Hot Toys 1/6 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness - Dead Strange

And to think Sam didn't want to include Dead Strange in the film.

"But Sam, to his credit, had no interest in coming in and just playing the hits. Sam did not come in and say, I need you to give me a zombie. And in fact, when I presented the idea of Dead Strange to him, there was a real hesitancy on his part, because he didn’t want it to seem like he was just saying I want to do my Sam Raimi thing.”

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I don't care for zombies or gore in general myself, though I do have a taste for the macabre. Not an overwhelming one, but I like to have a varied palette in everything. However, I'm more of a Del Toro/Gothic man than a Conenberg/Romero/Roth/etc one. For me it's about having something beautiful arise from death, Hell, the Pit, the "End" in general. The whole "savage beauty" motif. Simple gore and blood n' guts type of extreme gross-out violence played for catharsis are a different taste that doesn't appeal to me. There are always exceptions, but they need to have something else going for them too for me to care.

I love myself a good zombie movie but have never seen the appeal in zombified Marvel characters either. But this to me was more than just a cheap gimmick and actually came across as a really fun and inspired idea that made sense for the story.

And the fact it was the result of a mystical spell and not the usual virus or plague we've seen a thousand times before made it feel a bit more unique as well.

As a big fan of the marvel zombies comic (1,2 and dead days) I would be interested in those figures, but not by hot toys because of their pricing.

This was one of the best things I've seen in the MCU so it's an amazing piece for me to have. I think it'll be something I try to save points for and blow them all on it.

Johnny Utah said:

Sick art I found today.
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Where’d you find that?

Black and white pics are fan art, color is from movie concept artist Ian Joyner, both from Instagram.

Looks like all the budget went into this

MyenShi said:

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Looks incredible. Very impressed, honestly; great design in the film that translated well to figure form. Hot Toys went all out.

Nice cross appeal to horror fans as well.

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I haven't seen the film yet, but this looks incredible. Looks like a great display and it looks all so well-crafted. Agreed, it also has a horror-like feel to it.

MyenShi said:

That’s not something I want to wake up at 3AM and see looking at me from a shelf.

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Yeah it might spook some persons I imagine Well there's plenty of other things I don't want to see on my shelf at 3AM

Zurdo95D said:

Well there's plenty of other things I don't want to see on my shelf at 3AM

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Like a crease in one of your Captain Marvel’s suits?

MyenShi said:

Like a crease in one of your Captain Marvel’s suits?

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But in the middle of the night I won't notice that

(But yeah I do have one with a few creases here and there from lots of posing sessions, nothing too egregious lol)

chrisstbh said:

His hair wasn't hanging at the sides in the movie, it looks a bit weird.

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This was the first thing I thought of when seeing the figure. The long hair strands hanging next to his face are extremely off-putting to me. I really hope they remove them.

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Yeah when you compare to the custom that HT head with those thick straight hair strands is a weird look

Just looking at the comment count on this on FB. WIth 2,2k comments it's by far the most talked about figure in a long time. Other figures only manage a couple of hundred comments at best.

Sure some of that could be simply outrage over no heritage Spidermen figures, but still found it interesting.

Shows the appetite for horror looking figures. If HT got a license like Walking Dead or others it would be huge, but no...Spidey and Star Wars forever.

Johnny Utah said:

Shows the appetite for horror looking figures. If HT got a license like Walking Dead or others it would be huge, but no...Spidey and Star Wars forever.

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I’m surprised there isn’t an appetite for American or British horror over there to help justify a 1/6 scale line. Dead Strange has the advantages of being (as far as I can tell) a superior sculpt (best since OG Strange IMO), a Marvel tie in and a unique version that overlaps into horror. It has made me rethink what I’m getting next year.

Johnny Utah said:

Shows the appetite for horror looking figures. If HT got a license like Walking Dead or others it would be huge, but no...Spidey and Star Wars forever.

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I don't believe that's the case IMO. I'm not craving for horror stuff. It just looks a nicely done figure from Hot Toys. Most likely those that watched the movie remember that scene and see this thinking Hot Toys did well in capturing it.

Price aside, which was expected with all that's going on, it's an awesome looking figure!

Is it weird to say the figure is actually scarier than the actual film.

This version looked like something from Campbell’s Evil Dead in the film

But this figure looks very scary in a George Romero evil style of a character IMO