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McFarlane Toys Monsters Series 4: Twisted Fairy Tales Humpty Dumpty Review
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00:00I think the big boy needs a little bit more than just a band-aid this time.
00:03Here's a relook at the McFarlane Toys.
00:05Twisted Fairy Tales Humpty Dumpty.
00:13McFarlane Twisted Fairy Tales is a line of action figures released in 2005
00:17as the fourth series in McFarlane's Monsters Collection.
00:20The figures are based on classic nursery rhymes and fairy tales,
00:23reimagining familiar characters in the grotesque and macabre style
00:26for which McFarlane Toys is known.
00:27This series includes six distinct figures,
00:30each offering a dark interpretation of a classic character.
00:32I hope that all the king's horses and all the king's men are at least getting paid by the hour.
00:36I can tell you this, though.
00:37We're not going to be spending anywhere near an hour talking about this figure.
00:39And by the way, I say figure very loosely.
00:42Humpty Dumpty possesses very little levels of posability,
00:46more so just in his hands.
00:47And by the way, though,
00:48what exactly are all the king's horses really going to be doing in this?
00:51I guess they're there just to haul away the parts that they can't salvage,
00:54and then all the king's men are going to be the ones that have to stay behind
00:57and sew back Humpty Dumpty's remaining parts.
00:59The parts, though, for Humpty Dumpty consist of two.
01:02A back wall that you're seeing right now,
01:04and that plugs onto this globulus mess that you're currently seeing on the front.
01:08Together, though, collectively,
01:09let's grab the tape measure and see what they stand at.
01:11Humpty Dumpty, as a more of a statue than a figure,
01:15I mean, let's face facts,
01:16is going to stand at five and three quarters of an inch in height,
01:18working out to be a statue that's 14 centimeters tall.
01:22Even at the limited levels of what Red Riding Hood had,
01:25I mean, the figure, if you could tally everything up,
01:27she probably worked out to be above five points of articulation, right?
01:30She had it in her arms, she had it in one hand,
01:32and she also had it in her legs,
01:33so that's, what, even four?
01:34The figure definitely had a lot more of the budget dedicated to her posability.
01:38A lot less could be dedicated, obviously, to Humpty Dumpty.
01:41Yet, though, if you look at, though, the two figures,
01:43even though, like, Humpty Dumpty clearly has nothing at all
01:46you can really move to him, other than really his hands,
01:49I would almost even say,
01:50even if you were to add up Red Riding Hood
01:52in the decayed states of this canine,
01:54if you even added those two things up,
01:56she probably would still work out to be about the same mass of plastic
01:59as we get with Humpty here.
02:00Humpty, as I was saying earlier, does actually have two parts to him.
02:03He has his back wall.
02:05This would be, I guess, the thing he falls off of.
02:07Not really sure exactly what he's falling off exactly from,
02:10because the top, clearly, of the wall is completely broken off.
02:13We get sort of little rods of metal that are all sticking out,
02:16and maybe that's the thing that, when he fell,
02:18ripped open his stomach,
02:20and obviously caused all these innards that just trickle their way out.
02:24I do think, though, at least it was smart
02:25that they made all these rods of metal in a softer plastic.
02:28This would certainly be something, if you ever stored this away,
02:31which I happen to have stored this thing away,
02:33these would definitely have broken right away,
02:34just because, again, of the thin nature of the plastic.
02:36But at least they're soft, they're gummy enough
02:38that they move around on you.
02:40He does also have, like, what looks to be blood
02:42all down the side here,
02:43and perhaps that's also what's left of his innards.
02:46All of his organs, as they obviously flowed out the front,
02:49seem to have also trickled down the front of the wall there as well.
02:52Isn't that disgusting?
02:53There's all these bullet riddles as well.
02:56These holes on the sides look actually more like
02:58something he shot at Humpty Dumpty.
03:00And I'm wondering if that's the case,
03:01because you can also see, too,
03:02or you'll probably see more in a second,
03:04there's also these holes all conveniently around
03:07Humpty Dumpty's top of his torso.
03:08Maybe he was being shot at.
03:10Maybe all the king's men were trying to get rid of Humpty Dumpty
03:14because maybe Humpty knew too much.
03:17Even the fact that we're even talking about this right now.
03:19Maybe I'm getting down too far down the rabbit hole.
03:22Maybe my life is in danger as well.
03:25But anyways, though,
03:26moving along from my own concerns of life,
03:28you can see that the figure does actually have,
03:29or the back wall does have three pegs.
03:31These pegs, by the way,
03:33will plug onto the back of Humpty Dumpty's body.
03:35Before I do that, though,
03:36I did want to actually spin this around to the back.
03:38Even though there really is a lot of work that went into the front.
03:41Unfortunately, though,
03:42not as much work went into the back.
03:43I'm not necessarily saying, though,
03:45that they need to spend as much time to finish the back to this.
03:48Because again,
03:48like if you're going to be displaying Humpty Dumpty
03:49against the wall, for example,
03:51against the wall,
03:52I see what I did there.
03:53You really would never really look on the back of this anyways.
03:56But I just think, though,
03:57it would have been nice that they could have finished this
03:59so the wall looked finished on both sides.
04:01Maybe even have a couple of Easter eggs, for example.
04:02Oh, Easter eggs, Humpty Dumpty.
04:05I don't know.
04:06That was not one of the better ones.
04:07If they at least finished off the wall,
04:09that if you spun around Humpty Dumpty,
04:10you could see,
04:11oh, hey, there's something on the back here.
04:13Maybe again,
04:13like a nod to another nursery rhyme.
04:15Anyways, though,
04:16if you take, though,
04:17the wall,
04:18and you take Humpty Dumpty, though,
04:19this big, big paperweight, essentially,
04:21you'll notice that there's holes on the back of his body.
04:23I mean, this is basically just simple shapes
04:25of lining things up.
04:27Take the pegs that are provided,
04:28line them up to the back of Humpty Dumpty,
04:30and sort of just give it a little bit of a firm press,
04:32just to ensure it's not going to go anywhere.
04:35I'm not going to do that too long.
04:36As for Humpty Dumpty himself,
04:38you know, again,
04:39like, what's left of this man?
04:41And judging, though,
04:42by the fact he's so discolored down below here,
04:44it would lead me to believe
04:46that very little circulation
04:47has made its way down
04:48to Humpty Dumpty's lower half of his body.
04:50Humpty Dumpty, though,
04:51I can't say whether he's still alive or not.
04:53I mean, it almost kind of looks like
04:54he's still smiling.
04:55Like, you can't still get rid of me
04:57of all the king's horses
04:58and all the king's men.
04:59I mean, again,
05:00I think maybe Humpty Dumpty
05:01may have known a little too much.
05:02What's interesting, though,
05:03as I said earlier,
05:05see that there's these bullet holes
05:06and it sort of goes
05:07doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.
05:08And if you kind of follow that trail along,
05:11you'll see, too,
05:12that he has these holes
05:12on the front of his body as well.
05:15Yeah, maybe something happened here
05:16and Humpty ended up finding out
05:17something about all the king's men,
05:19maybe even just something about the king.
05:20And the king's men were sort of instructed,
05:22you need to go get rid of Humpty Dumpty.
05:24I don't even feel like the king
05:26would even have to put up his hand.
05:27The king would forcefully say,
05:29you need to get rid of Humpty.
05:30And then, of course, they all...
05:32So if that's the case,
05:33I mean, they couldn't put him
05:34back together again,
05:34but they were sort of responsible
05:36for his downfall anyways.
05:38Downfall.
05:39I see what I did there as well.
05:40Yeah, so there's all these holes.
05:41Like, looking at the figure
05:42when I first took this back
05:43out of his bag,
05:44and yeah, he did probably suffocate
05:46while he was in there.
05:47All these holes sort of
05:48first led me to believe
05:49that there were all these extra pieces
05:50that I had missing from Humpty.
05:52Like, maybe there would have been,
05:53like, worms or something
05:54that could have came
05:54coming out of these holes.
05:56He's got two over here,
05:57and he's got one over here.
05:58But no, no,
05:59that's the way he's supposed to look.
06:00I even looked online
06:01just to make sure
06:02I didn't overlook anything.
06:03And those holes are supposed to be there.
06:05Humpty Dumpty's face, again,
06:06is very large.
06:08Yeah, he certainly seems still happy.
06:10He's got a little beanie hat
06:11there on the top.
06:11I kind of wish, like,
06:12the propeller could spin.
06:13Don't spin it, whatever you do.
06:14If you try to spin it,
06:15you're only just going to
06:15break off the propeller,
06:16and then you'll be sad.
06:18Humpty's fingers, though,
06:19I mean, like,
06:20look quite arthritic.
06:21Even if you kind of look
06:22at the way that the fingers
06:23are designed,
06:24he only really has,
06:25if you count them off,
06:26a thumb and, what,
06:27three fingers here.
06:28But then when you look
06:29on the back of the hand,
06:30oh, there's another finger
06:31on the back.
06:33This little piggy,
06:33I don't even know
06:34where this little piggy
06:35ended up going to.
06:36Clearly, though,
06:36not to the market.
06:37And then also on this side,
06:38he's got a little bit more
06:39of a realized hand,
06:40although this one
06:41actually only has three fingers.
06:43Where's the fourth finger?
06:45Of course, he does have
06:46his ripped open stomach here,
06:47all his entrails
06:49and things oozing out of it.
06:50What's kind of cool, though,
06:51is if you look at the side
06:52of the wall here,
06:52there seems to be a snake.
06:54I don't know if the snake
06:55looks like he's going to be
06:56burrowing his way
06:57into one of these holes.
06:58That's just kind of gross.
07:00Imagine if Humpty
07:00is still living right now
07:01and all these things,
07:03these scavengers
07:03are coming close to his body.
07:05Crows, vultures, snakes,
07:07anything else on the land
07:08that would be crawling
07:09up to him right now
07:10just to think that
07:10they can mow down on this.
07:12I know animals
07:13aren't all that fussy,
07:14especially wild animals,
07:15but I don't know
07:15if I would be coming
07:16anywhere near this
07:17disgusting-looking Humpty.
07:19Now, again,
07:19like he's got
07:20these discolored-looking feet.
07:22These feet,
07:22I can't imagine,
07:23have moved for years.
07:25And he's got all this
07:26sort of worms
07:27and maggots
07:27growing all around him.
07:28This would certainly
07:29be one of those
07:30figure reviews
07:30where I hope
07:31that you guys
07:31aren't currently eating.
07:32Of course,
07:33his sides
07:33have all been ripped open,
07:35whether intentional,
07:36perhaps,
07:37or accidental.
07:38Either way, though,
07:39Humpty,
07:39as you can see,
07:40there's his organs
07:41all on the inside,
07:42his large intestine,
07:43small intestine,
07:44and everything else inside.
07:46It would be kind of cool,
07:47though,
07:47if they had found a way
07:48to put in some food,
07:49like little pieces of food
07:50that maybe he was eating
07:51at that time.
07:52Clearly,
07:52this man hasn't developed
07:53this size
07:54just by just being born this way.
07:56Humpty's probably eaten
07:57gluttony.
07:58Gluttony has probably been
08:00always in Humpty Dumpty's diet.
08:02But again,
08:02he's got all these worms
08:03and stuff kind of growing
08:04out the sides.
08:05You can see, though,
08:06that there's little centipedes
08:08and worms
08:08and just a whole bunch
08:10of gross things
08:11crawling up the side
08:12of Humpty Dumpty's body.
08:13I like that it's discolored
08:14here, too.
08:15So you've got some shades
08:16of purple mixed in there
08:17with the reds.
08:18You've got flesh tone,
08:19but even just to say
08:19like flesh tone,
08:20I'm using that term
08:21very, very loosely.
08:23Speaking of loosely,
08:24though,
08:25I mean,
08:25when we talk about
08:26the figure's posability,
08:27it'd be so simple
08:28just to rush through
08:29this quickly
08:29because, again,
08:30like the only thing
08:30he really has at his disposal
08:31for posability points
08:33is just really his hands.
08:34That's all you can really do.
08:35You can rotate his hand
08:36on one side
08:37and you can also
08:38rotate it over here.
08:39Don't try to move his head.
08:40Like in real life,
08:42Humpty has no mobility
08:43in his head.
08:43He has no mobility
08:44at all in his lower body.
08:46He's basically just sitting there
08:48waiting for death
08:49to take him.
08:50All in all,
08:50though,
08:51I mean,
08:51I don't want to again
08:51say this,
08:52this is a figure.
08:53It's far removed
08:54from being a figure.
08:55This is probably
08:56the most staction
08:57of all the McFarlane toys,
08:59twisted things
09:00that we've ever looked at
09:01here on this channel.
09:01I know we've looked at
09:02quite a lot,
09:03but Humpty having
09:03very limited levels
09:04of posability like this,
09:05the only thing
09:06that you can really move
09:07on the figure,
09:07again,
09:08is his arms.
09:09He makes for much more
09:10of a spectacle
09:11even in his afterlife
09:12just to have this guy
09:13displayed.
09:14It's one of those things
09:15that when I had these figures
09:16all on display,
09:17often when I'd have
09:18friends coming over
09:19and they hadn't seen
09:19this collection before,
09:20they'd walk by,
09:22they'd stop for a second
09:23and say,
09:23oh,
09:23what's going on over here?
09:25That might have been,
09:25in fact,
09:26been the words
09:26that left their mouth.
09:27What is going on over here?
09:29Then they,
09:29of course,
09:29turned around.
09:30I don't know
09:31if they necessarily
09:31would have spotted
09:32Red Riding Hood right away.
09:33I think if anything
09:34could have been spotted,
09:35it likely would have been
09:36Humpty Dumpty first,
09:37and then they probably
09:38would have looked at
09:38all the other collection
09:39around that.
09:40I mean,
09:40Humpty Dumpty just is.
09:42It's one thing,
09:43though,
09:43for the figure
09:43to have possibility,
09:44which he clearly doesn't.
09:45It's another thing
09:46just to be an eyesore.
09:47He's one of those things
09:48that visually is stunning
09:50in probably all the wrong ways.
09:51I mean,
09:52he's a grotesque,
09:53just gelatinous-looking mess.
09:55All over the place,
09:56he's just...
09:57What really more can be said
09:58for Humpty Dumpty
09:59other than he's just gross?
10:00And if that's the goal
10:02that McFarlane had in mind
10:03when he was first
10:03designing the character,
10:04then mission accomplished.
10:06Humpty Dumpty
10:06certainly is that.
10:07Perhaps there were more
10:08darker tones
10:09to the demise
10:09of Humpty Dumpty here,
10:11looking at the bullet-riddled
10:12body here of Humpty.
10:14Maybe all the king's horses
10:14and all the king's men
10:15weren't really there
10:16to put Humpty back together again,
10:18or just to ensure
10:19that Humpty Dumpty
10:20was dead.
10:21And I can't even tell,
10:22though,
10:23as looking at this collectible,
10:24whether the figure
10:25is in fact dead or not,
10:26or if Humpty Dumpty
10:27still is going on.
10:28Everybody's sort of
10:29walking away now,
10:30just assuming that
10:30they've done the job right
10:31to go back to report it
10:32to the king,
10:33and Humpty's, like,
10:34whispering in the background,
10:35I'm still alive.
10:37Maybe that probably
10:38wouldn't be a good idea,
10:39because then the king's horses
10:40and all the king's men
10:41will come back
10:41and finish the job.
10:44Finishing the job, though,
10:45is one thing, though,
10:45that unfortunately
10:46on the back of the wall
10:47wasn't done.
10:48I mean, from the front of the wall
10:49and everything else
10:50attached to that,
10:51you get a fully finished
10:52Humpty Dumpty.
10:53I mean, he's really
10:53only half of himself,
10:55because, again,
10:55like the flat back end
10:57of his body
10:57is the thing that's going
10:58to attach onto the wall.
10:59I do wish, though,
11:00that the back of the wall
11:01could have at least
11:02been painted,
11:02because you can kind of
11:04really see.
11:04It's just a bare black plastic.
11:06But, again,
11:07like, to be fair, though,
11:08that's not something
11:08you're going to be seeing
11:09from the figure anyways.
11:10Most likely, though,
11:11you're not going to be
11:12putting this guy
11:12where people would be
11:13walking around him.
11:14You'd be putting him
11:15on the shelf
11:15where people walk by,
11:16and hopefully they just
11:17haven't finished eating.
11:18They're going to be
11:19looking at this
11:19and thinking,
11:20what is that?
11:22The answer to that question,
11:23Humpty Dumpty.
11:24And that's really all
11:24the questions you should
11:25be asking.
11:26Like, how did he die?
11:27What ended up happening to him?
11:28Are those bullet holes?
11:29Those are all questions
11:30you shouldn't be asking yourself.
11:31Humpty Dumpty knew
11:32a little too much.
11:33Humpty Dumpty had a big fall.
11:36Just let that be a lesson to you.
11:37Don't mess with the king.
11:39What do you guys think
11:39of Humpty Dumpty?
11:40Let me know down below
11:40in the comments section.
11:41Have you guys at all
11:42been collecting
11:42the twisted fairy tales?
11:44I know if you were
11:44to date yourself,
11:45this would be back 20 years,
11:47because it came out in 2005.
11:49Surprisingly, though,
11:50I think other than
11:51Miss Muffet,
11:52Miss Muffet, unfortunately,
11:53didn't so much take a tumble,
11:54but I think the spider
11:55did break off a few legs.
11:57So I'm going to,
11:57unfortunately,
11:58have to mend that
11:58before we have a look
11:59at Miss Muffet.
12:00But all in all, though,
12:01these figures have held up
12:02over the test of time.
12:03For 20-plus year figures,
12:05I still think they do the job
12:06of grossing people out.
12:08If you guys did enjoy this video,
12:09you can do a solid, yeah,
12:10and throw it a like.
12:10You guys want to stick around
12:11for more, so?
12:12I hope so.
12:12I hope so.
12:13Like I said,
12:14we are going to be
12:14still continuing our looks,
12:16our older looks,
12:17at the twisted fairy tales
12:18from 2005.
12:19We still have to look
12:20at Hansel and Gretel.
12:21I don't know.
12:22Hansel?
12:22Hansel?
12:23Hansel?
12:24Hansel?
12:25I think that's from Looney Tunes.
12:27We're going to be looking
12:27at, of course,
12:28the pair,
12:29and we're also going to be
12:29looking at Miss Muffet.
12:31I think that's it.
12:31No, no,
12:32Peter Pumpkin Eater.
12:33Peter, Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater.
12:34He had a wife.
12:35He couldn't keep her.
12:36We're going to kind of
12:37all discuss that
12:37when we do the review of him.
12:39I hope in the meantime,
12:40though, you guys,
12:40if you, again,
12:41have enjoyed this video,
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12:46As always,
12:47thanks for watching.
12:48See you guys next time.
12:49See you guys next time.