Buffy the Vampire Slayer HALLOWEEN PALZ Kubricks Exclusive 4-Pack by Palisade Toys

by Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Product Features

• Features characters based on the Season 2 Episode "Halloween"
• Includes Janus Mini Bust accessory
• Each character can change from street clothes to Halloween costume
• Similar to minimates, but larger

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 4 x 18.2 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0009X49DC
• Item model number: 74049
• Manufacturer recommended age: 8 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #226,530 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

Product Description

Finding new life via syndication, Buffy the Vampire Slayer continues to garner new audiences amongst critics and consumers alike. The Halloween 4-pack features 4 PALz - Buffy, Xander, Willow, and Cordelia as they appeared in the Season 2 episode Halloween. The episode involves the appearance of Ethan Rayne - an old friend of Giles' - who casts a spell, and makes everyone in Sunnydale actually turn into their Halloween costume. Hence, the transformation of the four characters in the set. Buffy can be transformed from her street clothes to her costume. To please Angel, Buffy dressed up as an 18th Century Noblewoman... And, she becomes an 18th Century Noblewoman, thus endangering the whole gang because she loses her Slayer powers. Willow can be transformed from her street clothes to her sexy costume. Willow decides that for Halloween, she wants to make herself look different - and therefore dresses up in a sexy "hoochy" outfit. In the end though, she chickens out and just throws a sheet over herself, and goes as a ghost... And when Ethan's spell takes effect, Willow actually becomes a ghost. Xander can be transformed from his street clothes to his soldier costume. Xander doesn't have a lot of money, and therefore, he outfits himself in some army fatigues. And of course, he becomes a real soldier under the influence of the spell. Cordelia can be transformed from her street clothes to her cat costume. Cordy did not buy her costume from the same shop as the others, and therefore, is not under Ethan's spell. So, she never actually becomes a cat... But it's a nifty cotume nonetheless, and makes for a nifty transformation. And as if that were not enough, the 4-pack comes with an accessory. It is the head of the Janus Statue - in mythology, Janus was a two-faced God - that Ethan Rayne uses to cast the spell...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cute little BtVS figures from Season 2's "Halloween" episode, June 27, 2005

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This review is from: Buffy the Vampire Slayer HALLOWEEN PALZ Kubricks Exclusive 4-Pack by Palisade Toys (Toy)

There are dozens of 6" inch figures of characters from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and there are several 12" inch figures as well. But if you want the cutest "BtVS" figures then you are talking the tiny PALz figures put out by Palisades Toys. Just think of these as block figures, like the LEGO figures you played with, but re-vamped (so to speak). However, this set of four figures is different from the regular PALz figures because they are specific to the "Halloween episode from the second season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." That is only doubling up on the cuteness as far as I am concerned. .

That means you get Buffy dressed up as an 18th century lady to the manor born, Willow as a trampy looking ghost (pretend she is incorporeal) , Xander as a soldier in fatigues, and Cordelia wearing a cat costume (without a tail, which is somewhat surprising since the Oz PALz figure has a tail). "Halloween" was the episode, written by Carl Ellsworth, where Ethan Rayne first popped up in time. Giles's old friend opend up a costume shop where Buffy, Willow and Xander got their costumes for Halloween, the quietest night of the year for the undead. But Ethan worshipped the Roman god Janus, and everybody who purchased a costume at his store turned into the persona their costume represented. Since Cordy got her cat costume elsewhere she remains Cordelia in a cat costume. But Willow is a real ghost, Xander is a real soldier boy with a real gun, and Buffy keeps fainting because that is what 18th Century ladies do when they see demons and monsters running around.

There are always options available with these figures. At the very least you can usually take offer their hair and turn their faces around for a different look. You will also get various character associated accessories and you can turn all four of these figures back into "School Day" versions of the characters. There is also an Inkworks Trading Card which shows Willow, which is a good move since the Willow trading card from Series I showed her, Xander and Giles (she was the only one not to get an exclusive card). Willow also gets special mention because her neck is a bit longer and I discovered that you can tilt her head to the side and make her look really cute, especially on the painted face side. But Buffy's curls are a nice touch as well, and with a dozen points of articulation you have some options for setting up scenes.

The "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Series I of PALz figures consisted of Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, the Master and Darla. There were also figures of Angel and Buffy AS a vampire out there as well. Series II offers up a Season 2 Buffy, Cordelia, Oz, Jenny Calendar, Spike, and Drusilla, and if you get all six you have the pieces to form the Judge (which is why Buffy is carting around the rocket launcher from "Innocence," although you also have the boxes the Judge came in from "Surprise")). Floating around this time is a figure of Kendra as a Palisades direct exclusive, so you can safely assume that Series III will offer up Faith, the Mayor, and other figures associated with Season 3 of "BtVS." That means the other question is whether there will be a special set for "The Wish"/"Dopplegangland" or for "Graduation Day Part I/Part II" (I would bet on the former). But next up is the first Monster Pack, which has Marcie Ross, the invisible girl from Season 1's "Out of Mind, Out of Sight," Der Kinderstod from Season 2's "Killed by Death," and the Anointed One, who leads the Order of Aurelius following the Master's death (until Spike finds him annoying).