Its hard to belive that its been more than 15 years since Tim Burton released Corpse Bride, one of his best movies and very different to wath he does today, but it was also back then when McFarlane stoped caring and let his figure brand to fall into oblivion for quiet some years. While is getting on track now, Corpse Bride was one of the last lincenses that keep the soul that made McFarlane Toys soo big and impostant.
McFarlane Toys released not only action figures of the Tim Burton characters, but also released tall dools, plushies, glases and other merchadise as well as sets of mini figures. The very first set and, of course, the most important as well was called the "Land of the Dead - Corpse Bride Set" and contained the main character as well as other citizens od the land of the dead.
The Corpse Bride or Emilly, have a very amazing sculpt, based on exactly the same mold of the standar action figure soo the anatomy and shapes are exactly the same, with the sot plastic veil and her legs sculpted under the dress, the paint is mostly a vibrant blue with the white chest piece and pink lips, her color looks really ghostly and almost ethereal.
She is holding her bouquet between her hands and is not articulated of course. All this, pose, sculpt, paint is much more impresive given how tiny she is, this is a miniature and yet the design in her dress and veil as well as her tiny eyes and eyelashes are perfectly painted and theres no fuzzy details or paint in the wrong places, the work done on this figures is trully amazing.
The second figure in the set is Bonejagles and he is the most delicate from the set since he is incrdiblly thin and light, but still his pose is really full of life and very dinamic, walking with a gesture of presentation for Emilly. While he is just bones with a hat, he is not just white, the paint have different tones of yellow and grey to make him looks like real bones, to divide each teeth from his mouth and each bones and his only eye looks really amazing.
Unlike the Bride, he cant stand on his own soo he comes with a huge base that is much bigger than him. The base consist on a very chaotic and realistic looking wood board floor, most likelly from the bar.
The third figure is two for the price of one: the Skeleton Boy and Girl that comes together like in theyr action figure version. This pair is an exact copy of the bigger figures except they are tiny, trully tiny and have no articulations but pretty much the rest is the same, the Girl have her arms in front and the Boy is looking down like starting to walk, the paint is really pefect, brigth and vibrant and they also come with theyr toy boat with a little cord for the Boy to hold.
This two have also metal roads on theyr back connected to a base to be able to stand and the base is exactly the same as theyr action figure version, an irregular shape piece of dirt from the Land of the Dead.
The fourth figure is Scraps but sadly, this is the same Scraps theyr released along Victor in the action figure serires, an exact copy soo i got two Scraps and also, he is not in the same scale as the other mini figures since he is the same size as the Skeleton kids. The sculpt and paint are brillant tough and this time around he comes with a piece of the Land of the Dead floor as a base (that he really dont need).
And the last figure is again a two for the price of one: the Black Widow and the Maggot. Both cannot stand on theyr own soo they comes with a very similar base of that of Scraps and just like Scraps, they are not in the rigth scale with the minis (this two would be almost invisible!!!) and instead they have the same size as the Skeleton kids. This makes them looks awkard but also makes them perfect to display along side the action figures serires since they fit perfectly.
The sculpt and paint of both of them is really brillant. The Black Widow have this hairy sculpt with her long legs made with soft plastic and a metal rod on her abdomen soo she can stand and her eyes, red lips and red mark on her back are perfect. The worm is even more impresive with those green tones and the amazing painting on his face.
I never liked too much miniature figures, like the Kaiyodo minis or Nendroid, i find them hard to handle and lacking details (except Nendroids) but this figures are realy amazing looking, the more you look, the harder to notice how small they are.
