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.

MUMMY BOY & BAT KID

Series 4 of The Nightmare Before Christmas action figure series by NECA managed to release some fantastic characters with very high quality, like the Pumpkin King, the Devil and Igor, tough it had an issue with "small characters" like the final figures in the series, the Mummy Boy and Bat Kid.

This figures are tiny!!!! Just as small as Igor but much more light and lean, tough they come together wich helps to aid a little bit the feeling of paying too much for such small toys. The wuality is high tough, with the Bat Kid having a huge head with spiky hair and a very tiny body (reminds me a fetus) and huge wings, he have no paint except on his red eyes and teeth and the Mummy Boy shows some really good sculpt and paint on his bandaged body since he looks really old and dirty.

The Mummy Boy have articulated head, shoulders and legs tough the legs articulation is useless, since he cant stand with his small black base. Also i was hoping his little yellow eye could move but is not articulated at all. The Bat Kid have articulation on his neck, shoulders and wings and thats all, most of his body is totally statick. Of course, theres not too much to do on the pose department.

Like already say, the Mummy Boy comes with a small base and the Bat Kid have also a base tough is transluscent and have a rod that stick on his back. Of course he is supposed to be balancing on his wings soo is imposible to make him stand with this base.

They also comes with a rat and a toy train. I dont know wich one of this i like the most really, the rat is incrediblly detailed and expresive with his mean looking face, the party hat and the cheese with a ribon, he is even articulated on the neck!! But the toy train is also nicelly designed, with its german expresionism style and the vibrant colors, bot accesorys lookis fantastic in the display.

And thats it, fantastic quality, but only two accesorys and while this two comes together, they are still too small. Why not releasing them along side Igor? Or better yet, why not releasing them with the Cyclops and the Wolfman instead of the silly looking elves? That would make much more sense.

Despire NECA odd choice to release such small figures, it was a good thing they packed them with good accesorys this time and expensive or not, this pair are unique and important Halloween citizens.