Trick Or Treat Studios Scream Greats Candyman Farewell To The Flesh Candyman Figure
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00:00 They say I've shed innocent blood. What's blood for if not for shedding?
00:04 Here's your look at the brand new Trick or Treat Studios Screamgrades Candyman Farewell to the Flesh Candyman.
00:10 [scary music]
00:16 [pages turning]
00:24 Candyman? That's a bit of a tongue twister, isn't it?
00:27 Try saying that five times fast.
00:29 On second thought, maybe that's not a good idea.
00:32 What is a good idea, though, is as I take the tape measure, I'd like to thank the folks over at Trick or Treat Studios
00:36 that did provide this sample of the brand new Screamgrades Wave 1 Candyman Farewell to the Flesh Candyman himself
00:42 that we could have a look at in this review.
00:43 The figure stands exactly 8 inches in height, or he's going to be about 20 centimeters tall.
00:48 All week long, we've looked at the Screamgrades courtesy of the folks over at Trick or Treat Studios.
00:52 We started things off first with the 1978 Halloween Michael Myers.
00:55 We followed things up then off to Motel Hell where we looked at Farmer Vincent.
00:59 And then just yesterday, in fact, based on time of actually posting these videos,
01:03 we also looked at the Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Shorty.
01:05 Now, Tony Todd's Candyman is about the same size, I would say, as Farmer Vincent,
01:09 although, again, he's not wearing a pig mask.
01:11 He's a lot taller than Michael Myers.
01:12 He's a whole lot taller than Shorty from Killer Klowns.
01:15 Candyman and Shorty, though, have a lot in common and not just their love for sweets.
01:19 Both the figures also come included with no accessories at all.
01:21 Now, Candyman does have technically his calling card, the hook, on the end of his forearm,
01:24 but considering that's not something that's removable,
01:26 I really wouldn't put that in the category of accessories.
01:29 His design, though, is based on the original Candyman from Candyman 2, Farewell to the Flesh.
01:34 I feel it to be the superior sequel to the original one.
01:37 Obviously, I would always recommend, if you've never had the chance to watch the Candyman films,
01:40 start, obviously, with the first one.
01:42 Find more enjoyment, at least, with the second one.
01:44 And then just wish you never watched the third one after you finish viewing it.
01:48 The third one is garbage.
01:50 The second one, though, has an interesting aspect because it incorporates the backstory of Candyman.
01:55 Having his hand cut off, being doused in honey, and being called Candyman, he's stung by bees.
02:00 I get, of course, a lot of that when you get this release from the Screen Grades line.
02:04 Now, I know I've heard some people say that this doesn't look at all like Tony Todd.
02:08 I will say, though, in hand, it looks a lot more like the actor than when we saw images first online.
02:14 The packaging even does give him a more slightly shinier complexion,
02:18 which I might think is the one thing that's throwing off the likeness of the actor.
02:22 If you were to, say, look at the figure, and I get a closer look at him,
02:24 show you guys what his head sculpt looks like,
02:26 short of maybe the fact that his forehead is maybe just a little bit too long,
02:30 I think, from certain sides, it looks a lot more like Tony Todd in hand than it did online.
02:35 And, again, it may have something to do with the fact that his complexion was a little more shinier.
02:39 Some have even described it as a sweatier complexion.
02:42 But the fact that they went with more of the matte-finished paint
02:45 definitely, I think, helps to really get this guy a better-looking likeness than what we first thought.
02:50 I mean, from certain sides. I think from the sides, at least, of the head sculpt,
02:54 I think is where you really see more Tony Todd than when you're looking at it straightforward.
02:57 I think it's still, for what it is, a good-looking likeness.
03:00 It just isn't hitting the marks as closely as they could.
03:03 It's a harder thing, too, obviously, when you're doing a character when it's based on an actor.
03:06 I mean, it's so very easy to do Farmer Vincent because he's wearing a pig mask.
03:09 I mean, obviously, wanting to land the Dawn Post likeness of the mask for the Captain Kirk.
03:13 I mean, Michael Myers is wearing a mask, and of course, you've got the craziness of a killer clown.
03:18 This is one of those figures where getting a closer likeness to the actor is ever more imperative.
03:23 But I think for what it is, I think it's a pretty good likeness.
03:26 Is it 100%? I don't think I would say that.
03:29 But I would say, in all honesty, I mean, it looks a lot better in hand than what it did look online.
03:34 Oh, see, this one also has the longer, or bigger, fur collar piece for his jacket.
03:39 The fur also runs all the way down the middle section of his jacket.
03:42 One of the things that Candyman is really known for having is a very long coat.
03:46 This one also happens to be printed on the back, "Trademark 2023."
03:50 I don't think any of the other figures I've looked at, unless I really wasn't looking for them, had the trademark stamping.
03:56 It may just have something to do with the fact that he has the longer jacket.
03:59 It's very easy, then, to make out where they put the trademark stamping.
04:01 Now, this one also, like the other figures, is going to be very limited in articulation.
04:05 Most of these figures for the Scream Grids have only really had articulation at the base of their neck using the ball joints.
04:11 They've had hinge joints here for the shoulders.
04:13 Usually, they've had it for the hands.
04:15 For the case here of Candyman, you really can't rotate the claw.
04:18 You can rotate this hand, although it was a little tighter getting it out of the packaging.
04:22 I had to heat it up just a little bit.
04:23 One thing I really like, also, about this figure is the fact that they've done a nice job on the claw.
04:27 The little hook that he has on the end, you can see it has little indentations there.
04:31 They even took the time to sculpt the little nails that they embed the hook in,
04:35 when they embedded into the stump of what was left behind of his hand.
04:38 I really think they've done a nice job there.
04:40 Yes, they probably could have used a little bit of extra blood on the end of the actual hook.
04:44 I mean, it's something I probably could easily go in and do myself.
04:47 But, I don't think it really necessarily needs anything.
04:49 Now, I did say that this figure didn't have any real accessories to come included with him.
04:53 I thought one thing that would be also fun, if they had included little translucent bee pieces.
04:57 Something they, for example, I mean, obviously, you can't open up the jacket.
05:00 This is all one sculpted piece.
05:02 But, if maybe they had added little clear, translucent pieces for bees that they could just have attached on.
05:07 Literally, just like something that could have hooked around his arm,
05:10 and maybe just clipped around his waist, that would have had little sculpting indicators,
05:14 that those could be even bees.
05:15 So, something they could have clipped around his body.
05:17 Head sculpt, again, is good.
05:19 It's close enough, I feel, to being a likeness to Tony Todd.
05:21 Again, it looks, I feel, a little bit better from the sides than it maybe does from the front.
05:25 The coloring, really, again, for what it is, is a really nice, well-painted figure.
05:29 The paint around his eyes, for example, is really cleanly done.
05:32 I mean, the sections for his eyebrows, for example.
05:34 I don't see, really, any paint problems where the paint is bled onto things.
05:37 Like, white would be one thing that very easily could find its way, then, onto his fur collar.
05:41 And, yet, the collar and the shirt underneath are really clean on this guy.
05:45 Obviously, the fur runs down the middle.
05:47 We already looked at that.
05:48 It also has its, it also has its, found its way on the end of his form, as well.
05:52 Now, there's no posability here.
05:53 I thought maybe they may have put in some swiveling there.
05:56 But, no, while there's nicely sculpted, there's no, at all, posability for this figure.
06:00 No articulation, at least, for there.
06:02 The bottoms of his jacket also does have the fur collar rim.
06:05 And he doesn't have, actually, no articulation in his feet.
06:07 This is one thing I've noticed consistently with all these Scream grades, so far.
06:11 Michael Myers didn't have it.
06:12 Farmer Vincent didn't also have any articulation.
06:14 And neither did Shorty from Killer Klowns.
06:16 But what he does have, at least, that Shorty didn't have, is peggles in the undersides of his feet.
06:20 I still wish that this figure line could have come included with display stands.
06:23 I know, truth be told, Shorty really wouldn't have had the means to actually attach onto his display stand.
06:27 So far, funny enough, he's the only figure that actually hasn't had peggles.
06:31 It's strange that they decided to put it on every other figure, except for Shorty.
06:35 Speaking of the articulation, though, or going back to the articulation end of things,
06:39 when it comes to Candyman's, his head is, once again, going to be on ball joints.
06:43 So it does rotate, or allow the head to rotate, all the way around.
06:45 The head looks down, and it looks up.
06:47 It moves a lot freer.
06:49 It has the luxury of articulation, like Michael Myers and Farmer Vincent had.
06:53 I mean, when we looked at Shorty, Shorty's was a little bit more limited.
06:56 You can see, like Tony Todd, for example, his head very easily rotates as the Candyman.
07:00 Where it's going to be a little bit more limited is the suction right around his fur collar.
07:04 Easily, you can bring his arms out, so that's not a problem at all there.
07:07 I mean, you can bring him out at 90 degrees, or a little less than 90 degrees.
07:10 Trying to rotate his arm around the collar is obviously going to be the harder thing.
07:14 I mean, it gets the job done, but it's very tight to try to rotate the arm all the way around,
07:19 just because it's going to be running up against the side of the fur collar.
07:21 He has no articulation here in the wrist, or any articulation here for the fur sleeve.
07:26 No articulation here, at least, for the suction of his hook hand.
07:29 But he has it, at least, on this side, where he can move it back and forth.
07:32 And the figure doesn't have, again, any articulation here.
07:35 So, from the sense of his neck down, I mean, when it comes to Candyman,
07:38 he only really has articulation here in the shoulders, and in one of his hands.
07:42 And that's fine. I don't really expect the figures to have a whole lot of postibility.
07:45 They have what I think is the most important thing.
07:48 The charm factor, the fact that we are just getting these slightly more limited articulation granted figures.
07:53 I mean, when we've looked at the old movie maniac figures,
07:56 that really, I think this line is sort of the passing of the torch, the passing of the baton, so to speak.
08:02 What we got with the movie maniacs from back in the early days of the 2000s,
08:06 all of those figures really kept a very limited articulation.
08:10 But they had a charm to them.
08:12 And I find that same similar charm has found its way also to the screen grades
08:15 that we're getting here from Trick or Treat Studios.
08:17 Limited, yes, on articulation, but I think that they have really nice looks to them.
08:21 I mean, Candyman, obviously, is going to be the one, at least, from the four figures.
08:25 I guess I really shouldn't even technically count Shorty.
08:28 He's the figure of all the ones we've looked at so far that maybe the likeness isn't 100%.
08:32 But I think still the fact that we are getting ourselves a brand new Candyman,
08:36 for starters, and the fact it's based on my favorite of the Candyman films, Farewell to the Flesh.
08:41 I think, to be fair, Trick or Treat Studios has done a good job on a Candyman here.
08:45 He doesn't have any accessories, yes.
08:47 I mean, sure, there's always the opportunity that they could include display stands down the road.
08:50 But from what we're getting four figures in, and we still have, what, another three, four figures
08:54 still to look at from the screen grades, I'm loving this line so far.
08:58 I don't know, maybe because I'm looking at this line being a follow-up to the original movie Maniac's line
09:02 from the 2000s, I'm a little more accepting of the likeness not being 100%.
09:06 I think there's enough here of Candyman that you know right away who the character is.
09:09 Even if it doesn't look 100% like Tony Todd, I will say, though, getting it in hand,
09:13 it looks a lot more like Tony than it did with the images we first saw online.
09:17 Until you actually sometimes see these figures in hand, or even through reviews like this,
09:21 it might give you a better idea of really how they actually will look if you're planning to pick the figures up for yourself.
09:26 But having the fur collar on the top of his jacket, the long tail jacket, of course, that he has,
09:30 and the very famous trademark hook that he has on the end of his form,
09:33 there's, again, enough there that you know who the character is when you put this guy on your shelf.
09:37 He's going to be, again, limited when it comes to articulation.
09:39 Usually with all these figures we've seen so far, it's heads, it's shoulders, and in hands.
09:44 But obviously with Candyman, you have to deduct one of those hands just by the fact he has a hook.
09:48 The hook doesn't, from what I can see, actually swivel.
09:50 I really didn't want to force it, just for the risk that something ended up breaking.
09:55 But it seems like only one of his hands can actually rotate.
09:57 And again, I'm fine for that.
09:59 For what we're actually getting with this line so far, the fact that they are, again, a little bit more limited articulation,
10:04 I think still there's a lot of charm with this line so far.
10:07 Now, obviously, I have taken a break from Killer Klowns for right now looking at Candyman.
10:11 We will be going back, though, to Killer Klown Country, looking at both Slim and Fat.
10:15 So we also will be looking at Candy Korn's Jacob Atkins.
10:18 So if you guys are a big fan of Candy Korn, he was also one of the additions to the Scream, the Scream Greats, Wave 1.
10:24 And of course, as already announced, they are also doing a Scream Greats Wave 2.
10:28 I don't know if he's actually part of the Wave, but also advertised over on their site, they're also doing Pumpkinhead.
10:33 Yes, very excited for that, Pumpkinhead.
10:35 But a big thank you, nonetheless, once again, to the folks over at Trick or Treat Studios
10:38 that did provide the sample of the Killer-- not the Killer Klowns, the Candyman.
10:41 Farewell to the flesh, Tony Todd's Candyman.
10:44 And we can have a look at his review.
10:45 What do you guys think of the likeness?
10:46 Let me know down below in the comments section.
10:47 Do you think it looks enough like Tony Todd?
10:50 Certainly weigh your thoughts on whether you've either picked the figure up or based on this review,
10:54 if this is a figure that you could see yourselves picking up.
10:56 Also, again, if you guys are interested and would like to get any one of these figures from the Scream Greats for yourself,
11:01 you can click the link down below that will take you directly over to Trick or Treat's territory.
11:05 And from there, of course, you can order either Tony Todd.
11:07 You can order an entire Wave, really, if you want to, because I think all of them are currently in stock as of right now.
11:12 In the meantime, though, if you guys did enjoy this video, I want to hit it with a like.
11:15 If you guys are loving the content you guys are seeing and you're on board to see the remaining reviews of the Scream Greats Wave 1,
11:21 that will again include Slim Fatso from Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
11:24 And also we will be looking at Jacob Atkins from Candy Korn.
11:27 I might maybe break up Killer Klowns just a little bit.
11:29 I might probably do one of the Killer Klowns, then we'll look at Jacob Atkins, then we'll probably look at the other Killer Klowns.
11:34 Probably, I would imagine, somewhere of that order.
11:37 But definitely going to be a lot more videos coming your way, guys.
11:39 As always, thanks for watching.
11:41 See you guys next time.
11:43 [outro]
11:49 (explosion)
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