The Mummy Ardath Bey with Action Fez
Universal Monsters ReAction Figure No. 80794 Manufacturer: Super7 Includes: n/a Action Feature: n/a Retail: $17.99 Availability: April 2018? Other: The one, the only
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The Mummy Ardath Bey from Super7 is, as of my writing this, pretty cheap. The secondary market price dipped a bit, which both makes sense and is kind of odd. This is how Boris Karloff looked for most of The Mummy - he was only a bandaged corpse in the film's first scene. After that he gets a swell hat and goes around looking for love, in all the wrong epochs. There's magic and the threat of murder and all kinds of things - but it's a movie from 1932 and is unlikely to offer the thrills and chills as modern epics. It's still worth seeing, even if it is pretty darned similar to the Bela Lugosi Dracula flick.
The toymakers of the past 90ish years tended to make the monsters - you got a werewolf, not Lon Chaney Jr. The artwork of this figure hints at a transformation, but what you're getting is a costume Boris Karloff wore, and a swell hat. I like the outfit, I like the general vibe, but the face deco does not help him read as Karloffy to me. Your mileage may vary.
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The figure is neat - I prefer the wrapped version with its unusual pose and more monster-like vibe, but this one is no slouch. And by that I mean his posture is very straight - a lot of ReAction figures and actual Kenner toys slumped a bit. That makes him look a little taller, and a little less action-y. Most of the major costume elements are here, but tweaked a bit. You get the lion belt, and the robes are there... but depending on where you look, the colors are a bit off. The ties around the neck look more like a bolo tie on the figure, too, but that sort of thing was pretty common in the era before style guides. Walrus Man didn't have blue limbs and swim fins, but it was a nice toy. Likewise, Ardath Bey has a cream-colored robe with red accoutrements, as opposed to cream-colored accoutrements on a gold robe. Which is right? Heck if I know, it was a black-and-white movie.
I assume Super7 went with a different sculptor here, but I don't know for sure - the legs are a little too straight compared to other figures in the line. It fits well with the rest thanks to the claw-like hands, but I don't think he was designed to hold things. He stands well, and the legs swing forward - but not as well as some other figures. Basically, expect a 45-degree bend. It's not nothing, but you're not going to make him some sort of sarcophagus dragster to zoom around. He's an old action figure, but I don't think Kenner fiends are going to see this one as a perfect match for the style. But they're definitely aiming to do something unique and unusual, and I still like it.
If you have a collection of old Kenner figures, you're probably more interested in a feeling than in authenticity. This figure delivers the feeling - the articulation is good, the hands feel of that specific era, and the likeness isn't quite there. That's pretty typical for most of the toys I had as a kid. I wish the figure had a cool accessory or some other bonus, but at least the costume is unique and the colors are overall off enough that it feels like it very much could have come out of Kenner in 1979. If it's still available online at a discount, I'd recommend it to anyone who just loves monster movies and a good weird 3 3/4-inch action figure. But get the Metaluna Mutant or Mummy first, those are some of the very best.
--Adam Pawlus
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