Toymunkey’s Pyramid Head figure is a thing of beauty

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Toymunkey Studios has revealed its glorious Red Pyramid Thing figure in full paint. Revealed at San Diego Comic-Con, Toymunkey’s Silent Hill figures have given collectors and fans hope once more in finding well made statues from the foggy town of Silent Hill. Konami Style released their own Pyramid Head (and Valtiel) figures a few years ago, but professional statue collectors and painters heavily disliked the paint job. Toymunkey’s figures have been getting some well deserved props from my more artistic friends.

The paint job and detail on Pyramid Head’s dome is amazing. The paint looks worn, flaked, and beautifully decayed. I’m no expert when it comes to these things, but the figure looks great. As a friend pointed out, PH’s smock may be a little too gray, but every other part of the figure makes up for it.

Toymunkey says that the design is still pending approval and need to be approved by licencors. If this figure somehow gets any better, I’ll be sure to write about it. The best part about all of this is that Toymunkey has stated that the figures will be around the $150 range. That is significantly cheaper than the poorly painted Konami Style figures. I know what I want in my Christmas sock this year: Scary things!

[Source, via Silent Hill Historical Society]

  • lol

    This figure is good but not better than Konami’s. Also has a mistake, Pyramid Head has no fingers!

    Konami’s figures had a kind of M. Ito art style painting (see: Origins OST boxart)

    • Ratio

      The previous Red Pyramid Thing statue, or “Konami’s figure” as you call it, was sculpted by the exact, same person doing this one. RPT has a thumb (technically not a finger, I know) but also a separated pinky from the rest of his glove. While all fingers are on this particular sculpture, which looks better and makes more sense that he can use all digits, the sculptor also added details not seen on his previous RPT iteration.

      The bulge on the right side of his helmet? The half-ring sticking out of the side near the top? How the top-most point comes back inwards? The bolt coming out of both the helmet and his tumorous blob in the back? Those are all on the in-game model most people never even knew about or bothered to scrutinize.

      I dare say this sculptor is the second-most knowledgeable person to handle RPT, only after Masahiro Ito, himself.

      • Ratio

        I’m thinking I got GECCO’s and Toymunkey’s roles mixed in that description. Or I could be completely off about both of their involvements. But you get the picture!

      • lol

        his hands with five fingers dosent look good to me, That was one of the reasons i hate the movie pyramid. it might make more sense but also makes him like more humanoid, less weird. He needs his freaky hands which are the most second important and signature part of his body… to me at least
        “RPT” is not that muscular also but thats not an issue for a good figure like this.

        In the end that one has better paint job and details from pointy top to the boots, the previous version has closer spirit to SH2 and more original.
        if they only hadnt messed up with his hands…

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=654601521 Whitney Chavis

          Hey looks like the fused hand thing was due to the limitation of the PS2 hardware. A fan asked Ito on twitter and this was his response:

          “@Levit0 This is because…Pyramid-Head has no face,so he expresses his will and emotion by hand.
          SILENTHILL 2 is PS2-game. We had a limit to the number of “polygon”.
          Shaping around the fingers is able to reduce polygons than to make each
          fingers.

          But, the index finger is seperate from the others is very convenient to operat by CG tools. @SilentEvil999″

          http://www.twitlonger.com/show/inegji

          So I guess in the end HEADLONG’s sculpture may be more of how Ito originally intended the character to look like in the begining :)

          • lol

            İ know that the fused hands was not intentional, and no enemy has five finger in SH2 for the same reason.

            But as you know my point lies elsewhere. Look at after-SH2 drawings, include his twitter avatar ;)

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=654601521 Whitney Chavis

      I’m surprised anyone prefers the paint job on the Konami Style figures…but to each their own. I’m ecstatic about this new Toymunkey figure. It’s looks so awesome! Also the guy who sculpted this is the same guys who sculpted the Konami Style spear figure :)

      • lol

        i prefer a combination of them. i’m positive about they’re gonna make more figures of him

  • Ratio

    For those who want to know:

    HEADLONG is the sculptor for this and the previous RPT and Valtiel statues linked in this article.

    The company who (poorly) painted his earlier works, as linked in this article, was “TRIMS Japan” whose site is no more. Leads me to believe they tanked shortly after their lackluster partnership with Konami for the paintwork on those sculpts. I don’t know Konami’s involvement–if any–with those earlier sculpts, though.

    The talented resin painter who goes by “ACCEL” is in charge of the paint work for this new statue. I believe “GECCO,” located in Japan, is in charge of mass-producing this PVC figure. “Toymunkey,” I believe again, is in charge of the logistics and worldwide distribution/sales of this piece. I’m not sure about the last two’s specific roles here.

    Konami has the IP rights and makes the monies off this product.