February Pop In A Box

Hey guys! I have just recovered from an outburst of giggles after I accidently wrote 'February Poo In A Box' for a title! XD (Am I even an adult?? hahaha). Anyhow 'childish' humour aside, it has been a while since I posted on my blog so thankyou to those of you who are still following me! I can't believe how quickly this year seems to be flying by... it's April at the end of the week, like what!? It is now Springtime and I am super happy that we've already been getting sunshine and longer days, and very soon we will start to see lots of flowers and wildlife! I'm so looking forward to the rest of this glorious season! What's your favourite thing about Spring? For today's post, I'm going to be showing you all the Funko Pop! vinyl figures that I received last month in my Pop In A Box subscription. Enjoy! 

Is this your first time hearing about Pop In A Box? If so... it's a monthly subscription service for collectors of the super cool & adorable Pop! vinyl figures produced by the brand Funko. There's so many awesome characters available, for almost every popular movie, video game or TV Series franchise (plus so much more!), and this can make it really difficult to choose which figures you want the most when it comes to buying a Pop! or two. And that's where Pop In A Box comes in! This fabulous subscription makes the decision for you, based on your likes and dislikes. When you sign up to the service, you have the option to select a thumbs up or thumbs down to all of the figures on their database, as well as being able to record any of the figures that you already have. Then each month, you can opt to receive one to twelve of your favourite figures at random. It's such a fun thing to do (who doesn't love surprises!?) and is the perfect subscription for any Funko fan! I've been receiving Pop In A Box for a while now and I really enjoy it! You can check out my previous post here. And without further ado, here are the three figures I got in my latest box! 

Considering I used this awesome Sonic The Hedgehog figure for my main photograph, I thought I'd talk about it first :) Seriously though, how photogenic is this figure!? It's so bold and eye-catching, and the colour is really vibrant. It just stands out against any background, and has such a simple yet fantastic design that I think it would look great on display in any room of your home. What do you guys think? Even if you're not much of a Sonic fan, you can't deny that this guy is cute! For me personally, this figure is so nostalgic, especially because of the fact that Sonic is holding one of the golden rings from the games! It reminds me of my childhood so much, and of my early teens. I used to LOVE the Sonic Heroes PlayStation 2 game. As much as I love Sonic, Knuckles the Echidna was my favourite character from the franchise so I'm kind of gutted that he's not included in this set/collection. Hopefully they release one of him in the future. 

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this figure! The Shining (1980) is one of my top ten favourite horror movies. It was one of the first few 'scary' movies that I ever watched when I was a teenager, and it has remained a firm favourite of mine ever since! Not only are the storyline and characters awesome, but the actors are also great too! Jack Nicholson did such an amazing job as the movie protagonist you see in figure form above, Jack Torrance. This Pop! vinyl figure looks so so much like him, it's epic! Something that I really like it about The Shining collection of figures by Funko is the design of the boxes. The front of the box on the clear plastic is designed to fit in with the movie theme, including spatters of blood and also the words REDRUM written in blood (which will make sense if you've seen the movie, I don't want to spoil it for you by explaining!). I didn't take a photo of this, however back in November I was sent the figure of Wendy Torrance (Jack's wife) and included a photo on that post; click here if you wanna check it out. I kinda wish that all of the horror characters that Funko released had a bloody box design like this, because I think it looks super awesome in my opinion. I'm really happy that I now have Mr Torrance to display with his Mrs ♥

So along with the packaging, the figure itself is very cool! I really like the way Jack's hair looks, and how much his entire outfit matches with the actual movie outfit. It would be perfect if the shirt on this figure was checked but it's only a minor detail so not a big deal at all. Another feature that I like on this figure is the colouration around Jack's eyes. Just like with the Wendy Torrance figure, the reddish-purple hue around the eyes gives the impression of stress and exhaustion, which very much reflects the character's demeanour/appearance in the movie. My absolute favourite details on this Pop! figure though have to be the splashes of blood on Jack Torrance's forehead and also the bloody axe. There's also some blood on the neck of my figure, which is a nice addition to the bloody look even though I'm not sure if it's intentional, and not a bad paintjob, haha. I like it nonetheless! I think the figures stance and the way he is holding the axe is an awesome finishing touch to the overall design. I wasn't too bothered about getting the figure of Danny (The Torrance's son), but I'm sort of feeling like I need him to join his parents :D Anyhow guys, have you ever seen The Shining? What did you think of it?

YAY! I was absolutely over the moon to find another horror themed Pop! vinyl figure in my February Pop In A Box. I am really wanting to up my game and increase my horror collection of Funko figures, after realising how little I had compared to the figures of  my other fandom interests. I love horror so much and so this really wasn't on, haha! I thought that these new 8-bit Pop! figures were super cool but none of the characters I'd seen in this collection had appealed to me. That was until I spotted Freddy on the Pop In A Box website and freaked out a little! I was considering just purchasing it separately, rather than waiting to see if I get it one day with my subscription, but I had lots of more important things to spend my money on last month. However, my prayers were answered and I got him anyway :p 

The 1984 movie, A Nightmare On Elm Street is literally my third favourite horror ever (although it's technically the third movie in the franchise but still!). I just love the villain, Freddy Krueger! I pre-ordered the original Pop! Vinyl version of Freddy from Pop In A Box back in October and I'm still waiting for it to arrive... (ugh), so that's partly why I was so happy to get this guy! One Freddy is better than no Freddy or something like that XD The best feature on this 8-bit Pop! for me is actually Freddy's hat! I think it's brilliant how a simplistic, plain brown hat can look so cool. Gotta love the pixelated look! I like bold the colours of Freddy's iconic jumper, which a lot of people mistake for being red and black. The only downside of the 8-bit style is that Freddy's trademark glove of knives is not very eye-catching. I mean, you know what it is supposed to be if you know the character, but the design isn't great. I don't know what they could have done to improve it though, whilst still sticking to the overall design theme. I'd love to know what you think of this version of Mr Krueger. Let me know in the comments.

So, those are the Pop! Vinyl that I received in February :) Out of all three figures, my favourite is definitely Jack Torrance from The Shining. Usually I can choose a firm favourite straight away, however with this particular subscription it was pretty hard for me to decide! There's something I really love about each of the figures, and I'm very glad that they have now joined my collection! I think these characters are all very photogenic too, which is fab! It is also very rare that I get all three figures arriving in near-perfect condition as far as their paintjob is concerned too!  I'm gutted that from this subscription onwards, I've had to reduce the amount of figures I receive each time to one, because I really need to save as much cash as I can. I'm heading to Portugal in five weeks, omgosh! Well, I hope you all enjoyed my post. My next Funko-related one will be up in about two weeks time :)

Thankyou for reading! 

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