Kingdom Hearts. It has a truly dedicated fanbase, but I’m not
one of them. I played a few hours of the first game on PS2. It was fun, but I wasn’t
(and am not) enough of a Disney or Square Enix fan to make my way through the
entire thing.
So as with
the Sleestak
– if I don’t care about the property, why the hell did I fork out for this?
Basically,
it’s because I’m a sucker for mummies. I’ve been obsessed with Ancient Egypt
since I was a little kid. In the last few years alone, I’ve bought all manner
of silly mummy-related merchandise since, including a Ninja
Turtles pin, both
POPs
from the decidedly mediocre 2017 The Mummy,
a POP
and Mystery
Mini from the excellent Boris Karloff movie, plenty
of
Lego,
two
Madballs,
and a bunch of other Egyptian stuff that hasn’t made the site. So Halloween
Donald here is hardly a stretch at this point.
Having now
purchased him, I’m happier with him than I expected to be. The paint is better
than average for a Funko POP, and the bandages have an appropriately brown look
– it’s a step up on most pop culture mummies, who tend to just throw some clean
white bandages at an existing character and hope for the best. In a world where
people collect any old crap that Disney and Square Enix care to pump out, Funko
must be commended for going the extra mile.
My only
real issue is that he’s cast in transparent plastic, to emulate his
semi-ghostly look from the game. It may be “accurate”
but it doesn’t end up looking terribly convincing; it probably could be
executed via more sophisticated moulding techniques, but I doubt it would be
cost-effective.
This is a
fun extra for Kingdom Hearts fans or
general Disney obsessives, and pretty non-essential for everyone else. But as
an avowed fan of Ancient Egypt, it was a must-have for me.
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