- 6/16/2025
McFarlane Toys McFarlane Monsters Series 2: Twisted Land of Oz Dorothy
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00:00A twister got her there. Todd's twisted mind got us here.
00:03Here's your relook at the McFarlane Toys McFarlane Monsters Twisted Land of Oz, Dorothy Gale.
00:15The McFarlane Monsters series Twisted Land of Oz is a highly detailed limited edition release from McFarlane Toys based on the classic novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
00:24It features twisted alternate interpretations of the classic characters.
00:28I can understand why now Dorothy was so anxious to get home.
00:31Before, though, we get a closer look at Dorothy Gale and then whatever this thing is that's holding on to her.
00:36We're going to take the tape measure and we're going to see how tall the figures stand.
00:39Now, we are going back and we're re-looking at these again.
00:42Some of the questions I certainly get from you guys is while it's fine and good to be looking at the current lines of products that we're getting from McFarlane Toys,
00:48it's always really nice to be able to go back and look at some of the twisted things that Todd was doing back in the day.
00:52You know, I really do hope, though, that as fine and good that we are getting the movie Maniacs,
00:57and of course now we're going to be losing the DC Multiverse line eventually,
01:01this would be certainly a fun time to go back and Todd to start doing things like this again.
01:06Because I think this was really the thing, I don't want to speak really for all the collectors,
01:10I know for myself at least, this was really the thing that put Todd on the map.
01:13It was certainly, though, like the spawn stuff, but it was when he was getting into the Twisted Monsters line,
01:19that was really the stuff that I was getting really fully into.
01:23Again, we're going to be looking at the rest of the Twisted Land of Oz.
01:25I figured we would start things first, obviously first with Dorothy.
01:29Dorothy, though, has seen better days.
01:31She's missing, though, her ruby slurs, what she's gotten, though, instead.
01:35A ruby bodice, perhaps?
01:37And then, of course, she's being held onto by this tiny little dwarf.
01:40The tape measure is going to tell us, now again, like these figures are attached currently onto the display stands,
01:44in the order to just look at Dorothy alone,
01:46she's standing at about six and three quarters of an inch in height.
01:49That translates, though, to a figure that's about 17 centimeters tall.
01:53Then, too, I guess, would this be a munchkin?
01:56It looks to be like a munchkin, although it looks like a munchkin taken from the world of the cell.
02:00He's actually, on his own, is going to stand at three and a half inches in height,
02:04or roughly about nine centimeters tall.
02:07I'm sure she'd never see herself in this sort of predicament,
02:10but here's what the figure looks like with the Gal Gadot DC Multiverse.
02:13This is the Justice League Wonder Woman.
02:15One clearly, though, is a little bit more poseable and taller in size.
02:18Sometimes one isn't more as a stockion statue, but at least it gives you somewhat of an idea.
02:22Here's also what the figure looks like with the dazed and confused David Wooderson.
02:26This would be one of the current movie maniac stuff that we're getting from McFarlane Toys.
02:30Limited, again, on articulation, which, again, goes with the territory of what we're going to be looking at here
02:34with the Twisted Land of Oz.
02:35Again, like the original movie maniacs, actually had a little bit more poseability.
02:39The stuff, though, when we were looking at the Twisted Lands of Monsters,
02:43whether it be Twisted Land of Oz, the Twisted Circus, any of those lines,
02:47none of them really had much in the way of poseability.
02:49So, you know, you can't really say necessarily that
02:52I really wish that McFarlane would go back to the days of making articulated figures.
02:56The stuff that we're really getting here, essentially, with the Twisted Land of Oz
02:59really didn't have much in the way of poseability to start with.
03:01It was made available in the 7-inch scale that she's standing in now.
03:04She was also available in a 12-inch release.
03:06Very similar designs.
03:08We're going to kind of talk about what the differences was.
03:10I never really had the chance to pick up the 12-inch tall figure.
03:13I think right now, even the current prices of seeing what she's listed for online, about $200.
03:18I've seen one listing for about $179, one for $199.
03:21For that, and the fact that I think she was the only Twisted Land of Oz character
03:25that actually got the 12-inch treatment,
03:27I don't know if I'm going to still pull the trigger and eventually get around to getting her.
03:30She does come with several different component pieces.
03:33Now, I haven't had these things on display for a while.
03:36And I was kind of really thinking to myself,
03:37oh no, if I'm going to be going back and looking at this line again,
03:40what will potentially be broken when I go back to these bags?
03:43The only thing that was actually broken, though, on Dorothy was her finger right here.
03:48Sure enough, though, as I was pulling the figure out of the bag,
03:51it was like a little linked sausage sort of rolling around in the bag.
03:54I thought, well, what's that?
03:55Then I realized her finger here had unfortunately broken.
03:58So a little bit of glue, although you can still see the seam line there,
04:01where obviously the finger has just been glued in place.
04:04Other than that, though, she has held up generally quite well.
04:07The thing I was also really worried about, though,
04:08was the tiny little stick that the midget or the munchkin would be carrying around with him in his hand.
04:14I thought, surely, though, I would be losing that.
04:16Don't call me Shirley.
04:17Luckily, though, I didn't lose it.
04:19So we're going to put Dorothy down here for a second.
04:21And she really does rely on her display stand.
04:23She doesn't really do much of anything without that.
04:25We're also going to take the munchkin, move it off to the side,
04:27and we're going to look at least of what's left of the yellow brick road.
04:31I don't know really by now.
04:32It's much in the way of yellow.
04:34It's certainly a little more grungier.
04:36You can see that there's a couple of placed pegs.
04:38The pegs themselves work really only well for Dorothy.
04:41So you can kind of move her around.
04:42And she does actually, if you look on the bottoms of her rather odd-looking elevator lifted shoes,
04:47she does actually have a peg hole right here and doesn't have one on the other.
04:51So you can choose to either have her over here, you can have her over here,
04:54but you can't split the legs to have her attached to both.
04:58If you think to yourself, oh, well, I'm sure, though, the munchkin will have ball joints
05:02or peg joints on the bottom of the seat.
05:04No, he does not.
05:05This thing that he's riding that looks a little like Freddy Krueger,
05:08he's not removable from it.
05:10And as the total package, no, not Lex Luger, but there is no peg holes on the bottoms of the feet.
05:15So this really can go anywhere.
05:17It doesn't really matter whereabouts you want to have it.
05:19I was actually having kind of Dorothy over here, I think, at the beginning of this review.
05:22Like I said, it doesn't really matter.
05:24But the display stand looks rather nice.
05:27Obviously, it would have just started here in the black plastic.
05:29It does actually look like a separate piece was attached when they came out of the molding press,
05:34just to kind of give you guys an idea of how old this is, 2003.
05:37Now we're into 2025 now.
05:39So for those doing simple math, that's 22 years.
05:4122 years tracking back would have been the release of the Twisted Land of Oz.
05:46Nice looking display stand, though.
05:48Like I said, though, Dorothy can't attach onto it.
05:51If you look at her lifted boots here, I'm surprised actually there's no dead fish sitting inside of that.
05:56Remember when that was a craze?
05:57I mean, that obviously predates me.
05:59But back in the day, during the disco days, there were like lifted boots where you could have like little goldfish in.
06:04I would imagine, though, the moment you start to walk, first that goldfish would get a concussion.
06:09And then shortly after that, it probably just would have died.
06:11So you would have had these dead fish sort of floating around.
06:14That's such a morbid thought, but a thought that fits well with the fact that we're looking at the Twisted Land of Oz.
06:19For Dorothy itself, like I said, she can't plug into either one of those places.
06:24She just attaches here, or I guess kind of more on an angle this way.
06:28Or you can also have it here.
06:29It doesn't really matter.
06:30Again, necessarily, you can plug her into either place.
06:34The one thing about it, though, is that the 12-inch release of Dorothy Gale is going to have a little bit of a different type of display.
06:39It looks about the same, about this kind of diamond shape.
06:43Although I think like the stones themselves are a little bit brighter of a yellow.
06:45And one thing that they've also added is a metal kind of sign on the back that says Dorothy.
06:50It looks like an old age kind of road sign that says Dorothy, just written across the back of it.
06:56So that would have been one thing that would have been on the 12-inch release.
06:59Dorothy would have also gone through some substantial costume change.
07:02But the stand itself would, like I said, have been about the same.
07:05As for Dorothy herself, the 12-inch release of Dorothy is very similar in design.
07:10She has like sort of the kind of what's little of her clothing here available.
07:14She has the red bodice piece, or is it a halter top?
07:17I think it's a bodice.
07:19Running around the kind of the abdomen area.
07:21The one thing, though, that would have been different with the 12-inch release is that she would have actually had a real tattered fabric skirt.
07:27I think like the boots were probably going to be about the same.
07:29Maybe like the boots were, I feel like they were probably like the same height to one another.
07:33Maybe she didn't have the thigh stocking on the one side.
07:36But notably, though, she would have had like the fabric skirt.
07:39Which is one thing, though, if you get the chance to get the 12-inch release.
07:41A little bit more expensive.
07:43Yes, I know, everybody.
07:44But if you had the chance to kind of venture off and try to grab one of those, that's going to be mainly the difference between the two.
07:50The one other thing, too, about Dorothy, I just want to kind of bring this around, is that she does also have the key.
07:56Now, you can see, though, like that's sculpted in the way that's supposed to look like part of the Emerald City.
08:02I guess she's off to see the wizard.
08:03Whether probably against her will or not.
08:05The sculpting on her face for a figure that's 22 years old looks fantastic.
08:10If you like the bondage look, it's not going to be a look I'm sure everybody's going to really love.
08:14But it's certainly something, maybe whether she likes it or not, it's unfortunately something that's been forced upon her.
08:20Of course, her face is completely wrapped up like this.
08:22If you have seen, though, just an underrated horror film, The Cell, starring Jennifer Lopez.
08:29I know a lot of people don't really like Jennifer Lopez.
08:32This, kind of when you start to look at the twisted Land of Oz, especially the little midget, the little munchkin here, very much has this sort of vibe like The Cell.
08:41The face sculpt, again, really good on her.
08:42But she's a little pale in complexion.
08:44She has the stitch line there up the front.
08:47Allotted for at least enough space for her ponytail to come out.
08:50Like this Dorothy has a little bit longer of a hair.
08:53There is a little bit of posability in the sense that this is kind of a rubbery plastic.
08:57You can move it around back and forth if you want.
09:00Being that, again, this is an older figure, I just don't want to kind of tread cautiously.
09:04I just don't want this to break off.
09:05You can see, though, that, again, she's strapped off.
09:10I mean, she's sort of hanging out everywhere.
09:13Again, the coloring looks really good, though, on the front of the top.
09:16Again, what little outfit that she actually has.
09:18You can see that if you wrap this around to the back, she's sort of bolted in place.
09:22There's a key lock right here.
09:24Now, I don't know if this lock actually works with this key.
09:27I mean, that would certainly be the ultimate punishment.
09:29She has a way to free herself, but there's no way that she can get access to it because, of course, she's shackled on the back.
09:35This looks like it's been tied up.
09:37Again, there's a rope that wraps around this as well.
09:39And the thing that's kind of cool, too, is that the rope is real.
09:42And you can have that actually in the hand of the midget.
09:44Munchkin.
09:45Sorry, Munchkin.
09:47Nicely detailed.
09:48Again, it looks like there's very little clothing here on the back of her body.
09:51I would imagine she probably didn't come into Oz looking like this.
09:54She's got some tattooing or branding there on the side.
09:56I would imagine that's probably been branding.
09:58This may have been the original tattoo that she started with when she got to Oz.
10:02This may have been a branding that was done by the Munchkin.
10:05Psssssss.
10:06Ouch.
10:08The higher thigh stocking is only really on the one side.
10:11I do actually like that it's a lighter color.
10:13They've added some nice darker airbrushing if you get your blasted hand out of the way, reviewer.
10:16And then she also has herself like sort of like the, I don't know what you would call them, like the goth boots.
10:21Those are nicely painted as well.
10:24Relying a lot on the silver where I would imagine underneath that would just be the regular black plastic or probably like this color of plastic.
10:30They probably would have painted both.
10:31One stocking, as you can see, has been kind of folded down.
10:34The other one is still high up there.
10:36And again, she's got herself these little glitter boots.
10:39Those boots look fantastic.
10:42Nowhere anywhere on this figure can you see anything that's ruby.
10:44Well, I guess really other than her top and really, I guess her lipstick is ruby there as well.
10:48She has no ruby slippers.
10:50So she couldn't even click these things back together and say there's no place like home.
10:54I have a feeling she's not going anywhere.
10:56So that's Dorothy.
10:57She doesn't really stand on her own.
10:59She unfortunately kind of leans to the side.
11:01So you may want to even, in fact, get her right away onto the display stand.
11:04We'll kind of just plug her in place just like that.
11:07So that's Dorothy.
11:08Let's look at the munchkin now.
11:11I don't know if they represent the lolly.
11:13Was it the lollipop gang?
11:14The lollipop gill.
11:15I think that's what it is.
11:17You can see that there's two of them.
11:18Now they come attached.
11:19There's no way that you can remove one from the other.
11:22I don't know if you were to look underneath this, if they're actually joined by other means other than just the saddle.
11:27I don't even want to think about that.
11:28I don't even want to think about it.
11:29One thing, though, that's interesting is looking at this and talking earlier about the cell.
11:33One of the main characters, the main baddie as to why Jennifer Lopez has to even go into his mind in the first place.
11:39She has to find the whereabouts of the girl that's been held hostage.
11:41And, of course, the water's filling up.
11:43Have you seen the cell?
11:44It's a great movie.
11:44This looks certainly like something we would have seen from the cell.
11:48Of course, he's got the horns there on the side.
11:50This one also comes with like a little, it's like a bridle, like a bridle stick.
11:55Horseback ride.
11:55I know very so little about it.
11:56But, basically, this was one thing I really was worried that was going to get lost.
12:00Luckily, though, it was still sitting inside the bag.
12:02There's a hole right here so you can take yourself the stick.
12:06I know, again, that's not really the correct term.
12:07We're just going to slide that in place like that.
12:10There we go.
12:10There's no articulation at all, by the way, for the munchkin, nor for this one, nor for the one down below here that looks like Freddy Krueger.
12:18I don't know if he's getting the raw end of the deal just because he's the one that has to walk on all fours.
12:23He looks like he's hanging quite a bit of a gut as well.
12:25Very well painted, too, for a piece that's this old.
12:28Again, there's no holes on the bombs of the feet, so there's no real way to plug this onto the display stand.
12:33Now, what you can do, displaying her, she has this rope, which we've already kind of looked at.
12:39The rope can actually fit in the hand of the munchkin.
12:42So I'm going to just detach this right now.
12:44If you take yourself the rope, the rope sort of just wraps around the hand.
12:49And I kind of had done this earlier.
12:51It's a little harder, obviously, to do right now.
12:53Basically, just have the munchkin holding Dorothy that way.
12:56And then he's just sort of carrying her around by leash.
12:59The other thing that I was doing initially, too, is that you can also take the hair.
13:04And the hair, because the hand is wide like this, you can actually have him even holding the hair.
13:08I don't know which would be less demeaning to the character of Dorothy, but you can have it displayed either way.
13:14I know most of the images that I have seen online, even though really the hand really does hold the ponytail quite well,
13:20most of the images that I have seen usually have the rope just wrapped around the munchkin.
13:24Just sort of wrap it around like this.
13:26Intermingle it, kind of work it around the finger, and the munchkin can carry around Dorothy that way.
13:31And then basically just take your figures and put them on the display stand.
13:34Dorothy will need the actual peg.
13:36The munchkin, again, won't.
13:37He's fine just to stand on his own.
13:39Yeah, you know, again, it's a nice-looking set.
13:41One, though, that if you try to track one down now, this is kind of when we did the Twisted Christmas, the Twisted Xmas.
13:48It's a line, though, that if you were lucky enough still to have this in your collection,
13:51I was lucky enough still to keep these in my collection, then you can bring these out from time to time.
13:56And, you know, again, like looking at these, I'm surprised I don't have these on display.
14:01Maybe, again, like as we're losing the license.
14:03I don't really like the idea that we're losing the license for the DC Multiverse figures.
14:06I mean, truth be told, Todd was doing a fantastic job.
14:09Yeah, the sizing wasn't always really there.
14:11Again, like he was double-dipping a lot on the molds.
14:14But I think, really, this is something there I would love for them to go back and re-approach the Twisted line.
14:20Do more, even more nursery rhyme characters.
14:22Because they had done the Twisted nursery rhymes, and then they had done the, you know, the Monsters as a whole.
14:27They did the Twisted Land of Oz, which we're looking at in this review.
14:29And then, of course, they've also done, like, the circuses and stuff like that, too.
14:33So, there's a lot of cool stuff that, hopefully, as opportunities pop up, I just happen to have a little bit of time on my hands.
14:39Certainly, though, the Munchkin had a little bit of time and Dorothy on his hands.
14:43I figured it was a perfect time to kind of go back and start having a look at these again.
14:45And it kind of gives me, first of all, a chance, as well, too, to go back and look at this line.
14:51You know, this was all the kind of stuff that I was doing very early into my YouTube tenure.
14:54I mean, looking at these old McFarlane stuff was really probably one of the things that got you guys looking at this channel in the first place.
15:00And I thought it'd also be a good time to go back and look at these again.
15:03Dorothy, obviously, would be the first character I'd really want to look at for the Twisted Land of Oz.
15:07Simply just because, again, like, she starts her journey, and then she finds, you know, again, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion.
15:13And maybe what I'll even do, too, is I'll look at them in that order.
15:16I have all the figures except for one.
15:18I don't have the Flying Monkeys.
15:20Still, it's a set that, to try to track one now down, it's going for stupid money.
15:25Maybe I'll try to do one if I can find a set for a reasonable price.
15:28But still, we're going to look at the rest of them.
15:30That also includes Toto and will include, as well, the Wizard.
15:33So, of course, those videos will all be coming your way.
15:35In the meantime, though, Dorothy, against her will, is a nice-looking figure to put on the shelf.
15:40Again, if you had lucky enough found the 12-inch version of her.
15:44Very similar in design.
15:45Obviously, just the difference is really more so for the display stand and the fact that she wore a skirt.
15:50But I think the sculpting of her and the munchkin were very similar to this one that we looked at in this review.
15:55Originally, Dorothy Gale included the Chapter 1 story of the Twisted Land of Oz.
15:58For how long ago I looked at this line, and that I threw out those clamshell cases at the time that I first looked at the figures, I don't have that story available.
16:06I'm sure, though, if you looked online and looked up Twisted Land of Oz McFarlane toy's story, I'm sure, though, somebody has posted the entire story online if you'd like to read it.
16:15If you find, though, that Dorothy Gale isn't decent enough, there was actually a variant released of her as well.
16:20Actually, that's one thing McFarlane has always really done from the beginning of time.
16:23Every time they've released figures, they usually have released variants of them, so it made collectors go crazy to try to track down every release of her.
16:30There was this one, obviously, that we looked at in this review.
16:32There was also a Dorothy that was released that looked like she had a black shawl or a dress over top of her outfit.
16:38Now, I would imagine, though, that probably would have still been fabric.
16:40So if you opened up that case, even though it's now more limited, you probably would have been able to take that off in the first place, and she probably would have looked the same underneath.
16:48For me, though, I only picked up the initial run of the figures, whatever was listed online when I first ordered these on eBay.
16:54For at least that, I've got all the figures except for the flying monkeys.
16:58Ah, I still want to get my hands on the flying monkeys, but what's the crazy cost that those monkeys are going to be going for right now?
17:04Dorothy Gale, though, is a fun-looking figure.
17:06I mean, if you kind of bought into what we were getting with the Twisted stuff and the Twisted Mind of Todd back in the day,
17:12probably a lot of you guys collecting these were, in the beginning, were probably getting all the stuff that McFarlane was doing regularly.
17:17The Twisted Land of Oz.
17:18They also did the Twisted Fairy Tales.
17:20Yes, yes, yes.
17:21I've already done reviews on all of those, although with the time and how old those videos are, I wouldn't really recommend going back and re-looking at them.
17:28Now, I did recently look at the Twisted Xmas.
17:30I think that was, like, last year that we went back to look at this line again.
17:33I kind of want to do the same thing with the Twisted Land of Oz.
17:36If I can get around to it as well, I'd like to go back and re-look at the Twisted Fairy Tales.
17:40But we don't want to fast-forward too far ahead.
17:43Obviously, we've only just started with the first figure of the Twisted Land of Oz, and also we're going to be continuing it.
17:49And I think what we'll do is we'll kind of continue it on with the way that the characters that she meets on the way to see the wizard.
17:54So up next, we're going to be looking at the Scarecrow.
17:56It's funny, though, I say that the Scarecrow is going to be the next one because I always think that the Scarecrow is the weakest from this line.
18:02What do you guys think of the Twisted Land of Oz, Dorothy Gale?
18:05Let me know down below in the comments section.
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18:08Or are you also looking forward to me going back and re-reviewing these again?
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