Unparalleled Universe Odious the Living Curse 1/12 Scale Action Figure Review and Images

[ToyFarce]

It's Wednesday and you know what that means... ToyFarce review!

This week, we're having a look at the Odious the Living Curse 1/12 scale figure from Unparalleled Universe (... Toys?). Unparalleled Universe is a Youtube channel with weekly live shows, hosted by Wade Merrick who created the character of Odious, the Living Curse. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Odious is now an action figure, and a pretty great one, I might add!

The story goes like this: So long ago that he cannot even recall his birth name, Odious was once a man who sacrificed his soul in order to save his people. Little did he know that in, making this sacrifice, he sentenced himself to eternal torment. Odious is cursed to live lives that aren't his as an unwilling parasite consuming the bodies of those unlucky enough to shed blood upon his stone remains. Those who do so, must give up their place on this earth to ODIOUS THE LIVING CURSE!!!! 

My haul from the Kickstarter, including a "Lil' O" Odious plushie and the additional weapons by Nico Hodge aka Artman customs.

Half monster, half hero, Odious is committed to doing right by the people he has taken over by protecting what they hold dear and hunting down the monsters hidden among us... The figure is fully articulated, with detailed sculpting, layered paint, and soft goods clothing! Odious comes with 5 different head sculpts, 8 different pairs of hands, jeans, 2 flannel jackets (with and without sleeves), a black overcoat (wired!) and his skull mace.

This is a great figure, that moves nicely. The soft goods are of great quality, and all the different headsculpts and hands allows for tons of poses and stories for toy photography. The details on the body without clothes are also very good. Only nitpick are that the heads are a bit annoying to change, since the peg hole is a bit tight, but it is a known issue and the figure came with a note saying to apply heat on the heads in order to change them more easily. For a first offering, though, this is pretty much a homerun!

This was the first version that was available through the Kickstarter, but Wade has already shown other versions of it (Inmate version at SDCC, military, etc...). Since the Odious curse can possess anybody, there are tons of possibilities for the figure.

More news at 11:00... Tuesday Crew... Assemble!

[ucsf]

A spicy figure in a good way. The soft goods, the hoodie, the sculpting and the packaging is pretty insanely detailed. Thank you for this review in depth.