Trick Or Treat Studios Chamber of Horrors The Beast of Blood Retro Style 8" Figure

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00:00I can only imagine it's an unbelievably terrifying experience, but you must see this all for yourself.

00:05Here's a look at the brand new Trick or Treat Studios, the Beast of Blood Retro Style 8-Inch Figure.

00:21Trick or Treat Studios is proud to present the officially licensed Beast of Blood, the Beast Retro Style 8-Inch Figure.

00:26Our new line of retro figures is a must-have for collectors.

00:29Carefully designed to honor the vintage cloth figures from the 1970s, these updated versions feature dynamically articulated bodies, intricate sculptures, and detailed paint applications.

00:38With 20 points of articulation, they combine nostalgic charm with modern craftsmanship, perfect for display and play.

00:43See, some mad fiend at Trick or Treat Studios has been transplanting human heads in the Cave of Horrors.

00:48Before, though, we get a closer look at the retro-style 8-Inch Beast of Blood Beast.

00:52I'd like to, speaking of which, thank the folks over at TOTS that did provide this sample.

00:56Like, though, the Shockmaster we looked at earlier, unfortunately, some bad news being that the Beast of Blood has sold out on their site.

01:03At the time, though, it was selling for $39.99.

01:05Now, you can still go with the option of notify me, and again, it's not me, it's Trick or Treat Studios.

01:10You can notify them when available.

01:12I guess it would be the other way around.

01:13They would notify you when the item is back in stock.

01:17And you never know, though.

01:17With the demand being high for these, I would imagine, though, that down the road, they may have plans to re-release these figures again.

01:24Back, though, to as we normally do at the beginning of this review, we're going to take my trusty tape measure, and we'll see how tall the Beast from the Beast of Blood stands.

01:31The answer to that question, though, is 8 inches.

01:33In fact, 8 inches exactly in height.

01:35That, of course, is going to translate to a figure that's 20 centimeters tall.

01:38If you're already in the know, then you already know that we've already had a look at a retro-adian-style figure, that being the Chamber of Horrors Shock Monster.

01:45Where, though, the Shock Monster was a mask that was first created by Keith Ward and produced by Topstone in the early 50s.

01:50The Beast, though, on the other hand, actually originates from a film, Beast of Blood, coming out in 1970.

01:55While extensive retooling seems to have been done, obviously for a brand-new head sculpt for the Beast of Blood,

01:59he also sports now a brand-new top torso piece, new arms, new legs, and a completely different article of clothing.

02:04The Beast has been gifted an axe for an accessory.

02:06The Beast of Blood has also been gifted brand-new artwork for his own packaging that's based on the original 1970 poster art.

02:13You may, though, notice that he's divorced his head from the rest of his body.

02:16One of the things, though, about the Beast and the Beast of Blood is the fact that the head has to be transported, transplanted to a brand-new body.

02:22One thing, though, you can see at the top of the packaging, it does say,

02:25UNBELIEVABLE! featuring exclamation mark as well.

02:28The horror head transplant.

02:30On, though, the back of the packaging, on a hidden island, scientists performed unholy and grotesque experiments.

02:36It's the Beast of Blood.

02:37Again, it's unbelievable.

02:39What's unbelievable, though, is the attention to detail that they've added, though, to the Beast, and also to his axe.

02:44Looking, though, at the axe and getting a close look and gander at the head,

02:47you can see, though, it does even have, like, a bird edge to it.

02:50Chipped and scratched away, it does look like the axe has some age to it.

02:53It does look like it's got some grime, some rust, and all the other things that a left-behind axe would start to develop over time.

02:59It has also developed a really nice wood grain.

03:02Get a good look at that.

03:03Now, the axe can be held and weld in his hand, although it only can be welded, helded, on this side of the figure's body.

03:10The figure does have a regular gestured hand on the other.

03:13So if you do want him wielding anything, basically, you're just going to take your axe, get it in between his fingers and his thumb.

03:20He may be a corpse and all, and a walking beast, but he still holds an axe pretty much the same way as a regular human.

03:25Slide that axe all the way down there, and he's good to go.

03:27Good for hacking and slashing.

03:30Again, he doesn't have a means to do that on the other side of the figure's hands,

03:34because, again, like, he just has a regular gestured hand for that.

03:37But man, oh man, this guy's got a lot of cool details for him.

03:39Let's just get the axe, and we'll put it off to the side.

03:41I don't feel a little comfortable with the beast actually having that in his hands.

03:44And getting, though, a closer look at the head sculpt.

03:46Now, one thing, though, about the beast, he's known for having a transplanted head.

03:49Now, I have gone in there and tried to remove the head, hoping, though, it would have been a hidden Easter egg.

03:54It doesn't, though, seem like you can actually take that head and remove it from the peg.

03:58I don't even know if I really would want to risk that anyways.

04:00It does look like it sits on top of maybe an opaque clear or maybe opaque white plastic peg.

04:06Still, with not being able to remove the head, I think it's still a really nice-looking head sculpt of the beast.

04:10You can see, though, his cranium on the top.

04:12Some really nice decayed, aged skin.

04:14Big fangs there on the front of his face.

04:16Just all in all, a really well-painted figure.

04:18They're bringing now a chance to, obviously, bring in the shock monster we've already had a look at before.

04:23Again, with the amount of work sculpting and paint they put the time into giving both these figures,

04:28you can really see there's a lot of work that goes behind the scenes to produce a figure that, again, for $39.99 is, I don't think, a bad price at all.

04:34Now, it does answer one question I was having earlier when we looked at the shock monster,

04:38that they probably would have used the same body.

04:41The body, by the way, though, does have a shirt that goes over top of it.

04:44As you can see, it's clasped together by Velcro.

04:46If we just undo that for right now, we open up the shirt.

04:49You can see inside.

04:51The sculpting, though, that they've incorporated to the top of the torso for the beast stretches much further down.

04:55In fact, just getting this guy to stand here for a second.

04:58We'll just lift the shirt up here for the shock monster.

05:00So, you can see, though, when we looked at the shock monster, the sculpting that they incorporated that was unique to him

05:05went only about halfway down, just above the abdomen.

05:08However, though, when we, though, get to the beast, you can see there's a lot more incorporated sculpt,

05:12something that, unfortunately, gets lost when you have the shirt always done up.

05:16A rib cage, you get, again, a lot of the decayed skin.

05:19It just is a cool-looking sculpt.

05:21But it does, again, look like they probably have used the same body.

05:23By also now moving down the pants, you can see the way that the top of the torso is working on a ball joint.

05:28It was a little harder to do when we were looking at a shock monster.

05:31Some additional sculpting, again, goes into, let's just do this shirt up here for a second,

05:35goes also into the arms, too.

05:37So, again, if we lift the arms up, they have matched nicely, I think, the gray.

05:41So, it does carry over somewhat the same color of the lower forearm sculpt.

05:45But now, again, similar to like Jason Voorhees from Part 7,

05:48you get a lot of decay and muscle and bones sticking out from inside the skin.

05:52Just really nice-looking sculpting.

05:54Now, this also serves, as well, not only to give brand-new sculpt,

05:58but this part right here does give them also a posability point.

06:02So, you can rotate this around.

06:03I'm going to get more into that moment.

06:05Torn and tattered, the sleeves are.

06:06I've ripped all down below here, as well.

06:08Again, you've got some nice grime that they've added to it.

06:10Really dirty-looking shirt.

06:11The pants on the back.

06:13Now, the way that they've done the pants is,

06:15I don't know if there's actually a Velcro closure.

06:17My guess is they probably just slid these up the legs of the Beast.

06:20The one thing, though, about the Beast,

06:21most of the times that we see the Beast,

06:23the pants, the pant legs seem like they stick higher up on them.

06:27Getting this guy out of the packaging,

06:28I did notice, though, that the pant leg does go a little further down.

06:31I'm almost even kind of inclined just to bring these up a little bit.

06:34First of all, you don't really want to have any of the sculpting get lost underneath the fabric.

06:38But again, like with the way the Beast looks generally in the film,

06:41most of the time it kind of looks more like he's got torn shorts rather than torn pants.

06:46Again, I really like the discoloration that they've added down below.

06:48It's much darker, obviously, than the rest of the fabric above it.

06:51Again, really lots of additional detail that go into this.

06:55Again, much more of the bones sticking out from the skin.

06:57And again, you can see some of the bones of the toes peeking their way out as well.

07:01Like with the figure before, this one doesn't have pegels.

07:04Actually, no, that's not true.

07:06The shock monster did, in fact, actually have pegels on the bottoms of his feet.

07:10And yet, though, the Beast of Blood doesn't have it.

07:12I wonder why they chose not to put pegels.

07:14Not that it necessarily needs it.

07:15I don't think the figure has balancing issues, but it's funny, though, that this figure doesn't

07:19actually have pegels on the bottoms.

07:20And yet, though, the shock monster did.

07:22For the figure's articulation, going back to the head sculpt of the Beast.

07:25The head is, being the way it's attached, only is going to allow the figure to rotate like this.

07:30It rotates all the way around.

07:31Again, I think it would have been cool if they had found a way.

07:34Maybe there is a way, but I don't want to run any risk of breaking the figure,

07:37where you could have actually detached the head and had the Beast carrying it around by his hands.

07:41The top of the torso, as we've already established, does, in fact, have a ball joint,

07:45so you can rotate that all the way around.

07:47The arms hinge out, and they hinge out really well, too.

07:49By the way, too, the plastic is a really good quality.

07:52Good, rigid, hard plastic.

07:54I don't feel like there's anything that's going to be breaking it all on the figure.

07:56If we roll, though, up the sleeve for a shirt, as you can see, there's a bicep swivel.

08:00There is, as well, a lower swivel down below here, where now we've got the incorporated new sculpt for the forearm.

08:06And in between that, there's a hinge in the elbow.

08:08So you've got a swivel here, and a swivel here, and a hinge in between.

08:13For the legs, now, the only one thing limited for the legs is that the splits become a little more harder to do,

08:19because the way they've sewn the seam so much further down, you can get a splits going,

08:24but it seems like it's so much easier to split one leg and then do the same thing on the other side.

08:28To split both becomes a little bit more problematic.

08:31There's a swivel, though, what seems to be at the top of the thigh.

08:34As well, though, if we roll up the pant leg, you can see there's a single hinge,

08:38for the lower leg, then there's no, again, no articulation down below here for the feet.

08:42But again, like 20 points of articulation, not bad at all for the beast.

08:46And again, whether you want to have the figure displayed with or without the axe,

08:49let's maybe get the axe in his hand, considering, though, they took the time to include the axe.

08:53Let's get the axe, though, in the hand of the beast.

08:55There we go.

08:56And again, as we've already looked at before for the comparisons, let's bring back in the shock monster.

09:02I like the beast.

09:03I like the beast.

09:04But I think, though, if I really was given the choice, I probably would choose the shock monster so far,

09:08what we've gotten from the, you know, again, the retro style eight-inch figures.

09:12I think Trick or Treat Studios, again, really has put a lot of investment,

09:15not only just the time to produce these figures, but the investment of the budget.

09:18You can see, like, there's a lot of work that went into sculpting brand-new torso pieces,

09:22which, again, essentially, I would think, though, that both figures are sharing the exact same bodies.

09:26But you can, again, see that there's a lot of extensive retooling.

09:30New forearm pieces, for example, new lower legs, new heads.

09:33And even then, it doesn't just stop there.

09:35Further down from the neck, again, you've got now this torso piece.

09:38It goes a little further down on the beast.

09:40So, again, like, even if you wanted to open up the Velcro for the shirt,

09:43you can get then the chance to see how much extensive work went into that as well.

09:47$39.

09:47$39, I think, again, $39.99, $40 figures.

09:50I can, again, see why these things sold out as fast as they did.

09:53I hope, though, again, if more collectors want to get their hands on these,

09:58I hope, though, that down the road, that Trick or Treat Studios will think to, you know,

10:01re-release these figures, put them back in stock,

10:03and give collectors the chance to get them if they didn't get them the first time around.

10:07Like with what they did with the Shock Monster,

10:08Trick or Treat Studios not only does offer the retro-style eight-inch figure of the Beast of Blood,

10:12but they did also do a Beast of Blood Beast Mask.

10:15The difference, though, of the prices between the two is what the mask was selling for $59.99.

10:19The Beast of Blood retro figure was selling for $39.99,

10:22so there is obviously the difference at the $20.

10:25The Beast of Blood, though, mask is still available, still available on their site.

10:29In fact, I can do even one better.

10:30I'll put the links down below in the video description if you guys are interested to get your hands on the retro-style eight-inch figure of the Beast of Blood,

10:35or you'd like to get yourself something wearable instead.

10:38Certainly for what he wears is one thing that's different, though, about the Beast of Blood versus the Shock Monster.

10:43Completely different attire.

10:44The top and the bottom clothing, again, really well-stitched together.

10:48I like that there's also a Velcro closure.

10:49It gives you a chance to open and close the shirt and see inside all the work that they put underneath the hood.

10:55The head sculpt, though, is fantastic on the Beast of Blood.

10:57I hope, though, I gave real proper justice to show you guys just how much extensive paint went into that.

11:03The cranium does have discoloration.

11:05You probably even can see it right now as he's rotating on the rotisserie.

11:08Nice dark washes, kind of like an auburn or a little bit of a brown that they've added to the back of the skull plate,

11:13so it does really look like there's some age to it.

11:15I like, again, the color that they gave the gray.

11:17The eyes really pop, too, by the way that they recess further back on the skull's face.

11:21It's, again, a really gruesome-looking head sculpt and a really gruesome figure that gets attached to that as well.

11:26Now, unfortunately, again, like the Beast of Blood retro figure has since sold out on their site.

11:31Again, you can go to the option of notify you when available.

11:34So, again, if you put that all in, if they happen to put the stock back on on their site,

11:39you can at least be then notified if you want to add this one to your cart.

11:42Again, a big thank you to the folks over at Trick or Treat Studios that did provide the sample of the brand-new retro-style 8-inch figure from the 1970 film Beast of Blood.

11:51And today we were having a look at the Beast.

11:52What do you guys think of this figure?

11:53Let me know down below in the comments section, have you guys also had the chance to watch the original 1970s film?

11:59If you guys didn't have a chance, by the way, that get the chance to look at my review of the Shock Monster that had already popped up this week.