Cryptkins: Bigfoot review

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Despite his name, your very hairy new friend is definitely fairly little... at least so far. Keep an eye on him: he likes wandering in forests, making it hard to track him down sometimes!

The card then goes on to proclaim that a bigfoot is an omnivore who prefers elk, fruit, and vegetables, but doesn't even mention their crippling allergies to radio frequency radiation: after all, what besides an RF aversion could possibly explain how, despite the fact we all carry high-quality cameras in our pockets everywhere we go, the incidence of viable bigfoot footage has remained consistently low, while the footage of other cryptids, like the giant squid, has climbed right alongside the pace of technological accessibility. Poor little guys! This one is sitting down comfortably, resting with his hands behind him and his stumpy legs outstretched. There's very shaggy hair on the head, though the face is left bare like a lot of apes, and the light brown on most of the figure is accentuated with darker splotches - probably mud, if the bottoms of their feet are anything to go by.

Bagged separately inside the box with each figure is a small card with art of the Cryptkin on one side and biographical facts (well, "facts") on the other: name, full-grown height/weight, descriptions, diet, and habitat and range, with a map of the world to help drive that last one home. Bigfoot is shown to be centered in the Pacific Northwest, of course, but the range does extend all the way up through Canada and nearly into Alaska - guess you need a lot of room to wander when someone could step on your toes at any moment. Instead of sitting, the art shows the bigfoot standing in a muddy clearing and munching... berries? Acorns? Mushrooms? Something.

Bigfoot is one of the standard Series 1 figures, and doesn't have any variants. It does, however, entirely share its mold with another Series 1 offering, the Yeti, which is just this figure again, with white fur and pale blue skin. (It does retain the large red eyes, of course - that's a stylistic feature of the entire line.)

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