Funko Vinyl Idolz Christmas Vacation Clark Griswold
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00:00Can I refill your eggnog for you, get you something to eat, drive you out in the middle
00:04of nowhere, and leave you for dead?
00:05Here's your Christmas spot on the Vinyl Sugar Vinyl Idol's National Lampoon's Christmas
00:09Vacation.
00:10Clark Griswold.
00:11Clark Griswold is determined to keep his family from walking out on a fun old-fashioned family
00:34Christmas.
00:35We're all in this together in a full-blown four-alarm holiday emergency, celebrating
00:39the most enduring traditions of this season, best enjoyed in the warm embrace of kith and
00:43kin.
00:44This three is a thimble of the spirit of Griswold family chrith-myth.
00:46Squirrel!
00:47It may not be the jelly of the month club, but it could be something just as sweet.
00:51Ho, ho!
00:52How about before we get a closer look at the Vinyl Idol's National Lampoon's Christmas
00:54Vacation, Clark Griswold, we take this tape measure of mine and we see just how tall the
00:58figure actually stands.
00:59Ho, ho!
01:00Hold on right there, humble reviewer.
01:02In fact, this isn't even a figure.
01:04It's a statue.
01:05And what it's doing right now is the same thing it's going to continue to do till we
01:08get to the final looks of him.
01:09In fact, the only thing I might even end up doing is maybe removing the display stand.
01:13Technically it's something that's separate in the packaging.
01:15Technically it's something that doesn't even really need to be on the bottom of his feet
01:18in order for him to stand and doing what he's doing right now.
01:20That's a lot, a whole lot of things to say.
01:24The last thing I will say though before we get down to the details of this guy is measuring
01:27to the top of his head.
01:28This statue of Clark is going to be about nine inches in height.
01:31Obviously, it's going to be a little bit less if you remove the display base.
01:35Or that's going to translate to a statue.
01:37That's about 21 and a half or 22 centimeters tall.
01:40I did get Clark Griswold here from Retro Festive, my go-to site it seems when it comes to anything
01:45holiday related.
01:46If you see something unique on this channel when it comes to reviews during those times
01:49of Halloween and Christmas, nine times out of 10, I usually get them from Retro Festive.
01:54Now getting this guy out of the packaging, he does technically have a separate display
01:57base.
01:58The base is something that just attaches onto the bottom of his feet.
02:00The weird thing though about the base is if you look at it, there's a larger peg and a
02:04smaller peg.
02:05If you look at the bottom of his feet, it doesn't necessarily affect the way the figure
02:09stands.
02:10If anything, he's a little back heavy, but he stands still fine.
02:13You don't even really need this.
02:15To then add to that, I would add why would you need to have a need to ... Why would you
02:19even have to add a larger and smaller peg when I think two pegs of equal size would
02:23be perfectly fine?
02:24I mean, it doesn't mean that he's going to stand any bit better by having then to struggle
02:28figuring out which peg goes placed in which feet.
02:31Because you can clearly see there's a smaller hole and a larger hole.
02:35So it has to be a certain way.
02:37The feet also are a struggle to get onto his display base.
02:39You have to take the legs and sort of widen them apart from one another just so that they
02:42can actually attach onto the pegs.
02:44I know sooner rather than later, one of these pegs is probably going to be breaking off
02:47because you feel like you really have to force them on there.
02:51One thing I really also would like to see, and I don't have any other vinyl sugar figures,
02:55is that the bases themselves would have had something relating to the character.
02:59At the very least, could it not have said National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation or Clark
03:02Griswold?
03:03Or something just to indicate what movie this character is from.
03:06We're going to remove the base for at least right now.
03:08Why?
03:09Off to the side it goes.
03:11Getting a little closer look at Clark Griswold here from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
03:15A go-to.
03:16I don't maybe watch as many of the National Lampoon's standalone films, but every time
03:20Christmas rolls around, yeah, at least this one will be one I watch every year round.
03:24The character is, of course, carrying around his little moose glass that's filled inside,
03:28but looks like maybe he's drank half of it.
03:31There's eggnog inside.
03:32I don't know.
03:33Maybe he's added something else in there as well.
03:36The mug is securely attached onto his hand.
03:38It is one little bit of things I ever imagined probably would break if you're not too careful,
03:41because it looks like it's obviously using clear plastic, but I do like the little touch
03:45that they actually added a little bit of eggnog in there, as opposed to an empty glass.
03:49Hed Skuld looks good on this guy.
03:51He is, though, a little on the flatter side.
03:52I mean, it's one of the things, though, with the vinyl sugars.
03:55Vinyl sugar is an extension of what Funko was doing.
03:57I don't think you can really get a lot of these figures anymore.
03:59Again, I happened to find this online.
04:00I had come across a couple of vinyl sugars in the past.
04:03They had done Ghostbusters.
04:05They did Seinfeld.
04:06They also did, as well, Back to the Future, but this one obviously caught my eye, because
04:10clearly it was also a Christmas classic of mine.
04:13I think it looks good.
04:14I mean, it's just, though, a little on the flat side.
04:15It actually looks like he's got run over.
04:17He looks just as flat as the cat inside the living room.
04:20The cat sped all nine lives.
04:22The Hed Skuld, though, I don't think is denying at all that that looks like Chevy Chase, though
04:26a little on the more flatter side.
04:28One thing I really kind of like about the vinyl sugars is that they look like claymation
04:32animation, like those Christmas shorts, those Christmas specials.
04:37One thing I would really like to see, and this is always something I kind of really
04:39thought to myself, you know, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, they've done sequels.
04:43I mean, they're never really as good.
04:45A Cousin Eddie was always really good.
04:46I think he was in the second one, and it was terrible, but I think if they ever wanted
04:50to maybe go down the road and maybe release another Christmas vacation, I think it would
04:54be kind of fun.
04:55Christmas, you know, tradition, make it maybe as a stop motion or a claymation film.
05:00Bring back all the original voice actors.
05:02They could still voice the roles, and imagine, like, if you had National Lampoon's that looked
05:05like this, because it does, it does really very much for me, like, look like a claymation
05:09short.
05:10Again, there's no posability at all on this, but the Hed Skuld is pretty good still.
05:14He's got the little cleft on his chin.
05:15I think the expression looks very much like Clark Griswold in the movie.
05:18They've even got the little sleigh bells there on the side of his hat.
05:21Down below, of course, he has also a sweater, a nice printed tie.
05:24There's, of course, the cardigan.
05:25The cardigan is a nice length there as well.
05:26It's a pretty well-painted piece, but again, like, there's no posability at all to this.
05:30If you thought, for example, you could go in there and rotate the head, no, can't do
05:33that.
05:34I thought, if anything, I'd be able to rotate the arms, but Funko really limited what you
05:38could really do with these characters.
05:39What you're doing and what you're seeing right now is all he's going to be able to do, but
05:42he looks, he displays well, and that's the thing that really matters the most.
05:45Technically, again, like, he does need the display stand to attach onto the bottom of
05:49his feet to finish the look, but if you want to just have him, like, standing on your shelf,
05:53he stands fine really without it.
05:55Periodically, I have noticed, though, when I put him down, if I don't get him right at
05:59a level flat foot, he does seem like he wants to lean back a little bit, so I don't want
06:03to speak too soon to say that you don't really need to have a display stand.
06:06I mean, if you have him kind of just in the right position, yeah, you can see he stands
06:10fine, but if you're obviously looking at this and you're thinking, well, you're really having
06:14to struggle to get this guy to stand properly, then by all means, yeah, you definitely make
06:18use of the display stand.
06:20You know, I think when it comes to Christmas Vacation, Clark is about the only character
06:23we've actually gotten in the Vinyl Sugar line.
06:24I don't even know if Funko still makes Vinyl Sugar figures, but I would love, maybe not
06:29do the entire Griswold household, but at the very least, Cousin Eddie.
06:33Cousin Eddie, either with the, like, with the little dickie that he has underneath his
06:36sweater or, like, again, like, when he's outside with the flaps on his hat.
06:40I think a complementary piece to Clark Griswold, if Funko, in fact, still does do the Vinyl
06:44Sugars, I think a Cousin Eddie would be perfect to put on then display along with Clark Griswold
06:50here.
06:51Nice looking figure.
06:52And I don't really want to necessarily call him a figure because clearly there's nothing
06:54at all you can do with him.
06:55He's more show than he is to tell.
06:57You can't really do, you can't move his arms.
06:59I kind of wish that if anything, you could move his arms.
07:01I mean, obviously the breaking up of the mold there wouldn't have worked as well to rotate
07:04his head.
07:05And he's also, again, like, really flat.
07:07He looks like he's been run over by, like, like a steamroller, you know, in the streets.
07:11But other than that, like, I really like the look of him.
07:13You know, I, when I ordered this one online, the Retro Festive had them listed for $29.99.
07:19So it was about a $30 figure.
07:20And then of course, a little bit of shipping that went on top of that, you know, for the
07:22size of him, I think he's, he's a decorative piece that's going to look really nice on
07:26my mantle.
07:27You know, I'm kind of thinking out this year for the things I want to put out for Christmas.
07:30You know, of course I'm going to have my garland, my little lights and, you know, like the odd
07:33little things that I have out every year, but this year I want to kind of add new things
07:37to it.
07:38So every year I'm either adding or removing stuff.
07:39So the, the, my, my, my mantle isn't going to look the same every single year.
07:44This is one that wasn't here last year, but it is one that's going to be making an appearance
07:49this year on my mantle.
07:50And you never know, it might be one that makes regular visits every year round.
07:53Vinyl Sugar is a line from Funko you don't hear anybody talking about anymore.
07:56In fact, the only other time I came across Vinyl Sugars in the wild at a comic book store,
08:00they had one Peter Venkman from the Ghostbusters line.
08:03I think I remember looking on the back of the box to see what other things they had.
08:06They had a Ray Stantz and the Egon Spangler.
08:08I think Winston got left out altogether.
08:11The only other Vinyl Sugars I've been tempted to pull the trigger on were the Seinfeld ones.
08:15Having seen the Kramer, I think they also did a Jerry as well.
08:18But it's one of those things that they did one, but then they didn't do any other characters.
08:21Like I did say in this review, to get a cousin Eddie of this design would have gone perfectly
08:26to be displayed with Clark Griswold.
08:28And yet Clark is the only one that we got from National Lampoon's.
08:31As I did say, though, in this review, one idea to throw out out there, obviously the
08:35actors are too old now to be on film.
08:38We don't even want to think about, I don't want to think about National Lampoon's Christmas
08:40Vacation 2 where Eddie is on his own.
08:42I mean, if they ever want to do a follow-up film to the first classic one, maybe consider
08:47the idea to do a stop motion, one that maybe looks like it's made out of claymation.
08:51They probably don't have to spend as much time to do it out of physical clay with people
08:54moving the individual parts separately and then taking a still of it.
08:58But I mean, they could probably do something in CG to make it look like it's done in claymation.
09:02Looking like this, I think would be a perfect follow-up film to the original classic.
09:06What do you guys, though, think of Vinyl Sugars' Clark Griswold?
09:09It's an interesting enough line, but I can see certainly why people didn't get on board
09:13this.
09:14Because again, Funko is really bad for this.
09:15They need to go on the naughty list.
09:17They produced like one figure for this line and then you don't get any other characters
09:20for them.
09:21And then you're like looking at them on the shelf and you're like, well, that's fine to
09:23get a Clark, but I would like to get other characters to go along with this.
09:26And sadly, Clark was the only one that we ever got.
09:29If you guys did enjoy this video, though, do it a solid.
09:32Hit it with a like.
09:33You guys want to stick around for more?
09:34So I hope so.
09:35Obviously, we are wrapping up things right now with a pretty flat looking Clark, but
09:39there are more Christmas spots coming your way.
09:41So as always, thanks for watching.
09:43See you guys next time.