- 6/16/2025
McFarlane Toys McFarlane Monsters Series 2: Twisted Land of Oz The Cowardly Lion
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00:00I think I'd be worrying less about courage and more about medical attention.
00:04Here's a relook at the McFarlane Toys Twisted Land of Oz, the Cowardly Lion.
00:14The McFarlane Monster series Twisted Land of Oz is a highly detailed limited edition release from McFarlane Toys
00:19based on the classic novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
00:22It features twisted alternate interpretations of the classic characters.
00:26Put them up. Come on, man. The man's put up enough.
00:29Before we get a closer look at the Twisted Land of Oz, the Cowardly Lion,
00:33let's take, of course, the tape measure and see how tall the figure stands.
00:35I've got him currently on his display stand just because that's the best to kind of keep him stable.
00:39And you want to keep this line stable.
00:41The figure is going to stand based at least with the display stand about 7 inches in height
00:46or roughly about 18 centimeters tall, even though I know our journey has us moving forward.
00:50Let's move backwards, though, and have a look at the previous figures we've already had a look at from the Twisted Land of Oz.
00:55But the video we had done just prior to, of course, the Cowardly Lion involved, of course, the Tin Man.
01:01Prior to that, we also had a look at the Scarecrow.
01:04It's a disastrous Scarecrow.
01:06And prior, of course, to that, we also looked at Dorothy Gale.
01:09Like with the others, this line does come in clear with the display stand.
01:12The stand, if you have all of these, by the way...
01:14Oops, that's not the sound I really want to be making.
01:16The stand, did I just break the peg?
01:18Oh, no, I just broke the peg.
01:20Here I was saying that I was going to be doing a job so far of not breaking anything.
01:24The stand, if you have multiples of these...
01:27Of course, you can connect them together and find yourself one giant long path.
01:32That, of course, would lead you to the Wizard.
01:34If we had, like, for example, Dorothy Gale's...
01:36Let's not break Dorothy Gale's peg right now.
01:38Oh, that's a bummer that that broke.
01:41Yeah, if you had yourself Dorothy, for example,
01:43you'd follow the Yellow Bick Road and it would interweave.
01:46I mean, again, you could probably have it this way also as well.
01:50Yeah.
01:51Disappointing, though, that unfortunately that had to break.
01:53But, oh, now we know exactly which one belongs to the Cowardly Lion.
01:55It's the one that has the broken peg.
01:57Still, I've got, though, one peg that's going to work.
02:00And on the bottom of the lion's feet, he actually has two peg holes.
02:03So we're going to be okay for that.
02:05Oh, that's a shame.
02:06That is definitely a shame.
02:07But yet, you're looking at, really, a figure that's got 20-plus-year-old plastic.
02:11Something you know eventually is going to break.
02:13Even though you really don't want to go into reviews like this
02:15with the expectation that something will break.
02:17Something always ends up doing that, though.
02:19Let's move that off to the side.
02:21The accessories that come include with the Cowardly Lion.
02:23You get some stuff that's gnarly-looking bear trap.
02:26I don't know what kind of bears this trap is going to be trapping,
02:29but it definitely does look gnarly.
02:31It does have a little petal piece here that will snap shut,
02:35obviously, if something's stepping on that.
02:36And you could really take the lion's foot and also put that on there as well,
02:40being that it also does have a chain and a little handle ring on the end.
02:44I actually like to display the Cowardly Lion,
02:45or when I was displaying at least the figures with them,
02:48I'd like to have him displayed holding this like he's holding it like a weapon.
02:51And again, you can't open and close it.
02:53Judging by, though, the fact that the individual teeth have some blood on it,
02:56it looks like the trap has been used.
02:58Maybe not recently, but you bet your bottom dollar it has been used.
03:02The figure does also come included with his entrails.
03:06These little, you know, I say little,
03:08these intestinal pieces that actually are attached to his body.
03:11Now, they come as a separate piece,
03:13and they're actually made of a very gummy kind of rubbery plastic.
03:16You may already notice that there's a peg on one side and a peg on the other.
03:20If you look inside the cavity of the lion,
03:22this is as close of a line as I'd ever really want to get.
03:24You can see, like, first of all, his ribcage is shattered.
03:27It's broken completely open.
03:29How this lion even manages to go anywhere is beyond me.
03:32But there is a hole right here that you should really be able to take the intestines,
03:39and that just plugs in place.
03:40And then if you look at his hand, if I can actually spin the hand around,
03:43there's a hole right here.
03:45So you could take this,
03:46so it looks like he's actually holding his own entrails.
03:49That's pretty gruesome.
03:50Now, it's a hard thing to pull off just because it's really using rubbery plastic,
03:55but that's basically what it would look like.
03:57The cowardly lion is just holding his own,
03:59holding his own as he's sort of moving away from the people attacking him.
04:03Poor guy.
04:05The other thing that also can serve, too,
04:07is that just above that hole, there's another little slot area here
04:10because he has all these extra weapons.
04:12No, they're not weapons, unfortunately, that he has to hold.
04:15These are all weapons that are going to be impaled into his body.
04:17You can pick a part on this lion
04:19and choose where you want to start stuffing stuff.
04:22He has a hole on the side of his leg, for example.
04:24He's got a few little slots on the back of his body.
04:26And again, he has one right there.
04:29So if you want to take yourself, for example, the spear,
04:31the spear, you can just lodge right into his cavity, just like that.
04:35You can put it right there if you want.
04:37You can also take the spear and lodge it on the side of his leg.
04:40You can do really whatever you want with the lion.
04:44Also, there's a couple of holes here in the back, too.
04:45You can lodge the spear in there as well.
04:47There are some areas that work a little bit better than others.
04:50And just with the way that the sculpting is designed,
04:52you may look at a part and think it's a slot.
04:56And you realize, no, it's just kind of embedded into his skin.
04:59He does also come included with only really the handle and the hilt of the sword.
05:04The sword can just, again, slide in there.
05:05You can slide it in here as well if you want.
05:08Or again, you can also put it into his leg.
05:10If you put it in his leg, though, obviously, it's going to be sitting a little looser.
05:14It probably would be better just to have that slit in the inside like that.
05:18And then he also comes included with this other version of sword, which, again, you can just lodge in.
05:22The hard part, really, honestly, is just finding where these slots would actually be.
05:27You think that there's an area, and then you go to put something against it,
05:30and you realize, no, that's not part of his body.
05:32Or it's not the part, at least, that's supposed to have something lodged into it.
05:36Again, I think there's a section right here.
05:38No, no, there's not.
05:39There's one right up here, though.
05:41You can lodge that in place.
05:42No, no, there we go.
05:44Is it right here?
05:45Anyways, you get the idea.
05:46There's going to be basically areas on the figure's body where you'd be able to lodge things into.
05:50Again, you got yourself the spear.
05:52The spear could go into the side of his leg if you want.
05:54I've seen some pictures online of the Cowardly Line where people have had the spear sort of stuck on the side of his leg.
06:00You can choose to do that.
06:01I actually prefer to have the spear stuck right up in there.
06:05So it looks like, I don't know if he fell on top of the spear.
06:07I mean, it doesn't really look much,
06:09it doesn't make really much sense when you have the spear kind of in one way and then sort out the other.
06:13It actually looks like it should be one piece.
06:15But some cool looking gnarly features.
06:17Love the look of the lion.
06:19Let's go ahead and just kind of take these all out right now.
06:22Don't want the poor creature suffering any more than he already has.
06:25Gaining, though, a closer look at the Cowardly Line.
06:28Now, looking at the way that he is right now,
06:30you can probably see why the Cowardly Line is my favorite.
06:32A lot of time and sculpt and paint went into sculpting this creature.
06:37You can tell, though, that he's suffering.
06:40I don't know how easy it would be to put this animal out of his misery.
06:43But the fact that he has most of his fur ripped away like this,
06:47his face really is about the only thing that has remained somewhat intact.
06:51On the side of his face, you can see that there are a few flesh wounds.
06:54He's got a few gashes there on the top of his head.
06:56Just such a cool looking figure.
06:59This, just by looking at him, you can tell that this is a lion that's going to go out.
07:02And he's going to go out taking at everybody else around him
07:04before he takes his final breaths.
07:06The figure does actually have some decent levels of posability, too,
07:08that we'll kind of talk about more in a moment.
07:10He's got some armor.
07:12The armor doesn't...
07:13If you're looking at, really, the way that he looks,
07:15there's no way that the armor has done any good of a job of defending him.
07:18He's got a few little areas covering his arms.
07:20He's got a few plates there on the front of his chest.
07:22He's actually lost one on this side.
07:23I would imagine he probably would have had one on both sides.
07:26He's also got a gauntlet here on the sides of his arm.
07:29Some cool skirting, too, I think is really neat on this figure.
07:31This is all soft plastic.
07:34He's got himself like a little medallion there, a little buckle on the front.
07:37Not really sure what exactly that is, but really well sculpted and detailed.
07:41He's got a few pouches on the back.
07:43I'm not sure what the story is behind this.
07:45Obviously, with the Twisted Land of Oz figures,
07:47each one of them would have also come included with a story.
07:51You would have started with...
07:52Dorothy.
07:53You would have started with Dorothy Gale,
07:56and then you would have just gone through...
07:57I don't know if I'm doing this in the correct order.
07:59I'm doing it kind of in the order of how Dorothy meets the characters in the film.
08:03I would imagine they probably would have the exact same chapter sequence as well.
08:06Again, you've got some visible scarring.
08:08I mean, all this bone sticking on the back of his body
08:10makes kind of look like Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th Part 7.
08:14All these gashes, all these wounds,
08:15make for just a fantastic-looking figure.
08:17The only thing I'll tell you that I don't really love about him
08:20is the way that his arm is posed.
08:23Now, his arm...
08:24This arm also does have some posability as well.
08:26But being that this is the hand that's going to be holding his intestines,
08:30I'm not as bothered by the fact that this only does as much as it does.
08:33What you can really only do with this arm is move it back and forth,
08:36and you can rotate his hand back and forth.
08:38This is really the arm that I don't like as much.
08:40Not that it moves back like this,
08:42but that his hand can't really do all that much.
08:45You can't really turn it all the way down.
08:47And having it up like this always looks like he's sort of tending to his own wounds.
08:51So again, it looks like the lion is sort of crawling out of battle.
08:54I wish that you could really have done something a little bit more than this.
08:57I mean, the scope looks incredible on this,
08:59but you can't really do all that much when it comes to the figure's hands.
09:02This hand, again, when it comes to the articulation...
09:04Well, I guess, you know what?
09:04We'll start with the head first.
09:06The head is going to be actually on a ball joint.
09:08Can you believe that?
09:09A figure that's 20-plus years old
09:11does actually have a ball joint in his possession.
09:14It's strange that they decide to give him a ball joint,
09:17and yet every other figure up to this point for the Twisted Land of Oz
09:19have only been really relegated to single swivels.
09:22I mean, even Dorothy Gale, like when we looked at Dorothy,
09:25Dorothy couldn't do really anything other than what she's doing right now.
09:28So yeah, it's nice to see that the figure does actually have some more mobility
09:31in the tops of his head.
09:32His arms do move forward and back.
09:34You got to really be careful, though, when you move this arm forward,
09:37because you don't want to hit this and pop this off his torso.
09:41Both arms actually do move forward and back.
09:44Not much, though.
09:44I mean, it goes to be expected.
09:46I mean, these figures aren't really going to have a whole lot of poseable parts.
09:50Swivels in the arms.
09:51Swivel in the arm here.
09:53Hands rotate.
09:54I would want to really have said all the way around.
09:57This hand does really the better job of swiveling all the way around,
09:59where you can kind of have him holding the trails that way.
10:02This arm, unfortunately, seems to really get stuck
10:05right around the section of the gauntlet.
10:07So when it gets to this point,
10:08you can't really turn it any further than that.
10:11So it always sort of looks like he's tending to his wounds.
10:14The figure does also have a waist swivel.
10:16Nothing really, though, for the lower legs.
10:18Really nice sculpting, though, for his paws.
10:20And again, the sculpting of his legs as well.
10:23A lot of injuries there.
10:24You can see even if I move the skirting up,
10:28how much ripped away flesh the line has on his body.
10:32Then if you look on the back of his body,
10:33he does also have his mangled tail.
10:35This is so cool.
10:36I love the fact that they've actually sculpted in the bone underneath the tail.
10:40So it also does have a wire, too, by the way.
10:42So there's a few little air holes or the suggestion of holes
10:45where you can kind of bend the tail.
10:47Not by much, though.
10:49Cowardly line for me is my favorite figure from the Twisted Land of Oz.
10:52Yes, by that, I'm a little disappointed that I had to unfortunately break the peg.
10:56But I've got the other peg.
10:57Let's wish that things go a little bit better for that.
11:00Pegs like this are small in size.
11:02Obviously, you're going to want to be careful,
11:03treading cautiously when it comes to attaching figures like this.
11:07Because, again, like figures as old as they are,
11:10getting a figure like this, first of all, out of the packaging,
11:12or even if this is, say, the first time you've gotten this figure,
11:16you want to be careful that when you're getting them out,
11:18you're attaching them onto the display stand,
11:20and you're not potentially breaking a peg like this guy just broke a peg up.
11:23I wonder if I could maybe even go in there.
11:26Can I pull the peg out?
11:28Maybe there might be a way that I can salvage this.
11:30If I could pull the peg out,
11:31there might be a way that I can actually glue it back onto the base.
11:34It's a disappointment, unfortunately, though,
11:36that my favorite figure from the Twisted Land of Oz
11:38happened to have a broken peg.
11:40My fault.
11:41My fault alone.
11:42But I will say, though, it's still my favorite figure.
11:45We are going to also be looking at,
11:46while we're still sticking with Critters,
11:48looking at Toto in the upcoming review.
11:50Toto isn't going to look at all like a dog.
11:52This looks at least a little bit more like a cat.
11:54And what a cat he is.
11:56I mean, just the fact that the amount of details that they put into the figure,
11:58that he also has posability,
12:01where you would expect like a figure of this age wouldn't really ever have it.
12:04Cowardly Lion, if you get the chance,
12:05and you only want to pick up a couple of these,
12:07make sure that Cowardly Lion is the top of your picking up list.
12:10If you don't like the idea of having the Cowardly Lion holding the bear trap,
12:13one suggestion you could do is also have it latched onto the front of his leg.
12:17That little hole, not so little of a hole,
12:20but is a perfect place to actually put the teeth in there from the bear trap.
12:23So it looks like the Cowardly Lion has been trapped in more ways than one.
12:27The thing that's unfortunate about this creature is that he goes through a lot of suffering.
12:31You can see the suffering through the sculpting,
12:33and there's a lot of cool things that you can also do with the figure.
12:36Being that he has all these extra holes, these air holes on his body,
12:39you can find places to place all the swords and stuff that he comes included with.
12:43I did end up finding, by the way, that extra hole.
12:45It's right by the side of his shoulder.
12:47You probably can see it right now.
12:48What I chose to leave off, just because he's been through enough,
12:50is the spear.
12:52In fact, actually, usually when I had this guy displayed,
12:54the spear, just by the length of it, I think it's just too much.
12:57It's overkill.
12:58Literally, it's overkill.
12:59So I chose just usually to leave the spear off.
13:02You can choose to have it attached to the figure if you want,
13:04but I think by now it's a little redundant.
13:06You know, beating a dead horse, this is clubbing and killing a lion.
13:10We don't need to have any more gruesomeness.
13:12One thing, unfortunately, though, by having this guy now out on display,
13:16is I broke the peg.
13:17I tried to get in there, though, with a pair of pliers,
13:20see if I could fish out the peg.
13:22No such luck.
13:23So at least the lion is able to hold his own.
13:25Thank goodness for the display stand there.
13:27I think it's also a cool touch that McFarlane toys include display stands
13:30that can interlock with one another.
13:33Now, of course, we have met all the characters along the way,
13:35on our way to see the wizard.
13:37One thing that's left still to do before we look at the wizard
13:40is look at Toto.
13:41And, you know, the lion, at least I could say, looks like a lion.
13:45And when you see Toto, Toto isn't that pretty little dog that we saw in the film.
13:49What do you guys think of the Cowardly Lion?
13:50Let me know down below in the comments section.
13:52Now, based at least on what we've seen so far with Dorothy,
13:55then we looked at the Scarecrow, then the Tin Man, now the Cowardly Lion.
13:59Which, is it safe to say, you can guess what your favorite figure is right now?
14:03I mean, do you have to maybe wait to see what Toto's going to look like
14:05and maybe then see the Wiz?
14:06Yes, we're not going to be seeing the Flying Monkeys.
14:08The Flying Monkeys are going for crazy, stupid money online.
14:11But what's your favorite figure that we've looked at so far
14:13from McFarlane Toys' Twisted Land of Oz?
14:16Which is, again, a figure line that came out in 2023.
14:202003.
14:2122 years ago.
14:23Poor, poor, brittle plastic.
14:25Generally, though, the plastic is pretty good.
14:27It just so happens to be that it was a tiny little strand of plastic
14:30and the guy behind the camera put too much pressure on it.
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14:41As always, guys, thanks for watching.
14:43See you guys next time.
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