Tim Burton's 1988 supernatural comedy secured his job as the future director of the Batman motion picture and gave Burton the inspiration to Cast Michael Keaton in the tittle role. But the pairing of the quirky director and comedic actor is still better appreciated in Beetlejuice, where Keaton plays a poltergeist who moonlights as a human exorcist after being hired by a recently deceased couple who are trapped in their home but are invaded by an new family! what ensues is plenty of ghostly fun in this still immensely popular 80's classic!
The Kenner action figure toy line cashing in on the surprise success of the movie is also highly regarded as one of the companies best tie-ins capturing the spirit (no pun intended) of the Ghost with the most with great sculpts and fun features here we look in detail at the original three figures from the first series of the line:
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Shish kebab Beetlejuice came later in the series and boasts some great detail especially in the spike accessories that you can place about his hole laden body!
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Beetlejuice eye surprise! like the earlier figures in the series this Beetlejuice has a removable head that conceals and giant eyeball!
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these Spike accessories all have different impaled items from skulls to a sausage! all in gory detail!
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Spinhead Beetlejuice is based on the characters later scenes where he attempts to wed Goth teenager Lydia in tremendously gruesome fashion! This figure has the most "standard" Looking Betteljuice head featuring a really good likeness of actor Michael Keaton
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The shrunken head concealed beneath again echoes a hilarious movie event where Beetlejuice has his head shrunken by a voodoo witch doctor!
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Showtime Beetlejuice features the iconic stripped suit look the character sports in almost all of the main promotional material for the movie and a hand full of scenes in the actual movie itself, include is the "carousel" that Beetlejuice had placed on his head in one very memorable scene and again features a really good Keaton likeness
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Again the removable head features a hidden surprise in this case a snake like face that extends via a lever on the figures back!
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Kenner's decision to bring out a series of action figures based on the very adult Beetlejuice was possibly quite a risky one but the company counted on young boys fascination with the ghoulish and gruesome as proved by the massive sales of their Ghostbusters toy line and the risk paid off! Though eventually sales dwindled and a planned third wave was scrapped...
Figures in the series:
1st wave
-Showtime Beetlejuice
-Spinhead Beetlejuice
-Shish Kebab Beetlejuice
-Adam Maitland
-Otho the obnoxious
-Harry the haunted hunter
2nd wave
-Exploding Beetlejuice
-Shipwreck Beetlejuice
Neighbourhood nasties
-Hungry Hog
-Old Buzzard
-Teacher Creature
-Street Rat
Vehicles/playsets
-Creepy cruiser
- Phantom Flyer
-Vanishing Vault
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