This was an expensive figure, but in the end i felt like a bargain given the high quality of it and the amazing display option it gives, a perfect manifestation of the true spirit of Halloween.