I love outside of the box thinking, especially when it’s completely on brand. Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett is a known hardcore horror fan, especially that of the original Universal Monsters. He’s got guitars themed with the classic monsters and is known to own rare original art and posters for the films.
Now, Funko is giving him his own POP! line in which they reimagine the guitar legend as two Universal Monsters: Frankenstein’s Monster and The Creature From the Black Lagoon.
The two limited figures will be the first in the new “The Kirk Hammett Collection”, which I’d expect to expand with Hammett monsterfied as The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man, and maybe even The Mummy.
I hope they have fun names for the figures too, as these begin to touch into “Garbage Pail Kids” territory.
