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Monroeville Zombies 12 Inch Cop Figure…
Time and Space Toys, LLC is pleased to announce the launch of its Monroeville Zombies project, which will premiere at the HorrorFind Weekend convention in the Baltimore/Washington, DC-area next week, with an exclusive 12″ Zombie Cop Action Figure (aka Officer Kane Heinz). The Zombie Cop will be the first of several 12″ zombie action figures, at 1/6 scale, to be released throughout the year at various venues. Read on for more info and a look.
A limited number of only fifty Monroeville Zombies 12″ Zombie Cop figures will be produced and available at the show. This individually numbered, limited edition figure, manufactured by Peril Unlimited, is fully poseable, with real cloth clothing and detailed police accessories. The figure has two layers of production. After being factory-produced and painted in China, the figures are transferred to the United States for more work. A special, secondary paint application gives the figures a very realistic textured look, and special distressing of the clothing gives them that perfect worn-and-torn zombie look. This launch figure will be the most limited of all the Monroeville Zombies figures.
Decades ago, the modern horror film was created with a tale of zombies laying siege to a shopping mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. While the film was fiction, its following was and continues to be very real. Monroeville Zombies is a new project based on the concept that life (and in this case, death too) imitates art. What happens when zombie fans and real zombies collide? The Monroeville Zombies project tells that story and parodies both the survival horror genre and its fandom.
“We are thrilled to launch the Monroeville Zombies 12″ action figure line with our very limited edition figure, Zombie Officer Kane Heinz,” says Time and Space Toys President Kevin Kriess. “Officer Heinz joined the hordes of the living dead while attempting to secure the mall in a now-classified security incident within the tale of Monroeville Zombies. He’s a great zombie character that fits right in with other 1/6 scale lines in need of extra ghouls”.
About Time and Space Toys, LLC:
Time and Space Toys is an online retailer of high quality, licensed toys and collectibles based on entertainment properties. Its brick and mortar store, Toy Galaxy, located in the historic Monroeville Mall, boasts a huge sales floor packed with unique merchandise and a knowledgeable sales staff. Toy Galaxy is dedicated to keeping the memory classic horror films alive by collaborating with the horror film industry and fans on opportunities to celebrate the location where the modern horror film began. Future Monroeville Zombies endeavors will include a mall tour and themed attraction, a comic book series, a clothing line and other collectibles. For more information, visit www.timeandspacetoys.com, www.MonroevilleZombies.com or Toy Galxy on the lower level of the Monroeville Mall.
About HorrorFind Weekend:
HorrorFind Weekend, a giant horror convention billed as “the spookiest show on earth,” features horror movie writers and actors, Halloween seminars, supernatural speakers, a giant dealers room and many special events. For more information, visit www.horrorfindweekend.com.
About Peril Unlimited:
Peril Unlimited is a small company founded by zombie aficionado Michael Jones. The company is the home of the Zombie Army Building Program and specializes in manufacturing extremely detailed 1/6 scale zombie action figures. For more information, visit www.perilunlimited.com.
The trailer for Ti West’s upcoming adaptation of A Christmas Carol raised a lot of eyebrows when it dropped earlier this week. While plenty of folks initially dismissed Ebenezer as a derivative project meant to cash in on the recent wave of unnecessary prequels that expand the backstory of beloved characters (such as 2023’s Wonka), Charles Dickens’ original novel already made a point of exploring Ebenezer Scrooge’s origins in detail – meaning that this new film is likely just a particularly faithful adaptation of the source material under a different name.
Couple that with the fact that the movie is being helmed by a genuine horror auteur and I think it’s safe to say that the latest iteration of the first modern ghost story is in good hands.
That being said, one detail that immediately jumped out at me during the brief teaser (other than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nod to Johnny Depp’s iconic bedroom death scene from the original A Nightmare on Elm Street) is the fact that many of Ebenezer’s ghosts appear to have been directly lifted from the iconic John Leech illustrations that accompanied the first edition of Dickens’ novel.
Here are a couple of stills from the trailer compared to the original artwork:
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
The Phantoms in ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Ebenezer’
Marley’s Ghost in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
Mainly working with old-school wood and steel engravings that would later be transferred to print, Leech was instrumental in crafting the iconic look of history’s most influential phantoms – especially since Dickens is said to have been deeply involved with the creation of these so-called “comic illustrations.”
And since the novel is commonly said to have popularized spiritualism in Victorian England, much of the ghostly iconography that we still see in genre media to this very day (including some of Ti West’s previous films) can be traced back to the author’s partnership with Leech.
Ebenezer won’t be the first A Christmas Carol adaptation to borrow heavily from these designs, but I can appreciate how Ti West is incorporating an important part of horror history into his latest film.
Ebenezer will be available in theaters starting November 13.
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