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Twisted Fairy Tales Little Miss Muffet
Manufacturer : McFarlane Toys
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UPC : 787926411058
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Weight in pounds: 0.45
Dimensions in inches: 9.20 by 9.30 by 3.10
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REVIEWS
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Summary: This spider is doing more than sitting next to Miss Muffet
Date: 2005-06-23
Rating: 4
Review: Little Miss Muffet, sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey;
Along came a spider, who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.
Well, this poor Little Miss Muffet, part of the fourth series of McFarlane's Monsters, is dedicated to the proposition of Twisted Fairy Tales. Consequently, this eight-legged arachnid monstrosity is more interested in the lady than in the cottage cheese she was eating. Who knew they were dieting circa 1805, which is when the first extant version was published (although that one was about "Little Mary Ester sat upon a tester"). There is an argument that Little Miss Muffet was a young lady named Patience, who was the daughter of Dr. Thomas Muffet (possibly Moffett or Moufet), an entomologist who lived in the 16th century and wrote verses about "The Silkwormes" and their flies. This makes more sense than the idea the rhyme is about Mary, Queen of Scots being scared by John Knox.
This would be a six-inch figure if she was sitting up, but the spider has knocked her down off of her tuffet and Miss Muffet is fighting for dear life. Meanwhile, the curds and whey are in the process of being spilt (but the spoon is still hanging in there). As you would expect from McFarlane Toys there are lots of gory little details. Miss Muffet has small silver spikes on her gloves and detailed laces on her boots. Her skintight clothing suggests that Muffet might be in to bondage, which makes being pinned by a giant spider a tad ironic and rather inevitable when you take into account she cannot see because of her mask (which might explain the pink and green color scheme of her outfit). The spider's face and eyes help accentuate the wide-open mandibles ready to put the bite on the lady. The articulation of these figures are decent enough: Muffet has articulated neck, forearms and knees, and while the spider has ball joints on all eight legs be careful they you do not over do it posing this one. The idea here is that Miss Muffet is trying to push the big old hairy spider off of her before it is too late (and given that the attack has just begun, as evidenced by the status of the curds and whey, she is responding pretty quickly), so that is the basic goal when you pose the figures.
The rest of the menagerie for series four consists of Red Riding Hood, Humpty Dumpty, Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, and the tag team of Hansel and Gretel (separately). These are twisted figures, which means they are sick and warped, and therefore intended for only mature audiences. That is because only us older folk know that most nursery rhymes have their origins in fun things like the Black Death and that reading the original fairy tales told by the likes of the Brothers Grimm means discovering how much darker these stories were originally. No wonder the "Scream" movies were a success. There was an entire generation of kids for read the original version of "The Little Mermaid" after the Disney film came out and were geared to turn to fear after reading what Hans Christian Andersen wrote in the first place. Anyhow, at first glance it might seem that Little Miss Muffet would be one of the minor figures in this series, but it turns out to be one of the more interesting ones.
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