Review – Franken Berry Wacky Wobbler Car

After looking at the Hot Wheels Franken Berry toy car a few days ago (review here) I thought it might be fun to take down another Franken Berry toy and share with everyone. This time we go back to 2006 for Funko’s Franken Berry Wacky Wobbler Car*, an oversized bobble head toy that features our favorite pink cereal monster in a pink car. How is it? It’s a perfectly wonderful Franken Berry collectible.

Sculpt

As usual, Funko knocks it out of the park with the toy’s sculpting. At about 6-inches long and 6-inches tall the toy’s larger than you would expect just by looking at pics, but the size is likely part of what allowed the artists behind the project to develop such a wonderful Franken Berry toy. Everything about the sculpt is as tight and clean as I expect from Funko, and looking at the photos I am sure there’s no question of what character you’re supposed to see. This is clearly the classic Franken Berry monster.

Paint

The sculpt is great, but as often happens with Funko’s toys the paint is a little sloppier than I like to see. But as always I have to keep telling myself that these are inexpensive mass-market toys and not high-end art toys. And as long as I keep that in mind I’m perfectly happy with the toy’s paint; and besides, once Franken Berry is on the shelf of other Franken Berry toys the paint issues seem to completely vanish. I guess the sea of pink overwhelms my ability to see anything except a shelf of neat Franken Berry toys.

Closing Thoughts

So that’s the Franken Berry Wacky Wobbler Car*, a bobble head toy that takes its place on the shelf with other Franken Berry toys and looks like a fun piece mostly because it is part of a collection. I’m still not what I would classify as a “bobble head collector,” but Funko is doing an amazing job of moving me farther down the bobble head path than I ever thought I would go.

It’s not perfect, but it’s fun. And for something that’s realistically only going to sit on the shelf where I can look at it during the day it’s everything I could hope for.

Philip Reed has to thank Matt Doughty of Onell Design for this toy. Matt is always giving stuff away; he’s too generous. Thank you, Matt, for everything.