Evilution Demon

Almost 20 years ago Stan Winston Studios-the visual and practical effects studio, jumped into the toy market with its own series of action figures.

How To Make a Monster was one of the series and one of its figures was the Evilution Demon.

It’s easy to see that the figure was sculpted by the same individuals who create the amazing creatures and practical effects for movies.  The Stan Winston artists and craftsmen are some of the best in the world.

After Stan passed away the studio changed its name to Legacy Effects to honor Stan.

The Evilution Demon stands around 9-inches tale and comes packaged in an oversize bubble pack with an inner cocoon that holds the demon and accessories securely in place.

The container can be hung or stand on a shelf.  An exclusive CD is included about the making of the figure.

The figure is an amazing amalgamation of plastic, metal and wire.  The Stan Winston Studio did an amazing job of cobbling together a figure using various media to create the ultimate patchwork monster.

The skull head looks emaciated with its taught tan skin pulled over its face and culminate with metal teeth on both the upper and lower jaws.  Two silver tinted eyes peer out from the grimacing skull eye sockets.

On its head rests a two layer skull cape with a row of spies running down its center.

Two large horns (one is broken) sit on the sides and frame the face.

The skull attaches to the torso with its torn flesh and augmented surface.

A large spiked shoulder guard rests on its left shoulder held in place by a brown belt with silver buckle.  A red and blue wire comes from its stomach area.

Its left arm is a combination of flesh, bone and metal with a metal elbow assembly, rags and putrid hand with long bone/metal fingers.  Shreds of flesh and cloth hang from the arm.

The right arm is mostly cybernetic with strips of dead flesh covering a lion share of the circuits, wires and metal augmentations.

An elaborate metal elbow assembly attaches the forearm to the upper arm.  The forearm has a number of implants and wires and ends in a metal clad hand with metal strip finger reinforcements.

Below the waist the figure’s form is partially cover by a tattered piece of stained and ripped cloth/flesh.

The hips are made entirely of metal molded into the shape of a buttocks and hips joints.

Both upper legs are mostly metal sheeting covering the decayed leg bones.

The right leg is severed at the knee and the lower right leg metal tibia and fibula leg bones attach to a flat metal foot with wire attachments.  The left leg from the knee down features an eight-spike kneecap of wood, metal and wire lower leg bones and a similar metal foot as the right leg.

The figure’s base appears to consist of jagged and melted pieces of lab equipment with fragments of wire, controls and interfaces and floor grating forming a corner section of wall with a large piece in the back and smaller piece in the front.

A piece of perforated metal girder and a small monitor screen are also included.

The details on this figure are amazing.  Look for hydraulics, hinges, aged and rusted metal, fragments of bone, bits of flesh and a hodgepodge of organic and non-organic pieces and fragments all slapped together to form a really horrifying figure.

Paint application is complicated to say the least with multi-layers of pigment, clever paint application to simulate decay and subtle shading and tonal variations that make the figure pop.

It’s too bad the toy line did not do as well as Stan Winston Studios hoped.  After too short a period the toy line ceased production.