BUBBLE HEAD NURSE

 Last chritmas Konami released a new series of figures based on the remake of Silent Hill 2 to be used as prize in japanese claw machines. A pretty cool idea tough that for a single token and a little of gaming job you can get an official Silent Hill figure. I like the idea a lot and the price of thr market of this figures is incrediblly atractive too and of course.....wath characters are included in the collection?  Red Pyramid Thing and the Bubble Head Nurse, the only mascots of the entire series.

I want to complaing about the character selection but the fact this are based on the remae and not the original game makes them a nice variant to have on display as well. I already review Red Pyramid Thing and he was pretty damn good in my opinion, specially with that price soo i will look to the Bubble Head Nurse now.

She is bigger than the Figma and in the same scale as the Silent Hill Pop Up Parade and matches most horror collections in the market (like NECA´s or McFarlane Toys) and i am pretty sure she can stand on hr own at all but the inclusion of a base pretty much fixes that. This is a statue soo theres no movable parts or assemble requiered.

This figure is odd because.....it have the same sculpt and pose as the Gecco statue. I dont know if Gecco give the rigths od the sculpt to Konami or if Konami is the rigths owner but i find it pretty odd they recycle the pose for a figure. I mean the Pop Up Parade is in a very damn similar pose but it have some difference here and there but here, even the fingers are possed in the same angle.

We have the Nurse walking to the front in a very contorted and grotesque way while holding her iron pipe. The sculpt is perfect, i mean this is Gecco´s work soo it canot be the other way soo the fin on the head and bust size as well as all the curves are accurate to the in game model.  The nurse cap is made of soft plastic and have some nice details on the back, like pincs to hold it (tough i dont know how since theres no hair to do it), the hands are also cast on soft plastic as well as her skirt.

Theres this red metalic square where her mouth is supposed to be and after 25 years i still have no idea with it is but for some reason they always add if to the figures of this creature because in the game not all of them have this weird thing, tough i must admit the metalic red contrast pretty good with the white of the creature´s head.

Unlike Red Pyramid Thing that is full of metalic, fleshy and cottton texture, lots or rust, this girl is completelly devoided of any texture, but her skin and uniform are completelly clean of texture as well as her head but i think this really helps the figure to be more accurate since the Nurses in the game had alsways looked thing of...sintetic and not real, and the clean cheap plastic of this figure really helps achive that look.

Noth her skin and entire uniform including cap as well as her head are full of yellowish/brown stains plased completelly random and thats makes her looks realistic enough. Even her gloves are stained unlike Red Pyramid Thing ones and they fits n the overall display better. Her stockings tough are too clean as well as her high heel shoes and that mesk them stand out a little bit even with the dark color on them, they have a heavt contrast with the white of the figure.

This is pretty much the only difference between the original bubble Head Nurse and the remake ones, the stockings and high heel shoes soo this make the figure a nice variant to the rest of the collection. Her only accesory is her iron pipe that fits her hand pretty easy and also have a very good scult with a lot of details and sections that makes it looks like a functional item and the metalic cooper paint makes it looks realistic enough.

The base is as awfull as Red Pyramid Thing one, made with hollow cheap red plastic and a rock texture and a pretty random and space eating shape, the base looks a little bit out of place but like i already said, it does the job and i guess is the less imporant part of the whole figure.

This is a very simple looking figure that looks good, specially for the low price and i love it but i dont know how to feel about the recyled pose, the variety of the characters is extremelly low and having the characters in the same pose is something i dont like at all but given how hard to find is the Gecco nurse by now, i dont think not many people would notice. I just wish someday they make other creatures or characters, PLEASE, KONAMI!!!!!

BUBBLE HEAD NURSE

 And the couwntdow to Silent Hill 2 remake is still active and each monsth release new products based on the series, something unthinkable 20 years ago when Silent Hill was...well, very much alive. It never fails to amuse me how long it took to Konami to learn wath to do to Silent Hill but maybe they are already desesperate enough? It dosnt matter but one of the products they show on ther Silent Hill shodcase from monht ago was this Pop Up Parade Bubble Head Nurse.

I admit i am liking soo far this Pop Up Parade line from Good Smile Company, the quality is great and they are only 1/4 the price of thsoe crazy expensive Figma and Nendroids. I admit it pains me to let soo many Nendroids fly away but Good Smile Company prices are already delusional but this Pop Up Parade line is doing wonders fixing that.

A little bit taller than a Figma, this Bubble Head Nurse actually fit to any standar action figure collection like NECA or McFarlane and despite the shape of her legs, she can stand perfectly with the use of her base. Unlike the other Pop Up Parade, the Nurse base is a black and thick circle. Pretty simple but works good and dosnt looks bad with such a dark character.

The Nurse is walking, barelly standing with her legs and waist tiwsted, holding the iron pipe. A pretty basic pose for this character but is really well done and have sense of movement and weigth. This is almost the same pose of the GECCO Nurse, almost... only the head looking at frint and the arm with no pipe rised are the only elements that makes it different.

The plastic used here is pretty good, the arms are a little bit soft as well as her skirt (and yes....she actually have pantys sculpted and painted under the skirt). All the wrinkles hugging her body while she contorts looks pretty natural as well as the ripped sections that, instead of show skin, they show a weird fabric like material, almost like of if the Nurse is a ragg doll.

The skin tough lacks any kind of texture and i find the head sculpt a little bit exagerated. I mean, the weird shapes on her face are a little too prominent for my licking but i guess is neccesary at this scale. Tough she is using the strange....thing on her mouth. Time flys and i still dont udnerstand waths the thing on her mouth, is almost like a board or something.

The weird board is black with some kind of red markings on it. The worst thing is that i dont remember many Nurses in the game having this thingy and yet all the figures have it. I guess they tough leaving it out would make her looks way too simple, but i wish it was optional and detachable.

The paint work is really good but very limtied as well. Her skin have a mix of purples and greys with some darker shades in elbows and other particular areas to create a shadow while her uniform is almost the same color but a little bit more....redish? The uniform looks really dirty and natural but the color looks very similar to that of the Nurse skin.

The iron pipe is painted in metalic golden but somehow it also looks like is the same color of the entire Nurse. The only elements that stand out are the thing on her mouth and her white shoes. Again, the paint is very high quality but very monotone as well.

The head tough have some tiny and very difficult to see veins but this is the only area since the rest of her body is completelly clean. Almost all Pop Up Parade are anime characters soo i guess Good Smile is not that good with realistic paint at this point, this Bubble Head Nurse looks almost from an animel screenshot.

Theres not too much to complaing tough given the very low price of this figure and while the paint is a little basic, the sculpt and representation of the figure is perfect and she fits with most action figures collection as well. I am deffinetly going to get the Pyramid Head but i am also dissapointed to not see anything else....just Nurse and Pyramid over and over and over again...

RED PYRAMID THING & BUBBLE HEAD NURSE

 The remake of Silent Hill 2 is slowlly closing, and the proof is all the anachronic merchadise we are starting to get. Its soo weird that Konami didnt care for any merchadise of Silent Hill for 15 years until the series was cancelled but i guess i cant complaing to get Silent Hill figures even after this ong. The very first company on the Silent Hill revival is Mezco, a company that i dont collect to much at all, i just have theyr very cool but incomplete Universal Monster,s line and they ONE Collective lonelly Frankesntein.

Now they surprised me with a Silent Hill Deluxe Boxed Set that inclides not one, but two figures together: Red Pyramid Thing and Bubble Head Nurse (wath a surprise) in they "5 Points" series. And thanks to my lack with Mezco i was expecting something bigger...much much bigger, since this figures are mre miniatures since they are much smaller than a Funko Pop and a little bit smaller than a Nendroid....

Despide the tiny size, Red Pyramid Thing have problems standing on his own but they give him a tiny black base. Its extremelly simple, but it works good. This series of figures are called "5 Points" because they have 5 points of articulation, like the old Kenner toys had in the 80s. Sadlly thats not true with Red Pyramid Thing since he can only move his shoulders and one leg, his head and other leg are completelly static. 

Theres no ball joints here, just traditional cut articulation soo he can only move his arms up ad down since theres not much point on moving his leg since that would make him even less stable. Soo he is mostly a tiny and super small statue, not very fun to play with him tough the sculpt is relaly really fantastic. He is preposed like if he is walking soo he dosnt looks static and his costume is made of soft rubber plastic soo it dosnt block the articulations (that dosnt exists).

The fabric texture is really nicelly done and you can even see the zipper on his back as well but my favorite part is the brain/flesh tissue coming out on the back of his helmeth. The paint job is really good as well, with the grey and dirty look on his costume and the stains of wet blood here and there, everything looks really really natural.His skin is purple with some darker areas around the muscles to give him a pretty decaying look. My only complaing here is the head, it just looks chocolate brown. I wish they give it more color tones or metalic paint of texture, i dunno, the head looks way to simple compared to the rest of his body.

His accesory is an extra rigth arm that have a more bended elbow. Its not easy to exchange the arms tough and given they are hold in place only by a plastic articulation make me thing evetually the plastic materiall will get harder and maybe, a extra twist will cut the articulation in half.

He also have his greant knife and great spear, both fit in his hand perfectly and the texture and sculpt on them is really good, specially on the wpar head. They also have metalic paint and finish, grey and golden, and they even have stains of dry blood. This makes me wonder why theye didnt paint like this Red Pyramid Head´s helmeth.

The Bubble Head Nurse is a little bit smaller that Red Pyramid and she cant stand on her own at all, soo the black base is highly needed. Unlike Pyramif Thingy, she does have 5 points of articulation: the head, the shoulders and legs, that gives her a little bit more versatility of movement but not that much, soo she is also sculpted preposed in a pretty shambling walk.

The sculpt is really good, all details are in here: the fleshy flamps at the side of her head, the weird square on her mouth with red paints (seriuslly, wath is this?? 22 years later and this thing design is still soo weird and unexplained), her tigth uniform and gloves. And the paint is relaly dirty as well and natural, looks like she came out from a blood pool and the human purple /pink colors on her flesh is very corpse looking.

My only compaling here is the hips. I dont mind the evident cut on her skirt for the articulation on her legs, but the central piece of the skirt is much darker than the outside pieces. Again, is weird they detailed the paint soo perfectly at such small scale but they had this paint inconsistency in such an evident and big place.

Just like Pyramid Thingy she comes with an extra rigth arm with a bend elbow but despite her arm being much more smaller, exchange them is much more easy and less delicate. She also comes with her rust pipe with metalic golden paint. The pipe is pretty small and delicate but despite the Nurse small hand it stays on its place pretty good.

Lastly theres a diorama piece made of cardboard. The material is pretty high wuality as well as the print, since it dosnt looks pixelated and the color palette matches the figures perfectly.  Dirty green tiles with blood all over for the floor and a wall with....rags of fabric hanging from it (???) with a green doot on the center, one of the rooms of the basemnt of the Brookhaven Hospital. 

Turn it around and you have second diorama option showing a titally different room with green and rusted walls. Its nice to have both options or even display Red Pyramid Thing in one room and the Bubble Head Nurse in another.

Honestly i am not very interested on minatures, i find them difficult to handle and not very spectacular, but miniature figures get much better when things goes epic in scale, like Migthy Max in the 90s with his big playsets of castles, cementerys, space ships or other fantastic places, or the McFarlane Monsters playsets with hidden traps of the opera house.

I really wish Mezco did a Playset instead of a diorama, a plastic sculpted room with remobavle pieces or hidden chambers and a second level, i dunno, that would have been much more fun and avoid the "character standing in front of a door" display.

Miniatures for videogames characters have a lot of potential, like a playset with an isometric view, like Silent Hill Book of Shadows or the old RPG´s. I really hope Mezco see that and release playsets instead AND something beyond this two....why Silent Hill have soo many characters and creatures but they keep doing this two and only this two???

BUBBLE HEAD NURSE

I feel soo odd buying soo many Konami merchadise at this moment, with Konami in rigor mortis… is almost like getting a letter from a deseased friend. I trully would never dream to have Silent Hill action figures at all but Figma is granting that wish (tough it takes them an awfull lot of time releasing this girls) and make it in a strange way as well since theres no human characters at all in this collection.

I went ahead and buy two Bubble Head Nurses. They are not as expensive as Snake or Leonidas and i wish i could have get many more to have a swarm of Nurses to display.

This Nurses are thin…like, real thing and extremelly small and delicate. Solid Snake and Archer Figmas looks like the Hulk compared to them. I think Figma messed up the scales a little bit but at least they are in perfect scale with Red Pyramid Thing, and thats the important part.

They articulations works amazinglly good and let a HUGE range of flexibility. Play Arts Kai is going to be jealous of this articulations forever. Nothing can stop thyr movement since theyr skirt is made with flexible plastic and can be opened in the sides. Also, for my surprise, this girls can stand by theyr own even with theyr articulated and little shoes but is always better to use that amazing and usefull base designed by Figma.

The contrast in textures is beautifull. Theyr skin is plain and solid, like a manekin or some kind of doll, and theyr uniform is fleshy, looks like is made with human skin. The color on the uniforms is dirty and the tones on theyr skin are really amazing. They have loads of purple tones and shadows and theyr legs and necks are full of tiny blue and purple veins.

Aside of theyr bases, this girls have an army of little hands (i have troubles finding the difference of some of them) and a steel pipe and a knife. While i dont remember any Norse with a knife in Silent Hill 2, i am sure they added it as a reference to the movies and i apreciate it, since the knife make one of them stand out.

They other accesoryes are 3 heads. One of them is covered by some kind of plastic membran and the shadow of a face can be seen behing. I think this head is the most accurate to the game? The other head dosnt have a membrain and is pink and full of veins, pretty fleshy looking and make it looks like his head is a big cancerous tumour. The third one is the same as the pink one, but with a mouth carved on it that looks like a jack o´lantern.

I really wish this girls were bigger but the level of detail is top notch to theyr sieze. They are as amazing looking as the Gecco statues. And having two makes it better since they can sexually harras the bully of Red Pyramid Thing with no problem.

This are one of the strangest action figures i have and i really wish Figma will continue working with the series. I want to see more monsters like this, even from Silent Hill 1 and i REALLY want a James Figma now, and Maria. But i really dont know wath to expect at all with Konami rotting away in some dark corner…

BUBBLE HEAD NURSE ~ MASAHIRO ITO VERSION ~

The Bubble Head Nurse Comicon Limtied Edition or "Masahiro Ito version"!!! I got this one...8 years ago!! And it was the very first Silent Hill figure i got (not that theres a lot of figures of the characters) and it was my first Gecco statue and it was expensive, tough for now day standars, it was really cheap, 1/4 of the price Gecco ask for theyr figures now...

The difference it have with the “regular” figure is the red socks/high heels boots thingys and the extra head with the….red….thing.

I am not pretty sure wath to think about the red thing on her head tough, i like her a lot more without it but i guess it adds an extra “wtf” factor to an already disturbing and surrealistic creature like her. Also is game accurate since some nurses have this same red element on the game.

Unlike the regular version, her head have a glossy/weet texture and the.....i dont know how to call them...the sides of her head looks more like flaps or fins and theres a white cort stroking her neck. The creatures of Silent Hill are soo crazy interesting to the point is even hard to discent theyr details in close up.

Those are the only unique elements, since the rest is the same as the regular version, the body and dress, the base, the shambling pose, the pipe weapon, the hands....no, the hands are different as well, since they have five fingers instead of 3 and the card that comes with the figure have also a different description but the same art the regular version had.

Is interestinf how at first both figures look the same, but they have many different spall details aside of the boots, not only the hands are different and the shape of her head, but the color of her skin is also more pink and less purple.

The paint is fantastic really, with the dress looking all dusty and old and her skin having a disturbing realistic look, with veins and texture and even the skin on her neck where she is being strangled is torn appart and the gloves and head looks plastic and swollen.

I dont know wich Nurse i like the most, the original one of this one since i like this one head shape better but the red boots are really awkard. Gecco did an amazing job with this figures and i am really happy to get them before they started boosting theyr price like crazy.

BUBBLE HEAD NURSE

Seven years ago (time fly fast!!) a brand new toy company from Japan, Gecco, make a debut with a series of Silent Hill statues. This figures were the very first merchadise of the series - aside of CDs and books - and they were done in pretty grand style, since Gecco started and still is a high end company (with high end prices). They released two figures of Silent Hill 2: Bubble Head Nurse and Red Pyramid Thing, and two more from Silent Hill 3. Heather Mason and Robbie the Rabit.

I got Red Pyramid Thing and Heather (hope soon i can post pictures in this blog) and also a Bubble Head Nurse, but a different version, the called "Masahiro Ito version" wich was exclusive from Comicon and had many different visual details over the original version of the figure. Well, seven years later i manage to find the first and original version of the Bubble Head Nurse.

This figure is tall, very tall: 9.8 inches and has no articulations of any kind and i am sure she cant stand on her own given the shape of her legs, but she comes with a big and sturdy base. Her body is completelly twisted and depending of the point of view, it looks like she is on adifferent pose and thats really good, despite being a static figure, the pose is dynamic and have a shambling movement effect.

The sculptor is Shin Tanabe and the paint job is from Yoshinori Yatake, both did a great jobn on each of theyr parts since the paint also bring pit amazing details. Her skin is soo strangelly....realistic..she looks like a rotting corpse with a bluish skin with veins all over and even the back of her head looks swollen, like a drowned corpse.

Her face is almost hypnotic since it have no shape at all. Theres nothing human, or animal or insectoid on her face, her face is just a fleshy tumor with no shape at all, with small wrinkles here and there and even a weet (sweat) texture on the folds of flesh. This figure is trully hiddeous and disturbing with many details we dodnt see in the game.

Her dress is tigth and extremelly dirty and her gloves are shiny and even looks like they have an odd transparency thanks to a superb paint job.

The base is a strangelly shapped piece of concrete, with bloody footprints and a metalic section and fits her perfectly. The figure comes with this little plastic pieces that fit under it and can join other bases together to have an army of nurses (tough it would be odd to have all nurses in the same pose).

As an accesory, she have her weapon, a metal pipe and two extra hands in order to change the pipe from the left to the rigth hand (or remove the pipe) wich add flexibility to the collector to have different display options. This is pretty odd since i never seen other statues with such options. Also she comes with a card with Masahiro Ito´s art and the production number (this is the 487 out of a 1500 production).

The other Nurse i have, the "Masahiro Ito version", have long crimson boots and a more flesh tone on her skin, she have only 3 fingers on her hands and her head is completelly different, with a more figh like fins and a red stain on her mouth. Aparently this second version is more feaithfull to the original design (aside of the boots) but i cant be too sure since this first version is actually damn good looking as well.

I cant seem to chose wich one i like the most really, despite both being the very same figure with some differences, i like them both a lot and i am happy to have them since this are the very best representations of the character and honestly, i really really doubt we see more toys based on Silent Hill.