14
points of articulation.Turns : biceps, wrists, waist.
Bends : knees, elbows.
Ball-joints : shoulders, neck.
MOVIE USHER SCOOTER
14
points of articulation.
Turns : biceps, wrists, waist.
Bends : knees, elbows.
Ball-joints : shoulders, neck.
Scooter, the creepy redheaded eyeless nephew bird-man, finds himself in a slimmer, suited up body in this wave, as he appeared in 'The Muppets Take Manhattan'. In the movie, the Muppets did actually take the island of Manhattan using nothing but an army of highly trained beads. They ethnically cleansed about half of it before they erupted into a highly cinematic dance number and lost interest. So, it was more of a historical re-enactment than anything else.
Why Usher Scooter? I don't exactly know. I DO know that I just fell asleep watching Star Trek and was awoken by a medium-sized spider on my chin, and from this I learned that one should NEVER sleep and watch Trek at the same time, 'cause creepy ass things happen. I'm sure that the two are related. User Scooter remains a mystery.
Everything on the figure except for the hands is a resculpt. The head itself has smaller glasses and a more angular appearance overall. While I don't have a solid point of visual reference for the figure, the horrible death-brown colors and gold piping on the costume seem to cry out '1970's fashion'. Not 'cry' so much as 'spew chunkily'... so the whole package scores for its fearlessness of retro-accuracy, at whatever cost. It worked for the Newscaster, and it looks mighty nice here too. While the gold piping is rough at best, the mistakes get pretty easily lost in the BROWN (which is so brown that it can only be written in all caps), so it's not overwhelmingly visible. The hat, by the way, cannot be removed.
One point that remains visually unsettling on an otherwise outstanding figure with smooth and well-placed articulation - the 'Muppet Theatre' logo on the back of the jacket. With no desire to be a typographical tightass, the applied logo is completely lopsided. Maybe it's because I've come to expect more of the figures from Palisades, but it stretches off at odd angles, however subtly, and makes me all kinds of sad.
The small changes to Scooter, like taking away his rounded edges and large eyes and slimming him down, seems to have left a less friendly figure behind, even if it is perfectly visually pleasing. He'll ush you like there's no tomorrow.
Scooter comes with a large popcorn cart as his sole accessory. The wheels turn, and the solid mass of popcorn is sculpted inside the clear plastic case, completely enclosed. Now, I'd like to relate that I have about thirteen billion microscopic spiders in my room at the moment. If you set anything down for more than 15 seconds, a minimum three spiders will stake it out as real estate and begin spinning a cocoon of webs around it, in some kind of furiously hungry effort to catch the five trillion dust mites which are also in my room, which are like Fritos to spiders. All I'm saying is that the inside of this thing, if at all accessible by the merest of electrons, will provide some wonderful shelter for the dread arachnids. It would have been neat if Palisades included loose popcorn instead of the solid mass, which has a very distinct similarity to Super Golden Crisp, making me long for the dulcet voice of Sugar Bear and the days of yore.
The cart is neat. Well constructed, and with an empty space inside the lower body for whatever you choose. I keep intestines and sometimes nickels in my lower body. And probably some very sneaky spiders. I'm not sure of the exact appeal of Usher Scooter, but I like him.
Now, the continuing Kraken saga.
