Review – Screaming Pumpkin Skull Zombi

Since this is the third time that I’ve posted a review of the Screaming Pumpkin Skull Zombi vinyl toy (first review here, second review here) I’m going to let you guys off easy and make this mostly a chance to share photos and not an opportunity for me to rattle on and on. But don’t worry, because I used enough worthless words in the last two reviews of this sculpt to keep you guys entertained for almost three minutes.

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Return to Toy Tokyo

While I was in New York for Toy Fair I took a trip to Toy Tokyo where I bought two toys: one was this latest Screaming Pumpkin Skull Zombi and the second was a three-pack of Toygraph Space Troopers. I’ll get to the Space Troopers one of these days (the poor guys are still sealed in their plastic bag), but yesterday I just had to take a few moments to get this Screaming Pumpkin Skull Zombi onto the shelf with the other two. And dammit, but wouldn’t you know that I still love the design . . . and now I want another one.

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I’m an Idiot

Damn. So at the store I spent $80 to buy this toy. Why am I an idiot? Because if I had any sense I would have checked the website first and spent just $50 for the exact same toy; the Toy Tokyo website clearly lists $50 as the price. When I was at the store back in November they gave me a random — and very lame — reason for why the store prices and website prices are so dramatically different and I really need to remember to always check the site. I’m kinda scared to search for the Space Troopers that I bought . . . my luck it’s some sort of “free if you’re not too stupid to use our website” promotion that will make me cry.

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Closing Thoughts

Anyway, the Screaming Pumpkin Skull Zombi design is fantastic and in a perfect world either these guys would still be running the mold or I would be given the opportunity to buy all of the Skull Zombi toy designs so that I could start getting new head sculpts and new colorways on the market. Because, as you know, I totally have time to add “make vinyl toys” to the list of things that I do every day.

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