Corpse Bride

Leave it to director Tim Burton to come up with another bizarre stop-motion movie almost as strange as The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Corpse Bride if filled with memorial dead and living characters all done with Tim Burton’s distinctive character designs.

My daughter loves The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride. In fact she loves all of Tim Burton’s stop-motion animated films.

McFarlane Toys created a Corpse Bride Mini-Figure Collector Set: Land Of The Living The Everglot Set for ages 5 years old and up.

Four creepy figures come in the set: Victoria, Mr. Everglot, Mrs. Everglot and Barkis Billers.

Each figure is colored is shades of gray and black and white giving them an old photograph look.

The set comes in a long rectangular box with a clear plastic viewing panel on its front.

The figures stand poised in their clear plastic form-fitting cocoon and held in place by wires.

Twin stand panels painted to look like stone are behind the figures and placed in front of a spooky forest backdrop,

All of the figures come dressed in dour and drab Victorian attire.

Victoria, despite her dowdy attire, looks beautiful with her china white skin, large expressive eyes, small mouth and pert nose.  Her hair is pulled back in a bun.

She wears a floor length dress with high collar, padded shoulders, a small waist and a large skirt with vertical strips and three rows of ruffled lace at its base.

Mr. Everglot, the portly patriarch of the family wears a three-piece suit with trousers, vest and jacket.

A ruffled tie complements his light gray ruffled shirt.  His spindly legs end in pointed black shoes.

He holds his jacket open and the scowl on his face best describes his demeanor.

He has a large toad like mouth, deep-set cruel eyes, a small patch of hair with a cowlick and he wears a watch with a gold watch fob chain.

Mrs. Everglot is tall, very busty, has a large haystack of hair, sharp features and long slender arms with claw like hands.

She too wears a full-length dress with padded shoulders but no with no frills or fancy laces.

The Barkis Billers figure stands tall and proud with his chest puffed out.  He wears a long tail jacket with matching vest, a white shirt, tie, long pinstripe pants and black shoes.

His face is pulled back in a self-righteous sneer made even more condescending by his large jutting chin, beady eyes, slightly long gray hair and the high collar that frames his face.

All of the figures are nicely painted and colored with subtle variations of gray, waxen skin tones and crisp lines with no bleedovers in the edges.

Considering how small the figures are the sculpt work is finely crafted, cleverly articulated and posed to match the personality of each figure. 

Psalm 16:8 (NKJV) “I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.”