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I’ve always admired Todd McFarlene’s line of toys and of course his art­work that inspires these toys. These detailed toys far sur­pass the toys that have been released in the past few years. I can remem­ber when Skele­ton War­riors was a pop­u­lar car­toon and the toys were as equally cool. The toys were detailed (at the time); con­tain­ing real­is­tic bones con­sid­er­ing the war­riors were skeletons.

Now, McFar­lene has brought out a line of toys inspired by the Wiz­ard of Oz. How­ever, inspired is just a small part of this series. Rather, McFar­lene has trans­formed this world orig­i­nally cre­ated by L. Frank Baum into a macabre, twisted and some­what creepy ver­sion, à la Todd McFar­lene who can eas­ily con­vert some­thing tran­quil into some­thing wicked.

These aren’t toys for the kid­dies. Rather, these toys are ones that sit on top of the shelves of seri­ous col­lec­tors. Peo­ple who think Night­mare Before Christ­mas is the great­est thing since the 60s Frosty the Snowman.

Check them out: http://www.spawn.com/toyfest/catalog/monsters2.aspx