![]() ![]() I want to take this opportunity to thank Heidi Egan who was such a pleasure to deal with at her Etsy shop VintageShoppingSpree. What the brain had forgotten, the hands remembered! However after briefly reacquainting myself with the figure, I found that I was able to reorganise them correctly with practised ease. Suffice to say that when the model arrived in the post, its interior parts were a little jumbled. And that interest channelled into my work, initially as a dancer and choreographer, and later as a painter. I’m quite sure it was this toy that helped form my interest in the body and how it works. I never painted my childhood Visible Man, liking him just the way he was. Neither has it been painted in model-kit enamels, which suits me perfectly. This one had survived being assembled (some of the more delicate parts are easy to break) but had then been safely stored in its box, and so although the packaging is as worn at the edges as you’d expect after all these years, the figure within has been perfectly preserved. These figures are quite fragile and need either to have been very well-cared for, or kept unused in their boxes. (I don’t know where that went.) I’d been searching for many years when I came across this one being sold on a site in the USA. The model here is not the one I was given by my parents. The Visible Man was launched in 1959, and so was in the first flush of youth when he appeared that memorable Christmas morning in my pillow case. There’s a second leaflet, An Introduction to Anatomy, to contextualize the model with descriptions of the body’s systems and how they work. It was quite disheartening to see them scattered on the table around the plastic casing of the torso, because it looked as though they’d never fit inside. ![]() … before the most difficult stage of getting them all snugly into place. … moving on to first identifying and then putting together the organs… The instructions began with the assembling of the skeleton… It was in kit-form, and for even the most dextrous fingers and questing young mind, constructing it was a daunting challenge. The figure didn’t emerge from the box looking like this. I thought the artwork on it beautiful… I still do all these years later… and that was before even I saw what was inside. Ready for a closer look at the Invisible Man? Then join me after the break.Early one Christmas morning back in the 1960s, I opened my pillow-case to discover a box exactly the same as this one. Even though the film is now over 80 years old it still manages to be a fun and wacky sci-fi film with some truly suspenseful moments and special effects that are still fun to watch. If you've never seen The Invisible Man, check it out. Anyways, it's really fantastic that Funko released him as part of their first release of Universal Monsters ReAction figures as I can see collectors of that vintage line wanting to include him in their sets. Or maybe he was and we just never saw him. Jack Griffin, is ready to bring a delightful bit of madness to your Halloween festivities! While Remco released a true vintage line of Universal Monsters action figures back in 1981, the Invisible Man was not included. Wells' 1897 novel), this figure of the Invisible Man, a.k.a. Based on James Whales' 1933 film The Invisible Man (which was based on H. While I reviewed the Mummy when he was released earlier this month, it actually has taken me until just this past week to track down the rest of the Universal Monsters ReAction figures from Funko.
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