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McFarlane Toys Monsters Series 4: Twisted Fairy Tales Red Riding Hood Review
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00:00My grandma, what leaking insides you have!
00:03Here's a re-look at the McFarlane Toys Twisted Fairy Tales Red Riding Hood.
00:13McFarlane Toys Twisted Fairy Tales is a line of action figures released in 2005
00:17as the fourth series of McFarlane's Monsters Collection.
00:21The figures are based on classic nursery rhymes and fairy tales,
00:24reimagining familiar characters in the grotesque and macabre style for which McFarlane Toys is known.
00:28The series includes six distinct figures, each offering a dark interpretation of a classic character.
00:34I don't think anybody's going to be afraid of the Big Bad Wolf now.
00:36Before we look at the wolf and, of course, Red Riding Hood that comes included with him,
00:40let's take the tape measure and see how tall the figure stands.
00:42Now, these were released in 2005 as the fourth series of McFarlane's Monsters Collection
00:47because I had a little bit of time on my hands this week.
00:49I thought it would be a perfect time to kind of go back and look at the line again
00:52in the same way that we recently looked at Twisted Land of Oz.
00:56Both the figures are pretty much stacked in.
00:58There's a little bit of possibility at the possession of Red Riding Hood.
01:01But then, of course, the wolf itself isn't going to be doing much more than what he's doing right now.
01:05And mostly what he's doing right now is just being dead.
01:07Taking, though, the tape measure, as somewhat promised,
01:10the figure, though, of Red Riding Hood is going to stand at six inches in height,
01:14working out to be a figure that's about 15 and a half centimeters tall.
01:17Then to the decayed state of the canine,
01:19you're looking at the wolf being about five and three quarters of an inch,
01:23working out to be about 14 centimeters tall.
01:25I guess there are a few accessories that come in clear with hood.
01:28First, the figure does have a knife.
01:30Now, this long bladed knife, as you can see, has already been busy.
01:33It's been cutting open, though, the wolf.
01:35This is actually inside her hand.
01:37And when you get her out of the packaging, from what I remember,
01:39this was already in her hand.
01:40In fact, actually, there was a clear elastic up to about 10 minutes ago.
01:44I kid you not.
01:45That clear elastic was still on there.
01:47The moment, though, I moved the knife,
01:48the whole thing just disintegrated in my hands.
01:51But normally, though, there would have been a clear elastic
01:53to kind of make sure that the blade didn't fall out of her hand.
01:56I'm going to take at least the knife out right now.
01:58Put her down for a second.
01:59She stands fine, by the way, just because, again, she's got the cape.
02:02The handle is quite small.
02:04Very, very small.
02:05Because, again, most of it's just going to be sitting inside of her grip anyways.
02:09Boy, that knife has been quite busy.
02:11I do like, though, despite having so much blood on it,
02:14that you can see there's some really nice decorative work sculpted into the top of the blade.
02:19The blade, luckily, though, is not sharp.
02:22And it's made of a fairly decent enough plastic.
02:26Not too soft.
02:27Not too hard.
02:28Just right.
02:29Oh, wait.
02:30That's another nursery rhyme.
02:31When you go to put that in her hand, though,
02:33she has an arm like this.
02:35And it doesn't really do all that much.
02:37I mean, realistically, there is a posability point right here at the top
02:40where you can move the bicep back and forth.
02:42And you can also swivel her hand.
02:44But it's one of those cases, though, where you can't bring her arm up.
02:47It doesn't work that way.
02:49All you can really do is just kind of turn it and get it in
02:51what looks almost like more of a natural pose.
02:54And then you just take yourself the blade.
02:55And it basically sticks in her hand.
02:57Now, you can either have the blade up or you can have the blade down.
03:01I don't know really which one works a little bit better for Red Riding Hood.
03:04We'll kind of stick with down right now.
03:06And just hope, though, that it doesn't fall.
03:08It's almost like she's hiding the knife.
03:10I don't know you're hiding really anything, Red Riding Hood,
03:12not only just with the dog that you've got dangling,
03:15but also just, I mean, with your clothing.
03:17There's very little here that Red Riding is actually hiding here.
03:21Face sculpt looks good.
03:22If you sort of like, kind of like a bonded...
03:26I don't know really what the approach really was when it came to Red Riding Hood.
03:30But McFarlane does do...
03:32Well, he does do the weird stuff.
03:33Back certainly, though, in the early days of the 2000s.
03:36The head sculpt, by the way, though, does have the Red Riding Hood,
03:39which is good, obviously.
03:40If not having that, you'd have even a harder time
03:42trying to figure out who this character actually is.
03:44The hood itself is made of a softer plastic.
03:47In fact, you can actually bring the hood back a bit
03:49so you can see that she's got a full mask on here.
03:52I don't know why this reminds me of Dorothy.
03:54Dorothy was completely bonded.
03:56But yeah, I do really think the head sculpt is quite clever.
03:58I think it certainly is a lot nicer, though,
04:00once you have the hood over top of it.
04:02But when I had had this figure displayed before,
04:04I was trying to do my best to kind of bring the hood even further down.
04:07So it was masking a lot of her face.
04:10Again, the paint is, for what it is, is pretty good.
04:13The paint for what little we also get on her body is done well, too.
04:16She's got, well, a part to only cover the top of her torso.
04:20And then she's got all this neat-looking tattoo work all across her body.
04:24These, I suppose, are supposed to mimic like the roots of a tree
04:26because, again, she's walking through the woods.
04:28That's my only other guess.
04:29And she's also got some of that down her leg as well.
04:32Again, for what little clothing she has really does remind me of Spawn,
04:36just in the sense that there's all these spikes sticking out
04:38from these leather thigh-high boots that she has.
04:41She also has spikes down the gloves here as well.
04:43And for the one that she's also going to be holding the wolf with.
04:46I do think, though, that the cape or cloak that she has looks really nice.
04:50Now, again, speaking of Spawn, like, look at the way this drapes down like this.
04:53And so much extra of it hangs on the floor.
04:55Or this little bit of extra hangage does allow them to figure to stand.
04:59You're not going to have any issues with her standing at all.
05:02I like that they've also added some decorative details here on the back, too.
05:06I'm not really sure what it's supposed to be,
05:08if it's supposed to be something similar to the blade itself.
05:10Maybe she's known for being a...
05:12Maybe she goes around deliberately and hunting big, bad wolves.
05:15And maybe this is the clan that she's parked from.
05:17Again, some really nice uses of red.
05:19You've got some dark red down below here.
05:21And a little bit of darker red there around the shoulders.
05:23There's a good bit of break-up.
05:25So you've got the lights and the darks.
05:27I like the contrast that they've got here.
05:29Red Riding Hood's articulation, though, is laughable.
05:32I mean, there's not really much at all you can do with the figure.
05:34The head is non-movable.
05:36I mean, it's staction.
05:37You'll not be able to move that.
05:38She does have, again, like the swivel right here for the bicep.
05:41I wouldn't really push the idea that you really want to move this too much.
05:45Because, again, it's only just going to be a post...
05:47Like a little post piece that's kind of keeping the rest of the arm in place.
05:51Then again, she's also got a swivel here for the wrists.
05:53It only moves just a little bit.
05:54You see how much it actually moves.
05:56I suppose there probably would have been a way that you probably would be able to twist this arm around.
06:00Because, as you can see, it's in a real awkward way that the elbow is pointing forward.
06:05Again, it does look like she's hiding the blade behind her.
06:08More the reason, I guess, it would make better sense to probably have the blade facing maybe inward.
06:12You probably could do that as well.
06:14Does it go all the way through?
06:15It does, in fact, go all the way through.
06:17So you can see there's the back of her body as well.
06:19With a lot more than probably what you were expecting.
06:22All in all, though, it's a good-looking Red Riding Hood.
06:24There is also what seems to be a cut line right here.
06:26Leads me to believe that you can move this.
06:28But you can't really move it all that much.
06:30This would be kind of the tease that you would think,
06:32Oh, I can bend the arm down.
06:33And then before you know it, you'd break and snap that peg.
06:37She doesn't have any hand articulation here either.
06:39But she does, however, have leg articulation that swivels here at the top of the thigh.
06:45And this boot also has, I think, a little bit.
06:48No, it's only just really this leg here.
06:50Really nicely sculpted high heels, too.
06:53Paint overall on Red Riding Hood.
06:55She does do a lot of red.
06:56And she does do it very well.
06:58So that's Red Riding Hood.
07:00We'll get her just to stand right here.
07:01Then we'll go to the poor wolf.
07:03I mean, I know the wolf ate the grandma.
07:06And I know then he was kind of posing as grandma.
07:08With the hope, though, that Red Riding Hood would kind of come in.
07:11And obviously, the big bad wolf, I had a hard time just thinking about him.
07:16I'm so kind of thrown off looking at all the organs and entrails hanging out from the big bad wolf.
07:21But again, like with all this plan that the wolf had to eat the little girl,
07:25I still kind of feel bad for the fact that the wolf looks this bad.
07:28Now, the wolf itself does actually have, let me just peel it off right here,
07:32this sticky little bit of blood.
07:34It's a soft bit of plastic, and it does actually have pegs on the top.
07:37I suppose it's there just to finish the look for the big bad wolf.
07:41The wolf really stands fine on his own.
07:44It doesn't necessarily need this piece.
07:45But I guess it does help just to add a little bit of poolage of blood.
07:49Is poolage even a word?
07:50We'll make poolage a word.
07:51But when you plug it, though, in place,
07:53you'll notice that this peg is bigger than this one here.
07:56So when you look at actually the bottom of the base,
07:58there's clearly, though, a larger hole and a smaller hole next to it.
08:01So you plug the two together.
08:04It's really hard because, like, when I forgot all about the stand being softer plastic,
08:08and when I was taking these all out of my totes,
08:10I took this out, and I was surprised to see that they were using a softer material for this.
08:15I guess realistically, they probably could have used also a harder plastic,
08:18but this probably would be at least guaranteeing that pegs aren't going to be breaking over time.
08:23Let's make sure it's plugged all the way.
08:24Now I seem to be having a hard time plugging this.
08:26Maybe we'll start with the small peg first and the large peg next to it.
08:30The only one thing that I kind of have to face with is that the peg,
08:34as you can see being a soft plastic like this,
08:37is really known for bending,
08:38and it bends when you're trying to fit this back into the hole.
08:41Is it all the way on there?
08:42It's as good as I think it's going to get.
08:45Now for the wolf, and poor, poor wolf.
08:47I know, again, he had bad deeds in mind,
08:50but again, like, to look at the resulting of what Red Riding Hood did to him,
08:54I mean, you don't even need the ax men.
08:56What was the, was it the ax?
08:58What was the name of the guy that came in to save Red Riding Hood?
09:00I think it was just the guy with an ax.
09:02Oh, the hunter.
09:03Of course it was the hunter.
09:05The hunter doesn't have to really, I think, do anything at all.
09:07Red Riding Hood's already taking charge of the matter herself.
09:10And if you can see,
09:11actually what's really kind of cool though about this,
09:13she's gutted open the wolf,
09:15and out poured out not only his organs,
09:18not only his entrails,
09:19but if you look down below there,
09:20that's what's left of Grandma.
09:22Poor, poor Grandma.
09:24I mean, that's not a really big wolf either,
09:26so that tells me that either the wolf was just a really big wolf,
09:29or Grandma was really small.
09:31I mean, look at the size of the stomach for the wolf,
09:33and imagine, if you will,
09:34that Grandma would have even been able to fit inside of that.
09:37I mean, he probably would have chopped her up
09:39and eaten her up in bits,
09:40not swallowed her whole like an anaconda.
09:42But man, oh man, is that ever gruesome.
09:45On the back though,
09:45it also looks like you've got some entrails,
09:48some organs.
09:48It almost kind of looks like there's cats,
09:51maybe there's some squirrels in there as well.
09:53The wolf definitely seems to have been hungry.
09:56Again, the detail looks really nice on the wolf.
09:58That wolf, I think it's safe to say he's dead.
10:01He's deader than dead.
10:02What's cool though,
10:03is that the collar piece,
10:04he can be carried around.
10:05So the idea in mind is,
10:07you're supposed to take Red Riding Hood,
10:08and you clip her on the collar.
10:10I've noticed though,
10:11that a lot of times with her arm,
10:12her arm kind of wants to move higher up
10:14than the collar for the wolf.
10:15So I bring it down just a little bit,
10:18and then you take the end of her hands like this,
10:20and you clip them onto
10:21kind of like the fur piece of the wolf.
10:25And sort of by doing this,
10:26it holds everything in place.
10:28And then again,
10:29you can just have Red Riding Hood displayed like that.
10:31I mean, she's more a showpiece.
10:33Really, most of the monster series
10:35that we've gotten from McFarlane Toys
10:36have always really been that.
10:38They're more decorative statues
10:39than they are really intended to be articulated figures.
10:42There's a little bit of posability
10:43in Red's arms, in her hand,
10:45and also in her legs.
10:47But outside of that,
10:48she's doing exactly what she needs to do,
10:50and that's apparently killing wolves.
10:51Is this just a common thing for her to do?
10:54I can't imagine that this is just
10:55because she bumped into the wolf,
10:57the wolf killed grandma.
10:58I got to feel like she just had a taste for blood after this,
11:01that once she killed this initial wolf,
11:03she was kind of just going around the woods,
11:04killing just defenseless wolves.
11:06The wolf is like,
11:07hey, I didn't do anything.
11:08I didn't do anything.
11:08I just kind of walked over here
11:10just to go look at the lay of the land.
11:12And Red Riding Hood is just killing off all the wolves.
11:15All in all, though,
11:16it's a really neat-looking figure.
11:17I mean, I'm glad, though,
11:18that nothing was necessarily broken on Red.
11:20If anything was snapped on her,
11:22it was actually just the elastic
11:23that was keeping the knife in place.
11:25She's a cool-looking character.
11:26She keeps at least the color scheme of Red there,
11:29not only in the red,
11:30in the robe that she has,
11:31but the red that's bleeding out from the wolf as well.
11:33Originally, when McFarlane Toys released
11:35the Twisted Fairy Tales way back in 2005,
11:38this set consisted then of six figures,
11:40Hansel Gretel,
11:41Peter Pumpkin Eater,
11:42Pumpty Dumpty,
11:43Little Miss Muffet,
11:43and the Red Riding Hood
11:44you're currently seeing right now.
11:46I don't think, though,
11:47that there were any variations
11:48to any of those figures,
11:49that they've released the six on their own.
11:51And actually,
11:52when we first looked at this line
11:53years and years ago,
11:54we looked at then,
11:55all six figures,
11:56we're going to be doing it again.
11:57We're going to be doing it again,
11:58and looking at all those six again.
12:00In the same way, though,
12:01that I kind of feel like Dorothy
12:02was the spokesperson,
12:04obviously,
12:04for the Twisted Land of Oz,
12:06I feel that same way, though,
12:07for Red Riding Hood.
12:08And that's the reason
12:08why I wanted to look at her first.
12:10All in all, though,
12:11I mean,
12:11she's a dated figure
12:12in the sense that
12:13she doesn't have the poseability
12:14that you'd expect to find
12:15with figures now.
12:16But I think the sculpting
12:17still is good.
12:18There are a few little things,
12:20like with holding the scruff
12:21of the wolf.
12:22Red Riding Hood,
12:23a lot of times,
12:24her arm ends up moving up,
12:25and she ends up missing
12:26that fur altogether.
12:27So you'll find yourself frequently,
12:28if you have this figure,
12:30having her clipping it back
12:31onto that.
12:32She also does, of course,
12:33come and clue with the knife.
12:34If you were to buy
12:35this figure loose,
12:36I would certainly say
12:36those would be one thing,
12:38one of the two things
12:39you may want to make sure
12:39that you have
12:40if you're buying her loose.
12:41Being the first one
12:42being the blade,
12:43the second one being
12:44the pool of blood
12:45that also serves
12:45as a display stand
12:46for that poor,
12:47poor, big, bad wolf.
12:48I know, I know.
12:49Again, he ate the grandma,
12:51and he probably ate
12:51all this wildlife
12:52on the way to grandma's house.
12:54But I've got to still
12:54feel bad for him.
12:55She's just dangling around
12:57like a trophy.
12:58Big, bad wolf
12:59deserved better.
13:00What do you guys,
13:01though, think of the figure?
13:01Let me know down below
13:02in the comment section.
13:03Back in 2005,
13:04were you collecting
13:05any of the twisted fairy tales?
13:06And if so,
13:07do you have the whole set
13:08or which ones
13:09did you end up picking up?
13:10As mentioned already,
13:11again, we're going to be
13:11looking at the other ones
13:12as well.
13:12So that's another five figures
13:14in the bag
13:14that are going to be
13:15coming your way.
13:16So I hope you guys
13:17are going to be
13:17coming back for that.
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