I really liked Jada's action figures of Franken Berry and Count Chocula from 2021 and I really had hoped that we'd have all of the General Mills breakfast cereal monsters by now. With no new releases in 2022,...
Height: 3 1/2ths inches (4 7/8ths inches with stand)
Articulation: Swivel/hinge shoulders, swivel/hinge wrists, hinged lower, and a balljointed head.
Accessories: Display stand and cereal box.
Non-Scalper Price: $20-$22 dollars
Little Known Fact: Spends the off season breaking arms and legs for the Mirtillo crime family. He's a real wise guy.
Little Known Fact: Spends the off season breaking arms and legs for the Mirtillo crime family. He's a real wise guy.
* The packaging on this series is really quite nice. The sturdy 5-panel window box with a magnetic clasp nicely mimics a cereal box. They're fairly collector friendly, too, though you'll still have to cut some tape and a plastic tie or two. The box is colorful and there is some fun information about the figure where the nutrition facts would usually be.
The Positives:
* It's always interesting to see how a company handles a character who has a more unusual body type. Although he's blue and wearing a hat, Boo Berry very much resembles your average cartoon ghost. That means no legs, very few discernible body parts, and he's rather smooth and basic. There's no way to stand him up on his own so the included display stand that attaches to the figure with a balljoint is necessary. He's smaller than the others, but that seems accurate. Jada Toys captured Bo Berry's color scheme by molding him in a white, pearly plastic and painting him with a textured paint. It matches his depiction on cereal boxes and other media quite well.
* Boo Berry is a sly looking guy and Jada captured his odd expression quite well. He just looks like he's a bit of a schemer, doesn't he? I love his half closed eyes and the cock-sided grin.
* Boo Berry glows in the dark and he glows quite well. I brightened the picture quite a bit to make it easier to see but he definitely has a nice, healthy glow that will look fantastic when you turn the lights off. Spooky!
* Count Chocula and Franken Berry actually have really nice articulation with most modern joints that you'd expect to see. Since Boo Berry isn't built like your average joe, however, his articulation is more limited. He's got a balljoint at the base to change his position around, a balljointed head, and swivel/ hinge wrists and shoulders. He's more limited in pose, yes, but I'm not sure what other articulation you could give tis guy without ruining the look of the figure. For a classic looking cartoon ghost, what else could have been added?
* It's always interesting to see how a company handles a character who has a more unusual body type. Although he's blue and wearing a hat, Boo Berry very much resembles your average cartoon ghost. That means no legs, very few discernible body parts, and he's rather smooth and basic. There's no way to stand him up on his own so the included display stand that attaches to the figure with a balljoint is necessary. He's smaller than the others, but that seems accurate. Jada Toys captured Bo Berry's color scheme by molding him in a white, pearly plastic and painting him with a textured paint. It matches his depiction on cereal boxes and other media quite well.
* Boo Berry's cereal box also glows in the dark!
For more figures from Jada Toys' General Mills line check out the following:
