6 Faces of Madness
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McFarlane's Monsters III: 6 Faces of Madness is an action figure series released by McFarlane Toys in June 2004 as part of McFarlane Monsters Series.
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6 Faces of Madness focuses on a historical look at some of the human race's most notorious blood-letters and miscreants. It includes:
- 1) Attila the Hun - Fifth century king of the Huns.
- 2) Billy the Kid - Nineteenth century American frontier outlaw and murderer.
- 3) Elizabeth Báthory - Sixteenth Century Countess of Hungary.
- 4) Jack the Ripper - Nineteenth Century English serial killer.
- 5) Rasputin - Twentieth Century Russian Priest.
- 6) Vlad the Impaler - Fifteenth century prince of Wallachia (now Romania).
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- Paint: original paint
- Scale: 6-inch
- Format: action figure
- Packaging: clamshell
- Infamous leader of the bloodthirsty Huns, fifth-century inhabitants in modern-day Hungary, who led devastating plundering raids into western Europe. Known as the Scourge of God, Attila led a vast and merciless mounted army, which left a swath of devastation and death across much of Europe. Attila is said to have died of a nasal hemorrhage on his wedding night.
- Paint: original paint
- Scale: 6-inch
- Format: action figure
- Packaging: clamshell
- One of the most noted gunfighters of the American Wild West, Billy the Kid is described as both a cold-blooded murderer and a modern-day Robin Hood. Billy was at the center of the New Mexico-based cattle wars and saw a lifetime of violence before his own demise at age 22. He's said to have killed more than 20 men in his short life.
- Paint: original paint
- Scale: 6-inch
- Format: action figure
- Packaging: clamshell
- The Blood Countess of Hungary, who struck terror throughout that region in the late 1500s and early 1600s, and is said to have killed more than 600 young women. A member of the ruling class, Bathory tortured servants throughout her life. Modern legend holds that she began bathing in the blood of slaughtered young girls as a perverse form of a fountain of youth.
- Paint: original paint
- Scale: 6-inch
- Format: action figure
- Packaging: clamshell
- One of the world's most notorious serial killers, noted more for the mystery surrounding his identity than his body count. Brutally killed and mutilated at least five prostitutes with a straight razor on the dark, foggy, dangerous streets of 1888 London. Although it's the subject of much speculation, to this day, Jack the Ripper's true identity remains unknown.
5) Rasputin
- Paint: original paint
- Scale: 6-inch
- Format: action figure
- Packaging: clamshell
- A debauched, illiterate Siberian peasant who turned his sinful life into that of a quasi-religious faith healer and fortune-teller in 19th-century Russia. By "curing" Tsar Nicholas II's son of hemophilia, the "mad monk" became a powerful political and social force in St. Petersburg. This led to assassination attempts in which Rasputin was poisoned, shot, beaten and eventually drowned.
- Paint: original paint
- Scale: 6-inch
- Format: action figure
- Packaging: clamshell
- The true Prince Dracula, known as Vlad Dracula (translated as Son of the Dragon), Vlad Ţepeş and Vlad the Impaler. An important figure in 15th-century Romanian history, Vlad Dracula is known as a patriot, but he was also bloodthirsty, slaughtering around 40,000 of his subjects and around 100,000 Turks -- usually by impalement -- during his reign.
McFarlane also released an accessory pack for 6 Faces of Madness for Collector's Club. This accessory pack features more than a dozen items that can be used with all the figures in the Six Faces of Madness line except for Attila the Hun. Larger items include a custom base for Elizabeth Bathory, several weapons for Billy the Kid, a lamp post for Jack the Ripper, several potion bottles and tubes for Rasputin and torso on stake for Vlad the Impaler.
