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Note:
Figure reviewed is the variant with open mouth.
Series: Movie
Maniacs 5, Tooth Fairy
Craftsmanship: 8.8
out of 10
- Wicked wings
- Could be Soultaker’s grandma
- Stands easily
- Great display from the ceiling
- Pretty good poseability
Playability: 5.5
out of 10
- “Actually, she’s yawning, son. No,
she’s not going to attack you.”
- Wings can get seriously screwed up after she’s
tossed across the room
- Small wings can be lost
- Arm articulation is a liability
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Tooth Fairy (Movie Maniacs 5)
by McFarlane
Toys
Imagine if you will, a small child places a newly
lost tooth under his pillow in the hopes of luring the Tooth Fairy around to
exchange it for some cold hard cash. It’s a sweet picture, isn’t it? Now imagine
that child screaming with every once of his
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being as the Tooth Fairy smashes through his
window, grinning hideously, and her wings making her bigger than she is…
Course, the kid wakes up then – screaming – and runs to his parent’s room. Dad
wakes up with a scream too as the kid crashes onto his dad’s nose. Dad
momentarily thinks the Tooth Fairy has come for him! Both kid and
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dad
screaming, wife rolls out of bed and hits both solidly back to sanity with
well-placed blows from a pillow.
This is the kind of insanity Tooth Fairy can induce in closed environments.
Aside from the bouts of panic, Tooth Fairy is actually a pretty good figure and
a great addition to the Movie Maniacs line. She has all the detail and mobility
expected of McFarlane, especially the semi-translucent wings.
The strangest thing about Tooth Fairy is that she could easily pass as
Soultaker’s grandma. The articulation is nearly identical and the color scheme
is very similar. (Just do a quick comparison.) But one portion doesn’t match up.
The sprockets that make sure Soultaker’s wings move simultaneously and helps
them keep their position. Tooth Fairy’s wings hardly have “teeth” on the
sprockets, meaning that they don’t move together but they do hold their position
simply because they’re kind of jammed together.
The wings are more of a problem when Tooth Fairy is actually played with – a
fact that has to be accepted since she will be played with. It’s a strange (but
understandable) phenomenon really; anything with wings automatically becomes a
flying toy. Doesn’t matter what it is, if it has wings, watch out! This goes for
Tooth Fairy, however, the wings can be irreparably damaged during rough play.
The pegs holding the wings are very strong, making them more easily deformed
rather than broken off. She has a second set of smaller wings that peg into the
top of her shoulder blades that are 1) extremely hard to insert and 2) extremely
easy to lose when they pop out. Also of concern is the articulation on the thin
arms.
Essentially, Tooth Fairy should be displayed in a hard to reach location. Like,
say, from the ceiling, where she looks good.
Tooth Fairy is a solid addition to the Movie Maniacs line and fuel to the fire
of childhood nightmares, as long as you’re not particularly picky about
playability.
- Omni
(December 20, 2002) |
