Four Horsemen Studios Figura Obscura The Mouse King Review and Images

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

This week, we're having a look at the Figura Obscura The Mouse King figure by the Four Horsemen Studios! They switched things around this time, and it wasn't a Ghost of Christmas Present or Future, as everyone expected (and a small part of the community seemed to have taken it as a personal betrayal, for some reason). Another beautiful entry in the Figura Obscura line!

The Mouse King is the antagonist in the short story by Alexandre Dumas turned into a legendary ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. In some versions of the story, it can be a mouse or a rat, and have multiple heads. The Four Horsemen Studios went with the version with seven heads, while giving us the option to display him with only one. When I saw the pictures of it before ordering it, I had assumed he would be smaller, a goblin or dwarf scale, since it's supposed to be a mouse, and since my Figura Obscura shelf is starting to be very crowded in the Detolf, I was happy to get a smaller figure, easier to sneak into the display. I didn't look into it too much before ordering it, only to realize later that it's a 'normal size' figure. Oh well...

The Mouse King comes with 7 heads, attached on the same neck piece, along with a separate neck piece for a single head, an extra pair of hands, a collar (or ruff), a sword, a scepter, a beautiful soft goods cape, a secret item (more on that later) and a green stand, along with the magnetic sleeve/backdrop from the box. As is tradition, he also comes with a booklet with the full story of the character and the Four Horsemen Studios details, which I always love to dive into. I put Tchaikovsky's ballet in the background while taking pictures and reading it, and it was pretty nice.

The figure looks amazing, and that multi-headed piece is really awesome. It is a bit top heavy, of course, so you have to play a bit with the pose for the figure not to fall forward. The other neck piece is really nice too, allowing you to have him as a normal mouse/rat character, or even a 'noble' one with the collar/ruff. It has great articulations too and I have seen it posed as a normal mouse/rat, crawling on the floor. 

This year, the bonus part, which came hidden in a black baggie, is none other than a Nutcracker head sculpt. I can talk about it now, since the 'embargo' that the Four Horsemen Studios Facebook groups had ended on Christmas. It's a fun take on the Nutcracker character. I put it on the Silver Knight body to fight the Mouse King. 

More news at 11:00... Now playing: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.