Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike, Dead Ted, and Ali Gator
Today I'm back for round 3 of my look at Funko's Garbage Pail Kids Really Big Mystery Minis Vinyl Figures. In my previous installments I featured Tee-Vee Stevie, Adam Bomb, New Wave Dave, Bony Tony, Nasty Nick, amd Hot Scott. Today I'm looking at Mad Mike (a Conan-style barbarian), Ali Gator (half kid, half alligator), and Dead Ted (a rotting zombie).
Mad Mike, Ali Gator, and Dead Ted on their original trading cards
Mad Mike comes with two accessories, a sword and an axe. He can hold either one in his left hand, but it's hard to make him hold them both at once because his right hand is kind of loose. I got him to hold his axe in that hand, but just barely, and only by pointing it down to the ground and balancing it just right. Ali Gator comes with a fish he can hold, in addition to the the fish that is sculpted in his mouth. Dead Ted does not come with any accessories. Like all of the other figures in this line, each figure has an identical body sculpt, a unique and highly detailed head sculpt, a really nice paint job, and three points of articulation on the arms and head. Check out my photos of these guys and let me know what you think of them.
Bungle in the Jungle
BONUS! MUSIC VIDEO:
This one is dedicated to Mad Mike... The Darkness - Barbarian
Alright, I'm back for round 2 of my look at Funko's Garbage Pail Kids Really Big Mystery Minis Vinyl Figures. Last time I examined Tee-Vee Stevie, Adam Bomb, and New Wave Dave. This time I'm featuring some of the scarier figures from this line: Bony Tony (the kid whose face unzips to expose his skull), Nasty Nick (a Bela Lugosi style Vampire) and Hot Scott (he's the Devil!).
Bony Tony, Hot Scott, and Nasty Nick on their original trading cards
The first three figures I reviewed all had accessories, but in this trio only Hot Scott has one, in the form of his pitchfork. Aside, from that, everything I wrote about the other figures also applies to these guys, so you might want to go back and read that post for more details. In a nutshell, each figure has an identical body sculpt, a unique and highly detailed head sculpt, a really nice paint job, and three points of articulation on the arms and head. I don't really have a lot more to say about these guys that I didn't say last time, so I'll just let the photographs do the talking. Check them out...
Growing up I was a huge fan of parody artwork like that found in Mad Magazine, and on the Topps Company's Wacky Packs trading cards. In the fifth grade, all the kids in my class had cardboard dividers on our desks, which I guess were actually there to keep us from talking to each other, but we got to decorate them however we wanted. I covered mine in hand drawn parodies of name brands like Pepsi and Coke, as well as satirical takes on the "positive thinking" educational posters that were in our classroom. I also used to draw parodies of Cabbage Patch Kids based on the dolls my little sister owned. When the Garbage Pail Kids came out, I was actually in the 7th or 8th grade, and feeling like I was too old to be interested in kids stuff any longer, but I couldn't help but collect the stickers, because they were right up my alley. Some of the characters were so close to the drawings I had made, it was like the Topps Company was sneaking in to my room at night and rifling through my sketchbooks. In particular, I had a dirty hippy Cabbage Patch Kid I used to draw, with flies buzzing around him, that was a dead ringer for "Blake Flake" aka "Hippie Skippy."
The Entire Set of GPK Figures, Including the Retail Display Box
