{"id":21191,"date":"2016-01-02T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=21191"},"modified":"2016-01-02T00:24:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T05:24:39","slug":"minimate-mini-review-272-pumpkin-king-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/minimate-mini-review-272-pumpkin-king-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimate Mini-Review #272 - Pumpkin King & Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"

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#272 - Pumpkin King\/Zero<\/h3>\n

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When Diamond Select Toys gets a license, they go all-in. So we get Select<\/i> figures, but they also use Art Asylum to make Minimates. Which is why we can get a big fancy Oogie Boogie<\/a>, but also smaller figs. Series 1 was available blind-bagged (and had enough distinct shapes that squeezing the bags was a reliable way to get what you wanted [assuming you could ever find any]), but now Toys Я Us has more traditional two-packs.<\/p>\n

This is, according to the back of the card, Series 2, which explains why we're not getting plain Jack Skellington. This is Jack in his Pumpkin King<\/a> guise. He's got a jack o'lantern head (and a regular to replace it, if you want), bundled straw legs, and a tattered shirt over his extra-long torso. He has new stringy sleeve pieces that fit on his wrists, too. There's a slot in the back of his shirt where the Halloween Town signpost fits. For his appearance in the town square, he's also got a flaming torch (a new mold, not reused<\/a>) and flame pieces that fit on his arms.<\/p>\n

Jack is paired with his faithful dog Zero. Art Asylum really went above and beyond for this figure - since Zero, in the movie, was basically just a dog's head and a billowing sheet for a body, you'd expect the Minimate version to be a solid piece. That's what a sane company would do. But that wasn't good enough for AA, who actually made his head a separate, fully articulated piece! His neck is a balljoint, allowing him to look all around adorably. His ears wave behind him and his pumpkin nose is orange. The entire body is cost from semi-translucent plastic, making him look spectral, an effect only slightly marred by the copyright text tampoed on his back.<\/p>\n

He gets a new hover stand, as well - it's mostly the same as the ones we've been seeing ever since Slimer<\/a>, but there's now a hollow in the bottom so it uses slightly less plastic. Economical! The really fun thing is that the set also includes Zero's dog house, which has been appropriately Minimatized: it's got the shingle roof and the cross on the gable, but the skull and crossbones on the \"door\" area are now shaped like a Minimate head. Outstanding!<\/p>\n

Either of these figures would have been worth buying alone, so putting them together in one pack? A must-have!<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>