Review – Bone Chillers Capsule Toys

I posted a quick snap of these Bone Chillers capsule toys last weekend (post here) and had intended to post a review while I was at the Dallas Fall Toy Preview, but long hours of meetings worked against me so I’m just now wrapping up this short (very short) review of these simple capsule machine toys. I wish I could say that it was because I put so much effort into this review that it took so long, but it really was just the fact that I was too busy to bang out some quick thoughts on a couple of very cheap toys.

Tiny Terrors

At only about 1.5-inches tall these are fairly little toys . . . but what do you expect for fifty cents? I bought three of these toys and got the two you see here — a skull-adorned headstone and a skeletal figure with a scythe — as well as a glow-in-the-dark skull/snake combination that’s actually easier to see in this review at That Figures so I didn’t even bother trying to take pictures of it. Well, I tried but the photos looked horrible so I am not posting them.

These two toys are made of a soft, rubbery-like plastic that has a lot of flex but holds just enough detail so that these little toys are actually kinda neat and I can just see someone dumping quarter after quarter into the machine in an attempt to get them all. The grayish-beige plastic is an appropriate color for the theme while the simple black wash does an excellent job of pulling out all of the details. These aren’t the best toys you’ll ever find in a capsule machine, but the fifty cents price point makes them feel perfectly acceptable.

Closing Thoughts

It’s Halloween, so I am assuming that these little toys are finding their way into more capsule machines around the world than they would at any other time of year. These aren’t at all so wonderful that I’m going to try collecting more of them, but with only 16 individual pieces in the series it wouldn’t be too tough to put together a set. And if you do really want these then check eBay, because as Halfbad tells us in this Bare Bones Gargoyle review at That Figures these toys are just waiting there to be grabbed.

The $1.50 in quarters I dumped in the machine was probably wasted money, but between playing with the toys, snapping pics, and putting together this quick review I suspect I got more value out of the toys than I ever do a similarly-priced drink.

Philip Reed often looks at capsule machines and would probably buy more garbage from them if there were more fifty cent toys.