McFarlane Toys Monsters Series 5 Twisted X-mas Frosty the Snowman Figure | Christmas Spot 2023
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00:00 With a corncob pipe and a button nose and what's left of the children's souls.
00:04 Here's your Christmas spawn McFarlane toys Twisted Xmas Frosty the Snowman.
00:11 McFarlane's Twisted Christmas Frosty the Snowman is not the snowy sucker sung
00:28 about in those age-old children's songs. Far from the banal friendly character
00:32 this gruesome spindly monster will make mincemeat of your little sugar plums.
00:35 Thumpity thump thump thumpity thump thump. Look at Frosty go. He's butchering
00:41 those people over there. Before we get a closer look, that's ridiculous. At the
00:46 Twisted Xmas Frosty the Snowman, a figure that was released in 2007. Let's grab
00:51 the tape measure and see how tall it stands. Some assembly is required with
00:54 Frosty here. We'll get kind of down to that more in a moment. But the figure
00:57 though is standing about six and a half inches in height or it's gonna be about
01:00 17 centimeters tall. I don't know maybe we should bring in some other Christmas
01:05 characters. Here's what the figure looks like with the earlier looked at Santa
01:08 Claus. He was in fact the first figure that we looked at from the Twisted Xmas.
01:10 And then followed from that we also looked at Mrs. Claus, one of my favorite
01:13 figures. In fact you're currently looking at two of my favorite figures
01:16 from this wave. We already know it's Mrs. Claus and it's Frosty the Snowman.
01:19 Frosty is a fantastic looking figure and he scales pretty well with the other two
01:23 when you have them on display. As I was though saying there was assembly that
01:27 was required for Frosty when you first get him out of his clamshell casing. The
01:30 figure has basically all these arms that have to be attached. In fact what you can
01:35 do with Frosty is that you can remove him completely from the display base. And
01:38 like I said all these legs and all these extra arms were things that had to
01:42 be attached on their own. Just an FYI though in fact actually if you wanted to
01:46 have Frosty even without his display stand, I think the display stand does add
01:49 a lot of charm to him. But if you wanted to you could in fact remove the bottom
01:53 parts and then just have him free standing really without the need of
01:56 having that display stand at all. It just makes him a little bit smaller of course.
02:00 As he's a little bit shrunk down in size we'll look at the really dirty
02:03 looking snow terrain that he comes attached on to. I'm not sure if that's
02:07 spinal cord. It kind of does look like it is. There's also a missing mitt that
02:11 seems to still have the hand still inside. That's gruesome. You can see
02:15 there's a couple little bony fingers still sticking out from the gloves. What
02:18 other things? Well there's trinkets on there. There's tiny little bones right
02:21 there. There's a few little things sticking out from the snow. And for
02:24 Christmas of course there also seems to be like a little Christmas ornament
02:27 there as well. I don't know if a few kids were maybe decorating a
02:30 tree outside when Frosty just popped out of the snow. Just grabbed them and
02:34 pulled them back in. The detailing done to the snow itself has more of kind of a
02:39 darker coloring than maybe even Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus. In fact actually
02:43 let's bring in Mrs. Claus here. You can see Mrs. Claus was much more of a
02:46 brighter blue and white. Frosty's base though is very grimy, very dirty. It looks
02:50 like it's something that once a plow has kind of gone through your street
02:54 knocked up all the snow and I'm sure buried your driveway in the process. Don't
02:57 you just hate that? You already have completed a job. About to walk into the
03:01 house your driveway is completely open and ready to pull out and then you
03:04 realize yes the plow has come through and buried your back the bottom of your
03:08 driveway with snow and you have to spend another hour or so to go back out. I hate
03:11 that. But this is the kind of more dirtier, slushier snow that we're seeing
03:15 here with with Frosty. And again there's pegs on the top here that basically
03:19 you'll just take your snowman and they have to go a certain way. So if you
03:22 wanted to have it for example this way it just isn't gonna cut it. I kind of
03:25 would have preferred if it was facing the opposite way. I mean you could kind
03:29 of just have it balancing on the top and it does a serviceable enough job. I mean
03:33 it's not gonna really it's not gonna fall over unless you're gonna be banging
03:35 it. But the correct real way of doing it is where you're attaching it this way. It
03:39 just means though there's a lot of extra stuff behind Frosty and I don't think it
03:43 shows maybe as well. If it were at the very most they could have made it also
03:47 maybe even centered with some of the snow backdrop on the other side of him.
03:50 Like I said though there was some assembly required. These arms had to be
03:54 installed. They attach basically just by pegs. Any one of them can be removed. I
03:58 usually just keep these two in place. The ones that most frequently fall off
04:02 though are the ones that are these ones. These are really neat because if you
04:05 get them on the display stand for example Frosty, I'm just gonna plug him
04:08 back into the base and really once he's plugged in it's securely there. It's not
04:12 gonna be going anywhere. These actually give you a look. I want to make sure I've
04:15 got them facing the right way. Basically it's just a peg it's gonna fit into the
04:18 hole provided and once you plug these in place then really neat thing about these
04:22 is not only do they kind of look like legs but it looks like Frosty is trying
04:26 to pull himself off of the snowy stump and pursue the person that's in front of
04:30 him. So like a little couple of kids are running away. I don't think kids really
04:34 sound like that but if the kids are running away from Frosty it looks like
04:37 Frosty is just basically trying to pull himself off the snowy stump and just
04:40 continue on to chasing them. I think that's really neat. Kind of terrifying
04:44 also as well to see a snowman that's really trying to pull himself off the
04:48 snowy base. I'm gonna just actually in fact take him off the base and I'm sure
04:53 these things are gonna fall off. These are always things that fall off
04:56 frequently for this figure. I'm just kind of trying to do my best to kind of keep
04:59 everything in place here. Getting though a closer look at Frosty's face there's
05:02 lots of stuff going on inside the mouth. You may not in fact really want to go
05:06 this close to his mouth. There's row upon rows of stalactites and
05:11 stalagmites. Little icicles of ice you can see he has several rows of this both
05:16 on the top and on the bottom and inside the chasm that is his icy breath you can
05:21 see as well he's got himself a little tiny icicle tongue. I think
05:26 that's so cool the fact that they did that. Oh I see what I did there. The way they've
05:29 actually colored this too. The teeth are more darker on the top so it gives a
05:33 little bit more nice of a contrasting darker color and it gets more frosted to
05:37 the ends of the icicles. All of the icicles by the way are more harder
05:40 plastic so if you ever do get this guy loose I've seen some examples where
05:44 some of these teeth are broken right off. I've even seen an example where the
05:47 tongue was broken off. Luckily the one that I have haven't had any of those
05:51 issues. Of course he does have the the carrot nose. That's a really nice touch
05:55 there as well. It looks to be that he also has coal for eyes and several
05:59 coals as well that he has for little buttons down the front of his body. The
06:02 snow itself is quite dirty. Instead of actually going with more of a solid
06:07 opaque plastic what they've done instead is they've gone with more of a
06:10 translucent plastic and then they painted the dirtier parts over top of it.
06:13 You've got these nice little mixes of kind of lighter whites and you've got
06:17 some like kind of little darker browns also added in there as well. He's a
06:20 roly-poly fellow. He's kind of hunched over to the side. This certainly would
06:24 look like a snowman I would expect to see in the Krampus film. I mean that
06:27 would be a really cool snowman. I know we have gotten ourselves Jack Frost but
06:31 Jack Frost looked a little really ridiculous especially knowing how
06:34 fake the snow really looked in the film. I would love if Jack Frost actually
06:37 could look like this. He does also have a hat. The hat is not removable but it's
06:41 got some really interesting form to it. I love the way it actually just droops
06:44 down like this. He really does look like an age-old kind of thing that comes back
06:48 every single year to kind of claim the lives of the children that get too close
06:52 to the dirty snow. Of course he does also have his arms here. Some of these
06:56 twig arms by the way over the time that I've had these I think in fact like the
07:01 arms are actually supposed to stick out a little bit further than this. I've kind
07:03 of been tempted just to heat this a little bit with a hair dryer see if I
07:06 can actually bring those arms just out a little bit because though the time that
07:09 I usually put these things back in the bags this has warped just a little bit
07:13 so now like the the twig hand that he has a little closer to his face I would
07:17 have liked to bring them out just a little bit more. I wish in a way that
07:20 these were actually ball joints instead of just peg joints then I could actually
07:23 at least bring those arms outward. As they are right now though the sticks
07:27 that he has for his arms times three are colored here mostly first in a brown and
07:31 then they've gone in there and painted a more lighter brown in there as well. So
07:35 it's kind of got a couple of different colors and tones of brown and again I
07:38 really love this one. My favorite ones are the ones where he looks like
07:41 he's pulling himself off the stump. The articulation on this guy is gonna be
07:44 pretty limited but that goes without saying. I mean obviously all the Twisted
07:47 Xmas figures from 2007 I mean like look at the stuff that we're getting from
07:51 McFarland toys back then 17 years ago and you kind of know by then what kind
07:55 of articulation we're gonna be getting here. So really it's only just the arms
07:58 that are the things that move on Frosty. I mean it's just a case that they move
08:02 back and forth you move these up and down as also as well and of course you
08:05 can also move these too. These were always the things that I already
08:08 mentioned there are always ones that fall out frequently and I'm sure even
08:11 the times that I've actually got these on display I have these actually right
08:14 now on display in my house. I've actually gone back and popped these in a couple
08:19 of times because even just on their own left on their own I every once in a
08:23 while go back into my office and I just see like one of these arms have just
08:26 long fallen on to the side so I always have to kind of peg them back in place. I
08:29 do wish in a way that they could have actually made the pegs just a little bit
08:32 longer. Making them longer would have also aided to help keep them more in
08:37 there instead of actually a very shallow looking hole. With it being shallow
08:41 they're more prone to again falling off and again without having him falling off
08:45 just putting him back onto display. I see there's one of the arms. It honestly is
08:49 one of those things too when you get this guy on display you kind of have to
08:52 put these legs on these arms on last because you have to kind of measure off
08:55 where you're gonna be putting them. Sometimes if they're too low they just
08:59 pop the arms off in the process and you certainly don't want that. Frosty though
09:03 minus of course the problems I have with his two bottom arms. Frosty
09:08 though is my favorite figure. I know I did say earlier bringing back in Mrs.
09:12 Claus that Mrs. Claus was my favorite from this wave. She is I think I would
09:16 still say she's my second favorite but nothing's topping Frosty here for my
09:19 favorite figure from the Twisted Xmas. I really did want to kind of wait till the
09:22 last to see this guy have a look at this guy because the next upcoming figures
09:26 that we're gonna be looking at in no particular order are the Rudolph, there's
09:29 also the Jack Frost and there's Santa's helpers. I don't think any one of them
09:33 are really as good as the first three that we're looking at right here and not
09:36 to diminish what will be those upcoming reviews, Frosty though is the coolest, no
09:39 pun intended, favorite figure from the Twisted Xmas line. Is he yours? Let me
09:43 know down below in the comments section. Considering that Frosty does have
09:47 swiveling arms, all six of them, it means that as well you can bring those arms
09:50 forward. If you don't like the idea of having Frosty with the longer arms
09:53 looking as if he's pulling himself off the snowy base, rather you can actually
09:56 have those arms forward. It means also as well with the arms forward you
10:00 can also detach the figure from the display stand and have them loose
10:03 instead. It does reduce his size though by giving the bottom base that they did,
10:07 it does make him a lot more menacing I feel, but if you have a little more
10:10 smaller quarters, even though really like the base is a bit more behind him than
10:14 is in the front, kind of a missed opportunity I feel. Like McFarland
10:17 Toys, I think it would have looked better to have more of the snowy base on the
10:21 front of the figure rather than on the back because if you're having the figure
10:25 displayed for example on a shelf, the back of it is the last thing you're
10:28 really gonna be able to see and you're also missing out on all the other things
10:31 and maybe that's the real reason why they did that because on the front it
10:35 doesn't look as terrifying until you kind of look to the back and then you
10:39 realize oh wait there's a missing mitten with a hand inside, there's a
10:42 spinal cord there as well, but I don't think you'd really want to get this
10:45 close to a terrifying snowman like this that has that many rows of teeth on the
10:49 top and on the bottom. The figure looks fantastic though. This is the kind of
10:53 snowman I would love to see in a remake of Jack Frost. No, not the family-friendly
10:56 one that starred Michael Keaton. I did anyone even see oh yeah I did see that
11:00 one in the theater. I didn't like it at all. I much prefer the killer snowman
11:04 that killed Shannon Elizabeth in the bathtub and unfortunately the follow-up
11:07 sequel where Jack Frost goes to the tropics. What was he allergic to anyways?
11:11 Like pineapple, coconut? Who cares? If I ever get the chance to really watch Jack
11:16 Frost, the killer snowman version that is, I only really watch the first one. The
11:20 first one is still cheesy. Jack Frost literally looks like he's wearing a
11:23 snowmaid suit, but at least it's a lot more interesting than the second
11:27 follow-up film. What's even the second one called? Who cares? What do you guys
11:32 think though of Frosty the Snowman? Is this a pretty cool looking figure? Let me
11:35 know down below in the comments section. Now if you are also doing a tally of
11:38 what we've looked at so far, we have still three remaining. We have a Jack
11:42 Frost, speaking of which, we also as well have a Rudolph and we have Santa's Little
11:46 Helpers. I keep wanting to call them Santa's Elves, which obviously they are, but I
11:50 think they were released as being called Santa's Little Helpers. Either way,
11:53 though, those reviews will be coming your way. In the meantime, though, if you guys
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