Four Horsemen Studios Figura Obscura The Mouse King Review and Images

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 Nutcracker 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. The soft goods cape looks amazing, red with black on the inside, with hole and patches on it. My only issue with it is the tail, which does not want to stay in the peg, but I've had that issue with every character who has a tail so far (Krampus, Jersey Devil,...). That tiny ball peg does not seem to work with me, and the tail falls down whenever I move the figure. I might just glue it...







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.