{"id":29387,"date":"2019-10-11T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T04:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=29387"},"modified":"2025-08-27T02:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:20:32","slug":"universal-monsters-mystery-minis-black-and-white-invisible-man-exclusive-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/universal-monsters-mystery-minis-black-and-white-invisible-man-exclusive-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Monsters Mystery Minis - black and white Invisible Man exclusive review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claude Rains starring as a Universal Monster? I just can't see it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/funkfri.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"72\" alt=\"Funko Friday\" title=\"Funko Friday\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/funko_usmmm1_im1.jpg\" title=\"Invisible Man (shown twice actual size)\" width=\"260\" height=\"435\" align=right style=\"margin:-2px 0px -5px 15px\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/5230\/5230-h\/5230-h.htm\" target=_blank rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HG Wells' original 1897 story<\/a>, the titular Invisible Man was simply called \"Griffin,\" and his path to translucency involved taking some unidentified drug and sitting in the middle of a machine that released radiation and vibration. He was an albino to begin with, which made the process simpler, and was a sociopath long before ever turning invisible: he reveals in an offhanded comment that, in need of money, he stole it from his father; but the money didn't belong to Griffin Sr., who killed himself out of shame, and Junior could barely be bothered to attend the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Universal's 1933 movie gives him the first name Jack, and made him lab assistant to a doctor who was experimenting with food preservation. The invisibility process involved a drug called \"monocane,\" which (unknown to Griffin) had dangerous psychological side effects, thereby absolving the character of any real fault for the things he does.<\/p>\n<p>The Invisible Man gets more variations than anyone else in this line: there's the normal, colorful release of course, and this Walgreens-exclusive <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/funko_usmmm1_im2.jpg\" title=\"so much to do, so much to see\" width=\"360\" height=\"215\" align=left style=\"margin:0px 10px 0px 0px\">1:24 black and white version. Those both share the same molds, with Griffin just standing straight up, wearing his robe, holding a clear test tube in his gloved hand, and his head fully concealed by bandages and dark glasses. There's also the logical \"clear\" variant, which takes two forms: the mass version retains the colorful robe, but has clear hands and a new head with no sculpted bandages; Walgreens' version keeps the blank head but is fully clear, without a drop of paint to be found anywhere. It's also 1:72, so good luck finding it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Science Fiction Mystery Minis - Kirk &#038; Spock\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/science-fiction-mystery-minis-kirk-spock\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Science Fiction Mystery Minis - Kirk &#038; Spock<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Disney Afternoon Mystery Minis - Rescue Rangers review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/disney-afternoon-mystery-minis-rescue-rangers-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Disney Afternoon Mystery Minis - Rescue Rangers review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Universal Monsters Mystery Minis - black and white Wolf Man exclusive review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/universal-monsters-mystery-minis-black-and-white-wolf-man-exclusive-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Universal Monsters Mystery Minis - black and white Wolf Man exclusive review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Walker Clara review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/walking-dead-mystery-minis-walker-clara-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Walker Clara review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #104\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-104\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #104<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claude Rains starring as a Universal Monster? I just can't see it. &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Daryl Dixon reviews Rustin's Spoils of the Week #125 Walking Dead Mystery Minis: One-Eyed Zombie review Frozen Mystery Minis - &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/universal-monsters-mystery-minis-black-and-white-invisible-man-exclusive-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,250],"tags":[291,179],"class_list":["post-29387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-exclusive-review","category-funko","tag-mystery-minis","tag-universal-monsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29387"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45283,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29387\/revisions\/45283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}