“Spawn” The Inferno hero born from the figure bubble, what is his twisted charm?

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`` Spawn '' gained popularity for its dark and hard world view and McFarlane's highly recognizable and distinctive artwork, and Image Comics recorded the second highest sales after Marvel and DC, two major companies.

Naturally, requests for merchandising also surfaced. MacFarlane began developing a Spawn figure in collaboration with major toy company Mattel, but a prototype that satisfied MacFarlane was never completed.

In the end, he withdrew the rights to the figures from Mattel and started his own company again. The birth of "McFarlane Toys" (The company name was changed to ``McFarlane Toys'' in 1999.)

1994. McFarlane Toys (then still Todd Toys) releases the first six figures, ``Spawn: Series 1''. This would cause a major revolution in the figure industry.

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First, the size has been increased from the average figure size of 10 cm to 18 cm, making it possible to express detailed shapes. His style has changed from his traditional stand-up stance to shoulder-width apart feet, an inverted triangular body, muscular arms, and a small, well-balanced head.

And above all, it's a cloak. Until then, capes were often made of toy-like materials such as nylon cloth or vinyl, but now they are made of plastic. This created beautiful drapes and undulations that would be impossible to see in nature, but are familiar to comics.

The enemy characters were also modeled in accordance with the comics. The slender limbs of the archenemy Violator have been recreated in bendable form, and the gigantic enemy has been made into a gigantic creature with a sense of scale similar to the comic book setting.

It wasn't the children playing with the toy who were the ones who jumped out at this amazing work, but the adults. Figures went from being toys for pretend play to crafts to be displayed and admired. Then, various toy companies began to introduce high-quality figures into the ``figure market'' that McFarlane Toys had expanded and revitalized. This caused a huge figure boom, with hundreds of cool figures filling the shelves.

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