BUBBLE HEAD NURSE

 Up at this point i am really worryed for my Silent Hill collection, not because how big it is but because it looks less as a collection and more like a shrine with the same character over and over and over again. I do love Silent Hill 2 to death but it seems this game is the only existing for merch porpuse soo i felt is imposible to form a collection that showcase Silent Hill properly and now we only have a kind of cult towards the Red Pyramid Thing and the Bubble Head Nurse.

With that aside it makes me happy the game is finally getting merch to collect and now Kotobukiya got the IP and start a new collection starting with - yess........you guessed rigth - the Bubble Head Nurse and Red Pyramid Thing tough this time around the also added the Abstract Daddy as a huge surprise. Sadly thats the worst decision they have done, not because of wath the creature represent but because it have the less interesting design of the whole game. Its basically a door with tiny little baby feet and arms in once side and something brown and humid that looks like shit on a table.....only by learning wath it represents it takes form, but with no information, this is a creature with...well, no shape at all soo its not specially scary either and since Red Pyramid Thing is not out yet, i went for the Bubble Head Nurse.

This girl is part of the Oshi Works line from Kotobukiya, this is pretty much the same as the Pop Up Parade line for Good smile Company; a series of statues with affordable prices - cheap figures basically tough this Nurse wasnt cheap at all, she was more like twice the price of the Pop Up Nurse but the quality here is insane!!!

This Nurse is on her own scale soo she is much taller than the Nendroids, Figmas and even your standar NECA or McFarlane figures but she is smaller than a Hot Toys or Sideshow soo she is not 1/6....she is traped in a kind of 1/7 or 1/8 scale soo she dosnt fit with any other brand at all tough her size is really good, big enough to have a strong presence on the shelves. She cant stand on her own at all but she comes with a base that works wonderfull but more of that later.

Theres no articulation here and no asembly requiered, this is a solid piece. And finally FINALLY!!!! We got a Nurse that is not in the same pose as the Gecco statues!!!! Finally a brand new pose for the Nurse!!! No twisting hips or legs walking, no iron pipe at the side and head tolt to the other side!!! Here we have the Nurse standing in a kind of neutral and pasive pose with her back hunched and looking at something that picks her attention. A very basic pose that thanks to thr subtle details looks very natural and livelly.

The ehad have no face and only have the fins thingys that mimics hair at the side but the texture is a little but rugged....almost like velvet while her uniform and cap have a much strong rugged texture, a little bit like rock and thats gives her a pretty unique look. This is the Nurse form the remake soo she have long tights and high heels that have small marks of wear. The anatomy and volume is perfect, she looks quiet petite like in the game and while she have big boobs, i feel like the pose is more "monster like" than something sexy.

The paint is amazing!!! The tigths have a plum color mixed with some dark washes on the top and bottom of them while the uniform and cap are dull grey but they also have not only dark grey shadows in certain areas to high ligth the shadows and volume (like under her boobs of her groin area) but it also have some yellow stains in places where the uniform is thorn and some blue stains too that mixe perfectly and makes he rlooks.....very dirty and natural.

The skin is pink maybe or maybe a little bit purple....or white? I dont know, the color skin looks not human at all the more you look at it and it have purple and blue brush aplied very softly that looks like bruises. The ehad also have a fantastic mix of white, greys, dark greys, sof reds and blues that makes it looks like a swallow growth of tissue while the dark greys are aplied where her eyes are supposed to be soo they give her a shadow of a face.

Its pretty hard to explain it but i am not sure if its the point, the material or the union of both but the Nurse looks almost iridiscent, like a pearl, like theres a weird transparency going on here on all her body except her legs, looks almost ethereal and thats somethign no other figure of this monster has done before deffinetly.

The red square at the front of her face cant be removed sadly but her weapon can be, the iron pipe is pretty good looking as well with bolts conecting the different sections and a surty texture that mix perfectly with the metalic black and silver used on it and looks perfecly reslistic and natural. The pip fits perfectly on her hand.

And finally theres a base, a big square black base with the Silent Hill 2 logo engraved at front but since the logo and base are all black is difficult to see it but its good that the base is customized for the character despite being soo simple looking....simple looking, elegant and also, metalic. Yes, this is a metalic base with some considerable weigth on it and the Nurse have magnets on her high heels.

This is the very firs time i see this, a figure with magnets on the feet and a metalic base, thats usually reserved for the high end super expensive resin statues of Sideshow or Iron Studio, but here is Kotobukiya adding magnets to theyr cheap figure line.....and i already try it and yes, this Nurse can stand pretty much on the fridge or any metalic surface, she can even hang upside down for some really freaky and creative display.

Overall, this is pretty much the best Bubble Head Nurse figure i ever seen, only one step behind of the Gecco ones just because the small scale and a little bit of lack of detail, but this girl is damn close to that level of quality. Again, the eteheral coloring that makes her shine in a ghostly way make this figure stand very nice and the metalic base and magnets are just way too much for the price. Its too bad Abstract Daddy dont looks this good but i am deffinetly getting Red Pyramid Thing once he is out.

BUBBLE HEAD NURSE

 I always say this but i found very odd how while Silent Hill was active there was 0 merch about it, unlike Resident Evil there wasnt eve a single artbook about Silent Hill or anything at all, it was just the games and the CD soundtracks and nothing else until Konami turned off the switch and sent Silent Hill to sleep, then we started to get a constant flow of merch about the series.

Theres super expensive statues now as well as Figma action figures, rubber ducks and Funko Pop soo it was weird to not have Nendroids at this point but now that changue but sadly, i think its not necesary to explain who they decided to a Nendroid....the only two characters that seems to exist for toy makers soo lets start with the Bubble Head Nurse.

She is actually a little bit shorter than the rest of my Nendroids tough she is of course in perfect scale with them and theres no way she can stand on her own with those super small feet in high heels soo the base is completelly basic and important here. This is one of the new Nendroids soo she is only half articulated and includes a ball joint on here neck that lets her move her head around up, down and to the sides but of course, it is limited thanks to the huge size of the head.

She have very basic shoulder articulations that lets her rotate her arms to the front and the bacl and nothing more, theres a cut in the biceps thats let her rotate them as well as the wrists and the waist and her two legs have small ball joints but they are a little bit limited thanks to her skirt soo to be honest, she dosnt have too many options for display and is kinda stiff.

Sculpt is very nice, of course theres no face here but only the shadow of basic shape of a small nose and two fins at the sides and the rest of the ehad have this soft velveth texture only cut by her cap on top. She have huge round boobs and i find that weird on a Nendroid but i got the feeling thats only because this is my only famel Nendroid. The wrinkles in her uniform are very basic and she is twisting her hips to her left side in a somwhow seductive way. 

Her legs are sculpted in a kind of odd angle but i guess thats intentional for this character and they are half bent, just like her arms and the tiny hands have gloves with only 3 fingers. The paint is basic but effective with her entire uniform painted in a little bit grey white with a darker grey airbrush on the center and end sections of the skirt to add some shadows. Her stockings are dark grey with her high heels completelly white and that makes this the remake version of the character while the skirt have some stains of blood but for some reason the blood is too dark and dont stand out too much.

Actually this girl looks too much black and white and the only color on her its on her skin, a very pale soft pink that almst blends with her uniform. The head is painted the same way but it also have this soft blue veins mixed with some darker marks that almost looks like soft burns, the mix makes a pretty odd result that makes her skin looks like a fleshy tumor soo it really is spot on.

She comes with the wrid red square thing on front of her mouth. Its been 25 years literally and i still dont understand wath this square is and why figure makers always adds it since its very rare to see them in game but Good Smile Company made it optional here by elongate the lower angle in a kind of hook shae that fits under the Nurse chin. It keeps the red square thingy levitating in front of her mouth nicelly and it stay in there tough removes it is very trciky since its a very small iece with the risk to be broken. This square is brigth crimson with some black pattherns that looks like marble and its the only thing that brokes the black and white palette of the figure.

As an extra parts to changue her pose she includes a rigth hand to hold her weapons and thats it....no bend arms or legs and no other hands, just a single hand thats easy to swap but it dooms her to be forever in a single pose....or not a single pose but limits the display options greatly.

Her weapons are a kitchen knife and an iron pipe. Both weapons fits into her extra hand and they are painted in metalic silver and golden. The knife is soo tiny it almost feels like a penknife and the pipe sculpts is very nice and detailed for such a small scale item.

Then theres the base, this time is the same base as the Bersek Armor Guts, with a missing hole in the center and the arm that holds the figure twisted backwards tough i have ni idea why since this girl has no cape to get in the way of the base tough aside of the visual difference, the base works perfect and theres no complaing here.

To be honest, this figure represents perfectly the purelly ornamental nature of Nendroids, this figure is to be posed once and leave on the shelf foerever and ever since theres no other things to do with her. She is really cool looking but not very fun to play with, not at the level of Arthur or Lycaon, she feels much more stiff and stale as Guts that only accesory is his sword.

I ordered Red Pyramid Thing as well and i am think he will be the same way, but oh well, i am sure together they will be a good display for the Silent Hill collection and yes...i got two Bubble Head Nurse, i always do for display propuses because i feel all alone by herself she would looks even more stale and boring.

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!!!!!

RED PYRAMID THING

 I still remember the shock of the Gecco Silent Hill statues and later on, the Figam action figures....it was almost surreal that we finally had Silent Hill figures and merchadise tough we didnt got nothing while the videogame series was alive and well, somehow the gears of publicity started to move long looong after the game was dormant soo in the last teen years we been having a parade of figures based on the characters.....or should i say, in only two characters of the series: Red Pyramid Thing and the Bubble Head Nurse.

And last christmas and with no warning or pre-order Konami launched two figures based on these creatures as prize figures from those machines with a claw...you catch the boxes with the claw in exchangue of a token soo this figures are really really cheap and i cant find even a brand in theyr boxes aside of Konami soo i am guessing Konami makes them directly.

The atractive price made me get them for sure soo i cant let Silent Hill merchadise slip away. This figures are in the standar scale of most figures like Storm, McFarlane or NECA soo they fit with most horror collection and they are actually taller than the Figma....let says they are in the same scale as the Pop Up Parde.

This is a statue soo no articulation or asembling needed at all tough i am not sure if this Pyramid Thing can stand on his own, he comes with a base that works perfectly fine with him with the use of pegs under his boots.

At first the fact this is no screen accurate really bugged me but eventually i found out this is not based on the original Silent Hill 2 but in the remake, soo this Pyramid Thing is the redesign Masahiro Ito did for Bloober Team and have a number of differences with the original. 

The head is perfect, perect sixe and shape and the metalic texture is nice. It have a rugged side like if the content of the head is going to brake the metal and it have a metalic nail in this part soo everything from the game is present, including the fleshy parts under the pyramid and the flesh coming out in the back with another nail coming out from it. 

The musculature on the arms is really nice and the fact his arms have no carving makes the arms much more sexy and the gloves frames the muscled arms even more. The outfit is different from the original, while the original hace a......dont know wath to call it....its a costume that covers his entires body and is tucked on his boots, this version only have a butchers apron that only cover the frront side and have the back side totally open, revealing his entire back and legs.

There is a number of straps holding the apron in place and while the pants are extremelly simple, the wrinkles following the legs anatomy are really doog looking and natural and while the boots and pants have no tecture, the apron have a pretty heavy cotton texture. The pose is really good with Pyramid Thing walking up front with a very natural motion thanks to his apron since the back side flows very good around his body and the weigth of the big blade can be felt thanks to the stretched musculature on his arm.

The paint on the head is relaly good, with a shiny metalic dark brown mixed with black and the nail on his side in shiny silver. While th meat under the head is crimson read the one coming out from the back looks purple and kinda plastic soo instead of a brain it looks like a tumor. The apron also have a very natural firty grey with a lot of random stains that looks very natural and a black gradient fromthe bottom to the top.

This black gradient can be seen on the arms too tough while his arms have a nice pink texture on the, they kinda looks way too "healty" and actually sext for such a creature. Also the sqeaky clean white cloves really looks awkard in contrast with the black ink on his arms but i cheecked in game and yes, his gloves are actually very white. Maybe in game light kind of hide them but in a figure the contrast is pretty odd...

The pants and boots are just plain dark blue and brown and lack any kind of detailing. His only accesory is his big blade that have a realistic rugged texture on it as well as a copper and dark paint with a lot of stains and rust on it. Put the weapon on his hand was pretty tricky tough since his fingers cannot be open and the handle hace a peg that fits on his palm, soo remove the blade seems imposible now.

And finally theres the base...it have an incrediblly anoying shape that makes no sence and takes  ahuge amount of space on the dhelve and it have a rocky texture on it tough is made with hollow cheap plastic cast in dark red, soo it looks incrediblly cheap and generic but i guess this is the less important part of the figure and it does its job perfectly keeping Red Pyramid Thing in perfect balance.

Its odd how some elements of this figure are soo cheap and low quality and how other elements are soo damn good, yet i guess nothing can beat the super low and atractive price of it. I wish Konami release more figures as nice as this one with such price because collecting figures like this is getting pretty impossible with prices like the ones of Good Smile Company. 

Also i am very happy to have figures based on the remake of Silent Hill 2, this finally add some variation to the display tough i still wish they make more characters or creatures from the game aside of this guy and the nurse.

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???