JACK GOODMAN & KESSLER WOLF

 For years i been avoiding the Toony Terrors from NECA, not because i dont like them, but quiet the opposite, i am a fraid to want to collect them all since the subject directly attack my tastes: a collection of creatures from horror movies but with a cartoon design. But from the many series they release the one that pick my attention the most was the An American Werewolf in London boxset with Jack Goodman on his ghost form and the Kessler Wolf. They come together in a big box and i finally get them at a super cheap price and could not resist.

First of all, despite the boxset packaging, i am surprised how tiny this figures are....Jack is like a head and a half shorter than a Figma/S.H.Figuarts and just barelly taller than a Funko Pop and the Kessler Wolf is the same size but in all four legs, soo he is shorter and i am not sure if this is accurate because i always tough this wolf was masive...i mean, the Ultimate Kessler Wolf, on all four legs, is almost as tall as a human figure but here he is the size of a standar dog but with a huge head.

Maybe is the cartoony anatomy that mess up the scales....but anyway, this two can stand perfectly with no need of a base and each one of them have 3 articulations: The head and the shoulders. Jack head is ball jointed, soo he can tilt his head and move it up and down and to the sides pretty good, but hsi shoulders only can rotate up and down, and given how close are from his body moving around looks awkard.

Kessler Wolf tough is a completelly static since the mane around his hed prevent his head to move at all and while he can rotate his shoulders, theres no use to doing it since he NEEDS all four legs in the ground to be able to stand. Soo the only "working" articulation here is Jack´s head since all other articulations are useless.

The sculpt is really good and i love in particular Jack´s half skeletal head with the messy pointy hair. The big jacket is full of cuts and it contrast nicelly with the short and thin legs ending in huge shoes that makes him looks really goofy and like something that perfectly fits on Tales From the Crypt Keeper cartoon from the 90s. 

The big head of the wolf with the giant gangs and eyes looks really cool and while the body is very animalistic, the human hands with long fingers make him looks quiet odd. The hair sculpt is extremelly basic and both of them lacks any kind of texture. The paint is very basic as well to give them a kind of cell shading look, with the wold being entirelly brown with the hands and face in blue, claws and fangs in yellow and eyes crimson red with a vibrant yellow.

Jack have a grey skin with green jacket and blue jeans vut is also full of mud and blood coming out of the cuts from his body but theres no shades or shadows or anything side of the base color.

Theres no accesorys either, just a background diorama printed on paper (or very thin carboard) with The Slaugthered Lamb pub on it as well as the moor and the full moon on the background. The paint is nice tough pretty simple, like the painting of a child´s illustrated book and the dark blue palette makes Jacm stands out nicelly but the Kessler Wolf coumflages on it a little bit.

This is pretty odd but, despite this are characters from a movie i really love and how nicelly is the sculpt and painting, i find this pair quiet boring. I mean, i know they are triying to mimic 90s toys here but add more articulations would had make a big difference. Not 25 ball joints but just let us move the legs or add ball joints on the shoulders or something... and is not like i dont like statues, i love them!! But when they have a very actiony and fluid pose or some pose that express the character personality, but here Jack is just in a musem pose and the wolf is just standing.....

Also the small size. This makes them easy to collect but at the same time makes them feel a little bit like blind box figures. I dunno...maybe make them bind box figures would make them more exciting. I dont hate them but i dont know wath to do with them either, specially with the spectacular Ultimate version NECA release a few years ago. I guess that means i am safe and wont collect more of this line.