BRIE BOY, PIN CUSHION QUEEN & STARING GIRL

And this is the last series of Tim Burton´s Tragic Toys for Girls and Boys i got thos christmas. I know i am missing Stick Boy and Match Girl and Voodoo Girl but those are too rare and expensive and i am really happy to have the most of this series. This characters really stand out on the shelf.

The first character here is the Pin Cushion Queen. She is the biggest of them all thanks to her chair and deffinetly, she is my favorite. She is ghostly and colorfull enough thanks to all those pins covering her and her chair have this “melty” texture that makes her looks like a candy on top of some cake. The details are nice and intrincate, with each stitch both sculpted and painted and she even comes with a base for consistency.

Then is the Brie Boy. He is a chese… and his body have a pose with good movement, thiny legs and a HUGE head. I am afraid to broke him but his head have the most detail in here with an odd and melty texture and paint.

His base is a wooden floor, like Pin Cushion and Penguin Boy, and yet, the wooden looks totally different to those characters. I love how all this kids have a unique base.

Next is the Staring Girl. While her body and hair have a really good sculpt and paint, i am not sure i like too much the bagds under her eyes. They are sculpted but i wish they looked more like Toxic Boy eyes instead of having this odd purple strips. I think she is my least favorite of the team just because she is the most “normal” looking.

I have to point something, all this figures have a really sloppy and messy paint. Thats pretty evident on Brie Boy shirt, all the strips looks like painted by a kid. But i really dont mind…the paint on all this characters is messy just like Tim Burton´s water colors and it helps to give them an extra texture of a 3D painting coming to life.

I am going to store them in theys boxes since i am afraid to broke the tiny legs of all this kids but i am loving each one of them. They reminds me while i fall in love of Tim Burton when i was a kid.

OYSTER BOY, BOY WITH NAILS IN HIS EYES & JUNK GIRL

Tim Burton´s Tragic Toys for Girls and Boys series was my christmas present for this year. Developed by Dark Horse and sculpted by Gentle Giant, this are characters based on the poem collection of Tim Burton; The Melancholy Deah of Oyster Boy.

Small on scale, this characters are more decorative than actual toys and they contain quiet a lot of details for having such simplistic designs.

The first one of the series 3 is the Boy With Nails on His Eyes. While Penguin Boy was the scaryest of series 2, this one is both creppy and really gory.The blanck expresion on his face and the withe skin with red blood makes him one of the more intersting visions.

His base have Christmas ornaments all over and the poem says he was building his Christmas tree, but for those who didnt read the poem, watching him hilding the hammer and with those nails on his eyes and the blood….well, he is really shocking to the eye. And fragile too, thanks to his thing legs and big round body and head.

Next up is the main character of the series, the Oyster Boy. Like the Stain Boy, he is the perfect manifestation of the Tim Burton style, with that blanck face expresion and head shape and the black and white strips… even his base - a set of stais with a strange shape - is perfectly fited for him.

The paint on his head is a little too dark i think, i tough he was more “whitish” and he is the only figure to have an accesory. This guy is based on the Halloween poem, soo theres a “trick r´treat” bag on one said and a mask to disguise as a human.

He cant hold the mask sadly, but this little accesory is well sculpted and painted perfectly.

Next is the Junk Girl. Her base comes with a trash can and she is pretty ghostly…like a black ghost. His limp body and disrty black hair, and his face….a really grotesque vision since she have no nose (like a skull) and have no eyes either, her skin is grey/blue with black cracks covering her, she looks like a 3D pencil sketch.

Given how thin she is, she feels fraile but not soo much as Oyster Boy. His head is HUGE and HEAVY and his lehs are soo thiny…even with his base, i have my doubst they can keep him standing for a long time.

In the end i have the feeling i will send this figures back to theyr blister in order to keep al theyr small legs safe.

And i dont know wich one os my favorite, one is just way too gory, the other is way too “Burton-esque” and the other is way too ghostly. This team is really solid.

TOXIC BOY, MUMMY BOY & PENGUIN BOY

The Tim Burton´s Tragic Toys for Girls and Boys series were my christmas present this year. Small ornamental statues based on the characters from the book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, a playfull and mordbid collection of Tim Burton´s poems.

The second series collects the Mummy Boy, the Toxic Boy and the Penguin Boy.

Mummy Boy is the most delicate of the group, since his head is huge and his whole body is limb and very thin. Tim Burton´s design are the nightmare of all toy manufacturers out there. The Mummy stands perfectly but i am afraid to broke him in any minute.

He is a perfect manifestation of Burton art, with each bandage sculpted and having a dirty wash of withe and grey, he looks like a watercolor paint. The bandages on his base are a little too dark however.

Next is the Toxic Boy. Like the Gilr with Many Eyes, he is the most colorful and almost shining of the group. His sculpt is clean and simple and his blue skin and green eye bags are disturbing and fun at the same time. His base is the most detailed, with toxic products from a kistchen and a hole made by all the poison hes been playing with.

Next up is the Penguin Boy. He is the smallest pof all the characters, but he is the scaryest and most disturbing one as well. His poem is th shortest too soo the fact we dont know much about him (aside of his name) makes him the scariest of all.

His base comes with a wall fragment from a circus (maybe??) and the black strips on his suit are all sculpted. His face is full of sratches and scars as well….is almost ferall. And the fact he has no eyes is just….

His head is full of grey washing soo he looks dirty and really…hiddeous. As small and simplistic as this guy is, he is really mezmerising and nightmarish.

I really dont know wich one is my favorite here…i love mummys and Toxic Boy is really fun and stands out a lot, but Penguin Boy is just way too creppy….just too much and thats why i love Burton soo much.

STAIN BOY, ROBOT BOY & GIRL WITH MANY EYES

For a long time i been thinking on buy Dark Horse series of Tim Burton´s Tragic Toys for Girls and Boys. With Burton making dull and boring movies in rescent years, this characters from his Oyster Boy book are crystaliced Burton magic, a reminescent of his original vision and style from the 80s-90s and now day pretty far on his past.

I never got them because, i dont know how is on USA, but here in Mexico this little guys are SUPER EXPENSIVE for they small size. I been letting them slip over and over again until now, that a kind sould give them to me as a Christmas present!

This guys are manufactured by Dark Horse and sculpted by Gentle Giant and they are kinda old by now. They are kind of small but since they are kids, they are in the perfect scale with the Mcfarlane´s Corpse Bride series and NECA´s The Nightmare Before Christmas figures.

They are basically statues, with no articulation and with a pretty obvious ornamental nature.

The Robot Boy is pretty close to Burton´s drawings and looks more like a mechanical chimera than an actual “boy”. The wires and athenas and claw are made with soft material but they are not bendable and the metalic paint is perfect. His base is a little twisted tough i dont know why as well as the black cord that conects him into the wall.

Stain Boy here is not looking too much like the drawings of Burton, but instead is based on his design from the Stain Boy animated shorts. His expression is priceless and while he is simplistic in nature, he have the rigth details. He is pretty delicate tough and i am afraid to broke him on any minute, given his big head and round body levitating on those thin legs.

He feels extremelly fragil and if i can complaing abut something, he is way too clean for Stain Boy…he is suposed to be covered in grey/black ink of some sort but mine is withe clean.

Lastly, is the Girl with Many Eyes. Her sculpt is pretty close to Burton´s art and hes colors are vibrant and livelly; the intense blue, pink shoes and purple base match perfectly and her hair have a lot of shadows and blonde tones. She is the most detailed of the team.

I like all of them but i am not sure wich one os my favorite in here, the Girl of the Stain Boy. The Girl is really colorfull and eye catching while Stain is really plain and yet, his simplistic design captures Tim Burton vision soo perfectly.