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Figma The Scream - The Table Museum Series


While browsing through the Ami Ami site, I came across this figure from Figma. An articulated version of Edvard Munch's The Scream painting. I immediately thought it was cool. It seems that Figma released a few figures from their series known as The Table Museum, which featured other famous artworks such as The Thinker sculpt, etc. So I went ahead and purchased this one.






The figure comes with a stand, the background reproduction that can be put on the stand, an extra wrist peg, and 5 pairs of hands (flat, peace sign, heart shape, open and holding). All of the extra hands are very nice, and the details of the figure are well detailed. It resembles a statuesque version of the painting's figure, with the color strokes that match the artwork. It resembles a 3D painting come to life.






The articulation is the head that's on a ball joint that can look left, right, up a bit and down, the neck moves slightly, the shoulders, double jointed elbows, wrists on a ball joint, and the body, which is divided in 6 different segments that can be moved left, right, and twisted around. And finally, the figure has a magnet at the bottom, so it can be attached to something like a magnetic clipboard, refrigerator, etc. The joints, along with the extra hands, are enough to get The Scream into some really cool, expressive poses. It's definitely a fun figure to pose and play with.






The figure is very cool, and the details on the face are nicely creepy, accurately capturing the expression of Munch's famous piece of art. The accessory of painting background is a really nice touch, allowing you to put The Scream in front of it, in a 3D version of the painting in any pose you wish. 






Figma's Table Museum Series The Scream is a very unique, fun figure to own if you're an art fan, or just enjoy weird, unusual action figures. Unfortunately, the other selections from this series were sold out on the Ami Ami site, otherwise, I might have been tempted to also pick up The Thinker. I'm already thinking up famous works of art they could do next, such as The Mona Lisa, or perhaps a Picasso. For now, The Scream is quite a scream. 



Comments

  1. Barbecue17February 7, 2020 at 8:49 PM

    This is very, very cool. I've definitely been tempted by these before but didn't bite. The Scream is definitely one of the coolest ones. I like the Yurei-zu as well. The Japanese art really translates nicely into this series.

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