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McFarlane Toys McFarlane Monsters Series 2: Twisted Land of Oz The Scarecrow
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00:00Ouch. Hopefully without a brain, he's not having to feel this.
00:03Here's a relook at McFarlane Toys' Twisted Land of Oz, The Scarecrow.
00:13The McFarlane Monster Series, Twisted Land of Oz, is a highly detailed limited edition release from McFarlane Toys
00:19based on the classic novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
00:22It features twisted alternate interpretations of the classic character.
00:25Scarecrow looks like a guy who's made of many parts, and every part is an ouch.
00:28Before, though, we get a closer look, a relook at The Twisted Land of Oz, The Scarecrow.
00:33Let's take the tape measure, shall we, and see how tall the figure stands.
00:36Truth be told, though, this was the one I was really not looking forward to doing at all,
00:40and so happens, though, as Dorothy's making her journey up to the Sea, The Wizard,
00:44she happens to come across this chap first.
00:46This figure is a mess when it comes to assembly and keeping things intact.
00:49We're going to talk about all those things in a moment.
00:51First, as promised, the tape measure is going to tell us that the scarecrow in the state that he's in
00:56stands at seven to three quarters of an inch in height.
00:59That translates to a figure that's 19 centimeters tall.
01:03If you so happen to have watched my previous review of Dorothy Gale,
01:06then you know she's got problems of her own.
01:07She's blinded.
01:08She's bounded.
01:09And she's being held against her will by this tiny little munchkin,
01:12riding another little munchkin.
01:14But here you can see what the two figures look like side by side,
01:17where this happens every single time I take the scarecrow out of the bag.
01:19Like, there's always a new piece that I can't then find where it belongs on the figure.
01:24In fact, actually, I've got several pieces here that have unfortunately broken off over the years.
01:28I've had this guy, like, sealed away in a bag.
01:31I've got, like, a little post.
01:32I've got what looks to be part of his leg.
01:34And then we've got the back section, though, of what would be his cross.
01:38Again, as we kind of look through,
01:39this seems to be the only one that actually is legitimately broken.
01:43All the other ones look like they could belong somewhere.
01:45I just don't know where.
01:47We're going to move those off to the side,
01:49and maybe we'll kind of, together,
01:50we'll discover where these things are supposed to go.
01:52The scarecrow does require some assembly.
01:54He does require a lot of maintenance as well.
01:57The figure doesn't look this way when you get him out of the packaging.
01:59You have to do a little bit of assembly.
02:01And the one crucial thing is the figure does definitely need to have his display stand.
02:06I'm going to take him off, though, his stand.
02:08If you look, though, online,
02:09and you see, like, Twisted Land of Oz Scarecrow,
02:12you can see that there's people that have posted their pictures of him
02:14in various states of just malfunctioning.
02:18The figure, like I said, does have a couple of different parts to him.
02:20We're going to put everything down here for a second.
02:23And we'll first look at the display stand.
02:24Now, the display stand isn't really that much different.
02:27Let's just go ahead and grab Dorothy Gales here.
02:29Take hers off.
02:31You can look at the two styles of stands.
02:33They, you know, they're somewhat similar to one another.
02:35If you have multiples of these, by the way, together,
02:37you can actually put them together,
02:38and you can follow the yellow brick road.
02:40Or follow the dingy-ish road off to see the wizard.
02:43I do like that, though, because, again,
02:45like, it's not just a carbon copy to one another.
02:47They actually did design this with the idea in mind
02:49that if you had multiples of these together,
02:51you could, yeah, follow the yellow brick road.
02:54For the Scarecrow's design, though,
02:55of the actual cobblestone base here,
02:57I mean, other than having just a little bit of a warpness on the front,
03:00I don't know if that's just by the time
03:01I've actually had this thing sealed away.
03:03It's a nice-looking display stand, though, nonetheless.
03:06Now, Scarecrow does essentially have two legs.
03:10Very little chance, though,
03:11of him actually being able to stand on his own.
03:13When you put him down on his own,
03:14first of all, he does come with a separate leg piece.
03:17And even, like, just looking at this,
03:18it looks like you're trying to decipher a riddle.
03:20Where is this supposed to go?
03:21Where is this supposed to go?
03:22Well, there's this post right here from what I can gather.
03:25Because none of these figures, by the way,
03:27ever had really instructions.
03:28You sort of have to post this into this hole right here.
03:32Kind of just move it back and forth
03:34until finally it gets inside the hole.
03:36There we go.
03:37And then Scarecrow wouldn't normally be able to stand on his own again.
03:40Like, look at the way they've designed the leg.
03:43One is bent backwards.
03:44One is sort of straggling off to the side.
03:46The thing I've noticed, though,
03:48is if you turn the leg sideways,
03:50sort of until you see this red patch here,
03:53kind of that's the way that you want to have it configured.
03:56Take the very required display stand.
03:58Take yourself the leg.
04:00And I find it helps to kind of go with this leg first.
04:02And just attach it onto the display stand.
04:04Making, like, noises is something that's going to be common
04:07when it comes to the Scarecrow.
04:08Kind of now move them around.
04:09So again, you've still got that red patch sewn in there.
04:11And then line the other foot up.
04:14Again, it's not even really a foot either.
04:16It's just a big bushel of hay.
04:18Or I guess it would be straw.
04:20Would straw and hay be the same?
04:21Somebody who's a straw expert can let me know down below
04:24in the comments section.
04:25But that's essentially what we get for a standing Scarecrow.
04:28I mean, again, even when you get in the stand,
04:30you have to kind of lean him forward a little bit.
04:33Reapply the post.
04:35I had this so much better before.
04:38Is he standing okay?
04:39No, no.
04:39He's going to start to lean forward.
04:41But essentially, yeah, again,
04:42you may want to kind of just twist this a little bit.
04:45Twist the leg.
04:47This is certainly one of those figures as well
04:48that really does require a display stand.
04:50Without the display stand, I mean, just good luck.
04:53You can also do two...
04:54One thing, and this actually may have been the thing
04:56I actually did in the first place.
04:58Take the display stand off.
05:00Take the foot off.
05:01Don't break anything, whatever you do.
05:02And have it facing this way.
05:03That's what I did before.
05:06Reattach the leg.
05:08Reattach this leg.
05:12And then do your best to kind of line everything up.
05:16Now, again, you're going to have to twist this.
05:18Get that onto the display stand.
05:20Do we have it ready this time?
05:21Okay, that was the thing that needed to be done.
05:23You sort of have to have the triangular piece at the back.
05:27With Scarecrow somewhat standing for himself,
05:30then we can look at the various accessories that come in clear with the figure.
05:33Now, he does have one thing that can be held in his hand.
05:36I guess to ward off all the crows that are flying around him.
05:39It does come in clear with a scythe.
05:41I love the look of this scythe.
05:42If I don't ever decide to display this with Scarecrow,
05:44and I keep in mind, again, like a lot of these twisted Land Vos figures I've had bagged away for a while.
05:50I could maybe even use that for Michael Myers.
05:52Hey, how about that?
05:53I do like the way that everything on this guy is rusted.
05:55Well, at least all the weapons that he has are rusted,
05:57and his leg, really, for that matter.
05:59The blade looks cool.
06:00It looks sharp.
06:01Luckily, it isn't actually sharp.
06:02You can do this until the cows come home.
06:04Oh, look, I am bleeding.
06:05No, no, I'm really not.
06:06It's sculpted really well.
06:07Again, you've got the bandages.
06:08Like, for this being, this is a 20...
06:11It was 2003.
06:12It was released 22 years ago.
06:13Yeah, 22 years ago, because we're dating it from Dorothy Gales.
06:16Let's look at hers.
06:17Yeah, 2003.
06:18So, 22 years ago.
06:20We're going to go ahead and take this and fit this into his hand.
06:24This is, again, the only thing that he's going to have to really ward off the crows.
06:28And he's going to fail miserably, by the way,
06:30because the crows are just going to continue to flock around him.
06:31They're pulling out his eyeballs, after all.
06:33The figure does also come in clear with a really mangled-looking pitchfork.
06:39I'd be tempted to take this to a restaurant with me.
06:42The guy's serving up the silverware, and I said,
06:43Oh, no, no, I brought my own.
06:44And I'm just going to bring this out.
06:46I think I'd be immediately told to leave.
06:49This doesn't seem to have a place at all.
06:51I mean, I guess you can kind of just lean it against his leg.
06:53I don't really know.
06:54I mean, like, there's no real designated places for these.
06:58Again, I can't fully stress this enough.
07:00When you get these figures usually out of packaging, there are no instructions.
07:03You pretty much have to be sent out in the wild and sort of fend for yourself.
07:08Again, like, there's no real place to put the pitchfork.
07:11So, again, you can kind of just put it off the side.
07:12You can just put it over here if you really want to.
07:14You could even possibly put it next to the pumpkins.
07:17These pumpkins, I wouldn't even recommend try carving for Halloween.
07:20I mean, it looks like they've already gone rotten.
07:22What is it about pumpkins, by the way?
07:24They never seem to last.
07:26I've had pumpkins, in fact, actually where they were fully intact like this.
07:29Looking a lot nicer, by the way, than what we're looking at right now.
07:32Literally had them sitting inside a dining room.
07:35And then one day they just incinerated.
07:37I literally came home.
07:38The pumpkin was in pieces.
07:40And there was just pumpkin goo and liquid all over my table.
07:43The pumpkin must have just imploded on itself.
07:46You get three different size of gourds.
07:48I actually knew a gourd growing up.
07:50He didn't look like this, by the way.
07:51He didn't actually look like this.
07:52Although, sometimes, though, when I was hanging out with him, gourd was throwing up sometimes.
07:56I won't give you the reasonings why he was throwing up.
07:59But maybe gourd did look a little bit like this.
08:02But the pumpkins themselves look gross, as they really should be.
08:06He looks like he's come from neglected fields.
08:08So we're going to go ahead and just put the pumpkin right there.
08:10You can put it off to the side.
08:11There is really like a nice enough space in between.
08:14Sort of the A pose that he's got for his legs.
08:16Where he could technically put really the pumpkins in between there.
08:19The figure does also come include...
08:21Oh, there's gourd.
08:21No, that's not really gourd.
08:23You can see this poor chap, unfortunately.
08:26I don't know if he...
08:27I don't know if he's a munchkin.
08:29He doesn't look like a munchkin.
08:31Not that I really know what a munchkin looks like with corn sticking in their mouths.
08:35You can see, though, that he's got a cob of corn lodged in there.
08:40And it looks like he's been dead for a while.
08:42He's also got the entrails left behind for his neck that actually work as a little hanging piece.
08:47So you can actually take this and you can hang it.
08:49Oh, it's like decorating a Christmas tree.
08:51Oh, wrong season.
08:52I guess this technically isn't really a season.
08:54But you can basically just hang it on the cross like that.
08:58Which is a good way.
08:59I mean, banging anything.
09:00I can't stress this.
09:01Banging anything really on Scarecrow will result in any of the following things falling off the figure frequently.
09:08But we'll put that right there for at least...
09:12Actually, you know what?
09:12We won't.
09:13We'll take that off.
09:14We'll look at the various crows that he comes included with as well.
09:17I did already say, though, you get no instructions whatsoever.
09:20But you get a couple of crows.
09:22Where's the other one?
09:23Where's the other one?
09:23You get a couple of crows that actually do have pegs.
09:26So there's one right here on the bottom.
09:28And then there's this one here.
09:29That when you start to look around the lay of the land for the Scarecrow, you can notice that there's like a peg around the side.
09:34A peg hole.
09:35And I think there's like a peg right over here as well.
09:38So there are a few places where specific crows will go.
09:41All the crows, by the way, are decayed.
09:44They look like they have been dead for a while.
09:45And you would think that something dead would stop flying around.
09:48But no, in the land of Twisted Oz, these things continue to fly.
09:52You can't get rid of these things.
09:54So you can imagine how much work is involved from a Scarecrow.
09:57So again, you get a couple of these that have pegs.
09:59This one and this one here.
10:01And then for all the rest of the crows, a murder of crows.
10:05Fittingly enough, I'm saying these murder of crows.
10:07You get three other ones that then have holes.
10:09See how they have holes?
10:10There's one there.
10:11There's one there.
10:12And there's one there.
10:13These are all more just a guessing game.
10:14You just have to kind of guess.
10:15Okay, where is this going to go here?
10:17At the beginning of the review, it was just impossible for me to get these all on them.
10:21Because a lot of times, you're just trying to remember.
10:23Years ago, how I had this all first configured.
10:25Whereabouts?
10:26Whereabouts are they all supposed to go?
10:28Before we actually decide where they go, let's get a closer look at the Scarecrow.
10:33Now the Scarecrow, I think the first time I had a look at this guy years and years ago,
10:37I even said then that this guy is an impossible thing to get properly posed.
10:41I mean, again, like looking at the way his leg is posed and bent like this,
10:45he just by own luck alone, the guy manages to able to pull off a stance.
10:50The stance, as you can see, is one leg is kind of moved forward.
10:53So I don't know if he's actually trying to escape where he is,
10:55where the other leg is bent back.
10:57This is all a metal posted leg or mechanical leg.
11:01Whereas this one actually is just a big stump of straw.
11:03The straw itself, as you can see, sticks out in different areas.
11:06He's just basically kept together by just lady luck alone.
11:10Got a nice little blue jacket going on there as well.
11:12I like the look of that.
11:13The figure does technically have, despite looking like this, some posability.
11:17Not a lot though.
11:18Not a lot.
11:18The figure only really seems to be able to move his arm forward and back.
11:22I think from when we looked at Dorothy, Dorothy didn't do anything.
11:25I don't think this arm moves at all, at all.
11:27Just because again, like this is all one post.
11:30This plugs in on one side.
11:31This actually was a separate piece from what I remember.
11:34And I just plugged it on the side of his arm.
11:36The face though, just looks, he's full of anguish.
11:40It's hard to kind of really look at this because there's so much going on,
11:43but he's actually missing an eye.
11:44This works with one of the crows.
11:46Is it this one here?
11:48No, it's not that one there.
11:49One of these crows actually have him leaning down.
11:52Maybe it's, no, it's not this one either.
11:53Cause that has the post.
11:54There's one of them.
11:55Believe you me.
11:56Oh, maybe it's this one here where you can actually lean the crow down
11:59and he's pecking out his eye.
12:01Isn't that nice?
12:02He's pecking out his eye.
12:03Now, again, like you can just rest the crow.
12:06This one actually does the best job.
12:07I mean, there are sort of suggested areas on the scarecrow.
12:10Like you can see, like there's a, can you see right there?
12:12If I get my finger out of the way, there's a square post right there.
12:15There's a couple of few random square posts.
12:17There's one here on his hand.
12:18I know that's really more of a nail,
12:19but you can kind of get an idea of whereabouts these things are supposed to go.
12:23But again, it's going to be more just guessing game than anything else.
12:26So you can get the crow sort of balancing over top of his eye.
12:29There we go.
12:31And that sits okay.
12:32Actually, this is one of the better crows that stays in place.
12:34It has to because he's eating away on a guy's eyeball.
12:38Other crows, again, you can take them
12:40and find sort of the ones that have the post.
12:43So while I get in that, I'm sure that crow's going to fall.
12:45There's a hole on the side of his leg here.
12:47So you could take, like, for example, this crow and that crow.
12:50Actually, I think that's the wrong one.
12:52See, I'm telling you guys.
12:54Find the crow that has the peg.
12:55There we go.
12:56And sort of just tuck that in there and plug it in place.
13:01This one's staying warm, apparently, underneath his jacket.
13:04You can attach it right there.
13:06And then there's another post right here
13:07that you can take the other crow that has the post.
13:10And that plugs in right over here.
13:13Just like that.
13:14As you're, though, moving things around on the scarecrow,
13:17yeah, things are going to fall.
13:18It's going to happen.
13:20But that basically just plugs in place.
13:22You basically just rinse and repeat.
13:23So one plugs there, one plugs there.
13:25And then all the other ones,
13:26you're just sort of left to guess
13:27whereabouts they're supposed to go.
13:29I kind of just had them balancing on the top.
13:31Even actually in preparation of this review,
13:33I went to look at images online.
13:35And again, I saw some just random people
13:36of just trying to do their best
13:38to keep this thing balanced on the ground
13:40or on wherever they had this thing displayed.
13:42And like they just had some crows
13:44in some areas.
13:44I actually even just went to McFarlane's website
13:46to see if I could find the original images of it.
13:49Some were blurred.
13:50Some only really had three crows showing on the figure.
13:53They didn't actually have all five.
13:55Again, when it comes to the possibility on this figure,
13:56don't expect much, really.
13:57I mean, he makes more for a really cool-looking statue.
14:01I guess, again, like he's got the stuffing
14:02all hanging out of his arms
14:04on the front of his chest.
14:05These crows have just been pecking away,
14:07this poor chap.
14:08Even like, as you can see with his fingers,
14:10it looks like his fingers
14:11have just been like eroded away.
14:13Spinging around is this guy from the back
14:15so you guys can see as well.
14:16Like he looks interesting enough,
14:18but the problem really facing,
14:20again, like when you're looking at things
14:21like this, that will fall off.
14:24Even just to try to look online,
14:25like this sort of looked like
14:27this was just underneath his jacket.
14:29So when you're looking at it,
14:30you know, again, it's got the shape of the T.
14:32Whether that's supposed to really belong there or not,
14:34that's kind of where I had it displayed
14:36just at the beginning of this review.
14:37But again, like even as you just see now,
14:40putting this guy on the shelf,
14:41does he not just sort of lean to the side?
14:44And of course you have then all the problems
14:45that go along with putting everything else on this guy.
14:48It's like decorating a decrepit Christmas tree.
14:51He is by far my least favorite figure.
14:54I kind of get what McFarlane was really wanting to do
14:57with a figure like this.
14:58Sort of just a figure that's been pieced together,
15:01cobblestone together,
15:02where again, he's got the robotic kind of mechanical leg,
15:04which again, just has this missing piece.
15:06Where this piece is supposed to go,
15:07there's a hole right here.
15:08There's not really one on the other side.
15:10This maybe have gone over here.
15:13I don't know.
15:14Needless to say though,
15:15if you really commit to having this guy on display
15:17all the time,
15:19you might even,
15:19I don't even want to say the word glue,
15:21even though I just,
15:22I just finished saying it.
15:23Glue is probably one thing
15:24you may decide to do with a figure like this,
15:26just to first of all,
15:27kind of glue and make sure everything stays in place.
15:29The crows don't do the greatest of jobs
15:31of staying in place.
15:32A lot of times you really have to balance them on the figure.
15:34You have to plug them in.
15:36You could probably plug the crows in
15:37that have the square pegs first.
15:39Get those all out of the way.
15:41So like this one here and this one here.
15:43Plug it on the arm.
15:45Plug it on, of course,
15:46the side of the leg.
15:47And then go in there very carefully.
15:49Once you get this guy on the shelf,
15:50then decide where you want to balance the rest of the crows.
15:52There's no real rhyme.
15:53There's no real reason.
15:55There isn't really any instructions either.
15:57So again,
15:57when you see these figures,
15:58when you first pick them up,
15:59you probably would have done the same thing as me.
16:01You looked at the images online
16:02or you looked at even the image on the back of the packaging
16:05and then based then on that,
16:06okay, that goes there.
16:08That goes there.
16:09Let's take actually Dorothy Gale
16:10and put her over here.
16:12Of course,
16:13as she moves along her journey
16:14to see finally the wizard,
16:16she's going to be coming across more stable figures.
16:18As we, of course,
16:19then look at the Tin Man
16:20and we're going to be looking at the Cowardly Line.
16:22Those ones don't have as much of the issue.
16:24Scarecrow really shouldn't have been going to the wizard
16:26in first place to get himself a brain.
16:28I think what he really needed to go to the wizard for
16:30was to get a better looking figure.
16:33Scarecrow, I think,
16:34is a figure that suffers form over function.
16:36The form and the look of the figure is rather interesting.
16:39I would love to have seen
16:40what this guy would have looked like
16:41when he was initially sketched out.
16:43He, from a design standpoint,
16:45looks really interesting
16:46because there's always new things
16:47that you can discover on the figure.
16:49Translating that, though,
16:50to an actual plastic figure
16:52and then relying on collectors
16:54to be able to piece together
16:55the parts of this guy,
16:56that's another problem.
16:58Because when you're looking at the figure,
17:00you don't really have any instructions
17:02as to whereabouts things are supposed to go.
17:04I'm looking at this right now, for example.
17:06I'm noticing that the lower end of his leg
17:07isn't properly attached to his thigh.
17:09So I'm hoping it'll stay in place.
17:11What you will probably be also noticing, too,
17:13is that I've got the crows
17:14in all their proper configuration.
17:16Spending just a little bit more time
17:18looking at everything
17:18and the way things are supposed to peg together,
17:20if you're looking at the sizes of the shapes,
17:23you can kind of get an idea
17:24then where crows are supposed to go.
17:26Now, the crow down below, for example,
17:28on the back end of his leg
17:29plugs in proper place.
17:31And you can kind of do that.
17:32Go with basically the crows
17:33that have to plug onto something
17:35and then the other ones
17:36balance rather nicely.
17:38So the one that's actually
17:39picking at his eyeball,
17:40that's kind of gross,
17:41sits properly in that place
17:42as well can be said
17:44for the one that's right by his hand.
17:45Then from there, of course,
17:46you've got the severed head
17:47with the little cobblacorn
17:49stuck and lodged into his mouth.
17:51And then, of course,
17:52you basically just scatter
17:53all the other things
17:53all around it.
17:55Scarecrow, though,
17:55I would recommend
17:56if you're looking to get this figure
17:57eventually in your collection,
17:58even though it will cost more to do it,
18:00go online and buy a brand new copy.
18:03You're going to be at, though,
18:03the mercy of you
18:04trying to buy a used one,
18:06one that has been
18:07in a previous collector's hands.
18:08There are things
18:09that are probably going to be
18:10broken on the figure.
18:11There are maybe things
18:11that are also going to be
18:12missing on the figure.
18:13A display stand
18:14certainly is the most important thing
18:16because without that,
18:17Scarecrow like this
18:18will not stand on his own.
18:20As, of course,
18:21we continue our journeys
18:22to see the Wiz,
18:23next up we will be
18:24looking at the Tin Man.
18:25Then I figure, of course,
18:26we're going to be looking
18:26at the Cowardly Line.
18:28I don't think we're going
18:29to be looking at the Wiz
18:29just after that.
18:30Maybe we'll stop for a second
18:32and hang out with Toto.
18:33Toto isn't a cute little dog at all.
18:36What do you guys, though,
18:36think of Scarecrow?
18:37Let me know down below
18:38in the comments section.
18:39You know, again,
18:39I get the idea
18:40that the design of this is cool,
18:43but the execution
18:44leaves something to be desired.
18:45If you guys did enjoy this video,
18:47do it a saw and throw it a like.
18:49You guys want to stick around
18:50for more so?
18:51Yeah, I hope so,
18:52as we're, of course,
18:53continuing our world
18:54of the Twisted Land of Oz.
18:55If you did also want to check out
18:57other previous reviews
18:58that I've done
18:58from McFarlane Toys,
18:59including all the other
19:00Twisted things,
19:01popping up at the very end
19:02of this video
19:03will also be a playlist.
19:04Yeah.
19:04As always, guys,
19:05thanks for watching.
19:06See you guys next time.
19:07I know you guys next time.
19:15We'll see you in the next video.
19:17Thanks for watching.