Review: "Tooned Up" Willow!

Back in June I reviewed the Electric Tiki Design' s "Tooned Up" Buffy, which you can read here. Now, we're going to review the "Tooned Up" Willow!

Let's start with the stats:

-Inspired by the episode "Tough Love"
-Limited to 800 pieces
-Unique "Mystic Energy" display base
-App. 10'' tall - 1/8 scale
-Official licensed
-Fully painted, ready to display
-Based on original "Toon" designs by Tracy Mark Lee
-Sculpted by Mike Petryszak

In my opinion, Willow Rosenberg is one of the greatest characters to grace my television screen. Her growth from a wallflower nerd to a powerful witch in the seven years of Buffy was fantastic television. So, it is with great pleasure to see her represented in all her badassness with this marquee. It really is an awesome statue. Willow is all floaty and magicy ready to do some damage.

The statue looks fantastic. It's extremely well detailed and makes me pine for a Buffy cartoon even more than the Buffy statue did. The wispy magic tendrils on the base keep willow afloat and keep her pretty sturdy. She leans forward slightly but is in no danger of falling from the grasp of the tendrils.

The statue is ready to go straight out of the box. Just slip her feet into the tendrils and put it wherever you want to. Just like the Buffy statue, Willow is hand cast from high quality polystone and hand painted. It's also individually numbered.

It's gorgeous and looks great on the shelf next to Buffy and the rest of the series (Glory, another Buffy and another Willow (pictured at the end of this review) are coming early next year.)

The holidays are coming up and I can't think of a better gift for any fan of the show than this marquee.


Allow me to give you one dire warning. These things are FRAGILE. My Willow was broken just today by my cat. He knocked it off the shelf onto a carpeted floor and both hands broke off. I was extremely furious.

Certainly, don't let that detract you from buying it just take care to keep it out of reach of curious cats or grabby kids.

Now, I need to go perform surgery on my figure with some superglue. But before I go allow me to leave you with a peak of the next Willow statue coming next year.

Do try not to flip when you see the awesomeness of it.

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We Review "Tooned Up" Buffy!

Sideshow Collectibles was kind enough to send over this gem of a statue.

It is the Electric Tiki Design's "Tooned Up" Buffy.

Let's have a look at the stats:

- "Once More With Feeling" Version.
- Comes with 2 sets of hands for unique display.
- Limited to 1000 pieces.
- Approximately 12'' tall - 1/8 scale.
- Officially licensed.
- Fully painted, ready to display.
- Based on original "toon" designs by Tracy Mark Lee.

It really is a gorgeous statue. It's a glimpse of what might have been if the long gestating but never realized Buffy cartoon came to be. The statue looks perfect. It's a flawless sculpt and it gives me little stabs of joy whenever I look at it. (Can you tell I'm a major buffy fan?)

Out of the box, it's pretty much ready to go. You just attach Buffy to the base and choose the hands you want. You have the choice of an empty hand, stakes, or pool stick. Currently, my statue looks just like the picture on the left.

Each statue is hand cast in high quality polystone and hand painted and you can see the care in the statue. It's vibrant and pretty much looks like it jumped off an animation cell. The figures are individually numbered as well.


Any fan of Buffy will flip to get their hands on this statue. It's reasonably priced at around $90.
This combined with the "Tooned Up" Willow coming out this October, will make for a great display.

You really can't go wrong with this. It is a great statue. Detailed, vibrant, cute...I can list a lot of adjectives to describe how completely cool this thing is. Just buy it for yourself.

I can only hope we'll get more of these "Tooned Up" scoobies. I could go for a Tara, Anya, Xander, Spike, Angel, Fred, Cordelia...I would be satisified with all of the Buffy/Angel characters to be honest.

Don't get me started on Firefly...

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