The Ten Most Bizarre McFarlane Figures of All Time

Todd McFarlane is kind of weird. Here’s a man who spent millions of dollars buying balls whose sole significance lies in the fact that they happened to have been struck by a piece of wood wielded by someone who had struck more balls with a piece of wood and sent them out of the field of play than anyone else (to that point). Does such a person, who takes the road more traveled, make a minor cameo as a bum in a movie based on his own creation (Spawn), make a figure of said bum for the movie’s toy line, then make the figure bigger, clean it up and re-release it as “Todd the Artist”? I leave these questions for you to ponder.

What’s not in question is that Todd was still making great toys while he was spending the GDP of small islands on baseballs and being sued by famous comic writers and hockey players. While many of the toys he made were very cool, a good number were absolutely batshit crazy. Note that doesn’t mean they sucked – some of the figures on the list below were sculpted by the famous Four Horsemen design studio. But they’re all very, very weird.

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